After the reunion dinner, Chengdu people like to help the old and take care of the young. The whole family went to Daci Temple to ring the New Year bell to make the children enjoy it.
On New Year's Eve, monks from Daci Temple gathered in the Ursa Major Hall to hold a grand New Year blessing ceremony. At midnight, with the shouts of tens of thousands of citizens counting down, the abbot of Daci Temple personally rang the New Year's prayer bell of 108. Legend has it that when the old and the new turn, Yin Qi is the most prosperous time of the year. When the bell rings 108, it means that the mysterious Lao Yang Qi wakes up from the depressed place, which makes the whole city full of shock.
2. "Full Day" Caotang Sacrifices Du Fu
The custom of visiting the thatched cottage on People's Day (the seventh day of the first month) originated in the Tang Dynasty. The annual "People's Day" has become a special day for Chengdu people to visit the Caotang and remember the poet Du Fu.
3. On the fifteenth day of the first month, couples "steal youth"
According to the traditional custom in Chengdu, young men who like the girl next door can steal some vegetables from their aunt's vegetable field on the fifteenth night of the first month to show their affection. When a girl discovers that her vegetables have been stolen, she knows that a young man has fallen in love with her, and her heart will be filled with joy and longing.
4. The Great Temple will gather Chengdu folk skills.
The most popular place of worship is Wuhou Temple, which is also the most lively temple of worship. Temple fair is both a religious ceremony and a market. Face changing, spitting fire, rolling lanterns, hand shadow play, puppet show and other Sichuan opera unique skills, at the temple fair, you can see folk unique skills such as shadow play, clay sculpture, sugar man, Tang Hua, paper-cutting, rolling iron rings, spinning gyroscopes, riding chicken carts, pulling springs and ringing springs. ...
5. Fire Dragon and Huanglongxi
In ancient times, "burning dragons" here was a large-scale backbone activity in the ancient "Dragon Lantern Festival", which lasted from the second day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. From 65438 to 0994, huanglongxi town established "Huanglongxi Fire Dragon Team" and successfully applied for the patent of "Special Fireworks for Huanglongxi Fire Dragon Performance". Every year from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, there are lion dances during the day and fire dragons at night.