The custom of Poyang Festival

"On the Mid-Autumn Festival night, putting melon and lotus root cakes on the terrace and drinking by drumming in the moonlight is called enjoying the moon." This custom is not only popular in Jiangxi, but also valued by Poyang. Family reunion, * * * degrees "full moon", enjoy family happiness, tea, cakes, grapefruit, people do not forget to choose things to express auspicious and festive, happy family. On this day, in cities and rural areas, there is another custom of building pagodas with bricks and stones to worship the moon. At night, under the guidance of adults, children will choose open and flat places to build circular pagodas. When the stupa is built, it is affixed with a couplet written on red paper, which reads "Build the pagoda every year, and be safe every month". There is a small table in front of the pagoda, with food such as moon cakes and fruits. After the Jade Rabbit rose to the sky with the bright moon, she lit the firewood piled in the pagoda and ignited a raging fire, and the festival ended in a burst of flowers.

Chongyang climbs again.

On September 9, Chongyang climbed high, which swept the county. Shan Zhi in the northwest of the city is the first choice. Climbing here is to enjoy the mountains and rivers of Poyang Lake, and then to remember the legacy of Yan (Zhenqing) and Fan (Zhongyan). When Fan Zhongyan was the magistrate of Raozhou, he spent the night studying in Biyunxuan and even boarded a poem left by Shan Zhi. In his poem, he said, "Cui Wei is crowned in class, but where is Ganoderma lucidum?" Yun Fei crossed the river and the flowers fell into the city. In the morning, eat crows and gather together, and at night, you can hear tigers coming back. "I occasionally look at the Xiting, and the sunset is there. The five old people in the poem refer to the five old peaks of Lushan Mountain. When the air is crisp in autumn, you can see Lushan Mountain on the Shan Zhi. Since then, Shan Zhi has become a scenic spot in Chongyang.

Beat the drums to welcome the new year

In Shebuzhou, Raobu Township, there is a traditional custom that has been circulating for hundreds of years: spring outing with drums on the first day of the first month of each year. Later, this custom was combined with Lantern Festival lanterns and was called "playing the Taiping drum". When holding this kind of celebration, try drums first, and all drum lovers in the surrounding villages can participate. After the competition, outstanding people were chosen to represent the village. On the day of the drum-bang competition, colorful flags were flying, gongs and drums were loud, and the villagers put on new clothes to help the old and the young. Competitors beat drums, one is longer than beating drums, the other is more expressive, and the third is more exciting than beating drums. The person who owns these three things wins, so the winner is dressed in red and people congratulate him around the drum music. Dragon lanterns, lanterns and lion lanterns suddenly danced together, and the whole stadium was very lively. The "Taiping Drum" is generally 90cm in diameter and 1m in height. Four people carried it, and one stood on the drum platform, beating and jumping. A 70cm-long drumstick is the thickness of a child's arm. Wearing a white vest, a red ribbon around the waist and a yellow scarf, the drummer hammered with both hands, and the drums were deafening and impressive. People admire it. People feel full of spring in the drums, and everything recovers. Another bumper harvest year.

Fishing is prohibited before the port is opened.

Opening port is a traditional collective fishing method for Poyang people to catch fish in all directions after they stop fishing. Since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, in order to protect the reproduction and fattening of fish, local people have chosen a river port with many holes and deep water, which is suitable for fish reproduction and fattening, and has been closed since early winter. No-fishing areas should be negotiated and signed, and fishing in no-fishing areas is prohibited during the no-fishing period until a date is set in beginning of winter, and the person in charge will issue an announcement to clarify the fishing time and related matters of specific river sections. At that time, fishing boats will gather and be very lively. Fishermen, regardless of fishing gear and methods, have been fishing by "pulling nets" from dawn to evening. First, the fence net and the cover net were erected, then the hook and the screen window, then the harpoon, the hook and the cormorant ... it was unprecedented spectacular.

Opening ports is an important fishing activity for fishermen in Poyang. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), the Party and the government attached great importance to it. Every time we open Hong Kong, we not only organize commercial departments to purchase and process, but also organize theatrical troupes and film projection teams to offer condolences to the fishing area. Supply and marketing cooperatives and commercial companies also organize vendors to carry goods and carts and set up supply points to ensure logistics supply. Support summer health

Long summer is originally one of the 24 solar terms, and Poyang attaches great importance to this solar term. Boiled eggs, stewed cocks and other foods are regarded as "supplements", which is called helping summer. "Long summer needs long strength", and some places even weigh themselves and make long summer cakes to show their attention to this day.

It is a unique custom in Poyang rural areas to spend the summer in the long term and help the summer, which originated in the late Yuan Dynasty. Ming Taizu Zhu Yuanzhang and Hanwang Chen Youliang fought in Poyang Lake. It was late spring and early summer, and it was sultry. Most of the Ming soldiers stationed in Poyang are from northern Anhui, which makes them feel weak. One day, during the long summer, the first mate thought of the hardship of the war and intended to improve the food, so he bought a rooster that Poyang people didn't pay much attention to, brought some brown rice with thorns at ordinary times, ground it into flour, cooked the chicken for dinner, and made the flour into cakes to let the soldiers have a good meal. After eating and drinking enough, the soldiers felt more energetic and energetic. In the middle of the night, Chen Youliang sent a good soldier to sneak attack. When the Han soldiers arrived, Zhu Ming soldiers who ate well and slept well beat the Han soldiers out of the water like wolves. Since then, Poyang people regard this day as an important festival, with "helping the summer" as the main content. "Stay in the summer, stay in the summer, increase your physical strength and be full of vitality. You will not be short of one year."

Entertainment has a string hall.

Tang Chuan is a popular recreational activity in Poyang, especially in rural areas. A team of more than a dozen people, full of ugliness, playing and singing, suddenly made the quiet countryside lively and full of the breath of spring.

Although Tang Chuan is an entertainment team that walks from village to village, sings in the hall and does not perform on stage, it is actually a "popular version" of Raohe Opera. Apart from singing in form but not doing it, musical instruments, vocals and plays are no different from Raohe Opera. Poyang people love to watch Raohe Opera, which is a famous "hometown of Gan Opera". Many cousins have changed from liking to hobbies, so after busy farming, they get together and do their best to form a temporary team that is not complicated, but can let people appreciate the pastoral charm of Raohe Opera. It's really smart to entertain yourself and indulge in drama.

Detailed personnel and flexible activities are most suitable for rural conditions. A group of literary and martial arts venues add up to more than a dozen people. Players in the literary field play orchestral music, while players in the martial field play percussion music, and everyone has one or two ugly students who can sing a few characters in the whole book or opera. It can be said that they are both actors and musicians, and none of them are just "Mr. Nan Guo".

Tang Chuan is approachable and close to the masses, so there is no need to say hello. Bring your own equipment. A square table and several benches occupy a limited space, while more space is available for more listeners to stop and enjoy. What's even more amazing is that such a team has actually trained many "pillar" actors of rural amateur troupes.