Jieyang Folklore

1.Jiedong Longsha erecting lamp poles and raising colorful phoenixes

Among the colorful folklore activities in Chaoshan, there is a unique activity that is admired for its beauty and grandeur, which is the "erecting lamp poles and raising colorful phoenixes" activity of Longsha in Jiedong County. Its uniqueness also lies in the fact that it is a ceremony held by the villagers of the Jiang surname (formerly known as the Longsha Clan) in Jiedong County's Harbor Village and its surrounding areas to commemorate their ancestor, Jiang Wanli, the famous patriotic prime minister of the Southern Song Dynasty, which has been held since the late Yuan Dynasty, early Ming Dynasty and the middle of the 14th Century, and has been handed down from generation to generation. It is rare in Chaoshan and even in the whole country to commemorate the ancestor in the form of folklore of "erecting lamp poles and raising colorful phoenixes", which was listed on the provincial intangible cultural heritage list in 2009.

The end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan army attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, the left prime minister and Privy Councilor Jiang Wanli with troops to guard the city of Raozhou, due to the disparity of forces between the enemy and us, Raozhou was lost, his younger brother, Jiang Wanha was killed, Jiang Wanli with his family to throw the Zhisui Pond martyrdom. After the death of Song Jiang Wanli third brother Jiang Wanzai and Jiang Wanli's second son Jiang cast, the third son Jiang Boring with Wen Tianxiang, Lu Xiufu, etc. to help the young emperor into the Fujian, continue to fight with the Yuan army. Jiang Wanli children and grandchildren have been through the war several times, living in Chaozhou Kaiyuan Street, and later grandson Jiang Ruzu with his son Jiang Tianyi Jieyang Longsha seclusion. At that time, they miss the ancestor Jiang Wanli martyrdom against the Yuan Dynasty, but under the high pressure of the Yuan Dynasty rulers, and do not dare to positively commemorate the exposure of identity. Later, thinking that Jiang Wanli was fond of phoenixes in his life, they commemorated him by raising colored phoenixes to show that they did not forget their ancestors. From the end of the Yuan Dynasty, living in Longsha Jiang's descendants have used the "erecting a lamp post, rising colorful phoenix" form to commemorate the ancestor Jiang Wanli, this custom has been inherited to this day.

"Erecting a lamp post, rising the colorful phoenix", that is, with a 10-meter-long bamboo, the end of the bamboo leaves, the end of the bamboo hung on the big red lantern, the lantern above the "standing" a five-color "colorful phoenix! ", colored phoenix is made of good wood phoenix head phoenix body, and then cut into the shape of the phoenix wings and phoenix tail with iron, on the phoenix, and then dyed red, yellow and other colors. The colored phoenix made of hardwood, iron and embroidered silk; when the colored phoenix rises above the bamboo pole, the tail and body of the phoenix are draped in red silk embroidered with golden threads, on which are written the words "good luck" and "happiness", and wind chimes are hung under the phoenix, and when the wind blows, the "colored phoenix" is made of good wood, and then iron sheets are cut into the shape of the phoenix wings and tail and placed on the phoenix body, which is then dyed with red and yellow colors. When the wind blows, the "colorful phoenix" rotates, and the bell is crisp and rhythmic. During the day, as far as the eye can see, a branch of bamboo poles, a "colorful phoenix", a family even a family, as if it were a bamboo forest full of phoenix; at night, the lanterns and "colorful phoenix" on the installation of the various types of flashing lights together, that is a colorful city of lights, it is very beautiful. The colorful phoenix has a high production technology, mainly made of wood and thin steel plate, and then painted with colorful oil pigments, durable, colorful and eye-catching. Now the lanterns for the bamboo paste wax paper, colorful phoenix decorated with lanterns, bells also joined the modern sound and light electronic products, reflecting the lamp post colorful phoenix this craft with the times.

"Erecting the lantern pole, ascending the colorful phoenix" commemorative ceremony was initially held once a year, and then the Jiang clan uphold the thrifty and frugal family style, agreed to be held once every 12 years. On the eve of the founding of New China, the ceremony was held in 1948, and was suspended after the liberation and during the Cultural Revolution, resumed in 1983, and was renewed in 1994 and 2005, with the next one to be held in 2016.

This commemorative ceremony is usually held in the first half of October to the first half of November of the current year's lunar calendar, and lasts for a month. Villagers erect a lamp-post colored phoenix on a household basis, and during this period, villages also hold cultural and recreational activities such as Chiu Chow opera performances, Chiu Chow stringed music performances, and parades of gongs and drums and standard flags, which are very lively. This unique form of folklore is not only a great cultural landscape in the village, but also a form of commemorating the sages and promoting the spirit of patriotism, its uniqueness, history, symbolism and locality, which is of great value to the study of Chinese folk culture.

(Really spectacular)

2. ... Jieyang Lion Dance

Lion dance activities have a long history in China. The earliest can be traced back to the Han Dynasty, when the Han people popular "mask play", the people dressed up as beasts, simulating the shape of the beast for the performance, of which the lion dance is the most representative of an activity. In the Tang Dynasty, the lion dance was a kind of entertainment for the court, and the Tang people called the lion dance the "Lion Dance of the Five Parties".

The lion is the "king of beasts", the ancient people believe that the lion can drive away demons and evil spirits, is a good thing, implying the "elimination of disasters and harm", "forecast auspicious" meaning. They anthropomorphize this auspicious beast, given the dance action, and by simple jumping, hand and foot, and gradually improve, change the action and interpretation of folk art and traditional folk culture.

China's traditional lion dance, there are northern lions and southern lions. Lion dance skills, is a combination of martial arts, dance, skills in one of the comprehensive art. Northern lion performance form, mostly male and female **** dance or size group dance. Lion dancers hide in the lion, performing light and flexible movements. Often gentle, soft, relaxed, joyful atmosphere. Northern lion accompanied by Beijing gongs, drums, cymbals and other light beat instruments, mainly to symbolize good luck, peace, joy, people called Rui lion. When the Southern Lion performs, it usually consists of three people, one dancing the lion's head, one dancing the lion's tail, and the other dressed as a smiling Buddha holding a sunflower fan or as a warrior holding a colorful ball. Performances by the smiling Buddha or warrior to lead the way, the lion followed by the drums and gongs, then with the light, heavy, fast, slow drums, the lion's performance of a variety of ways, sometimes shaking his head and tail, sometimes jumping, sometimes looking up, sometimes bowed down and prostrate, and to make scratching the head, pilgrimage, licking the hair, sleeping and other actions. In terms of performance skills, there are climbing poles, crossing bridges, turning over, biting the ball, picking green and other actions. The movements are funny and hilarious. Southern lion dance wide range, the form of courage, low jump, high leap, flexible, with a strong and robust soldiers, the use of a variety of waist movements, horse stance, in order to show the will of the mighty and strong, courageous and forward-looking. Southern lion dance is often accompanied by large gongs, drums, cymbals and other powerful, exciting, exhilarating musical instruments. The Southern Lion is not only powerful and majestic, but also expresses various emotions such as joy, anger, sadness, happiness and surprise, so it is called the Waking Lion.

Jieyang lion dance originated when, check the history books, there is no clear record. early 19th century, Fujian Quanzhou Shaolin heir Chen Nanzhi came to Jieyang to teach martial arts, has taught Jieyang students to learn the skills of the lion dance, action. The Jieyang Lion Dance belongs to the performing art of Southern Lion. The traditional Southern Lion Dance, however, is divided into three colors: red lion, yellow lion and black lion. These three colors of lions represent the three famous historical figures of Liu, Guan and Zhang in the Three Kingdoms era. The yellow lion represents Liu Bei's style; the red lion represents Guan Yunchang's style; and the black lion represents Zhang Fei's style. In China's history, Liu, Guan, Zhang, their loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, courage, chivalrous and bold character, valor and courage, has always been highly respected and worshiped by martial artists. Southern lion performance demeanor of the technology is very wonderful, the seven feelings expressed in dynamic, static play to the fullest: see the hunt when the joy, disappointment when the sadness, break into the array when the anger, the hunt when the music. It expresses both bravery and might, as well as delicate emotional changes.

In the past, the lion dance was followed by a martial arts performance in which the performers performed various martial arts routines. The performance mode is: first by a person on stage, unarmed fight a set of boxing, then, each person with a knife, mallet, spear, three-stranded fork, etc., each perform a set of spear; finally, is the fight, that is, unarmed versus the knife, knife versus the mallet, the mallet versus the spear, double mace versus the spear, the spear versus the three-stranded fork. Some of the sparring is done by four people, and some by eight people. Sometimes there are acrobatic performances, such as dart knife circle, drill fire circle.

In recent years, many lion dance teams in Jieyang have devoted themselves to improving their skills in the art of lion dance, training and performing many difficult maneuvers. These include such skills as stepping on piles, jumping on high and low piles, climbing poles, climbing ladders, picking embroidered balls and hanging up congratulatory couplets.

As a folk activity, every Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, National Day and other traditional festivals, the inauguration of new buildings, highways, bridges built and opened to traffic celebrations, the organizers or individuals have to ask the lion dance team to come to the performance of the festival, not only to increase the festive atmosphere, but also to bring out the meaning of good luck, along the way into the habit of the lion dance has become a folk festival celebrations of one of the main cultural and recreational activities in Jieyang.

(We live in Rongcheng, every year, the Mid-Autumn Festival, the New Year and other major festivals in the village have organized performances in the village or outside the village, it is very lively)

3. Jieyang hanging paper

Jieyang people (or the whole of the people of Chaoshan) a strong sense of family, for the Ching Ming Festival has always attached great importance to the festival, no matter where you will be rushed to the home, the importance of this festival is no less important than the Spring Festival.

The Chaoshan people call sweeping the graves "visiting the graves" or "hanging paper", and the form is not complicated. People go to their ancestors' graves to fill in the soil, sweep away dust and weeds, and hang paper strips on the tombstones and piles of graves to offer sacrifices. Hanging the paper is the most important and the only essential part, and in some places it is possible to just hang the paper without offering sacrifices. Presumably, it means that the descendants have not forgotten and have made a mark. The way to hang the paper is very simple, which is to press a stack of red, yellow, or cyan colored paper on the top of the grave with a stone, or to scatter the colored paper on the grave. If there is a tombstone, the careful descendants will use iron oil to describe the inscription, the inscription of the name coloring is random, green means deceased, red means the person is still alive.

Annual Qingming over paper, family members gathered together, the ancestors of the tomb of a relaxed and casual talk about some of the past, pay homage to the memory of the ancestors, but also to enhance mutual understanding and feelings.

(Every year, but there are families who do not go to the Qingming Festival, but go before the Qingming, to climb the mountain)

4. JieDong JieFu Folklore

(1) Sun bride

In the past, in the QuXi Township of WeiPu Village on the 17th and 18th of the first lunar month, the township held a tour of the god race, and at night, in the village of the big gray Cheng staged Chaozhou opera. Just in front of the stage, conventionally stood a row of village brides who got married this year. Most of them were led by their mothers-in-law, and they came out at about 7:30 p.m. and stood there until after 10:00 p.m. The brides stood quietly. The brides stood quietly, allowing people to see, comment, taste. People look at who is a beautiful bride, evaluate who is a virtuous bride, and taste who is an elegant bride. Brides together out in the sun, which is not married to the young man's most fond of, the most uproarious occasions. In this way, that side of the theater on the drums and drums, this side of the young man's uproar is also a wave over a wave. The whole village was really bustling with excitement, and it was a very interesting folk custom. Later, for some reason, this folk custom was canceled.

(2) Posting couplets

Posting couplets, is an important folk custom in China, especially on New Year's Day, it is a rare thing, generally in the door to post a pair of couplets. But in Jiedong County, the town of Didu Wumei, Fengmei village area, people's custom of posting couplets is a little different. They usually buy a pair of couplets and stick them on the gate of the family ancestral hall when they get married or have a boy. Especially in the Spring Festival, it is needless to say that the door of one's own house is pasted with a pair of couplets, and people also have to paste couplets in every window (most of them are only pasted with a horizontal scroll); what is more important is that they have to buy a pair of couplets and paste them on the main door of the family ancestral hall. In this way, there will be many couplets on the front of the ancestral hall, and the red color will be so big that the door will be full of joy. When there is a happy event, one goes to the ancestral hall to put up couplets, and there is a kind of psychology to report and show happiness to the clan members; and there is also a willingness to report happiness to the ancestors, because the ancestral hall is mostly a place for worshipping the ancestors. This is a unique and interesting folklore that is both practical and psychological.

5. Jieyang Gomer Weaving

Gomer weaving is a folk art unique to Jieyang. It originated in the early 20th century and flourished in the 1930s and 1940s. Jieyang folk artists will be "thin bitter bamboo" into a soft as silk, thin as paper gabions, and then with dexterous hands woven into a variety of handicrafts, such as flower baskets, bamboo fans, baskets and other unique crafts, and then weave on the top of the characters, flowers, calligraphy, patterns, etc., can be described as a masterpiece of craftsmanship.

At the beginning of the 20th century, an artist named Lin Zhongren in Songshan, Yuecheng, Jieyang, pioneered the gabion weaving process. Lin was very intelligent since childhood, and had deep attainments in poetry and calligraphy. In 1936, Lin Zhongren created a piece of artwork which was brought to Nanjing by a university student to participate in a competition and won the second place. 1943, Lin Zhongren was invited to weave 8 screens for Jieyang's "Cheng Xinhe Qipao", and since then, he has been invited to weave 8 screens for Limpan Dongzhou's Old Four. For Lin Pan Dongzhou old four Yin Taishi 8 woven screen, each set of woven words more than 1200, screen words layout, strict structure, dots and scratches woven into relief, clear and eye-catching, the charm of all the best. Lin's also woven a small crab basket, which is as small as a finger, the basket pattern is fine, there are several sea crabs in the basket, vivid. 1954, Lin Zhongren also for the Chaoshan Cultural and Industrial Troupe weaving Chairman Mao's image of a screen text 10. His skill is marvelous.

Following Lin Zhongren, there are many gabion craftsmen, of which the most prestigious when the Chen Daya. Chen Daya weaving animals, birds and flowers, seal script and regular script exquisite, in 1954 he weaved two bamboo fan, weaving "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" character paintings, the characters are vivid and vivid, the craft is very exquisite. He was awarded the second prize and excellence award of Shantou Regional Arts and Crafts, and his elaborate painting screen of plum, orchid, bamboo and chrysanthemum was selected as a national gift and taken overseas by the central leadership to present to international friends.

6.Walking on the colorful bridge

Walking on the colorful bridge is a traditional folklore activity preserved in Chaoshan during the Lantern Festival, which has been inherited for hundreds of years with special cultural charm and infected generations of Chaoshan people.

There are only two places in Chaoshan, one is in Rongcheng and the other one is in Hongyang. Though they were different counties in ancient times, they belong to Jieyang city nowadays, so it is said that walking on colorful bridges is unique to Jieyang, in which Rongcheng preserves "walking on the bridge" on the eleventh day of the first month, "walking on the bridge" on the fifteenth day of the first month, and "walking on the bridge" on the sixteenth day of the first month. "Rongcheng retains three complete phases, namely, the 11th day of the first month, the 15th day of the first month, the 2nd day of the second bridge, and the 16th day of the first month, the 3rd day of the last bridge. Although the colorful bridge activity has existed since ancient times, the relevant records are extremely simple. Rongcheng Lantern Festival activities, the Qing version of the "Jieyang County Records," Volume VII of the "time of the year" contained: "on the first day of the yuan Zhang Lantern Tree, fireworks, dancing lions, the table table riddles, the people set to guess, in the reward for those who are in the women and children to the bridge to throw the block, known as the crossing of the Early, or picking the green, pick up the mouth of the bottle to return to the right Yimen male; countryside set up swings for the play, the fight she song, the good one wins; Lantern Lantern Festival after the evening of the heirs to send lamps, the village Send swing bamboo, drink all night long". Ancient Lantern Festival can be seen from this, which the description of the colorful bridge only "women and children to the bridge to throw the block, called the ferry" sentence, from the sentence can be seen, women and children involved in the ancient colorful bridge activities in the bridge when the activities of throwing blocks, this is seen as a family member of disaster relief, praying for good luck.

The origin of the bridge is not recorded in the Jieyang County Records, but there are two related legends in the folklore, one of which is a mortal legend: according to legend, a poor family in Rongcheng had a pair of children in ancient times, with the daughter as the eldest and the son as the second. The eldest daughter married, due to the lack of manpower in her mother's home, the development is not fast, more discriminated against, and then often return to her mother's home to help, one year during the Lantern Festival to return to her mother's home, her husband and his brother in front of the home of the small bridge with lanterns and colors, for entertainment. In that year, her sister was blessed with a son, and her brother was successful in the examination, so the colorful bridge was regarded as an auspicious move and was passed down. Today, Yung City, row color bridge also retains the custom of "return to the mother's home", mainly newly married or not yet childbearing daughter together with her husband and son-in-law in the row color bridge before or after the row color bridge to return to the mother's home, the mother's home in addition to cooking the sweet round reception, but also to prepare beforehand a new lanterns lit to give to the daughter to take home, because of the Chiu Chow language "light Because the Chiu Chow language "lamp" and "ding" have the same sound, there is a custom of cooking sweet dumplings for men in Chaoshan, so the act of "sending lamps and eating sweet dumplings" is actually a blessing from the mother's family to the daughter's family for "prosperity"! The other is a myth! The other is a myth: according to legend, one day in ancient times, a villager in Yungcheng dreamed that the city would be flooded, and a fairy told him that a colorful bridge would be built in the sky when the water was flooded, and as long as people walked across the colorful bridge and didn't turn back, they would be safe and sound. According to the fairy's instructions, the people of the city really escaped the disaster, and later there will be a custom to line the colorful bridge, and line the colorful bridge can not turn back from the original bridge back. Although this legend is made up by present-day people, it also adds a few magical colors to the traditional activities of walking the colorful bridge.

Walking bridge has a strong tradition and folklore, mostly for the spontaneous action of civil organizations. Shishi Bridge, for example, Shishi Bridge since 1990, since the establishment of the color bridge, color bridge activities have never stopped, especially in the last decade or so, in the jackboot, Yang Shaobo, Huang Xuekai, Chen Kemao and other enthusiasts to promote, year after year, the more new, the more exciting, the more appealing to do. In addition, the bridge is often given a "bridge line Xing Xing Xing spirit (spirit), Xing Xing Xing Xing wealth (prosperity), Xing Xing Xing Xing Xing high rise" and other good wishes, so every year, "Xingtouqiao", spontaneous to participate in the activities of the people to a single one-way count of no less than 150,000, the last two years is as high as 20 to 30 years, the number of people to participate in the activities. In the past two years is as high as 200,000 to 300,000 times, participating in the crowd also by the original residents of Rongcheng gradually extended to the outskirts of the city to all parts of the city, in recent years there are Shantou, Chaozhou, Fengshun and other neighboring cities of the people to participate in a number of foreign guests and migrant workers have gradually liked this Chao custom activities and joined the ranks. A width of only seven meters, about 20 meters long, a small bridge in one night, one-way through such a huge flow of people and year after year in good order, is called the world's wonders. In addition, there is also a special activity - touching the lions on the Shishi Bridge. Although the custom of touching the lion since ancient times, but the stone lion at the head of the stone lion bridge is said to be specifically for the whole city to guard the spirit of the west and the placement of the spirit, has always been worshipped as a sacred lion and ask for a response to the spirit of the lion, and thus to touch the lion here is more of a mysterious color and appears to be different. Such as "touch the lion ear, born Ah Di", "touch the lion nose, write elegant words", "touch the lion head, the upper class Yin", "touch the lion belly, marry elegant wife "Touch the center of the lion, marry a good husband", "Touch the lion's mouth, great wealth", "Touch the lion's feet, money", "Touch the lion's tail, good results" and so on, these are people's good wishes for life. But there are also people who believe that the past to touch the lion because the bridge railing carved stone lions, as a decorative touch of good luck harmless, and the stone lion at the head of the stone lion bridge since it is a spiritual lion and God lion, should be respected and worship, if you wantonly touch the words, it is blasphemy to the sacred lion. Regardless of the meaning of touching the lions, the fact is that the lions at the head of the Stone Lion Bridge are surrounded on the eleventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar every year, and very few people can touch the lions on that night. The second climax of the Shishi Bridge colorful bridge activities in the first month of the fifteenth "line two bridge", in addition to the bridge to enjoy the lanterns, but also more importantly to appreciate the Yang Xiguang Lion Dance team of lion dance and martial arts performances, although the performance time is generally no more than an hour, but the people to watch the people are still a sea of people, a lot of activity. As for the sixteenth day of the first month of the "line tail bridge", because after the Lantern Festival people have begun to go to their respective workplaces, and therefore "line tail bridge" more for the public indifference and appear to be cold.

No matter whether it is rich or simple, no matter whether it is Rongcheng or Hongyang, the activities of the two places of the colorful bridge can still be favored by the general public after hundreds of years of circulation, which is a clear indication that it has a unique cultural charm. What is even more encouraging is that Rongcheng row colorful bridge activities have been included in the Guangdong Province intangible cultural heritage list last year, if this to package the promotion of the words, it can be built into a cultural business card to help improve the visibility of Jieyang.

(This every year to go, a lot of people walk colorful bridge, touch the stone lion, pick the god bamboo, very lively, in the first month of the lunar calendar every year 11)

7. Jieyang race dragon Jin folk

Dragon boat race folklore in Jieyang has been through more than 400 years, in 2007, "the hundred dragons in the Rongjiang River," but also the climax of the folklore of this event. The event is the culmination of this folklore activity. Today's dragon boat racing is both a folklore and a sports activity, and the new era has given it more humanistic spirit: striving, enterprising, and rushing to victory. And about Jieyang's dragon boat shape; dragon boat racing form; dragon boat launching, water ceremony; the program to build a dragon boat are sent to what folk cultural connotations?

Thousands of years of Chinese dragon culture has a profound accumulation in Chinese folk culture. Countless folklore related to dragons, such as the Lantern Festival's Dragon Lantern Dance, Dragon Tour, Dragon Burning and Dragon Boat Racing at the Dragon Boat Festival, etc., especially Dragon Boat Racing activities are more common and have a deeper and wider influence. Dragon boat racing is a folk activity carried out to commemorate Qu Yuan, the patriotic poet of Chu during the Warring States period, and in 1984, the National Sports Commission listed dragon boat activity as a traditional folk sports program in China, thus dragon racing has become a popular folklore and sports event, and there has been a great development in the scale and connotation of the event. Jieyang dragon boat racing has a long history. The dragon boats are vivid and realistic, colorful and beautiful. From the construction of the dragon boat to the dragon boat launching, on the water and participate in the race, all kinds of ceremonies should be held, solemn and elaborate. Therefore, Jieyang Dragon Boat Race has deep folk culture connotation and strong local characteristics.

Qing dynasty qianlong "jieyang county" records: "(Dragon Boat) since the first day to five days, the river bank racing dragon boat, or to the bonus reward jiejie, the government officials set up wine and food to watch." Qing Yongzheng "Huilai County Zhi" Volume XIII contained: "Dragon Boat ...... in the creek harbor pond set boat race, capture the flag standard," it is known that before the early Qing Dynasty, Jieyang has been the custom of dragon boat racing. Puning Nanxi town has a folk legend: Nanxi town outside the Rong River, within the new stream, known as the water town. Legend has it that in the middle of the Ming Dynasty, the village of Liu Xinxi has a large population, and the village's Liu family has ten thousand dollars of capital, and its daughter lives in a simple house and reads a lot of books, and her father treats her as a jewel in his hand. Her daughter dreamed of a dragon boat one night, and at dawn she told her parents that she requested to build a dragon boat. The father listened, and then built a dragon boat and widely recruited workers in the village side of a new river, named Xinxi, dedicated to dragon boat races, this stream is still in. Pandong cotton tree village has Lin Tianmu across the red dragon in the legend. According to these legends, Jieyang dragon boat race has a history of more than 400 years.

Ching Guangxu nineteen years (1893), Fujian governor Ding Richang late settlement in Jieyang, had invited Chao, Pu, Jie part of the dragon boat, in the Rongjiang River section of the South River race, Jieyang Cotton Tree Village, the red dragon won the first place, Ding Richang awarded the "Minister Ding reward" a red velvet banner. Beixi Township Blue Dragon rushed through as the end of the sign of the wire, the dragon mouth hanging wire, but because of the fast boat speed, the force of the wire was broken, the blue dragon teeth missing a loss, so there is the name of the living dragon. It is said that today, Beixi Township Blue Dragon race, the dragon's mouth is still missing a tooth. These historical stories, popular, widely circulated.

In 2007, Jieyang City in the Rongjiang Beihe City Hall in front of the river section of the city's Dragon Boat Race, participating in the Dragon Boat one hundred ships, said the "Hundred Dragons in Rongjiang". The scene of the grand and spectacular, unprecedented, the spectacle will be forever recorded in history.

(Not only Rongjiang, Jieyang, there are many other places where there are dragon boat races, Nanchuo is)

8.De'anli - English song and dance

Puning De'anli is located in Hongyang Town, Puning City. Built in the Qing dynasty Tongzhi seven years (1868), for the Guangdong navy governor Fang Yao residence. De'anli is divided into the old fortress, the middle fortress, the old fortress architectural layout is commonly known as the hundred birds facing the phoenix, the middle fortress for the four-horse trailer type. Inside the fortress, there are ancestral halls, Buddhist halls, living rooms, study halls, bedrooms, pavilions, lotus ponds, gardens, warehouses, torture chambers, etc., with hundreds of houses and an area of more than 40,000 square meters. Outside, the moat is repaired, which is a rare large-scale government-style architectural grouping in Guangdong. Later, Fang Yao family also built a huge new De An Li not far south of De An Li (Zhongzhai). Now part of Tak On Lane (Old Walled City and Middle Walled City) is used as the school building of Puning No.1 Middle School, and part of it is used as a residential house. The new Deok-an-ri is used for the town hall.

De'anli, the residence of the family of Fang Yao, the governor of Guangdong navy in the Qing Dynasty, almost covers the essence of Jieyang folk architecture. It is divided into old, middle and new cottages, the old cottage for the "hundred birds towards the phoenix", the middle cottage and the new cottage for the "team horse trailer", three cottages connected, the scale is particularly spectacular. De'anli wood carvings, stone carvings, embedded porcelain craft, still life is elegant and exquisite, animals are lifelike, both God and form.

Puning's English song and dance, is a very rich soil flavor of folk dance. 2005 was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage. The dancers play the heroes of Liang Shan Po, each dancer's face and costume each represents a Liang Shan hero, they hold a foot two wooden sticks, in the "dong dong dong dang ......" drums and gongs in the leap forward, the hands of the wooden stick rhythmically knocking rotating, with bursts of The rhythmic beating and spinning of the wooden sticks in their hands, together with the shouts, make the sound as if they were charging into battle and fighting in an ancient battlefield. Developed from the underlying culture of Chaoshan and regarded as a symbol of good luck, the Ying song and dance is tightly integrated with folklore activities and is popular with the masses.

When the Yingge team from Puning came to De'anli, and when these two cultures, which are extremely rich in Jieyang's folklore, were combined, the image became a classic. It almost epitomizes the culture of Jieyang - long and rich, scrappy and harmonious.

(It's very beautiful, you must go to see it in person when you have a chance)

Here's a little legend for you (it's from Huangqishan Mountain in Jieyang)

Huangqishan Pagoda is located at the top of Huangqishan Mountain, and the pagoda is divided into five floors, octagonal in shape, and about twenty meters high, all of them are stone structures, with a void in the middle, and each floor is left with a pass-through window. According to records, Huangqishan Tower was built in the Ming Dynasty, the original only three layers, the Qing dynasty Tongzhi years were struck down by lightning two layers, the Republic of China twenty-three years (1934), Hsieh Hsueh Nien rebuilt and increased to five layers, the tip of the tower was built into a lotus flower, there is a saying that is built into a copper gourd, the tip of the tower after liberation was again struck down by lightning, and so far has not been repaired. In front of the tower, a boulder is engraved with a poem left by Xie Hernian when he repaired the tower.

There is also a moving legend. In ancient times, there was a poor widow named Auntie Huang living under the saddle hill behind Huangqi Mountain. Auntie Huang raised a pair of children with different surnames, the son named Ma Shan Ying, she adopted the Ma orphans; daughter named Huang Shanzhen, her own children. Auntie Huang through the pains of the children to raise adults, Ma Yingshan look heroic and handsome, martial arts, is a capable shooter; Huang Shanzhen is out of the water, is a beautiful girl of the heart and hands.

Auntie Huang saw her children grow up and had a plan in mind. One day, she called her children to the front, saying that she wanted to choose a date for them to marry. Shan Ying brother and sister heard, are happy heart porpoise jump. This pair of two small innocent brother and sister of different surnames, from now on more intimate like glue. Every time Shan Ying went to the mountains to shoot hunting, Shan Zhen always have to follow the same go; Shan Zhen down the river washing, Shan Ying also fell into the river fishing and catching turtles. The only thing that you need to do is to wait for your mother to choose a date in the fall, and then you can get married.

Who expected that for no apparent reason, there is a villain called Bai Chongbao, his brother-in-law in the Yi Di Gao Wang's account as a general, then the dog bully, bullying, the people in the area hated him to the bone, so they gave him a bad name "white lawless". On this day, "White Lawless" brought a group of dog slaves to Huangqi Mountain to play, and fiercely saw a girl as beautiful as heavenly fairies washing by the river, so he went up to pull and tug on the girl, asking her to go home with him to enjoy the happiness. The girl was Huang Shanzhen. Her brother Shan Ying was fishing by the river, saw this dog head so hateful, immediately rushed up to him and stabbed him, stabbed him a dog's ass. The crowd of evil slaves, seeing their master knocked down, surrounded and pinched Ma Shanying. When the people in the saddle saw this, they rushed up with mallets and sticks to beat "White Lawless". In a flash, they beat this group of scoundrels to the head and fled for their lives.

"White Lawless" was beaten by the crowd, and was so furious that he gritted his teeth, and instantly ran to his general brother-in-law, and borrowed 500 men from him, in order to trample the Saddle Mountain into flat ground. The people in Ma On Shan learned of this evil news, immediately packed clothes and money, with their children to escape over Ma On Shan. Seeing that all the villagers were suffering because of them, the siblings asked their mother to follow the crowd and go first, and they wanted to cover for the villagers at the back.

As soon as they left, Baiwuwu led his men into the village of Maanshan. The village was empty, so he set fire to the saddle and burned it to the ground. After that, he ordered his soldiers to search the mountain and kill them. Seeing that the situation was not good, and fearing that they would be caught up, the siblings held hands and ran straight to Huangqi Mountain to attract the villains to come after them, so that they could let the villagers out of danger. As a result, "White Lawless" saw Shan Ying's brother and sister, and immediately chased after them, and ordered the soldiers to encircle Huangqi Mountain.

Shan Ying's siblings just ran up to the top of the mountain, and saw that they were surrounded in all directions, and were almost surrounded by the side. The siblings, in fear of being taken captive and humiliated, hugged each other tightly and jumped to their deaths on the boulder at the bottom of the hill.

Then, it happened that the heavenly Barefoot Fairy cloud traveled through here, he saw clearly in the clouds, they have the heart to save this pair of good love couple. So he recited the incantation and blew out his breath, and the two siblings immediately turned over and became a pair of white swans fluttering their wings and flew up into the sky.

The "White Lawless" watched his brother and sister turn into white swans, and was so angry that he shouted, ordering his minions to shoot the white swans down, so that he could eat some swan meat. Now, can be more annoyed with the red-footed fairy, he put the dragon head walking stick a wave, all of a sudden the sky dark, flying sand, the villains scraped all rolled down the mountain, "white lawless" but turned into a big toad, squatting at the top of the mountain looking at the swan drooling, he also want to eat swan meat.

The Barefoot Fairy saw that "White Lawless" was still unchanged, and used his staff to turn him into a big stone. People called this big stone "toad stone". Although the toad had been turned into a stone, his saliva still flowed uncontrollably. When Barefoot Fairy saw it, he used his heel to gently step on the toad stone, which immediately became a concave stone groove, storing the "toad saliva" and preventing it from flowing all over the mountain. Subsequently, the Barefoot Fairy fear that the toad long after the monster jump away, will be inserted in the hill, and then pull down a hair, into a magic rope tied to the toad, fastened in the immortal staff, and then the immortal staff into the "Zhenmu Pagoda".

Five hundred years later, the "toad stone" due to absorb the essence of the sun and moon, gradually change up. One year during the spring rains, the toad was really active, but was bound by the bundle of magic rope, jumping away. It was struggling, instantly killed by the thunderbolt fairy with the thunderbolt hammer. The "wooden pagoda" and the "magic rope" were also burned by the electric flower.

Ming Dynasty, Tianqi years, Feng Yuan Biao to Jieyang County magistrate, with his concubine Huang Yue Rong with the office, that year, the Chrysanthemum Festival, husband and wife together on Mount Huangqi excursion to listen to the local people told the story of the town of the Devil Tower, very touched. Mrs. Yueyong then asked her husband to fund the rebuilding of a stone tower on the base of this wooden tower.

Till now, the stone tower is still squatting on the side of the "toad stone", the "toad saliva" in the stone groove is still not dry all year round.

(People who have been to Huangqi Mountain must know that at the top of the mountain next to the tower there is a large stone inside the water year-round, very magical)

Jieyang is now under the jurisdiction of Rongcheng District, Jiedong, Jiexi, Huilai 3 counties, the proxy administration of the city of Pu'ning (county)

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This is the first time that the city of Jieyang has been under the jurisdiction of the Jieyang City Council.