 Candy ball festival of Haiyun Nunnery and abundant traditional Chinese folk activities

 Candy ball festival of Haiyun Nunnery and abundant traditional Chinese folk activities

The candy ball festival of Haiyun Nunnery is one of the top 10 local folk activities in China. Since 1990, the festival has been held for 23 consecutive years. Every year, it is opened on the 16th day of the 1st month of the lunar calendar of China and will last for 1 week. It is a comprehensive folk activity integrating candy ball making and sales, folk crafts, special snacks, folk performances and commodity trading

 Showing spring festival life and integrating diversified cultures

It is said, in the last month of the lunar calendar, people would make candy on the 23rd day, write couplets on 24th day, make tofu on the 25th day, butcher pigs on the 26th day, butcher chicken on 27th day, buy flowers on 28th day, cover grain hopper on the 29th day and eat and drink the whole night on the 30th day. During Spring Festival, you can different cultural and entertainment activities in Qingdao, such as festival shopping, playing with snow, drinking iced beer, setting campfire, showing lights and guessing lantern riddles

During the lunar month from the Spring Festival in Qingdao, a series of temple fairs will be held, including the Tianhou Palace Temple fair on the 1st day, the Qingxi Nunnery temple fair on the 9th day, the Yugu Nunnery temple fair on the 11th day, and the Haiyun Nunnery temple fair on the 16th day. Lantern shows, lantern puzzles and temple fairs could show us the lives of the native people of Qingdao during the 1st month after the Spring Festival from another perspective

 Spring rolls, the award to your test bud, have explained the essence of delicious food

Spring rolls are popular in all parts of China, especially in its northern areas. People in north China do not eat Jiaozi but spring rolls and sesame sweet dumplings. People always use spring rolls to treat their guests. Spring rolls, with a long history, are evolved from spring cakes

Common camellia is the municipal flower of Qingdao. In winters, when it is snowing, the green trees and red flowers have made up a beautiful painting on the white background. Common camellia belongs to Camellia category and theaceae family, and common camellia trees are evergreen shrubs or dungarunga with graceful shapes and thick leaves, which are evergreen in four seasons. Common camellia has bright red flowers and green leaves, and bloom in snowy winters. Its flowers have red petals and yellow hearts with the blooming period of as long as six months