In the Chengdu Du Fu Caotang in the New Year, the annual "People's Day Trip Caotang" worship of Du Fu was held at the Gongbu Ancestral Hall. Since 1992, when the Du Fu Caotang Museum resumed the "People's Day Tour Caotang" activity, it has been successfully held for 30 sessions and has now become an intangible cultural heritage project of Sichuan Province.
Today (7), outside the north gate of Du Fu Caotang, in the fine spring rain, groups of tourists took photos in front of the installation of the "People's Day Tour Caotang", and ms. Yang, a tourist, told the Red Star News reporter, "Every year at the beginning of the seventh day, several of our good sisters will play in the Caotang, and it is only when we come to have the feeling of the New Year." ”
In the Chengdu Du Fu Caotang Museum, plum blossoms such as red plums and white plums are opened first, showing a spring scene full of spring, and many citizens come to the museum to admire the plums and pray for blessings, watch the exhibition and visit the garden, and celebrate the Spring Festival.
Du Fu Caotang displayed the four treasures of the study room and the simple decoration of the worship activity site at the Gongbu Ancestral Hall, expressing the reverence for the poetry Saint Du Fu and the inheritance of traditional culture in a solemn, concise and poetic form.
The 76-year-old Aunt Peng and her wife took the red plum in their hands, walked into the Gongbu Ancestral Hall, bowed and put the plum blossoms on the worship platform, "As long as we are in Chengdu for the New Year, on the seventh day of the first month, we will come to Du Fu Caotang to worship Du Fu, Du Fu is a great realist poet, who has worried about the country and the people all his life, and his spirit has always inspired us." ”
What is Human Day? Legend has it that Nuwa created the world, and after creating animals such as chickens, dogs, pigs, sheep, cows and horses, she created people on the seventh day, so this day is the birthday of human beings. The Han Dynasty began to have people and customs, and after the Wei and Jin Dynasties began to pay attention to it. Dong Xun of jin said in his "Answers to Questions and Customs" Yun: "The first day of the first lunar month is a chicken, the second day of the first month is a dog, the third is a pig, the fourth is a sheep, the fifth is a cow, the sixth is a horse, and the seventh day is a man." ”
Since the Song Dynasty, every year literati and inkers have come to the grass hall to worship the poetry Saint Du Fu. During the Ming and Qing dynasties, this worship service was more widely spread. According to historical records, Zhu Chun, the king of Shu in the early Ming Dynasty, set a precedent for the sacrifice of Du Fu. According to the document "Xiu Du Shaoling Caotang with Lu Fang Weng with Food", "with a trickle of auspicious days, to zhongjian Mr. (Du Fu)." "The middle prison is the two animals of pigs and sheep, reflecting that the sacrifice of Du Fu at that time was carried out in the prison of pigs and sheep and two animals, which shows that the sacrifice ceremony is extremely solemn, indicating that the activity of sacrificing Du Fu has a long history.
By the Qing Dynasty, the human day sacrifice had become a major custom in Chengdu. Tracing its origins, we must also start from the friendship between Du Fu and Gao Shi. When Du Fu was living in Chengdu, Gao Shi was appointed as the Assassin of Shu Prefecture and often funded Du Fu. In 761 AD, Gao Shi wrote the poem "Sending Du ErShiyi on Ren Day" on the day of the people and sent it to Du Fu to express his thoughts about his friends. In 770 AD, Du Fu, who was floating in Huxiang, reread gaoshi's poem, when Gao Shi had died and saw the wounds of things, so he wrote "Rewarding the People of Gaoshu Prefecture to See the Day" to send mourning. Since then, the story of Gaudu people's daily singing and harmony has been passed down as a good story in the poetry world. During the Xianfeng period of the Qing Dynasty, He Shaoji, who was then a scholar in Sichuan, was familiar with the allusions of gaodu people singing and singing, and on the day of the seventh person's day, he wrote a couplet in the caotang titled "Jinshui Spring Wind Public Occupation, Caotang People's Day I Return". As soon as this joint was released, the literati and inkers competed to follow suit, gathering in the grass hall every year on people's days, chanting poems and hanging poems, becoming an important cultural life of Chengdu people.
Red Star News reporter Zeng Qi Editor Jiang Qing
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