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Folk activities in Qingyan ancient town

Now many people like to travel to the ancient town. Qingyan ancient town, as one of the famous ancient towns in Guizhou, has a good scenery and certain national characteristics. Some folk activities will be held. When you come here, you can not only feel the diversity of national culture, but also experience the unique folk activities here.

Put on Kongming lamp

In fact, we are all familiar with Kong Mingdeng. Even if we don't let it go, we have seen it in many movies and TV plays, which represents a certain wish. Qingyan ancient town also has the custom of letting Kong Mingdeng go. Generally, it starts after putting Baoding!

The Kongming lamp here is generally five feet high and cylindrical. There is a round bamboo ring about three feet at the bottom of the lampshade. There is a thin iron wire frame tied on it and a paper twist in the middle. Then when you put it, you need to burn a bundle of straw first to fill the hot air. After the lampshade is puffed up, you can light the paper twist!

Water mouse

In fact, this' water mouse 'is not the mouse we know, but a kind of small fireworks, which is usually put on festivals. The fireworks are rolled with straw paper, and then you can draw your eyes and mouth. It's best to seal them with paraffin wax!

There are two layers of gunpowder in the fireworks. When you light it, you can choose a wide water surface. After lighting, the fireworks will get into the water and float out again, just like a mouse!

Put 'Baoding'

This tripod, also known as bonsai, is a relatively large fireworks, which is usually lit on the night of the 15th day of the first month!

Qingyan's food tradition

Qingyan ancient town has a lot of delicious food, such as tofu fruit, pickled tofu, tofu skin, champion hoof, spicy chicken feet and so on. You can have a taste here!