The new year old man told the Chinese story of the three Qingshan flower lanterns
-- Inheriting Intangible Cultural Heritage And Carrying forward the excellent traditional Chinese culture
Zhong Yongwei
"Lamp" people, such as "Ding". Therefore, the flower lantern means that people are thriving. And the Traditional Chinese Culture Spring Festival flower lanterns have been since ancient times, the Lantern festival of the First Moon, the flower lanterns, the flower lanterns also mean that the grain is abundant, the wind and rain are smooth, the family reunion, the joy is also. However, there are different areas of flower lanterns, such as my family is located in the three Qingshan Maple Forest in the northeast of Gan, the traditional customs of flower lanterns, about the first five lights of the first four days of the year, and the Lantern Festival to thank the lanterns. Fenglin has four townships in the southeast, south, and northwest, and takes turns to hold flower lanterns. Therefore, the flower lantern is a public welfare matter, and the collective wisdom and efforts to jointly promote this development, and there are many types of flower lanterns, including car lights, lion lights, lanterns, horse lamps, boat lamps, Kong Ming lamps, etc., and Zhangcun has board lights; there are also dragon lanterns, dragon dances and lion dances in other regions, and then there are all kinds of giant light exhibitions with the help of modern technology and endless levels.
However, the villagers of Fenglin took turns to take a district, organized people and horses by the area, raised funds, registered and made records, and then recruited soldiers and horses, made lamps and lanterns, and trained disciples, including "Fengyang Flower Drum", "Bell Fairy", "Supplementing Cylinders", "Selling Cotton Thread", "Selling Grass", "Carts" and other Huipai folk operas that have been handed down to this day, and there are also customs inherited from southern Fujian. "Fengyang Flower Drum" is for three children to play the role of Yuanlang and bookboy, while "Bell Fairy" is played by the coachman and made with props bell bamboo sticks, which can hit different parts of the body to make a sound and change the shape. "Mending the Cylinder", "Selling Cotton Thread", and "Selling Grass" are also performed by the bride of the coachman and the female companion of men's clothing, accompanied by erhu music. Every year, the flower lanterns are held in Beixiang in turn, and all the children are trained by my father, Mr. Zhong Mingquan. "Cart" is co-starred by a coachman and a woman, and a matchmaker is played by a seventy-year-old man, who is also a member of the Zhong clan and the father of Zhong Yongli. Most of the opera is witty and humorous, reflecting the current situation of marriage and love between young men and women.
According to historical records, in the fourteenth year of kangxi (1675), Prince Kang played the merits of Yao Qisheng to the Kangxi Emperor, and Yao Qisheng was promoted to the post of Governor of Wen prefecture in Zhejiang. Later, he followed the capital Rahada to suppress the rebels in Songyang and Xuanping counties. In the fifteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1676), Yao Qisheng, together with the deputy governor Wo Shen and the general Chen Shikai, together with Geng Jingzhong, attacked Shitang, burned Mucheng, killed many Geng troops, and took advantage of the victory to retake Yunhe County. In October of the same year, Yao Qisheng's father and son accompanied Prince Kang's army to recruit Geng Jingzhong, and the army invaded Xianxia Pass and approached Fujian, and Geng Jingzhong surrendered. Yao Qisheng was promoted to envoy to Fujian. At that time, Zheng Jin, the son of Zheng Chenggong, occupied Zhangzhou, Quanzhou, and Xinghua, and the Qing army went to conquest. Wu Sangui's general Han Da Ren Xiao Yong was good at war, and was known as the "Marquis of Xiaohuaiyin", and Zi Gan entered Ting to try to join Zheng Jin. Yao Qisheng surrendered him and received 3,000 of his men to be incorporated into the pro-army.
In the sixteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1677), Yao Qisheng accompanied Prince Kang to conquer Shaowu and Xinghua, completely recovering the lands of Zhang and Quan, and Zheng Jin fled back to Xiamen. The governor Lang Tingzuo played Kangxi claimed that Yao Qisheng and his son Yao Yi had won many military merits, and had raised troops to buy horses, prepare armor and bows, and successively raised funds with 50,000 taels of silver, and the Kangxi Emperor issued an edict to commend him and promote him to the governor of Fujian.
In July of the seventeenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1678), Yao Qisheng, together with Huang Fangdu, the Duke of Haicheng, marched from Yongfu to retake pinghe and Zhangping counties. Zheng Jin's general Liu Guoxuan and others marched into Quanzhou and set up camp at Centipede Ridge. Yao Qisheng led his brave soldiers into battle, and the generals Ganta and Dutong Woshen attacked, broke through Zheng Jin's camp, and beheaded his generals Zheng Ying, Liu Zhengxi, and more than ten other people, and Liu Guoxuan's troops fled to Haicheng in defeat. Yao Qisheng took advantage of the victory to conquer and retake Changtai County, and was awarded the title of Zhengyipin for his military achievements. In September of the same year, Yao Qisheng sent his son Yao Yi into Tong'an, and the enemy abandoned the city and fled. In October, Yao Qisheng, together with the deputy governors Jile Tabu and Viceroy Yang Jie, attacked Haicheng and defeated Liu Guoxuan at Jiangdong Bridge and Chaogou successively.
In the eighteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1679), Liu Guoxuan and others prepared to destroy the Jiangdong Bridge to capture Changtai. Yao Qisheng, Yang Jie, and Inspector Wu Xingzuo joined forces to pursue and annihilate Zheng Jin's army, recruiting more than 400 officials and more than 14,000 soldiers. In February of the nineteenth year of the Kangxi Dynasty (1680), Yao Qisheng and Zhao Deshou and Huang Dalai, together with Zhao Ta and the general soldiers Zhao Deshou and Huang Dalai, attacked in seven ways to break the enemy's 19 villages. He also sent troops to cross the sea, captured Kinmen and Xiamen, recruited Zhu Tiangui and Yang Biao, and entered the military department Shangshu and Prince Taibao.
According to the "Genealogy of the Fenglin Zhong Clan", in the eighteenth year of Kangxi, when it was 1679, three hundred years before I was born, the Wu Zhong clan was due to the war in Fujian to recover Taiwan, so the Kangxi Sacred Saying that the residents of the coast of Quanzhou, Fujian, migrated within thirty miles, and because of the misinformation of three hundred kilometers, it was Zhong Guo Zangong, the ancestor of the descendants of southern Fujian, who migrated to The Three Qingshan Mountains of Ganzhi. Fusan Qingshan Fenglin Town, ancient name of the twenty-six capital, to the descendants of southern Fujian, there are Zhong, Li, Liu, Wang, Xu, Huang several major surnames, the existing well-preserved Zhong Clan Ancestral Hall and ancient opera stage also. And I was born on the side of the Zhong Clan Ancestral Hall in Fenglin, Sanqing Mountain.
Therefore, the Fenglin people of Sanqing Mountain still preserve the customs of southern Fujian and the architecture of the Hui sect, which are greatly influenced by the Zhejiang Ganwuyue culture, the Minnan culture, the Hui culture, and the She culture. Whether it is the local customs, folk customs, marriage and funeral customs, or other aspects of diet, language, faith, emotional conversion and many other aspects. The Zhong clan was originally a minority of the She, but because of the identification of ethnic minorities after liberation, the Zhong clan has mostly been assimilated by the Han people, regardless of clothing or many other aspects, while the Lei clan in the same region is still intact in the village of Ying pulp. Therefore, the villagers of Fenglin in Sanqingshan have been familiar with Minnan (Hokkien dialect) and Yushan dialect since childhood, while in other parts of the same area, most of them do not speak Minnan language but only Yushan dialect, thinking that the ancestors of Zhengwu and other ancestors are from Yongchunye, Quanzhou, Fujian.
Development and prosperity, it is difficult to say whether it is joy or worry, the distortion of values, the comparison of money, the inability of temporary success, compared with the transformation of nature, the transformation of the human heart or the cost of restoration is even greater. Or irreversible also. As the inheritors of the sanqingshan natural heritage, we have an unshirkable responsibility to do our best to protect it under the existing conditions.
Sanqing Mountain Maple Forest Flower Lantern Since the beginning of the third and fourth days of the first year, according to the geographical division of the door to go door to door to go to people's flower lanterns, together with the window: flower lanterns a noise, two folk customs, the second for the flower lantern also. Stay until the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, burn the lanterns in the temple, pray for the smooth flow of water and soil, bless the peace of the party, and the abundance of grain, and look forward to continuing in the coming year. If someone has a funeral in previous years, they usually do not turn on the lamp, so as to thank the lamp. And every lantern festival, is the place where the villagers gather, in the night, the lights flicker, illuminating the hope of the villagers in the coming year, but also witnessing the happiness of the present