What is the significance of Qinzhou Lingtou Festival?

What is the significance of Qinzhou Lingtou Festival is introduced as follows:

"Lingtou Festival" in the most important ritual activities is "jumping Lingtou", is a kind of for the village to ward off the evil evil spirits to collect the demon in addition to the plague, and pray for a good harvest. It is a kind of religious activity for the village to ward off evil spirits, collect demons and get rid of plague, pray for a good harvest, the safety of people and animals, and the protection of the village and the village Qingji, which is mostly held on the gentle slope of the ridge at the edge of the village. Ritual process of a person playing the elephant drum to command the whole situation, two people beat the gong with the drums, the old Taoist public follow the rhythm of the music, in order to complete each program, with the song when not dance, dance when not song characteristics.

China's southern Guangxi Qinzhou area of the Han Chinese folk has circulated a proverb: "Lingtou big New Year", which said "Lingtou", that is, the local Zhuang and Han ethnic groups in the year's most grand folk festival celebrations! --"Jumping Lingtou", also known as "Lingtou Festival", "Leader's Festival", etc., the celebration of the degree of grandeur, no less than the traditional Spring Festival. It is celebrated as grandly as the traditional Chinese New Year. Today, we will introduce you to the Lingtou Festival "Jumping Lingtou", which is a celebration of the people's desire to get rid of evil spirits, avoid calamities and pray for good luck.

As an ancient Han folk culture, in the southern region of Guangxi, Qinzhou, Lingshan, Pubei area, held every year before and after the Mid-Autumn Festival more than ten days, that is, the lunar month of August, individual places in the lunar month of March or October. Generally, the natural village as a unit, each village fixed in the lunar calendar on a certain day, for example, there is a village held in August 13, while some neighboring villages in August 12, August 15, generally only one per village each year to lead the festival, but some villages have two a year.

On that occasion, all villages and towns will do their best to catch fish in the ponds, and every household will slaughter ducks and set up feasts to offer sacrifices to their ancestors and honor the gods. At the same time, the "Lingtou team" (Shigong) is invited to perform a dance and festival on the ridge at the edge of the village. The Shikongs wear masks and perform the "Throwing Maddie" (dance) and "Singing Ge" (song and dance); in some places, there are also martial arts and "Fighting Method" (folk magic) performances. The performance program for the altar, inviting the gods, collecting banned, song and dance, song and dance process are accompanied by drums and music.

"Lingtou Festival" in the most important ritual activities is "jumping Lingtou", is a village to ward off the evil evil collection of demons in addition to the plague, praying for a good crop, human and animal peace, to protect the village of Qingji carried out by a religious activity, which is more in the village side of the gentle slopes of the ridge. It is a religious activity held on the hillside of the gentle slopes near the village. During the festival, one person strikes the elephant drum to command the whole situation, two people beat the gong to match the sound of the drum, and the old Taoist priest follows the rhythm of the music to complete each program in an orderly manner, with the characteristics of the song when not dancing and the dance when not singing.

According to the Republic of China three years, "Lingshan County," Volume 22, "Customs" records: "eight, September villages more than extended sorcerer ghosts and children in front of the community, jumping to edit, began to enter the room to drive away the evil epidemic miasma, but also the countryside exorcism of the legacy of the intention also." This shows that "jumping Lingtou" and the ancient countryside Nuo have blood relations. This with the ancient exorcism characteristics of the "jumping Lingtou" custom, its earliest documents in the Ming Jiajing version of the "Qinzhou Zhi" Volume 1 "Customs": "August in the middle of the fall, the false name of the newspaper. Dressing up as ghosts and dancing at the top of the mountain is called jumping from the top of the mountain."

Today's Lingtou Festival "jumping Lingtou", has evolved from the original religious rewards God rituals for folk entertainment activities, the villages every year in the Lunar Calendar from eight to October during this period of time held once a calendar to follow, has become customary, it is also known as the "return to the annual example. In 2006, "jumping Lingtou" was identified as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage projects in Guangxi.