Chaoshan Lantern Festival Chaoshan Lantern Festival custom

As the Chaoshan proverb says, "Lantern Festival is held once a year." On this day, the moon is bright, the sky is high, and the world is brightly lit and resplendent. It is really a world of lights. In the eyes of Chaoshan people, the Lantern Festival is only slightly inferior to the Spring Festival. The enemy, from the 13th; I have already started to prepare for the festival. For example, Haifeng people 13 began to "build a light shed". On this day, people selling lanterns in the street hang up all kinds of lanterns for people to watch and buy, and there are also many lanterns hanging in temples and ancestral halls. The children are even more excited, beating gongs and drums there to "turn on the lights". Ordinary people should prepare a lot of refreshments and invite relatives to eat and drink. This is called "drinking tea with a lamp". Even if no one invites you, as long as you are in a good mood, you will be warmly received by the host if you walk into a house casually. In rural areas, families with boys have hung lanterns in clan ancestral halls in rural areas since the eleventh lunar month. Rich people hang four or five floors, and ordinary people hang one or two floors. The base of the lantern is made of bamboo frame, and the characters on it are made of lead wire and silk paper. Then they put on real clothes according to their different identities and paste plaster on their faces as models. Paint the outside with powder and then paint it with the color of Chinese painting. The characters can be big or small, and they can match the surrounding scenery. The name of the household is marked on the red paper posted under each lamp screen for people to watch and compare. From the day when the lights are hung on the 11th, it is called "lighting". "Lighting a lamp" is actually "starting a wedding", which is a ceremony for a newborn boy to join the family, meaning a bright future. This is the manifestation of the old custom of son preference and backward feudal thought. People who turn on the lights, from the day they turn on the lights to turn off the lights on 18, will go to the ancestral hall to light the lights every night.

It is said that the custom of enjoying lanterns has existed since the Han Dynasty. After Liu Ying's death, Emperor Hui of Han Dynasty, Zhou Bo and Chen Ping swept Zhu Lu out of the house and made Liu Heng emperor. The day when Zhulu was pacified was the fifteenth day of the first month. Every night, Liu Heng will go to the palace to play and have fun with people. This is the beginning of the Lantern Festival. The custom of formal lighting on the Lantern Festival began in Sui and Tang Dynasties.

"Music of Sui Shu" says: "Every first month, all ethnic groups come to Korea ... 15, and they stretch for eight miles outside Duanmen and Jianguomen ... in a daze." The Five Dynasties Wang Renyu's "Kaiyuan Tianbao Hundred Lights Tree Legacy" contains: "Mrs. Han set up a hundred lights tree, 80 feet high, standing on a high mountain, and watching a hundred miles at night.

Everyone saw that the light captured the moonlight. "This custom has been passed down from generation to generation.

On this day, Chaoshan people, men and women, old and young, are very excited. They worship their ancestors early and go out to enjoy the lanterns after dinner. There was a sea of people in front of the lamp shed in the great ancestral hall, with laughter and a happy atmosphere. On the lamp shed, lotus lanterns and plum blossom lanterns; Carp lanterns, lantern lanterns, landscape lanterns and various palace lanterns are combined into a golden dragon. Under this dragon, the stories of Dong Zhuo, Di Xin, Lu Bu, Guan Yu, Qin Qiong, Chen San and Wu Niang are vivid. Chaoshan's "Hundred Curtain Lights" ballad sings:

After watching the gauze lantern, Feng Yiting screen on Dong Zhuo's head, the story of losing Xinyi's appearance, and Lu Bu's angry breast beating; The second screen Qin Qiong inverted bronze flag; Li Su's three screens of taking money; Siping pear is taking drugs; Wuping Guo Huai sells wedding fat; Six screens will be Yang; Zhang Fei's "War Horse Super" seven screens; Eight acts of Kong Ming's "Empty City Plan"; Jiuping Li Dan visited Feng Jiao; Ten screens pass five levels; Eleven Zhaojun went to He Fan; Twelve Zhao Yun saved Dou; Thirteen Liu Bei took Xichuan; 14th General Wei Wentong; Fifteen frozen snow Han Wengong; Sixteen Zheng En Xiahedong; Move and steal chickens at 17: 00; Eighteen good jade is thinking about hairpin; Nineteen cassia twigs are writing; Twenty Biying meets Zhang Qian; Twenty-one Yingying is listening to the piano; 22 Qin Qiong to Yang Lin; 23 Shi Mi double arrow; 24 advise you Zhu Maichen; 253 Hugh Fan Lihua; 26 Qin Qiong won the championship; No.27 Jiaoshang Road, Xue Mei; Twenty-eight yuan is too expensive to beat Qin Mei; 29 Jin Zhen sweeps the screen window; Thirty said the ancient Han Peng: Thirty-one Wancheng met Zhang Xiu; 32 Qin Gui Wind Wave Pavilion; Thirty-three golden flowers lead the sheep; Taiping Bridge in the 34th World War; Thirty-five Li Kui jy hits the tiger; Thirty-six Chen San * * * five mothers; Thirty-seven Tang kings visited the Moon Palace; Thirty-eight Tongping Qingfeng Pavilion; Thirty-nine Su Qin holidays are not the first; Forty-eight treasures meet Di Qing; Four-a bully trapped Wujiang River; Four thieves meet Raylan; 43 Pang Tong's serial stratagem; Four or four squires meet King Wen; Four or five Meng is going to pick the building; Four or six Guan Gong resigned from Cao Cao; Four or seven big broken Wan Xian array; 485 Tigers pounced on Niu Hao; 493 Niang is grasping the gavel; Fifty Yongqing wants to fight; Song Wu received Fang La in May 1 day; 52 Yang Ren Zhang Kui; The wild bear fairy in the May 3rd World War; May 4th Sun Bin met Pang Juan; Five, five, three stripes meet two hammers; On May 6, Qin Qiong saved Tang Gaozu; 573 hits Zhujiazhuang; On may 8, cutting Yang Wulang; On May 9th, Li Tong took his family with him; Sixty plates of Juetiao oil soup; On June 1st, Xue Jiao met a fox. Sixty or twenty rabbits bite their navel; 63 Wang Mang usurped the throne; On June 4, Cai Bozhen; 65. Di Qing's clothes were released; Naxi stone of Wu Wang; Six or seven Yuanmen should be beheaded; 68 Yong Dong meets Ji Xian; 693 Britain wants to go downhill; Seventy-year-old Yang Lingpo; On July 1, Zhou Cang captured Pound; 72 Liu Bang beheaded the white snake; 73 is a female search palace; 74 Wei Zheng beheaded the dragon; Burning gourd valley in the seventh five-year plan; Liu Bei went to marry; 77 countries hit Li Liang; 78 Huang Zhongzhan (dorri) Zhang; Seven dragons and nine fights Zhang He; Eighty Gong Kun Zhang Xun; Summer war on August 1; 82. Money, who went to the river; Bao Gong wanted to cut off his nephew; August 4th usurped the throne of Wu Zetian; Guiren returned to the kiln in the eighth five-year plan; Eighty-six-year-old Zhou Yang is teaching guns; Eight or seven Yuanmen are shooting halberds; August 8th Martyr Xu Mengjiang; 89 Specially stabbed Liao Wang; Ninety wenguang went to collect the magic; 9 1 song Wu wants to close the store; Pingxiliao, Gui Ren, Jiu-Er; 1993 Harry hit Yan Song; 94 to Zhou Wang, Fan Ji; At the ninth five-year plan, Luo Tong went to sweep the north; Widows were recruited to the west in 1996; 1977, Wanli ascended the throne; 1998, Wu Wang opposed Xiqiao; 1999, Pan Renmei was printed; Bai Ping gave Guo Ziyi a birthday.

It can be seen that many stories of the 100-act characters come from legends, and some are based on Chaozhou opera characters. When people see this screen lantern, it seems that they are reading a beautiful story. At midnight snack, colorful sheds with bamboo poles as the skeleton and banyan branches and leaves inserted under them were set up in some relatively empty places in the streets and lanes of Chaozhou Fucheng. There is a statue of Maitreya Buddha in the shed, with a fat head and a fat brain, a long earlobe and a big belly, which looks like sitting instead of lying down and smiling.

Yes On the Maitreya Buddha, there are some clay dolls made in Chaozhou Floating Ocean. After the tent owner released the hi-gun, Maitreya throwing activities began. People aim at colorful copper figurines outside the bamboo fence more than ten feet away from Maitreya and throw them hard. If the colored tile is hit, it will win the lottery and the tent owner will break the blow.

Lottery winners picked it up and wrapped it in red paper as a souvenir. Sometimes the attacker is too powerful to smash the colorful baby, and the shed owner will make up for it with another one. In some parts that are difficult to hit, such as the top of the head, ears, nose tip, etc. It's free. This colorful doll is commonly known as "Hi Tong". People think: hit

In the coming year, you will get your son early and get rich early. Therefore, those young men who have just become grooms and just married their daughter-in-law's father-in-law are eager for their children and grandchildren. Even if they cast hundreds of votes, they will cheer and congratulate the shed owners and onlookers.