The Fu Yang Festival (Chinese: 伏羊节) is a traditional festival celebrated by local residents in Xuzhou, an ancient city located in the northwest of Jiangsu province.
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The Fu Yang Festival (Chinese: 伏羊节) is a traditional festival celebrated by local residents in Xuzhou, an ancient city located in the northwest of Jiangsu province.
01 · What it is
Living Tradition
Documented cultural tradition on record; family classification awaits an editor.
02 · Where & name
People's Republic of China
Written in its own script on record as 伏羊节.
03 · How it is doing
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Documented in open cultural records, but no cited field assessment of its current vitality has been added here yet.
04 · Proof & reuse
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Chapter Takeaways
External sources"徐州"伏羊节"商标注册之争 Xuzhou "Fu Yang Festival" trademark dispute - Internet Archive copy".
Common Questions Answered on Record
What is Fu Yang Festival in plain words?
The Fu Yang Festival (Chinese: 伏羊节) is a traditional festival celebrated by local residents in Xuzhou, an ancient city located in the northwest of Jiangsu province. In local script on record, it is written 伏羊节.
Where is Fu Yang Festival practised or documented?
Sources on this page place Fu Yang Festival in People's Republic of China.
What is the current condition of Fu Yang Festival today?
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Cite as: "Fu Yang Festival." folkroom, https://folkroom.org/art-forms/fu-yang-festival, text CC BY-SA, with attribution.
The Fu Yang Festival (Chinese: 伏羊节) is a traditional festival celebrated by local residents in Xuzhou, an ancient city located in the northwest of Jiangsu province. The festival starts on the day of Chufu (Chinese: 初伏) which is around mid-July according to the lunar calendar (about 27 days after the summer solstice) and lasts for nearly one month. In China, "Fu" (Chinese: 伏) refers to the hottest days in summer. As is known to us all, mutton (including goat, sheep, lamb) is a kind of hot food which may make people sweat when they are eating——that's why in most parts of China people choose to eat mutton in cold winter day rather than in summer. However, in Xuzhou, people act in a diametrically opposite way, they enjoy being bathed in sweat as well as tasting the delicious dishes made from mutton under the burning hot sun.
During Peng Zu's time, there was a common custom of eating sheep in Xuzhou. The Yang Fang Hidden in the Fish (Chinese: 羊方藏鱼) created by Peng Zu was the sublimation of the sheep cooking skills of that era.
According to the "Book of Han" records, the emperor "gave meat to his subordinates in the late morning." The "official meat" at that time was mutton, the first of the "three animals", and there was no doubt that Emperor Futian shared mutton with his ministers. 1
External sources
"徐州"伏羊节"商标注册之争 Xuzhou "Fu Yang Festival" trademark dispute - Internet Archive copy". 22 July 2011. Archived from the original on April 25, 2012. Retrieved 1 June 2016. 1
The text above is adapted from the Wikipedia article “Fu Yang Festival”, available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 licence. 1
Fu Yang Festival is one of the most important festivals in China, according to the structured record cited below. This entry was generated automatically from that record and has not yet been reviewed by a person familiar with the tradition. 2
The source record links this tradition to 1 external register, which can be verified through the citation. 2