Please ask for the schedule of market and temple fairs in various regions of Shandong

●Jinan City

Baotu Spring New Year Lantern Festival

Location: Baotu Spring Park

Time: New Year

Folklore activities: lantern shows, lantern riddles, stilt walking, land boat rowing, lion dancing, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, foreign movies, etc.

Reason for recommendation: There is a theme every year to explore the connotation of Shandong traditional culture, which is an effective protection of traditional folk culture.

Qianfoshan Spring Festival Temple Fair

Location: Qianfoshan Scenic Area

Time: During the Spring Festival

Folk custom activities: outing, offering incense and praying for blessings, Material exchange, snacks, folk performances, quizzes, etc.

Reason for recommendation: The strong New Year flavor creates a public space for emotional communication for tourists from all over the world.

Lingyan Temple New Year Prayer Meeting

Location: Lingyan Temple Scenic Area, Wande Town, Changqing District

Time: During the Spring Festival

Folk activities: Spring Festival prayer meetings, blessing tours for tens of thousands of people, seeking blessings, chanting blessings, "family portrait" joint exhibitions, Buddhist painting exhibitions, New Year goods collections, etc.

Reason for recommendation: Pray in the beautiful mountains and feel the forest atmosphere of Lingyan Temple and the spiritual charm of traditional culture.

●Qingdao City

Carrot·Candy Ball Club

Location: Qingdao Cultural Street, Zhanhua Road, Binxian Road, Zhucheng Road, etc.

Time: From the ninth to the 22nd of the first lunar month (the activity areas from the ninth to the 15th of the first lunar month are Qingdao Cultural Street, Zhanhua Road, Binxian Road, Zhucheng Road, Changyi Road, Fulinmeidi, and Fushan New District Street Six Residential Areas Cultural Square; the activity area from the 16th to the 22nd of the first lunar month is centered on Haiyun Square, Tangqiu Square, Jiahe Road, and Xingzhong Road, radiating to surrounding roads and areas)

Folklore activities: National snack exhibition, authentic Folklore performances and other activities involve 55 activities in nine cultural and commercial sectors, including entertainment, appreciation, eating, shopping, play, and travel.

Reason for recommendation: "Qingdao Carrot Sugar Ball Club" can be called the "first festival of the New Year". You can see wonderful intangible cultural heritage and opera performances, and you can also experience and participate in various entertainments. Activity.

●Zibo City

Zhangdian District Lu Shengu Temple Fair

Location: Zhangdian District Tieshan Lu Shengu Temple

Time : From the 14th to the 16th day of the first lunar month

Folk custom activities: The Lu Shengu Temple Fair is a multi-functional comprehensive temple fair that integrates multiple functions such as worshiping the gods, praying to the gods, entertaining the gods, entertainment, competitions, operas, and markets. , and retains the strong nature of traditional temple fairs.

Reason for recommendation: The worship of Furnace Goddess has a profound foundation of belief in the local and surrounding areas. The temple fair has rich activities such as food, folk handicraft exhibitions and material exchange conferences.

"Folk Customs to Celebrate the New Year" in Zhoucun Ancient Mall

Location: Zhoucun Ancient Mall

Time: January 1 to March 4

Folk custom activities: Ten themed activities including watching lanterns, appreciating folk customs, sending blessing words, tasting delicious food, attending fairs, playing lantern riddles, paying New Year greetings, inviting the God of Wealth, playing with cultural relics and visiting temple fairs are launched.

Reason for recommendation: Every Spring Festival, Zhoucun Ancient Mall holds lively and grand folk festivals. In addition to the ten major theme activities, Zhoucun Ancient Mall also prepares traditional skill performances for the general public and tourists.

●Weifang City

Yangjiabu "Celebrating New Year in the Hometown of New Year Pictures"

Location: Yangjiabu Village, Hanting District

Time: From the twelfth lunar month to the first lunar month

Folklore activities: New Year painting production technology demonstrations and colorful folk cultural activities during the New Year festival.

Reason for recommendation: Weifang Yangjiabu is one of the three major painting markets in the country. In the Yangjiabu Folk Culture Village, there are many manufacturers and shops that produce kites and New Year paintings, with various sizes, scales and characteristics. Not the same. Yangjiabu Folk Culture Grand View Garden has become one of the famous tourist attractions in Weifang.

●Jining City

Celebrate the New Year at Confucius Mansion in Qufu

Location: Confucius Mansion in Qufu City

Time: During the Spring Festival

Folk custom activities: entrance ceremony, greetings in the inner house, orchid hall trial lecture, New Year's clothing, writing Spring Festival couplets, posting door gods, paper-cutting window grilles, hanging sky lanterns, setting off firecrackers, inviting ancestors, New Year's Eve family banquet, making dumplings to watch the year, and bidding farewell New Year's Eve, giving out New Year's money, etc.

Reason for recommendation: World cultural heritage, national key cultural relics protection unit, a must-go place to feel and experience our country’s traditional culture. The Confucian New Year celebration itself is rich in content and rich in atmosphere, which embodies the etiquette culture of ancient my country.

●Taian City

"Mount Tai Prayer" festival event

Location: Mount Tai Scenic Area

Time: New Year's Day, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival Festival

Folk custom activities: "Three Bells Ringing to Welcome the New Year", "Praying for Blessings and Welcoming Good Luck", singing and singing, welcoming the God of Wealth to welcome the New Year and praying at Yuanjun Temple, etc.

Reason for recommendation: Taishan tourism integrates the blood of cultural interpretation.

●Weihai City

Chishan Spring Festival Temple Fair

Location: Chishan Scenic Area, Rongcheng City

Time: First to fifteenth day of the first lunar month

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Folklore activities: New Year blessing ceremony, Jiaodong folk custom experience, twelve zodiac signs wishing, New Year party garden tour, traditional food exhibition and other activities.

Reason for recommendation: A comprehensive tourist route that combines enjoying the natural landscape, seeing the folk customs of Chishan, and visiting the Chishan Temple Fair.

●Rizhao City

Rizhao "Welcome the Sunrise and Celebrate the New Year" Celebration

Location: Wanpingkou Performing Arts Plaza

Time: New Year's Day

Folklore activities: Focusing on the theme of "Welcome the sunrise", a series of themed activities such as "Welcoming the first ray of sunshine in the new year", "Sacrifice to the sun", "Ode to the sun", "Pull out the sun", as well as song and dance performances will be carried out , folk art performances, public interaction and other entertainment programs.

Reason for recommendation: The activity comes from the sun worship in ancient times. The sun festival dance imitating the ancient legacy of Rizhao is grand and spectacular, full of historical affection.

●Liaocheng City

Celebrate the New Year in the Town of Gourds

Location: Tangyi Town, Dongchangfu District

Time: The twelfth lunar month During the first lunar month

Folklore activities: gourd carving craft demonstrations and colorful folk cultural activities during the New Year Festival.

Reason for recommendation: Visit the Dongchang Carved Gourd Folk Craft Street and enjoy various artistic performances. During the Lantern Festival, traditional yangko performances such as rowing land boats, carrying sedan chairs, performing yangko dances, and riding donkeys are performed in turn.

●Linyi City

Menshan Spring Festival Prayer Temple Fair

Location: Linyi Mengshan Guimeng Scenic Area

Time: The first day of the first lunar month On the fifth day of the Lunar New Year

Folk custom activities: Taoist blessing ceremony, Song Dynasty emperor parade, folk juggling, costume wedding performances, special folk snacks and other 36 exciting activities.

Reason for recommendation: Emperors, concubines, vendors, and government servants dressed in ancient costumes, antique stalls, sugar figures, clay sculptures, windmills, shadow puppets and other intangible cultural heritage make tourists feel as if they have traveled through thousands of years.

●Yantai City

"Changdao Temple Fair" festival activities

Location: Changdao "Miaodao Mazu Temple"

Time: New Year Fifteenth Day

Folk custom activities: "Fishermen celebrate the New Year", "Free Praying Incense Party at Wangfu Reef", "New Year Changdao Travel Blessing Text Message Collection Activity" and other colorful and auspicious prayers for fishermen to celebrate the New Year Activity.

Reason for recommendation: Miaodao Xianying Palace has a history of more than 800 years. It is the largest and oldest Mazu temple in northern my country and is known as the "No. 1 Mazu Temple in Northern China".

●Binzhou City

Huimin Huji Book Club

Location: Huimin Huji Town

Time: From the 12th to the 16th day of the first lunar month

Folklore activities: West Lake drum, plum blossom drum, wood board book, moso bamboo board, Cangzhou wood board, cross talk, Shandong Qinshu, Shandong Kuaishu, fishing drum and other folk arts performances.

Reason for recommendation: Huji Book Club, one of the two largest book clubs in the country, attracts hundreds of folk artists from all over the country to perform performances every year from the 12th to the 16th day of the first lunar month. The performances include Xihe Drum and Fishing Drum. There are more than 20 types of operas, including more than 200 performances.

●Heze City

Juye Jinshan Temple Fair

Location: Juye Jinshan

Time: The first day of the first lunar month

Folk custom activities: offering incense and praying for blessings, Yangko performances, sedan chairs, blind date meetings and other folk activities.

Reason for recommendation: Jinshan Temple Fair integrates religious prayers, material exchanges, entertainment activities, and appreciation of folk culture.

●Dezhou City

Decheng District Water Beast Land Boat

Location: Decheng District

Time: The fifteenth day of the first lunar month

Folk activities: "Water Beast Land Boat", "Water Flooding the Golden Mountain", Yangko, stilts, and other folk cultural activities.

Reason for recommendation: Cleverly express the story of floods and golden mountains in "The Legend of White Snake" in the form of Yangko and land boats.