1. Huanglongxi Fire Dragon Festival
Time: from the second day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month
Location: huanglongxi town, Shuangliu District, Chengdu
Introduction: The dragon lantern dance in Huanglongxi Ancient Town, Shuangliu County has a long history and originated in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is held as scheduled from the second day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month every year. Its activities include burning dragon, colorful dragon performance, Southern Lion performance, floating river lanterns, setting off Kongming lanterns, setting off fireworks and firecrackers, and listening to Sichuan Opera.
2. Chengdu Lantern Festival
Time: 15th day of the first lunar month
Location: Chengdu
Introduction: Chengdu Lantern Festival is a traditional folk activity developed on the basis of Lantern Festival. Lu You, a poet in the Southern Song Dynasty, described the grand occasion of Chengdu Lantern Festival in his poem Ding You Shang Yuan as "the splendid peak of the abrupt stadium, with thousands of tourists and ladies; Advocating that the sky is boiling at noon, and the lights and mountains are moving at dusk. " Since 1962, Chengdu has resumed the Spring Festival Lantern Festival, which lasts for one month. During the Lantern Festival, there are folk art, acrobatics and juggling performances in the park. There are various local snacks; There is also the burden of casting sugar, selling windmills, and every lantern festival has more than one million visitors.
3. Chengdu Flower Show
Time: February 15th of the lunar calendar
Location: Chengdu
Introduction: Chengdu Flower Show started in the Tang and Song Dynasties, and its address is in Qingyang Palace outside the west gate of Chengdu. At that time, state-owned and collective flower gardens and flower farmers near Chengdu will transport their hard-cultivated precious flowers, home-grown potted flowers and bonsai to Qingyang Palace and set up scaffolding. Legend has it that Li Laojun, the ancestor of Taoism, was born on February 15th of the lunar calendar, so since the Tang Dynasty, people have held an annual temple fair here. Because February in Chengdu is the season of sunny weather, pleasant spring and flowers in full bloom, it is also said that February 15th is the birthday of flowers. Therefore, a flower show is held here every February.
4. Longquan Peach Blossom Club
Time: February of the lunar calendar
Location: Longquan Mountain, Chengdu
Introduction: February of the lunar calendar every year is the best time for Chengdu residents to go out for an outing. At this time, the peach blossoms in Longquan Mountain are in full bloom, and the pears at the foot of the mountain are like snow. Together with other seasonal flowers, the whole Longquan Mountain is dressed in spring and colorful. Colorful flowers, like woven tourists, make the Peach Blossom Festival come into being. During the Peach Blossom Festival, the most distinctive project is the family reception station run by flower farmers, where visitors can enjoy tea and relax, and have delicious rural home-cooked meals, eating real green food, which has a special taste.
5. Mazi Festival
Time: March 15th of the lunar calendar
Location: Zharu Temple, Jiuzhaigou County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: Mazi Festival is a religious festival of Zharu Temple and the most solemn festival in Jiuzhaigou. Three days before the meeting, all the lamas in the temple will concentrate on fasting, chanting and rehearsing programs. On the day of the temple fair, Tibetans in Songpan, Zoige, Baozuo, Dalu, Tazang, Longkang and other places around Jiuzhaigou dressed themselves up, gathered in temples, attended celebrations, presented Hada and watched Tibetan opera performances. Then three or five groups scattered in the emerald river, pine forest, sitting on the floor, simple toast, * * * Syria friendship. Young men and women, in pairs, went into the depths of the jungle to date.
6. Zhang Yehui
Time: the fourth day of the fourth lunar month
Location: Jiajiang County, Leshan City
Introduction: Zhang Yehui is popular in Jiajiang County. According to legend, the fourth day of the fourth lunar month is Zhang Fei's birthday. On that day every year, the butchers in Jiajiang prepared sacrifices and went to Zhangfei Temple to worship, praying for peace in the coming year and blessing business prosperity.
7. Mountain Turn Meeting
Time: the eighth day of the fourth lunar month
Location: Paoma Mountain, kangding city, Ganzi Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: According to legend, this day is the birth day of Sakyamuni, and Tibetan customs are extremely frequent in this month. Buddhist believers believe that doing one good deed and praising Buddha in this month can gain 1, times of merits. Therefore, Buddhist believers took the lead in inviting their neighbors and relatives, carrying Mani banners and prayer flags, and chanting Buddhist scriptures "turning the mountain" with beads in their hands, which originated from the "turning the octagon" of Tibetan Buddhism and aimed at praying for disaster. After turning the mountain, Tibetans gathered on Happy Valley Mountain, singing tibetan songs, performing Tibetan opera, jumping over the pot and putting up tents. The mountain was crowded with people, which was very lively.
8. Tianpeng Peony Club
Time: Tomb-Sweeping Day
Location: Pengzhou, Chengdu
Introduction: Pengzhou, located in the north of Chengdu, was called Tianpeng in ancient times, and is a peony flower cultivation base in Sichuan. Historically, it has been called the four major peony production bases in China together with Luoyang in Henan, Cao Zhou in Shandong and Haoxian in Anhui. Lu You, a poet, once said: "Peony is the first in Luoyang, Zhongzhou, and the first in Pengtian, Shu", which shows that Pengzhou planted peony in the Tang and Song Dynasties. Since the Tang and Song Dynasties, local people have the custom of gathering to enjoy peony flowers in full bloom, and the third day of the third month of the lunar calendar is designated as the flower exploration festival every year. In order to carry forward this folk tradition, Pengzhou is scheduled to hold the annual Peony Festival around Tomb-Sweeping Day every year. During the Peony Fair, in addition to exhibiting and selling precious peony flowers and visiting Danjing Mountain, cultural and entertainment activities with local folk customs and exhibitions of local products were also held.
9. Dujiangyan Water Release Festival
Time: Tomb-Sweeping Day
Location: Dujiangyan, Chengdu
Introduction: Dujiangyan Water Conservancy Project is the lifeline of Chengdu Plain, so the water release before spring ploughing every year is regarded as a sacred festival by local residents. Historically, every year in the third month of the lunar calendar, a grand ceremony of releasing water was held in Tomb-Sweeping Day to wish the agricultural harvest that year. At that time, local officials will personally preside over the water release ceremony, and the local people will spontaneously organize to worship Li Bing and his son at the Erwang Temple and hold the Erwang Temple Fair, also known as the Qingming Festival. In recent years, Dujiangyan municipal government changed the traditional Qingming Festival into a water festival sponsored by the government, and water conservancy officials and ceremonial teams dressed in ancient costumes performed the whole process of the water festival. There are folk song and dance performances here, which are fascinating.
1. Xinjin Dragon Boat Festival
Time: Dragon Boat Festival
Location: Xinjin County, Chengdu
Introduction: Dragon boat racing is one of the traditional customs of people in southern China. Although Chengdu is north of the Yangtze River, it is also a land of water towns, so the history of dragon boat racing is also very long. Until the 196s, the dragon boat race in Chengdu was still held in Jinjiang River near Wangjiang Park. However, after the 197s, the rivers in the urban areas are no longer suitable for holding dragon boat races. Therefore, Nanhe River in Xinjin County, Chengdu, with its superior geographical conditions, will make the Dragon Boat Festival more and more prosperous. In addition to traditional programs such as the dragon boat crossing, the Dragon Boat Festival also added dragon boat modeling performances and night floats.
11. Wangcong Temple Competition Song Festival
Time: May 15, Lunar New Year
Location: Pidu District, Chengdu
Introduction: Pixian County was once the capital of ancient Shu. It is said that after Wang Di was transferred to the throne, he retired to the deep mountains and became a cuckoo. Every February, when the azaleas bloom, he flew back to Chengdu Plain to crow day and night, urging farmers to hurry up with spring ploughing. Pixian City is therefore called "Cuckoo City". In order to commemorate Wang Di, later generations held the Juancheng Song Contest around the 15th day of the fifth lunar month every year, and the venue of the Song Contest was selected in Wangcong Temple. The singers who participated in the Song Contest were all local farmers, mainly singing folk songs, which were also called "Roaring Mountain Songs" in Sichuan, and most of them were self-written and sang, with strong local flavor.
12. Huanglong Temple Fair
Time: June 12 to June 15 of the lunar calendar
Location: Huanglong Temple, Songpan County, Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: According to legend, on June 15th of the lunar calendar, Huanglong is the day when real people cultivate immortality, and a grand temple fair will be held, and nearby residents will bring cooking utensils and tents to the party. Tibetan opera performances and folk songs duet will be held at the rally, and young brave men will also have wrestling, archery and other activities. June 15th is the climax of the festival, with people laughing, singing and dancing all night.
13. Lantern Festival
Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar
Location: Tibetan villages and monasteries
Introduction: Lantern Festival is an activity to commemorate the death of Master Zong Kaba, a Buddhist reformer and founder of Gelug Sect. On this day, all the herdsmen in temples and villages belonging to this Sect should light butter lamps on the shrines inside and outside the temples and in the halls at home, which will last day and night. People put on festive costumes, gathered in front of the temple where Buddhist masters recited prayer sutras, recited the "Six-character True Sutras", prayed and kowtowed to the Buddha's gods, and the men in each village mounted their horses, brought with them the branches of cedarwood already prepared, chanted prayers, held a grand mulberry stew ceremony, and threw "Long Da" printed with lions, tigers, dragons and Peng into the sky. Young men and women danced pot dance, while old people sat in the stands drinking and chatting. There are also artists who can sing and rap Tibetan folk long poems, biographies of King Gesar, etc. It was not until the full moon rose that people helped the old and took care of the young, sang the "Six-character True Classics" and went home happily.
14. Xindu Osmanthus Club
Time: Mid-Autumn Festival
Location: Xindu District, Chengdu
Introduction: When the osmanthus in Xindu Gui Hu is fragrant, it is also when the lotus flowers are in full bloom in the lake. On this beautiful day, tourists are like weaving. Therefore, the Xindu County Government decided to hold a osmanthus party around the Mid-Autumn Festival every year. During the osmanthus festival, in addition to inviting people to enjoy osmanthus in the garden, to pay tribute to the Ci of Ascension to the Temple, to visit cultural relics, calligraphy and painting exhibitions and other cultural activities, the city also held material exchange meetings, exhibited local famous snacks, and held songs, dances and drama performances with rich local characteristics.
15. Cai Houhui
Time: August of the lunar calendar
Location: Jiajiang County, Leshan City
Introduction: Jiajiang is a famous paper town with many paper mills. The majority of paper artists regard Cai Lun as their ancestor, and every family worships the statue of Cai Lun. In the eighth month of the lunar calendar, when Hsinchu was not ready and the old materials were used up, artists raised funds to hold the Cai Houhui. At that time, Caihou Temple will be decorated with lanterns, singing Sichuan Opera and performing puppets, which will be very lively. Artists may kill pigs and sheep and celebrate with their families; Or bring gifts to visit relatives and friends. Part of this custom has been circulated.
16. Peng Zu Birthday Festival
Time: every five years (September of the lunar calendar)
Location: Pengshan District, Meishan City
Introduction: Peng Zu Birthday Festival is a festival held in pengshan county to explore the rich connotation of longevity culture, carry forward the longevity culture of Peng Zu and the glorious tradition of respecting the elderly and filial piety of the Chinese nation, build the brand of Pengshan longevity city and enhance its popularity. Since 1991, a longevity culture festival has been held every five years. The successful holding of longevity cultural festivals not only enhanced Pengshan's popularity, but also attracted many foreign businessmen to invest in Pengshan. Among them, Quanli Group, Shanxi Nanfeng Group, Dalian Hualiang Group and many other well-known enterprises at home and abroad have joined in succession, which has made pengshan county's economic aggregate grow continuously.
17. Qiang Year Festival (Qiang calendar year)
Time: the first day of October in the lunar calendar
Location: Qiang Village
Introduction: Qiang Year Festival is a farming activity to thank the gods for the bumper harvest of grain after autumn. According to the customs of Qiang people, it is also necessary to worship God during the Qiang Year, and to worship the gods of heaven, mountains and site owners (village gods). All the people in the village will have a reunion dinner and drink, and they will break up in joy. During the festival, relatives and friends can congratulate each other and welcome each other.
18. Russian Happiness Festival
Time: the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month
Location: Muli Tibetan Autonomous County
Introduction: Russian Happiness Festival is an ancient festival of Tibetan people in Muli Tibetan Autonomous County, Liangshan, Sichuan Province, which is held on the seventh day of the twelfth lunar month every year. On the night before New Year's Eve, according to the traditional custom, every family prepares a delicious meal for cats and dogs, including meat and rice. If cats and dogs eat meat first and then eat, it bodes well for the coming year. At night, the Tibetan people in each village are all dressed in gorgeous national costumes and gathered in the spacious square of the village house. Everyone is surrounded by bonfires, singing folk songs and dancing in the "pot village", and entertaining with highland barley wine and butter tea. On the fifteenth day of New Year's Day, after breakfast, men, women and children all packed up neatly, took food, wine and meat, and flocked to the predetermined place to turn the mountain.
19. Tibetan calendar
Time: January 1st, Tibetan calendar
Location: Tibetan stockades
Introduction: Tibetan calendar is a New Year's festival of Tibetan people calculated according to Tibetan calendar, which is roughly the same as the Lunar New Year of Han nationality. When the rooster crows for the first time on January 1st in the Tibetan calendar, housewives get up and carry "new water" (legend has it that all the buddhas in heaven have given mankind auspicious nectar to get rid of all diseases). Anyone who can drink the new water in the New Year will be healthy and live a long life in the new year. All the men in the village went to the sacred mountain of this village to pray and simmer mulberry. During the day of the first day of junior high school, every village will hold a very grand jockey club or cultural performance. From the second day of junior high school, people began to congratulate each other on the New Year, treat guests to visit, and make preparations to welcome the dragon lantern lion. When the dragon lion comes to the door, every family will decorate a lantern and give a gift-bottles of sprinkles or a cigarette.
2, Qiang Waer-e-Zu Festival
Location: Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture
Introduction: "Qiang Waer-e-Zu Festival", which is called "Song Fairy Festival" or "Song Leading Festival" or "Song Leading Festival" in Chinese, is a traditional custom activity held by Qiang women to worship Sister Salang, the goddess of song and dance in the sky. As this activity is mainly hosted and organized by women, On May 2th, 26, the Waer Russian Foot Festival of Qiang declared by Aba Tibetan and Qiang Autonomous Prefecture in Sichuan Province was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
21. Zigong Lantern Festival
Location: Zigong City
Introduction: Zigong Lantern Festival is a folk culture with historical tradition. As early as the early years of the Western Han Dynasty, Lantern Festival was recorded in writing. Later, it developed into an indispensable event for people to pin their ideals and pray for a good year. "The son of heaven enjoys happiness with all the people" refers to the grand scene of the ancient Lantern Festival. Zigong is located in Sichuan Province, where the connotation of the southern lantern city lies. It was formed in the Qingming period and gradually developed into a large-scale folk cultural activity with relatively fixed connotation, which was carried out at a specific time and had a certain inheritance line.
22. Emei Mountain Ice and Snow Festival
Time: January to March of the following year
Location: Emei Mountain
Introduction: Emei Mountain is snowy in winter, and the snow is soft, which is suitable for skiing. In order to develop winter tourism, the first Sichuan Emei Mountain Ice and Snow Festival was held in 1998. Festival activities include opening ceremony, hot spring concert, masquerade ball, winter scenery photography contest, snow sculpture ice sculpture competition, alpine skiing performance, children's snow flying saucer, snow garden, food week, closing ceremony, etc.
23. Tulip Festival in Shixiang Lake
Time: March every year
Location: Shixiang Lake, Pujiang County, Chengdu
Introduction: The annual Tulip Festival is the most important festival in Shixiang Lake. Tulip, a symbol of nobility and happiness, is the national flower of the Netherlands. It is colorful and rich, and the flowers are exquisite and lovely, showing the beauty of different postures from budding to blooming. Therefore, some people praise Tulip as the "queen of flowers". The introduction of tulips not only blended Chinese and western cultures, but also brought European spring to the side.
24. Wawushan Rhododendron Festival
Time: April to June every year
Location: Wawushan National Forest Park, Hongya County, Meishan City
Introduction: Wawushan Rhododendron resources are very rich, with more than 4 species in 6, mu of rhododendron forest. In order to develop tourism, the first Sichuan Wawushan Rhododendron Festival was held in April 21. Festival activities include the opening ceremony, bonfire party, rhododendron viewing, photo exhibition, painting competition, poetry and prose essay award, closing ceremony, etc.
25. Leshan International Tourism Giant Buddha Festival
Time: September every year
Location: Leshan City
Introduction: Leshan Giant Buddha is a statue of Maitreya dug by a mountain, with a height of 71 meters and an instep width of 8.5 meters. It was built by a famous Buddhist monk named Haitong in Kaiyuan, Tang Dynasty, and it is the largest Buddha in the world today. In order to develop tourism, the first Sichuan was held in 1994.