A common festival for fishermen in Shandong coastal areas: Fishermen's Day?

As the saying goes, fishermen are the most popular people by the sea, and fishermen's day is the most intensive festival for fishermen. This traditional festival will show you the fishermen's festival in the coastal areas of Shandong Province: Fishing Light Festival. Let's take a look together.

Fishermen's Day is a common festival of coastal fishermen with a long history and a traditional custom formed by fishermen in their long-term production and life.

The people who participate in the fishermen's day activities include those engaged in marine fishing operations and those engaged in shallow-sea farming, that is, all those engaged in marine fishery production and their families. Rizhao coastal fishermen's festival is a concentrated expression of fishermen's forms of offering sacrifices to the sea, expressing their deep feelings and awe of the sea. The activities of the Fisherman's Day are very rich, including activities to commemorate the Dragon King, taking a boat and commemorating the goddess of the sea. After the fishermen's day, the boatmen will get together to drink and talk about the plan of spring ploughing and autumn harvest, as well as the feelings and precautions in production. Then fishermen hold folk festivals, such as diving folk dances.

April 20th every year is the Fisherman's Day in Rongcheng City, Shandong Province. This festival originated from Grain Rain Festival. Fishermen in the northern coastal areas of China have celebrated Grain Rain Festival for more than 2,000 years, and it was renamed Fisherman's Day in Daoguang period of Qing Dynasty (182 1). On the day of Grain Rain, fishermen in Shandong coastal areas prayed for the blessing of the sea gods, safe navigation and a bumper harvest of fish and shrimp. Therefore, today, wealthy fishermen in Rongcheng held a grand "sea sacrifice" activity in the Grain Rain, toasted Poseidon, and then set sail for fishing.

Every year, the Grain Rain season is a festival for coastal fishermen, which is even more grand than the fishermen's Spring Festival. During the Fisherman's Day, on the basis of maintaining the original custom of fishermen's spontaneous worship of Poseidon, our city also invited professional literary and art groups to perform wonderful programs for fishermen, publicize fishermen's knowledge of safety in production, and distribute a large number of scientific breeding materials, so as to meet the fishermen's good wishes of "fish and shrimp entering and leaving Man Cang safely" to the maximum extent under the premise of standardized operation and scientific breeding. At the same time, the original comprehensive coastal tourism projects such as Fisherman's Music, Clam Picking Festival and Shellfish Festival will be developed to build a coastal tourism brand.

Since ancient times, Shijiusuo, Jiapei Village, Taoluo Town, Lanshan and other towns along the coast of Rizhao have been mainly engaged in fishery production, and fishermen here have been dealing with the sea all the year round. Due to the high risk of going out to sea and the underdevelopment of science and technology in the past, the safety of fishermen's lives and property at sea could not be guaranteed, so they pinned their hopes on the Dragon King. This spiritual sustenance and many taboos related to fishery production have been passed down from generation to generation, and gradually evolved into a folk custom, the most distinctive of which is the "Fisherman's Day".

Legend has it that the 13th June of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the Dragon King. On this day, fishermen will gather in Longwang Temple to hold a worship ceremony, praying for the Dragon King to protect the safety of boat people, including worshipping the Dragon King, worshipping the goddess of the sea and holding a boat party. "Taking the line" means "drawing lots" under the gaze of the Dragon King (dividing the sea area into small pieces and putting them in reed stalks for drawing lots). Fishermen catch the line registration, determine the production territory of each household, and arrange fishery production activities in the coming year.

When a new ship is launched, a ceremony will be held, and friends and relatives will send red flags to congratulate. Prepare two big cocks. One will kill the chicken at the bow, and the blood will flow down the eye of the boat and dye the bow red, commonly known as "hanging red". Fishermen in country-specific ones call this move "irrigation belt", also known as "dyed longan". The implication is the finishing touch, which means that the ship looks like a dragon after launching, and its eyes are big and bright. No matter day or night, foggy or rainy, it can see clearly and catch more fish, and it is blessed by the Dragon King everywhere. The purpose of taking chicken blood is to borrow the homonym of chicken, which means "good luck". The release of another rooster is called "release", which means that if there is a shipwreck, you can avoid death and be released. In addition to the above ceremony, fishermen will dress up as soldiers and crabs and other aquarium divers to dance, hoping to get the protection of the Dragon King. The squire is a famous family, and invited the troupe to sing a big play, which was very lively.

Fishermen's sea worship activities have evolved from generation to generation, and now they are mainly spread in a few coastal fishing villages in the form of fishermen's festivals, which have preserved a lot of folk culture, reflected human's awe of the ocean and nature, and have positive folklore significance for studying fishing culture and fishermen's customs. In 2008, Fisherman's Day was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

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