Some activities about Beijing

Wedding celebration: Set up an elegant bridal chamber with a wedding sedan outside. Guests can wear red and flowers here, become a groom or a bride, experience a wedding rich in old Beijing folk traditions, and enjoy family happiness. The specific order is: protecting the bride, getting married, settling down, accompanying the dowry, marrying, paying homage, etc.

Mourning customs: 1. Turn the head down 2. Take over 3. Send to the warehouse 4. Become the master 5. Begin 6. Burn umbrellas and paper for a hundred days.

Seasonal and festive customs

Spring Festival: 1. Laba rice porridge 2. Offer sacrifices to stoves 3. New Year's Eve (post Spring couplets, door gods, hang threads, offer to Buddhist halls, worship ancestors, send the God of Wealth, and keep the year old) Entertainment) 4. The first day of the first lunar month (New Year greeting etiquette, taboos) 5. The second day of the first lunar month to worship the God of Wealth 6. Human Day (eating spring cakes...) 7. Shunxing (star worship ceremony)

Shangyuan Festival: 1. Displaying lanterns and watching lanterns 2. Walking on bridges and touching nails 3. Firecrackers and fireworks 4. Playing lantern riddles 5. Eating Yuanxiao

Sacrifice to the Sun and Star King: Sunrise on the first day of February , set up an incense table for 3-5 bowls of sun cakes, burn incense to worship the sunrise in the east, and recite the Sun Sutra.

The dragon raises its head: 1. On February 2, the dragon raises its head to "attract the dragon and smoke out the insects" 2. Eating spring cakes

Qingming Cold Food Festival: 1. Burning baggage (sacrifice to ancestors) 2. Outing, drinking together, flying kites

Dragon Boat Festival: 1. Traveling to avoid disasters 2. Tasting fresh food (cherries, mulberries) 3. Eating rice dumplings 4. Planting calamus and mugwort to avoid plague 5. Throwing them to prevent disasters sick.

Chinese Valentine's Day: 1. Worship the Milky Way, offer flowers and melons 2. Begging for skills

Hungry Ghost Festival: 1. Ghost Festival 2. Release of river lanterns 3. Occasional operas

Mid-Autumn Festival: 1. Eating moon cakes 2. Rabbit stall 3. *** month

Double Ninth Festival: 1. Climbing high 2. Double Ninth Festival cakes

Winter Solstice: 1. Food Wonton 2, Jiujiu Cold Relief Picture

Especially temple fairs:

Baiyunguan Temple Fair on the first day of the first lunar month - the nineteenth day of the first lunar month

Located in Baiyun outside Fuxingmen The Baiyun Temple on the road has historically held novel and lively temple fairs every year, and is famous in the capital for being the most popular and open for the longest time.

At the temple fair, there are many folk activities of old Beijing, such as: touching stone monkeys, making money eyes on the wind bridge, etc. Under the curved stone carving inside the Baiyunguan Temple Gate, there is a stone monkey relief. People believe that touching the stone monkey can cure diseases and eliminate disasters and prolong life, so they compete to touch it. There is a large copper coin hanging in the bridge hole under the Wofeng Bridge. There is a small copper bell in the hole, with the four words "The ringing of the bell means good fortune" written on it. If you can put the coin in your hand into the copper bell, your wishes will come true. These two are the most lively activities at the temple fair.

In addition, there are various folk snacks, traditional handicrafts, ancient capital folk customs painting exhibitions and modern large-scale entertainment projects at the temple fair.

The Wuxian God of Wealth Temple is located on the second day of the first lunar month - the sixteenth day of the first lunar month

The Wuxian God of Wealth Temple is located outside Guang'an Gate, and the five gods of wealth are worshiped in the temple. Going to the Temple of Wealth to pray for blessings during the Chinese New Year is an important activity for many old Beijingers.

Early in the morning on the second day of the Lunar New Year, people rush to the Temple of Wealth to burn incense, hoping to make a fortune in the coming year. After offering incense, some red velvet flowers, gold-cut paper flowers, and gold ingots with the words "Fu" and "Longevity" written on them should be invited home from the God of Wealth Temple. This is to invite "Fu" home.

During the Spring Festival in Grand View Garden

As we all know, Grand View Garden was built based on the famous book "A Dream of Red Mansions". A Spring Festival party is held every year during the Spring Festival. There are performances and quizzes based on "A Dream of Red Mansions" in the park. Ancient costumes are also provided for people to wear and take photos.

The most attractive part of the whole event was the "Concubine Yuan's Prospecting Marriage". More than 100 people dressed in gorgeous costumes, dressed as an ancient guard of honor, escorted the palace sedan of "Concubine Yuan" into the garden. This process was reproduced The grand ceremony of marrying each other in Grand View Garden.

The Xiangshan Red Leaf Festival is held in late October (before and after the frost)

On the Xiangshan Mountain in western Beijing and its surrounding slopes, large areas of cotinus and maple trees are planted. Every year before and after the frost, the leaves turn red. , the red leaves are connected into a large area, covering the mountains and plains, like fire, and the forests are dyed, which is very spectacular.

This is also the best time to travel to Beijing. The sky is high and the air is crisp. It is refreshing to climb the mountain and have a panoramic view of the Summer Palace, Yuquan Mountain and the vast pastoral scenery. Yuhua Villa, located in the middle of Xiangshan Mountain, provides you with a leisure place to enjoy the red leaves while sipping tea.

In fact, in the suburbs of Beijing, there are still a few places to enjoy red leaves in late autumn: Baiwang Mountain, Yangtang Mountain, Hongluo Temple, Miaofeng Mountain, Bailongtan, Songshan, Shidu, etc. In recent years, Badachu in Nishiyama has become a good place to watch red leaves.

Longqingxia Ice Lantern Art Festival January 15th - February 28th

It is the largest ice lantern art exhibition in my country after the Harbin Ice Lantern Garden Party and has become a traditional tourist item. , is also the world's lowest latitude large-scale outdoor ice lantern exhibition. Longqingxia Ice Lantern, with its distinctive theme, unique geographical environment and organic combination of ice lanterns and colored lanterns, is unique in the Chinese ice lantern art world and has become a wonder among hundreds of Chinese folk art gardens.

Beijing Changdian Cultural Temple Fair falls on the first day of the first lunar month - the sixteenth day of the first lunar month

The temple fair was originally a religious activity in the temple. People burned incense and worshiped Buddha in the temple, and there were various activities outside the temple. There are food stalls, food stalls, and some juggling and folk arts performances to add to the entertainment, thus forming an activity mainly focused on folk cultural performances. In recent years, with the changes of the times, many new contents have been added to ancient temple fairs, such as using temple fairs to discuss business, etc. However, the display of folk customs has always been the main feature of temple fairs.

Visiting Changdian during the Spring Festival has always been a custom in old Beijing. The Changdian Temple Fair began during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty. Every year from the first to the sixteenth half of the first lunar month, this street is bustling with activity. It gradually declined during the Republic of China and was completely discontinued during the Cultural Revolution.

At the dawn of the new millennium, the Beijing Municipal Government decided to resume this folk activity with Beijing characteristics. The first temple fair after the restoration was held from January 24 to January 29, 2001, with South Xinhua Street and East and West Liulichang Street as the main lines, starting from the Hepingmen intersection in the north and ending at the Hufangqiao intersection in the south. In order to recreate the charm of the ancient capital, an open pedestrian tourist commercial street model will be implemented.

The main contents of the temple fair include: lion dance, traditional ethnic flower fair, modern dance, Beijing folk character modeling, traditional commercial "cover" exhibition, old Beijing old photo exhibition, folk handicraft exhibition, special book market and Peking Opera , martial arts, acrobatics special performances, etc. The temple fair integrates tourism, leisure and entertainment, shopping and catering, and has distinctive traditional ethnic characteristics.

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