What are the folk customs of Gwangsan?

The folk custom of the south of Henan Province, unique to Guangshan --- "sending lamps on the fifteenth day of the first month" (commonly known as "sending lamps on the fifteenth day of the first month", "sending light") reflects the traditional custom of "the descendants paying tribute to the ancestors" passed down for more than two hundred years in Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province. Guangshan County, Xinyang City, Henan Province, for more than two hundred years, the traditional custom of "the descendants of the ancestors". This night is a night for people to communicate with their deceased ancestors and the yin and yang realms; a night to send money and gifts to their ancestors; a night to report to their ancestors, and a night for the ancestors to bless the worshippers with good wishes for the coming year. "Even if the New Year does not go home, but also fifteen graves to send light", the day of the festival, send the lamp team unprecedented, busy and bustling commercial streets all closed for business, all the motor vehicles all mobilized, some family members, some not far away from the thousands of miles back to the walking, cycling, driving, a goal, a time, a willingness to the ancestral graveyard, the ancestral graves of the ancestors! Gathering - "send light", "send light". It is a hundred-year custom, rain or shine, as usual on snowy and icy days, without interruption. Fireworks bloom red sky, firecrackers ringing through the valley, the ancestral graves light up like a starry night, symbolizing the prosperity of all branches of the clan. This unique scenery, last year, the idea of shooting, try a few. The author and his wife this year in the rain to shoot a group of shots, and a group of self-directed shots, this selection of a few published.

The order of the group photo: buy lanterns, buy lampshade, buy candles, - buy firecrackers, transport firecrackers, firecrackers - buy money paper, play money paper, send money paper, burn money paper - worship! --Insert lampshade, light up the bright, colorful grave lights.

1. buy lanterns, buy lampshade, buy candles

2. buy flower gun, transport flower gun, firecrackers

Yu South town - Guangshan County, the 15th of the first month of the folklore - Dragon Dance project, a long history of the existing more than 20 dragons are initiated by the local clans, the 13th of the first month of the year, "test the day of the lamp" held. (The fourteenth day of the first month of the "main lamp", the fifteenth day of the first month of the "send lamp".)

The dry boat is a papier-maché boat-shaped toy for folk entertainment. Production methods are simple and complex. Traditional craft exquisite, expensive, price in the hundreds of dollars; easy is very simple, three a few dollars can be done (this price is in the 80's). Our dry boat are to take the simple method, with a grate tie a boat-shaped frame, the boat has a cabin, can accommodate a person, paste colorful flower paper, paste the flowers, hang the flowers hanging, the performance added to the audience on the boat feeling of floating and swaying. When performing, three or five people. One person sits in the boat for the "boat lady", is a female role (in the past are men dressed as women), the boat will be hanging on the boat lady, so that the boat is very easy with the boat lady walking back and forth and swinging. The boat is supported by one person, a male character, who knows some martial arts, or at least can do somersaults. Accompanying the boat is a clown, one to three people, will be joking, get it right, funny, hilarious. Dry boat show has a plot, although its plot is very simple, but also can inspire people from the trivia of life to understand the truth that life is a struggle. Its main plot is: the husband to support the boat to send his wife away from her mother's home, through the rapids, around the reefs, accidentally, stranded, the husband was very anxious, and thought of a lot of ways, and finally got off the shallow, the little couple and happy to go to his mother's home. The whole process of the show, the boatman is the key to all the plot, all by his one person in a thousand ways in the silent performance out, well played, sometimes thrilling the audience, and sometimes make the audience anxious, and sometimes can make the audience enjoy the joy of victory. The performance is accompanied by gongs and drums, which is warm and compact, and full of interest in life. After the performance, a ditty is sung to express the joy of victory. The town of Poupihe is best played by the dry boat of Guo Fanfan in Luowu Village.

Named "China's folk culture and art township" of Wenshu Township, there is an administrative village called Dongyue, the village 22 village groups, 2026 people, the village folk culture is rich, some villagers sing flower-drum opera and shadow puppets for many years, when traditional festivals and performances of the traditional gathering of the lion dance, dragon dance, bamboo horse, dry boat and other folk flowers will dance. Dance.

Playing patties to welcome the New Year is an indispensable traditional custom of the Spring Festival in rural Guangshan. On the eve of the Spring Festival, farmers in rural areas of Guangshan can be seen everywhere busy playing patty cake to welcome the New Year, and life is getting more and more prosperous, pictured here is a town in Guangshan County, rural farmers playing patty cake.

Matchmaking ---- children are tested by both parents.

Visionary ---- man receives thorough scrutiny from the woman's jury.

Have a matchmaker ---- communication tool for both parties to negotiate.

The Hop Quasi Moment ---- jury passes, and the marriage begins.

Send the day ---- to send both sides of the fate of the 'gods' to check, selected an auspicious day, the marriage into the countdown.

Marrying ---- does the ceremony for others to see, as proof that there is no need to steal the forbidden fruit anymore.

Fellow townspeople: how many of you have been married according to this folklore?

Folk wedding, that is, in accordance with the traditional wedding customs of the nation, in accordance with the various norms of the process of the wedding. This kind of wedding program is more complicated, pay attention to also quite a lot, but but fully embodies the essence of folk culture.

One of the important elements of the Lantern Festival is ancestor worship, starting from the early hours of the morning when firecrackers are set off and joss sticks dedicated to the ancestors are lit, to the midday before the meal, when offerings are placed in front of the table and paper money is burned, praying for the spirits of the ancestors in heaven and blessing the family members with peace, health and a happy life.

People who are alive have to rush to their ancestral graves before the sun sets and the stars come out to send lamps for their loved ones who have passed away.

I don't know where the custom of sending lanterns originated, but in the area of Guangshan and Xinxian County, it is extremely solemn, and whenever possible, one must rush home to send lanterns on this day. If something is wrong and you can't make it home, ask a brother to deliver it for you. In front of each ancestral grave, a descendant of a lamp, how many descendants on how many lamps. Whether a family is prosperous or not, one can tell by looking at the lamps in front of their graves. In addition to sending lamps on the ancestral graves, but also to heaven and earth, stove God on the tablets to burn paper money and send lamps, in order to gods bless family; and sent to warehouses, cattle and horse circles, wells, mills, and other places to burn paper to send lamps, in order to grain full of barns, cattle fat horse, hit the level of security, food often eat often have; and finally sent to the big intersection of the burning paper to send lamps, and prayed in and out of the peace, the family came to the four corners of the guest.

My teenage years, sending lamps to the grave was outlawed, today, people realize the importance of traditional culture, and gradually look for their own cultural roots and the roots of life, no wonder the Festival of Lights over such a grand Gwangsan Pure Land Temple as a tourist attraction, where not to do more description.

Jingju in addition to the monuments as a strong one, which is very important part of the culture that is: jingju temple ancient temples. The source from what year and month can not be proved, but the net residence temple will be in the light of all the temples in the mountain, the Department of the most important one. When the spring in March, everything is gray again. Jingju Temple ancient temple will be lit every year, the temple prayers, visit friends and relatives, March trekking, agricultural products trading (for this year's production to prepare) ...... and other ancient temples will be particularly important.

Jingju Temple Ancient Temple Fair has its important cultural part, can find and dig a lot of folk scarce or soon to be lost culture and art.