Shunde Traditions What are the historical customs?

Shunde folk have always burned incense to the custom of worship, in the towns and villages are dotted with shrines and temples of varying sizes, Tin Hau Temple, Guan Yin Hall, Guan Di Temple countless, every first and fifteenth day or traditional folk festivals, the good faith will go to the Hall of incense to worship, in order to seek peace and security of the family, this custom is still more common today in various parts of the world, can be seen everywhere.

Xishan Temple, also known as Guan Di Temple, was built in the Ming Dynasty Tianshun years, the legend says that Guan Di Temple was not built when the first Deer Path Ancestral Society, the community planted next to the banyan tree, the temple side of the foothills of the profound, the old banyan sheltered from the sky, the summer cool, cool winds flicked, the summer air suddenly eliminated. "Deer path banyan shade" is one of the eight scenic spots of Fengcheng in the Qing Dynasty.

Shunde territory built a number of ancient pagodas, tower for the pavilion-style building, are feng shui tower, due to the age of repair, a lot of pagodas have been obliterated, the surviving better Longjiang seven layer pagoda, Guizhou outside the village of the pagoda, both towers were built in the Qing Dynasty, seven-story, each layer of the stone lintel engraved with the text. Long Jiang Pagoda is still located in the set of the north of the pond, Gui Zhou Pagoda has been repaired as a park open to visitors.

In ancient times, Shunde middle and upper family's apartment buildings are mostly brick and wood structure, brick walls, step brick paving, red and white slate paved patio, the roof is built on the dragon boat ridges and "wok ear", and painted with flowers, plants, insects, fish, birds and animals and other patterns, its use in addition to decorative, but also lies in the top of the pressure to block the wind, so it is called "wok ear house". The purpose of the house is not only decorative, but also to protect the roof from the wind.

The hometown of Cantonese opera has a long history, from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the modern era, Shunde famous actors and actresses. To this day in the towns and villages of the opera society (commonly known as the "private bureau") abound, especially in Junan, Ronggui, Daliang and other places is particularly prominent, the spare time opera society of the guys get together, sing a few classics, when there is a festival on the stage, or in front of the ancestral temple to sing Cantonese opera to help celebrate, in order to increase the festive atmosphere. Most of the performers are the audience's more familiar relatives and friends, neighbors, and the performance atmosphere is warm and harmonious.

Shunde has a dense network of rivers, and in ancient times, residents built stone bridges to facilitate transportation, thus presenting the characteristics of small bridges, running water and homes in the water town. Its architectural form is mainly longitudinal and frame type longitudinal masonry method. Currently scattered in the Shunde water town of hundreds of stone bridges, the age of the near and far, the structure of different sizes, the existing territory of the more famous ancient bridges are Xingtan Fengjian Mingyuan, Juji Bridge, Luo Shui Ai Ri Bridge, Longjiang Shifu Zhenmei Bridge, Ronggui four base of the Luoyang Bridge, and so on.

Social school for the ancient set up in the township community of the primary Confucianism, organized by the local government and management, began in the early Ming Dynasty, to the rapid development of the Jiajing period, the social school teachers selected by the county school officials to fill the old students, teaching the scriptures, history, calendars, arithmetic and etiquette. Nowadays, there are only a few left, and it has become a place for villagers to pray and worship, or play chess and cards.

Shusheng Bridge, also known as Pengchong Bridge, is located in Rongli Village, Ronggui, and has a history of about 300 years. Bridge on each side of a banyan tree, branches and trunks, gas root coiled, around the beams, long time and across both sides of the abutments, inserted into the soil, the bridge railing is also the formation of tree roots, forming a "tree for the bridge, the bridge is the tree" of the wonders of the tree next to the tree there is a well, the mouth of a narrow inside wide, clear can be identified, commonly known as leafless well. Has been built for the Tree Bridge Park, become a good place for local residents to avoid the summer heat.

The Tanabata Festival is also known as the Beggar's Nest, which is the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar. On the night of Tanabata, villagers from all over the countryside raise funds to make exquisite handicrafts, set up cases for display in the ancestral halls on the street, and set up incense, candles, fruits, flowers and powder to offer sacrifices, praying for blessings of the Seven Sisters (Weaving Maiden), known as the Immortal Worshippers, which is in fact the villagers' desire for the beauty of real-life faithful love, worship and praise.

In the past, the Shunde territory as a result of the river network all over the Xijiang Beijiang through which the water residents are home to the boat, living in the "smoky waters of the pale West and East" life, so called "boat-dwelling people", boat-dwelling people get up in the morning and return to the evening every day, fishing in the river fish, shrimp, sand clams and so on. and sell them for a living. After liberation, the former water residents have been settled on land, now active in the Shunde River area of the water fishermen for the field.

Bingyu Hall is located in Shatou Village, Junan Town, and was built with the capital of "self-combing women" living abroad. Ancient feudal society, a woman to get married in a bun, married to comply with the three from the four virtues, many Shunde women are not willing to be subjected to the rules of the clan, they will find a few sisters to worship each other, rely on each other, choose a day to hold a ceremony, combing up lifelong unmarried, so it is called "self-combing female". After the 1930s, Shunde combed a large number of women to go to the province of Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia, etc., to the 70s and 80s return home, they spontaneously funded the construction of the building back to their hometowns as a place to live in their old age, called "Bingyu Hall", to take the meaning of the ice and jade clean.