The Red Sunbathing Festival of Bronze Drum opens on June 29th.

Xixiang Village in Tonggu County will hold a red sun festival this weekend, which is the eighth festival this year! This festival is a famous local traditional activity, and this year's Sunbathing Festival has also become one of the series activities to commemorate the 9th anniversary of the Autumn Harvest Uprising. Let's take a look at more exciting activities.

the eighth "June 6th" Red Sun Festival

Time:

June 29th, 28 (the sixth day of June of the year of Ding You's Lunar New Year

Location:

Xixiang Village, Tonggu County

The seventh Red Sun Festival

It is reported that this year's Red Sun Festival was included in the county to commemorate the autumn harvest uprising.

Travel route:

1. Direction of Yichun: From Changzhang Expressway at Fenyi Hub to Daguang Expressway, from Yifeng to Changtong Expressway, to the exit of Tonggu Tianzhu Peak, go to Sandu Town on the left provincial road (go to Tianzhu Peak Scenic Area on the right, and rush to Xixiang Village (you can navigate by car).

2. Nanchang and Wuhan direction: Take the exit of Tianzhufeng Toll Station of Changtong Expressway and directly enter Xixiang Village.

3. Changsha direction: Take the exit of Tonggu Toll Station of Changtong Expressway, or take the exit of Tianzhu Peak Toll Station of Changtong Expressway and go directly to the west.

2. There is a direct bus service to Xixiang Village in Tonggu County. Please contact us by telephone. 1387541635。

Activity flow

Morning:

Opening ceremony from 8: to 9: (Hakka festive gongs and drums, local folk songs, Nuo dance performances.

9: -9: 3 large-scale sacrifice (1 people bow down and pray, thousands of people bask in red.

from 9: 3 to 11: 3, there are traditional and ancient folk activities (Taoist priest receiving the sacred, dancing with the public, 19th-century stalk receiving, dragon performance, and 19th-generation descendants of Nuo Temple praying for the precipitation for tourists, etc.

Chinese food from 11: 3 to 1: 3 (taste western green food.

afternoon:

from 14: to 17: 3, there are ancient traditional programs (shipbuilding for delivery, Nuo God touring the countryside, ancient folk customs display, and tourists picking pear orchards themselves.

dinner from 17: 3 to 19: (taste the homemade longevity rice noodles in the west.

in the evening:

bonfire party from 2: to 23: (Hekang dance, tourists' interaction, tasting western-style Dais Long Hudou wine and live barbecue.

closing at 23: .

Exploring a cultural feast-the "Red Sun Festival on June 6th" in the west

Chinese food:

Take a seat by ticket, and sit in the right place, and each meal costs 5 yuan;

Dinner:

Longevity rice noodle fee: 2 yuan per bowl (with a small amount of food. Long Hudou wine and barbecue are tasted at your own expense and ordered impromptu.

Introduction to Sunbathing Festival

7% of the residents in Tonggu County are Hakkas and have unique Hakka folk customs. Among them, the traditional festival "Sunbathing Red Festival" in Xixiang Village has continued from Xiangxing period in the Southern Song Dynasty to this day. Its Nuo activities include opening the altar, inviting, worshiping, praying, entertaining, rewarding and sending off the gods. It is a classic combination of humanities and folk activities in northwest Jiangxi, and was selected as a key intangible cultural heritage protection project in Yichun City in 212.

"Sunbathing Red Festival" evolved from the traditional Hakka festival "Poguan Festival" in Tonggu County, also known as "Heavenly Day". This is a festive and cheerful festival when the summer is slack and the crops are first ripe.

According to legend, on June 6th of the bronze drum, everything basked in sunlight from all directions. Therefore, on this day every year, every household uses the front and back of the house to dry old and new clothes, to show the sun, for good luck, and people carry out sacrificial activities to pray for the safety of people and animals and the bumper harvest of crops.

Introduction to Westward Village

Xanadu

Westward Village is located in the northeast of Sandu Town, bordering Chashan Forest Farm in the east, Wenquan Town in the south, Shuiping Village in the port town in the west and Jiaogu Village in the north, with a land area of 54.6 square kilometers and a distance of 32 kilometers from the county seat.

Westward Village

Westward Village is surrounded by green mountains and white clouds, surrounded by peaks such as incense burner tip, green hill tip and pen holder tip; The terraced houses in the village are scattered and picturesque, and the village is known as "the most beautiful mountain village in Tonggu".

Xixiang Village

Xixiang Village belongs to the humid climate zone at the back of the middle subtropical zone, with mild climate, abundant rainfall and distinct seasons. Because of its high terrain and wide forest area, the temperature is 1-2℃ lower than that of neighboring counties. With fresh air and high oxygen content, it is a cool village for summer vacation in hot summer.

Red Land

"I don't think people need to seek wealth or power in their lives. As long as they can do their duty for the country and create happiness for the society, they are good citizens." -Chen Yiqun

Former Residence of Chen Yiqun Martyrs in Xixiang Village

Xixiang Village is a piece of red land, with the former residence of Chen Yiqun Martyrs, the first secretary of the Tonggu County Committee in China, and a large number of Red Army revolutionary slogans left in Dai's old house after Peng Dehuai troops moved westward.

picking fruits-organic huanghuali

Xixiang Village is an organic agriculture demonstration area in Tonggu County, which is rich in organic rice, huanghuali, locally pressed tea oil, farm bacon and other agricultural and sideline products. Among them, Xiangxi Village Huanghuali is famous for its big, thin skin, full moisture, sweet and crisp.

tourists pick pears from the west

taste the famous wine-Long Hudou wine

Daijia-Long Hudou wine from the west, which is made from local mild water wine and white wine by secondary fermentation. Water wine and rice wine are both brewed from sticky and glutinous rice grains produced locally in the west. Long Hudou, the dragon is called grain wine, which is spicy. Tiger is called water wine, which tastes sweet. Yi Long tiger mixed together after secondary fermentation, don't have a flavor.

in July, 215, the brewing skill of Daijia Long Hudou was selected into the public list of the fourth batch of "non-legacy" projects in Yichun city.