What is the name of the flag carried by the Chaoshan people?

The Chaoshan people carry the flag is called riding (taking, carrying) the standard flag. The flag-carrying activity is usually one of the teams in the cultural parade in the traditional folk activities such as camping or ancestor worship in the first month of every year in Chaoshan area.

Two people or one person carries a rectangular flag, both sides of which are embroidered with Chaozhou embroidery, which is unique to Chaoshan, and the flag is usually embroidered with some beautiful blessings and patterns. The flag is usually embroidered with some beautiful words and patterns, which are meant to pray for good weather, national prosperity and peace, and to bless the future life.

Background of Flag-carrying of Chaoshan People

Every year in the first month of the lunar calendar, the townships hold gongs and drums marking the flag parade in different scales, at different times and in different places. In the old days, the parade or festive activities with the Wo (suona), drums, orchestrated with Su gongs, cymbals, and other percussion instruments (commonly known as the "eight notes"), with high lights and colored flags and a class of children in makeup, marching while singing the lyrics of the parade.

Since the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the People's Republic of China, with the Teochew Opera, puppet shows and the rise of villages "strings" and "music halls", the gongs and drums and flags parade to improve the song, orchestration and performance forms.

Gradually, the "long line set" of Teochew gongs and drums was introduced, with nearly ten percussion instruments such as big drums, deep waves, big gongs (su gongs), bucket gongs, big and small cymbals, etc. as the main instruments, and accompanied by nearly twenty stringed instruments, such as suona, yangqin, coco hu, big flute, three strings, etc. The songs include "Open Window," "Nanzhenggong," "Xiao Yangzhou," "Blowing Drums," and other traditional and "Throwing Drums," and "The Casting Drums. Blowing Drums" and other traditional and "Throwing Nets for Fishing", "Red Dragon Playing in the Water" and so on.

There are also a lot of Teochew Opera themes in the paintings and costumes, such as "Ten Immortals Celebrate Their Longevity", "The Immortal Lady Sends Her Son", and "Wang Maosheng Enters the Drinking House", etc. The opera also features a lot of traditional Chinese opera.