The Origin of Dongguan Dongkeng Prostitution Festival

The origin of Dongguan Dongkeng Prostitution Festival is as follows:

1928 The fifteenth and sixteenth issues of Folklore wrote that "poor households in every township come here with their sons to find employers, and employers from all over the world come here to find children.

If everyone agrees, the hired child will go home and work with the employer. Those employed children have no salary except food. At the end of the year, the employer will give him a new suit and a pair of shoes as a reward, so it is called "selling".

Introduction to prostitution festival:

As an ancient traditional folk culture, it is said that the fairy came to inspect the people's feelings, observe the people's feelings and help the poor. Therefore, people often gather in the square to show themselves on the second day of the second lunar month, so that fairies can more truly observe the truth, goodness and beauty in the world, and thus "seek advice and remedy medicine". Over time, it became a festival and was named "Prostitution Festival".

Later, people competed to splash water and shoot water in the street for fun, and they were integrated with the Water Splashing Festival. Since then, the "Prostitution Festival" in Dongguan, Guangdong Province, which lasted for hundreds of years, has become a unique local cultural heritage and an intangible cultural heritage in Guangdong Province, and is deeply loved by the people.