The Huairou Guochao Culture Festival has opened, with performances every day during the National Day holiday
Today, I visited the Yanqi Lake to enjoy the Huairou Guochao Culture Festival. It's a lively cultural festival where I listened to multi-ethnic performances, followed the trend of national style fashion, tasted the special long-table feast of ethnic minorities, and strolled through the deep mountain market.
🌟 There are Miao, Buyi, Dong, Yao, and Mongolian ethnic groups from Guangxi, Guizhou, and other places. There will be performances every day during the National Day holiday, so friends who like Guochao can come and have fun.
A guide to the park's performance routes and times
2023.09.29-2023.10.06 Beijing Yanqi Lake Scenic Area
● Enter from the South Gate (main entrance of the scenic area)
✅ Miaoling Style: 11:00—20:00 (every half hour)
Miao dance, bamboo pole dance, lusheng dance to welcome guests, and making glutinous rice cakes. Location: open space at the main entrance. Everyone can participate in the interaction, which is very fun.
✅ Buyi Ethnic Secret Realm: Buyi dance and Lang whistle.
Location: Yanqi Lake Trail 3D Painting Area, the 3D paintings are very realistic, as if they are dancing on a boat.
✅ Miao Ethnic Welcome Drink: Blocking the door for a drink.
Location: Windmill Corridor, this place is super beautiful for taking photos, and all the girls like it.
✅ Yao Ethnic Dance Celebrating Harvest: Yao dance
Location: Shouting Spring Pavilion
✅ Mongolian Nomadic Culture Performance: Mongolian horse-head fiddle, throat singing, wrestling. Strong young men can challenge a Mongolian lad to a wrestling match.
Location: Tent camping site
✅ Deep Mountain Market: (Time 10:00—22:00)
The market is almost full of deep mountain embroidery, batik, tie-dye art, mountain dolls, and Guochao cultural and creative handicrafts. If you like, you can buy a few to take home. The little rabbits at the market are too cute, I couldn't help but want to buy them, as well as handmade backpacks, hats, etc., all super Guochao style.
✅ Intangible Cultural Heritage Handicrafts: (Time 10:00—22:00) Handmade mooncakes, embroidery, fan painting, plant printing, handmade lanterns, you can participate in the interaction and make your own favorite crafts. I made mooncakes, haha, it's easy with a mold! Both adults and children like it.
Location: Open space in front of the Rapids
✅ Ethnic Minority Special Long Table Feast (Lunch 11:00—13:30. Dinner 17:30—19:30)
A delicate long table feast with many small dishes, sour soup fish, glutinous ribs, coarse grain basket, high soup, colorful rice, etc. It's very interesting to eat, and it's very lively and happy to eat together with many people.
✅ Moonlight Song Gathering: (21:00—21:30)
Performances by various ethnic groups, a very characteristic singing contest, simply the sound of nature.
Location: Red Book House
These performance locations are relatively concentrated, entering from the south gate is the closest and easiest to find, you can see it as soon as you enter.
✅ The food street is on the main road of the scenic area, with many food stalls, all kinds of delicious food to slowly taste. The chestnuts in Huairou are ripe, with roasted chestnuts, so delicious, buy some to take home.
For friends who don't want to travel far during the National Day holiday, why not come to Yanqi Lake to catch the Guochao market and watch the ethnic performances, and taste different foods.
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