What are the unique folk activities in Hezhou, Guangxi?

People's Day: also known as temple fair, most villages have Chinese dialects called "locals". Dates vary from village to village, following the dates set by ancestors, such as the 19th day of the first lunar month, 2nd February, 16th April, 6th June, 15th August and 18th November. Renshi Festival is a festival of surnames. After a long time, people with different surnames move to villages to settle down, and when they have attachment, they will follow the custom, which will turn into a festival with multiple surnames or villages in one place. On this day, every household has prepared rich dining tables, and friends and relatives will come for a banquet. You can take advantage without relatives. There is a saying that "the more you eat, the more prosperous you are". There are many "diners" in the host family, so the host family will not be stingy in entertaining guests. In order to satisfy the guests and have fun, there are cultural activities such as sitting in karaoke bars, singing operas, grabbing fireworks and showing movies during the festival.

Fireworks Festival: Fireworks Festival is held from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month in Marie Laure Gigon and Kaishan Town where Yao people live in concentrated communities. Festivals are selected by villages and remain unchanged. On the morning of the festival, Master Gong led fireworks, a long drum and a lion to the front of the temple. The lion and the long drum performed their own programs. Master Gong burned incense and prayed to come and celebrate the festival with the Yao people. After the ceremony, the team members went to the open space to grab fireworks. People in other villages can watch the excitement or take part in fireworks shows. If last year's fireworks were won by people from other villages, then this year's festival, people from that village will play long drums and dance lions, and deliver the guns and mirrors they got as scheduled. Drums and lions in two villages met and had a lively competition. In addition to dancing, the drum team is more skilled than the pile. It first drums and dances on short piles, then on high piles, and finally on high platforms. Every move is higher than every move, and the lion dance is more vivid than the lion's head, and the short dance has a good foundation. After grabbing the fireworks, the long drum team and the lions greeted many onlookers into the village and held a banquet. In the evening, the dragon is the first to dance. The fire dragon is made up of dragon balls with candles lit in the middle. The ball can turn, but at night, I can only see a dragon hovering and rolling. After the dragon dance was put on, it was transferred to the karaoke room to sing. Sometimes, the old people will avoid it and let a group of young men and women sit around the fireplace, singing lingering love songs, finding the right person and enjoying a happy sleepless night.

Bull Festival: Most Han people regard the eighth day of the fourth lunar month as a festival. On this day, black glutinous rice is cooked with maple leaves and wrapped in maple leaves to feed cows. At the same time, chanting: "Niu, Niu, you are lucky to have a good stomach;" Cow, cow, you have the ability, and ploughing is a tough guy. " After eating the cows, the owner took them down to the river to take a bath, and then put them on the grass selected in advance to let the cows spend the whole day. Never work with cows on this day. The Zhuang people in Nanxiang regard April 8 as the "Cow King's Day", and on this day, they clean the cowshed, insert maple branches at the door of the house and the cowshed, and offer sacrifices to the Cow King at the door of the cowshed. Buffalo farmers steam black glutinous rice with maple kernels as juice, and cattle farmers steam yellow glutinous rice with hawthorn roots. In addition to wrapping glutinous rice with vegetable leaves, they will pour a cup of glutinous rice and sprinkle it on cows. On April 8, the Han people in Shuikou Township were forbidden to light lamps at night except eating "black rice". Wei said that lighting at night will let mosquitoes into the house, and people will be harassed by mosquitoes all year round.

Patch up the sky and stick to the bird's mouth

Shoppers regard the 20th day of the first lunar month as "mending the sky". On this day, every household makes rice cakes to fill the holes in the sky and avoid being flooded. And use bamboo technology to hang rice cakes and insert them in their own fields, so that birds can eat enough, so as not to hurt crops in the future. On this day, the Han nationality in Shuikou Township also made a washbasin-sized Ciba to "fill the sky". It is said that only in this way can the seedlings not rot in the spring rain. Yao people regard the first day of the second lunar month as bird-sticking day. On this day, every household will make rice cakes, weave four birds with bamboo sticks and insert them on both sides of the gate and the shrine. Squeeze a piece from the first cooked rice cake and stick it on the bamboo beak to prevent it from pecking at rice grains.

Pointed Yao costume: women's headdress (divided into Dongshan pointy and Xishan pointy). First, 65,438+0 pieces of black cloth with a length of more than 60 cm and a width of 65,438+06.5 cm are used to wrap the hair in the shape of bamboo shoots, and then 65,438+00-30 pieces of rectangular blue cloth with white background and red edge are overlapped to form a top hat. The brim is 16-20cm thick and about 40cm high.

Tuyao costumes: Women shave their heads and wear a round hat made of paulownia bark. Dye white paper yellow or green and stick it on the outer edge of the hat, oil it, draw vertical lines with black, and cover the folded towel with transparent glass. Generally speaking, Tuyao men wrap their heads with 3-4 towels, which increases to about 10 when attending weddings. They are wearing short shirts with four pockets and double-breasted buttons. The short shirt is about 40 cm long, only reaching the navel. The hem is fat and upturned, one blue and one white, and the inner white is blue. Wear pants with a leg diameter of more than 40 cm.

Duanyang Festival: Every year from the first day to the sixth day of the fifth lunar month, Pumen, Xindu and Renyi towns hold dragon boat races along the villages on both sides of Hejiang River. The dragon boat is 10 meter long and the hull is as narrow as a spindle. The bow beat drums, the stern beat gongs, put a name flag in the middle and paddle on both sides. There are more than 40 rowers, and drummers beat drums to coordinate the rowing rhythm. The docks and ferries in coastal villages are tied with banyan skills and attached with horizontal couplets, and the East China Sea Dragon King stands in the village. On the first day of May, the dragon boat teams in three towns and villages went upstream from Fulongwei, the southernmost tip of Pumen Town, to the pier ferry in each village. They all strove to draw several circles on the river to show their respect for the villagers, while the villagers on the shore beat gongs and drums to welcome the dragon boat players into the village and hold a banquet. The banquet is divided by the villagers, with two or three seats for each family and one seat or several households for the poorer family. Besides meat dishes, there are two bowls of wine and four bowls of Ciba. It takes four days to visit the villages along the river in Pumen, Renyi and Xindu Town. On the fifth day of May and the sixth day of May, the dragon boat swam across the river for dozens of miles, so it was inconvenient for rowers to go home to stay, so there were "dragon boat relatives" between the villages of the two places, and rowers could stay nearby and board the boat. When the Dragon Boat Brothers visited the village, the people in the main village greeted them with an eight-tone band, stayed for one night, entertained two meals, and left the village to board the boat the next day, and saw them off with eight-tone blowing and blowing. A dragon boat race will be held on the sixth day of the Lunar New Year, and the best rowers selected by the dragon boat relatives will gather in a boat to win the championship with the strongest strength. If one of the two sides encounters a disaster, the other side will generously provide assistance in the form of money, food or other materials, which can be said to be in the same boat.

The 6th is Hehuang Festival, also known as "Tian Touweng's birthday", "Zhongtian Festival" and "Sunlight". Every family prepares three sacrificial wine glasses to worship Tian Touweng. After the worship, I picked some ripe ears of grain in the field and hung them on the doors of the hall and shrine to show my good news to my ancestors and invite them to taste new ones. Han people in Li Antang Town regard this day as "Zhongtian Festival", and every family prepares wine and meat to worship the Judge Zhong of Li Qin Temple, praying for a bumper harvest, forming one of the largest temple fairs in the county, and offering sacrifices to the gods from June/Kloc-0 to June 6 every year. The Zhuang people in Nanxiang regard June 6th as a "sunny day", which is a blessing and makes everyone happy. Therefore, every family can enjoy jiaozi. The Han nationality in Daping Township regards the second day of June as the festival of "seeking a bumper harvest of grains", offering sacrifices to the land and ancestors with wine and meat, and wishing the rice a bumper harvest.

Wang Pan Festival is the most solemn festival for Yao people to commemorate their ancestors, also known as "the wish to return the king". The time in different places is not fixed, and it is held on the auspicious day selected by the teacher, usually after October of the lunar calendar, mostly in November and December of the lunar calendar. The form of "counteroffer" varies from place to place. Usually, four teachers are invited, that is, wish masters, grain recruiters, military appreciators and grain masters, as well as artists such as singers, singers, long drummers and suona players, as well as six boys and girls, as well as chefs and chefs. The whole ceremony will last for 3 days and 3 nights or 5 days and 5 nights. The ceremony is mainly divided into two parts: the first part is mainly to recruit grain, sacrifice five flags of horses, bring grain back to the warehouse, and pray for a bumper harvest next year; The second part mainly invites Wang Pan, the ancestor of Yao nationality, to spend the festival with the Yao people, which is called "Waitang" in Yao language. In "Wai Tang", the long drum artist performed 36 sets of long drums; Singers with virgins, singers with virgins sing to each other, singing 24 or 36 songs of King of Dishes to celebrate King of Dishes.

Love chopsticks: Young men in love will carefully make a pair of chopsticks (called emotional chopsticks) for their sweetheart. Chopsticks are made of white Senecio wood, and the top four sides are engraved with patterns symbolizing love, such as mountains and rivers, butterflies picking flowers, vines winding flowers, flowers tying lotus flowers, branches knotting and so on. Each side also carved a four-sentence love song in fine print, decorated with green and red, varnished and tied with five-color silk thread. There are also young men who carefully make poles, hoe handles, wooden sheaths and other tools, and carve exquisite patterns on them to send lovers' love songs as tokens of love.

Jiuge Chang: Young Tuyao people don't pay homage when they get married, but only hold a wedding reception. The man's family held a banquet the night before the bride entered the house, and invited six rooms (relatives and guests of the groom) for a banquet. After three rounds of drinking, the guests sang and toasted each other, ate and sang, never stopped and never left the table. When you are sleepy, take a nap on your desk, and then wake up to sing and eat. The banquet is also open for a long time, only heat exchange tables and drinks. The next day, I saw the bride's family guests (relatives and guests of the bride) coming to the door from the door, that is, taking a long drink until the guests said goodbye the next morning. At the banquet, girls and boys will sit at the table and drink to increase the fun. Girls accompany male guests and boys accompany female guests. Sitting around and drinking wine with each other, sometimes the assistant will deliberately give the guests a large piece of fat pork. If the guest is ungrateful, he will take a sip of himself first and force the rest into the guest's mouth. Young men and women came to the table to accompany the wine, and the atmosphere became lively.