What is mouse marriage?

1, overview

Marrying a mouse is a popular folk story. In the folk, it is said that the night of the third day of the first month is a big day for mice to get married, and they will hear the squeaking of mice. In order not to disturb the wedding of mice, they will try to turn off the lights and go to bed early that night, sprinkle some rice salt, cakes and mice in the kitchen or in the corner where mice often appear, and enjoy the joy of their wedding and the harvest of the year. These things are commonly known as "rice makeup" or "mice sharing money", and the folk customs of mice getting married are even more colorful. Not only in folk customs; Rat marriage stories, folk art and literature-related songs are all over the country. At the same time, New Year pictures, paper-cutting, embroidery, clay sculpture, batik, window grilles, etc. The theme of the mouse wedding is the preservation of auspicious patterns.

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Step 2: Story

The folk story of "mice get married" is that long ago, a pair of mice gave birth to a daughter. They have loved her very much since childhood. When she grows up to be beautiful and well-behaved, they want to marry her to the greatest person in the world. But who is the greatest person in the world?

They think that the sun that can shine on the earth is of course the greatest person! So they ran to the sun and said, Mr. Sun, we think you are the greatest person in the world, and we want to marry our daughter to you. Sun was frightened by this sudden problem and thought, how to get out of trouble? He used his quick wits to say, thank you for looking up to me, but I'm not the greatest person in the world. As long as the cloud comes, I will hide, so the cloud is better than me.

They thought it was very reasonable, so they ran to ask Yun and said, Mr. Yun, we think you are the greatest person in the world, and we want to marry our daughter to you. Yun secretly complained about Sun's army. Yun also wanted to throw the hot potato out, and suddenly said, I am not the greatest person in the world. As long as the wind comes, I will be blown away.

A little disappointed, Mr. and Mrs. Mouse ran to find the wind. The wind also secretly called Yun heartless and dragged him into the whirlpool, so he crustily defended himself and said: I am not a great man, because the wall can stop me, and the wall is the most remarkable.

For the sake of their daughter's lifelong happiness, the mouse couple had to hit a wall again. Wall knows how to inherit the style of character best, but he can't bear to be rejected and hurt, so he has a good heart and thinks of a way to kill two birds with one stone. He pretended to be the greatest person in the world and said, I am not the greatest person in the world. I'm afraid of you mice. Rats will make holes in me! They suddenly realized that I was the greatest mouse in the world! So I immediately went home and took the hydrangea to choose the mouse son-in-law Finally, on the third day of New Year's Eve, I chose a young and talented mouse as my son-in-law, married my baby daughter, and lived a happy life from then on.

Because of the mercy of the wall, the mouse's marriage finally ended successfully. Also, for fear of disturbing the happy wedding of mice, we should go to bed early and get up late on the third day of the New Year, so the Chinese New Year ballad also says, "The first day is early, the second day is early, and the third day is full."

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3. Works

From March 65438 to March 0988, Mr. Jill Zhang Lao Dao participated in "Gansu Folk Art Exhibition" and "National Folk Art Exhibition" in the form of woodcarving folk art, which was fully affirmed and praised by experts and scholars. The original works were collected by the State Bureau of Popular Culture. Now, the production of Marry a Mouse is a copper casting handicraft with brass as the main material, based on the original provided by Mr. Lao Dao, Jill Zhang, and all the models and molds are designed and manufactured by ourselves. It is an integral component cast as a whole, with profound design meaning, rich connotation, ingenious conception, unique shape, different forms, clear form and meaning and strong interest. The surface of the handicraft is smooth and smooth, without any rough marks, especially the mouth, ears, eyes and tail of the mouse are lifelike, and the overall layout and collocation of the handicraft are fascinating, just like a three-dimensional folk story scroll.

The mouse gets married in folk New Year pictures.

Wu Qiang's New Year Picture "Mice Get Married"

Wu Qiang's New Year Picture "Mice Get Married"

Folk culture performance "Mouse Married"

Most adults who grew up in Jinyun know the legend of marrying a mouse, and the investigators and respondents basically agree with the legend, but the records in Jinyun County Records are only slightly simplified.

The first night of the Lunar New Year is a good day for mice to get married. In order to make the mouse stable and happy, adults and children should not disturb it. If you quarrel with it all night, it will disturb your home for a year, so people should go to bed early. (with related literature)

1989 edition of "Integration of Chinese Folk Literature, Stories, Songs and Proverbs in Jinyun County, Lishui District, Zhejiang Province", the wedding date of the mouse is 20 1 page.

1996 edition of "Records of Jinyun County" contains: "The Lunar New Year is commonly known as the New Year's Day, which means the night mouse marries his wife and coaxes his children to go to bed early".

The 2005 edition of One Side of Water and Soil, with 277 pages, is a custom at the age of 20-Spring Festival.

This legend has practical significance: in the old society, working people worked hard all year round, but they didn't have enough to eat and wear. At the end of the year, many people have to go out to hide their debts until the first day of the lunar new year, and the rest of the adults are busy spending a good year. Until the New Year's Eve, they were exhausted. On New Year's Eve, they all look forward to going to bed early, but it is rare for their children to eat better in the New Year. It is generally impossible to beat and scold children during the Spring Festival, so the first day of the New Year is a good day for mice to coax their children to go to bed early with their wives behind their backs. Over time, a common legend has been formed among Jinyun people.

Temple fairs are popular in Huzhen every year, the main content of which is "welcoming cases", which has lasted for hundreds of years, such as Shuikou Temple Fair on February 2, Zhu Jin Temple Fair on May 13, Yanbei Temple Fair on June 6, and Chongyang Chiyan Temple Fair in September. On the Double Ninth Festival, dozens of villages sent teams to pray for peace, prosperity and prosperity in a year. When welcoming the case, there were Luohan, 36 lines, 18 foxes, corners, stilts and so on. After liberation, waist drum, lotus township, yangko and small drum were added. After the reform and opening up, the participants are gradually aging. The reason is that most young people go to work in factories.

; With the development of economy, the demands of young people are getting higher and higher, and they are tired of watching old programs and unwilling to perform or watch them. In addition, every family has TV to watch, which is much higher. These old tunes are not interested. Especially these old women, wearing makeup, like frost on donkey eggs, is not good-looking. Objective requirements: there should be innovative, interesting, artistic and popular literary programs to meet the literary needs of the masses. This is also one of the driving forces behind the appearance of Marry a Mouse.

From folklore to performance, the content of legends is very simple, but it is very difficult to practice them into performances until they are performed in the street. It is often said that it is easier to look than to do.

A few months before the Double Ninth Festival in 2000, Xinfan Village took to the streets with the rehearsed "Marry a Mouse" and made its debut to the people of Huzhen. To the surprise of the people in Xinfan Village, they were praised by the masses for their first appearance, and the onlookers surrounded the performance. Many spectators

Where the performance team goes, it follows. Due to the observability and scale of the program, the scene was very sensational after watching it once, which not only made the people of Huzhen feel refreshed.

New, but also let the people in Xinfan Village full of confidence. The news of participating in the performance of the first cultural festival in Jinyun spread like wildfire, and the county cultural authorities quickly came to Huzhen to learn about it and were very interested.

Decided to let the mouse get married and participate in the performance of the first cultural festival in the county. On September 25th, 2000, the Cultural Festival was held in the playground of Huzhen Hubin Junior Middle School.

There are dozens of programs: military band, yangko team, arhat team, waist drum team, dry fleet ... everything, but the most striking thing is "

Mouse wedding team. Eighty-three villages in the town, plus many people from Yanling Town and Luqian Town, came here to see "Marry a Mouse", and all of them enjoyed feasting their eyes. In the title published in Lishui Daily 1 October1Sunday, this new program was described as "an empty lane".

Since then, the program has participated in every cultural festival in Jinyun and two cultural festivals in Lishui. Every time it participates, it becomes the finale of the program.

many years

The pictures were published in Lishui Daily on 10/2000, and then in Lishui Daily and Oujiang Special Issue on 1 0/8, 2000.

On October 22nd, 2002, the screen of this program was published again in Lishui Daily.

In the first month of 2000, the program participated in the street outing in Lishui City, and Lishui citizens cheered and thundered, which was well received by relevant leaders.

On February 26th, 20001year, Jinyun Daily published a picture of the program.

On February 28, 2002, Lishui TV News published pictures of the program, and the reporter reported it.

On February 28th, 2002, Jinyun Daily published an article entitled "Lotus City of Jinyun Folk Art Shines Brilliantly".

In 2002 10, CCTV 3 came to Xinfan Village, Hu Town, this county to shoot videos and photos of marrying rats.

On August 18, 2002, China Culture Newspaper published the pictures of the program.

On September 7, 2005, photos were published in Yongkang Daily.

Lishui Daily and Jinyun Daily have published many pictures without listing them one by one.

In 2002, the provincial cultural festival originally designated the program to perform in the provincial capital. In view of the fact that the county authorities suspected that the actor was too old and concealed something, it hurt Lu Guanshui and the actor's heart.

Continuously improve in performance.

So far, the programs have made great progress compared with the first performance, and they are also changing while performing.

Prop is a mouse-shaped mask, which was originally made by Lu Guanshui himself to save money, but the quality can't keep up with the professional factory products. Now, all masks have been replaced by factory-made ones. There are not only changes, but also two sets of masks, one is a mouse mask with a sharp mouth and the other is a Mickey Mouse mask with a flat face. There are different opinions on these two sets of masks, which is better or worse, which needs to be commented by future generations.

Improvement of clothing

Today's clothes are dazzling and luxurious, which reflects the improvement of modern people's living standards and has attractive effects.

Colored flag

Big flags and small flags, painted dragons and embroidered phoenixes, are very imposing. Seeing colorful flags flying, gongs and drums roaring and dowry rows symbolizes the prosperity of rural areas in the past 30 years of reform and opening up.

Because of its profound cultural significance, the program was listed as "cultural heritage" by Lishui Municipal Bureau of Culture.

During the traditional festival of Double Ninth Festival, villagers in Xinfan Village, Huzhen, one of the 3,000-year-old ancient towns in south-central Zhejiang, as the "hometown of China folk culture and art", will get married in performance costumes specially prepared for rats and show them to the local people. Because of the wonderful program, they won many awards and participated in many county-level performances, which were well received. The original inspiration of "mouse getting married" comes from a legend in Jinyun: the first day of the first month is the day when mice get married, so people should go to bed early that night so as not to ruin the good things of mice. "'mouse marriage' wants to express two themes. First, after so many years of reform and opening up, the lives of ordinary people are booming, and the dowry has become a refrigerator and a color TV; Then through this activity, we showed the whole process of rural traditional marriage to the city people: matchmaking, wedding, meeting the bride and entering the bridal chamber ... "