Since ancient times, "the wealth of the world, out of the southeast, Jinling for its meeting", Nanjing is also the capital of the ten dynasties. "Clothing cultural relics are rich in southeast characteristics and urban atmosphere, with profound cultural connotations, showing a bit of elegance, heroic spirit, gentle and beautiful, rich and harmonious." At the same time, Nanjing, as the hub of world literature, has a profound cultural heritage. The so-called "food maid bartenders also had smoke and water in the Six Dynasties".

00 Spring Festival New Year's Day

00 years ago, it was called New Year's Day, commonly known as Chinese New Year. People in Nanjing will sweep the court, put lanterns, hang decorations, wear new clothes and hats, put up Spring Festival couplets and set off firecrackers during the Spring Festival.

Nanjing people put up Spring Festival couplets or door gods on the door of the New Year, and scholars put up a picture of a chicken on the door, which means "a chicken is getting stronger every day". Now people meet in the New Year, wish each other "Congratulations on getting rich", offer tea and cigarettes, and treat each other with fashionable cakes.

00 lantern festival

The fifteenth day of the first month is the night of the first full moon in the lunar year, which is called Yuanxiao. Night is synonymous with Xiao, so it is called Yuanxiao. Food has also changed from eating bean porridge to tasting Yuanxiao (glutinous rice balls). In Nanjing, there is a custom of "putting lights on Lantern Festival and leaving lights on noodles". During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the Lantern Festival in Nanjing had the custom of playing with dragon lanterns and hanging gauze lanterns.

00 Qingming outing

Since ancient times, Tomb-Sweeping Day has been paid attention to by the imperial court and the people because of the custom of sweeping graves to worship ancestors. When the spring is bright, men and women go to Niushou Mountain, Yuhuatai Mountain and Meihua Mountain in the suburbs to "take a trip with wine, which is called an outing". There is a saying called "Spring Bull Head".

00 Dragon Boat Festival Tour Qinhuai

The fifth day of May in the summer calendar is called Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang. On this day, Nanjing people like to eat zongzi and mung bean cakes, as well as "fried five poisons" (fried with whitebait, shrimp, leek and black dry goods), amaranth and male soybeans, and drink realgar and calamus wine to avoid disaster. Washing your eyes with sun-exposed water is called "broken eyes", which means you can avoid eye diseases for a year. Acorus calamus and mugwort leaves are also dipped in water and sprinkled on the ground, and then inserted on the lintel to "eliminate disasters." In the past 20 years, the Qinhuai River has been rectified vigorously, and the water has been changed regularly, with more boats and pleasant scenery. At night, there are thousands of lights on both sides of Qinhuai River. Tourists in cruise ships, boats in scenery, people walking in paintings, each with its own flavor.

00 Mid-Autumn Moon Touches Autumn

Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th, Jiangnan is also called August Festival. This night, there is a full moon in the sky and a full moon on earth. Even if you are in a foreign country, you should go home for reunion. People in Nanjing like to enjoy the moon with their families, which is called "celebrating reunion", and it is called "full moon" when groups sit together and drink, and it is called "walking on the moon" when visiting the market. There were Moon Tower and Moon Bridge in the early Ming Dynasty. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a Moon Tower under Lion Mountain, which was a place for tourists to enjoy the moon, and the Moon Bridge was the most prosperous. Yueyue Bridge is located in Qinhuai River, where the old courtyard of Confucius Temple is located. After the Qing Dynasty, the wind of enjoying the moon still prevailed. People in Yue Bai display fresh fruits and moon cakes, burn incense (tie incense like a tower, add paper barrels on it, and call it a bucket of incense), tell the story of the Goddess Chang'e flying to the moon, and then share moon cakes. Mooncakes are made in Guabu, and "Jinling set of cakes" was the best in the Republic of China.

00 Chongyang Gordon Club

On the ninth day of September in the summer calendar, it is called Chongyang, because every month and day are positive numbers. Historically, Jiankang (now Nanjing) people went out to climb mountains on this day, forming a "mountaineering meeting". This custom originated from a strange legend of avoiding evil spirits, which was recorded in detail by Wu Jun, a native of A Liang in the Southern Dynasties. From Wei, Jin, Southern and Northern Dynasties to Ming and Qing Dynasties, the custom of Chongyang in Jiankang still flourished. At that time, he lived in the south of the city to climb the Yuhuatai, in the city to climb the Arctic Pavilion, and in the north of the city to climb the Shogun Mountain, especially the Shogun Mountain.

00 Laba Festival Zhou Pin

Nanjing has been the center of Buddhist culture in China since ancient times. Believers in China are very devout, so they merged with "La Ri" to form the "Laba Festival" and held a grand ceremony. This Laba Festival, which originated from Buddhist tradition, is also popular in Nanjing. Laba, as its name implies, is the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month every year. The most famous one is Pilu Temple, which is located next to the presidential palace on the Yangtze River in Nanjing.

Meet the god of wealth in 2000

According to the traditional customs of Nanjing people, the fifth day of the first lunar month is a very important day. On this day, the garbage that has been placed in the dustpan for many days can be seen everywhere outside the door. People are waiting for 12: 00 in the morning (midnight). When midnight comes, there are deafening firecrackers everywhere, sometimes even louder than New Year's Eve. On this day, in the old customs of Nanjing, Confucius Temple began to light up, and all kinds of lights, such as lotus lanterns, pineapple lanterns, zodiac lanterns and so on, were lit up.