Beijing News (reporter Zhou Huaizong) The golden dragon meanders, the lion is majestic, and the Taiping inspiration resounds throughout the countryside... On the fifteenth day of the first month, in Dingxi, Gansu, on the Loess Plateau, people spend the Lantern Festival together in different ways.
In Dingxi, Gansu Province, people celebrate the Lantern Festival with social fires.
According to reports, Dingxi has a rich cultural tradition and folk art traditions, and this year's Lantern Festival, cities, counties, townships, and villages have many social fires, lantern viewing, opera and other activities.
Shehuo is a traditional Chinese Spring Festival folk custom and an intangible cultural heritage of many places in the northwest, mostly based on villages, integrating traditional sacrifice culture, cultural and sports performances, and mass activities.
The Taiping Drum is a unique form of encouragement in the Northwest, especially in Lanzhou and the surrounding areas.
During this year's Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, there are social fire activities in Dingxi City and all counties under its jurisdiction. On the day of the Lantern Festival, the Intangible Cultural Heritage Society Fire Exhibition was also held, and the traditional characteristics of dragon dance, lion dance, stilts, mighty gongs and drums, dry boats, traditional gongs and drums, small songs and other social fire programs were performed. The performances are also broadcast live online, and the audience can enjoy the social fire performance online.
On the night of the Lantern Festival, Dingxi City and its subordinate Tongwei County, Lintao County, etc., also held a number of lantern riddle guessing activities with different themes, celebrating the Lantern Festival with traditional flower lanterns and lantern riddles.
The dragon and lion dance is the highlight of the social fire.
In addition, in different counties and districts of the local area, there are various activities such as calligraphy and painting exhibitions, square dances, and non-heritage Qin operas.
Beijing News reporter Zhou Huaizong
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