Then share my travel story, in Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, Liaoning Province, there is a Mongolian village - Chagan Hada Village, where there is a strong ethnic customs of the Good Neighbor Festival, let's go and see.
On the evening of this day, the villagers of Chagan Hada Village, Fosi Town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, Liaoning Province, were particularly busy. Mrs. Kang, the head of the village, is picking hawthorns planted in her yard; Aunt Xing, the head of the east of the village, is busy smashing walnuts; and Lao Wang, the head of the west of the village, has planed out the peanuts and sweet potatoes in her own field. Not only them, but every household in the village was busy. The whole village is so busy, they are all preparing for the Good Neighbor Festival in two days.
Chagan Hada Village, Fosi Town, Fuxin Mongol Autonomous County, Liaoning Province, is a Village inhabited by Mongolian ethnic groups, and since the founding of New China 65 years ago, there has not been a single criminal case in the village, not even a civil case. Not only that, there is not a single family in Chagan Hada village today that has been broken by divorce, and the ability of Chagan Hada people to achieve neighborhood harmony and family harmony is related to the fact that they have inherited more than 200 sessions of Good Neighborly Day? How did the Good Neighbor festival in Chagan Hada Village come about?
The Good Neighbor Festival is called "Huiyin Bayar" in Mongolian. Every year on the Good Neighbor festival, the Chagan Hada people worship their ancestors, and the white lotus pagoda enshrines the ancestral tablets of the 23 surnames of the whole village of Chagan Hada, and the ancestors of Chagan Hada Village do this to warn future generations that although the Chagan Hada people have different surnames, they are like a family.
The friendship of the Good Neighborly Festival, the happiness of harmony, the joy of the family, the unity of the nation, and the ecological civilization. On the Good Neighbor Festival, the whole village should chant the Lotus Sutra together and pray to the ancestors to bless the villagers with health and safety, a tradition that comes from the original origin of the Good Neighbor Festival.
In 1808, many newborns in the village of Chagan Hada contracted smallpox, and the smallpox virus spread rapidly in the village. In order to control the epidemic, the whole village united to help and take care of each other, and finally controlled the smallpox. In order to commemorate the concerted efforts of the whole village to tide over the difficulties, and in order to warn future generations to always remember to cherish the neighborhood, the ancestors of Chagan Hada Village designated the 15th day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year as the Good Neighborly Festival of Chagan Hada Village. The concept of neighbors, mutual help, interaction and harmony has also been passed down to this day.
On good neighborly day, the villagers of Chagan Hada will sprinkle all the ingredients prepared together into a large pot and cook it together with rice and lamb to make porridge. This kind of porridge is called holy porridge, which not only condenses the strength of the whole village, but also gathers the blessings of the whole village.
The Chagan Hada people have a code of conduct that does not fall behind. At the Good Neighbor Festival, everyone can get a bowl of porridge, and the Good Neighbor Festival that has been passed down for more than 200 years in Chagan Hada Village also subtly affects the people of the surrounding villages and towns. The holy porridge of the Good Neighbor Festival can not only be eaten by those present, but for the elderly people with limited mobility in the village, the village party secretary and representatives of the elderly association will also deliver the holy porridge to them from house to house.
At the heart of the culture of good-neighbourliness is good-neighborliness. Those who are harmonious, look down on each other, look down on themselves, respect each other and be humble, this is also the spirit of respecting the old and loving the young, repenting and moving good, knowing gratitude and repaying kindness, and giving up the small to the great. The people of Chagan Hada Village will continue to hold the Good Neighborly Festival, which has lasted for more than 200 years, and will also pass on this good-neighborly spirit from generation to generation. Let us bless this beautiful village with eternal harmony and auspiciousness.