Customs and Folklore of Wuwei

Describing a person's dementia: pussy not demented

Yesterday: Chao Lu

Corn: Rokukuozi

Tapping with the knuckle of the thumb: a slap on the tumor

Little boy: boy

Don't yell: don't hiss

Women: nipples

Speech: Hong Kong

Today: with the

Morrow: tomorrowTomorrow: tomorrow

Yesterday: yesterday

The day before yesterday: the day before

The day after tomorrow: the day after

It rains: rain

Morning: morning

Afternoon: afternoon

Evening: evening

Eat: dinner

Is it: yes, it's not

Father: ah, ah, ah, ah! Dad

Mom: ah mom

Grandpa: ah heap

Uncle: ah grandpa

Uncle's wife: ah Auntie

Uncle's wife: big mom {2 uncle's wife is: the second mom: and so on}

Describe the child: small teeth

Go there: go to the ah

New Year's Day, New Year's Day. The Spring Festival is the most solemn festival of the country. From the eighth to the thirtieth day of the first month of the lunar calendar is called the end of the year, the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first year is called the beginning of the year, collectively referred to as "the beginning of the year, the end of the year". Proverb: "the first month of the New Year, February is good to do the field, March grass cover cow hooves, it is the time to pay homage to the New Year, hand in hand with a sickle to cut wheat, on the road to meet the New Year's guest", as the saying goes, "have a heart to pay homage to the New Year, the Dragon Boat Festival is not too late". Chaohu City, a vast area, a hundred miles of different winds, ten miles of different customs, for thousands of years, all over the convention of the New Year's custom colorful, both time change and a lineage. This article on the city's New Year's Eve customs, especially the ancient New Year's Eve customs to make a brief introduction.

New Year's Eve in the books

New Year's Eve in the counties and districts in the ancient books, are recorded, although brief and concise, but also can "stand here to save the picture".

Ming and Qing dynasties, Jiu Chao, Lujiang, Wuwei belongs to the Luzhou Prefecture, and the county, Hanshan under the state and the state. As a result of different affiliations, customs are slightly different. Recorded four counties and a district of the Qing dynasty during the Kangxi period of the revised book on the customs of the year "file".

Wuwei: "WUWEIZHOUZHI - the time of year": "the twenty-third day of the lunar month, the worship of the God of the stove"; New Year's Eve, "change the peach symbols, the book of the spring stickers, sacrifices to the five sacrifices and ancestor, and the New Year's Eve to meet the God of the stove. There are people who keep the New Year's Eve vigil all night long"; "On New Year's Eve, rice is cooked, and clean paper is spread on the rice to check whether it is wet or dry in the corners and the center, so as to take it as an omen for the coming year. It is the night of the four sides of the black"; New Year's Day (i.e., Spring Festival) "to worship and congratulate after drinking Tusu wine"; on the first day of the Lantern Festival (Lantern Festival) "food Lantern Festival, open the lanterns mixed with a hundred plays, xiao drums and drums all night long, there is a welcome to the God of the Purple Cuckoo, divination of sericulture with a multitude of people".

Jiu Chao: "Chao County Records - Customs" in: "Spring New Year's Day, the rooster crows, affiliated with the crown, incense burning candles, worship days to visit the ancestors, the first and honored families, the reclassification of worship. Ming, out of congratulations to friends and relatives, or to throw a slash. Strike the market, Yan drink, cut color paper for flowers, called the color wins, hanging outdoors. Dedication of three days, sacrifices to the gods of the Division of the door, burning colorful victory, and then open the market"; "on the night of the Lantern Festival, the city streets and alleys, the head of each house, with wooden lanterns, inserted cypress branches of holly, hanging lanterns on the shelf. Or for walking horses, fish and dragons of mixed colors of the elephant, or each workshop for the dragon lamp, a few feet long, each section of the candle, held by dozens of people, the snake coiled, dancing in the market. Or a spherical wheel, or a lion, people hide which, hovering and jumping. Or people dressed in colorful clothes, storytelling, acting as a play, known as the Lantern Festival. All the fir gold and drums, playing the sheng song, firecrackers and fireworks, along the street guide to meet, shine bright, like day. From thirteen to seventeen, where five nights. City four townships, young and old viewers, and fill the road. Sixteen nights, the women were led across the bridge, hit the tile percussion, such as the demon Xiangxian aversion to victory story, to friends and relatives to feed, all with broomcorn millet flour as a round pill, said the Lantern Festival. And make cocoon shape, to should be the silk of the sign"; "to welcome the spring day, zha color pavilion, take the thirty-six rows of households, rows of each a pavilion, music women several people, beautiful make-up and decorations, between the colorful lotus boat, the group of colorful clothes to see. County officials welcome the spring bull, Mang Shen, the service with it, to the east gate of the Church, scattered spring flowers and drink. Hundreds of people in its side or Cuju, or play horse, no ban, the viewers like a jam, the so-called and the people with the music also".

Lujiang: "Lujiang County Records - Yearly Order" records: New Year's Eve "set up a candle sacrifice first, firecrackers from the epidemic"; the first day of the "people celebrating, three days off the market"; "Lantern Festival City shed lights, thirteen days to twenty days is off! ". At that time, the clothing, food and living room, is "clothing" "revered irregularly, more cloth, plain crown and shoes, there are over"; food "more fertile than in the past, the villages still have the ancient style"; living room "The city's civil engineering is quite extravagant compared to the previous one.

Hanshan, and the county because "the beginning of the Ming dynasty for the land of the gui, Dahua was, the four people of their own work, and the Confucian winds especially. Henshan County Records - Customs ":" December 23 sacrifice to the God of the stove, less than the lift, once the next day ";" New Year's Eve, paste the God of the door, Spring Festival, sealing the door. Livestock sweet sacrificial ancestors, with white fish to receive the stove, the family wine vigil, drums, firecrackers sound up to Dan. The first few days to feed the festival"; "the spring before the first day to welcome the spring, the eastern suburbs of the door to pick the legend has been things, portraits, gathered in front of the Guansheng Temple, known as the performance of the spring. Near and far, children and old men, competing to see for fun, the old farmers depending on the soil cattle square color, to account for the appropriate. Depending on the hook man's hat and shoes, to account for busy, scattered spring flowers, spring branches. Tianjia hit the long rice-planting drums, all the officials are finished, imported into the county in front of the county seat, the cross-examination of boots, spring as system"; New Year's Day, "men and women from morning to night to rise in full regalia, the family gods after the sacrifice, depending on the age of the auspicious direction, the fire to worship the temple, friends and relatives to congratulate each other on the New Year's Day. People's day to account for the disease of yin and sunshine. Valley Day, to account for the year's abundance and failure of yin and sunshine, before this, such as the beginning of the chicken and two dogs, said also"; on the first "a few days before the Lantern House, the city lights, paper-cutting for the lights, decorated with color, such as lotus, snowflakes, etc. into the market to sell, a little strong, or painted yarn, or Koza, or goat leather, or screen, or mountain, salty to win Shang Shang Shang. Or gather for the dragon lantern, or horizontal taut in the street and hanging lights under it, hidden poems and riddles to try to speculate. Since thirteen or fourteen nights for the trial lamp, fifteen nights for the main lamp, the family system of Lanterns and pay each other. Sixteen nights of women's outings, said to walk away from a hundred diseases, but also unusual. Gentleman's home and a little decent are prohibited"; rituals "more sacrifices in the hall bed and no family temple, the four seasons to the two solstices and in the yuan, New Year's Eve, the birth of the anniversary of the sacrifice".

After the founding of the country's New Year's custom

1993 version of the "and County Records - Seasonal Festivals," contained: send stove on the evening of the twenty-fourth day of the Lunar New Year's month, the family firecrackers, burned paper horse, send "Zaowang master to the West," is the day, began to dust, write the door to the New Year's Day, prepare for New Year's Day; New Year's Eve, after the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner stickers, the evening in advance of New Year's Eve meal, with candles! Burning incense, firecrackers, resignation of the old year, the family reunion to eat New Year's Eve, "resignation of the New Year's fish, do not move chopsticks", meaning "year after year". In the evening, parents give their children New Year's money, wipe the children's mouths with straw paper to show that "children's words are reckless", and burn incense and set off firecrackers to receive the god of the stove. Older people will keep watch all night until dawn.

The 1980s, the family gathered together to play poker, watch TV, to 12 midnight firecrackers, to welcome the New Year; Spring Festival on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar to the third, commonly known as the New Year. On the first day of the year, families get up early with candles and incense, first honor the ancestors, and then set off firecrackers to "open the door to wealth". Sugar, pastries, five-spice eggs, noodles for breakfast, to show longevity and good fortune. Women do not cook, do not sweep the floor, do not pour water, do not move the needle and scissors. Young men and women in the North Country in groups of three or five to the elders to pay tribute to the New Year, the South Country, the younger generation with sugar packets to the family relatives to pay tribute to the elders of the New Year. Going out to meet acquaintances, each other arching "New Year's greetings", wishing "congratulations and wealth". Is the meal, the family ate New Year's Eve more to do and the rest of the meal, in order to show that year after year. The second and third of the year, morning and evening firecrackers, the next generation out of the door to relatives to pay tribute to the New Year.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, burning incense and superstitious activities gradually canceled, but open the door to wealth, firecrackers, New Year's greetings, visiting friends and relatives, pay respects to each other and other activities are still circulating. Town authorities also added a "Spring Festival Tea Party", "supporting the military," "support for the people," "support for the people," "condolences to the martyrs and retired cadres ", "reunion" and other activities; Lantern Festival breakfast to eat Lantern, commonly known as the small year. Dinner firecrackers, eat New Year's dinner. Before the founding of the country, the rural areas also held to lift the bodhisattva piling, seeking God, judging the success of the year.

2010 "Lujiang County Records - the year festival" cloud: New Year's Eve in the folk, every year into the waxing moon, began to prepare for the New Year. Years outside the study, labor, business people, regardless of the sky and the north and south, have to go a long way back home, commonly known as "money no money, go home for the New Year; the family get together, couples reunion". Since the second half of the month of Lunar New Year, families began to do New Year's goods, "dust", clean to welcome the New Year. On the twenty-third day of the Lunar New Year, the folk custom of sending stove. The night of the 24th day of the lunar month, but also to organize a ceremony to receive the ancestors, will be the ancestors of the family to take home for the New Year, some in the New Year's Day 23 to receive the ancestors. The afternoon of New Year's Eve, each family should be in the door window fan paste "door to", "door Qing" (with red paper hollow carved various patterns of the lintel), paste New Year's paintings, in order to increase the festive atmosphere of the New Year. In the old days, on New Year's Eve, each family would hold a ritual activity such as "receiving the stove" and "inviting the ancestors".

The most important activity on New Year's Eve is to have a New Year's dinner together. Shengqiao, Baishan and other towns in the north are popular for eating New Year's dinner at noon, while other towns eat New Year's dinner in the evening, which is also known as "New Year's Eve dinner". New Year's (night) dinner table, regardless of the family's economic conditions, dishes more or less, only fish can not be missing. "Fish" is a homonym of "Yu", a metaphor for "year after year" and "celebration after celebration". With the growth of economic income, people's lives improve, in the city of Lu and some townships, some families began to eat in restaurants and hotels package New Year's (night) dinner. After eating the New Year's Eve dinner, the elders should give the younger generation "pressure money". Nowadays, it is fashionable to work outside the home for the holiday children to elders pack "New Year's money", filial piety.

ABC of Chaohu New Year's Customs

From the records, it can be seen that people in Chaohu celebrate the New Year from the eighth day of the first month of Lunar New Year to the fifteenth day of the first month of the first month of the first year of the Chinese New Year. In this period of time, there are the following major New Year's customs:

LaBa Festival: "After the eighth day of the Lunar New Year, the New Year will be done". On this day, all places eat Laha congee. Laha congee is made of indica rice, glutinous rice, mung beans, peanuts and other eight kinds of food mix. Because it is the beginning of the year, folk are very important, so there is a proverb: "pick up a winter firewood, a Lahai congee on the burn". Lujiang, Wuwei and other places, in the past, but also give each other Lahai congee, and divided into poultry and livestock to eat, but also in the fruit trees, farm equipment, doors and windows on the smear, wishing that livestock thriving fruit trees, doors and windows can be understanding, take care of the home.

The night watchman: In the past, the security chaos, the city and the countryside throughout the year have to beat the night watchman, every night at about ten o'clock to beat the night watchman, so there is a "night watchman gongs and drums, shut the door and turn off the lights". From December to the first month of the year, three shifts were played. "The three nights of the year are New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival.

Sending the stove: there is a saying "the crossword of the God of the stove - the head of the family", the source is the stove image next to the couplet "say good things in heaven, the lower world to ensure peace", the crossword is "The head of the family". The god of the stove is called "Zaojun", also known as "Master Zao". Stove festival has the so-called "official three people four boat family five", that is, the government in the waxing moon twenty-three, the general folk in the twenty-four, the water family is held on twenty-five Stove festival. Chaohu folk generally eat to send the stove poop, it is said to be with the poop will be the stove master mouth plugged, the stove master to heaven will not be "truthful". After dinner, incense and candles are placed on the pots and pans, the stove is burned, and the head of the family kneels in front of the stove and prays, and holds the water in both hands and throws it at the door, reciting the prayer: "A bowl of water and a puff of smoke, to send your old man to the West, good things, please play more, and bad things, don't say anything. Thirty nights to take you back, the first day of the year to you to pay good morning".

Sweeping the dust: "On the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, dusting and sweeping the house". Because of the "dust" and "Chen" consonant, dust sweeping has the meaning of "in addition to the new", the intention is to put all the "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck", "poor luck" and "poor luck". "

Sweeping the dust has the meaning of "getting rid of the old and bringing in the new", the intention is to get rid of all the "poor luck" and "bad luck".

Hug Tsubaki tree: Lujiang area on the night of the New Year's Eve arrangements for children to hold the Tsubaki tree custom. Tsubaki tree is the king of the tree, is said to be Zhu Yuanzhang sealed. When Zhu Yuanzhang fight, the end of the road, in the Lu North area met a piece of mulberry, live by eating mulberry, after ascending to the throne of the mulberry forest for the king, the minister came to Lujiang, Zhang Guanli to Tsubaki tree sealed as the king of the tree, so Tsubaki tree will thrive. The child hugged the tree while reading the mnemonic: "Tsubaki tree old man neem tree mother, you grow high I grow long, you grow high good to build a house, I grow long when the groom".

New Year's Eve: New Year's Eve means "the end of the month and the end of the year", and people have to get rid of the old and bring in the new, with the meaning of the old year being removed and the new year being replaced in the coming year, which is the last night of the whole year in the lunar calendar. Therefore, the activities during this period are centered around the old and new, eliminate disasters and pray for blessings as the center.

One is to paste the Spring Festival couplets, Spring Festival is the business card of the Spring Festival. In the Tang and Song dynasties, the door god Shentian, Yubi, and then simplified into peach symbols; to the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang edicts the world, "the door must be added to the Spring Festival couplets," the Spring Festival couplets and then popularized in the world. In the past, few readers as morning stars, the people cut red paper to borrow a bowl dipped in pot ash cover circle into a link. There is a rumor: "buy a good red paper, illiterate with pots of ash. Bowl mouth dipped in ash paper cover, circles connected to the table wish: four circles of everything is as expected, five circles of five grain harvest year; six circles out of the six animals Wang, seven circles coincidentally knot magpie bridge edge; eight circles in the eight will be the main hair, nine circles for a long time the whole family happy ......."

The second is to eat the New Year's Eve dinner, there are " I'd rather tighten my belt for a year and not let the New Year's Eve dinner be less than a bowl of vegetables", he said. The New Year's dinner on the fish, tofu, round is a necessary dish, Chaohu Lake aquatic abundance, and there are "a Mandarin fish two carp three silver carp" level, the rich choose Mandarin fish, buckle "rich and powerful", the general selection of carp, "jumping Dragon Gate "The poor use silver carp, silver carp, cheap, "year after year"; tofu is a necessary dish, "rot" harmonic "rich", and white as jade, "rich", "rich". "affluent"; round with the symbolism of reunion.

Third, firecrackers, "firecrackers in a year".

The fourth is to keep the New Year's Eve, brightly lit, around the fireplace night talk, one night even double years, five nights divided into two years. In the old days, the year-end vigil is a family gathered in the hall, roasting fire, drinking tea, talk about the world, some families play cards together, rubbing mahjong, until half past midnight, burning to meet the New Year's "open the door cannon" before resting. Now on New Year's Eve, the family watched the Spring Festival Gala; Lantern Festival families in the early morning firecrackers, breakfast to eat Lantern Festival (glutinous rice flour dumplings with sweet fillings, Lujiang, southern townships commonly known as dumplings), the evening around the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival, also known as the Festival of Lantern Festival, Festival of Lights. When the night comes, lanterns haunted the market, men and women, young and old to watch the lights, ten thousand people with the same music.

Fifth, adults to children packaged New Year's money, "adults are busy planting, children look forward to the New Year," the New Year in addition to good food and good clothes, but also receive a substantial amount of New Year's money, the children of course look forward to.

Sixth is to seal the door, in the door on the seal, seal with two pieces of red paper to write, a "so-and-so year New Year's Eve night to seal", a "so-and-so year New Year's Day, open the door to good luck".

Seven for the start of the year, the year-end, pay attention to listen to indoor and outdoor animals and birds, listen to what animals "start the year" to predict the year's abundance of bad, such as sparrows, rats start the year, the food can be expected to harvest; crows start the year of disaster; geese and geese start the year, there is a military disaster; cats start the year, the price of fish and shrimp; the dog start the year, there will be more thieves and so on.

Eight for the opening of the door, also known as the opening of the door of wealth, families are scrambling to open the door of wealth, get up early to get wealth. Open the door when the mouth recited the words: "open the door, all the best," to the east, west, south, north and south of a bow, read "East into the West on the South through the North, up to".

New Year's Day: the first day of the first month for New Year's Day, first of all, let go of the door firecrackers, firecrackers, broken red all over the ground, as brilliant as a cloud of brocade, known as the "Hall of Fame". The second is to pay homage to the New Year. The wind of New Year's Eve, the Han Dynasty has. After the Tang and Song Dynasty is very popular, some do not have to go in person, can be used to throw congratulations on the post. The Eastern Han Dynasty called "prick", after the Ming Dynasty, many people in the doorway to stick a red paper bag, specializing in the name of the post, called "door book". Ming Dynasty poet Wen Zhengming in the "New Year's greetings" poem describes: "do not seek to meet but through the visit, the name of the paper towards the full sheltered hut; I also cast a number of paper with the people, the world hate suspected of simple not suspected of false". New Year's visit can be largely divided into going to relatives, courtesy visits, thanks to the visit, strings of visits. In some places in the mountains, some male members of the family go up the mountain to cut firewood, which means "getting rich".

Pick up and drop off the God of Fortune: the second day of the first month, some stores to meet the God of Fortune ceremony, in front of the shrine dedicated to the God of Fortune to display offerings, incense and cannons, the God of Fortune, Zhao Gongming, on both sides of the "hand holding a steel whip into the treasures of the body riding a black tiger wide wealth," the couplet. Poor people in the countryside specializing in sending "God of Wealth", for the yellow table paper printed on the wooden statue, each to the door of a house, read aloud: "God of Wealth God of Wealth, listen to my orders, the left foot on the gold, the right foot on the silver. The God of Wealth comes to the door, inviting joy and wealth. The God of Wealth smiles and laughs, dragging silver and Yuanbao to the house, dragging them in but not out, dragging a house in three days, buying a field and making a house. The God of Wealth is happy, pearls and agates are measured in buckets. The God of Wealth is all smiles, everything is going well. Plant a money tree in the east and a treasure bowl in the west. The God of Wealth is smiling and happy, the God of Fortune is smiling and happy.

Sending the New Year: "After three days of the year, or the original", strictly speaking, in the Chaohu area, the year is only three days, to the early morning of the third day of the first month of the year, thousands of households will firecrackers to send the New Year.

Singing Door Song: Singing Door Song's lyrics are mostly "looking at the style willow", such as "small five blessings seven inches long, inserted in the boss two beams, the east wind together with the dragon swinging tail, the west wind together with the fragrance of osmanthus", "small lantern gimlet silk, red thread candles in the head, lanterns and candles, the red thread candles in the head, the red thread candles in the head, the red thread candles in the head. Although the lantern is small, it shines in the nine states, and there are good friends under the nine states", "The gong depends on the drum, the young daughter-in-law depends on the gong, the curved tree depends on the mountain, and the old dragon depends on Jiao Lake, and it depends on the master to know how to sing", and "The big stars in the sky are sparse, so don't laugh at the poor people who wear poor clothes. Don't laugh at the poor people wearing rags, there is no such thing as a poor person who is poor to the end, and there is no such thing as a rich person who is rich all his life, Zhu Hongwu can still be an emperor even if he is begging for food.", "The three of us are steaming together in a cage, and you two are familiar with each other, and I am new to this world, you two are new to this world, and you two are good, and I am new to this world, and I am new to this world. You don't have to squeeze, you can't afford to pay for the broken orchids, the big orchid is worth 800 dollars, the small orchid is worth a thousand or so", "I don't have to squeeze, I have to pay for the broken orchids, Okada has made 800 tens of tons, the dike has to make a thousand or so". "

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Accumulation of the year: Jiu Chao, Lujiang and other ancient records, "the first month, Dongfang Shuo accounted for the first eight days of the year, a chicken, two dogs, three pigs, four goats, five oxen, six horses, seven people, eight valleys, each class accounted for in the event of clear is auspicious"; "New Year's Day accounted for the Hou, the wind should be clear and windless for the first, there is a wind is suitable for the Northeast! ". If the day is clear, the subject matter flourishes, when the day is cloudy, the subject matter does not prosper. Later generations from the occupation of the year developed into a series of rituals and celebrations. There is the first day do not kill chickens, the second do not kill dogs, the third do not kill pigs ...... the first seven do not execute the custom. "the first six days of the first month of the wind, then all four hours of the wind up, commonly known as the 'six wind son', twenty days to avoid rain, the proverb: 'the first month of the twenty yin, yin yin drops to the Qingming'", "the first month without three daughters, the field home bitter not full", "the first month of thunder February snow, three dry April rice planting festival" and so on to name a few.

Bite spring: spring for the twenty-four seasons in the first holiday, this day to eat spring cake called "bite spring". Folk in the spring on this day to eat some spring fresh vegetables, both for the prevention of disease, but also to meet the meaning of the new year. "Spring three days, the grass back to the sun," the best filling for the spring cake, "spring in the creek shepherd's purse flowers".

Lunar New Year's Lantern Festival: "the 15th day of the first month is like a year, eat a piece of fat good to the field", both the importance of the Lantern Festival and the Lantern Festival is the end of the year. The Lantern Festival in Chaohu is mainly about playing with lanterns and the Bodhisattva Pingshui. Playing with lights is generally the seventh beginning of the lights, to the first month of the fifteenth for the festival of lights. Lu north of the lights are colorful, such as Changting big Ying, Tangjia abduction of the lion lamp, Chenjia abduction of the dragon lamp are near and far the famous "light nest". Lujiang people like to play lights to enjoy the lights, ten thousand empty streets, Chaohu Lake shore of jujube dragon village, there is a piece of jingle: "jujube dragon play lights good sin, big girls and small daughters-in-law to the home to receive, the shelf bed extrusion crack, pus fruit sores extrusion dripping blood, squatting tank up, rice tank fall, the haystacks to be plucked a big cut. Although Lujiang "characters voice, terroir Mingmao, are better than the Huai right places", but before the liberation of "little business, specializing in harvest", play light is entertainment, the second is begging, so there is a ballad: "Changting Daiying do not know ugly, New Year's Day to play! Old lion dog (play lion), jump three jumps, twist three, get some money to go home and drink wine. There are also poor people do not dare to take the lamp, play lamp people will sing "black knee gate date tree tie, see me come to the door closed, one is not a bandit to rob you, two is not a thief to steal off your latch, the new New Year's Day to play in front of your house." The towns are playing with lanterns and carrying out "lantern riddle" activities.

Buddha Ping Shui is the Lantern Festival day, and the county, Henshan, Jiu Chao, Lujiang around the pike, held a "buddha Ping Shui" ceremony. The "Dragon King Temple" and other enshrined Bodhisattva lifted in the river bank lake beach "patrol", by four people to lift a Bodhisattva to the river bank, by a Taoist priest to kill the rooster to take the chicken blood sacrifice Bodhisattva, and dance sword shouting: "look at the water pile dragon driving before, the dragon driving after leaning! The dragon's chariot rises in front, the dragon's chariot leans back!" Four people carry the Bodhisattva forward or backward accordingly, and if the Bodhisattva does not move, the Taoist priest says, "Chunshui Pile, the dragon rides forward; the dragon rides backward." Straight wait for the bodhisattva moved, the Taoist priest in its place, marking the highest water level of the flood season this year, pike people save for a rainy day.

Additionally, and County in the past on the fifteenth night of the first month of the countryside also "shine field leakage", adults and children carrying lanterns, came to the field, adults shine, the children asked "shine what?" Adults replied, "Shine on the field leakage". The child asked, "Where are the leaks coming from?" The adult replied, "Snakes and ants make holes in them". The child asked again, "Have the snakes and ants been photographed?" The adult says, "No, they are scared away." In this way, the farmland will be blessed with no water leakage.

Wuwei County is located in the middle of Anhui Province, the southern frequency of the Yangtze River, the north according to the Chaohu Lake, the mountains around the northwest, the water gathered in the southeast. It is known as the land of fish and rice. WUWEI working people's ancestors live in the Yangtze River, farming for this, living a poor life. In the old society, the Yangtze River flooded and there was no grain harvest. In order to live and survive, they chose the unique natural conditions of the 800-mile Yangtze River, both farming and fishing, to sustain their lives. In order to celebrate the fishery harvest, fishing safety, every year the first month of the 15th Lantern Festival to the first month of the 30th for the play "fish lights" festival. At that time, the folk custom: play "fish lights" the first day called "open lights", play "fish lights" the last day called "close lights The last day of playing "fish lanterns" is called "closing the lanterns". From the first day of the "light" to set up a "table", the village is responsible for rituals, please Taoist priests do do, until the end of the end of the play light. If the village has an infectious disease or crop pests ...... all according to the form of "wishing back" to play "fish lamp". The working people play "fish lanterns" as "gods" to drive away evil, drive away the devil ...... for peace. They said: "burning incense to beat the jiao-festival, not against the red lamp a round" (red lamp refers to the "fish lamp"). They called "fish lamp" is "auspicious lamp", "peace lamp", "happiness lamp", since ancient times to today.

Wuwei folk dance "fish lantern" has a long history and a long stream. In the Northern Song Dynasty (1023-1063), Song Renzong (Zhao Zhen) was on the throne, and after Bao Gong returned to the court after winning the grain release in Chenzhou, he had called on all parts of the country to offer lanterns to the court for the great release of lanterns. At that time, WUWEI people offered eight fish ("fish lantern"), which was praised by the court. In this way, the Wuhui folk dance "Fish Lantern" has been preserved.

After 1949, WUWEI folk dance "fish lanterns" had a great development. 1956 to Beijing Huairen Hall to participate in the National Folk Music and Dance Concert, won the General Assembly's praise. Many dancers and scholars in China have highly praised WUWEI Fish Dance

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