What does it mean to hire a master in Hongdong Village, Haimen Town, Shantou?

The invitation master in Chaoshan is also called the welcome master.

The master developed from the sacrifice of the uncle in the countryside. Usually in the first month of the lunar calendar every year, every day in a town.

Villages take turns to "heat up" (equivalent to temple fairs in the north) to welcome their hosts.

Greeting the host is a ritual activity. Young people in the village will carry eight big sedan chairs and carry the master around the streets and alleys of the village. The parade is very large, including flag bearers (raising flags), card players (holding placards), bearers and musicians. Apprentice is to pray for good weather and peace in the village this year. When welcoming the host, the villagers can touch him with their hands. It is said that this will bring good luck and keep him safe for a year.

Pay tribute to the old master

A parade of hundreds of people, including beating gongs and drums, performing English songs and drums, and occasionally singing the role of Chaozhou opera.

The first wave of people was led by the elders in the village.

The second wave of people are Hua Dan and young people wearing various Chaozhou opera costumes. They all carry a flag on their shoulders. The banner is embroidered with lifelike dragons and phoenixes and an auspicious idiom, such as good weather, prosperous industries, abundant crops and so on.

The third wave of people is the most representative English song and dance performance team in Chaoshan, waving sticks in their hands and coming towards the crowd. Everyone's face is full of joy and exultation. Song and dance is a kind of folk collective dance. The dance is based on the plot that Liangshan heroes raided Daming Mansion at night to rescue Lu Junyi. The characters in the song and dance draw faces according to the appearance of Liangshan heroes and wear corresponding costumes, such as Guan Sheng's blushing beard, jy's blushing black beard, his niche costume and Lu's shaman costume. Dance movements are based on southern martial arts, which are vigorous and powerful. Chaozhou gongs and drums are still the main accompaniment of drum music, and dancers also make neat shouts from time to time with drum music, which is magnificent and serious. Due to the emphasis on symmetry, in addition to the performance of male English songs mentioned above, there are also female English songs. Women's English songs emphasize the combination of rigidity and softness, and the wooden sticks strike loudly. The rotation of the posture does not lose the feminine charm.

The fourth wave of people is the gongs and drums team. The instrumental performances of the parade include playing erhu, guzheng, flute, gong and drum, and most rural teenagers who play these instruments. Teenagers will practice at a fixed time every night before the parade, and there will be guidance from the older generation in rural areas who understand the essence of musical instruments.

The whole team of The 5th Wave people and the Sixth Wave people also visited along the main roads of their own towns and neighboring towns. The people watching applauded and cheered loudly.

Welcome to the Lord

Meeting a master is a kind of love, spiritual sustenance and spiritual encouragement for Chaoshan people. Apprenticeship enables Chaoshan to inherit various characteristic cultures. Classical musical instruments, songs and dances, couplets, etc. The words contained in the greeting master have been passed down from generation to generation.

In the parade to welcome the old host, people in the countryside donated money according to their own economic conditions. After the parade, the remaining funds will be used for welfare undertakings in hometown, improving service facilities in hometown and promoting local economy to some extent.

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