Jiangxi Fuzhou Le'an what are different customs

In Le'an County folk cultural life, since ancient times, the formation of many customs, such as the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Duanyang, Mid-Autumn Festival and other traditional festivals and amusement customs, is the county's folk long maintained inheritance and traditional culture of a part of

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Rolling Hehe

In the county, the dawn of the first day of the Lunar New Year, when thousands of households one after another burning incense to receive the sound of happy firecrackers, the streets of Lvxiang will sound a burst of drums and cymbals, which is composed of children's "Rolling Hehe" activities. "Hehe" is the name of a god in Chinese culture that symbolizes the love between husband and wife, and it is called "Hehe" because it means harmony and goodness. The "Rolling Harmony" consists of four children forming the "Harmony Worship Team", two of whom wear "child-shaped masks" molded into old-fashioned hair knots, and each of them holds a wooden "official treasure-type" prop. Two of them wear "child masks" molded into old-fashioned hair knots and each holds a wooden "official treasure" prop, while the other two play drums and cymbals to the tune of "dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong dong! When they go to each house, they will perform the action of "giving away treasures" in front of the "Spring Festival incense burner" set up in each house, chanting: "Hehe to give away treasures, give away treasures for ten thousand years." After the performance, the proprietor would smile and give a small amount of money. This kind of entertainment has not been seen since the founding of the country.

Play hi

Also known as Nuo dance. Every year during the Spring Festival appeared in the county Liukeng village. Legend has it that during the Northern Song Dynasty, the flow of the pit of Dong Dunyi in the court as an official, when the old man returned to his hometown, the collection of court performances of the civil and military Nuo two types of dance information, divided into two wooden bar. Boat over the Gan River in this province, inadvertently loaded with "cultural Nuo" information on the wooden bar lost in the river, only with the "Wu Nuo" information to reach the pit, so that the hometown children in accordance with the information to learn to jump, and thereafter, teach each other, public performances, and so every first month of the lunar calendar from the second to the fourteenth day, it is formed an organized Nuo dance entertainment customs, commonly known as "play hi". This "play hi" group called "play face", its members are the village Nuo dance enthusiasts, more than 60 people per group. Where in the past year, there has been a marriage, a child (born boy) or achieved school graduation qualifications and donations such as merit and other happy events of the portal, will invite the "play hi" personnel, while preparing the banquet reception, the expenses are quite large. So welcome "play hi" are the wealthier families in the village. This Nuo dance entertainment, a lot of programs, depending on the congratulatory content of the show. Such as congratulations on the marriage of a boy will perform "seven fairies"; congratulations on graduation and donations for merit and other joyous events, the performance of "walking newspaper" and "Kuixing point bucket" and so on. To date, more than 30 programs have been handed down, including "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings", "Zhong Kui Sweeps the Stage", "Peach Blossom Lady and Zhou Gong", "Guan Gong Beheads Cai Yang", "White Jade Toad", "Rolling Shield", "God of Wealth Delivers Treasure", "Land", "Three Officials", "Harmony" and so on. Nowadays, every Chinese New Year, "Playing Hei" entertainment is still occasionally active in Liukeng, Luoshan, Donghu and other villages, but there are some improvements and innovations in the content of the program.

Lion Dance

It is a kind of martial arts performance during the Spring Festival in this county. Before the founding of the State, many of the county's larger villages, to the winter farming season are still practicing martial arts organizations (commonly known as the "seat"), from the scholars to raise funds to hire masters to teach. According to the examination, our county martial arts schools have "Shaolin", "Wudang" two schools. To the annual Spring Festival, these "seat" martial arts practitioners, in order to show the social masses to check the results of their respective martial arts, respectively, woven into a "lion team", ranging from twenty to thirty people, led by the master, to the county town or a larger polder village of the big families (after the founding of the country), the main to the authorities) to set up a scene. Mainly to the authorities) to perform martial arts. The form of its performance has sets (i.e. boxing, knives, guns, swords, sticks and other single set of exercises and more than two people fighting set of exercises) and confrontation (i.e. scattered hands, push hands, long soldiers, short soldiers and other items). Finally, one person dances a wooden lion face over a yellow cloth as a prop for the body of the lion, and makes a burst of lion tumbling movements to end a martial arts performance. It is said that the "Lion Fighting Team" that dances with a green lion face is said to be a team that is highly skilled in martial arts. "When the lion dance is over, the host household (or organization) receives a gift of money. This "lion-playing" custom has spread to urban and rural areas, and is very popular among the masses.

Rolling dragon lantern

is the Lantern Festival appeared in the county urban and rural larger pueblos on the mass of the lantern entertainment. The main body of the "dragon lantern" is a 7 to 9-section long dragon made of colored paper and colored cloth, with "twelve flower gods", "colored lotus boat lanterns", "fish lanterns The dragon is decorated with "Twelve Flower Gods", "Colorful Lotus Boat Lanterns", "Fish Lanterns", "Mussel Shell Lanterns", "Flower Basket Lanterns", "Drama Story Lanterns", etc. The body of the colorful dragon and the body of each set of colorful lanterns or the surrounding of the lantern holder are all decorated with a variety of colorful lanterns. Tea (tung) oil dip made of small torches (commonly known as "straw shoe pleats" or "dragon candle stamen", after the founding of the country changed to dry cell light bulbs). Each set of colored lanterns with silk and bamboo or gong band, every year in the first month of the lunar calendar, 14 to 16 in three days, to the authorities and the masses at home for the Dragon Dance show. Performance, the host big firecrackers, intermittent shouting an auspicious chant (commonly known as "cheers"). After the performance, accept the host's gift. Before the founding of the PRC, some places have special preparations for such entertainment activities called "Dragon Lantern Society", after the founding of the PRC by the cultural groups to organize activities, but in terms of content and form through the introduction of new and innovative, the face of a new look.