What are the folk customs in Beijing?

Beijing folk food, a kind of pancake, is also called pancake. Every year in beginning of spring, Beijingers eat spring cakes, which is called "biting spring". The second day of the second lunar month is the day when dragons look up. There is an old saying in China. On this day, Beijingers also eat spring cakes, which is called "eating Longlin". Spring cakes are bigger and more resilient than roast duck pancakes, because there are many dishes to roll.

2. Peking Opera

Beijing Opera, known as the quintessence of China, has a history of more than 200 years. Its predecessor was Hui Diao, commonly known as Pihuang Opera. In the performance, both singing and dancing are emphasized, martial arts skills are integrated, and virtual movements with strong rhythm are used to create many programmed performance movements. Pay attention to enunciation when singing. Recitation is musical. It has gradually formed a complete artistic style and performance system in singing, reading, doing and playing.

3. Dough modeling

Face people are commonly known as face people and Jiangmi people. In history, there are folk customs such as kneading "moon cakes" and "noodle fish" with flour on holidays, which has produced the art of dough sculpture. Beijing dough sculpture art has been inherited and developed by several generations of folk artists, absorbed the essence of other arts, learned from others, and constantly explored, and gradually formed a dough sculpture art school with Beijing characteristics. "Mianrenlang" is one of the schools.

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Characteristics of Beijing folk customs;

Beijing is rich in folk cultural resources, ranking first in China in terms of quantity, variety and unique content. The ancient capital Beijing has always been a gathering place for immigrants. There are not only residents of dozens of nationalities from all over China, but also diplomatic envoys, business guests and cultural exchange envoys from all over the world, as well as international students and cultural tourists.

For thousands of years, the simple and unique ethnic customs have enriched the social landscape of Beijing. Among them, the most distinctive is the life custom of Zhao Yan's hometown, with its handicrafts, textiles, printing and dyeing, clothing, diet, festive customs, wedding and funeral customs, business customs and Liyuan guild hall customs, all of which have distinct regional characteristics.

Reference source: Baidu Encyclopedia-Beijing