The origin of chronology

One said: According to legend, Zhanjiang's "annual example" also originated from the Lantern Festival. Since the Han and Tang Dynasties, the cultural customs of the Central Plains have gradually penetrated into the land of western Guangdong, and the habit of setting off lanterns for fun during the Chinese New Year and the Lantern Festival has also been accepted. After combining with the local custom of celebrating harvest and praying for sacrifices, it gradually evolved into a grand and warm folk festival, which was highly valued by villagers.

One said: In fact, it is a comprehensive festival such as the Lantern Festival, temple fairs and the anniversary of moving ancestors in Zhanjiang and other places.

First of all, the chronology has something to do with Mrs Sendai. The annual activity originated from Xian's family's sacrifice and blessing, and evolved into today's annual activity after a long time.

From the Southern Dynasties to the Sui Dynasty, Lady Sendai, the Virgin of Lingnan, was an influential local figure. She has made outstanding contributions to safeguarding national unity and national unity, and was praised as "the first heroine in China" by Premier Zhou Enlai. Among the statues used for "wandering gods" in those years, there is a statue of Mrs. Sendai. It can be seen that her position in the hearts of local people is as lofty as a god. The local people respect a patriotic heroine so much, which also reflects their heroic feelings and patriotic thoughts. Perhaps honoring Mrs. Kenta Darvish as a god is just a continuation of our ancestors' practice, and treating Mrs. Kenta Darvish as a form of statute. But the cultural connotation contained in it cannot be erased. Mrs. Xian's culture makes the chronology more historic. It not only inherits feudal superstition, but also has positive humanistic spirit.

Objectively speaking, there is a difference between the New Year Festival and the Lantern Festival. The main differences are:

First of all, there is no uniform date for festivals every year, and most of them are concentrated between the twelfth lunar month and the second lunar month. There is also an annual "Autumn Festival" (held one month after the autumn harvest, mostly from March to November in the lunar calendar), which is held every month, and a few places hold festivals every two years in a year. The annual festival is usually held in a village for one day, and in some places it is held for two or three days. Yuanxiao is fixed on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, and it will not be called Yuanxiao after that day.

Second, different beliefs. Yuanxiao is called Shangyuan Festival, which is related to Taoist beliefs. During the period of Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty, the sacrificial activities of "Taiyi God" were scheduled for the 15th day of the first month. Taiyi: the God who rules the universe. When Sima Qian created the taichu calendar Law, he had already identified the Lantern Festival as a major festival. However, this year's religious beliefs were extensive. The gods it worships are the Taoist Sangong, the Buddhist Guanyin Bodhisattva, the indigenous Mrs. Sendai, the homeland, Kang Wang, and even ancestors, tree gods, ghosts and so on.

Thirdly, Lantern Festival is about eating Yuanxiao and lighting lanterns. There is no such habit in the laws and regulations. In ancient times, the statute focused on the exorcism ceremony of rural Nuo.

Fourthly, the areas where chronology prevails overlap with the areas where ancient slang people live, which is unique and unique, which is not available to other ethnic groups. Yuanxiao is a multi-ethnic festival with a wide area.

The so-called "year example" can be interpreted as a year example, which is also the "meal period" as the saying goes.

After the Spring Festival, the New Year in Maoming and other places began one after another. The so-called "year example" can be interpreted as a year example, which is also the "meal period" as the saying goes. Maoming people have the saying that "2008 is a big New Year", so it can be said that "2008 is the biggest festival in Maoming countryside". In fact, "Nian Shi" is just a general term for festivals with the same regional characteristics. Not all the places that make Nianshi are used to calling Nianshi Nianshi. Maoming, Zhanjiang and Suixi are generally called Nianshi or Yuanxiao. Other places have different names. For example, Leizhou is called a tourist or Yuanxiao, Xuwen is called Shangjunpo, Noisy Junpo or Wandering God, and Lianjiang is called Wandering God or Wandering Flower Street.

Maoming's local "year example" can be said to come from the "Lantern Festival". As a traditional festival in China, Lantern Festival refers to the 15th day of the first lunar month. There is a custom of watching lanterns on this night. "Thousands of trees bloom in the east wind at night" describes the scene of enjoying lanterns in the Lantern Festival, so the Lantern Festival is also called Lantern Festival or Shangyuan Festival. Perhaps it was the creation of Maoming people that staggered the holiday time and became a "new year's case" based on eating and drinking. The one-year period begins on the fifth day of the first year and ends at the end of February. There is a saying in Maonan that "the earliest bamboo loves the house at the latest", which means that Huangshu Village in Gaoshan Town will establish the annual regulations on the seventh day of the first month, while Ai Wu Land in Guangong Town will establish the annual regulations on February 28th. The dates of the villages are staggered to facilitate the gathering of relatives and friends.

Before the reform and opening up, rural people did not make the annual regulations as lively and grand as they are now. At that time, the production team dried the fish pond and killed a few pigs. The members took back a few pounds of fish and meat and killed a chicken to cook. It was a feast. After the reform and opening up, people's living standards have improved, and the formulation of annual regulations has become more and more solemn and lively. Generally, people will put on three or five tables; Wealthy families set up dozens or twenty tables, eating not only chicken, duck and fish, but "flying in the sky and swimming in the sea", with all kinds of delicious food. Make an annual rule: whoever has more guests, a higher level of guests, and more cars parked at the door, the owner's face will be big. Not only relatives and friends can come to visit the New Year, but also friends and relatives can come. It is also beneficial for relatives and friends to get together and exchange information, so that farmers who have worked hard for a year can have fun for a few days. The formation of the "New Year Festival" originated in the Ming Dynasty, and there are folk stories circulating. Four or five hundred years ago, towns such as Gaozhou (formerly Maoming County), Huazhou and Wuchuan (Meilong) located in the middle and lower reaches of Jianjiang River had formed commercial centers, developed handicrafts and developed agriculture in nearby villages. People engaged in the trafficking of industrial and agricultural tools, wood, fish and salt travel between urban and rural areas, and some farmers gradually leave agriculture and become urban people. For thousands of years, the commodity distribution center formed on the riverside gradually expanded the area of the city, and the local rural people also became street people. Gaozhou Town, Huazhou Town, Zhenlong Town and Wuchuan Meilong Town have changed from a three-day market to a once-a-day market, and business associations have held some business celebrations to promote commodity exchange. During the Ming Dynasty, the cities and villages in the Jianjiang River valley were completely sinicized by the integration of Chinese and slang culture. Central Plains immigrants and northern officials publicized the Central Plains culture to the local area, and spread the folk festivals and social fires with the sacrifice to the country as the main content. It gradually merged with the ghost culture handed down by the local ancient slang people, and formed the worship of stoves, burning stoves, worshipping temple gods, going up the knife mountain, crossing the sea of fire, shooting guns, sending plague gods and so on. This custom also became a cultural activity celebrated in the countryside at that time. Village celebrations attract urban people, and business celebrations also attract rural people. As some rural people become businessmen, some land on the edge of the city becomes streets, and people from cities and rural areas become more and more frequent. Many people think it would be great to combine temple fairs and commercial celebrations in rural areas with cultural activities in urban and rural areas.

It is said that there is a street man named Gao Huanian from a peasant background in Gaozhou Fucheng. In his early twenties, together with his father Gao Sheng, he transported the wood (mainly fir trees) produced in the northern mountainous area of Maoming County to Huazhou City and Wuchuan Meilong City for sale through the raft of Jianjiang Waterway, and then shipped it back to other places for resale. After years of business, his family is rich. Gao Huanian's ancestors immigrated from the north, and they understood the connotation of Central Plains culture and ancient slang culture. In the process of doing business, he met a man named Jin Hecheng, who taught in Huazhou City, and made friends with Wu Xian, a Li nationality man of the same age as his father in Meilong Town. Wu Xian lived in a mountain village by the sea, engaged in shipping, and came to Lu Mei through rivers and seas to sell goods to his hometown. After a long time, we met, and Gao Sheng and Wu Xian became brothers. One day, Wu Xian invited Gao Sheng and his son to drink on his boat and asked his daughter to pour wine. Wu, a beautiful girl in senior three, fell in love at first sight. Wu female also made a wink to Gao Huanian. During the dinner, I learned that Wu's female name was Wu Mei, and she also knew something about calligraphy and etiquette. Because Goldman Sachs and Wu Xiancheng became sworn brothers, Gao Huanian and Wu Mei were also regarded as brothers and sisters. Gao Hua is full of love, but he dare not violate the relationship between brother and sister, nor dare he talk to his father about marriage proposal. After three months of emotional frying, I confided my heart to adult education in Jinhe Huazhou City. Jin Hecheng is willing to make it into something beautiful. After a little consideration, he told Gao Hua that the Lantern Festival would be celebrated on the fifteenth day of the first month, and invited Wu Xian's father and daughter and many villagers in his mountain village to enjoy the lanterns.

Gao Huanian told his father the words of the golden chamber, saying that this would not only enhance friendship, but also promote the exchanges between urban and rural people and make business prosperous. Gao Sheng thought his son was clever, so he readily agreed and sent out an invitation. On the Lantern Festival, Wu Xian took his daughter Mei Yang and eight villagers to Gaos for dinner. During the dinner, it was said that three days later, on the 18th day of the first month, it was a temple fair in his seaside mountain village, which was different from the Lantern Festival in the street. The Oracle immediately asked Wu Xian to reciprocate, and asked Gao Sheng and his son to take him and his business friends to he qing. Wu Xian said that the village was humble and did not dare to receive distinguished guests. Jin Oracle suggested to Gao Sheng: Invite Wu Xian and some people to perform the entertainment program of the temple fair in the wooden goods yard near his Meilong town, so that more people in seaside mountain villages can see your wood and buy and sell it better. Gao Sheng thought of this wonderful move and sent out an invitation. On that day, the freight yard was full of lanterns, and people and Taoist priests in Wuxian Village performed puppet shows and Nuo operas, and invited guests to dinner. The wood sold is twice as much as before. A few days later, Gao Sheng held an entertainment celebration according to the local temple fair anniversary in the freight yard by the Gaozhou River, staged puppets and Nuo operas, and invited people from Xinyishan Village who could perform folk performances such as "Going to the Mountain of Knife" and "Crossing the Fire Sea" to select the largest fir tree from their own firewood yard and make a "Mountain of Knife". Please also ask Wu Xian to bring the girls and villagers. People from all directions came to watch the fun, and then Gao Sheng sold twice as much wood. A few days later, at the temple fair on the outskirts of Huajiang, Gaosheng held another folk performance. Viewing folk performances from the arrival of businessmen and farmers. When the theater was busy, Jin Oracle said that he would stay in Confucius Temple College for a period of time to help teach, and immediately hung up a couplet, written by Gao Huanian: An Example of the Farmers' Association for Celebration. Explain that whoever can get along well will become a lifelong friend; Asked the audience Gao Sheng and Wu Xian to promise or not, both of them agreed happily.

Fresh couplets made with new things stumped people. For a long time, no one can match it. Two scholars said a word or two, and Oracle Bone Inscriptions of the Jin Dynasty said that words are irrelevant. At this moment, I saw Jin Oracle Bone Inscriptions coming to the stage with a young man dressed as a scholar with fine features, and his hand was unfurled with the banner of the second couplet: Celebrating the New Year for the Merchants and Farmers. The Book of Jin said: This second couplet is the palindrome of the upper deputy. That's right. Those who want to make couplets and those who should make couplets can be loved by relatives and friends. Then I will ask them to worship each other. Both Gao Sheng and Wu Xian felt that the young man who responded seemed to be Wu Mei's case. It turns out that this couplet was secretly arranged by the Golden Chamber. Everyone in the audience praised this couplet, including the word "year" of Gao Huanian and the word "example" of Wu Mei's case: the farmer celebrates the adult case and celebrates the farmer in the new year.

After the celebration, the golden Oracle persuaded Gao Sheng and Wu Xianjing that the two young people worshipped each other in public. I'll be the matchmaker and let them get married. Two friends engaged in business and agriculture smiled and nodded. Because of this couplet, this beautiful thing, and seeing that the Farmers and Merchants Celebration Association combines temple fairs with business celebrations, it not only welcomes good luck and evil spirits, but also promotes the friendship between urban and rural people and mass entertainment. People feel that they should set an example every year, and all localities recommend temple fairs as the first "model year" celebration to celebrate farmers and merchants every year. Broadly speaking, the birthday of this market also held a meeting to collect donations and learn to make an "annual example". The temple fair in that village also collected donations to make an "annual example", which changed from the countryside to a bigger "annual example" for the streets. Farmers and businessmen celebrate together. You did it, and so did I. Then spread all over the countryside and compare with each other. You have many relatives and friends in the market street, and your business is good. It also means that you can get rich if you are willing to give money. I invited more relatives and friends. There are many relatives and friends celebrating in the temple in your village, which shows that there is love, so I invited more relatives and friends to come, so everyone has the psychological image that making "annual regulations" can "benefit others and benefit themselves", so the "annual regulations" festival has been circulated for hundreds of years until today. Due to the different birthday dates of the original temple fairs in different villages and streets, the dates of the years that have spread to today are also different. "Zhifu Town, Maoming County?" Editor during Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty. The custom of falling in love began to record the chronology: "From February to March, the temple is polite, and the family worships the gods and chases ghosts along the door, saying …" As early as the fourteenth episode of Jin Ping Mei in the Ming Dynasty, Ximen Qing said to Wu Dazhao and Li Pinger: "Today, a Christmas ceremony will be held at the Jade Emperor Temple outside the door. That year has continued to this day, and it is as lively and grand as that year.