Meizhou Wuhua traditional clothing

Meizhou City, Guangdong Province governs the Xiaba boundary of Wuhua County, and holds a grand Lantern Festival every year, which is the most lively folk festival in the area and has a history of nearly 600 years. Throughout the ages, local wanderers have to go home to participate in the Lantern Festival even if they can't go home for some reason during the Spring Festival. So today, let's learn about the Wuhua Xiaba Lantern Festival, which is full of "home" flavor.

Xiaba Lantern Festival is a traditional folk activity in China, which originated in Chenghua period of Ming Dynasty. On the 15th day of the first lunar month, a Lantern Festival is held in Lao Xu (now Hedong Town) in Shuizhai. Welcoming lanterns at Xiaba is a folk custom handed down by Xiaba villagers to commemorate the seventh ancestor, Zhou Xian, who built water conservancy to benefit the people. With a history of nearly 600 years, it is the most traditional local folk lantern festival.

After lunch on the fourteenth day of the first month, young people with a sense of public morality gathered in the ancestral hall to clean the ancestral hall, buy tools, buy wine and buy food at the Lantern Festival night, and invite new lanterns back to the ancestral hall. At about four o'clock in the afternoon, young people are responsible for preparing drums and flowers. Married women bring oil lamps to the ancestral hall. After worshipping their ancestors, the venerable elders in the village will make speeches, pray for their ancestors, burn incense and worship them, and make "three sacrifices" for them. Finally, after each family lights their own oil lamp, they can take it back to their home. The oil lamp must burn to 16, which is called lighting.

Until seven o'clock in the evening of the fifteenth, after dinner, every family must first send the young people to the door of the ancestral temple to beat gongs and drums. At about eight o'clock, the grandchildren of each family beat gongs and drums, danced dragons and lions and set off lanterns. Colorful lanterns were unveiled, followed by the lion dance team and the gongs and drums team, followed by the villagers who greeted the lanterns.

Subsequently, men, women and children collectively went to Xiaba River embankment, lined up in the order of each room, and began to March in the order of golden drums, high lights, banners, eight-tone colored flags, floats, archways, gongs and drums, dressed as scenery, bands, dragons and lions and lanterns. It is understood that at least 20,000 people participate in this activity every year.

A viewing platform was set up at the bridge head of Shuizhai Bridge. On the viewing platform, there is a lamp Committee composed of county and city leaders. After that, they will judge the ranking on the spot. After passing the observation deck, go straight along the old street and come to the front of the Palace King Ye Temple. The gongs and drums bow down three times with the lions to pray for a bumper harvest in the coming year.

After worshipping the prince, they returned to their ancestral temple. When the young people went out to meet the lights, the women had already decorated the ancestral temple. The table is full of dry cakes and hot snacks, and white wine is ready. After the venerable elder was seated, everyone raised their glasses to show their respect, drank Hua San and started. There were activities such as carrying lanterns, guessing boxing, fighting wine and eating "new wine" on the third day of drinking, which lasted until a little after one o'clock, and the lively Xiaba Lantern Festival ended.

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