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What are the customs in Chengdu?
The custom of Chengdu is:

1, wearing new clothes "Tour Xi Shen Fang": On the first day of the New Year, Chengdu people began to "walk in", relatives and friends visited each other, and people hosted banquets for each other. There are more tricks going on. From the first day of junior high school, people help the old and bring the young to wear new clothes and take a walk to "admire the gods", which is a folk custom of the old Chengdu people and has a history of nearly 200 years. In traditional culture, the God of Wealth and the Western God are linked together. The so-called "XiShen" refers to the gods who bring people luck, joy and wisdom, and "Happy Party" is where XiShen is.

2. The Great Temple Fair gathers folk skills in Chengdu: Wuhou Temple is the favorite place for people to worship God, and Wuhou Temple is also the most lively place to visit the Great Temple Fair. Temple fair is both a religious ceremony and a market. Sichuan opera skills such as changing face, spitting fire, rolling lanterns, hand shadow play and puppet show, and folk skills such as shadow play, clay sculpture, sugar man, Tang Hua and paper cutting can be seen at the temple fair, such as rolling iron rings, spinning gyroscopes, riding chicken carts, pulling springs and ringing springs.

3. Visit Du Fu's Caotang: The seventh day is People's Day, and the People's Day in Chengdu has a unique custom of spending time with Du Fu in the Caotang; On the eighth night, temples, halls and neighborhoods light "sky lanterns"; On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is another hot event that every household eats Yuanxiao to offer sacrifices to the gods and presents the New Year.

4. On the fifteenth day of the first month, couples "steal green": In Chengdu, this realistic version of stealing vegetables has been popular since the late Qing Dynasty and is called "stealing green". 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.

5. Chengdu Tang Hua: It was once called "sugar cake", "sugar Baba" and "sugar lantern shadow". It is a kind of manual skill of painting with melted sugar juice, which is mainly spread in Chengdu and its surrounding areas in Sichuan Province. It is a traditional handicraft that can be tasted and watched. In 2008, Chengdu Tang Hua was selected as the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage protection projects in China.