The customs in Lanzhou include:
1. During the Dragon Boat Festival, you can insert willows and eat sweet fermented grains. Inserting willows on this day is a unique folk custom of Lanzhou people. In the vast rural areas of Xigu, Honggu, Yongdeng and other districts and counties in the suburbs of Lanzhou City in the past, when the Dragon Boat Festival was celebrated, every family had to put willows on their doors and eaves to commemorate and celebrate. At the same time, there was the custom of eating sweet fermented grains.
2. Steamed mooncakes on the Mid Autumn Festival. On that day, Lanzhou people made their own moon cakes, which were in the form of thousand layer cakes. They were smeared with sesame oil, rolled with red koji, turmeric, bitter beans and roses, and decorated with various kinds of flour flowers, with clear layers and distinctive features.
3. On the winter solstice, eat sesame seed buns or dumplings. According to the old calendar, the winter solstice is Jiaojiu, where the sun is born at the beginning of the winter solstice