What are the folk customs in Ningbo?

1, lion dance: popular in Ninghai County, Ningbo City. Generally, in the first month of the summer calendar or Buddhist festivals, dozens of farmers form teams and take turns to dance lions in villages to show respect for their ancestors and ward off evil spirits.

Lion dance includes solo dance, duet dance and group dance, with three lions dancing together, one male and one female, beating gongs and drums while jumping. The most wonderful performance is "grabbing five lights", that is, putting a light in the middle and four corners of the venue, and the lion in the middle kicks, bites, grabs the light and dances wildly, watching the crowd around. ?

2. Dragon Boat Race: Urban and rural dragon boat races are mainly held in ponds, rivers and lakes. Dragon boats are divided into Qinglong, Huanglong and Bailong. Dragon boat races are usually held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and the sixteenth of August every year. The former is said to be the day when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu State, threw himself into the Miluo River to row a dragon boat, indicating that people were scrambling for rescue.

The latter is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Ningbo. Dragon boat racing can not only hold temple fairs, but also increase the entertainment atmosphere of festivals. At the beginning of the race, the rowers held their heads high and one stood in front of the dragon boat to knock gongs. Clothing is the same color as the dragon boat, firecrackers are ringing, and the dragon boat ignites a raging fire. The sound of gongs and drums and the shouts of people watching on the shore are endless. The scene was very lively, and the first one to reach the finish line won. The dragon boat in Dongqian Lake in Ningbo is the most famous.

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The urbanization process in Ningbo is accelerating, and the infrastructure construction is further intensified. The revision of the new round of urban master plan has been basically completed, and the planning of key areas such as the East New Town, Yuci Group and Hangzhou Bay New Area has been deepened. The annual investment in fixed assets of environment and public infrastructure was 9.04 billion yuan, including 5.43 billion yuan in urban areas.

The urban area will focus on the construction of urban skeleton road and bridge projects such as South Outer Ring Road, North Outer Ring Road, Ningjiang Road, Dazha Road, Yucai Road and Tongtu Road, and popular projects such as Binjiang Avenue and Landscape Phase II, Rihu Park, Fuming Park, South Station Square renovation and renovation, and non-suite renovation.

Urban roads1.20km were built and expanded throughout the year, including 40km in the urban area, and 266 hectares of public green space were added, including1.36km in the urban area.

Reference source; Baidu encyclopedia-Ningbo