Aquarium Festival

The Shui nationality has a long history, splendid culture and many festivals, each with its own characteristics. According to the water calendar, the Shui people have their own unique traditional festivals, such as Maojie Festival, Duanjie Festival, Suning Happy Festival and Xiajing Festival. Also known as Guajie, the Shui people call it "borrowing the end", which means "eating" in water language. It is celebrated in Sandu County, Duyun, Dushan and Libo in Guizhou Province, similar to the Spring Festival of the Han nationality.

Before the festival, everyone cleaned the courtyard and cleaned the room inside and outside. On the day before the festival, the festive village rang bronze drums to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new. During the festival, chickens and ducks are killed to eat new grain, soup is stewed with fresh fish, and new rice soup is prepared to entertain relatives and friends. Young men and women played music and danced around Duanpo, and held horse racing, bullfighting, cultural performances, film screenings, dinners with relatives and friends and other activities. Sacrifice ancestors on New Year's Eve (the night of the first day) and the morning of the first day (the morning of the first day), and don't eat meat. The offerings can't have other meat except fish. No meat, but no fish. The main product of ancestor worship is fish skin leek, because it is said that ancestors used nine kinds of vegetables and medicines made of fish and shrimp to drive away all diseases. Its practice is to put the washed fish belly into seasonings such as leek, pickled pepper, onion, ginger and garlic, and then stew or steam it.

The Shui nationality has its own calendar, and the "Duanjie" is calculated from the water calendar of the Shui book. It is chosen from February to February in the water calendar 10 (equivalent to August to10 in the lunar calendar), and every day in the year of the pig is traditionally celebrated in batches. It is the harvest of the big season, the sowing of the small season, and the end of the year and the beginning of the water calendar. Therefore, this is a grand festival to bid farewell to the old and welcome the new, celebrate the harvest and offer sacrifices to ancestors.

In the Shui nationality, there is a traditional distinction between "crossing the border and not crossing it", and the order of festivals in different regions cannot be reversed or confused. About this custom, a consistent legend is that Deng Gong, the ancestor of the ancient Shui people, had two sons. His brother was assigned to the upper inner coat area and his younger brother was assigned to the lower 9000 area. It was agreed that after the harvest, we would go to Zufu to celebrate. Later, I felt that the distance was far away and it was not convenient to communicate with each other. I have decided that my brother will have a holiday and my brother will have a holiday. Today, the Shui people all over the country basically share the same surname and spend the holidays together. The language of water is called "borrowing". It's just a festival celebrated by the Shui people in Jiuqian area of Sandu county and the adjacent area of Libo county, which is equivalent to the Spring Festival of Han nationality. The date is chosen in September and October (May and June of the lunar calendar) after transplanting rice seedlings, and Xinmao Day is an auspicious day, which is celebrated in four batches in turn. Because "Maojie Festival" and "Duanjie Festival" are actually China's New Year, the area where Maojie Festival is celebrated is not Duanjie Festival, nor is it celebrated. Mausoleum is the climax of festival activities. On the first day of the lunar new year, it is popular for young men and women to rush to Maopo to sing duet. Maopo is a place chosen by customs for many years, and it is designed for young men and women to engage in a wide range of social activities in the form of singing duets. Generally speaking, more choices are made at the top of the flat slope near the mountain and water, which can accommodate tens of thousands of people.

At that time, not only the young people celebrating Mao Jie in the village will go to Maopo to sing, but also men, women and children from other villages and neighboring counties will come to attend the grand event. Before the duet began, a respected old man publicly announced the commandment in the music world: only unmarried young men and women can participate in the duet. And wish the younger generation of duet can find their own Mr Right in duet. So, amid the clamor and laughter, young men and women flocked to find opponents who sang the right song, propped up colorful flower umbrellas to cover their faces, sang the right song in the bushes, grass and rocks on Maopo, or stood or sat, sitting on the floor. If both men and women sing to their liking, as long as the man's family takes gifts such as pigs, wine and glutinous rice afterwards, they can get married when the wedding date is selected. Generally, there is little interference at home. Therefore, Mao Jie is called "the ancient Oriental Valentine's Day". People of "three lives and six lives" should avoid eating dog meat, mutton and turtledove meat, otherwise they will lose their legs. Every year from the end of August to the beginning of October in the lunar calendar, every four days (* * *) is the day when the aquarium celebrates the "Duan" Festival. Don't eat meat and fish during festivals, and don't use tung oil when lighting.

When you are away from home, you should avoid cooking badly and throwing bowls and chopsticks, for fear of being killed on the road and not being able to go home.

Landslides do not withstand the wind and rain, and snakes and ants enter the house or wasps nest at home, all of which are considered ominous.

Avoid seeing a large flock of crows, thinking that such a place will be chaotic.

Avoid birds falling into people, thinking that it is not good for travel or indicates evil things.

Avoid wild animals entering the village, thinking that wild animals entering the village are a sign of disaster.

Avoid seeing pregnant women. When doing something, pregnant women will see it and fail.

Avoid seeing the opposite sex go to the toilet. Go out to do business, meet the opposite sex, feel unlucky, unlucky.

Avoid pigs and cows entering the house, thinking it is extremely unlucky, and kill the pigs and cows that enter the house to worship the gods.

Avoid dogs with only one son at a time, pigs with only two sons at a time, and chickens crow at a time. Don't thunder on the wedding day, otherwise it will be considered unlucky and hung all day, so the Shui people marry the twelfth lunar month in winter.

Before the wedding time, avoid the bride entering the groom's house for fear that the bride will not live with her husband in the future.

When the bride enters the groom's house, she should step over the saddle and brazier to avoid stepping on the threshold, for fear that the bride will never leave her husband's house in the future. At the same time, everyone in male families should avoid it. After the bride enters the new house, the family will get together to say hello. After death, everyone in the same area should avoid vegetarian food (except fish). When the woman died, her parents and husband were vegetarians until they were buried.

Married women are not allowed to die at home. Even if her parents allow it, the whole village will object, thinking that it is not good for the whole village.

Don't drop the tears of the living on the dead, for fear that the dead can't find the way to reincarnate or get caught in the rain; The shroud of the deceased should be odd; When the dead are dying, don't wear cotton-padded clothes for fear that future generations will be deaf.