Folk culture

source: Updated: 2016-10-31

The Hakka folk culture is worldly famous for its rustically simple and unsophisticated spirit. Hakka folk activities are held all year round. In Spring Festival, there are Lantern performances. The lanterns are made to the forms of dragon, snake, carp, horse, lion, etc. Dragon boat competitions are held in Dragon Boat Festival. In Mid-autumn Day, people take part in activities like Fly Kong Ming Lantern, Invite Sister Moonlight and so on. Besides these with Han nationality features, there are some other specific large-scale folk cultural performances in Gannan, which are rare in Han districts (including Hakka districts), such as Nine Lions Visit Elephant in Shangyou, Bamboo Fire Dragon Festival in Ningdu, Chinese clarinet in Yudu. In addition, the folk arts are also diverse: Hakka rustic music, Gannan Tealeaf picking opera, ballad, etc.