On January 28, people in many places in Gansu rehearsed traditional folk cultural programs such as dragon dances and lion dances to welcome the New Year.
Every New Year's Festival, the masses in many parts of Shanxi celebrate with music and dance club fires, and these folk activities have become indispensable spiritual companions in the lives of the working people in the Yellow River Basin. (File photo)
Entering the Waxing Moon, especially after a small year, is a tired and exciting day for the old bag. He went to war with his wife, and the neighbor said that the old bag smiled like a flower.
The old bun skewer food stall, starting from the fifteenth day of the Waxing Moon, the business is on fire, and it can sell thousands of skewers every day. "You're not picking up meat skewers, you're skewering money skewers!" Even if the pocket is bulging every day, the old bag does not let the baby gang handle during the winter vacation. Lao Bao let his son go to the ancient city to learn to set up a lantern array with the old master, and this year he entered the "Eight-Sided Mighty Wind Gong and Drum Team", and the old Zhao Kua Lao Bao of the neighboring stall looked far away. Lao Bao said triumphantly: "Of course, we farmers can't just stare at the profits in front of us, there is no lamp, there is an ancient city, and there is a beautiful thing that drops money in the sky!" "Lao Bao wants his son to become the descendant of the lantern array.
The lamp that Lao Bao said is the "Nine-Curve Yellow River Lamp", and the ancient city is the ancient city village of Jiantan Town, Ganzhou District, Zhangye City, Gansu Province.
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Gucheng Village is a remote village 200 kilometers away from the city, the government invests here, and decision-making requires not only courage, but also a deep understanding and sincere love for the "Nine-Curve Yellow River Lantern" of the year.
"Jiuqu Yellow River Lantern" is a large-scale folk cultural activity spread in Gansu, Shaanxi, Shanxi, Henan, Hebei and other places. Also known as the Nine-Curve Yellow River Array, the Nine-Curve Yellow River Lantern Festival, the Nine-Curve, etc., the reason why these names are inseparable from the words "Nine-Curve" and "Yellow River" is because the lamp array twists and turns like the Dragon Song of the Yellow River. Of course, there are also the symbolic meanings of philosophy such as yin and yang, virtual reality, and the confucian reminder that life is more wrong, to take the right path, and to learn to turn when the road in front of you is not open.
Its origin is the mythological story of Yin Shang, the "Three Gu Ji Pendulum Yellow River Array" in the novel "Fengshen Yanyi" published during the Ming Dynasty's Apocalypse, and it is said that in the last year of the Shang Dynasty, the three immortals on the Three Immortals Island, Yunxiao, Bixiao, qiongxiao, and Hanzhi Immortals, Caiyun Immortals, and the Immortal Niangniang avenged their brother Zhao Gongming, swinging the array and Jiang Ziya fighting. They laid down the "Nine-Curved Yellow River Array" that "conceals innate secrets and life and death organs; externally presses the Nine Palaces Gossip, enters and exits the portal, and the chain of advances and retreats is orderly" and is orderly. An old master of the village lantern array said: "The 'Nine-Curve Yellow River Lamp' is to use the lamp to form a large maze." ”
Thousands of years of cang, the "Nine-Curve Yellow River Lantern" like the sun, moon and stars, has been passed down and interpreted by the sons and daughters of China along the Yellow River for generations, making this distinctive Spring Festival culture in the Yellow River Basin shine with the light of Chinese civilization.
The "Nine-Curved Yellow River Lantern", with folk traditions such as the Nine Palace Bagua, the Twenty-Eight Stars, the Zodiac, the Twenty-Four Solar Terms and the Nine Wishes as the main constituent elements, has 365 flags in the array, and 365 lamps are set under the banner, representing 365 industries or 365 days.
The traditional method is to plant 361 square rafters at an equal distance into a 24-meter square Yellow River lantern array, so that all rafters are horizontally and vertically lined up, diagonally in an array, and there are sky lantern poles in the center of the phalanx, also known as the point platform. The gate is decorated with multicolored arches, symbolizing the rafters of the generals, and the bamboo poles are tied to connect the labyrinth-like square passages.
"Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp" is also integrated into the development of modern science and technology, the comprehensive use of sound, light, electricity, lamps, smoke, fog, machinery and modern art modeling, the addition of laser lamps, computer lights and other modern lighting and sound equipment, all-round, three-dimensional interpretation of cultural heritage, the beauty of traditional culture through the "modern light" this medium to bring tourists a new feeling in a "immersed" way, the Zhangye "Jiuqu Yellow River Lamp" into China's largest light array. Tourists come to sightseeing, the first project is to enter the lantern array, everyone supports the old and the young, the fish run through, the march must go through 96 turns of different lengths, the lights in the array are swaying, colorful, meandering, continuously like a heavenly palace, such as walking on the Milky Way, which is pleasant. Turning the nine songs, it means that the new year is smooth, the grain is abundant, and the peace and health are safe.
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The Yellow River flows out of the Kunlun Mountains and flows for thousands of miles in the northeast. A small song in a hundred miles, a straight song in a thousand miles. People along the Yellow River pulsate and sing with the Yellow River.
Nine curves of the Yellow River eighteen bends, Ningxia got up to Tongguan, wanli scenery who is the first? There are also moraine mouth gold and silver mountains.
On the edge of the Yellow River in the Lüliang Mountains of Shanxi, there is the ancient town of Moraine. Due to the natural dangers of the Yellow River, the moraine mouth gradually evolved into an important land and water dock in the hinterland of the Loess Plateau adjacent to the Yellow River. Moraine Mouth also relies on the mighty waves of the Yellow River to spread its reputation to all directions, enjoying the reputation of "the first town of the Yellow River in Jiuqu".
Substitute the lamp for the soldier, the game of array. Every year around the 15th day of the first month, the Jiuqu Yellow River Array Lantern Festival, which combines traditional formations with folk flower festivals, is held. Moraine Mouth innovates the tradition, and integrates local elements such as Linxian Umbrella Head Song, Moraine Mouth Rap, Taoist Love Drama and Shanxi folk songs and dances into the real-life tourism performance project "Ru Meng Moraine Mouth", allowing visitors to revisit the prosperity of Jin merchants on the Yellow River, the majesty of the Eighth Route Army crossing the Yellow River, the struggle life and love of the sons and daughters of the Yellow River, and even the victory in the fight against poverty, and even the classic moments such as the victory in the fight against poverty, and re-appreciate the Yellow River culture.
The "Nine-Curve Yellow River Lantern" in Qiangen Village, Tumen Township, Zanhuang County, Hebei Province, is also becoming more and more popular as the intangible cultural heritage of Hebei Province, and unlike Zhangye Ancient City Village, the Zhuanjiuqu of Qiangen Village has a rule: "Please three officials". After the Yellow River lantern array is tied up, just like the opera team "please play the gods", the villagers beat gongs and drums to invite the three officials of "Heavenly Official, Ground Official, and Water Official" to be offered on the opposite side of the entrance of the lantern array, with the meaning of praying for smooth wind and rain and abundant grain. After the "three officials" are invited, first of all, they must turn the Yellow River, generally by the lotus lamp to enter the Yellow River array first, the first few young men set off firecrackers from time to time, followed by the gong and drum team beating the gong and drum, the long flow of people followed the gong and drum team into the lamp array, and after a while, the tourists in the lamp array formed a long dragon with nine curves and eighteen bends, and the head of the gong and drum team coiled in the lamp array had walked out of the lamp array, and the tail was still outside the lamp array. Qiangen Village and the ancient city village "Jiuqu Yellow River Lantern" are difficult to distinguish in scale.
The Yellow River came west to decide Kunlun, roaring thousands of miles to touch the dragon gate. Longmen, also known as Yumen, is an important channel from the Yellow River to Shaanxi, and for thousands of years it has been a friendly traffic for the Qin and Jin people. On the Guanzhong Road left by the Qin Dynasty, in many places such as Mizhi County in northern Shaanxi, there are annual activities of yellow river lanterns. The difference is that the simple Qin people interpret the Yellow River lamp as the "Yellow River Spring Lantern", and on the fifteenth day of the first month, people put the Kong Ming lantern into the sky, and the lotus lamp is lit into the Yellow River, which is called "offering lamp" by the locals. Just because of environmental protection and safety, Kong Ming lanterns are not put away.
At nightfall, above the Yellow River, the river lights reflect the river surface, drifting forward along the main channel of the Yellow River, carrying people's beautiful expectations for the future. The River Lantern Festival has become a resounding brand of the old Shaanxi people, "This year, I made nine lights, and the goal is to compete for the 'lamp queen' in the Year of the Tiger." River lantern artist Kiko is full of confidence in her lamp.
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The "Nine-Curved Yellow River Lantern" has been popular in the land of China, especially in the Yellow River Basin for thousands of years. The Ming "Imperial Jingjing Scenery And Spring Field" has a record: "From the eleventh to the sixteenth, the villagers tied straw as a shed, the week hanging miscellaneous lamps, the land was two acres wide, the door path was curved, and the Tibetan three or four miles, the intruder could not get out of the path by mistake, that is, for a long time, the Nine Curves of the Yellow River lantern." "Mizhi County Chronicle": "Fifteen yen supper, the lamp market is full of lights and sparks... Outside the city, the sorghum stalk circle is used as a lamp market, and the song loops, and the tourists are like clouds, and the common name is nine songs. "Yanqing County Chronicle": "Shangyuan Zhang Lantern for three nights, or as a nine-curved Yellow River lamp, a total of three hundred and sixty lights." "Xuanhua Fuzhi Yanqingzhou": "Shangyuan Zhang Lantern, set up a flower torch, village city duoli bamboo, make the Yellow River Nine Curve Lantern, men and women compete in the night tour, called walking hundreds of diseases." "From the above documents, we can understand the general situation of the light array construction and its activities at that time.
The Yellow River lights nine loops, a passage into the formation. The production of river lamps also has its own tricks: northern Shaanxi rice fat uses bean noodles as lamp bowls, Suide uses potatoes, Extended with white radish, Beijing Yanqing and Huairou are steamed with water noodles, and have now been converted to small porcelain bowls. Yanqing Baihebao Village is led by stilts, dancing forward with flower lanterns in hand, followed by other performance teams and the crowd. Huairou Shayu Village is also led by stilts, followed by the "Noisy Club, Bamboo Horse Club, Ten Not Idle, Little Car Club" and other light parties, and the audience is clustered among them.
The Yellow River, like a thousand miles of silk, weaves mountains, weaves rivers, weaves centuries after century, weaves the journey of thousands of miles, weaves the feats of the Jinge iron horse, and weaves the splendid dream of the Chinese nation.
A hundred lights and thousands of people enjoy together, and the Nine Palaces gossip about the rejuvenation of the earth.
In the new spring, looking at the mighty Yellow River rushing eastward, born to the sea, strong to the sea, the whole land has accumulated the hope of a winter, giving birth to the prosperity of spring. The "Nine-Curved Yellow River Lamp", with the children of the Yellow River yearning for the beautiful spring, shines with the mighty river with the eternal light of Chinese civilization... (Li Jiangtao, Fan Haiping)
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