Tourism Resources of Shiqiaotou Village

Shiqiaotou Mung Bean Cake: Unlike the common Chaoshan mung bean cake, Shiqiaotou mung bean cake is only slightly larger than the diameter of a ping-pong ball, with the edge of the cake in the shape of an arc of a ball, and the crust of the cake is rice-white, with crispy texture, and sweet and savory interior.

Shiqiaotou Doufeng: peanuts, sugar as raw materials, powdered, square, sweet and delicious

Shiqiaotou Doufeng sugar: also known as "pig's foot buckle", is the surface of the Doufeng made with sugar

And there are other things, such as: peanut syrup, powdered incense cake, black bean paste cake, and so on. "Nantian Mountain Light": located in the southern part of the field area, where the blue sky, clouds, light and shade of the canal, reflecting each other, to the south you can look directly at the big Nanshan Mountain.

"Tangxi Rainbow Shadow": Tangxi, seven bridges across the wave, through the east and west, communication Chao Pu, its high and low meditation, ancient, different forms.

"West Drainage Rhythm": the village west of the clear ditch, boundaries between the village in the west, the bank planted high trees, the road set up a seat for the idle man, under the moon lover street.

"Bell Tower Qinghui": the top of the stone bridge, under the collapse of the culvert were built two towers, the height of its building about 20 meters, the two are about 300 meters apart, the late Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China had been used as a police post, after the founding of the Republic of China was changed into a broadcasting tower in the mid-1990s after the beginning of the desertion. Now the top of the tower has become a habitat for migratory birds, and you can see the majestic and spacious Chaoshan houses in the village from here. Early in the morning or at dusk, stand in the distance and watch the towers, in the Chaoshan homes in the background, the vicissitudes of history will often be a sense of oil in the heart.

"Beiyuan Huifeng": Tianzhongan and Lone Master's Palace Square for the green field surrounded, often good men and women to the nunnery to pray for blessings, enjoy the lotus, feel the tranquility of the North Yard.

"East Garden Zen": Baekryungam is also surrounded by green fields, where you can pray to the Buddha, participate in Zen meditation, realize the Way, and feel the Buddha's fraternity.

"Ancient Walled City Xiaguang": Dazhai, also known as Walled City. Shiqiaotou Ancient Walled City, the place where the three dragons meet, nearly 20 ancestral halls stood here, this was once the ancestors of the year rest and recuperation place, where the end of the prudent to catch up with the past, and move forward.

"Sacred prayers": the Palace of the Master, Niangmiao, Xuan Tian God Temple, where the faith of the Chaoshan people, good men and women, come here to pray, sincere is spiritual. Simple folk customs, but there are taboos: lion dance is a major taboo in the countryside. The reason for this is that the geography of Shiqiaotou is a three-dragon into the head of the Bureau, in the Chaoshan region, where the three dragons into the head of the Bureau of the township are forbidden to lion dance.

Shiqiaotou have male and female Ying song and dance each one, not constructed Teochew gongs and drums band. Shiqiaotou the most lively festival than the Lantern Festival, according to custom, in the Lantern Festival a few days before (beginning on the tenth) the local will be "Ying song and dance parade", "send gold flowers", "incense", "soliciting escort staff" and other activities. On the tenth day of the first lunar month, villagers bring the "King of the Three Mountains" to the old fortress. From the tenth day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month, the village believers go there every night to burn incense. As the flow of people going to incense during the period is quite considerable. Therefore, there is a group of people who are not doing their job to take the opportunity to open gambling stalls here size of gambling stalls have dozens of stalls, such as dark treasure, Pai Gow, chicken An carp and so on.

The flow of activities on the day of the Lantern Festival can be roughly divided into three parts:

Worshiping the masters: every family organizes a tribute to the "Old Master". The village is full of people, and on the night of the Lantern Festival, the village is full of people, and on the night of the Lantern Festival, the village is full of people.

Ancestor Worship: At noon, the ancestors are worshipped at home, and then the men of the family bathe and dress for the lanterns

Lantern Worship: All the men of the village line up for the lanterns with the word "Yang" in their hands.

Lanterns: Men from all over the township line up with "Yang" lanterns to light the lanterns in the ancient village to bring home the "blessings" of the year - praying for the safety of the whole family in the new year and for everything to go well. On the way back and forth on the lanterns men have to keep quiet, even if they meet acquaintances, benefactors, long-lost friends or road to meet people who love to be very calm to keep this piety;

Parade: In the evening, every family carries this "Yang" word gold lanterns to the ancient village square and the major streets around the village waiting for the side of the "Holy Driver tour" (ie: the camp master) this, the scene is probably:

Zhaiwai, fireworks all over the sky, hundreds of flowers, the villagers carrying lanterns joyfully waiting for the Holy Driver travel, and volunteers enlisted in the distribution of young men wearing the East Village in the three villages of the respective unified development of clothing and shoes inside and outside of the walled village in the respective duties to maintain order!

Within the walled village: "Master" tour by the village of the respected patriarch of the main mention, about 6:00 p.m. began to use the "victory cup" to ask "Master" -- can start the tour! --The "Master" is asked at about 6:00 p.m. with a "victory cup" if he can start the tour. When the "Master" agrees to go on the tour, the "Two Winners and One Stable" cups will appear. Three skyrockets immediately exploded (lasted nearly 20 minutes long), the entire walled village to participate in the tour of the God's personnel all jumped up, instantaneous, drums and gongs in the sky, firecrackers sounding. The three idols of the "King of the Three Mountains" were lifted up and rushed out of the walled village by the personnel of the three districts in the township. Maybe the custom of "Master's Tour" evolved from the ancient wars in the past, in the patrol team, all the young men in the township, when instructed to go on the tour, the whole team was divided into an orderly manner, with the flag leading the vanguard at the forefront of the "Three Kings", and the "Three Kings" in the middle of the "Three Kings". The big flag led the vanguard troops to the front, while the "Three Kings" and the "Three Kings" led the big gongs and drums at the back, the sound of which was very inspiring and commanded the three districts of the Yushin team to charge. Wherever the "Three Kings of the Mountain" went, people cheered and the fireworks filled up the whole sky, even though the sky was clear, not a single star could be seen, and the sky was filled with unorganized fireworks. The god team carried the "master" around the walled city, and then entered the walled city from the south gate. At this time, several main lanes in the fortress have long been prepared for the straw immediately lit. There are dozens of piles of straw lit inside the fortress, with a standard height of about one meter and a flame height of almost three or four meters. To carry the statue of the god to jump over these piles of fire, it is necessary to rely on the faith of the "master" and a certain amount of courage. Jumping over the fires continues until about 10:00 p.m., when members of the God of the Gods tour and the township faithful put the three idols back to back in Dacheng, and then three people lift the idols and spin them around quickly. The number of participants reaches several thousand, and in order to compete to carry the idols, you fight and sometimes fight. Time is about four o'clock in the morning of the sixteenth, the God of Tourism team members will "send Tai Sui", from the mouth of the old man know, there is a "Tai Sui" in a year, 2013 they will send away the 2012 "Tai Sui! In 2013, they will send away the "Tai Sui" of 2012, and also send away some of the unsatisfactory things in the village in 2012, praying that everything will be satisfactory in 2013. After the "Master" goes to the temple, a prayer ceremony will be held by the chief of the village. Due to the limited writing skills, it is impossible to explain this in detail, but people can experience it for themselves. That night, the people of Shiqiaotou will treat their guests with courtesy, and as long as they don't say anything frivolous, they will be treated like VIPs. In this month, there is both the distant and warm "Tanabata Festival" and the "Zhongyuan Festival", during which the most lively festival is the "Bon Festival" with strong religious colors. It is also known as "Shih Ku" or "Shir Ku" in Shi Qiaotou, which is pronounced as "Xue Ku" in the folk dialect, meaning "lost orphans", and "Ku" here is the name of all orphans. The term "orphans" is a common name for all orphaned souls and wild spirits here. Where there is a family of the deceased will have children and grandchildren, family members will be worshiped on New Year's Day, but there are still many of the deceased is no family, family, the "group" of souls after death had to wander around, and over time will haunt the earth, the idiom of "sneaky" is the original meaning of This is the original meaning of the idiom "sneaky". Therefore, the ancients thought that festivals must be organized for the "group" to pay homage to them, at least once a year, so that "they" could gradually live in harmony with living beings, which is also a manifestation of the simple humanistic spirit. Chaozhou's "orphans" ceremony came into being, and gained the recognition and inheritance of the folk from generation to generation, spreading its branches and forming a unique "universal ghost culture ritual" in which each of the four townships and six miles of the countryside set up the day of the ceremony to offer sacrifices respectively, and then developed into a virtuous atmosphere in which public welfare and charitable activities were carried out at the same time. The first is a good customary atmosphere.

Shiqiaotou "Shi Gu" activities are generally selected on July 12 every year, the activities are held in Shiqiaotou East Village of the Lone Master Square (i.e., Tianzhongan is commonly known as "under the Um" of the north square), the activities mainly include: "

The event is held in the East Village Square of Shiqiaotou (the north square of Tianzhongan, commonly known as "Xia'an"), and includes the following activities.

"Worship Lone Master": villagers in front of the Palace of the Lone Master of the iron shed or roadside put all kinds of food, and incineration of paper ingots, medieval clothes, medieval money, commonly known as the worship of the "open prison". Folklore believes that this day the underground king of hell in the hell of the lonely souls and hungry ghosts are released, symbolizing the beginning of the activities of the orphans.

"Chanting": "Shi Ku" activities hosted by the Church of Goodness or Taoist temple, the location selected in the Shi Ku color platform, commonly known as the lonely shed, the lonely shed is generally temporary, on the Earth for the Bodhisattva. In the past years, this event is generally hosted by the Shiqiaotou Zhongcun "chicken mother master", during the event will generally be set up on the stage of the scripture seat, hanging gods and goddesses statues, and set up a number of magic weapons, and then the noodle line, five livestock bare goods, wine, rice, paper money, fruit and meditative clothing and so on the shed, piled up in a mountain, and then burn incense and candles, by the monks or Taoist priests and other figures of the gods and religions Then, incense is burned and candles are lit, and the monk or Taoist priest or other religious figures recite sutras on the stage to ferry the lonely souls without any support. According to the tradition of the Chaoshan region, the master in the process of chanting the sutra will generally continue to change a variety of handprints, singing while a plate of noodles and rice scattered in all directions, throwing food to give orphans, repeated a few times, called the "fireworks". Legend has it that hungry ghosts have a throat as thin as a pinhole, and their mouths spit flames that they cannot swallow. "Release the flame mouth" is to implore the Buddhas and Bodhisattvas to help them release their throats so that they can eat.

"Release": After the "chanting" ceremony, bells and drums are rung, and the staff releases the purchased birds into the wild.

"Robbing Orphans": In Shiqiaotou Village, there are two types of "robbing orphans": "short orphans" and "tall orphans". "High orphans" refers to the "Xue orphans activities" with the construction of colorful platforms, the time is generally once every three years, the location is selected in the square of the master of the orphans, "short orphans" without the construction of high platforms, the location is selected in the Bailingan. The offerings worshiped here are distributed to the poor or looted after the sacrifice, which is commonly known as "robbing the orphans". This activity is held after the end of the "release of life", at which time the staff will scatter those offerings that can be thrown under the orphanage for the villagers to snatch. Some offerings that cannot be thrown are numbered and distributed with bamboo tags, and those who grabbed the tags receive the offerings by number. "Grab the lonely" process, the people under the shed can be said to be very enthusiastic, some people also specially prepared "lonely bearing" (to the end of the bamboo poles tied to the net pajamas) to pocket the lonely shed on the food thrown down, and unarmed people can not help but be in a hurry, lose sight of the other, so as to "let go of the face of the peach to grab the cake".

There is a legend of the origin of the Bon Festival: the Buddhist monk Meilian because of his mother's deep sins, after death into the hungry ghosts, Meilian to send food, but the food into her mouth, into a blazing fire, Meilian in order to save his mother, asked the Buddha for instructions, the Buddha gave him a set of Bon Sutra, said that read this scripture, can attract the gods of the four directions, together to save his mother. Later, for the lonely souls and hungry ghosts that were not worshipped, they were also sacrificed by building jiao-festival, which was called Shih-ku, also known as Yu-lan-sheng-hui, and this custom was inherited. Because Shiqiaotou open foundation of the first grandmother Li's and Yongdao Gong three young son in Huilai County Longjiang Town farming to old age, after the death of also buried in Huilai County Longjiang Town, pointed Chuokeng Village. Therefore, the Shiqiaotou Yang clan (all the Yongdao Gong's eldest, second and third son of the descendants) will generally focus on a time to go to Huilai County to pay homage to the first grandmother, according to the past custom, the time will be selected in the lunar month of October.

Every Shiqiaotou this ancestral activities, Guangshan Highway (National Highway 324) will be congested, such as in the mid-1990s an ancestral activities, from Shiqiaotou Village to Liusha, ancestor of the brigade there are thousands of people, thousands of vehicles, all the way to the banners eye-catching, small flags fluttering, can be said to be a vast, spectacular. This scene has also been published in the South China Daily, visible its influence.

Reward God: time is generally chosen at the end of the year, the specific date by the village council to discuss the decision, the location selected in the village and the village square, will build a good shed, invited the gods for the townspeople to worship. In addition, a number of stages will be set up opposite the shed, and the Chaozhou Opera Troupe will be invited to perform a play to honor the gods. At that time, every family makes red kuey teow, buys three animals, chooses five fruits and vegetables, and brings them to the god's hut in baskets or even in carts to worship, and some families also invite their relatives to come and watch the opera. Married daughters with their children back to their parents' homes **** celebration, bustling, lively and extraordinary.

At the end of the year, the gods are thanked: in addition to the exhibition of a variety of handicrafts, there are several nights of Teochew opera!

As for the weekdays, it is similar to other areas in Chaoshan: on the first and fifteenth day of the month, you will have fasting to honor the gods and Buddhas; and you will go to the Tianzhongan (Lower Nunnery), Bailingan, Laojiagong, Niangmiao, Fozougong, Goujiagong, and Zhangtianshi Temples to pay your respects to the holy gods and pray for blessings with additional lamps!

▲In 2011, after 12 years, Shiqiaotou Village restarted the English song and dance tour, and in 2012, Shiqiaotou Village historically established the first women's English song team. Although the performance level of Shiqiaotou's English song team in 2013 is still far from being able to be compared with that of Puning Nanshan's English song team and Mudgou's English song team; and that of Chaoyang Xiji's English song team and Yongfeng's English song team, its achievements are already very much worthy of recognition.