What is the meaning of Gongzhi

What is the meaning of Gongzhi Gongzhi is a local cultural custom in Hainan Province.

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I. What is Gongzhi?

1, Gongzhi is a local cultural custom in Hainan Province, is a type of annual regional worship activities.

2, the public period is usually Wenchang this area, the vast majority of places in Hainan is usually called "military slope", different, essentially the same thing.

Second, the origin of the festival

1, the purpose of the public period is to remember the ancestors, pray for peace.

2, the deities worshipped more, there are dynasties and generations of development of Hainan Province, such as the great generals, such as Mrs. Xian, the Han Dynasty, the two generals of the Fubo; there are folk mythology in Hainan Province, such as Changhua Daling of the mountain incarnation of the gods, the Changhua Master Zhaode Mingwang.

3. There are local celebrities of Hainan Province, such as Marshal Huang Da Yuan of Luofu Village in Chengmai, Governor Han Xianqing of Jinshan in Wenchang, and Hai Rui of Haiqingtian in the Ming Dynasty; and there are historical figures, such as Guan Sheng Di Jun, Yue Fei, and Confucius.

4. There are also many gods of the Taoist system, such as Mazu Tin Hau Niang (Queen of Heaven), and Zhang Tianshi (Master of the Zheng Yi Sect); in addition, there are the generations of ancestors of each family, and the generations of ancestors of each family name.

Three, the public period of the form

1, Hainan Province, the "public period" has two different bias, one is heavy ceremony, one is heavy food and drink. In addition to individual places heavy rituals, the vast majority of places are heavy food and drink type, so people also call the "public period" "eat public period" or "eat military slope".

2, heavy ceremonial type place every "public period" to set up a case to gather the crowd to worship "public ancestor", the need to carry out "over the volcano", "on the knife ladder", "through the iron staff" and other worship rituals.

3, and the "military slope theater", Wenchang place will also "tie play", is to invite the Qiong Opera troupe to the village to sing, the rich villages will also find people to help sing for three nights.

4, heavy eating and drinking type of local "public period" will invite relatives and friends to come home to eat and drink a lot of people invited to bring friends, they may not know the host family directly.

5, but the more people come, the more prosperous the family, so the host family is very generous hospitality. This is the essence of Hainan's "Gongzhi" culture, which means "to come is a relative".

When a Hainanese invites you to his home to eat Gongzhi, he is surely treating you as a friend.