Send king boat Minnan taboo send king boat custom introduction

1, send the king boat taboo: send the king boat can not be called "burn the king boat", the local people are very taboo with the word "burn", is the southern Fujian coastal fishing ports, fishing villages ancient traditional folklore, through the sacrifice of the god of the sea, mourned the sea shipwrecked heroes, praying for the sea Jingan and fishing hair profitable market. The word "fishing" is a traditional folk custom in coastal fishing ports and fishing villages in southern Fujian. The custom of "sending a boat to the king" of the fishermen in Xiamen Harbor is also a combination of the belief in the king (Zheng Chenggong). It is rumored that this custom originated in Taiwan, in the early Qing Dynasty, in order to remember the great achievements of Zheng Chenggong, the fishermen worshiped the king as a god who patrols on behalf of the sky, and built the "king boat" to send it to the sea, although not explicitly but understand the spirit. This kind of folklore in the "Cultural Revolution" during the interruption, in 1995 in Xiamen, Xiamen residents to Taiwan under the initiative of the resumption of triennial activities, the scale of a more than a grand and lively.

2, Folklore: "send the king ship" ceremony in the order of the manufacture of the king ship, out of the warehouse, offer sacrifices, patrol, burning and so on.

3, the folklore of traceability: send the king ship is to send "on behalf of the sky hunting" of the king. About the legend of the king is inconclusive, the earliest can be traced back to the early Ming Dynasty, the latest to the Qing Dynasty, the Yongzheng years. 2004 Tong'an District, Xike Town, Lvcuo Village to send the 148th king, according to the four-year projections, there has been a history of more than 500 years. This prince is not on behalf of the "God of the Plague", but instead of the emperor to tour the four directions, reward good and punish evil, blessing the wind and rain, the country and the people in peace. Generally, it is held once every three to four years, by tossing an oracle in a fixed lunar month to determine a certain day to send the king boat ceremony, make a king boat, either made of cedar wood, or paper, the king invited on the king boat, loaded with firewood, rice, oil, salt, and even various daily necessities, such as physical objects, in the seaside burning.