Donghai have those traditional customs?

To support the fishermen's primitive feelings

Zhoushan City Records has this passage to describe the sea festival: "In the old days, fishing boats every season before the production of the sea, to the gods and goddesses on board, to the gods kneeling salute after the burn chemical sparse ultimatums, known as the 'line of paper'. The boss will hold a cup of wine and pour it into the sea, and throw a few pieces of meat into the sea, which is called 'rewarding the souls', in order to pray for the fishing boat to go out to sea with smooth wind and water. On this day, the people on the boat are forbidden to speak unlucky words and quarrel."

Sacrificing the sea is a way of worship and belief in the Sea Dragon King and the gods of the sea for the fishermen in Daishan, Zhejiang Province and even along the coast of China. In the past, because the boat is small and wind-powered, coupled with the backwardness of the means of production, in the eyes of generations of fishermen who make a living by fishing, the sea with a natural reverence. The sea is the world of the legendary Dragon King, the sea conditions, the safety of the ship, the fishermen's life and death, all control in the hands of the Dragon King, in order to pray for peace and a good harvest, so out to sea to sacrifice the Dragon King, a good harvest thanks to the Dragon King, become an indispensable spirit of the traditional customs of the fishermen.

Sacrifice to the sea of this folklore in the folk for a long time, in Zhoushan Islands, many fishermen's customs, Daishan fishermen's customs unique sea sacrifice, the richness of its connotation, the form of the various rituals to pay attention to the style of the expression of generations of fishermen with the sea a primitive feelings, a unique marine culture, passed on from generation to generation.

This year's 79-year-old Daishan Gao Ting a village of old fishermen Zheng Ye bending, 17 years old when he drank to the "line instrument" wine. Last December, in Zheng Ye bend and many other old fishermen's memories, Daishan Gao Ting a village to make a perfect reproduction of this folklore:

Two large gongs to open the way, followed by the fishermen back "kind of masts" (i.e., the top of the top of the leaves left bamboo, bamboo poles on the upper part of the bundle of palm of the bamboo, which means that the masts are standing), the back of the multicolored flags and other colorful flags, carrying the tie There are red and blue silk cloth wooden box, the box is loaded with a full pig, sheep and other "five animals", various meat, vegetarian dishes, white salt, yellow sugar, water tofu and cakes, fruits and other offerings, *** there are more than eight boxes of bar. Firecrackers along the way. Sacrifice to the sea team arrived at the dock side of the boat, dressed in pants of the old fishermen put the offerings on the eight immortal offering table, pigs, sheep are offered on the left and right racks, the table in front of the table paved with table curtains, the back of the taiji chair hanging satin quilt, table side hanging a good sparse ultimatums, incense and candles, with the rising tide of the sea, successively on the incense, wine libations for three times during the boat boss as the head, the other fishermen are divided into two sides, kneeling and nine kowtowing salute. After the end of the sea sacrifice, each kind of offerings into a large wine cup, together with the sparse ultimatum, all thrown into the sea towards the sky, at this time, the gong rang loudly, firecrackers, to send the Dragon King.

Daishan Gao Ting a village fishermen engaged in drift-net operations for generations, so there is a unique way to sacrifice the sea - "sample mast". According to long-term folklore work Daishan County, Daishan County Bureau of Culture and Broadcasting cadres Qiu Hongfang investigation, due to the different ways of operation around the world, the way the sea is also different, and its worship of the various gods and goddesses are also different. In Zhoushan, sea worship in addition to the traditional worship of the Dragon King, but also includes the worship of the ship Guan Laozi (also known as the "ship official Laozi"), the Queen Mother (Mazu), Yangfu Daidi, and various sea goddesses and so on.

To date, some fishing villages in Daishan still follow this traditional folk custom, preserving the rough, simple and original cultural landscape of the sea rituals, demonstrating the unique traditional culture of the East China Sea fishermen's dragon beliefs and deep folklore connotations.

Liu Pinliang, who lives in Dai Shan Dongsha Town, Nianmu community of Xisha Village, is a fourth-generation fisherman of the local Liu family, he said, according to the oral tradition of the grandparents, located at the entrance of the village of the small Dragon King Palace has a history of two or three hundred years, for the East China Sea Dragon King. Fishermen, whether they are out to sea or furrowing the ocean, or a good harvest or a poor harvest, will go to the Dragon King Palace to seek the Dragon King, and even the convergence of the Dai Qu Yang, Taizhou, Fenghua, and other bosses doing business in the fish business have gone to the Dragon Palace to seek the Dragon King's blessing.

Sacrificing the sea, in addition to the necessary rituals and procedures, there are many taboos. Such as offerings of dishes with five meat and five veg, six meat and six veg or ten meat and ten veg, because the Daishan dialect "five" and "fish" homophonic, meaning "year after year fish," and The "ten" means "ten perfect", and all of these symbolize the fishermen's good wishes.

Why is yellow wine and pig's head used in sea rituals? And never use chicken? Here, of course, there is a beautiful legend. With yellow wine is because fishermen jokingly fishing in the sea is gambling with the Dragon King, yellow wine color chaos, the Dragon King drank the eyes can not see and "push down the Zhuang", so that fishermen returned full. And for the pig's head said, is said to be the earliest time of the East China Sea Dragon King Aoguang due to the head of no "feet of wood" (which is said to be called "Boshan", in fact, "sarcoma") and can not go up to the sky, the fishermen The fishermen thought that if they could send a "shakugi" to the King of the Sea Dragon, it would bless them with smooth sailing and a good harvest. Can not find "shakugi" fishermen would like to send something very fat to the Sea Dragon King, eat more than the possibility of growing meat, so it came up with the shape of the pig's head like "Boshan". Since then, when the fishermen go out to sea with the best pig's head offerings, and thrown into the sea. Strangely enough, the days are long, the sea dragon king actually grew on the head of the "Boshan" and can fly up to the sky, he was so happy that he wanted to send a pig's head to reward the people. After learning that the fishermen, they said: fishing boats, all for the pig's head, are given to facilitate.

So why were chickens excluded from the offerings? Because of the fishing driftnet fishermen, the most yearning is smooth, and "chicken claw" means "messy", so the fishermen not only sacrificed without chicken, usually on the boat also do not eat chicken, and even can not think of chicken, the last resort to say to the The word "chicken" is also replaced by "duck". Another way to say it is "chicken" in Daishan dialect and "owe" the same sound, is not good luck.

Beautiful legend contains the fishermen's simple sea "complex", generations in Zhoushan Islands reproduction, to today's fishing moratorium, Daishan fishermen use the altar of the sea, drawing on the traditional way of sacrificing to the sea, shouting out to let the sea recuperate and the sea's gratitude, and expressed the hope that all of mankind to protect marine resources, care for the marine environment, to achieve the human and natural environment, and to protect the marine environment, and to protect the marine environment. Take care of the marine environment, to achieve harmony between man and nature **** the good wishes ......