Shanxi is one of the important areas for the development and inheritance of Spring Festival customs in northern China, with a strong New Year flavor and original folk customs. As a traditional festival of the Chinese nation, the Lantern Festival is indispensable to the red-hot "Lantern Festival" folk activities.
See the lanterns of the ancient city, visit the traditional temple fair, make the New Year society fire... The Spring Festival did not play enough, and the Lantern Festival continued to make trouble. Taking advantage of the strong "New Year's flavor", various scenic spots and cultural venues in our province have carefully launched a series of folk activities with wide coverage, high participation and strong local characteristics to add another "Shanxi flavor" to the Lantern Festival.
Ancient City of Xinzhou
Watch the community fire visit the temple fair red hot Lantern Festival
A community fire program that integrates the essence of traditional arts and integrates the essence of the nation into one furnace; a temple fair performance that integrates tourism and leisure and entertainment with distinct traditional national characteristics; a charming ancient street, a sea of brilliant lights, a new year market, a boiling crowd, and a lamp lights up a city.
Dragon dances, lion dances to welcome the New Year, dry boats, shadow puppets talk about the new year, and the city wall lamp exhibition adds "New Year's flavor". Just entering the Year of the Tiger, the ancient city of Xinzhou has exploded with a wide variety of local temple performances.
During the Lantern Festival, the ancient city of Xinzhou once again exerted its strength to present a "Joyful Lantern Feast" for tourists. On February 14th, the fourteenth day of the first month, the ancient city of Xinzhou will stage a Valentine's Day lantern blessing activity to unlock a different romantic night. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the Wrestling Heroes Club will also be shocking. As an important component of the folk customs of Xinzhou, wrestling is a cultural treasure on the land of the Three Jins. The ancient wrestling technique "Sheep Scratching Race" has been passed down in the local folk for more than a thousand years, and Xinzhou is also known as the "Chinese Wrestling Town". In addition, xinzhou three strings, shadow puppet plays and other ancient city community fire festival activities, Hanfu flash mob, throwing hydrangea balls and other interactive immersive interpretation, cultural and creative markets, city wall light exhibition and other spring festival regular activities, will also be staged continuously in the Lantern Festival.
Yuci Old Town
Tang Feng Jin Yun, to see the Jinzhong Yuci Old Town HAPPY year. This year's Yuci Old Town HAPPY Year activities begin at the beginning of the first month of the first month and end on the sixteenth day of the first month. The event starts at 9:00 a.m. and ends at 9:00 p.m. every day, with an immersive performance in Han and Tang style introduced throughout the day. Combined with "Tang Feng Jin Yun To See Jin Zhong", through the combination of sound, light, electricity, performing arts and other forms, to create a double IP leading model with the theme of Tang Dynasty style and Spring Festival folklore. From the fourteenth day of the first month to the sixteenth day of the first month, there will also be special large-scale activities in three days, including the "Favorite of a Lifetime" love song concert, the million Internet celebrity "All Things Returning to the Tide" National Tide Electric Syllable Festival, and the All Things Can Rap Music Festival, etc., to create a more gorgeous exhibition experience for tourists.
Rice Field Park
The Lantern Festival series of activities with the theme of "Celebrating the Lantern Festival and Welcoming the Winter Olympics" was held in Daotian Park, Jinyuan District, Taiyuan City, and lasted from February 12 to 15. In the event, the newcomers of the times, model workers, sanitation workers, etc. held a lantern competition in the most grounded rice fields. The park also performed a Taiyuan social fire performance. Jinyuan Shehuo has the most agricultural and entertainment attributes and can best represent the local characteristics of Taiyuan. The biggest highlight of the social fire parade is the back stick known as the "mobile aerial ballet", which is also the most difficult item in the social fire performance.
At the lantern promenade at the entrance of the park, visitors can enjoy the colorful lanterns, participate in the riddle guessing activities, win prizes such as the Jinci Osmanthus Lantern Festival, the Rice Field Park Castle and the ice and snow project tickets, and can also have a DIY experience of the lanterns and write New Year's wishes in the lanterns.
In order to help the Beijing Winter Olympics and carry out mass ice and snow sports in depth, Daotian Park also specially created ice and snow carnival activities, setting up snowmobiles, snow bumper balls, snow banana boats, ice bicycles and other ice and snow projects, igniting people's passion for participating in ice and snow games and sports.
Zhangbi Castle
Guess the riddle and enjoy a special offer to awaken old memories
Folk activities are functional, it is not only the historical memory of a nation, but also an important carrier for inheriting good wishes and wishes. Therefore, how can the Lantern Festival be less guessing the riddle.
10,000 meters of tunnels, 10,000 mystery lantern festivals, 10,000 people participating. In the main neighborhood of Jiexiu Zhangbi Castle, a variety of lantern riddles attract the attention of many tourists. Everyone said a word, I said a word, and joined the "Guess the Riddle" activity. If you can't guess, go to the Shaolin Zen Bow Temple, Erlang Temple Glass Horizon and other sub-exhibition areas, you can find the mystery.
From February 12th to 17th, guessing the riddle of the lantern - Zhangbi Ancient Castle Wan "enigma" lantern will present a grand lantern puzzle activity for tourists. Jiexiu Zhangbi Ancient Castle Scenic Area combines intangible cultural heritage, traditional culture and regional culture to prepare 2022 lantern riddles for tourists.
With the help of scientific and technological power, the Spring Festival of the Year of the Tiger, Zhangbi Ancient Castle "circle powder" countless. At night, inside the castle, the beautiful lights are magical and romantic; Outside the castle, the traffic is busy, and there is a long queue of vehicles going up and down the mountain. The fifth "Authentic Chinese Year" activity of Zhangbi Ancient Castle will end on February 17, and tourists who have not yet had time to experience it should hurry up! The castle also has traditional annual projects such as folk society fire performances, paper-cutting art, and "general tiger" production, which show the flavor of the village community fire and awaken the old memories of tourists.
Tianguan Wangfu
Traditional folk customs make the Lantern Festival, and the "New Year's flavor" is unique here! Traditional folklore, intangible cultural heritage; authentic cuisine, cultural heritage, fun, good-looking, and delicious, just in Yangcheng Tianguan Wangfu. Guo Yong, general manager of Yangcheng Branch of Shanxi Cultural Tourism Scenic Spot Operation Company, introduced that in addition to carrying out original folk performances, Tianguan Wangfu Scenic Area also held a tour of Guhe Street, and purchased tickets to obtain a Fu card for the Year of the Tiger.
Buy a tiger lamp, carry a flower basket, and the festive atmosphere of the Tianguan Palace is overflowing. At this time, it is the blossoming of plum blossoms, so take your family to enjoy the flowers and celebrate the festival together.
Imperial City Xiangfu
From February 13th to 15th, the Imperial City Xiangfu held a special Lantern Festival activity of "Brilliant Imperial City Never Sleeps, Spend the Lantern Xiangfu Year together". Lion dances, donkey running, flying dragons in the air, etc., good drama and stage. At the same time, the first Ming and Qing Dynasty courtyard night tour live-action drama "Back to Xiangfu" resumed performances, leading tourists to start a journey through. The scenic spot also launched a special ticket discount activity, visiting the Xiang mansion and watching live dramas, only 99 yuan.
Long Shuyu
Like the Imperial City Xiangfu, Xiangfen Longshuyu Tourist Scenic Spot launched the "30 Days Free Ticket" activity. Wu Wenxu, assistant general manager of the scenic spot, introduced that all tourists born in the Year of the Tiger or whose name contains "Tiger" and forward the activity link in the WeChat circle of friends for 2 consecutive days can carry their ID cards to free admission to the park. The campaign ends March 2nd.
The cloud exhibition is busy feeling the "tiger" culture
During the Lantern Festival, shanxi cultural and expo venues are not closed. Museums rely on digital networks and media technology to let cultural relics go out of warehouses and exhibition halls and walk onto the "cloud".
Shanxi Museum
Through portals, mobile clients, WeChat public accounts and other carriers, various museum "cloud exhibitions" have been launched to display the colorful history and culture of Shanxi in multiple dimensions. Jinci Museum, Tianlongshan GrottoEs Museum, Taishan Museum, etc., give full play to their own characteristics and advantages, the use of digital panoramic display technology, so that visitors through the computer or mobile phone and other mobile terminals, directly on the Internet to enjoy the real scenery of the scenic spot. Among them, the Jinci Museum has launched activities such as "Crossing the Mountains and Seas and Traveling to the Ancient Ancestral Temple", online exhibition and performance of intangible cultural heritage, "Annual 'Talk' New Year Customs", and Chinese traditional "Nian" cultural pop-up films.
Online cloud tours and exhibitions continue, and offline special exhibitions and interactive activities are lively. From February 14th to 16th, the Shanxi Archaeological Museum opened the West Courtyard of taiyuan Confucian Temple for the first time, inviting the public to participate in the "15th Day of the First Month Flower Lantern Guessing Riddle" activity. During the event, the public can not only visit the West Courtyard of taiyuan Confucian Temple for free, take photos and punch cards in front of the 5 ancient residential courtyards representing different styles in the southwest and north of Shanxi, but also enjoy the lanterns and guess the riddles and receive exquisite gifts.
The Shanxi Museum held the "Tiger and Tiger Shengfu - 2022 Nongyin Tiger Year New Year Zodiac Cultural Relics (Photo) Joint Exhibition" to attract the public to visit the exhibition. Hundreds of pictures of cultural relics, specimens and artworks related to tigers were collected into pictures of Chinese zodiac cultural relics, including precious cultural relics such as the museum's three-colored tiger pillow and tiger head. The exhibition is open until February 28.
Shanxi Bronze Museum
In addition, the Shanxi Bronze Museum invited primary school students to do tiger lanterns and perform tiger luck on the day of the Lantern Festival to jointly open the warmth and beauty of the new year. After the Lantern Festival, the "Tiger Tiger Shengwei" coloring card will continue to carry the vitality of the Year of the Tiger and meet the public in the interactive experience area. You can find the traces of the "tiger" in the museum, feel the profundity of the "tiger" culture, and add wings to the tiger in the new year.
Source: Department of Culture and Tourism of Shanxi Province