What is Wuchuan Festival?

The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Lantern Festival.

On the Lantern Festival night, in the streets and alleys of Wuchuan County, a string of colorful lanterns and colorful flags dazzled tourists, as if they had entered the starry Tianhe River, and as if they had entered a magnificent dream. Whether in heaven or on earth, they all made people linger!

Coming to the flower bridge across the sea makes tourists even more surprised: Is there such a beautiful scenery on the earth? The colorful bridge spanning tens of meters across the river bank, with colorful lights flashing and blue waves like a rainbow, is magnificent; Flowers are in full bloom on the bridge, and poems and paintings are bright. It is said that a long time ago, people in Haige Village used boats or bamboo rafts to connect a pontoon bridge to cross the river for fun every year. On the eve of January, people crowded across the bridge. Suddenly, a strong wind blew down the pontoon bridge, and all the people fell into the water, men, women and children, crying, which was very tragic. Just then, suddenly a fairy fell from the sky, waving a ribbon. The ribbon immediately turned into a rainbow bridge on the river. This bridge is all made of flowers, which is very beautiful. The man overboard immediately climbed onto the flower bridge, and no one was killed or injured. Since then, people in Haige Village have bridged the bridge with bamboo and wood every Lantern Festival, and then decorated it into a flower bridge. With the development of the times, by the early 1980s, the bamboo-wood bridge had been transformed into a reinforced concrete bridge. Nowadays, every Lantern Festival, the cross-sea flower bridge is beautified on the basis of this cement bridge. It is strong and beautiful, and tourists are more enthusiastic. No wonder some poets posted praises on the bridge: "It is better to swim on the waterfront in spring night, and spring flowers are more spiritual than the moon." Huaqiao is a sea of people, accounting for the first spring in Meicheng. "

Singing in Chongyang

On the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, there is a habit of climbing mountains and flying kites everywhere. However, Lu Mei Town, Wuchuan City in history celebrated the Double Ninth Festival with a unique poetry meeting, and staged a poetry competition on Denggaopo.

By the middle of Qing Dynasty, this folk activity of Chongyang Poetry Society had reached the peak of the participation of the whole city (then Lu Mei) and foreigners. In addition to floods, droughts, storms, lost years, or years of war and thieves, the Taiping Year is held once a year. From the ninth day of the ninth lunar month to the end of May.

Celebrating the Double Ninth Festival is actually a local cultural festival. According to the situation this year, the first thing that everyone put forward was to inform the neighborhood directors in the temple area to prepare to hold it after Duanyang Festival. At that time, there were 3 1 temples in Lumei, and each temple had a factory (except the female bodhisattva). There are no temples in Liu Jiaxiang, so we borrowed the Meilutou Ancestral Temple to set up a factory. Each factory moved a bodhisattva from each temple and put it in the factory. Burn incense instead of offering three sacrifices in the morning and evening. It's really asking the gods to sit on the bench. Because the purpose of climbing a mountain is not to worship God, but it is an elegant thing for a scholar to recite poems and compose poems. Antiques, calligraphy and paintings, bonsai and flowers collected from the neighborhood are displayed in the factory hall for tourists to watch, and there are also people who are responsible for making tea for the guests. If you invite relatives and friends, you can also hold a banquet in the factory. There is no limit to the number of people, and the host pays the bill. There are more than 30 factories in the city, symmetrically divided into two rows, with a street in the middle, statues of the main factory and ancestral hall at one end, and two large stages at the other end, one in front of which pedestrians can stop to watch the play. In front of the stage, the catalpa tower is built on the left, and the rich people sit upstairs to watch. On the right is the multi-storey factory building of the poetry club, with 80 square meters of floors. All funds will be paid by the Municipal Chamber of Commerce.

The poetry club building is the center of Chongyang activities. Two months ago, the most talented person in this city was a scholar, or an altar owner. Poets have created poems, which are distributed in western Guangdong and Baimei area of Guangxi. All parts of the country submit poetry manuscripts within a limited time, that is, poets will comment on 100 posts, and unsuccessful ones will be listed on another list for people to watch and discuss. The first prize is 200 yuan, and there are different prizes within 100. There are manuscripts in the areas where poems are sent, and there are always more than 10 thousand poems in each issue, and each poem is charged an evaluation fee of 20 cents. At noon on the ninth day of the ninth lunar month, poets and poets from all over the country arrived. When the poet arrived, he improvised a pair of couplets to match, and each session produced a new pair of couplets.

In recent years, during the Double Ninth Festival, Wuchuan Poetry Society also elegantly adopted songs. Although the scales are different, even far apart, they are innovative and influential.

Sister Mei Long

The girls in Lumei Town are usually called "Sister Lu Mei". In the past, Lu Mei residents invited guests to dinner, but "Gu Jie" didn't come to Taiwan. There is a saying in Lu Mei, "Come on, Sister Gu, let's get started!" It not only spread in Lu Mei town for a long time, but also spread to other places. Some people in other places will say, "Sister Lu Mei is here, turn on the stage!"

Is "Sister Lu Mei" positive or negative? At first glance, it seems to mean the old lady, but it is not. This is a compliment and a title for Miss Mero. Now some people change "Sister Lu Mei" to "Plum Blossom Girl", which is the representative of a beautiful girl in Lu Mei and a very noble title.

There is a legend about "plum blossom girl". A long time ago, there was a clear spring in Meiling District, named Meihuajing (also known as Guanyin Well). The spring water is crystal clear and the plum blossoms are faintly visible. The entrance is sweet and fragrant. Internal drinking can clear liver, improve eyesight and prolong life, while external washing can diminish inflammation and relieve pain, remove blood stasis and promote regeneration. It is also the upper liquid for making tea and grinding ink. Although the depth of the well is less than three feet, ten thousand people are exhausted. However, how did this "Meihuajing" come from? Legend has it that in one year of drought, ponds and wells in Meiling Village dried up, and the vast Jianjiang River became a trickle. People need water for drinking and crops need water for irrigation. What are we doing? People are burning. A girl named "Plum Blossom Girl" watched the seedlings in the field wither and brown, and the villagers lined up to carry water in Jianjiang, but they couldn't carry a handful of water a day. Some people are hungry and thirsty, so they can't stand steaming and roasting in the hot sun, and they can't stand up on the road of carrying water. She thought anxiously, won't there be water in the village? So I took a hoe and dug around the barren slope of the village all night, digging for three days and three nights in a row. She was digging a well when suddenly a fragrant wind fell from the sky. Some people said it was Guanyin. She is wearing a snowsuit and holding a fragrant plum blossom and a bottle in her hand. She smiled and said to her, "A Nv, stop digging. There is no water to dig here." The plum blossom girl looked up and was shocked. The beauty in front of her is familiar, and she forgot where she met her for a moment. As if in a dream, she quietly asked, "Huh? Excessive cadmium? What's the matter with you? Dye any one, blame Mo, hope Sang? Quot Xiangu was finally moved by her sincerity, took her to another barren slope, drew a plum blossom on a stone, sprinkled a few drops of water on the bottle, and then said to the plum blossom girl, "Dig here, and God will reward you." "Say that finish, a gust of wind, the nun is gone. The plum blossom girl dug on the stone until dawn according to her instructions. When she dug nearly three feet, a clear spring gushed from the bottom of the well, and instantly filled the wellhead. Plum blossoms are faintly visible in the nozzle, giving off bursts of fragrance. She was so happy that she immediately met the people in the village. Everyone was overjoyed and came to watch. At first people thought that water was not enough to quench their thirst, but they were still full. Not only can you drink it, but you can also use it as medicine to cure internal injuries, especially for girls, whose skin becomes white and embarrassing, and they all look as beautiful as flowers and beautiful as plum blossom girls. Unexpectedly, it didn't take long for the county magistrate to know that he immediately sent troops to guard the well and issued a notice stipulating that civilians should pay one or two pieces of silver to carry water. How can ordinary people have so much money? The water in Meihuajing can only be enjoyed by the government and the rich. Within a month, the water dried up. The county magistrate saw that it was unprofitable and ordered the well to be filled up. Soon, it was found that there were signs of plum blossoms in the water of Jianjiang River from time to time, and the girls in Lumei ate the water of Jianjiang River and became beautiful girls as beautiful as flowers and pure as jade, so there were more and more beautiful girls in Lumei, so there was the saying that "the beautiful girls in Lumei are the best in the world".

After liberation, although tap water was installed in Lu Mei, many residents still insisted on carrying water for drinking in Jianjiang. Later, because the industrial wastewater from the upstream city polluted Jianjiang, it stopped drinking water in Jianjiang.