What festivals are there in Tonglu? !

For local people, the season is a very important festival, even more important than the Spring Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival. The specific dates of festivals in different villages are different, and the length of festivals is also different. A short day takes a week. In the second half of each year, the season changes, and the content of the festival has a strong realistic color and the utilitarian needs of modern people.

In the farming era, the main content of the local annual festival is to worship the bodhisattva, who was a hero who made contributions to the village in the past. People pray for peace and harvest by offering sacrifices. Because the heroes in each village are different, so are the bodhisattvas worshipped in each village. In modern times, worshipping bodhisattva gradually lost its practical function, degenerated into a dispensable ceremony in the season, and another festival content appeared, that is, eating and drinking.

On holidays, every household will have a big banquet, not only for guests, but also for friends and strangers, and the quality of festivals is measured by the number of guests. Through the dinner, each family made new friends and expanded interpersonal communication. Each village has a different festival time, which also provides convenience for people to travel between festivals.

Establishing interpersonal relationships and promoting business contacts in the name of out-of-season makes the season with obvious utilitarian color, which is also an important reason why the season is popular in the local area.

In fact, the worship of foreign festivals by modern urbanites is similar to the phenomenon of seasonal prosperity in Tonglu County: they are closely related to the lifestyle of modern people. The difference is that seasons expand interpersonal communication through eating and drinking, while foreign festivals are the reason for urbanites to relax. Dr. Chen believes that the change of seasons from traditional to modern is the enduring reason, which is also the reason for the decline of many traditional festivals.