Ethnic customs of Huilai County

Scenic screen: or living scenery, hidden scenery, beautiful scenery screen. Is a kind of square traveling exhibition type modeling art. To play out the scene as the content, the characters played by children, with certain scenery. Real people (so called live scenery) fake scenery framing modeling, constitute a certain theme of the landscape. When touring the exhibition or with gongs and drums, eight sounds, more grand, become the Spring Festival or grand festivals of the top programs. Jinghai Town, there are Zhang, Lin, Zeng three surnames, famous for creating scenery, passed down from generation to generation.

Chaosu music: the early Republic of China, the county has Confucian music society, also known as leisure, music society, is able to play will play the people, in the spare time, a combination of playing. The county has a "happy society" music class. Republic of China in 36 years (1947) and the creation of the "Tao sentimental society", proficient in, love Chao music aggregated small groups, and the accumulation and organization of the role of sheet music.

Dialect Songs: The Teochew Songbook is a kind of long narrative poem expressed in the Teochew dialect. When the songbook is sung, it is sung according to the songbook, and the voice is melodious and pleasant. The listener listens to the text while doing the work at hand. Singing book only by the singer recite, seven words, five words, rhyming, four names a rhyme, no music accompaniment.

Singing Fishing Songs: The content of fishing songs reflects the life and production of fishermen. 1958 Shenquan Town Amateur Drama Troupe had collated a number of fishing songs, of which "Singing a New Fishing Village" had participated in the Shantou Regional Folk Song Festival.

Big Drums and Gongs: Big drums and gongs are the recreational activities for parades during the Spring Festival in Huilai County. A team of big gongs and drums can consist of hundreds of people, and the head and tail can be set up for 1~2 miles. In front of them, there is a big flag, and behind them, there are gongs and drums, silk and bamboo sounding. During the performance of the big gongs and drums, a red streamer is hung from a green bamboo in front of the team, with the words "National Prosperity and People's Peace" written in gold on it. Next is the big flag team, carrying big flags on their shoulders, a team of dozens of people, or hundreds of people, advancing slowly. Next is a band with 24 gongs (some as many as 32), 8 deep cymbals and 10 conchs.

The Ao Dance: In the dialect, it is called "Dancing Ao", and the ao fish is made of bamboo, wood and cloth in the form of colorful paintings and is 3 feet long, with a dragon's head and a fish's body. The dancers wave the ao fish in their hands. There are 5 of them in a class. Accompanied by gongs and drums, there are chasing, wearing flowers, jumping paths, leaping the Dragon Gate, biting bucket, clamor spring and other actions.

Lion Dance: the dialect calls it the Tiger Lion Dance. Huilai County Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival has a customary lion dance. The body of the lion is a nearly ten feet of yellow cloth, the lion's tail is a large cluster of red linen silk in the shape of a fragrance. When dancing, a person in front of the lion dance head, a person bends down to dance the lion tail, according to the gongs and drums beat performance. The movements and demeanor of the hair, licking the back, scratching, dozing and so on. There is also a kind of lion dance called "high-footed lion", the lion dancer limbs on stilts, and add a masked lioness. After the lion dance, there are martial arts performances, mostly for the southern school of hand punch, stick, fork, double knife, double mace and other real kung fu. Some of them also perform the thrilling action of stringing fire rings.

Dragon Dance: the dialect called the Dragon Dance. Huilai County Dragon Dance, began in the Qing Dynasty during the reign of Emperor Xianfeng. Crab Village in Qingshan Township and Changchun Village in Kwai Tan Township, there is a dance "double-dragon treasure grabbing" program. In the Guangxu period, Yingnei Village in Huicheng Town began to organize a dragon dance team, and since then, there has been a dragon dance every year during the Spring Festival. The dragons are made of bamboo, wood, cloth and colorful paintings, with nine or eleven sections as a dragon, accompanied by a drum, a gong and a cymbal. There are movements such as anti-double, tumbling, jumping the Dragon Gate, chasing beads and so on.

English song and dance: Huilai English song and dance, a team of English song is largely divided into robust and majestic buckle stick for the "front shed"; colorful pieces of opera for the "back fence". It is a combination of dance and opera. Seven Sorts of Vegetables: In the Chaoshan Plain, on the seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the people of Huilai have the custom of eating seven sorts of vegetables, which are said to be able to brighten their eyes and bring them good fortune. The custom can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, and is recorded in the "Answers to Rituals and Customs" by Dong Xun, a member of the Jin Council. Seven kinds of vegetables on which seven kinds of no specific provisions, mostly to the Chaoshan produced by the big vegetables, spring vegetables, kale, thick lotus, etc., the number of how much there is no limit, can be arbitrary.

Thanks to the gods: 10 to mid-December of the lunar calendar, every village, every community, every household to choose an auspicious day, prepared to worship the gods. Usually theater (including shadow puppets), big gongs and drums, eight sound classes, paper dragon robe crowns, whole pigs and sheep, Daya naked ...... special rituals are on the knife ladder, burning fireworks, and ten years of sacrifice to play fire jiao. Pray for children: the custom of praying for children is closely related to the lamp. The word "lamp", which sounds like "ding" in Teochew, means that the in-laws have brought a male child into the family. People who have given birth to a boy will hold a "lantern" event on the night of the Lantern Festival. In fact, the custom of praying for a son with "lamp" and "ding" is not only found in Chaoshan, but also in many other regions.

Every year on March 23, every A-Ma's Christmas day, the villagers in Chaoshan will go to the Temple of Tianfei to carry Tianfei on a trip, which is meant to ask A-Ma to give blessings to the children. Those who are unable to carry the sedan chair for A-Ma, stand by the roadside, waiting for A-Ma's sacred car to pass by, touch A-Ma's sedan chair, is also considered to be a light.

In the folk custom activities, there are also many is this kind of expect to get a son of the psychology of the folk activities in the way. Like the bride to get married, in addition to preparing an oil lamp, but also to prepare some dried longan. In addition to contain the meaning of wealth and prosperity, but also contains the wish to give birth to a son. Those who got married in this year's family, rubbed out the dumplings, will always count the dumplings, if the dumplings are singular, then it means that the birth of a boy; if it is an even number, it means that the birth of a girl.

Foetus preservation: there are many taboos for women who are pregnant; when a woman in labor is about to give birth, a midwife must be invited; husbands cannot stay in the delivery room to serve their wives, but must leave the delivery room with the whole family as well as the men. In order to have a smooth labor, some people also go to temples to worship the "Birth Promoting Nyonya" to bless a smooth delivery. After a woman gives birth to a baby, she can't just throw away her baby clothes; her mother's family must prepare eggs and send them to the woman's home to nourish her.

Sitting wax, open meat: a week after the birth of a woman, the maternity ward can not breathe, this period is called "sitting wax". To the seventh day (some places is the ninth or twelve days), held a "meat" ceremony, the mother began to eat meat, fish to nourish the body. At the same time, gifts must be prepared for neighbors and friends, sweet noodles for boys, and potato flour for girls, known as "Yuanzai". To the full moon, it must be prepared to organize a sumptuous feast for friends and relatives, called drink "full moon wine". In many places, babies are bathed on the twelfth day of their lives, and a stone as big as a bowl is placed in the bath tray to show that the child will be bold in the future. The largest beacon tower

Sea beacon lighthouse. Located in Huilai Jinghai town Banmei village southwest of the Shibei mountain headland. Initially built in 1882, a number of built a number of destroyed. Lighthouse was built in 1989, reinforced concrete structure, tower height of 68 meters, the top of the tower light view 24.5 nautical miles, the main light flashes every 10 seconds, and is equipped with radar transponders and radio navigation systems and other equipment, is the highest of China's 16 navigation stations, there is a "first beacon tower in Asia," the name.

Kwai Tan Dageng Garden

Kwai Tan Dageng Garden is located in Kwai Tan Township, on the north side of National Highway 324, by the 81-year-old Chinese intangible cultural heritage representative heritage, the world's cultural and artistic research center members, Chinese ancient architecture experts Xue Fuxin presided over the design. Dageng Garden covers an area of 16,800 square meters.

Chisongguan Longzang Cave

In the town of Huicheng, Huilai County, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, Guangdong Province, 8 kilometers northwest of the town, there is a goat's intestinal tract leading to a temple of an immortal in the ancient past, the world known as "Longzang Cave". Here, the mountains and beautiful water, quiet and elegant, beautiful natural scenery, folklore: the local drought water shortage, only here all day spring water gurgling.

Kwai Tan Shikang Yuan

Shikang Yuan is located in Xuanwu Community, Kwai Tan Township, Huilai County, and was invested and built by Mr. Lin Shikang.

Shi Kuang Yuan is divided into two parts. The front part of the stone carving of nine dragons spitting beads, surrounded by a spectacular scale of 280 marble monument forest, carved with Ye Xuanping, Ma Wanqi, Qigong, Shen Peng, Sun Yicheng, Guan Shanyue, and other leaders from around the country, as well as in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, and other areas of the celebrities and famous people gratuitously gift of 278 pieces of calligraphy and painting*** more than 500 pieces of the hospital collection of famous books and paintings. After part of the main building of the nine courtyards in one, the halls of painted buildings and beams, gold and jade carving, stone carving stone columns, unique style, extremely well done, the halls and the four compartments engraved with hundreds of frames of poems, lyrics, couplings, plaques, east and west corridors hanging plaques, couplets, a wide range of all the treasures; the roof was sculpted with various types of screen with the Jiangnan Chaoshan area of the people's homes and folklore, eighteen vertical marble columns engraved with twelve portraits of animals, all kinds of animal figures Realistic, calling out; quiet flower garden, flowers and trees, grass and trees, rich in vitality.

Haijiao Ganquan

Haijiao Ganquan is located in the southeast corner of the township of Shenquan, Song time is a freshwater spring on the beach, Ming time built into a spring well. Wang Wei, the governor of the Qing Dynasty, built a pavilion next to the well, and engraved Su Fu's couplets on the pavilion columns, and wrote a monument. In the Qing Dynasty, there was a poem about the spring in which it was said, "There is a marvelous scene at the end of the world, and there is a sweet spring in the cape", which gave rise to the elegant name of "sweet spring in the cape".

Huangguangshan Foguang Temple

Huangguangshan Foguang Temple in Huilai County. Located in the northwest of Huilai County, 17.3 kilometers from the county town, located in Xixi Town, Luyang Village and Quxi Village, between the mountains. Originally known as "Huangtenggang", once called "Huangtinggang", later renamed "Huangguangshan". Qing Xuantong three years (1911) Guiyue (lunar August) inscribed as "Huangguangshan", 1997 renamed "Huangguangshan Foguang Temple," so the name. 2004 Foguang Temple by the Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission as " Guangdong Provincial Committee of Religious Activities of civilization". 2005 October, Huilai County Buddhist Association and the temple monks invited, Nanhua Temple Abbot Chuanzheng monk formally served as the presidency of the Buddha Light Temple.

Rongshi Yongfu Zen Temple

Rongshi Yongfu Zen Temple is in the north of Huilai County. Stone had a shrine dedicated to the mother of the nine children God, the Ming Dynasty and in its side of the construction of Yung Shi Nunnery, this nunnery over the centuries through the vicissitudes of life, a few times the rise and fall, after the liberation of the overseas Chinese donations to rebuild a new temple, called "Yung Shi Yongfu Temple", the existing Maharaja Temple, East and West Pavilion, Shrine of Virtue, the temple, such as the master.

Mirage

Mirage appeared from time to time in the southwest of Shenquan Harbor sea surface, the time more in the spring and summer, the day will be the eve of the rain. "Mirage" appeared every time there are different, there are ancient pavilions, pavilions, there are modern skyscrapers, but also appeared in the Japanese invasion of China war scenes.

Jinghai Fort

Jinghai Fort is located in Huilai County, Jinghai Town, the ancient name of Jinghai. Jinghai set up in the mountain heights, the city narrow circumference of more than 1500 meters, nearly 5 meters high. The northeast side of the city is complete, with urns and towers, walls built of stone, with battlements and lookout holes. Jing Hai Shuo has always been a military stronghold in the Chaoshan area, and during the Ming Dynasty, there were north and south fortresses and beacon towers built nearby.

Ke Bird's Tail Stalagmite

Jinghai Town, Ke Bird's Tail Stalagmite area is only 30 kilometers away from Huilai County, along the way is a beautiful seaside promenade, in the middle of the country's first beacon tower and other scenic attractions, as well as in the construction of the country's largest wind power plant, is a golden route for tourism.

Golden Bay International Golf Club

Golden Bay International Golf Club is located in the Golden Bay Botanical Garden in Dongpu Village, Xianan Town, Huilai County, Guangdong Province, with an international standard golf course, the ball will be designed and modeled by the Australian T.W.P. company, Mr. Peter Thomson, Mr. Ross, Mr. Peter, and Mr. Leung Kwok Kwan*** in China. International standard American, Australian and Japanese fairways, standard seventy-two hole course. The course is equipped with a long-hitting driving range on the Golden Bay Island green.

Shuang Yan Zen Temple

Bai Hua Shan Zhuang Yan Zen Temple, located in Huilai County, thirty miles east of the town of Zhou Tian Shi Jia Village, commonly known as the "Hundred Flowers tip". It was created in the Song Dynasty, Ming and Qing dynasties have repair and expansion, the scale is magnificent. 1983 October was listed as the county key cultural relics protection units, in August 1988 was approved to register open, the Department of Lingdong one of the famous scenery.

Huilai Song Dafeng Ancestor

Huilai Song Dafeng Ancestor is located in Huilai County, Longjiang Township, Gangqian Village, dedicated to Dafeng Ancestor, by the private sector to raise funds of more than seven million yuan to build the moment of the wood carvings are from the hands of master craftsmen, is a fine piece of traditional folk art, highly appreciated value.

Wenchangge Tower Wenchangge Tower is located in Huilai County, south of the city, was first built in Ming Jiajing years, the Qing Shunzhi destroyed in a fire, the twenty-sixth year of the Kangxi (1687) County Zhang Bingzheng repair cabinet, move north to south. Qianlong two years (1737) county magistrate Yang Zongbing in the pavilion in front of the ancestral temple in situ to build the three-story Wenchangge tower, the forehead is said to be "kuiguangge". This tower for feng shui tower, is an ancient masonry structure, shell ash rammed, shape for three octagonal, dense eaves tower eaves, 23 meters high, each layer has a stone pillar bracket, outside the balustrade, inside the rotary ladder can be up; Algae wells painted on the bagua figure. The third floor of the north door is engraved with the Qing dynasty governor Zhou Shuo Xun "Chao Feng Lingyun" in regular script. Climbing the tower, the sea and mountains, as far as the eye can see.