Customs of Junpo Festival

Junpo Festival customs are: sacrifice, prophecy, pray for blessings, on the knife ladder, over the "volcano", Tiger Dance, Lion Dance, Dragon Dance, Street Dance, loaded military, wearing a staff, Brahmaputra tour of the territory of the people, cultural evenings, academic forums, sports competitions, go to the relatives, eat Brahmaputra period, purchase of good luck, and so on. Junpo Festival, also known as haunted Junpo, is the festival of sacrifice to Mrs. Xian, but also the northeast of Hainan city and county folk the largest festival.

Junpo Festival, also known as the public period is a local cultural practice in Hainan, is an annual regional festival of God. This kind of activity is not only in Hainan, in Yunnan, Guangdong, Guangxi, some areas of the same also have, and Hainan's Junpo Festival is the most distinctive. In fact, the "public period" is mainly Wenchang area called, in the vast majority of areas in Hainan is generally called "military slope", is essentially the same thing.

According to historical sources, Hainan's Junpo Festival is divided into "public period" and "mother-in-law period" two kinds of, and "public period" is divided into "big public period " and " small public period ", is the traditional folk activities to worship ancestors and historical figures, mainly to commemorate the national hero Mrs. Xian. This traditional festival has a history of 1,300 years, and the way of commemoration has remained unchanged through the generations, with mythological coloring and without losing the performance of the great achievements of the historical figure.

During the Jungpoo Festival, the time of the Jungpoo Festival is not the same in all townships and villages, which is commemorated according to the actual arrival time of Mrs. Xian's expedition. Each worship God is also different, generally to a township or a village as a unit, every military slope festival, people have to spin the year Mrs. Xian's hundred passes a small order flag, praying for a "order" to pass down, all things go well, but also a banquet feast for friends and relatives. The villages also organized rice-planting teams, lion dance team, "loaded military", "line of public", imitating Lady Xian that year's spectacular out of the military procedures and ceremonies, the organization team held a parade of swords and spears, a few days in a row.

After the New Year, between February and March of the lunar calendar is the Hainanese military slope of the season, the military slope festival this day, every household full of guests, feasts. During this period, there has been a volcano, on the knife and ladder, Brazu parade, Taoist priests jumping God dance, pretend God wearing cheeks over the fire, on the knife and ladder and other activities.