Bazhong Climbing Festival is a traditional custom in Bazhong City with a history of thousands of years. On the 16th day of the first lunar month every year, Bazhong people will spontaneously climb Wangwang Mountain, Nankanpo, and Xikan Mountain around Bazhong City with their relatives and friends, visit the mountains and offer sacrifices, and pray for the happiness and well-being of the whole family and good luck in the new year. Climbing Festival has become the most far-reaching and spontaneously participated annual custom in Bazhong City. It was included in the list of provincial intangible cultural heritage of Sichuan Province in 2009. There are many theories about the origin of Bazhong's climbing custom. Legend 1: Fuxi's birthday theory. The 16th day of the first lunar month is said to be Fuxi's birthday. On this day, the ancestors spontaneously visited the mountains and offered sacrifices, praying for the happiness and well-being of the whole family and good luck in the new year. It is said that in ancient times, Bazhong people would go to worship Fuxi Temple when climbing mountains. In Fuxi Temple, there are dense ancient cypresses and solemnity. According to the sixty-year cycle of the Heavenly Stems and Earthly Branches, one of the ancient cypresses is selected every year to be on duty in the temple, so this ancient cypress tree has become the direct embodiment of Fuxi's will. It can cure diseases and is omnipotent. Every year on the 16th day of the first lunar month, people who worship the ancestral temple file in along the corridor, respectfully bow three times and kowtow nine times under the terrace, burn incense and paper. Then they go to the sacred tree, paste paper figures, light incense and burn the disease. Legend 2: In the first year of Tang Yonglong (680 AD), Wu Zetian demoted Prince Zhanghuai Li Xian to Bazhou in the remote Daba Mountains as a commoner. The day the prince arrived in Bazhou was the 16th day of the first lunar month. From then on, on this day every year, the prince would climb Nankan Mountain and Wangwang Mountain to look north to Chang'an, praying to return to his relatives. The people were grateful to the prince for his emphasis on agricultural reclamation and his concern for the people, and invited him to follow and accompany him on the mountain climbing, which became a custom over time. As time went on, the people of Bazhong would climb the mountain with their families on the 16th day of the first lunar month every year, intending to climb the tripod and step by step in the new year. Adults and children would insert cypress branches on their chests and hair, which meant longevity and expelling diseases, and it would last for generations. Legend 3: It originated from the custom of the Ba people to travel in the mountains on the 16th day of the first lunar month to get rid of all diseases. According to the "Customs" chapter of the Bazhou Chronicle, in the Qing Dynasty, "on the 9th day of the first lunar month, people gathered at Wangwang Mountain to burn incense. On the 16th day, women went out to travel to get rid of all diseases. A grand ceremony was held at the Nankan Temple to worship Buddha and invite Buddha. There were two round holes in front of the mountain. Women without children threw objects into them to see if they were in the hole to pray for an heir. This was called "hitting the child hole". "The Records of the Capital's Sui Shi Sheng" wrote that "on the Lantern Festival, women traveled in groups to pray for avoidance of disasters. The person in front held incense to ward off people, which was called getting rid of all diseases". This shows that the custom of Bazhong people climbing high on the 16th day has a history of thousands of years. Nowadays, every year on the 16th day of the first lunar month, Bazhong people will go out with their families, carrying the elderly and children, in groups of three or five, calling friends to go to Nankan Mountain, Wangwang Mountain, Tazi Mountain, Yinling Mountain and other high mountains. They climb to the top of the mountain, visit temples, worship Buddha, touch the lucky signs of longevity, dig holes to pray for children, pick small cypress branches and pin them on their bodies or heads to get rid of diseases and exorcise evil spirits, and ask for a "good luck" in the new year of "good health and success". Beside the pond on the top of the mountain, in the pine and cypress forests on the peaks, in the temples in the valleys, in the green grass on the hillsides, they spread a piece of plastic cloth, a layer of newspaper, or a small table rented from a farmer's house, sit in a circle on the ground, play cards, listen to music, and talk about family matters, while children run around to fly kites and set off firecrackers. At noon, the people of Bazhong take out the prepared bacon, sausages, chickens, ducks, fruits and other foods, and bathe in the spring breeze and warm sun at ease. If this custom is not followed, it seems that this year will never end, and the new year will be tasteless. On the 16th day of the first lunar month in 2009, 300,000 people in Bazhong went out to "grab the top of the mountain". The Climbing Festival has become the most far-reaching and spontaneous annual custom in Bazhong. When climbing, there are customs such as visiting mountains and worshipping temples, worshipping Buddha, touching fortune and longevity, digging holes to pray for children, picking small cypress branches and pinning them on the body or head to get rid of diseases and exorcise evil spirits. These traditional folk activities provide valuable material for studying the folk history, folk beliefs, and folk culture of Bazhong. However, with the continuous progress of society and the prejudice against traditional culture in society for many years, some traditional customs are on the verge of extinction, such as folk activities such as "digging holes to pray for children". As time goes by, other folk cultural activities with research value are also in danger of extinction.