Junpojie composition

Danzhou Na Da Xiao Yi Er (5) Ban Chen Xi

My hometown is Sanjiang, Qiongshan, Hainan, a small village near the sea. There is a military slope festival here every three years.

Junpo is called a public holiday in Hainan dialect. As the name implies, it is a public holiday, and in fact it is an activity of offering sacrifices to ancestors.

The time of Junpo Festival is generally the ninth day of February and the tenth day of February in the lunar calendar. On the ninth day of February, people go to the market early to buy live chickens, ducks, geese, sheep, biscuits, sweets, fruits and other foods. At night 12 o'clock, a big horn sounded in the village, and there was a cry from the big horn: kill chickens, so each household carried the sacrificial articles such as chickens and ducks to the open space in front of the ancestral temple to "bleed" (kill chickens, ducks and sheep, etc. ) and then take them home to cook. In the early morning of February 1 1, the village was filled with gongs and drums, and people marched in the village with statues of Gong Zu and colorful flags. When the statue of Gong Zu was brought back to the ancestral hall, the villagers scrambled to move the table to the front of the ancestral hall and put sacrifices such as chickens, ducks, geese and sheep to worship their ancestors. After ancestor worship, there are lion dances and puppet shows.

The crowd, firecrackers and worship scenes suddenly boiled the village and turned it into a sea of joy. This is the Junpo Festival in my hometown, and I love my hometown.