Fengting lantern tour custom

The traditional lanterns are summarized as follows: According to legend, the end of the Ming Dynasty, a year before the Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month of the year, when the official Lin Lanyou asked the Chongzhen Emperor said: "My humble hometown of the Fengting lights of the event is not less than the Kyoto, His Majesty will drive to see the lights." Chongzhen Emperor listened to, said then personally to watch the lights. So Lin Lan You quickly returned to his hometown, in order to welcome His Majesty to come to see, the Palace Corridor lanterns, the Imperial Garden tree draped in colorful lamps and flower pots on the lamp, respectively, imitated into a symbolic centipede lamp, pine umbrella lamp and carved with the head of the vegetable head of flower pots head of the lamp.

Fontainebleau people in order to celebrate the peace and prosperity, exorcise the evil spirits, according to the description of Lin Lanyou, plus the creation of ideas on the production of colorful lamps shaped like a centipede, it is said that the centipede to drive away the evil spirits of the lamps, inherited so far more than 400 years, the Fengjiang unique, the country is not common.

In the early years, the method of production, using bamboo, gabion, wood, fabric and other materials. First of all, the bamboo, bamboo gabions, wooden boards according to different specifications folded and braided, tied to more than ten feet long, more than three feet wide like a centipede type, and then decorated with flower cloth, color paper laminating, each frame from the head to the end of the front of the rectangular centipede mounted on the head, the tail is also mounted on the tail, *** mounted on the 14 rows, each row is tied to 6 paper lanterns. Shaped like a huge centipede, commonly known as the "centipede lights", below the four wooden frame support, by eight young lamplighters rotating high, walking slowly, from a distance, like a centipede crawling, very peculiar and spectacular. With the development of society, lamps and lanterns art is also constantly innovating, to the end of the 1980s, the centipede lamp specifications are getting bigger and bigger, using two plywood connection made of 6 meters long and 3 meters wide, decorative art is more elaborate, in addition to the use of flower cloth, broken lamp mantle to cover the perimeter of the front

With the color of the bulbs composed of "Happy Lantern Festival", "Heavenly Night", and "The Night of the Dragon". ", "Heavenly officials blessing", "revitalization of China", "era of science and technology", "stability and unity "Auspicious Words", "Peaceful World", "Dragon and Phoenix" and so on. Can be mounted on the bulb 300, both sides of the decorative electric strip 10, also equipped with fluorescent lamps, power supply with walking tractor power, centipede shining, racks and shelves follow each other, reflecting each other, dazzled, become a major feature of the Feng Ting lamps and lanterns, known far and wide. Flower pots and vegetable lamps are made of wooden flower pots, carved with white radish and made of various patterns, so called "flower pots and vegetable lamps". This traditional Han Chinese folk art treasure, in Lan You, Bachelor of the two communities of the people have been inherited for more than four hundred years, Fengjiang unique, rare in the country.

It is rumored that Lin Lan You described the Royal Garden flower pots decorated with lights, the people do not quite understand, neither flower pots, but also no exotic flowers and plants, the home-grown carrots to bring a knife to carve flowers and birds and other patterns, nailed to the wooden boards into flower pots, lit with lard as a lamp, to join the ranks of the lamps, and then year by year to add to the reforms, inherited to this day.

Flower pots and lanterns production is divided into four procedures: First, the production of flower pots, take its boards nailed into the top 70 centimeters, the bottom 45 centimeters, 50 centimeters high square flower pots, pots with a double wooden piece of reinforcement, the middle of the aperture to leave a hole, ready to be inserted into the flower tree crowns, the outer edge of the flower paper framed decorative decorative, appear elegant and beautiful; the second is to choose the oil tea tree or banyan, the crown should have a spreading, leveling, with the peach blossom bushes that have just bloomed! The second is to choose oil tea tree or banyan tree, the crown should have a spreading flat, with freshly blossomed peach blossom bush, imitating the fan shape and make a one-sided bonsai, decorated with paper butterflies or birds and so on. In the bushes pre-installed with bamboo sticks 25 30, as the headlights socket; three is the production of headlights, after the craftsmen carefully designed, with a unique artistic merit, the use of white radish head, carved on the birds, birds and animals, flowers and other patterns. Such as "peacock open screen", "double phoenix play peony", "dragon and phoenix", "carp leap dragon door", "white chrysanthemum" and so on ten varieties, the image of realistic, lifelike. Chisel a small hole in the back of the vegetable head, to the flower extension, in order to prepare for the string on the stamen; four is refined stamen, which is the key to the vegetable headlights, both to ensure that the light is bright, but also to prevent the wind from blowing out, you must choose the raw lard, pressed into a thick paper-like, cut into 4 inches long, 3 inches wide, wrapped in coarse yarn, rolled into a strip from the hole to the top of the vegetable headlights. Parts of the system and then assembled, will carve the vegetable head inserted into the flower tree, and then moved to install in the flower pot above the light, touring the light when two people before and after the bar, walking slowly. If the "vegetable head lamp" decorated in the pine tree crown, it is called "vegetable head branch", supported by a person. Walking lamp light shining, sprinkled on the snow-white beet pattern, reflecting the flowers and trees, mutual splendor. Lights and starlight intertwined, like fire trees and silver flowers, adding a moving picture for the festival.

Nowadays, the decorations of the lanterns have been reformed, changing the lard as a stamen for ignition to dry batteries or generator power supply, the flowerpot lanterns are installed on a new car, which is operated by a tricycle, saving manpower to carry, and seems to be a step forward to modernization. Pine umbrella lamp is Lin Lan You from the Kyoto Imperial Garden tree Phi color lamp imitation, in the hometown to create a local characteristics of the lamps and lanterns, so far there are more than four hundred years. It is meant to inspire future generations to maintain a high moral character.

Before the production of the mountain to observe the selection of branches and leaves of the green pine tree, the shape of the requirements of the lower large on the tip, about 2 meters high, cut off the excess branches and leaves to become an umbrella, from the bottom of the upward tier hanging "paper lanterns", generally can hang 80-120, with candles lit by a person to support the fire, firelight flashes! Shining, the viewer feels novelty. Nowadays, they are made of iron circles and plastic bands, laminated with color paper and paper flowers, loaded with electric lamps and placed on tricycles, with strong cultural characteristics of local lamps and lanterns. Feng Ting Lan You Street "Hundred Opera color frame lamp" began in the late Qing Dynasty, the early years of just small specifications, with a flat plate to build a platform, dress up characters sitting on bamboo chairs, characters two to three people, simple actions. Until 1941 leap June 19, Jiying Pavilion held a grand Guanyin Daishi ascension auspicious day ritual activities, unprecedented. At that time, the Nan'an master was hired to make the "water frame lamp" when the manpower was insufficient, specially invited Liu Baoquan (Daimao), Lin Kaiyu, Chen Wenduan and other four people as the master's helpers. In the process of doing, their eyes elves, understanding, learned the basic essentials of the decorative frame. At the Lantern Festival the following year, the "Water Frame Lantern" evolved into a variety of "Hundred Opera Color Frame Lanterns", which have been handed down to this day.

The early years of the "Hundred Dramas Colorful Frame Lanterns" were simple in production and small in size. Take the double iron support for the spindle, the middle section mounted on the cushion, with iron feint mounted sword, battle-axe halberd, spears, knives and other weapons, easy to step on the plate, tea cups or red citrus above. The bottom is nailed down with wooden frame and boards, and mantled with flower bands, with landscape motifs as the backdrop. Dressed up drama allusion to the boys and girls standard eyebrow makeup, dressed in gorgeous costumes, suspended in mid-air, surprising and thrilling, heart-stopping. In the early years of this colorful frame, by eight strong men to carry the rotation, holding high vapor lamps, torches, marching at a slow pace.

Today, the color frame specifications increased, eight feet long to two feet, six feet wide, more than ten feet high, with a wooden board for the base, change the people carry for rubber wheelbarrow propulsion. Design theater frame artists Xue Jinrong, Liu Ji Shi, Xue Jinhua, Chen De seven whimsical, elaborate production platform pavilions, mountains and rivers, ancient wells and fountains, year after year different, spectacular. In recent years, the allusion to the rack lights: Mazu rescue, Lin Zexu smoke, Chinese acrobatics, Chinese space, spring grass to break into the hall, Fengting industrial park blueprints and dozens of plays. Color frame decorated with electric lights, fluorescent lamps, electric strips, broken lights, colorful, colorful, surprising, the viewer a feast for the eyes, praise.

More than ten years ago, "the first national commemoration of the peace goddess Mazu Millennium Academic Research Conference and Mazu Millennium Festival", "Putian City, the 10th anniversary of the founding of the city", "Xianyou County County 1300 anniversary celebrations "Fengting color frame lamps were invited to perform and were highly appreciated. Later in the carp city, Hanjiang, Huangshi and Hui'an, Chongwu and other places to participate in the cultural stampede, won tens of thousands of domestic and foreign audience applauded: "Fengting's hundreds of plays colorful frame lamp" is Putian literature and art of an oddball ". It inherits the fine tradition of Chinese culture and is popular among the people. In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the north of the foot of Jinping Mountain in Fengting Bachelor's Lane was a thoroughfare of the ancient stagecoach road. Travelers traveled to and fro, but also is the distribution of seafood sales market, Jia merchants gathered. Putian Meizhou Island, Hui'an Chongwu and other places of the fishermen out to sea fishing seafood products, source transported to Fengting Bachelor South Market Street for sale, the market is prosperous, radiation Putu, Xian, Hui three euphony.

According to legend, on the 16th day of the first month of a certain year, the Bachelor held an unprecedented Lantern Festival, which attracted a large number of spectators. There were also fishermen from Meizhou Island and Chongwu joining the parade. They were there to watch the lanterns and to advertise the sale of seafood. Special preparation of many fish and aquatic products, with bamboo baskets, hung with peanut oil lit glass lanterns, couples carrying fish baskets to participate in the Lantern Festival activities.

After that, the people of Bachelor's College created local lamps modeled after the fishermen's fish lantern parade the year before. With bamboo, bamboo gabion compiled into shape and horse mackerel, perch, pomfret, carp, silver carp, squid, lobster and other fish like, about three, four feet long frame, and then framed with white paper and then painted on the fish scales, the shape of the realistic, ingenious, it is difficult to distinguish between true and false.

The production of aquatic products, placed in bamboo baskets, in the head of the fish, the middle and the tail each hung on a peanut oil lit glass round lamp. The lamps shake and flicker with a local flavor.

When swimming in the lanterns, a number of young men are selected to pretend to be husband and wife. The men wear light yellow clothes and black pants, silk belt, bamboo hats and straw shoes; the women are dressed as Meizhou women and Hui'an women. The Meizhou women are dressed as Mazu (A-Mazu) with their hair in a bun with a sail, a flower in it, a short blue dress with a black border, black pants, a flowery cloth belt around their waist, and black shoes; the Hui'an women are dressed as Huian women, wearing a short dress made of a flowery cloth, green pants, a silver chain around their waist, a flowery scarf shawl around their head, and a yellow bamboo hat with a flower on it. A man and a woman partner, with a bamboo stick carrying, one hand supporting the long high chest and shoulders of the bamboo stick, one hand protects the shoulders of the bamboo stick, while walking the play: "Duanming bachelor, everyone does business, husband and wife sing and follow, the price is very reasonable, the fresh fish is very fresh, catty called "first first," the child and the old man is not deceived, the first to come on the first sale. "

The man also said: "I am a bachelor, selling fish to do "high people", some pick to sell, some send loved ones. Business is fair, the catty weighs no error, how much can buy, we talk about the 'ancient way'".

The woman went on to say: "Husband went to ask for fish, the wife in the Alcove, discipline the children, and harmony in our neighborhood, tonight's joy is boundless, the fisherman fisherwoman lamps, lanterns are really nice, the whole street happy thousands".

This lamps in the Bachelor, inherited so far nearly a hundred years, the only maple river, rare in the country so far has been endangered, urgently need to be rescued. Soap dance belongs to an ancient Chinese folk dance to drive away demons and evil spirits. Zuo Zhuan said "Shi Chenxing, soap Chenxing, Xing Chen Li". Later, commonly known as the service in the Office, out of the Division Hao Hall, the staff and stand for the soap scribe. After the evolution of the folk tradition of the Lantern Festival to the master, adults and other gods and goddesses such as martial arts body out of the patrol arrangement of ten police - eight classes - soap scribe of the ceremonial battle. One of the soap scribe dance for four people. Its decoration is: head wearing a flat top military cap, tied on the red cloth scarf, inserted a pair of one-foot-long golden paper flowers; face mask, (made for the eyes, nostrils small, to orchid - green (black) - red - yellow four colors, divided into two masks with long tongue and crooked mouth), dressed in orchid red pants, feet wearing straw shoes, tie waist and legs, hand-held torture cane (bamboo skin), mighty and divine. At the time of the dance, each person's right hand holding a bamboo, left foot on the ground, head down, bend over, inhale the dantian, and then stood up and raised his head, big eyes rolling, nostrils bubbling, each relative to make a bow, and then turn around back to back, move forward, performing the action in good order and unanimity. The dance is marvelous and solemn. The people who watched it were afraid to avoid it. Have to make way. After the performer holding a bamboo plate to the ground, kneeling in front of the sedan chair, holding the bamboo plate light and shaking three times, to show the intention of kowtow. To be the flag officer ordered three calls, nine sound gongs when standing with the sedan chair in front. The whole process of Soap Dance ends. (Performance time, the number of steps to the length of the site depends on) every time in the drive to welcome the gods in and out of the Yamen, and then restart the dance.

Soap Li dance is a rare folk unique dance, the ancient name "townspeople Nuo". Fengting annual Lantern Festival spring tour, the soap scribe dance out of the team performances, housing housing few, fewer performers, and no one to follow. Inherit and promote the soap dance, so as not to be endangered and lost. Child body - the body double of the Bodhisattva. Usually selected by the respected elders of the various palaces. At the time of selection, each clan first selects five to seven young men who are simple, honest, charitable and devoted to the Bodhisattva. First, they burned incense in the shrine, then knelt down in front of the Bodhisattva and performed the three-kowtow-nine-bow ritual. Then sit on the chair, close your eyes, head over the incense, by the Palace Society, the head of the old burning incense and reciting incantations, until the person has an earlier dance, even if it is the Bodhisattva's understudy - the child body.

Children dance more in the Lantern Festival of Spring Festival.

The child sitting in the sedan chair every year in the first month of the Lantern Festival tour of the territory only appeared.

The child sedan chair is different from the Bodhisattva sedan chair, it is a peculiar construction, its seat is evenly arranged by seven knives inserted diagonally in the sedan chair, the foot seat has a crossbar. Unique and simple construction are conducive to the child sedan chair on the dance.

The child in the sedan chair when traveling the territory of its rituals and attire and step on the same fire. The difference is that the dance is performed on the sedan chair, and the dance is performed on the ground, creating a historical dance. Because of the child body dance vibration is big, carry the palanquin doubly hard, so eight people were chosen to send strong believers, dressed in white, waist tie red cloth belt, divided into two shifts, rotating carry child body palanquin. Sedan chair, the child's left hand to carry a sword, ball, the right hand raised the flag, cross-eyed cold. In front of the gong player playing "Changchang, Changchang, Changchang, Changchang, Changchang" repeated gong sound, escorting the procession of the tour of the territory slowly forward.

In the densely populated wide area, the child body dance. Only to hear the child body "spit" a sound, and immediately swung up the ball of thorns, towards their backs endlessly wrestling, the believers see the back of the blood drop by drop down, no heartache. Sedan chair bearer desperately run forward, to the end and turn his head desperately run back, in the gong sound "Changchangchangchang ......" in the successor to carry over the sedan chair and continue to run back and forth, but see the child body back of the foot hooked to the crossbar, the buttocks sitting on the seven knives, the upper body back, the sedan chair and back and forth bumps, the audience watched without fear and trepidation, the crowd saw the blood on the back drop by drop. The audience watched without fear and trembling. "Changchang, Changchang ......" resumed marching speed of the gong sounded again, the child body is still sitting on the knife frame, left hand carrying a spiked ball, the right hand holding the flag, cross-eyed cold to the front, touring the border of the procession and Xu Xu forward. Dragon dance, lion dance is the last program of Fengting Lantern Festival, began in the Qing Xianfeng years. At that time, "Hunan Yong" (Hunan army), who was stationed in Fengting Tianwangyuan, after watching the Lantern Festival, thought that Fengting Lantern Festival without dragon and lion dances was inadequate. So, they taught Fengting people to make dragons and lions, and taught them the skills of dragon and lion dances, so that they could master the eighteen skills of dragon and lion dances. From then on, dragon and lion dances became another wonderful program of Lantern Festival. So far, there are only eight techniques left in the Dragon Dance: namely, the submerged dragon rising up, turning belly, taking off the scales (the dragon body lying on the ground, taking off the knots, rolling, changing into butterflies), transforming into a horse (the dragon as a horse, and holding the dragon beads to ride the dragon head), wringing the shoulders (twisting the body as a rope), wearing the tail and turning the head, the Dragon Gate Formation and so on; the Lion Dance leaves seven techniques: coming out of the hole (turning three times along the crowd), stretching the waist to rub the itch (scratching and rubbing the whole body with the feet), breastfeeding (the young lion is fed with milk), taking a child across the stream (the big lion carrying a small lion and carrying a lion on its back), and carrying a small lion on its back. (the big lion holds a small lion in his mouth and carries a small lion on his back), three in three out (the lion tail man lifts the lion head man and then jumps onto the table), playing with beads and spitting out fog (a difficult action), and the dragon and lion facing the sky (the lion dancer's hand presses down on the lion's head, and his feet face the sky), and so on.