Unique wandering soul culture in Chaoshan area

In Zhanjiang City and Maoming City, Guangdong Province, whether in urban or rural areas, Chinese New Year worship is very lively. Generally speaking, Zhanjiang's mind wandering starts from the sixth day of the year and ends at the Lantern Festival. Almost every village has the custom of daydreaming. There are all kinds of wandering gods, which is very lively. Some villages spend a long time wandering, swimming through the village during the day and wandering again at night.

Zhanjiang City and its surrounding areas organize fugue every New Year, commonly known as "fugue lion dance conference".

Similar to this way, there is a trip to the "Three Kings" in Woshi Township, Chaozhou. Every year, on the ninth day of the first month, the villagers will carry out six wooden statues such as the "Big Prince" in the temple. On the tenth day of the first month, every household in the township put up sacrifices, burned incense and burned gold ingots. On the eleventh day, the gods were sent back to the temple. When returning the idol, some people put it under their arms, while others carried it on their shoulders, deliberately letting the idol collide.

After the parade, gather the idols in an empty place and throw them with your arms. This is called "Master Ma". Some places even put a straw rope around the idol's neck and "dismember the body" on the ground. In this way, the Chaoshan proverb is called: "The more you eat, the more surprised you are." It is said that the more broken and rotten idols are, the more lucky they will be in the coming year. All you have to do is repair the idol after wandering.

In Chaoshan area, the most solemn worship activity is to visit "Anji Wang Sheng".

In the early Ming Dynasty, chaozhou people Xie Shaocang was appointed as the magistrate of Yongchang County. Once, when there was a drought in the local area, he opened a warehouse to help the people, only to offend the court and be tortured. During the execution, I dreamed that a god was sheltering in the dark. Xie Shaocang thinks this god is exactly the same as the statue in Wang Kang Temple. To be grateful, I took them back to Chaozhou. When the Han River was in an emergency, the statue was placed in the "Qinglong Ancient Temple", and the flood was indeed relieved. Later generations were grateful and called it "Anji Shengjun".

To visit the "King of Anji", you should first toss a cup to choose an auspicious day, usually 1 23rd or 24th of the month.

The first one is "Xi 'an Road". In front of the procession of "Xi 'an Road" is a horse-headed gong, followed by a ceremony of "silence" and "avoidance", marching on the future route, and knocking the gong to announce the date of marching. The purpose of Xi 'an Road is to clear roadblocks and drive away evil spirits, and at the same time, to inform all households in advance. After hearing this, all families packed up and prepared five kinds of sacrifices, including steamed sweet candied fruit, hearts, hair candied fruit, gold ingots and firecrackers.

After intense preparation, on the day of wandering, I fired a salute in front of Seiryuji. After the salute sounded, Prince Anji and the gods of the "First Lady" and "Second Lady" were invited to the sedan chair, and then a "horse worship" ceremony was held. After the ceremony, several big men marched with sedan chairs.

At the front of the procession is a horse's head gong, with six colorful flags of gold and silver painted on silks and satins, the "no" and "no" signs of Anlu and eight treasures. Then an old man in a gown held a small incense table in his hand, followed by twenty-four pairs of tin incense burners; Behind it is the first sedan chair of "King Anji", the second and third sedan chairs of "First Lady" and "Second Lady". Then there is 13 Chaozhou gongs and drums.

There are three or six colorful labels in each class, one drum, eight gongs, two pairs of cymbals, sonorous gongs, moon gongs, cymbals, Qin Zi, deep waves, Su gongs, suona, 28 flutes, dulcimer, guzheng, xylophone, cloud gongs, big bowls, big kettles and so on. The sacred sedan chair passed by the roadside, and every household arranged sacrifices at the door.

Visiting Mazu is also grand. Rich people often give Mazu gold rings and necklaces. When Mazu wandered in the street, it was a great honor to wear Yu Pei and gold ornaments. There are many legends circulating among the people that Mazu appeared to punish evil and promote good.

Once, a thief saw Mazu wearing Jin Shanshan's ring and took it off. Unexpectedly, as soon as I stepped out of the temple gate, I was dizzy and didn't know how to get there. I walked in the temple all night. The spring cold in March didn't go, and it was dawn. The temple wished to go out and saw the thief huddled in the cold and curled up at the door of the temple.

There is also a kind old woman who burns incense and prays in front of the statue of Tian Fei every day. Tian Fei felt sincere and gave the old woman a ring. On this day, when the old woman finished burning incense and just walked out of the temple gate, she saw a ring on the ground. The old woman turned and walked into the temple, threw a cup in front of Tian Fei and asked her if she could take the ring to get the Holy Grail. So the old woman happily took the ring. Whenever you visit Mazu, people on the sidelines scramble to touch the idol or sedan chair for good luck in the coming year. In Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, there are many kinds of gods (called Buddha-lifting by local people), among which the most typical is the Shen Xin Temple Fair in Ruian and the statue of the parade.

The parade consists of 19 teams, including lanterns, dragon dances, opera figures, stilts, dance teams, aerobics, villagers' military bands and so on. They held a parade in the countryside to celebrate the Spring Festival and prayed for good weather and prosperity.

Shencheng Temple Fair is a folk blessing activity to commemorate the sages' water control and dredging of Wenruitang River. It started in the Northern Song Dynasty and has a history of thousands of years. It has been listed in the fifth batch of intangible cultural heritage list in Wenzhou and the fourth batch of intangible cultural heritage list in Ruian.

Legend has it that in ancient times, Shen 'an was attacked by severe natural disasters such as typhoons and floods. The sages led the villagers to dig rivers for flood control and drought relief, and Shen An became one of the rich areas along the river in Ruian. According to the Records of Shencheng, during the Zhenguan period in the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors reclaimed land, fried salt and staggered dikes, hence the name Shencheng, also known as the new city. Jiajing in Ming Dynasty was called Xincheng Village, which belonged to the eight capitals, ten capitals and eleven capitals of Qingquan Township.

There is a folk song circulating in Xincheng since ancient times: "On the first day of the first month, you open the temple gate, on the second day, you worship your father-in-law, on the third day, you worship your neighbor (neighbor), on the fourth day, you worship the house bottom (home), on the fifth day, you go to the grave, on the sixth day, on the seventh day, you have nothing to do, on the eighth day, you burn the brazier, on the ninth and tenth day, and you slaughter a big head in Dongtang Temple.

The folk activities of Shencheng Temple Fair focus on protecting the mother river. /kloc-A parade of more than 0/600 people walked and danced, filled with a festive atmosphere and attracted many spectators.

Walking in the forefront of the parade are more than 30 members of Shencheng Wenruitanghe Charity Volunteer River Protection Team, under the banner of "learning from the sages to do practical things for the people and the whole people participating in protecting the mother river". They used their spare time to protect Wenruitang River. The lantern team composed of more than 20 female college students in Nakamura is eye-catching. Jiang, a college student, was very happy to participate in the activities to commemorate the sages, and he smiled from ear to ear all the way.

Along the way, a long procession formed a joy belt of more than 2,000 meters, beating gongs and drums, raising flags and whistling, walking through the streets and lanes, and showering blessings on the world. That night, Shencheng Temple Fair also held a lantern-welcoming activity, which was colorful and beautiful.

Before the folk activities of Shencheng Temple Fair, the villages of Shangcun, Zhongcun, Xiacun and Diya in Shencheng Street set up colored gates at intersections. The villagers hung China red silk on both sides of the road where the procession passed, red lanterns hung all over the street, and every household decorated with lanterns. The villagers also set several tables of dining tables to welcome relatives and friends who came from other places to see the temple fair, which reflected the hospitality of the villagers in Xincheng.

Dai Xuefu, a villager, said that the achievements of Xinyi sages in dredging Wenruitang River, preventing floods and fighting typhoons have far-reaching influence. The village names and place names such as Xianzun Village, Xianzunji Village, Huangjiazhun Village, Xianzunwei Shuitan and Nanzhentan are still in use today.

He said that Shencheng Temple Fair is a splendid intangible cultural heritage with a long history and profound cultural heritage. This is a rare folk custom handed down for thousands of years, which adds a strong flavor of the year to the first month and meets the needs of people's cultural life during the festival. Danzhou:

Lantern Festival is another focus of Danzhou's annual folk activities. In the local chronicles of the Ming Dynasty, there is a record of "walking with idols" on the Lantern Festival. On this evening, in towns such as Zhonghe and Wang Wu, there will be "welcoming God" activities. Residents will use sedan chairs to carry out the gods who sit in temples all the year round. Accompanied by the dragon and lion, the procession of "meeting the gods" will March along the street, which means that the gods will wipe out evil and return the world to a pure land. In Zhonghe Town, there used to be a wonderful activity during the Lantern Festival, which was "burning Megan".

"Megan" is a unique prop for the Lantern Festival in Zhonghe. Named for its plum blossom shape. It consists of twelve or three layers of fireworks and lanterns, and each layer of fireworks represents a meaning. After Megan lit it, in the cheers of onlookers, auspicious images such as bumper harvests, scattered flowers and Guanyin Songzi were layered from bottom to top, and the scene was spectacular!

In the land of Boer, which is deeply influenced by Dongpo's legacy, the people have a broad and heavy foundation for writing poems and fu. Writing Spring Festival couplets by oneself is a folk activity that can best reflect Danzhou's reputation as "hometown of couplets" and "hometown of calligraphy". During the Spring Festival, it is undoubtedly a wonderful enjoyment to walk in the streets and alleys of Zhonghe Ancient Town and savor the Spring Festival couplets written by various households.

These even and neat couplets with rich words are catchy to read. Handwritten calligraphy is different from printed ones. It is bold and unconstrained, graceful and restrained as a bridge, rough as the rising sun, delicate as the wind blows the willows, and magnificent as a grand view.

Qiongzhong family:

Worship to God on the 15th day of the first month is the most solemn festival for Yi families. On the fifteenth day of the first month, every fishing boat has to contribute money. Yi people buy lanterns, such as paper lanterns and bamboo sticks, and all kinds of lanterns, such as fish lanterns and boat lanterns, are constantly appearing in the hands of clever Yi people.

On the morning of the fifteenth day of the first month, the Yi family will carry the statue out of the temple, then take a cruise from Nanhai Road in Sanya to Sanya Water Pier, and then disembark. During the period, wherever the idol went, firecrackers, gongs and drums sounded in unison, which was very lively. Residents living nearby must burn incense and worship God in order to bring good luck to their year. With the constant movement of idols, the wandering team is becoming more and more spectacular. There are two kinds of wandering souls: those on the upper reaches of the land and those on the sea, in order to pray for a double harvest in the coming year.

Send a lamp

"Sending lanterns" is a traditional rural project during the Spring Festival in Wenchang, which deeply entrusts people with a good wish and prays for good luck, prosperity, peace and success in the new year.

Wenchang's "Bamboo Lantern" is very famous in Hainan. The inside of the lantern is woven with bamboo pieces and the outside is cut by hand with colored paper. The lamp body is printed with Chinese characters such as "Fu", "Shou" and "Xi", as well as auspicious words and poems such as "Good luck shines high", "Ding Cai Gui Shou", "Lucky money into treasure", "Having a baby one after another", "Spring is full of time", accompanied by nostalgia for the past.

When "sending lanterns", a long round lantern hangs from the lower part of the lantern, and a small candle is lit at the bottom of the cage, which is very beautiful. The villagers held lanterns, including "carp lanterns" with a meaning of more than a year, "small flower basket lanterns" full of flowers, "happiness lanterns" by Cai Dingwang, and small wine glasses and vase lamps shaped like wine glasses.

There is no unified time and scale for holding the "Sending Lights" in Wenchang. Huiwen Town, Zhongxing Town and Wencheng Town in Wenchang City are relatively large in scale, and are usually held during the fifth to fifteenth day of the first month. Shi, secretary and director of Fenghui Village Committee in Huiwen Town, Wenchang City, said that their area was held in turn from the seventh day to the fifteenth day of the first month, with public temples as the unit.

The scope of each public temple is different, some are several natural villages and one public temple, and some are one village and one public temple, so the clan population is also different. Some of the older ones have 100 households with 500 or 600 people, and the parade time is longer. Sometimes after swimming the lights, there will be a cultural performance, and by the end of the day, it is already dawn.

There are several procedures for the ceremony of "sending lanterns", which generally include selecting lanterns, making lanterns or buying lanterns, worshipping ancestors before going out, putting out lanterns, patrolling lanterns, performing arts, collective sacrifice and hanging (burning) lanterns.

It is understood that every year before the Year, everyone will prepare lanterns. On the day of "sending lights", the lights began to light up before the sunset star came out. Send it to the ancestral temple first, and pray for ancestors to hold lanterns to bless their families for a year of peace and happiness; Then send it to the tablets of heaven and earth and kitchen god, so that the gods can bless their families; And sent to warehouses, pigsty, wells and other places, in order to Man Cang food, water security, food often eat often shipped.