/kloc-lights on 0/3, lights off on 0/8, and Lantern Festival is held. Ningbo, for short, is a sub-provincial city in Zhejiang Province, a city with separate plans, an important port city in the southeast coast of China and an economic center in the south wing of the Yangtze River Delta approved by the State Council.
Ningbo folk custom
Ningbo, located in the east of Zhejiang Province, has long been influenced by Vietnamese culture under the superior natural environment, forming a unique custom, which is popular in Ninghai County, Ningbo City. Generally speaking, in the first month of the summer calendar or Buddhist festivals, dozens of farmers form teams and take turns to dance lions in villages to show respect for their ancestors and welcome gods to ward off evil spirits.
Dragon boat races in urban and rural areas are mainly held in ponds, rivers and lakes. Dragon boats are divided into Qinglong, Huanglong and Bailong. Dragon boat races are usually held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and the sixteenth of August every year. According to legend, the former was the day when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu State, threw a dragon boat into the Miluo River to show that people were fighting for salvation, while the latter was the Mid-Autumn Festival in Ningbo.
Eat sweet potato soup in winter solstice. In the traditional customs of Ningbo, sweet potato soup is one of the foods that must be eaten in winter solstice, which is homophonic. In Ningbo people's understanding, eating sweet potatoes on the solstice in winter means turning over the bad luck of the past year.