Nanchang customhouse

The dragon boat race in four counties of Nanchang was held on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month in memory of Qu Yuan.

The dragon boat races in Nanchang have their own characteristics, but Anyi County is the most spectacular.

The dragon boat races in Shibi Township, Wanbu Town and Longpan Town of Anyi County have been quite famous since the Ming Dynasty. On the fifth day of May every year, thousands of people watch on the banks of Liaohe River in Anyi, waiting for the start of the dragon boat race in villages and towns. Around 9 am, dragon boats on the Liaohe River are scrambling to paddle forward. Dragon boats are yellow, red, black, white and green, which makes the 200-meter-wide river surface form a colorful and magnificent picture. The ancients had bamboo branches as evidence: "Liu Hua in May is red in May, the horn of realgar is full of ancient style, children's clothes are embroidered with silk, and the golden dragon is sealed in ten thousand steps."

Make the Lantern Festival.

The fifteenth day of the first month is called "Shangyuan Festival" in history, and Nanchang is called Lantern Festival. Nanchang people call it the Lantern Festival, and it will be lively after the fifteenth.

On the Lantern Festival, both urban residents and rural residents must eat Yuanxiao, which symbolizes family reunion and happiness.

After eating Yuanxiao, we began to make lanterns.

There are all kinds of dragon lanterns at the rural Lantern Festival in the surrounding counties of Nanchang, including dragon lanterns, bench lanterns, Guan Gong lanterns and lotus picking lanterns. The longest bench lamp consists of more than 1000 benches, with more than 1000 people. When dancing, the bench lights are uniform and spectacular. Guan Gong Lantern in Taiping Township, Wanli District is composed of 100 bamboo, and each bamboo is inserted with various lanterns made of small mangosteen, which is very beautiful. After liberation, various folk songs and dances were added to the Lantern Festival. On the night of Lantern Festival, every household hangs lights. In every village, the colorful lights are brightly lit all night, and firecrackers and frolicking are constantly noisy all night. Just like the folklore: "Thirty nights of fire, fifteen nights of lights", it has been noisy until the sixteenth day of the first month. In a happy atmosphere, everyone began to dismantle the altar set up in the twelfth lunar month, put away the lights and hold a ceremony to send the gods. After the ceremony, the Spring Festival activities came to an end.

Mengshan seeks dreams.

Mengshan, formerly known as Feng, is located on the lakeside of Mengshan in Xinjian County. This peak is steep and tree-lined, and now it is a famous scenic spot in Nanchang.

According to historical records, in the first year of Jin Yanxing (AD 263), after Shu was annexed by Jin, Liu Bei's grandson fled to Sichuan for refuge. The terrain here is dangerous and hidden, so he decided to settle down here. Roche, his mother, saw the general trend and advised him to surrender to the gold. Later, Liu Hu was made King Guanghui, and his mother Roche was made Lady Xie Qing. In the first year of Taikang (AD 280), it was destroyed by Jin, and the defeated soldiers fled from the newly-built Xishan Mountain and colluded with local bandits to make trouble. Later, they were destroyed by Liu Hu and named Wang Han by the current dynasty. The mountain where they live is also named Wang Hanfeng. Liu Hu's mother, Roche, often touches her dreams with mangoes, so folk people often come here to look for dreams. Over time, Roche was called the "Goddess of Dreams". At that time, Fengfeng was called Mengshan.

During the Liang Dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties, Li, a wandering monk, built a house in Mengshan, and reported to Jiangzhou Secretariat at that time that he wanted to make a statue. From then on, Feng had the Hanwang Temple.

Incense has been flourishing since the establishment of Hanwang Temple. When I was in Tang Xianzong, there was a Jinshi named Shishouwu who abandoned his official position and lived in Meiling. He often invites friends to visit Mengshan. Once, I happened to see a cave behind the Hanwang Temple, and the area of the cave was just enough for one person. Therefore, this cave was named Mr. Shishi.

There are many interesting folklore about "seeking dreams". According to legend, in the first year of Baodou in the Southern Song Dynasty (A.D. 1253), there was a juren named Yao Mian in Fengxin County. He went to Lin 'an to take the exam, and passed by Mengshan. I heard that Mengshan wanted to dream, so he went up the mountain overnight and stayed at Hanwang Temple. Sure enough, he had a good dream in Jinbang High School, which was the first place in that year.

The "top scholar" passed by Feng when he returned to his hometown, and specially donated money to build a "Dream Queen Palace" dedicated to his mother Roche. The story spread widely, and Mengshan and Mengniangniang became famous.

The Ming and Qing Dynasties were the most prosperous period of Mengshan incense. Monks in Hanwang Temple became bosom friends with some literati who wanted to climb mountains and dream. They sang poems in Hanwang Temple. Wen, a constitutional figure in the late Qing Dynasty, is also a good friend of monks in Mengshan Hanwang Temple. They wrote poems, books and played chess together, so Mengshan became more and more famous. Zhang Xun made his fortune in Mengshan because he admired fellow countryman Yao Mian, and now he has embarked on a rock climbing road in Mengshan. He donated it to repair it.

Hanwang Temple is a brick-wood structure with two halls, front and back, supported by 16 stone pillars, and its architectural art is extremely exquisite.

The surrounding environment of Mengshan Mountain is quiet, birds are singing and flowers are fragrant, and streams are gurgling and continuous. This is a rare paradise.

In recent years, tourists in Mengshan include compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao, foreign guests, citizens and villagers. They have children, officials and money. Little Wang Feng has become a world-famous tourist attraction.

party in the teahouse

It has been a custom in Nanchang since ancient times for leisure people to invite tea parties. There is a song "Long Summer Tea Ci" that says:

"There is nothing wrong with children in the city, and they have a long nap in summer;

Every family buys tea for a tea party and seven families get together for a tea party.

The wind blows on the wall to weave baskets, and my daughter is busy counting money every day;

Tea must be cooked in summer, cold and thin.

Have you noticed that Xia Ta, the matriarch of the village, has been spinning a wheel all her life and never cooks long summer tea? "

(Note: It is a custom in Nanchang to drink long summer tea in summer, otherwise it will be uncomfortable in summer).

According to historical records, the history of opening teahouses in Nanchang has been 1000 years, and in the south of the Yangtze River, there are the largest number and scale of teahouses and tea shops in Nanchang. Before liberation, Nanchang had a population of 200,000, but there were more than 200 tea shops and teahouses all over the city, each with 400-500 seats. Legend has it that there are three big teahouses (Baohua Building, Juxian Building and Chen Yuanfa) named after Wang Chuanshan, a talented scholar in the south of the Yangtze River, which are less than 300 meters apart. Every morning around seven or eight o'clock, the old tea drinkers in Nanchang go to the teahouse without breakfast, and they will meet several confidants along the way. They can soak in the teahouse until three or four in the afternoon, and some still soak in the teahouse until midnight.

The decoration style of Nanchang Teahouse has the characteristics of Jiangnan citizen class. Generally, there are four benches with square tables as a group. Generally, there are fried sesame balls, candies, twisted flowers (fried) and other accompanying teas. Some people who drink tea come for leisure, some to discuss children's happy events, and some to negotiate business. Neighbors are also injured, come to the teahouse to ease the atmosphere and get back together ... all kinds. They regard the teahouse as a place for leisure, making friends and negotiating business.

In order to attract business, the owners of some big teahouses will invite some folk artists to perform in teahouses. These folk artists performed well-known programs such as Nanchang Daoqing and Nanchang Tea Picking Opera, which were deeply loved by new and old tea drinkers.

In recent years, the teahouse industry in Nanchang has gradually flourished, and there are more than 20 teahouses in the city. Its form and style are not much different from those of the old Nanchang Teahouse.

Gaodenglonggang

The Chinese nation has the custom of climbing Mount Tai nine times, and Nanchang is equally popular.

Longsha, a suburb of Nanchang, has been a scenic spot since the Jin and Southern Dynasties. According to the music history of the Song Dynasty, "The Jade Ring of Taiping", "There is a dragon sand in the north, and the vertebral mound is transparent, white and high, but it is like a dragon, and it is five or six miles long, and the old custom climbs the mountain on September 9." Meng Haoran, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, also wrote a poem: "Longsha is in the north, and it will be over in September;" When you see the customs, the lakes and mountains are prosperous. Pushing wine among guests and falling into a song; This song actually went by boat, surging like the waves in the evening. "

The custom of climbing mountains on September 9 is very popular in Nanchang. Every year, people get together, or climb Meiling or Wang Tengting. People make friends by writing; Climb high and gather for a feast. The custom of climbing stairs in the ninth grade has been passed down for a long time.

Immortality association

Worship the immortals, also known as worship the incense, is a temple fair in Xu Xun. The most admired person in Nanchang is Xu Xun, who is called the Bodhisattva.

According to legend, about 1500 years ago, 136-year-old Xu Zhenjun ascended to heaven with his family of 42 people (including houses and chickens and dogs). The so-called idiom "one person gets the Tao, and chickens and dogs ascend to heaven" also comes from this. In order to commemorate Xu Zhenjun, Nanchang designated the day when he ascended to heaven as his birthday. Therefore, every year from August to October in the lunar calendar, villagers in Gao 'an, Shanggao, Jing 'an, Fengxin, Fengcheng and Jinxian counties in Fiona Fang, a neighboring county of Nanchang, voluntarily fast and bathe, and organize township, village and ethnic groups to form a fairy meeting, and make pilgrimage to Wanshou Palace in Xishan.

There are many taboos in the immortal fairy society: 1, fasting for one week before sacrifice; 2. You must take a shower and change clothes. 3. Hang yellow into the sachet on your shoulder and walk in a team with gongs and drums. In order to get the incense of the head column in the early morning of the first day of August, worshippers need to arrive at the Wanshou Palace around the clock. Whoever gets the head column incense is considered the luckiest person, happier than winning the first prize.

The immortal fairy society has a history of 1000 years. In recent years, more and more people come to worship, and they make full use of the grand occasion of the Immortal Fairy Fair to conduct trade exchanges in rural markets. Various folk entertainment activities were also held in front of the Wanshou Palace in some towns and villages, and some foreign guests and compatriots from Hong Kong and Macao also went to the Korean Festival to pray for incense with great interest. In the new era, the immortal fairy society has also injected new characteristics into the new era.

Liu yue Liu Hao suitcase

Nanchang residents have the custom of "drying dragon robes on June 6th".

Legend has it that the sixth day of the sixth lunar month is the day when the Dragon King and the Temple Bodhisattva dry their robes. It is said that the day is sunny and the climate is dry. Clothes dried on the sixth day of June will not be moldy or eaten by insects. So on this day, every household has to rummage through all the clothes at home and take them out to dry. Before liberation, on the sixth day of June, bodhisattvas in various monasteries put on new clothes and took to the streets one after another. Wherever the Bodhisattva swam, people would rush to worship and burn incense and ask the Bodhisattva to bless them.

Nanchang has a warm and humid climate, and it is rainy season before June 6th every year. Therefore, the custom of drying clothes on June 6 should actually be a worship of the sun.

Qiu Zi

The custom of finding children in Nanchang has local characteristics. In ancient Nanchang, there was a Gaoshi Bridge (now called Gao Qiao) in the center of Xihu District. Gaoshi Bridge has 65,438+02 stone railings. On the evening of August 15 every year, women will meet alone or come to Gaoshi Bridge. When the moon reached noon, they touched the stone pillars on both sides of Gao Qiao with their hands and even held them in their arms. It is said that boys can be born like this. In Qing Dynasty, Liu Yifeng once wrote a poem "A Passage to Gao Qiao", from which we can get a glimpse of the grand occasion of Yue Bai's search for children at that time. The poem says:

Gao Qiao moonlit night in the middle of the night, calling for a girl after calling;

It is rumored that Yue Bai celebrates the Mid-Autumn Festival, so it would be nice to have a child marry a stone.

Now the Gaoshi Bridge has been demolished, leaving only a street named "Gao Qiao". This ancient custom of begging children has been submerged by modern civilization.