Chengdu people are laid-back, love, crowded and, therefore, special fun. In this land of abundance bustling place, there are all sorts of entertainment. Old Chengdu people's entertainment is not scattered, and leisure, and repeated year after year, but never too tired.
Lunar New Year is the longest civil society, and it is the biggest festival of the winter before this month, the twelfth lunar month, every household on the busy, and the winter solstice day, we must kill a pig worship of ancestors, bacon, sausage loaded. Every family under the eaves, the kitchen of the beam, are festooned with homemade bacon sausage, like hanging from a string of New Year's joy. Children are already beginning to look forward to: the "red radish, honey honey sweet, to see to see to the New Year." Countdown to New Year, people increasingly rapid pace, Jizao, do stocking, playing dust (do health), Orientation Kitchen God, New Year's scrolls. Housewives have done Mihua Tang, Shao silk sugar, steamed rice cake, glutinous rice balls grinding flour, making a new cap, new clothes, too busy turning here.
New Year's Chengdu, four city wide open to people in droves to see the fields, some scenery, attractions and more is that the family wear new clothes and go "spirit of joy side." Everywhere there is trouble on the street years of drums, playing the lion dragon, stilt of. Little children dressed in new clothes, wearing a big head monk, inviting bamboo ring spring, the streets, "buzzing" sound. New Year's Eve tasted of the group Nian Fan, who started the beginning, "leave households", and friends and relatives stopping by each other, visiting times, take a bow, a child who met with elders to kowtow, kowtow too much, knee ache. But they it this way, because each has a red envelope a head knock. It hosted a dinner for each other, it seems necessary to have in this year's feast 10 days after eating.
The pattern is more playing on. The flow of people flock to travel different places, who started many travel Temple of Marquis, Ding Gongci, Wangjiang floor. Seventh day is the person-days that day, Chengdu has a unique custom of man-days --- to go along with Du Fu's Thatched Cottage, and had to go. "Man-days" that day, thatched cottage scholarly gathering, shower the plum poems, Chengdu people's New Year has also acquired a touch of elegance.
To the ninth day of the eighth day the night, the temple, hall, residents lit "sky lanterns", the streets of Chengdu, became light ocean, Fireworks, sparkling.
Fifteenth day, every household to eat the Lantern Festival, honoring the gods sent years, but also some Naore. Fair to say that years have lapsed End, Chengdu people have there is a pattern: the first month 16 "travel sickness", boarded walls roaming, is said to enable one-year is not from disease. That day at night, fireworks skies, the end of New Year's Fang Cai.
Complexity of such a grand New Year's flies, Chengdu were tired of the play strike? Is also the case, began to slow down the rhythm of entertainment. How slow it in the end, pinch that calculation, but it is entertainment almost every month of the nomenclature. According to "Shu Code" contains, Chengdu has been since the Tang Dynasty, it has gradually formed on the city that lights the first month the city flower in February, March eggs City, April Jin City, May Fan City, June Xiang City, July Po City, August Guangxi City, September medicines City, October Jiu Shi, winter plum city, the twelfth lunar month Taofu city. To the end of the Qing, and some on city disappeared, and some remained the same. On City not only with customs-related, but also entertainment-related.
Lunar New Year in February Qingyang Gong's Flower Show is a great event. Lunar New Year in February said the North Korea section 15 is spent, that is the birthday of flowers, but also founder of Taoism, Lao Zi's birthday, two birthday disturb in a day, so Qingyang Gong's temple will become a flower show. Flower is a scaled up in time thing, bustling crowd pouring City, spring whisk past spring everywhere.
March third-year sons birthday and went to the empress, and grab some drama Boy virgin is trouble. Then, in April eighth day Buddha's Birthday releasing animals will turn people gathered in Chengdu to Jiuyanqiao to Wangjiang floor area Jinjiang side. Good-hearted people who buy birds harbor Letting Them Go. Fishmonger's business does not less, fish, eel loach snail turtle crab mussels, are the object of Letting Them Go. Shore Yourenruzhi, Jiang Lottery boat shuttle.
Buddha's Birthday the day there is a strange custom: married caterpillars can also be seen in Chengdu's funny. Old no pesticides, Chengdu people have ways to deal with insects is to simply put it married off. Note that people with red frame into a cross, the result of "caterpillar rack" to write, "Buddha's birthday, caterpillars a long journey," that kind of thing, indoors and lose. Caterpillars are really just do not know too much of a marriage?
May the Dragon Boat Festival is a major event there in August after the Mid-Autumn Festival in September Chung Yeung, Cheng Huang in October to see out the drive. A blink of an eye, but also to the end of the year, and Chengdu who started the end of the year big purchases. Guang Yeshi, Chengdu important element in people's lives. That year, Main Street East, prosperous second to none, the New Year is approaching the season, paving has been affixed to the large Zhu Jing笺couplets, most of them please write Nade. The amount of the door, it is a row of five vermilion笺hollow flower, Ni Jin likes the door money, and keeper of the next New Year's MEI adhesive business card, years ago, the atmosphere at these convenience render out. The night market Naore, really can not say enough.
Guang Yeshi the joy of shopping is just as long as 16 days for that foreshadowed the Lunar New Year. Chengdu people over a year, seem to have returned to square one. New Year's arrived.