Excuse me, what's the etiquette in Jieyang?

Spring Festival; the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year

On the first day of the first lunar month, folk customs call it "Chinese New Year". Chaoyi attaches great importance to this festival. Early in the morning, people visit relatives and friends, which is called "Happy New Year". Most people always bring "Daji" (that is, oranges are bigger than oranges, so it is called "Daji"), and the host of the interview should also bring "Daji" back to show * * * good luck, and exchange "Happy New Year", "Happy New Year" and "Congratulations on getting rich" to show good luck. On New Year's Day, according to Jieyang tradition, most people have breakfast to show their respect and sincerity to the Buddha. During the Spring Festival, both cities and rural areas organize recreational activities, such as lion dancing, guessing games, walking scales and Chaozhou gongs and drums. In addition, adults will also give "lucky money" to the elderly and children.

Man has won the festival.

The seventh day of the first month is a day for people, that is, people win festivals From the custom of Kimichiro's Q&A, Dong Xun, "The first day of the first month is a chicken, the second day is a dog, the third day is a pig ... and the seventh day is a person". On that day, people cooked seven kinds of vegetables together into soup, saying that eating seven kinds of vegetables would lead to prosperity. This custom is still popular today.

the Lantern Festival

Also known as "Shangyuan Festival", it is the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Jieyang folk custom should worship ancestors today. In some villages, there is also the custom of "ding wine" (note, families who gave birth to boys in those days will hold a banquet for their neighbors on this day. There are usually lanterns, fireworks, lion dances and other customs in county towns. In rural areas such as Puning, there is also the custom of "writing four sentences at the sight of the bride" at midnight.

Qingming Festival

Qingming is one of the 24 solar terms in the lunar calendar. Usually at the beginning of April every year (usually April 5). Around Tomb-Sweeping Day, it is time for people to pay homage to their ancestors and cherish the memory of martyrs.

Dragon Boat Festival

Commonly known as May Festival, it is the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. According to legend, in memory of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan, he threw himself into the river and died. On that day, most families ate zongzi. Jieyang still has the custom of "lifting dragons requires water" and "washing dragons requires bathing". It is said that during the Dragon Boat Festival, the water in the river is "dragon beard water", which can ward off evil spirits if eaten or washed. In addition, some places also hold "Dragon Boat Race" activities.

Walk out of the garden

In Jieyang Chaozhou-speaking area, men and women who have reached the age of 15 usually hold a ceremony of "leaving the garden" on the seventh day of the seventh lunar month to show that they have grown up. Similar to the modern "Adult Festival". When leaving the garden, grandpa's family gave his grandson a "garden ceremony". Generally, there are red rooster, Tilia amurensis and mash. Prepare more cloth or meat and eggs for the neighbors. The Xi family held a ceremony of "worshipping in-laws and mothers". On that day, children will eat sweet meatballs and eggs and sweet pork liver, which means that they have made great progress.

Ghosts'Festival

The fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month, commonly known as "July and a half", is also called "Ghost Festival". There are ancestor worship activities in all parts of Chaozhou. One or two days before and after the festival, all kinds of good churches and temples also have "stone drums" relief activities.

Mid-Autumn Festival

On the fifteenth day of the eighth lunar month, families get together to eat moon cakes and enjoy fruits and the moon. There must be three kinds of folk Mid-Autumn Festival products in this area: moon cakes, taro and grapefruit. According to legend, in the early Yuan Dynasty, the rulers forced every Han family to have a Yuan soldier. Yuan soldiers were dissatisfied with their oppression, so they borrowed moon cakes to pass books and agreed that each family would kill their "Fan Yuan" at some time on the Mid-Autumn Festival night, which was a success overnight. At that time, the Han people called Yuan Bing "Tartars", so peeling taro in Mid-Autumn Festival was called "peeling ghost skin" and peeling grapefruit to eat meat was called "eating ghost meat". There are also activities such as "Yue Bai", swinging and burning tile towers. Overseas Chinese also like to visit relatives and friends and reunite with their families during the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Double Ninth Festival

Nine is the number of yang, so the ninth day of the ninth lunar month is called "Chongyang", which is the custom of climbing mountains every day. Many Rongcheng citizens visited Huang Qishan and Mozi. Fish porridge is eaten everywhere, and in some places there is the custom of eating chowder porridge. On this day, children will fly more paper kites. A folk song says, "On September 9th, birds (kites) are flying all over the sky."

Winter solstice

The winter solstice of the lunar calendar is a winter festival, commonly known as "off-year". In the old customs, gods and ancestors were worshipped in winter festivals, and dumplings must be included in the offerings to show a happy reunion. There is a folk saying that "if you eat a round winter festival, you will be one year older." It is also useful to stick dumplings on utensils, pillars and cows to pray for a bumper harvest.

Second, marriage.

The old wedding custom in Jieyang has to go through six procedures, such as asking names, taking Ji, winning prizes, inviting parties, recruiting relatives and welcoming relatives, which are called "Six Rites". In some places, there is a custom that daughters sleep on straw mats on the eve of marriage. According to legend, this custom originated from a stepmother who abused and humiliated her daughter left by their predecessors the year before and made her sleep like this. Unexpectedly, the daughter became rich and her children made a fortune. Since then, people have followed suit. In addition, there are customs such as "Uncle You" and "Doing Four Sentences". "Uncle Jumping Friends" means that my brother will bring five kinds of gifts to the man's house on his daughter's wedding day, which is called "Uncle Jumping Friends". It is the most popular in the groom's house, usually in the chief banquet seat. "Making four sentences" refers to various wedding ceremonies. The woman's family wants to hire an old woman who looks like the object in the play and sing four "greetings" to preside over the ceremony. The four sentences are conventional and self-edited, mostly rhyming and humorous. There is also a custom of uncovering the city, which is rare in other areas. If a man or woman is about to get married, they must get married within 100 days in case there is a funeral at home (generally referring to their elders), otherwise it is feasible to hold the wedding ceremony after three years.

These old customs have survived in some places, but in most areas, weddings are new and simple, and even group weddings, tourist weddings and other fashions have gradually become a trend.

Third, the dragon boat race.

Jieyang dragon boat race has a history of more than 300 years. Jieyang, known as the water town, is surrounded by criss-crossing streams. Rongjiang, Lianjiang and Longjiang are good places to row dragon boats because of their long water depth, wide river surface and calm waters. Dragon boat racing has been going on for generations.

Jieyang Dragon Boat, with uniform specifications, is the longest and largest in Chaoshan cities and counties: the length is 32 meters, the width is 1.5 meters, 25 pairs of paddles, 1 rudder. Jieyang Dragon Boat is beautiful in shape, magnificent in spirit, long in neck, high in dragon head, majestic and handsome. Every year before the Dragon Boat Festival, when the dragon boat falls into the water, a ceremony will be held and then training will be conducted, which is called "rowing test".

There are four forms of dragon boat race: exhibition race, friendly race, win-lose race and championship race. Ding Richang, a former governor of Fujian in the late Qing Dynasty, once hosted a banquet in Nanhe of Rongjiang and invited dragon boat teams from Chaoyang, Puning and Jieyang to compete when he settled in Jieyang in his later years. As a result, Jieyang Red Cotton Boat won the championship, and Ding Richang awarded the red velvet banner of "Imperial Ding Shang". 1980 "Dragon Boat Race" has been designated as "traditional folk sports" by the State Sports Commission, and Jieyang Dragon Boat Race is more active.

Fourth, singing and dancing.

Song and dance is a kind of folk square dance which combines dance, Nanquan routine and opera performance. The performance was magnificent and the atmosphere was strong. According to legend, song and dance began in the Ming Dynasty, based on the story that the heroes in the Water Margin made a scene in Liangshanbo Lantern Festival. The dance team is divided into a front shed and a back shed. There are generally 36 people in the front shed, and the big one is 108. Each person holds a pair of colored wooden sticks, which are used to match the shouts of gongs and drums, alternately wave the double sticks to beat, dance while walking, call step by step, queue change or "long snake attack", or "two dragons go out to sea", "four tigers drive together" or "two dragons advance together". The number of people in the back shed varies, but no more than 72 people, dressed as various jugglers and performing with the front shed.

Jieyang song and dance has a history of more than 300 years, which is popular in Puning and Jiedong areas, among which Puning song and dance is the most famous, and is known as the "hometown of song and dance". On June 1956, Puning Ying Ge team went to Beijing to participate in the "First China Folk Art Exhibition Conference". On June 199 1, Nigou Ying Ge team of Puning Liaoyuan Town was invited to perform in Shenzhen Litchi Festival, and in September, it was invited to Guangzhou to participate in the performance of the first World Women's Football Match draw ceremony.

Verb (short for verb) Chaozhou opera

Chaozhou opera is a local opera in Chaoshan, which is sung in Chaoshan dialect. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, Jieyang Chaozhou Opera had local unique repertoires such as Li Jing Ji and Su six niang.

Chaozhou Opera is distributed in eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries where hipsters live together. Singing is the combination of two systems, that is, the combination of Qupai and plate variants. It retains the form of a choir, two or three people singing the same song and using Qu Wei. The music is divided into three-six, three-six and five-five, and the accompaniment music absorbs folk gongs and drums, temple fair music, folk tunes and so on. Musical instruments include suona, flute, Erxian, Huxian and dulcimer, and gongs and drums include big gong, small gong and Su gong. In the early stage, the characters were born, Dan, ugly, different, sticky, final and clean, and developed into ten ugliness, seven Dan, five lives and three clean, among which the performances of Ugly and Dan were the most distinctive.

In the late Qing Dynasty, there were many Chaozhou opera troupes in Jieyang, which were famous for their complete lines, rigorous lineup and exquisite performances. Among them, the famous ones are "Laoyutangchun" in Mianhuqiao Garden of Jiexi County, "Laoyutangchun Lane" in Quxi Village of Jiedong County, and "Laoyuanzheng" in Yuhu Jiangxia. Nowadays, many celebrities in Chaozhou Opera are exposed artists.

After the founding of New China, Chaozhou opera art and performance activities developed rapidly. Jieyang Chaozhou Opera Troupe "Ding Richang" and other plays went to Beijing to perform and won prizes. Many Chaozhou Opera troupes in the city also performed in Hong Kong, Singapore, Thailand and other places many times, which not only strengthened the homesickness of overseas Chinese, but also promoted cultural exchanges at home and abroad.

Six, paper shadow play

Paper shadow play, commonly known as monkey play, is a form of drama in which leather or cardboard is carved into various figures and projected on the paper screen of the shed window through light. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, the original leather or paper airplane sculpture was changed into a puppet three-dimensional sculpture, and the puppet wore wire on its back and hands for manipulation and performance. The low shadow was changed into a puppet, but hipsters used to call it a paper shadow play.

Shadow play is also a local play, including orthographic play and Yin Chao play. After the late Qing Dynasty, Jieyang paper shadow play was very popular, with hundreds of kinds.

When the paper shadow play was performed, there were only five or seven people on the stage, covering the vocals and drums of the roles of life, Dan, Jing and Ugly. Therefore, it is popular to say that "drums are beaten by hand, gongs are beaten by feet, songs are sung by mouth, and deep waves are hit by the head shell".

Seven, Chaoshan congou

Chaoshan congou tea originated in the middle and late Ming Dynasty, with a long history and the most local characteristics.

Chaoshan congou tea, focusing on tasting, has a set of tea classics that pay attention to tea sets, tea leaves, water, brewing methods and taste: choose tea, and hipsters like oolong tea best. Choose water, the mountain spring is the top, the river is the middle and the well water is the bottom. Charcoal fire, hipsters like to use "twisted strips" charcoal, which is smokeless and smells like charcoal. Boil water with charcoal to make the fire even. Tea set 12, teapot, teacup, teapot, tea washing, saucer, etc.

Before making tea, the teapot and teacup are scalded with boiling water, which is called "hot pot cup". When filling tea, pay attention to small grains at the bottom and large grains at the top. There are also talks about "high rush", "low irrigation", "Guan Gong patrolling the city" and "Han Xin leading troops". Professor Chen Dongda, a Japanese Chinese who is the president of the Japanese Koufu Association, said in the book "Talking about Tea": "The method of frying tea in Japan comes from Chaoshan congou."