What is the national intangible cultural heritage of Chenzhou City, Zhejiang Province?

Chenzhou City, Zhejiang Province, has been selected as a national intangible cultural heritage item is the Yao Panwang Festival.

Yao Panwang Festival, popular in Guangxi, Hunan, Yunnan, Guangdong, Guizhou, Jiangxi and other provinces (districts) of the Yao people inhabited by traditional festivals, one of the national intangible cultural heritage, the Yao Panwang Festival originated from the 16th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar of the Panwang Festival Song Festival, every day, the Yao people will gather together, singing and dancing to commemorate the Panwang, and gradually developed into the Panwang Festival, the modern In modern times, the Panwang Festival has gradually developed into a celebration of the harvest, and young men and women take this opportunity to sing and search for a good match.

The Yao Panwang Festival has a fixed program, the first is to worship Panwang. During the festival, an altar is set up to hang the statues of gods and goddesses, the biggest one in the center is the statue of Panwang, and the left and right are the statues of Zhenwu, Gongcao, Tian Gong, and Earth Mother, and so on. At the beginning of the festival, three muskets are fired, followed by firecrackers, and in the sound of the firecrackers, the old village elders offer offerings such as pig's head, glutinous rice, chicken and wine in front of the statue of the god, and people face the statue of the god, bowing down in silent prayer to show their admiration and remembrance.

Historical origin of Yao Panwang Festival

The ancient custom of Panwang Festival in Yao area has been recorded as early as in Ganbao's "Searching for God" in Jin Dynasty, Liu Yuxi's "Barbarian Song" in Tang Dynasty, and Zhou Zhaifei's "Answers to the Lingwai Generation" in Southern Song Dynasty, etc. According to the record of "Searching for God" in the early years of Han Dynasty, the ancestors of Yao people "used laced blood and flesh, knocked on the groove and called out to sacrifice Panchao." When Liu Yuxi, a poet of the Tang Dynasty, was relegated to Lianzhou (present-day Lianshan Yao Autonomous County in Guangdong Province), he wrote in his "Song of the Barbarian Son" that the Yao people "sacrifice Panzuru during the seasons."

The Ling Wai Dai Ai says, "In October of every year, the Yao people hold a mine festival in front of the temple to honor the king of Du Bei, and the men and women who do not have a real family will dance together in groups of men and women, which is called 'stepping on Yao'." "Treading Yao" is "Jumping Pan Wang", Yao Pan Wang Festival is developed from "Jumping Pan Wang", "Jumping" means dancing. That is, the meaning of dance, jumping Panwang refers to people carrying Mao dance to thank Panwang's benevolence, and pray for Panwang's blessing for the peace of the children and grandchildren.

August 1984, the national Yao representative symposium held in Nanning, Guangxi, to determine the annual lunar October 16 for the unity of the Yao festival "Pan Wang Festival", in December 1988, Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, Fei Xiaotong, in the inspection of the Nanling area, put forward on the establishment of the Nanling Yao area economic development zone, concept, in 1992, the first Nanling Yao area economic development zone, the first Nanling Yao area economic development zone, the first Nanling Yao area economic development zone, the first Nanling Yao area economic development zone. In December 1988, Fei Xiaotong, vice-chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress, proposed the establishment of an economic development zone in the Nanling Yao region during his visit to the region.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Yao Panwang Festival