What are the traditional historical customs of Shunde?

Dragon and lion dances in Shunde. Every year from New Year's Eve to the first month, lions clubs all over the country will dance lions across the street to pray for every household to eliminate disasters.

Shunde people have always closely combined dragon and lion dances with martial arts.

Lions will combine the training of Wing Chun Boxing to guide people to practice martial arts and wake up lions. There is a local saying, "Wing Chun was born in Xingtan, Shunde, and Long was born in Shunde".

The "Lettuce Club" originated in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties and has a history of more than 300 years.

Lettuce will eat lettuce, initially to "meet anger", and later evolved to seek wealth and children.

Nowadays, nostalgia, friendship in all directions and promotion of traditional folk customs have become the main contents of the lettuce party.

At present, Shunde Lettuce Club is the largest in , with 65,438+0-20,000 participants every year.

"Guanyin opens a treasure house", according to legend, Guanyin opens a treasure house every year on the 26th day of the first lunar month, and distributes the gold and silver treasures to everyone.

At this time, "borrowing the library" from Guanyin must be responsive.

Legend has gradually evolved into a folk custom. Every year, from the 25th night of the first lunar month to the early morning of the 26th, temples dedicated to Guanyin, such as Kannonji in Rong Gui and Ziyunge in Longjiang, always attract believers from all over the world to pray and borrow books, which reflects the citizens' expectation and pursuit for a better life.

The dragon mother's birthday in Longtan, Xingtan, Shunde is on the eighth day of May every year. Dragon boats from all towns and villages in Shunde came to worship the Dragon Mother Temple in Longtan, Xingtan, rowing dragon boats, worshiping the Dragon Mother, beating gongs and drums, waving colorful flags, and people from far and near came to watch the excitement.

There are also "self-grooming women" left over from history, commonly known as "aunts", that is, women who don't marry.

According to Shunde county records, the formation of Shunde women's self-grooming girls began in the late Qing Dynasty and flourished in the early Republic of China.

At that time, the silk industry in Shunde was developed, and many female workers earned considerable income and were economically independent. Seeing that some sisters are married, they suffer indignities in their husband's family and their status is low. After these women workers have a certain economic ability, they are unwilling to be bound by this and would rather not marry for life.

Therefore, on good days, relatives or friends comb their hair to show that they will never get married, commonly known as "combing their hair" and officially become "self-combing women."

And these "self-grooming girls" all live in Bingyutang, so Bingyutang is also a product left over from history.