Folk festivals for ethnic minorities in Shanglin County: Shimen Dragon Mother Festival

activity name

Shimen Dragon Mother Festival

activity time

The third month of the third lunar month every year

venue

Shimen Village, Tanghong Township, Shanglin County

Festival content

(1) Hold a cultural performance at the opening ceremony. After that, there was a lion dance and waist drum dance;(2) a "March 3rd" mountain song fair competition was held;(3) sacrificial activities to sacrifice to the dragon mother and special excavation: Shigong dance performance, climbing the sword mountain and descending the sea of fire;(4) Organizing a series of folk competition competitions, such as spinning top, pulling the river, jumping plaid, cockfighting, playing checkers, playing bamboo tube gun, building sweet potato kilns, bamboo tube rice, etc.;(5) Organizing a "March 3rd Five-color rice free tasting meeting";6) Farmers 'exhibition.

Transportation to the event site

50 kilometers from Shanglin County. It can be reached by bus from Dafeng to Zhongke.

Whether to collect tickets and some precautions

No tickets are charged. The most lively event is on the day of Dragon Mother Festival.

Introduction to the event or local specialties

Cuisine: Five-color rice, black bean rice, white-cut local chicken, fragrant moxa cake, steamed yellow peak fish, black bean pork knuckle pot, stuffed three treasures, Mingshan pearl chicken, snowflake taro, black bean cake, fried sweet bamboo shoots, fried wild flower mushroom specialties: red star anise, black bean, Shanglin fragrant rice, sweet bamboo shoots