Learn About Spring Festival Customs in Yangliuqing Town, Hometown of National Hero Huo Yuanjia.

(Source: Tianjin Tourism)

Every Spring Festival, we can find the most classic Spring Festival customs in Yangliuqing ancient town, Tianjin, the hometown of national hero Huo Yuanjia.

On 23rd of the twelfth month of the lunar year, Yangliuqing Folk Culture Tourism Festival is held: The festival is held on every 23rd of the twelfth month of the lunar year to welcome the Spring Festival with most traditional and familiar way of the town. Tourists from home and abroad would come to experience and enjoy the authentic Spring Festival customs of Tianjin.

On New Year’s Eve, people will paste festival couplets and hang new year paintings: Yangliuqing new year painting is the first folk new year painting which was brought into emperor’s palace, it is also the first of Four Wood-block New Year Paintings of China. The handcraft and colored drawing are combined together to create the unique style which is bright, vivid and full of happy and lucky atmosphere.

On zero of Spring Festival, the blessing bell will be rang: On zero of Lunar New Year’s Day, Spring Festival, the blessing bell will be rang in Fengshan Mountain Yaowang Temple, the most ancient, magical and efficacious temple of Tianjin. More and more people come here to stay up and welcome the new year, and attend the blessing bell activity.

The propitious new year paintings, colorful festival lanterns, exultant drum performance, splendid activities and happy crowds will always make the Spring Festival an extraordinary and jubilant festival. Every year, hundreds of thousands of tourists from home and abroad come to Tianjin, to Yangliuqing Town to celebrate the Spring Festival and seek the unique happiness of the festival.