Shanxi folk customs include making lanterns, making red fires, setting off fireworks, stilts, running land boats, running bamboo horses, cart dances, chair dances, lion dances, dragon dances, dragon boat dances, yellow platforms, upside-down flower drums, iron Stick and back stick, fisherman playing with sea clams, etc.
Shanxi’s characteristic folk activities include: lanterns, red fires, fireworks, stilts, land boat racing, bamboo horse racing, trolley dance, chair dance, lion dance, dragon dance, dragon boat dance, Zhonghuang Gaotai, Hanging flower drum, iron rod and back stick, fisherman playing with sea clams, Mr. Shen sitting in sedan chair, Shanxi Blood Society Fire, Yellow River Lantern Festival, Taiyuan Society Fire, Huairen Wanghuo, Pingding Pagoda Fire, Nanzhuang Fire, Wei Feng Gong and Drum, Jiangzhou Drumming and more.
Shanxi folk birth customs: getting happy, adding happiness, announcing good news, confinement, full moon, grasping the week, wet nurse, naming, unlocking, raising, and birthday.
Shanxi folk funeral customs: beginning and end, enshrinement, hanging offering, funeral, memorial ceremony, mourning shed, sacrifices, joy and mourning.
Shanxi Spring Festival folk customs: Kitchen Festival, New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Beginning of Spring, Spring Festival couplets, window grilles, New Year pictures, dumplings, firecrackers, New Year's money, welcoming the God of Joy, Po Wu, People's Day, Ceres Festival, Stone Festival, the Tenth Day of the First Month Wu Yuan Xiao Festival and Taiyuan New Year Customs.
Other traditional festivals in Shanxi: Warehouse Filling Festival, Green Dragon Festival, Cold Food Festival, Qingming Festival, April 8th, Dragon Boat Festival, June 6th, Chinese Valentine's Day, Ghost Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Send cold clothes festival, Eid al-Fitr, Winter Solstice Festival, Laba Festival.
Introduction to the Honghuo Festival:
The Honghuo Festival, also known as the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, is a traditional folk cultural activity with a long history. The forms of prosperity are different in various parts of Shanxi, but the same thing is that they all take place on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Some are from the 14th to the 16th of the first lunar month, some are from the 15th to the 17th of the first lunar month, and some are only on the night of the 15th of the first lunar month.
A variety of cultural and artistic activities are held on the night of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Some of these cultural activities are group dance performances with sounds, colors and movements. Popular folk activities in Shanxi Province include lion dancing, dragon lantern dancing, land boat running, Yangko dancing, dragon dancing, stilt walking, bamboo horse riding, swinging, big-headed doll dancing, butterfly flapping, playing nine tunes, etc. This is what "prosperous" is about.
The Lantern Festival held on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the largest folk mass cultural and artistic activity in Shanxi Province in a year with the most concentrated personnel and the largest number of participants. Every Lantern Festival has become a day for folk art competitions in Shanxi Province.