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Dragon Boat Performance at Wutong Bridge

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The dragon boat performance at Wutong Bridge has a long history. It became accustom during the period of Emperor Shunzhi in Qing Dynasty. During the dragon boat festival every year, it is put on in the Waterway of Yongsi River. There are many visitors that are like tidewater and merchants swarm here. The huge crowd of people fills the side banks along he river. The festival takes a period of three day. During the daytime, there are dragon boat race and the race of snatching ducks. In the night, there are all sorts of colorful boats along the riverbanks, which are brilliant. On the river surface, boats of various fonts wander here and there. In the air, beautiful fireworks are let off. The scene attracts numerous visitors.


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Giant Buddha Festival of Leshan International Tourism

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The Giant Buddha Festival of Leshan International Tourism is a grand tour gathering that is celebrated every year in Leshan City. The festival is ardent, solemn and auspicious. It merges sightseeing, tourism, cultural performance, businessmen invitation and capital attraction, and economic and trade activities into an integral whole. At the same time, the Mountain Emei-Leshan Giant Buddha World Heritage Protection Festival is held, of which there are a sense of activities and attracts a lot of visitors to take part in. Visitors not only can visit elegant rivers and mountains of Jiazhou, but also appreciate the folklore of Leshan. The Giant Buddha Festival of Leshan International Tourism has gained the high praise of domestic and foreign tourists!


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Carrying the Bride on the men's Backs

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Having the bride on the back is a wedding custom of the nationality. One day before the wedding ceremony, the bridegroom's side may dispatch the clansmen of the bridegroom to act as the party to escort the bride to the bridegroom's house, and the party is bound to exercise its task. But the bride's side has prepared bramble strips, cool water and pan soot, invites many relative and neighbor women to meet together and is ready for a “battle”. When the escort party enters the house of the bride, these women may throw cold water on the party, plasters them with pan soot and whips them with fine bramble strips. At this moment, a part is chasing, while the other is escaping. Cheerful talk can hear here and where and everybody is in high spirits. After first crow of roosters, it is the time for the ceremony that the bride changes skirt. The divided two braids are combined to one and the bride is carried to the outside of the house, which means she has been married. After the daybreak, the youths of the escort party swarm to the bride to “grab the bride”. After the bride resists symbolically, the clansmen of the bridegroom may carry her on the back and return to the bridegroom's house.


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