What are the special cultures in Zhanjiang

Lei culture: turn the ancient history chapter, can see, before the Sui and Tang dynasties, the barbaric Leizhou Peninsula miasma thorns and thorns all over the ancient wood, is the place where the ethnic minorities belong to, inhabited by the slang, bureaucrats, the Li tribe of the indigenous tribes. They lived by slash-and-burn agriculture, and their bodies were wrapped in animal skins and leaves, and they were often attacked by thunder, lightning, wind and rain in that harsh natural environment. In order to fight against nature, they invented the copper drum, as did the Southwestern peoples. At the same time, they also produced native customs and culture. From fear of thunder to making copper drums to beat the drums, they "want to test the sky against the sky". They regarded thunder and lightning as the highest totemic idol and created the image of "Leigong", the deity in the minds of the natives. This formed the Leizhou Peninsula's most primitive ritual culture phenomenon - Lei culture.

When there was a drought, they slaughtered three animals to sacrifice to the god of thunder, and beat drums and danced wildly to pray for rain from the sky, so as to pray for a favorable wind and rain, and for the safety of people and animals. Later, the "foreigners" who migrated to the Leizhou Peninsula from southern Fujian Province and the central plains called the indigenous Leizhou people "southern barbarians". The indigenous people of Leizhou were also called "Leiren" - "people of thunder" because they honored and sacrificed to the thunder. The borderland is called "the land of the thunder".

From the primitive ritual activities can be seen, and human life is closely related to the wind, rain, lightning and other natural phenomena, are believed to be mastered by the supernatural gods, and then produced the God of Thunder, the Mother of Electricity, the wind, rain and other natural gods. Leizhou Peninsula people to the God of Thunder instead of to the Dragon King rain, become our unique folklore and humanities landscape and sacrificial culture.

After the Tang and Song dynasties, the Han Chinese, who migrated to the Leizhou Peninsula, gradually entrenched themselves in most of the Leizhou Peninsula. Because of the frequent ethnic disputes at that time, "the leader of the Li tribe rose up, Chen Xiang, the Qinzhi Metropolitan Secretary of State, sent a ship to pacify", most of the six minority tribes (Yao, Li, boy, Dong, Zhai, Miao and other ethnic groups) left in the wilderness, and the rest of them assimilated into the Han Chinese later on.

The Han Chinese who migrated to the Leizhou Peninsula inherited the indigenous way of totem worship, and worshiped the god of thunder as a sacrificial idol for rain. To modern times, there are Leigong Temple, Lei Shen Temple around the peninsula. The Leizu Temple, built in the 16th year of the Tang Dynasty (642), was built in honor of Chen Wenyu, the first assassin of Leizhou. The Leizu Ancestral Hall covers an area of 10,000 square meters and is magnificent. In the shrine, the King of Thunder wears a crown on his head and a big red robe, and he is guarded by heavenly generals on his left and right, and one of them is holding an ovoid white ball. On both sides of the hall, there are twelve more Thunder God arching, as well as Thunder God, Electricity Mother, Wind Bo, Rain Master and other gods. The king of thunder. Is the king of the thunder god in the world. Hundreds of people every year in the Thunder Temple held "open thunder, sealing thunder" of the remuneration ceremony, thunder drums, thunder car, thunder fire is "open thunder" necessary things, as well as the Prime Lei Gong, Prime Lei water, playing Lei gully, singing Lei song, acting Lei play and fight Lei and other content activities. The opening ceremony is suspected to be the ancient "Leizhou drums".

The Leizhou Peninsula folk ritual culture is generally known as Lei culture, the most representative, regional, historical, humanistic, geographic, meteorological concepts and significance.

Leizhou Peninsula, a long time of indigenous culture and Chinese culture convergence, to this red land to add moisturizing, Lei culture light overflowing the four seas.

The modern Leizhou folk culture has become an important festival in Leizhou, and the wonderful folk performances have attracted thousands of visitors.