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Anren Market Day

2023-08-04 14:58:09

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Folk cultural activities will be held on Anren Market Day during Spring Equinox period, on which people used to hold folk sacrificial activities to commemorate Shen Nong. The festival will last for three days.

 

On that day, people will make friends, gather for meals, and have blind dates after praying for grain harvest at the Shen Nong Temple, as well as trade in daily necessities such as herbs, agricultural tools, and seedlings. They can enjoy such performances as folk operas, and dragon and lion dances, and float lanterns on the Yongle River in the evening. 

 

Anren Market Day was included on the first representative list of provincial ICH projects in 2006 and on the fourth representative list of national ICH projects in 2014. In 2016, it was included on the UNESCO Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity as a project related to the 24 solar terms.
 
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