“Fragrant Plum Blossoms and Touching Music in Chaoshan Mountain”, the 12th Hangzhou Chaoshan Plum Blossom Festival in 2020 kicked off and lasts until late March and various activities will be arranged during the festival.
#1 Plum Blossom Viewing and Spring Festival Celebration
[Blessings for the New Year, Happy Chinese New Year Plum Blossom Festival] Plum blossom is also known as the "five blessings flower" because the flower has five petals. From January 27th to 29th 2020, visitors can not only pray for fortune in the sea of "five blessings flower", but also find the unique six-petal plum blossoms in Chaoshan Mountain, which is a blessing as well. The Chaoshan New Year Temple Fair is waiting for visitors to grab fortune, guess fortune riddles, make the Chinese character “福 (fortune)”, and get fortune bags, bringing home the New Year flavor. On Feb 8th, 2020, the Chinese traditional Lantern Festival, the scenic area will also prepare lantern riddles, the activity of the God of Wealth sending out gifts, and folk performances. Visitors can bring home not only the blessings but also the actual lucky lottery red packets!
Through this temple fair, Chaoshan Scenic Area also tries to find out how to help to popularize intangible cultural heritage handicrafts. During the period, more than ten intangible cultural heritage inheritors of Zhejiang Province will come to Chaoshan Mountain to display boxwood carvings, pottery clay moldings, Banshan mud cats and many other wonderful intangible cultural heritages, which will not only give tourists a visual feast, but also vigorously promote traditional handicrafts.
In the context of cultural and tourism integration, Chaoshan Scenic Area is creating its own unique cultural and creative system. The three-month "Plum Blossom Market" will bring cultural and creative treasures from well-known museums in the world. Among the products, Chaoshan's unique "green plum tea" is not to be missed. In addition, tourists can also taste the tea prepared from Chaoshan plum blossoms and Jingshan tea leaves for the first time. When the sweet and sour plums meet the clear and moist "tea that made by Lu Yu (the Sage of Tea)", how does it taste? You’ll find out at the festival.
#2 What will you gain in the 12th Plum Blossom Festival in 2020? Happiness, of course!
The year of 2020, which is the homophony of Chinese phrase “ai ni ai ni (Love You, Love You)”, symbolizes a happy and complete year. Love your friends, love your family, love your other half, love your mother, love your hometown … this year’s Plum Blossom Festival increases the diversity and participation of activities to enrich people's happiness in the New Year.
[Harvesting a sense of happiness in the Plum Blossom Forest] Ten thousand people are expected to participate in this "Plum Blossom Post Office" event during this festival. By scanning an AR postcard with your mobile phones, you can send your loved one New Year wishes and the beautiful scenery of Chaoshan Scenic Area, or tell your friends in the distance that you are missing them through the AR postcard.
It’s often seen in Chinese movies or TV series that people pray for love under the plum blossom trees. From February 14th to 15th, Chaoshan Couple Swing Dance Festival invites you to have a feast of swing dance with Swing Hangzhou. Visitors can hold the hands of the person they like and have a swing dance on the lawn. There is also a unique Chaoshan plum blossom souvenir for couples who have taken photos to mark the occasion.
[Harvesting interesting and fun happiness among plum blossoms] In the year of 2019, the Chaoshan Green Plum Music Festival, led by Angela Zhang, created the "Plum Blossom" culture and art integration industry for Chaoshan Scenic Area; The world's top obstacle race, the Spartan warrior race, has advanced Chaoshan into the "pre-Asian Games" era; the "walking classroom" Chaoshan research project has injected Chaoshan with the quality of integration of culture, education and tourism. Today's Chaoshan Mountain is not only a mountain of plum blossoms, but also a mountain of culture and a mountain of movement. It has already evolved into an interesting and personalized scenic spot.
During this year's Plum Blossom Festival, there will be wonderful cultural activities every weekend, and you and your family are more than welcome to participate in an "educational fun" tour of plum blossom appreciation. There are a wide variety of activities: "Oracle bone inscriptions can talk"; "Super Chaoshan Mountain Nature Class" to inspire children to discover the beauty in nature; "Fresh Women's Day, Finding the Origin of Plants" to invite the females to participate in the printing and dyeing experience using the natural plants of Chaoshan Mountain; Cos-play Stage Play Performance to invite you to Chaoshan to have a close interaction with the stars of two-dimensional circle; “National Customs and Han Chinese Clothing Gathering” to incorporate the dazzling several-thousand-year-old Han Chinese clothing into the grand view of Chaoshan Mountain’s plum blossom forest; During the activity “Different people, different Jay Chou", professional singers will be performing on the lawn concert and tourists are also welcome to step on the stage and sing your favorite song by Jay Chou"; in addition, Chaoshan's annual "Trance Contest" will attract a large number of "fun" people to participate and this competition will add a series of interesting games on the basis of continuing the tradition, so that we can witness the birth of new trance master of the plum blossoms.
# 3 What else is there to watch this plum blossom festival?
[Writing a new chapter in the "Fun" and "Sports" Sections of Chaoshan] This year's Chaoshan Plum Blossom Festival introduces a multicultural gathering of calligraphy, contests, educational events, etc. The painting and calligraphy section will welcome the joining of the “Fine Arts News”, the sponsor of the National Art Media Alliance and at the same time, the activity of national painting of plum blossoms by hundreds of famous artists will be launched to create a plum blossom picture copybook; the cultural section will be joining hands with Hangzhou Xiling Seal-engravers Society, Shanghai Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall, and Anji Wu Changshuo Memorial Hall to launch the promotion work of Changshuo culture while holding the banner of traditional culture to promote the integration of the "cultural civilization" in the Yangtze River Delta; the sports event section will introduce the world's top obstacle race Sparta Warriors Hangzhou Station to settle in Chaoshan, which enables you to compete at the doorstep with athletes from the whole country and even the world; the culture and education section will work with the leading brand of Chinese culture and education industry “Qu Jiang Xin Ou Peng (曲江新鸥鹏)” to promote the deep integration of the new era culture and tourism industries and create a new IP for the plum festival culture.
Plum Blossom Appreciation Tips
Plum Blossom Viewing Period Guide：Plum blossom exploration period is onwards until February; the best plum blossom viewing period is during Chinese Spring Festival (Jan 24 to Feb 8, 2020); and the period after the mid-March is the "plum blossom search period".；
Tickets：50 CNY during the Chaoshan Plum Blossom Festival from January to March; People with the residence registered in Yuhang District can enjoy the preferential price of 40 CNY per person by presenting valid ID's. The elders aged from 60 to 69 and children with a height between 1.2 m to 1.5 m can enjoy the preferential price of 25 CNY per person. The elders aged 70 and above, and children under a height of 1.2 m (including 1.2 m) are free of charge.
Telephone：+86 571 86311228
Address：Xiaobai Road, Chaoshan Village, Tangxi Town, Yuhang District, Hangzhou (near Longchao Road) 杭州市余杭区塘栖镇超山村小白线(近龙超线)