The Traditional Folk Festivals in Henan

Folk festivals:
Henan Province has a long history of many traditional festivals, these festivals not only in the widely circulated, and growing domestic and overseas tourists of all ages.
Two days of Lunar New Year in February, the people are the dragon want to go to heaven the day, it said "the rise of the dragon festival" or "Dragon Day", this day, people will go to the fields pick wild vegetables, dumplings, fried pancakes, fried beans, fried bacon , steamed bun date, in order to express respect for the dragon.
Henan rural women generally do not move in this day scissors, do needlework, fixed knives, scissors and injury fear dragons.
South of Henan Province in eastern Henan and have started in June was too small to say.

That day the people in the house, hospital, put on the altar in the wheat field, put bread, jujube hill (a bun) and the peach, plum and other five fruits, collected with a bucket full of new wheat, and incense burning guns, in this form to celebrate the grand harvest, and worship, seeking the coming year, good weather, good harvest. , People have to eat a meal with meat, vegetables, noodles, seaweed made of "chowder food," is very fun.
June sixth, also known as "Hope Summer Festival", "fried noodles Festival", "girl Festival", this day every household to marry the girl to take home, hospitality and then returned to her husband's family. There is a saying: "June 6, your aunt," "June 6, hoe hanging hook, called Aunt called sister."
Since these two holidays a very short time interval, so it is generally the first day from June to June 15 period of time referred to as "Harvest Festival" or "Harvest Festival", as the Central Plains region is highly valued for farming agricultural festival.
Eighth lunar month, is China's Han Chinese traditional Laba, the day the majority of our region have the custom to eat rice porridge, rice porridge is then harvested in eight fresh food and fruits and boiled, usually for the sweet porridge. The Central Plains region, but many farmers prefer salty to eat Laba porridge, porridge in addition to rice.