The composition of Huizhou folk customs. Thank you. You better hurry.

Huizhou is located at the intersection of Guangdong, Hakka and Fujian, with obvious geographical features and profound cultural heritage. It is the political, economic and cultural center of Dongjiang River Basin and the representative area of Guangdong's oriental culture. It can be said that "Dongjiang Culture" is based on Huizhou cultural elements. In this sense, Huizhou folk culture is a microcosm of Dongjiang folk culture.

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Huizhou folk customs have their own unique highlights in Lingnan folk customs: Dongjiang food culture featuring Dongjiang cuisine, one of the three major Cantonese cuisines; There are leisure folk customs characterized by Dongjiang Kirin, three major folk songs, dancing fire dogs and three famous fists; There are Dongjiang folk literature featuring Su Dongpo's legend and Luofushan's fairy tales. There are folk religious beliefs characterized by vulgarization of Taoism; There are Dongjiang costumes and folk customs featuring Dongjiang cool hats. However, due to the diversity of Dongjiang folk culture and the compatibility and existence of various cultural forms, Huizhou folk custom has always been a controversial and uncertain regional folk custom in folklore and linguistics. Generally speaking, there are three ethnic groups in Guangdong: Cantonese, Hakka dialect and Chaozhou dialect, and their geographical positioning is quite clear: Cantonese with Guangzhou as the center, Hakka dialect represented by Meizhou and Chaoshan dialect represented by Chaoshan. What kind of cultural form does the Dongjiang River Basin represented by Huizhou belong to? Many people attribute it to Hakka area, but obviously, the composition of dialect ethnic groups here is more complicated: there are "Huizhou local" ethnic groups with large population, vast territory and long history distributed on both sides of Dongjiang River, including Huizhou urban area and Boluo Luo Yang ancient city; There is also a "Hakka ethnic group" with a relatively concentrated population, a large number and a wide area. Mainly distributed in Huiyang, Huidong and Boluo counties, it is a large-scale Hakka ethnic group formed since Ming and Qing Dynasties. In addition, there are many "Fulao people" scattered in the Dongjiang River basin, the banks of Xizhijiang River and the eastern seashore. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, these three ethnic groups have formed a mixed situation of various cultural forms in Huizhou, so Huizhou folk culture is actually a kind of "compatible" folk culture.

Huizhou has a long history, and ancient civilization occupies an important position in Lingnan culture. The Sui Dynasty set up the "Zhou Xun Governor's Office", which was the best with the Guangzhou Governor's Office at that time, and each led Guangdong, East and West. Zhou Xun covers the whole eastern Guangdong, and its political, economic and cultural status is quite important. The folk culture it shows is unique and inclusive. The book Huizhou Folk Customs gives us a good display in this respect. However, for a long time, the origin and attribution of "Hakka ethnic group" and "Fulao ethnic group" are relatively clear, and there is little controversy in academic circles; Huizhou local ethnic groups living on both sides of Dongjiang River have a long history and are the earliest and most widely distributed ethnic groups in Dongjiang River Basin. This ethnic group has embraced all ethnic groups and their cultures from all directions, thus creating a splendid Dongjiang civilization, laying the foundation of Huizhou folk culture and becoming a representative symbol of Huizhou folk culture ... But there have been many disputes about its ownership: "Hakka", "Cantonese" and "independence". Various disputes in folklore and linguistics will continue, but the uniqueness of Huizhou dialect cannot be changed: linguistically, Hakka dialect is spread all over Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian and even overseas, and Fulao dialect is spread all over the southeast coast of Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan, but Huizhou dialect is unique to Huizhou, which is the characteristic of Huizhou folk culture dialect. This feature is an important highlight of Huizhou folk customs, and it is also the most direct window for people to understand Huizhou folk culture.

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Understanding Huizhou's cultural form from the perspective of folklore can often enter a more accurate realm. Folk customs involve nationalities, languages, life, beliefs, literature and art, ceremonies, festivals and customs. And it is often an accurate cultural symbol of a regional culture. Therefore, it is very difficult to write such a folk ceremony: first, it should be displayed based on a large number of direct and circumstantial historical documents and other materials such as notes, works and literary works. , which constitutes the foundation of regional folk culture. Facts have proved that these materials are especially indispensable for accurately locating the culture of this area; The second is to do a lot of field work. Generally speaking, the significance of fieldwork lies in "discovering this unconscious pattern hidden behind the materials and using it to help understand the social structure" (Fang and Xie Jian's The Cage House). Therefore, a large number of field investigation data, on the one hand, is the basis of constructing almost all components of local folk culture buildings; The more extensive and detailed the field work, the more materials you have, and the more you can truly reflect the true face of local folk culture; On the other hand, it is the author's theoretical thinking on the field investigation materials. Only by comparing, analyzing and thinking rationally about the information with unique vision and historical depth and various geographical connections can we truly reveal the deep social representation behind these field investigation materials. However, it is often difficult to do this satisfactorily in field work, which also limits the melodious creative thinking and accurate conclusion of folk theorists. Fortunately, the book Huizhou Folk Customs has done a good job in these two aspects, which is inseparable from the author's long-term personal experience and independent thinking.

Huizhou is a state with profound cultural background in history, and is known as "Xiong Jun in eastern Guangdong" and "Liang Hua's old country". Luofu Mountain is an important base for the spread of China Taoism to the south and the popularization of Lingnan folk religion Taoism. In addition, Huizhou's celebrity culture, demoted official culture, folk belief culture and revolutionary history culture are all important cultural heritages with a long history. Nowadays, the Huizhou municipal government and Huizhou people are striving to build a "famous cultural city", and the book Huizhou Folk Custom has really done a very valuable thing. "Sages rule the world, and they must make rituals according to customs", which is the real social significance of Huizhou folk customs.

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The crystallization of Guangdong social science local literature and history project and Huizhou social science key project "Huizhou folklore research" are prefaced by Mr. Ye Chunsheng, a professor and doctoral supervisor of Sun Yat-sen University, a famous folklorist in China and one of the founders of China Intangible Cultural Heritage Research Center. Huizhou Folk Custom, edited by Huizhou experts and scholars Mr. Wu and Mr. Lin Huiwen (in the words of Mr. Ye Chunsheng), has been published by Guangdong People's Publishing House. The book is divided into four parts: preface, nine chapters, main reference materials and postscript, with a brief introduction of the author, with 457,000 words.