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There is a festival in Maoming that is more lively than the Spring Festival, and this traditional festival is still popular today. Annual activities are usually held in the countryside. On the day of the annual grand event, every household will kill chickens and ducks and prepare a lot of rich food and wine. Firecrackers can be heard everywhere, waiting for relatives and friends to come and celebrate together. There is an atmosphere of joy everywhere. Next, join me in Maoming's annual activities.

Maoming Year Example:

The festivals in Maoming (Dianbai, Huazhou, Gaozhou and Xinyi) are rich and colorful, which is a unique folk festival custom in western Guangdong, especially in Maoming and Wuchuan. In some places, the Spring Festival is more lively than the Spring Festival. There is a saying in Maoming that the New Year's Day is strong (lively). Celebrations and banquets in the past were called annual festivals. In the past, most festivals were performed during the day, and at night, big plays, puppet shows or movies were staged, firecrackers were set off, and friends and relatives were invited to have dinner and drink to celebrate the festival. It is also the first shot of the annual sales of merchants!

Maoming city records include:? Year? Only the villages in Jianjiang and Luojiang river basins in western Guangdong are unique and have been very popular in Qing Dynasty. ? Year? It is an activity for the local Han people to worship the gods, wander around the gods, worship the country, and pray for good weather, prosperity of all industries, prosperity of the country and the people. In fact, the calendar is an expanded Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and temple fair, and it is a comprehensive festival including the anniversary of ancestors' migration and settlement. Urban and rural residents take the society as a unit, and raise funds to hold a festival of social sacrifice according to the original date, in order to pray for a good weather and a happy life, commonly known as dating or calling for social sacrifice, which usually lasts for three days.

The annual festivals in Maoming vary from place to place, generally from the second day of the first month to the end of the month, especially on 15 and 16, and some places fall in February of the lunar calendar. The annual festival in a village is usually the same day, and so are some nearby villages.

Roaming activity

Celebrations and banquets are called annual festivals. In the past, most festivals were performed during the day, and there were big plays or puppet shows or movies, firecrackers and fireworks at night, and friends and relatives were invited to have dinner and drink.

Maoming's annual festivals are more colorful and lively. They not only put up doorplates and decorated with lanterns at the entrance of the village, but also the village bosses donated 100,000 yuan and millions to invite top domestic players to play basketball, invited famous singers and Cantonese opera troupes or celebrities to perform, invited mobile guards of honor to patrol the village or invited high-stakes lion dance teams. The small village attracts relatives and friends from all over the world, which is really a big New Year. The example of the year even prompted the price to soar, and the market became impatient and active, forming a unique annual economy.

Annual dishes

During the Chinese New Year, the sound of firecrackers is always heard. Every household is decorated with colorful buildings, galleries, galleries, flower bridges and pagodas, decorated with floating colors and clay sculptures, and all kinds of folk art performances do their best to contribute to the public.

In a village for the New Year, people from the surrounding villages come to watch the fun, and every household holds a big banquet to entertain relatives and friends. The guests that the host knows have come with guests that the host doesn't know, and the host is no stranger. They all warmly welcomed the tea and rice, and everyone soon became one, talking and laughing. Maoming people left a good impression on their guests' hospitality.

In the past, the social circle of rural young people was relatively narrow, and the New Year Festival played the role of Valentine's Day, which was deeply loved by young people. Every year, young men and women walk around the streets, come and go, get familiar with each other, and don't have to worry about other people's marriages.

Chronological significance

When residents in big cities find traditional festivals more and more boring, the traditional folk customs of Maoming's hometown can still be well preserved, and the traditional culture of Maoming's hometown has not disappeared in today's tide of globalization. On the contrary, with the changes of the times and the continuous improvement of productivity, the cultural environment has been constantly changing, and the festival content and function of Maoming annual regulations have also been constantly changing. The prosperity of Maoming's cultural and sports activities every year is an urgent need for psychological needs after the survival needs are met.

Maoming is a rare custom in Guangdong Province and even in China. It attracts more and more overseas people with its unique local characteristics and traditional customs, and some folklore experts and scholars are also interested in it. Moreover, Maoming area is rich in natural tourism resources because of its superior geographical location-close to mountains and seas. In addition, it will be developed into a tourism economy with cultural connotation, which will contribute to the tourism industry in western Guangdong and have great market potential.

During the year in Maoming, the host got together with relatives living in other places and friends working and living outside. Maybe, there is only one day in a year, and you can meet many friends you haven't seen for a long time. On this day, you can talk about this year with your friends and keep in touch with their sincere feelings.

As an important traditional festival in Maoming area, Maoming New Year Festival has a long history. It shows more fine traditions and has many meanings, for example, it plays a very important role in the spiritual culture of people in the whole region.

The origin of chronology

According to local records, the annual event has a long history and is not unique to western Guangdong. In the 18th year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (1539), both the Annals of Qinzhou and the Annals of Lingshan County in Jiaqing recorded the scene of local ancient villages. However, among the annual activities in various places, the annual activities in western Guangdong are unique because of their grandeur, large scale, wide scope, strong mass participation and many schools.

Folk proverb

The saying 1: Year comes from the Lantern Festival. There are two reasons for this statement: first, the time for making annual regulations in various places is mainly concentrated in the first month, generally starting from the second day of the first month, the Lantern Festival reaches its peak, and gradually fades after Qingming; Secondly, festivals in many places are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, which are quite temple fairs. After the Han and Tang Dynasties, the cultural customs of the Central Plains gradually penetrated into the land of western Guangdong, and the habit of playing lanterns on the Lantern Festival was accepted. Therefore, the people have expanded the Lantern Festival, temple fairs, social sacrifices and the anniversary of the relocation of local ancestors, which are held once a year. Later, they gradually evolved into a grand and enthusiastic folk festival, which was highly valued by the villagers.

Statement 2: The rise of the law has something to do with the fairy lady. There are two reasons for this statement: first, according to historical data, the annual festival originated from Xian family and evolved into today's annual festival after a long time; Second, there are many temples of Mrs. Xian in Maoming, and Mrs. Xian can often be seen in the activities around Maoming every year. It is understood that Mrs. Xian, who was born in Gaozhou, was a famous Baiyue leader in Lingnan during the Northern and Southern Dynasties, and led troops to pacify Hainan 540.

Statement 3: The annual rule is to drive away the plague and drive away the epidemic. It is said that there was a god of plague in ancient times who often did evil to the people in western Guangdong, making them miserable. Therefore, the people in western Guangdong spontaneously carried out activities to drive away the plague, but the plague god was very cunning. Drive it away from one place and it will run to another. To this end, the wise people in western Guangdong adopted the practice of eliminating the epidemic from village to village.

Chronological concept

With the development of the times and the progress of society, Maoming people's concept of making laws also keeps pace with the times! For example, the previous three steps of fugue, cup setting and gun burning are always repeated. Now, things are different. In addition to collectively arranging flower streets, inviting famous halls, performing big dramas, dancing lions and dragons, setting up archways and raising balloons for the New Year, each block (township) has its own characteristics and personality according to local conditions!

Speaking of floating colors, clay sculptures and flower bridges, both locals and tourists from afar will say that these three characteristics are the biggest highlights of Maoming Dianbai Year.

Annual banquet

In addition to the festive activities seen in the annual regulations, Maoming's annual food regulations (inviting relatives and friends to hold annual banquets) are even more famous.

Maoming people have a yearly rule, and every village has a yearly rule. People in the surrounding villages are not allowed to watch the fun, and every family has a big banquet to entertain relatives and friends. Therefore, it is also called eating the year. In the sixties and seventies of last century, the annual regulations were once regarded as the "four old" and were once interrupted, but the contents of the annual regulations were still preserved.

New Year's Eve is the highlight of Maoming's New Year's Eve. Maoming people who love to pay attention to face and love to make trouble pay special attention to the performance of New Year's Eve. They are willing to earn money and spend New Year's Eve all the year round, and those who are short of money have to hold banquets for relatives and friends once or twice. Those foreman bosses and rich families spend tens of thousands or even hundreds of thousands of yuan to entertain dozens of banquets for one or two hundred people. It is common to enjoy delicious food.

The purpose of making annual regulations is to attract more relatives and friends to catch up with the excitement. The more people eat the annual regulations, the more beautiful the cars parked at the door, and the more face they have.

You only need to send a message to eat the annual rules, you don't need to send an invitation, and the guests don't need a gift. Some rich people even give red envelopes to relatives and friends who eat the festival regulations. Some people have food, clothes and money. Why not make a law?

As a result, many people will come every time, uninvited, and will also invite friends to entertain the host. The host spent money to earn enough popularity. As long as there are many lively people, they feel decent. They don't care who you are or know who you are. So many people joked that they didn't know who to invite after eating the agreement.

It is common to spend one or two thousand yuan on each banquet. The luxury and richness of Maoming's New Year's Eve dinner are amazing, and there is no difference in western Guangdong.

In Maoming, several large families also invited chefs from the hotel to set up a buffet in their own homes to entertain relatives and friends. All kinds of Chinese food (including shark's fin soup) and western cakes are available at any time, raising the annual banquet to a new level.

The main reason is that different regions and rural areas have different opinions and the date is not unified. In Maoming, the date is arranged from village to village, and the activities in some areas may be different, but the atmosphere is the same.