In the fifty-third slope of Xijindu, from the late Qing Dynasty to the early days of the founding of the people's republic, the people of Laozhenjiang would follow this road to Jinshan to worship the god of wealth and pray for the wind and rain in the coming year.
"Ride a donkey up the Golden Mountain, climb fifty-three. Go and collect the gold and get rich for a whole year. "Every year on the fifth day of the first lunar month, the people of the old Zhenjiang come to the fifty-third slope, first dress up the donkey, ride on the donkey, swing along the long street of the small pier, through the Zhaoguan Stone Pagoda and the Jinshan River to the Jinshan Temple.
Luo Rongping, deputy director of the Zhenjiang Folk Culture and Art Museum, said: "We also have a saying in Zhenjiang called 'go up to jinshan, dig gold', and jinshan has gold to dig, which means a kind of joyful, family prosperity, and the motherland's prosperity. Therefore, when it came to the Spring Festival, the family heard that there was gold to dig in Jinshan, so they all came to the fifty-third slope to ride a donkey and dig gold in Jinshan. "Riding a donkey to Jinshan" is a unique folk culture in Zhenjiang.
Zhenjiang also has a provincial intangible cultural heritage, Taiping Mud. Although the Taiping mud is small, it is a historical and cultural product that integrates history and culture, folk wisdom, customs and tastes, and carries the beautiful dream of thanksgiving to Taiping.
Taiping mud call originated from the Zhenjiang New District thousand-year-old village Huashan Village, the inheritance has been more than 1300 years of history, in ancient times the local villagers made mud whistles of different animal shapes with clay, for children as toys, exercise lung capacity, but also means peace and auspiciousness. In the Year of the Tiger, zhou Baokang, a non-hereditary person, made many different styles of zodiac tiger works, and the ears and body of the tiger were painted with colorful colors, which looked more cute and festive.
"The zodiac is the traditional shape of the Taiping mud call, for example, the one with one head is called a blockbuster; the two heads are called good things into pairs; and the three heads are called three lives and all things." Zhou Baokang said.
(Reporting by Pan Yuqin, Liu Cheng, Dong Lu and Zhenjiangtai)