Lunar 24 solar terms (Jiuhua Spring Festival)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar (Jiuhua Spring Festival)

Applicant: Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Item No.: 516

Project No.: Ⅹ - 68

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protected by: cultural center of Kecheng District, Quzhou City

Introduction to the 24 solar terms of the lunar calendar (Jiuhua Spring Festival)

Applicant: Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Jiuhua Spring Festival is a well preserved traditional farming season custom in waichen village, Jiuhua Township, Kecheng District, Quzhou City, Zhejiang Province. Wutong Ancestor Hall is the main place for the Spring Festival.

The main sacrificial activities include: offering sacrifices to the spring God gumang, greeting the spring, receiving blessings and praying for a bumper harvest of grain, offering sacrifices, playing the role of mang God, burning incense, binding spring cattle, performing for gods, outing, whipping spring cattle, etc.

Whip spring cattle is an important part of the whole spring festival activities, and the selected people dress up as the awn God whip to beat spring cattle. Local officials in charge of the line incense ceremony, said to persuade farmers to start spring plowing. The ceremony expressed people's expectation for good weather, good harvest and peace of the country and the people.

The Spring Festival of the Wutong Ancestor Hall is a precious legacy of our traditional agricultural customs and traditions. It is of great significance to inherit the fine traditions of the Chinese nation and carry forward the national spirit.