Visiting the temple fair, playing ice and snow, enjoying delicious food and picking strawberries
The citizens celebrate the Spring Festival and unleash the potential of consumption
Source: Shenyang Daily 2023-01-25

Visiting the temple fair, playing ice and snow, enjoying delicious food, picking and touring ...... In the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit, the life of Shenyang people is rich and colorful. The major shopping areas are decorated with lights, the restaurants and attractions are full of laughter, and the hustle and bustle can be felt everywhere. Various innovative ways to spend the festival based on the flavor of the Spring Festival have released the potential of festival consumption and boosted the consumption of catering, tourism, travel, leisure and entertainment, and made a good start for boosting the economy throughout the year.

Visiting the temple fair and watching the lion dance to feel the strong flavor of the Spring Festival

After lunch on the first day of the Chinese New Year, the family of citizen Lin Yutong came to Zhongjie Road. At this time, the place is bustling with activity, staging the folklore parade performance of powerful gongs and drums, dragon and lion dances. The powerful gongs and drums and majestic performances pray for the people of Shenyang for the good fortune of the Year of the Rabbit. "The colorful dragon soars in the ancient city, the lion dances for the Spring Festival, this is really a happy Chinese New Year!" It was the first time for Lin Yutong's family to see such a wonderful folk performance. They could not help applauding loudly.

The same lively scene was staged in Old North Market. On the first day of the Chinese New Year, the Huangsi Temple Fair was officially opened. Many Shenyang citizens came here to enjoy the flavor of the Spring Festival. On the first day of the opening year, more than 100,000 tourists were received. The grand parade of Guandong folk arts, such as intangible cultural heritage tricks, folk acrobatics, stilt Yongko dance, auspicious lion square and rabbit juggle, gives people the charm of traditional Chinese culture. A number of folk activities, such as beating drums for peace, pulling bows for luck, casting tripods for luck, and spiritual tree praying, satisfy people's wish for peace and prosperity in the Spring Festival.

In this Spring Festival, the strong flavor of the Spring Festival can be seen everywhere in Shenyang. The feast of "color, fragrance and taste" integrating culture, business and tourism, set up a festive and lively festive atmosphere, adding more sense of ceremony and happiness to the Spring Festival of the Year of the Rabbit.

Going shopping and enjoying the good taste of food

At 12:00 on the third day of the Chinese New Year, a duck blood soup with vermicelli store in a century-old hutong on Zhongjie Road was full of people, and Chen Hao, who came to Shenyang from Fushun, was waiting in line for a meal. "The snack here is very famous. During the Spring Festival, I took some younger brothers and sisters to drive here to try it."

At the same time, Ms.Yan's family of five chose to have the first family dinner in the festival in Laobian Dumplings. Ms.Yan said: "To celebrate the Spring Festival, we must eat characteristic dishes. Laobian Dumplings is a century-old brand in Shenyang, where the elderly and children like it, and can feel the traditional flavor of the Spring Festival."

During the Spring Festival, the catering market in Shenyang is popular, a variety of well-known special snacks, time-honored restaurants and other restaurants have become a must-eat restaurant for the public. Restaurants have also taken action, during the Spring Festival, they do not close and put out special delicacies to boost catering consumption. Many time-honored restaurants have launched Spring Festival consumption packages to meet consumers' diversified holiday consumption needs. The catering enterprises also combine their own service characteristics, carefully design the restaurant, highlighting the characteristic cultural connotation rich in traditional elements of the Chinese New Year, so that the citizens and tourists to Shenyang fully feel the delicious on the tip of the tongue and the service.

In addition, the major night markets also seize the holiday business opportunities to expand night consumption. The night economy spots such as Zhongjie Road Gourmet Hutong, Taiyuan Street Gourmet Street and Old North Market Temple Fair Food are very popular.

Picking and playing to enjoy the good time

This Spring Festival holiday, the ice and snow consumption has become a popular holiday consumption in Shenyang. The passenger flow of major ski resorts, skating rink, ice and snow carnival and snow amusement parks has surged, and parent-child family play has become the mainstream of ice and snow consumption, showing the unique charm of ice and snow tourism in northern China.

Unlike the icy weather outdoors, the strawberry greenhouses in Kangping County are as warm as spring. Picking strawberries has become the first choice for many people in Shenyang for leisure and play during the Spring Festival holiday. Walking into one of the picking greenhouses in Liangjiazi Village, Kangping County, the reporter saw the big red lanterns hanging high adding to the strong flavor of the Spring Festival, and red and big strawberries could be seen everywhere among the bright green plants. According to the relevant person in charge, there are four greenhouses here, mainly planting Jiujiu strawberry and yellow cherry tomato, since the greenhouses opened this Spring Festival, more than ten families come every day in groups to feel the fun of picking and enjoy the wonderful holiday leisure time.

Reporter Wang Xiaoting