The Festival celebration of Changzhou

Festival of lanterns

The lunar calendar middle of month calls the festival of lanterns, also names lantern festival, the lantern festival. After in the evening the family reunion banquet, egresses enjoys looking at the moon views the lanterns.
At nightfall, the scene of dazzling fireworks and lanterns, the city gate greatly opens, the big streets and small alleys everywhere colored lantern hovers, has too mant to see; Everywhere beats gongs and drums, the cymbals dreary tube plays music in unison the noisy lantern festival day. Is precisely "invites the menstruation invite the menstruation, looked the lamp person has a look the lamp person", lively.

Midautumn festival

Lunar calendar in August 15 "Midautumn Festival", popular name "eight middle of month". In front of festival number date, the people are many by the moon cake, the ham, the water chestnut, the lotus root and so on present the relatives and friends "to deliver the festival gifts". The early morning gets up eats "the sugar sweet potato", evening the reunion of the whole family, drinks wine to enjoy looking at the moon. The woman are most in the courtyard supposes the incense table, for water chestnut lotus root, fever incense burner, by room moon. man of letters and refined scholar have the agreement to go to Yizhou pavilion to enjoy looking at the moon composes a poem.

Besides these Chinese tradition holiday, the Changzhou area also hasthe traveling festival to celebrate has every year May 15 --6 month on 1st the Changzhou everflowering rose lantern festival in the red blossom park, in September --10 month holds the Changzhou traveling festival, lunar calendar in July 28, 29 Tianning temple temple fair and every year lunar New Year's Eve Tianning temple listens to the ding blessing activity and so on. In addition also has April the Liyang tea festival, September Tianmu lake summer of beer activity and so on.