Is there any custom in Chaoshan

Some ceremonies are so grand that the offerings are placed all over the table, and the "five bowls of food" must be placed at the top, becoming the main character. Even the time of marriage, the bride and groom out and into the door, eat is also unchanged four dishes, one soup and five bowls of food. Some places are six bowls of food, to take their even number. Why the sacrificial gifts, no more, no less, must be five? Chao people have a sacred sense of the word "five". This first comes from the ancient ancestors of the interpretation of nature, for the "five" is between one - nine of the nine ordinal numbers in the middle, so-called middle number, to deal with the problem is the most appropriate. Therefore, the survival of food "rice, wheat, beans, beams, beans" called "five grains", the ground is "east, west, south, north, center" called The ground inhabited by "east, west, south, north and center" is called "five sides" and "five earths". People often say that the five gods of wealth, but also related to this concept. There are five times: spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter. There are also five colors: red, yellow, green, white and black. There are five elements: gold, wood, fire, water and earth. There are five tones: Gong, Shang, Horn, Zheng and Yu. There are five tastes: salty, sweet, sour, spicy and sweet. The human body has five senses, five organs and five internal organs. When one admires a person, one says "five bodies". When you praise someone for being learned, you say, "Be rich in learning". There are also five human feelings: joy, anger, sadness, happiness, and resentment. All of these correspond to each other and are born out of each other. The Yellow Emperor's Classic of Internal Medicine - Suwen also says: "Five grains are for nourishment, five fruits are for assistance, five animals are for benefit, and five vegetables are for enrichment. This is a basic human need. Ancient people also used "five" to categorize human society. Yi" system of rhetoric: "the number of five days, the number of five". Therefore, the son of Zhou set up five divisions, said "Stuart (tube household)", "Sima (tube military)", "Sikong (tube engineering)", "Sikou (tube punishment)", "Sikou (tube punishment)", "Sikong (tube military)", "Sikong (tube military)", "Sikong (tube military)", "Sikong (tube military)", "Sikong (tube military)" and "Sikong (tube military)". )," "Sikou (in charge of punishment)," and "Sishi (in charge of officials)". The "Five Lunas" are: ruler and minister, father and son, husband and wife, brother and friend. Heaven, earth, ruler, relatives and teachers were called the "five services". Titles were categorized into five classes: Duke, Husband, Uncle, Son and Man. Scholarships are only passed on for five generations, and "the ruler's zeal is cut off in five generations". The "five rites" refer to the ancient rites of auspiciousness, foulness, military rites, guest rites, and jia rites. The five moral virtues of human beings, "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith", are called the "Five Constants". In addition, there are five levels of punishment: ink (tattooing the face), wakes (cutting the nose), amputation of the feet (amputation of the feet), Gong (cutting the man's strength), and Da Pai (killing the head), which are called the "Five Punishments". The Book of Rites also has "five sacrifices", namely, the Risen, the Gate, the Well, the Stove, and the Middle Spirit. The middle spirit is the center of the house. People aspire to the "five blessings," said life, wealth, health and peace, to repair the virtue, the end of the life of the test. There is also the history of the "five emperors", "five hegemony" and "five insects" said. With the development of human society, many things follow the deepening. For example, officials, from the ancients, "five divisions", into "six departments", "nine ministers" ...... knowledge of the natural world The understanding of the natural world is also deepening, the five colors have become "seven colors". Only the Chaoshan people, always stick to the "five" method. On the society of all kinds of colorful, complex personnel, often in a nutshell: "five colors, five numbers". Rao Ping Haisan's Incense Sending Boat Incense Sending Boat is a ritual to send the god of pestilence. It is a ritual to send off the god of pestilence. This custom is practiced in all parts of Chaoshan. It is also practiced all over the country. "The paper boat burns brightly with candles in the sky" refers to this event. Paper boats are also known as incense boats. Chaoshan has this custom, but the performance is similar in different counties. However, in some places, it is called "hometown boat", which is not true, but is actually an incense boat. Two places, Furen Village and Gaotang Township in Haishan Township, Raoping County, have the custom of sending incense boats to the gods. The name of the boat means sending the god of pestilence on a journey to the countryside. The "incense boat" is made of bamboo and papier-maché. The boat made in Fuoren Village is a puffer fish with a huge mouth, sharp teeth and a big belly, while the boat made in Gaotang Township is directly tied into the shape of a boat. The time of the "incense boat" is the sixteenth day of the first month in the village of Fu Ren, and the second day of the second month in the township of Gao Tang (it is said that the original is also the sixteenth day of the first month, and then because of a military rebellion, it could not be carried out, and changed to the second day of the second month, and then continued), and its form is basically the same. Walking incense boat day, the first sacrifice to the gods, send incense boat is the last ceremony. Floating Ren Village ceremony is: first by the township "boss" (patriarch) in the three mountains around the King's Temple sprinkled saffron water, said auspicious and clean, and then ask for a sign to ask should be, has been seeking to three holy sign (a yin and a yang for the "holy" sign), "the boss" then shouted out. Boss" then shouted "Holy"! A call for a hundred responses, the crowd cheered, with the three sound cannon, walking incense boat began. In front of a pair of writing "peace in the township" of the large lanterns to lead the way, then "incense boat" (dolphin) out of the back of the eight-carried sedan chair with the King's Dharma (idol), on both sides of the colorful flags, screw horn long, drums and music in the sky. Walking incense boat from the village of rich and strong people, a white clothing, waist bundle of red cloth scarf, carrying the incense boat along the village outside the avenue side of the dance and run, onlookers are to the incense boat throwing stones, after a week around the village, walking incense boat people to the fastest possible speed to the incense boat to the beach, thrown into the water, symbolizing the township of the ominous things, collectively thrown into the sea flow away. After the boat is thrown into the sea, the body of the king of Sansan-guk is carried back to the original place, thus ending the ceremony. Gautang Township's incense boat tour, the preparatory work beforehand is to marry the bride after the second day of February of the previous year, the birth of a boy in the male young adults divination sign point "helmsman" (i.e., the person who supports the incense boat), the person who is the point of view must be asked to come to all of the house relatives **** with the completion of this divine event. On the second day of February, a bamboo incense boat was tied up with the flag "Smooth Sailing", and the boat was loaded with the ominous things dropped by the townspeople, i.e., ceramic fragments of bowls and bowls that had been broken in every household from the first day of the first month to the end of the day, as well as "paper money" that had been used by every household to wipe off the distress. ". Hundred dozens of pounds of heavy incense boat, lifted by the "boatman", hundreds of dozens of guards (incense boat is actually more than a hundred people to help lift), followed by a large drums and gongs class, colorful flags, eight treasures of weapons, masquerade team and the eight lords of the idol, vast and majestic, driving the incense boat ran out of 2 kilometers away from the Huanggang River side. Along the way, bystanders threw stones at the incense boat, and when it was dense, the stones were like rain. After running the incense boat, the person who carries the incense boat, often bruised and battered. When walking the incense boat, the townspeople are all happy and joyful, men, women and children, dressed in festive attire, inviting their relatives and friends from outside the townships to solemnize the occasion. When the incense boat is sent out to the sea, people always seem to be relieved of their heavy burdens and are extremely happy, singing and encouraging at the same time. There is a couplet posted in Gaotang Township when the incense boat goes out: "There are many happy things in the new fashion; all the people we meet in the spring breeze are all comfortable people." It is a good description of this scene. Lantern Festival in Chaoshan Customs Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival, which is due to the Taoist belief in the three gods (heavenly palace, earthly palace, and human palace), the 15th day of the first month of the heavenly palace when the order is called Shangyuan Festival, praying for the heavenly palace to give blessings. Most of the Lantern Festival activities in Chaoshan include hanging lanterns, traveling lanterns, lion dances, riddles, eating soup balls, etc. The main content is in the lanterns, so it is also known as the Lantern Festival. The main content of the festival is the lanterns, so it is also called the Lantern Festival. It has the strongest color of amusement, so it is called Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival in Chaoshan is a grand festival second only to the Spring Festival. The old custom of the Tour of Gods will be concentrated around the Lantern Festival, the activity time is long, more projects, folk culture color is more intense. After the reform and opening up, governments around the world advocate a variety of healthy cultural activities to welcome the Spring Festival and internal and external fellowship activities during this time, making this festival more contemporary and positive significance. Lantern tour at Lantern Festival has always been popular. Ming Jiajing carved Chaozhou opera "Lijingji" "look at the lights" a folding, said "three streets and six lanes of good light shed". Qing Jiaqing "Chenghai County Zhi" cited the old record cloud: "eleven night, the temple street lights, ladies tour, put the flower explosion, playing the swing, singing up to Dan." Also said: "Today's customary New Year's Eve, the shrines and temples open lights and colors, competing for the Ao Shan, the characters of Taipai as painted ...... competition lanterns." The most famous when push Chaozhou. After the early Qing Dynasty Chaozhou Qinglong Temple, the annual tour of Anji Shengwang for three nights in a row, lanterns and drums, the city as drunk. Every time in the second night, gathered in the North Gate Arrow Road evaluation, year after year, excellence, so that Chaozhou lanterns are famous at home and abroad. Chaozhou folk song has a "hundred screen lantern song", visible Chaozhou race lanterns of prosperity. In addition to large-scale lantern festivals, every household hangs a happy lantern. Since the 13th day, the lanterns are hung at the ancestral temples, and on the 15th day, the lanterns are brought back and hung at the door of the house, which is known as the "Xing Lantern". The word "lantern" and "ding" have the same sound. The old custom is to "prosper", to facilitate the Lantern Festival in the lamp (Ding) on the harmonized meaning of the "Xing lamp (Ding)" article. Now the Lantern Festival Lantern Appreciation, basically no longer have this connotation. In the towns and some civilized construction of good rural areas, has abandoned the old customs, instead of a variety of commercial advertising neon lights, organizations and groups of decorative lighting, parks and roads full of stars and children's ornamental battery-equipped lamps. Many households have colored lanterns, and some traditionally hang red lanterns with electric bulbs. Cities and counties also hold large lantern exhibitions, fire trees and silver flowers, colorful, old bottles of new wine, the joy of it. Teochew Mid-Autumn Festival Folklore Collection Throughout history, the Chaoshan family, generations, Mid-Autumn Festival night, family reunions, the moon is also round, raise your glass to the moon, joy **** this time. On the occasion of this good time and good evening beautiful time, the family moon, moon, moon worship, inviting the moon of the folk customs from a long time ago, urban and rural areas, every family, night light mapping, only to see in the balcony of the building or courtyard Lu Cheng, set up a large square table Cai altar, draped in silk weaving brocade festival dress, altar table tops are full of moon cake, moon cake, sesame cake, peanut towers, peanut peaches and taro (taro), mandarin oranges, oranges, grapefruit, pomegranate and other seasonal fruits offerings. Seasonal fruit offerings. Altar (platform) on both sides of the "red rope" tightly tied to the tree up sugar cane, the cane leaves pulled into the yuanyuanmen, gold pots rising, burning incense and candles, kneeling in the air to the moon prayers, the moon to send feelings, expressing the hope for a better future, meaning that the moon is full and the people are also full. After the prayer ceremony, the young and old families sit together in front of the courtyard (balcony) while eating mooncakes and enjoying the moon, sipping tea and drinking tea, tea, poetry, riddles, strings and music, and it's a joyful experience. For thousands of years, the popular ancient poems, "raise your head to look at the moon, lower your head to think of your hometown", "but wishing for a long time, thousands of miles of *** Canyuan Juan" are the most popular recited by the hipsters. "Tonight the moon is full of hope" and "The moon in the sky is full of light and reunion". Those who stay up all night to see the colorful aura of "moonlight" are also fortunate. In the old days, women, children, old and young kneeling prayers, to "moon fairy" begging for the gift of "elixir" (ash), there are brewed water to drink, or to wear as a "scented pouch", praying for blessings and peace, health and happiness. Farmers love the moon to divine agricultural winter conditions, praying for good weather and good harvests. Proverb: "clouds cover the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, rain shower lanterns". It is to see the moonlight on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival to predict the coming year "Lantern Festival" weather and good luck. Red men and women often like to pray to the "Santa Claus under the moon" to divine the next year's happy marriage and so on. In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival folklore is also "burning tower". Tower built in the square wilderness place, generally with bricks or tiles temporarily built, the center of the tower with firewood, fire ignition when adding salt, crackling loud sound, extremely spectacular, fascinating. Legend has it that the folklore of "burning tower" was initiated in the late Yuan Dynasty when the Han Chinese people rebelled against the feudal rule of the Yuan Dynasty. Please "basket of nuns": please "basket of nuns" is a kind of women's mid-autumn play myths and legends, the women choose a woman's clothes, hanging in the bamboo gabion "gabion basket" around, and then light three incense sticks in front of it. Then in front of the three columns of incense, women sitting on the ground, singing in unison, please basket of nuns, please basket of nuns ...... song, to the legend of the basket of nuns descending to the gods when kowtowing and pecking, kneeling divination, each examining its verbal number of times to foretell the good luck.