Shanghai Local Custom Tips by marsistanbul

The Chinese Lunar New Year is also called Spring Festival or Guo Nian Legend goes that "Nilan" is a sea monster going ashore to prey on Lunar New Year's Eve.If was not until the time An Old Man drove it away with firecrackers that people were safe at home.
Since then Chinese people have being celebrating this occasion with firecrackers,red antithetical couplets,and candles for the New Year to come

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After the middle part of the Ming Dynasty,tea drinking which was popular during the Tang and Song Dynasties became prosperous.Therefore,teapot drinking culture combing teapot art,poem,calligraph and engraving came into being,and became the symbol of the culture,the most famous one in the southern part of the country is the purple-sand teapot.

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Various kinds of masks with exaggerated features and rich strong colors were often used during the cultural and religious activities of the national minorities.
The wooden sculptured mask used innuoxi(Guizhou provincial drama featuring masked dancing) are of three types;deity-demon-and secular figures.Colored mask,used in dixi drama,often performed in the open and opera type,are worn by the characters in stories of historical battles,admist golden spears and armored horses as described in Chinese Literary writings.
Tibetian painted mask representing Gods,ghosts and animal faces are used as stage props in Tiaoshen, a "devil's dance" performed by Lamas to exorcise evil spirits at religious festivals,or sometimes by sorcerers dancing in a trance...

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