Introduction
In December 2005, the State Council decided that from 2006 onwards, the second Saturday of June would be China's "Cultural Heritage Day". From 2017 onwards, the "Cultural Heritage Day" was adjusted to the "Cultural and Natural Heritage Day". As a major cultural province, Hunan has always paid attention to the inheritance and protection of excellent cultural and natural heritage.
On June 10, the State Council announced the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects (a total of 185 items) and an expanded list of projects (a total of 140 items). Among them, Hunan ranked third in the country with a total of 19 items (7 new projects and 12 expansion projects). Up to now, Hunan has a total of 137 national intangible cultural heritage representative projects and 306 provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects.
Let's go, go with Xiaobian to see these 19 national intangible cultural heritage projects newly added in Hunan!
Legend of the Old Sicheng
There are many folk legends in Laosicheng, which reflect the history of the political, economic, military and cultural activities of the Tujia family in western Hunan Province.
One of the legends is laosicheng, including "The Origin of Laosicheng", "The Return of Ten Thousand Horses", "The Legend of the Copper Pillar of Xizhou", "The Legend of the Ancestral Hall", "The Self-Generated Bridge", "The Immortals Hit the Eye", "Laosicheng and the Hundred Fruit Girl" and so on. Such legends mainly record the historical process of the construction, reconstruction and migration of Laosi City, and also involve the landscapes around Laosi City, the scenery of mountains and rivers, and the main buildings in Laosi City.
One category is the legend of Toast, which mainly includes "The Legend of the Toast King", "The Legend of Wu Zhuchong", "The King of Toast vs. Wu Zhaochong", "Peng Yinan Resistance", "Kedong Maoren", "Tian Haohan", "Xiang Laoguanren", "The Legend of tujia Nian", "The Legend of the White-nosed Toast King" and so on. "The Legend of King Tusi" tells the story of Xizhou Tusi Peng Shixuan defeating the local leader Wu Zhuchong, signing a pact with Ma Xifan, the king of Chu, and establishing the local government of Peng, which is a model of the great integration of ethnic groups in ancient China, a successful case of regional ethnic autonomy, and fills the gap in the history of the Tujia family.
"Peng Yinan Resists the Wo" and "The Expedition of the King of Tu" tells the story of the tusi Peng Yinan leading the people of the territorial family to fight heroically on the southeast coast and defeat the Wokou. This type of legend records the historical process and glorious victory of the Tujia people in the fight against the Japanese empire, shows the patriotic feelings of the Tujia people in the face of foreign humiliation and hatred, and endows Laosicheng with rich historical vicissitudes and humanistic spirit, which is a true portrayal of history and reality.
Jiahe accompanies the wedding song
The dowry song is a traditional folk song of Jiahe County, originating from the labor trumpet and life chant, which is a folk wedding song and dance ceremony with a rigorous structure, a gentle melody and a simple dance. It is said that the earliest integrator is Chu Yu, the daughter of the Qin and Han Dynasties, which has been passed down for thousands of years. In Jiahe County and the surrounding areas, when there is marriage, relatives, friends, and neighbors spontaneously come to the bride's house to accompany the marriage. Regardless of whether it is "accompanying small marriage" or "accompanying big marriage", the participants in the activities are women, and they are called "song heads", "companion heads", "song and dance hands" and so on.
The structure of the accompanying song and dance is complete, and the performance procedures are neat, divided into "Anxi Song", "Juggling Song", "Long Song", "Dance Song" and so on. Jiahe wedding songs retain more than 1,300 traditional songs, 18 wedding dance songs, and more than 100 newly created wedding songs and dances. The folk song circle has the reputation of "orchid flowers in the north and companion songs in the south". In the past, the wedding song and dance relied on the "song head" (the representative of the inheritance) to be passed on among women. Nowadays, villages and villages have built dowry teams, which are popularized in schools, communities, squares, etc., and young migrant workers are brought to Guangxi, Shenzhen, Guangzhou and other places to spread, with a wide impact.
Wu Jia Fist
Wu Jia Quan is a kind of technical system that Wu Bida established during his settlement in Xiangtan, which melted the locally circulated Hong Fist and the Sixteen Ingots of The Health Gong Method in one furnace, and created a technique system that integrates both internal and external cultivation as the program, cradle force as the work, han que step and six cubits as the basic content, and integrates the practice, cultivation and fighting. It is precisely this spirit that has influenced some benevolent people in Hunan, and revolutionary pioneers such as Huang Xing and Qiu Jin have practiced Wujiaquan when they are afraid of life and death, advancing in the air, and attacking when they see gaps."
The Wujia Fist Force Method is called "Cradle Force". The footwork is mainly based on the cold bird step and the three-pronged step, which is flexible in change, has a small range of motion, and punches the lying bull. There are 22 kinds of boxing routines such as three forks and six elbows, six elbows for hanging, six elbows for swinging doors, and knives, hammers, stools, rakes, and sticks, and the boxing circuit is named after "six elbows". The three gods of "Joy, Trend, and Wei" are the essence of WujiaQuan's martial arts. The "seven-step needle stick" evolved from the gun technique, removing the gun head, turning the gun into a stick, the attack was mainly split and stabbed, and the defense was mainly blocked.
Wu jia quan takes the "Wu Jia Quan Genealogy" as the carrier, adopts the oral transmission method of inheritance, and retains the rituals of starting the factory, asking for a teacher, asking for a saint, sacrificing sticks, and sticks, which is a complete traditional martial arts ritual at present.
Rock Eagle Fist
Rock Eagle Fist is a unique pictographic fist in Xinning County. It is refined and sorted out by its descendants through long-term imitation of the "rock eagle"'s nesting, foraging, soaring, hunting, hunting, and fighting actions.
"Rock Eagle Fist" originated from Mr. Du Xinwu's eagle claw grappling technique, who passed this set of martial arts to Wan Lai Sheng in the early republic of China. In the early 1920s, Mr. Wan Laisheng appropriately evolved the martial art and became a "rock eagle fist" with unique characteristics of southwest Hunan and taught it to Jiang Zhaohong. After a long period of observation and understanding of the habits of rock eagles, Jiang Zhaohong imitated and improved them, so that the "Rock Eagle Fist" has multiple effects of actual combat and health maintenance. On the basis of Master Jiang Zhaohong, Liu Liehong then created and compiled the "Rock Eagle Fist" into 4 82-style boxing routines, taught it to Liu Xiaoyin and Li Junting, and opened a martial arts gym in the late 1980s.
Rock Eagle Fist is an important part of the Chinese martial arts and the "China Danxia Kunshan" World Natural Heritage Site. Based on practice, he has formed his own traditional style and cultural characteristics after a long period of accumulation, and his moral and ethical concepts and behavior models have infinite value charm.
Yellow tea making techniques
(Junshan silver needle tea making technique)
Qingshan living water produces good tea, Junshan silver needle is one of the top ten famous teas in China, mainly grown in Junshan Island, Dongting Lake. The ecological environment is superior, the tea is green and healthy, and the tea culture is profound, which has been recorded in the written records for more than 1200 years.
Junshan silver needle is famous for its yellow tea production technology (Junshan silver needle tea production technology) "one bud and one leaf" unique production, through the stall drying, greening, stall cooling, first baking, first bun, re-baking, re-bunting, foot fire, selection and other nine processes, soaking in the treasure, fermentation to extract the essence. Among them, "nine non-mining requirements", "double-type re-drying", "double-type stuffy yellow" are important processes of Junshan silver needle buds with golden body, fresh and refreshing taste and long aftertaste.
As a common wealth of all mankind, the yellow tea making technique (Junshan Silver Needle Tea Making Technique) has won many honors internationally. The development and inheritance of it has important practical significance in improving the health level of the whole people, protecting the ecological environment, promoting rural revitalization, poverty alleviation through intangible cultural heritage and promoting social harmony; it plays an important role in building regional culture, enriching the cultural connotation of the city, condensing national strength, and inheriting historical culture.
Preserved fruit preserves making techniques
(Carving candied fruit making technique)
The art of carving candied fruit is a traditional handicraft distributed in southwest Hunan Province, including five major steps of material selection, slicing, carving, steaming, sugaring, and turning over. Taking the unique grapefruit of Jingzhou as the main raw material, the grapefruit is first shaved off the thin skin, cut into 3cm thick flakes with a kitchen knife or the jars, animals and other forms required for the product, and the lancet adopts techniques such as flat carving, general carving and relief carving to carve into various exquisite patterns with complex shapes and vividness. After the ancient well water rinsing and purifying the color, the copper pot boiling to protect the green, rinsing and coloring, the cane sugar pickling and brewing to enhance the taste, turning the sun to bake and preserve the freshness and other processes to make edible handicrafts.
After being selected into the second batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage list in Hunan Province in March 2009, Jingzhou Miao and Dong Autonomous County carried out inheritance through identification of inheritors, master apprenticeship, school training, etc.; established a county intangible cultural heritage museum to form 5 carved candied fruit specialty villages such as Xiaxiang and Baoli, established 4 learning bases in Xiaxiang and Qinglongjie, and supported 8 production workshops or professional poverty alleviation workshops such as Luo Xianmei and Feng Yongmei to help alleviate poverty. Carved candied fruit is a gift of nature, a concerto of ethnic minorities living in harmony with nature. The people of the Miao dong area capture the national culture, and use their skillful hands to carve it on honeypots and birds, and the fragrant and rewarding preserves carry the happy rural dreams of the local people.
Snack making skills
(Fire Palace Stinky Tofu Making Technique)
Changsha Fire Palace stinky tofu, the most distinctive traditional food in Hunan. It is a soy product that is dipped in white tofu as the main ingredient and dipped in special brine soaked in color and flavored oil.
Its shape is black, named after the smell, opening up a special case of Chinese food culture, and in the unity of the opposition of "black" and "white", "smelly" and "fragrant", "scorched" and "tender", "rigid" and "soft", from the pole to the positive, the Chinese cuisine pursues the aesthetic taste of good color and fragrance to the extreme. Since the original heir Jiang Bingkun brought it to the Fire Palace in 1908, it has a history of more than 110 years.
Its skills include more than 30 processes in 5 major steps of brine making, blank making, soaking, frying and soup making. In the winter, fresh winter shoots, shiitake mushrooms, perilla, Liuyang tempeh, etc. are boiled in winter water, and then fermented in the pool after adding koji wine; the blank should be made of northeast soybeans, making white tofu with a length of 5 cm wide and 1 cm thick; soaking the white tofu in the brine for 2 to 6 hours; frying with tea oil is the best, the most fragrant; the soup is made of pepper, garlic rice, etc., the most fragrant. When eaten with dips, the smell is intertwined and the aftertaste is long.
Dragon Dance
(Plate Dragon Lamp)
The plate dragon lamp declared by Cili County, commonly known as the plate lamp, is one of the bench dragons. The structure is composed of guide lights, row lights, dragon head lights, dragon body lights, cocoon lights, shrimp (fish) lights, and dragon tail lights, and the art integrates traditional dance, traditional art, sports competition, and folklore. Through the close cooperation between people, using linear and chain formations, under the guidance of gongs and drums and guide lights, a variety of exquisite formation patterns are danced.
Props are hand-drawn using bamboo weaving, carpentry and painting techniques, and paper paste. The dragon head lamp, the dragon body lamp, and the dragon tail lamp are connected in series into a long dragon, and the guide lamp, row lamp, and shrimp (fish) lamp accompany the dragon lamp. During the dance, the fires sound in unison, the gongs and drums are noisy, the lights are bright, the momentum is magnificent, and the grandeur is magnificent. Hundreds of meters long dragons meandered along the way, and along the way, people set off firecrackers, burned incense and paper to welcome the arrival of the dragon, and prayed for smooth wind and rain and peace of the country and the people.
Dance time generally has: dragon sacrifice, eye-catching, worship of gods, lanterns, dragon dance, garden visit, smoke, lantern collection and other eight links, of which the dragon dance is the highlight, the traditional routines are: "Tai Chi Tu", "Fluttering Wings", "Golden Thread Hanging Gourd", "A Stroke of 'Fu'", etc., but also can pose "and"Guotai Min'an" and other characters. In recent years, the original family inheritance has evolved into a township unit and a transmission.
Xiang opera
(Lianyuan Xiang Opera)
Xiang opera, one of the local opera genres in Hunan Province, was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list in 2008, and the main body of the project is Hunan Xiang Theater and Changsha Xiang Opera Troupe.
In 1950, at the beginning of the establishment of Lianyuan County, the Xiang Opera Troupe was established. Lianyuan Xiang opera and Changsha Xiang opera are of the same origin and different streams, which is a branch of Xiang opera, and its main characteristics, important values, distribution areas, and service objects are different from Changsha Xiang opera. Lianyuan Xiang Opera Protection and Inheritance Center, the Creation and Production of Xiang Opera "Hot Land Faithful Soul", "Craftsman Breaks into the Barracks", "Tao Li Controversy", "Soldier Mother" and other plays won the Hunan Tian Han New Repertoire Award, the Five One Project Award, and the Double Hundred Performance Award. The troupe has been rated as a good troupe in the province for three consecutive years and nine years. In 2015, the newly compiled historical drama "Burning Car Royal History" was launched, which was "stunning".
Decoupage
(Meishan paper cut)
Meishan is located in the northern part of hunan xiangzhong, is an important station in the migration of ethnic minorities to the southwest before the Song Dynasty, forming a Meishan culture with Han culture as the mainstay and compatible with ethnic minority cultural elements, and accumulating and nurturing the unique Meishan paper-cutting art.
Meishan paper-cutting has two types: cut flowers and filed flowers. Cut flowers with scissors and local soil red paper, can cut 4-6 layers at a time. The cut flowers mainly include frangipani flowers, door paper, double goose wedding window flowers, cover bowl flowers, birthday flowers and other daily decorations. Congratulations on the fertility of the frangipani is less than 5 cm square, exquisite and chic, for the New Year's day of the door paper has a length of 138 cm, width of 34 cm, the atmosphere is warm; the filing tools are mainly camphor wood mats, files, materials of various colors of flower paper, up to more than 20 layers at a time. The products mainly include the paper-cut masks of the dance, the shadow bodies of the paper shadow plays, and the funeral sacrifice paper cuts such as photo clothes, flower houses, guiding banners, spiritual hall floating paper, altar door flags, etc. A "flower house" requires dozens of patterns, more than a hundred filing flower pieces, takes a few days to make, and is exquisite and exquisite.
Paper-cutters are known locally as "gardeners". Traditional flower-cutting techniques are mostly passed down from family to family; filing techniques can be passed on through families or through teachers. At present, a variety of inheritance methods such as social inheritance and educational inheritance have been added.
Miao embroidery
(Xiangxi Miao embroidery)
Miao embroidery in western Hunan is the most popular craft among Miao women. Hmong girls began to learn embroidery at the age of four or five. In the countryside, there is no need to worship the teacher, and the able are happy to teach. Generally by the age of fourteen or fifteen, the needle is skilled, and the color matching is also clear in the chest. Miao embroidery utensils are simple, only need a wooden frame, commonly known as "flower bandages", used to bandage embroidery cloth, make it flat, easy to embroider. There are also embroideries that do not require flower bandages.
The methods of Miao embroidery mainly include hand embroidery, cut-and-paste embroidery and painting embroidery. Casual embroidery does not require materials and reference patterns, but relies on memory and experience, and is embroidered arbitrarily on the base cloth. The base cloth is generally made of black diagonal stripe, but also with pink or light blue diagonal stripe. This kind of embroidery allows the embroiderer to gallop his imagination and exert his personality, and there is a phenomenon of "walking through thousands of homes and not finding the same flowers". Among the embroidery masters of Miao women, they can embroider at will without patterns, and most women need to use the method of cutting embroidery, so paper cutting (flower cutting) has become an art that Miao women must master.
Dong wooden architecture construction techniques
(Passage Dong ethnic wooden structure construction technique)
The Dong people embody the beautiful pursuit and core values of worshiping nature, conforming to nature and coexisting in harmony with nature with their epic pure wood construction skills, and carry a thick and magical Dong cultural system. They use the technical treasure book of "picking and picking vertical melons, wearing and mortising, closing without gaps, and carving beams and paintings", organically integrating folk architecture, painting and carving art, and achieving a superb realm in architectural art.
The intricate and gorgeous wooden buildings are dotted with dongzhai in the passage and completely reach an organic combination, and their construction skills are exquisite, and the national characteristics are remarkable, which is breathtaking. Stemmed from the ancient Baiyue ethnic nest houses, from the drum tower of the "song and dance under the tree", from the wind and rain bridge of the legend of Qinglong Genggu, from the defensive function and geographical definition of the zhaimen, etc., there are many in The Passage Dong Autonomous County.
These national treasures are concentrated in the channel national building complex, which is the product of the development process from dry column building to ground building with the development of construction technology, reflecting the wooden architecture construction technology and extraordinary aesthetic pursuit of a specific area in the specific area of the Dong ethnic settlement area on the "Chuyue Ancient Passage", which has important research value and is an important achievement of the southern Dong people in architectural construction, landscape design, engineering construction or plastic arts.
Fan-making skills
(Yuezhou fan making technique)
Yuezhou fans include folding fans, tuan fans, calligraphy and painting fans, plantain fans, feather fans, Zhongtang large hanging fans and other products, named because the place of origin formerly belonged to "Yuezhou Capital", is a traditional handicraft passed down from generation to generation in Yueyang and surrounding areas.
Yuezhou fan products are folding fans as a bulk, and the finished folding fan fan type is shuttle-shaped, with a tight mouth and a thin middle drum. The production technology is based on Nanzhu as bone, horn as nail, rice paper as the surface, the material is exquisite, the process is rigorous, and the locally produced high-quality Nanzhu is the main material of the fan bone, and the fan bone and the fan surface are made into two major procedures, including 72 processes such as "saw barrel", "splitting piece", "side bone push green" and "small bone push green". Among them, the production and modeling of the fan bone is the key link of the most technical skill of the Yuezhou fan, to go through a number of processes such as sawing, splitting, planing, frustration, boiling, drying, etc., when making it into bamboo, the heart and hand print, the interlocking links, carefully polished, the polished fan eye looks like jade warm, the hand touch is smooth like agate.
Yuezhou fan making skills are mainly passed on through two ways: master inheritance and family inheritance. At present, through the opening of training courses, campuses, industrial training, etc., a variety of inheritance methods such as education inheritance and social inheritance have been added and opened up, with 58 large and small inheritance groups and more than 600 employees.
National musical instrument making skills
(Traditional gong making technique in Tanxia Township)
The gong is a kind of musical instrument made of copper as the main material and proportionally mixed with tin, silver and other metals, which is widely used in opera dance and folk activities.
The Gong in Tanxia Township of Leiyang City is traditionally handmade, following more than ten processes such as material selection, ingredients, molten water, billet making, forging, trimming, molding, quenching, cold work, polishing, hammering, etc. The operation process is very rigorous, requiring the heat and technique to be very precise, and interlocking, in one go.
The selection of materials requires copper accuracy to reach 99.9%, proportional to tin, silver and other metals (ingredients), heated to 1200 ° C to make it melt (molten water), poured into the mold to make copper billet (blank), put the copper billet into the 900 ° C furnace chamber to burn red clip out of the beaten piece (forging), to be heated and softened to cut into a circle (shearing), continuously burned red in the groove type repeatedly hammered molding (molding), and then heated to a certain temperature clip out of the quenching into the water (quenching), fished out of the hammer, preliminary tuning (cold work), After the surface polishing (polishing) with an alloy knife, finally, according to different types of gongs, different techniques are used to repeatedly beat different parts of the gong to adjust its thickness and shape, so as to achieve the sound quality required for the use of musical instruments (one hammer to determine the tone).
The gong making techniques in tanxia countryside rely entirely on the technical experience and music theory knowledge of the craftsmen, and are passed down from generation to generation in the form of oral teaching from family and master to apprentice.
Traditional Chinese Medicine
(Chen's Bee Therapy)
The Chen's bee therapy, declared by Chenzhou City, combined with the bee sting method and the bee product entry method, is a folk characteristic therapy that combines the three methods of medicinal acupuncture under the guidance of the meridian theory of traditional Chinese medicine. Its tools are simple, only need bee box, forceps, live bees can be implemented; the basic acupuncture method is divided into point thorns, scattered thorns, straight thorns, elastic thorns, oblique thorns, etc.; students are located in 28 provinces, cities and counties across the country.
Chen's bee therapy began during the Kangxi Dynasty, and the eighth generation of Chen Wei created a "point map" dedicated to bee sting therapy. Bee sting therapy has shown good efficacy on gout, cervical spondylosis, frozen shoulder and other diseases commonly found in Shonan, especially for gout and facial paralysis.
The tenth generation of Chen Haiyan and Zu Xiangmeng further established the triple therapy of "bee sting, chinese medicine bee products, and medicinal beeswax". In 2018, Mr. Zu Xiangmeng participated in the formulation of the first bee therapy standard in China, "Code of Practice for Traditional Chinese Medicine Bee Sting Therapy", and edited the higher education textbook "Traditional Chinese Medicine Bee Therapy and Sub-Health". Chen's bee therapy has significant therapeutic effects on various chronic diseases and geriatric diseases in an aging society. In recent years, Chen's bee therapy has been committed to the cause of bee therapy, and has made great progress in the combination of medical and nursing care, health care and pension, poverty alleviation and employment.
Traditional Chinese medicine culture
(Longshan Yaowang Medical Culture)
Originating from the Longshan area of Xinshao County, Hunan Province, Longshan Yaowang medicinal culture is a regional traditional medicine culture that combines Sun Simiao's medicine, health maintenance and witch culture, Meishan culture, Taoist and Taoist culture, Confucian culture, health folklore, and yaowang legends, including yaowang medicine, health maintenance, Taoist cultivation, food culture, medical ethics culture, health customs, yaowang legends and beliefs, cultural relics, etc., which have been integrated into the people's production and life and medical care practice since the end of the Tang Dynasty, forming" The custom of "Ten People and Nine Doctors (Medicine)" has given birth to more than 100 pharmacists, health care families, and Taoist coaches such as Zhou Xueting, Li Daochun, Sun Dingyi, and He Shu.
The contemporary inheritance of Yaowang medicine culture is mainly: First, rap the story of Yaowang and sacrifice Sun Simiao, pass on the medical ethics and medical style of Sun Simiao, the king of medicine, educate people to respect medicine for goodness, and establish good morality. The second is to integrate the lifestyle and health customs advocated by Sun Simiao, such as choosing a place, nourishing sex, massage, guidance, medicinal dietary therapy, medicinal baths, taboos, etc., into life and health care practice to carry out self-health care and prevent and treat diseases; the third is to teach Yaowang medicine through teachers; the fourth is to plant, harvest, process, process, and store Chinese herbal medicines in accordance with Sun Simiao's understanding and requirements of Chinese herbal medicine.
dragon boat festival
(Daozhou Dragon Boat Customs)
Originating in the Song Dynasty, the Daozhou Dragon Boat Race was spread in the Ming and Qing dynasties, and flourished in the contemporary era, and is a mass sports activity integrating folklore, fitness, entertainment and competition. In 2006, the Daozhou Dragon Boat Race was included in the first representative list of intangible cultural heritage in Hunan Province. As an intangible cultural heritage, the Daozhou dragon boat custom is not only rich and colorful folk activities, dragon boat activities are large in scale, but also have exquisite production technology. The dragon head is exquisitely carved, and its shape is interpreted from the "Dragon Sheng Temple, Temple Sheng Dragon", according to the surname of each village to sacrifice the dragon (deity) enshrined in the temple, evolved into a variety of dragons, tigers, phoenixes, unicorns four types of bows, different colors, different shapes of dragon heads represent different communities, villages.
Yao Panwang Festival
(Returning the King's Wish)
Zixing "Panwang Festival "Panwang Festival", known in Yao as "playing bells" and "paying the law", is held every year on the 16th day of the 10th month of the lunar calendar and lasts for seven days and seven nights. The main ceremony of the "Panwang Festival" was held at the Panwang Temple (Panwang Hall) of the Zixing Yao people. The traditional wish to return the king is mainly based on the family as a unit to "return the family wish", and the village as the unit "return the village wish" is relatively rare.
In 2010, Chaping Yao Village as a whole was relocated to the outskirts of Zixing City, and the form and living environment of the settlement were changed to an annual small festival and a three-year festival. The ceremony adds the ritual of "asking the saint" from the old temple on the mountain to the new hall to show that the roots are not forgotten. "Panwang Festival (HuanPan Wang Wish)" is a collection of Yao culture, reflecting the ancestral beliefs of the Yao people and the Taoist culture of the Yao people, including art forms such as Literature, music, dance, handicrafts and other art forms such as Panwang Song, Long Encouragement and Yao Embroidery, which is a vivid practice of the historical memory, cultural identity and traditional culture of the People of Zixing Yao.
Temple fair
(Nanyue Temple Fair)
Nanyue Temple Fair, originating from ancestor worship, mountain god worship, yin and yang five elements and astrology, was formed in the Southern Song Dynasty at the latest, held in the temple temple and market town of Hengshan Mountain Range, Nanyue District, Hengyang City, Hunan Province, with the Spring Festival temple fair, the "Catch August" temple fair and the Tianfu Temple Fair as the carrier, is the Chu people as the descendants of the fire god, Hengshan mountain god Zhu Rong and spontaneously organized, natural inheritance, to reward the gods for thanksgiving, exorcism and disaster elimination, praying for life, social fire carnival-based folk activities, reproducing the historical context of the multicultural integration of the Xiangchu area, is the local political economy, Living fossils of religious beliefs and customs are also the concentrated embodiment of traditional filial piety and family feelings, and have a wide social influence in southern China.
The Spring Festival Temple Fair is held from the eighth to the following lantern of the first lunar month, which is a New Year's prayer activity for the people to thank the ancestors for their blessings, including Lapa BaShi porridge, Chinese New Year's Eve head-grabbing incense, lantern offering, lantern parade, dragon and lion dance, stilt juggling, Buddhist ceremony, etc. The "Catch the August" temple fair takes place from the seventh to the ninth month of the lunar calendar. In the south, pilgrims of various nationalities worshipped by the fire god stepped on gossip, sang incense songs, and prostrated with incense, praying for long life and long life for their parents. The Tianfu Temple Festival is held from the 10th to the 17th day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar, with the aim of driving away the plague and warding off evil spirits and commemorating the ancestors. There are Taoist pickles, stories, civil and military judges touring the streets, hanging wormwood, and sachets.
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