Millennium Folk Culture in Yinzu Town: Local Owners Association

More than 20 tables were scattered, signs several feet high piled up like mountains, hundreds of people gathered together, and the sound of blessings, firecrackers and gongs and drums became one piece ... Yesterday morning, around 10, the annual "land owners' meeting" held in the ancestral hall of Yinzu Village in Yinzu Town was unprecedented.

At the scene of the "Land Lord's Meeting", the villagers in Yinzu Village took out offerings such as Yinziba, chicken, duck and fish, and placed them on the table of the ancestral hall to worship the Land Lord and Bodhisattva, expressing their good wishes for a bumper harvest and prosperity in the coming year. Many old ladies led their daughters-in-law to bow down before the landlord, praying for family harmony and the health of their loved ones. In the afternoon, eight strong men in traditional costumes surrounded two local bodhisattvas with red faces and robes and sent their best wishes to thousands of families ... The reporter saw on the scene that huge scenes and wonderful performances won applause from the audience from time to time.

Landlord Association, also known as Bodhisattva Association, is the owner of landlords. Temple Fair lasted for more than 1000 years, mainly spread in more than 200 villages in Yinzu Town of Daye and Eight Towns of Liu Ren (commonly known as Guocheng). It is an important local traditional festival. Every year on February 18th of the lunar calendar, the villagers carry the two bodhisattvas of the landowner down the mountain-the landowner travels all over the villages in Guo Cheng the next day and sends them up the mountain on March 3rd-and the landowner ascends to heaven for half a month. There is a conventional order in the schedule of the visit of the Land Goddess and Bodhisattva to the village, which is summarized by a folk song: "(Land Goddess and Bodhisattva) eighteen Zheng eighteen; Nineteen days; Twenty to Yin Zu; 2 1 day, Shuikou is closed ... ". Wherever the traditional grand event goes, gongs and drums are loud, firecrackers are ringing, and people are crowded and spectacular.

It is understood that in 2009, Yin Zuyin and Tu have been included in the intangible cultural heritage list of Hubei Province. Since 2009, the local government has taken the opportunity of promoting traditional folk culture, actively guided well-off mountain people to use festival activities to promote tourism, and made great efforts to build local tourism classic brands.