Shunde's 400-word composition on Spring Festival customs

Friend, have you heard the story of "self-grooming women" in Shunde? On New Year's Eve, do you "buy laziness" on the street? During the Dragon Boat Festival, did you stand on your parents' shoulders and watch the dragon boat race? These are the folk customs of Shunde. "Take the wind and learn from each other." Folk custom is the concrete expression of traditional culture in social life. In the long years, Shunde, a fertile land in the south where rivers crisscross and ponds interweave, has given birth to many touching legends and beautiful scenery! Let's enjoy the charming customs and traditions of Shunde!

First, Shunde Spring Festival. You must have said this sentence many times during the Spring Festival, and you said it with joy. Spring Festival, also known as China New Year, is the largest and most grand traditional festival in China. Do you know how people in Shunde spend the Spring Festival? In the old society, Chinese New Year included a series of activities, such as giving away stoves, collecting stoves, celebrating the New Year, opening the new year and welcoming the new year. "New Year's Eve", every household posted Spring Festival couplets, and some even posted "door gods", which can't be wrong. Shunde people describe ignoring each other and call it "sticking to the wrong door god", from which this proverb comes! On New Year's Eve, the family get together for a reunion dinner. After the reunion dinner, the children flocked to the streets to "buy lazy" and sing "buy lazy songs". The lyrics are: "Buy lazy, buy 30 nights, I am not lazy if people are lazy." "firecrackers divide the old year with one sound." On the first day of the first month, the whole family sits around the hall to pay a New Year call to the younger generation and taste festive foods such as rice cakes together. The third day is commonly known as "Chikou", and the activity is suspended for half a year. The fourth day lasts until the seventh day of People's Day. Now the habit of Chinese New Year has been greatly simplified, and a lot has been removed for a while. Reunion dinner is not necessarily at home, but many are eaten by the whole family in restaurants. However, the custom of Chinese New Year has remained a lot. For example, handing out red envelopes, posting Spring Festival couplets, dancing dragons and lions, and choosing new year flowers. These people are still happy! We believe that in order to inherit traditional culture, we should take its essence and discard its dross.

Second, Shunde Dragon Boat Festival. During the Dragon Boat Festival of the Lunar New Year, every township will beat gongs and drums. In the past, due to the criss-crossing of rivers and waterways in Shunde, farming and fishing were the mainstay, and farmers in Shunde became accustomed to the life of "watching the water and stepping on the boat", forming the custom of dragon boat racing. Today, there is still the custom of dragon boat race in Shunde countryside, which is inseparable from the legend of Longteng custom for thousands of years. It can be seen that the dragon boat spirit of Shunde people is the perfect combination of ancient Yue spirit and dynamic modern spirit. There are two main opinions about the emergence of dragon boat: one is initiated by the children of a broken family in Shunde County during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty; Second, during the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty, organizations such as the Heaven and Earth Society were established for publicity. It is generally believed that Shunde is the hometown of dragon boat. The most representative of Longzhou in Shunde is Longjiang Dragon Boat. Longjiang Dragon Boat adopts the elimination system, and the champion is decided in three days. The champion team beat gongs and drums, dressed in red and covered with flowers, and returned to the village majestically. In order to celebrate the victory, the lively and wealthy villagers in the village paid money and cooked dozens of tables. The villagers sat around the sumptuous meal and were very lively. This is the unique "eating dragon boat rice".

Third, Shunde Mid-Autumn Festival. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, the moonlight is bright and flawless, and the full moon symbolizes reunion, so relatives and friends get together to visit, so the Mid-Autumn Festival is also called "Reunion Festival". Shunde people and Mid-Autumn Festival are very grand. People have been busy buying moon cakes since the tenth day of August. People call August 14th "welcoming the moon", 15th "enjoying the moon" and 16th "chasing the moon". This can be said to be "the moon is now full at sea, and the end of the world will come at this time" and "I hope people will live for a long time and have a beautiful scenery thousands of miles away." Let's talk about the Fish Lantern Festival. The Fish Lantern Festival once brought vitality to the society with a lively atmosphere. It is not only a spontaneous folk entertainment activity, but also a review of the wisdom and artistic achievements of working people. It is one of the folk competitions held irregularly in Daliang area decades ago. Most of them are held in the crisp autumn or on the night of Lantern Festival, organized by folk busybodies to raise funds and organize the main meeting of fish lanterns. The participating fish lanterns gather together, March in procession and swim in various ways at close range; Seen from a distance, the dragon is winding and colorful. Shunde's aquaculture industry is very famous and it is the main producing area of freshwater fish. The "Fish Lantern Festival" in Daliang is a folk cultural and entertainment activity in which people express their love for life, praise for labor and pursuit of ideals in the form of art, which means to celebrate the harvest.

Fourth, Shunde "self-combed women". Self-grooming girls, born in the late Qing Dynasty, are a special group unique to the Pearl River Delta. According to Shunde County Records, the silk industry in Shunde was developed at that time, and many female workers earned considerable income and were economically independent. They saw that some sisters suffered indignities in their husbands' families after marriage, and their status was low. They did not want to be bound by this, preferring not to marry for life, so they gave birth to self-grooming girls. There have been many customs in Shunde's history that my fair lady resolutely refused to marry. They are "self-grooming girls" in Shunde. In other parts of the Pearl River Delta, the situation of girls' self-dressing is similar to that of Shunde. In the past, unmarried women used to wear braids, and when they got married, their mothers or female elders combed their hair into a bun. But those who are determined not to marry, after performing a certain ceremony, will braid their hair. Since then, women have been "combing their hair" and officially become "self-combing women". This is because the Ming Dynasty was the period when feudal ethics destroyed women the most severely. Moreover, in the Ming Dynasty, the seeds of capitalist production appeared. Shunde, located in the Pearl River Delta, has rich sericulture, favorable weather and favorable geographical conditions, and the silk industry has developed rapidly, among which women are mostly engaged in nesting. At this time, a large number of economically independent women emerged in Shunde. This special custom was inherited from the marriage custom of ancient matriarchal society, and then echoed with the social life with individual liberation in the times, and reached its climax in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. Until the 1930s, the silk industry in the Pearl River Delta declined, and young women in this area heard that working in Nanyang earned a lot of money, so they went hand in hand. Many women have worked in Nanyang for many years without talking about marriage. When she was in her fifties and sixties, she bought offerings to worship heaven and earth and became a self-taught woman. And they are the last self-decorated girls in China. After the founding of New China, this special custom gradually disappeared.

Fifth, Shunde sings dragon boats. Singing dragon boat is not the physical image of dragon boat that often appears in our minds, but a kind of folk rap. Dragon boat is sung in Guangzhou dialect, which was formed in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Most artists sing for the transition on the ferry. The singer holds a wooden dragon boat stick with a wooden stick head, and hangs a small gong and drum on his chest, knocking and singing. The content is mainly fairy tales and exhortations, basically chanting, with a simple and rude tone and a strong local flavor. The dragon boat is authentic in Shunde, so Shunde has the reputation of "the hometown of dragon boats". Before the founding of New China, there were often folk artists holding exquisite little dragon boats carved out of wood. These small dragon boats are equipped with dragon heads, tails, rowers, gongs and drums and umbrellas, just like real dragon boats. They stood at the door from door to door, saying auspicious words first, then ringing the gongs and drums of the dragon boat and singing hymns. The traditional repertoire of dragon boat is rich in content, mainly based on myths and legends and historical stories. Such as the birthday of the Eight Immortals, the birth of a fairy, Zhao Fan, three terms, complaining and so on. , well received by the masses. Around the Revolution of 1911, the so-called "social dragon boat" appeared. These works, commenting on the current situation and expressing political views, have played a positive role in propagating the revolution, among which the most representative is "Guangdong Memorabilia in the Year of Social Dragon Boat". Dragon boat was formed in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Artists sang for the people in transition on the ferry, holding a long stick with a wooden dragon boat engraved on its head. If it is exquisite, it is also a beautiful work of art. There is a small gong and a small drum hanging on the chest. They sing while playing. Coupled with the shaking of the dragon boat, the paddles make a sound of beating time. In the sixties and seventies, Wen Juefei, a famous dramatist in Guangdong, wrote an inverted bead curtain, which was the last glory of dragon boat rap. Dragon boat was originally the name of the boat used in the Dragon Boat Festival, but folk artists and folk artists used gongs and drums to arrange rhythmic folk songs. Later, it evolved into a kind of "Qupai" of Quyi and Cantonese Opera, and became a popular literary singing method with strong local flavor, easy editing and singing.