Aihui "Shangyuan Festival" Project Batch: Provincial 4th Batch Project Protection Unit: Heihe Aihui District Cultural Center Representative Inheritor: Qi Xuejun Aihui "Shangyuan Festival" is a major festival for the people of the Manchu, Daur, Oroqen, Ewenki and other ethnic groups in Aihui area. It has a history of more than 300 years since the early Qing Dynasty. Shangyuan Festival is a continuation of the Spring Festival activities and the final climax of the Spring Festival activities. The main activities include "setting up lantern officials", "setting up lineups", "making yangko", "wiping flower fans", "selling diseases" and so on. Performers wear national costumes and hold lamps of different sizes and shapes of grains, fruits and vegetables, and animals. Every household participates, and the lanterns they make represent the level of family handicrafts. The activities are commanded by the lantern officials, with loud gongs and drums, and suonas, which are very lively. The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the traditional Chinese Lantern Festival. The first month of the lunar calendar is the first month of the lunar calendar. The ancients called the night "Xiao", and the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the first full moon night of the year, so the fifteenth day of the first lunar month is called the Lantern Festival, and Aihui calls it the "Shangyuan Festival". The main activities of the "Shangyuan Festival" include "setting up lantern officials", "laying out the lineup", "making noises in Yangko", "wiping flower fans", "selling diseases", etc. On this day, performers dressed in ethnic costumes, holding lanterns of various sizes and shapes of grains, fruits and vegetables, and animals. Every household participated, which not only reflected the importance of it, but also the lanterns made also represented the craftsmanship level of each family, which can fully demonstrate the level of family culture. On the day of the event, the lantern official unified the command, gongs and drums were loud, suonas rang, and the atmosphere was festive and lively. In the Qing Dynasty, Aihui was the political, military, economic, and cultural center of the Heilongjiang River Basin. The "Shangyuan Festival" of Aihui fully reflects the diversity and regional characteristics of national culture. The "Lantern Festival" of Aihui is a traditional culture that is popular in the Aihui area. Protecting and utilizing this intangible cultural heritage project is of great significance to the inheritance and promotion of the diverse culture of the northern ethnic groups.