In Ningbo people's understanding, the name and ingredients of sweet potato soup are all particular. "Fan" and "Fan" of sweet potato are homophonic, which means "turning over" all the bad luck of the past year; Tang Guo is like glutinous rice balls, which means "reunion and perfection". Eating a bowl of sweet potato soup on the winter solstice is not only delicious, but also a blessing for the coming year.

2. Dragon Boat Race

Dragon boat races in urban and rural areas are mainly held in ponds, rivers and lakes. Dragon boats are divided into Qinglong, Huanglong and Bailong. Dragon boat races are usually held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month and the sixteenth of August every year. The former is said to be the day when Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet and doctor of Chu State, threw himself into the Miluo River to row a dragon boat, indicating that people were scrambling for rescue. The latter is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Ningbo.

3. Liang Zhu

There is a proverb in Ningbo, "Husband and wife want to grow old together, and Liangshanbo Temple will arrive". Now, Liang Zhu's story is circulated in various artistic forms, such as movies, plays, Quyi, etc., covering a wide range, involving and spreading to European and American countries, and is called Romeo and Juliet in the East.

4, lion dance

Lion dance is an excellent folk art in China. Every festival or assembly celebration, people use lion dance for entertainment. China folk tradition holds that lion dancing can exorcise evil spirits. Therefore, whenever people miss their relatives more, such as the New Zhang Celebration and the Spring Festival Tournament, people like beating gongs and drums and dancing lions.

5. Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16th

Legend has it that there was a prime minister named Shi in the Southern Song Dynasty, who was from Mingzhou, Ningbo. Although people are in Lin 'an (Hangzhou), the provincial capital, they love their homeland and go home to reunite with their elders every August 15th. But one year, Shi got home one night on August 16th due to official duties.

At the thought of not sharing happiness with the people, Shi was very upset. Unexpectedly, the people of Mingzhou stayed up all night, waiting for him to come back to celebrate. Since then, the Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16 has become a tradition in Mingzhou, which has continued to this day.

This custom is well documented. In the "Yinxian Customs Records" of the Republic of China, it was mentioned: "My son's history was then prime minister, and his return trip was postponed because of an official banquet."

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