Anhui folk custom

Anhui folk customs are 1, Jiuhuashan Temple Fair.

Since the Tang Dynasty, around the 30th day of the seventh lunar month (the auspicious birthday of the Tibetan Buddha), Buddhists and local business circles have jointly held grand commemorative activities, attracting believers and tourists from far and near. 1983 resumed the temple fair system, 1989 held seven times in total. 1989 The temple fair lasted 1 month and held 12 activities.

Large-scale Buddhist activities include: the opening ceremony of the Buddha statue in the Golden Hall of the Centennial Palace, the land and water law meeting, the ceremony to commemorate the birthday of Di Chin Tibetan (Jin Qiaojue)1294th anniversary, the three commandments taught by Gion Temple, and the address certification meeting of Master Hui Ke, the second ancestor of Zen Buddhism. The networking activities include the first China Four Foshan Friendship Association, and the symposium of eminent monks and great virtues at home and abroad.

2. Fuyang Torch Festival

Fuyang area calls Mid-Autumn Festival Torch Festival. In the evening, I lit a torch and went to my hometown to commemorate the Red Scarf Army Uprising led by Liu Futong. According to legend, Hanhe organized peasant uprisings, and they responded with their torches one after another, taking the lead in launching them in Yingzhou. There is a nursery rhyme: "The city is on fire and the government is scattered; There is no one in the city, and the red scarf sits on the bench. " Shortly thereafter, every Mid-Autumn Festival night, young people in Yingzhou imitate the Red Scarf Army, wrap straw with straw and sunflower stalks, burn them in the wild and shake them around until they are burned out. The local custom is called "burning a fire" and it has never failed.

3. Marriage in Huizhou

In the past, marriage in Huizhou strictly followed the orders of parents and the words of matchmakers. Generally, there are nine procedures: matchmaking, hiring people, invitation, moving marriage, opening a face, welcoming relatives, paying homage to the bride, making trouble in the bridal chamber and returning to the door. Matchmakers are generally older women and are called "matchmakers". Employment is commonly known as "sending baggage". If the woman returns the gift on the same day, the marriage will be settled. On the wedding day, my aunt or aunt twisted the hair on the bride's forehead with two silk threads, which is called "Face Opening" or "Lamian Noodles".

Then there is the wedding, meeting the bride, and making trouble in the bridal chamber. On the third day after marriage, the groom accompanied the bride to pay homage to her parents, which is called "returning home". This is "the Ming media is marrying." There are other special forms, such as child marriage, concubinage, changing relatives, stealing relatives, adoption, celebrating happiness and premarital marriage. After 1950s, parents' arranged marriage was gradually replaced by free love, and the marriage was simple. After the 1980s, some people took the form of tourist weddings and group weddings.

4. Five clubs

The first day of the fifth lunar month is the day of Wuyang Temple Fair in Xiuying County. At that time, the people of the four townships will gather in Haiyang to burn incense and pray for the five evil spirits to exorcise evil and turn evil into good. Temple fair parade, "leading banner" to clear the way, "deacon" to manage handyman along the way. Blue, white, black, red, yellow, green and blue flags are flying, followed by ten scenic poles, silent signs, national umbrellas, paper idols of pigs, horses, cows, sheep and archways, followed by local opera teams and acrobatic teams. This temple fair originated in the early Ming Dynasty.

Zhu Yuanzhang and Chen Youliang fought in southern Anhui for several years, and the soldiers and civilians suffered heavy casualties. After Zhu proclaimed himself emperor, he ordered the people in the south of the Yangtze River to build a "five-foot temple" in each village. The soldiers who died in battle were "five people" and were enshrined by the people. There is a saying in Ming history that "the gods were in hatch five before and after the battle". So it was handed down from generation to generation and evolved into a five-cabin temple fair with a very strong incense.

5. Fuyang paper-cutting

Paper-cutting is widely used in Fuyang, Anhui Province. One is to decorate with red newspaper clippings at festivals, such as window grilles, door stickers, snuff and wedding flowers. And the content is mostly a symbol of good luck and joy, or a metaphor; The other is used as embroidery patterns on children's clothes such as shoes, towels, bibs and stomachs, and the materials are generally flowers, birds, insects and fish.

Fuyang paper-cutting is good at combining thick and thin lines and alternating yin and yang engraving techniques, combining the vigorous and vigorous paper-cutting in the north of China with the exquisite and beautiful paper-cutting in the south, forming a local characteristic of combining rigidity with softness, harmonious rhythm, simplicity and beauty.

1, China Chaohu Fishing and Fire Music Festival

China Chaohu Fishing and Fire Music Festival will be held in Chaohu, Hefei, Anhui, from Zhongmiao to Laoshan Island. Many wonderful activities, such as "Night of the Great Lakes" concert, Lake Fresh Food Carnival, Dragon and Lion Dance Competition, Light and Shadow Chaohu Photo Grand Prix, were held on the lakeside, presenting an audio-visual feast for Hefei citizens.

2. China Huangmei Opera Art Festival?

This is a cultural and artistic festival aimed at Huangmei Opera, one of the five famous dramas in China. Born in Anqing City, Anhui Province on June 6, 1992 on/KLOC-0. It is the first Huangmei Opera Art Festival in China, one of the important art festivals for the exchange and exhibition of traditional culture and art in China, and the most representative cultural brand and symbolic cultural image in Anqing City, Anhui Province. ?

3. Fuyang Festival in China (Xiaoxian County)

The Fuyang Festival begins on the first day of the lunar new year and lasts for one month. According to the solar terms of the lunar calendar, the third Geng day (nine days in a Geng day) from summer to the future is the "first lodging", the fourth Geng day is the "middle lodging", and the first Geng day after beginning of autumn is the "last lodging". In this month, people in Xiaoxian, Suzhou, Huaibei and other places concentrated in hotels, restaurants, special mutton restaurants and barbecue stalls, eating mutton and drinking mutton soup, so it was called Fuyang.

4. China International Poetry Festival

In order to carry forward the outstanding national culture, inherit and carry forward the legacy of Li Bai, a great poet in the Tang Dynasty, enhance international friendship and cultural exchanges, and promote local economic development, Maanshan City, Anhui Province has held an China International Poetry Festival every year since 1989.