——Zhou Zhi Jixian Village Traditional Folk Custom "Fighting Community Fire"
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She, ancient refers to the land god, is also a regional division unit. "Fang Liu Li, for the society". "Pipe" is based on the society as a unit, "singing with the striker, dancing around the fire", so it is called the community fire.
2017, Ding You's New Year. Under the focus of "long guns and short cannons" from CCTV and nearly 100 reporters from the provincial and municipal media, jixian ancient castle was suddenly "full of smoke," and the wild and mighty jixian grandfathers were all shirtless, majestic, braving the cold wind, the spirit was vibrant, and The instrument Yu Xuanang joined the ranks of the society fire, spilling out the blood and masculinity of the Jixian hanzi to the fullest, showing the world a man's temperament and exuberant vitality of standing tall in the sky, exalting upwards, daring to challenge, daring to take on the responsibility of the boy temperament and exuberant vitality of life...
The Jixian Society Fire, which has been away for twelve years, is back this year.
When I was a child, Nanjixian, a large fort five miles away from Ganwu Village in Jiufeng Town, often had the custom of "playing with social fire" during the New Year's Festival. (Jixian Village, Jixian Town, locally called: "move south, or South Jixian".) Nam Ji Hyun's harmonic pronunciation: Male wife Hyun. Legend has it that in ancient times, a kind-hearted couple in the village met the legend of the xianqiao house to save the old beggar. ）
"The Hometown of Chinese Drum Music" and "The Hometown of the Chinese God of Wealth". This big fort in the eastern part of our county, second only to the bean village of Zhongnan Town, because of the inheritance of "drum music" and "social fire", highlights the profound cultural heritage and the majestic style of the ancient castle with abundant talents.
The social fire in Jixian Village has been circulating for hundreds of years, and in the past, before playing with the social fire every year, it was necessary to "fight the social fire". Why fight social fire? This is because the whole village's men, women, and women participate, and everyone in the village participates, from the foreign affairs liaison group, the copywriting propaganda group, the vehicle group, the clothing group, the makeup group, the security group, the logistics group, and other affairs are huge and complicated, and the village leaders and the heads of the social fire society always shirk for various reasons and are unwilling to play the social fire. Therefore, every year, "fighting the social fire" has become the prelude to the social fire. I vividly remember the days of "Jusha Fire", when people poured into this big fort that made the people of the surrounding small villages envious, and the whole Jixian Village was a big theater stage, and every street was full of people. Men and women are dressed up and jubilant, both watching the hilarity and being watched lively; both the audience and the actors who appear in costume. The men met, greeted each other loudly, exchanged blessings, and then handed over paper cigarettes. The cigarettes that are taken out are all "Yan'an" and "Baocheng" that are not willing to eat on weekdays. Girls like to get together, red, red, green and green, twittering for half a day, hula to the east, hula to the west, pulling people's eyes. Food sellers, dough makers, tricksters, face-to-face, shuttles, like fish in the water. A burst of gongs and drums came from the other side of the street, and the street was instantly much quieter, and people moved closer to both sides of the street, choosing favorable terrain and location. Unable to stand on the side of the street, the broken baby was small, so they climbed the tree on the side of the street, or sat on the wall of the street people's house. In order to see the social fire, I wore my mother's "cotton nest" (cotton shoes) that day, accompanied by the village friends, stepped on the thick snow, braved the biting cold, passed a broken fort called Anjiazhai, and then came to this big fort full of dreams. At that time, when we were young, we children knew very little about Qin Opera, so we couldn't see the dramatic characters dressed up in the Society Fire. The reason why I like to follow the adult's ass to see the liveliness is also in response to the old saying: "The insider looks at the doorway, and the layman looks at the liveliness."
In order to witness the fiery scene of the grandfathers of Jixian Village fighting the community fire, we, the young audience, walked around the street and left the cold and hunger behind. In the evening, when I came home and saw that I was freezing and shivering, my mother complained bitterly: "Good singing is not good than hot kang." The cold sky savage ran outside like a wild man, and he deserved to freeze to death! ”。 It feels so comfortable to get into the hot kang quilt nest and feel warm. The wonderful clips of the social fire flashed in my mind like a movie: mao people scolding the line; gongs and drums shouting; cannon fighting; shirtless fighting....
In the days of this year's "Lantern Festival", the cold of minus four or five degrees could not resist the fiery passion of Jixian manhood. Don't look at the cold and frozen, the manhood of Jixian Village is naked, against the cold wind, holding cannons, calling the parade on the street, no one has a cold, there is a kind of power in this, showing the spirit of the Jixian people. In fact, the community fire is not only a collection of sages and grandfathers to show the people's fierceness and masculinity, but also a spiritual totem established in the wild. The fire of the society embodies the spiritual sustenance of the sages, and it is a display of heroic physique to fight shirtless in the ice and snow. As long as you are a sage and you dare not take off your clothes and go to war shirtless, you are not a real man, and you will be laughed at by the people in the village.
Generally starting from the second day of the first lunar month, the social fire society that wants to play the social fire organizes a group of people to beat gongs and drums, select people with sharp teeth, wear leather jackets, ride on the back of a donkey, and go to the door of the head of the social fire society that they will challenge, laugh and scold, and say that the number is useless, which is similar to the ancient drama of "begging the enemy and cursing the array". Why do people who fight the society wear leather jackets and hang horse bells? According to the older generation of people in Jixian Village, it means that I am not a person, if there are excessive words and deeds, please forgive me. My makeup at this time determines how I speak and behave now. This kind of "literary attack" cannot provoke the other side to fight for a while and a half. Next, the community fire organization will begin to escalate the "war" and launch a new round of attack. When this time came back to the area of the other party's social fire society, in front of them was the social fire team of their own makeup, followed by the "jingyuzi" warriors of their own social fire society, in groups, driving into the other party's "camp" in a mighty way, setting off firecrackers to "shout the line". If the other party remains indifferent. In the challenger's social fire team, there will be an old husband and wife disguised as an old man, holding a straw man-like broken baby, buried in the courtyard in front of the head of the other party's social fire club, crying. Name: "Guo Ju Buried". The straw paper is then attached to its lintel. Trying to "toss" by all means has only one purpose: to provoke the other party and make the other party respond to the fast makeup society fire as soon as possible. In order to provoke the other side, the challengers intensified their efforts and resorted to all means. Some social fire clubs even let people drive tractors to plow the courtyard of the other party's people who love to play with social fire, making it difficult for their families to walk. What's more, they pulled garbage and dumped it in front of their doors. Such and such "tossing", wanton chaos, more and more intense. Sometimes it develops into a group of warriors who have fallen into "fine slips", hanging horse bells, and following the old man at night, perhaps because of the cold drinking too much, can not control themselves, rushed into the other side's principal's home, and launched a more violent attack. Shell the Shrine, bomb the Door God, bombard the Stove King. Bundles of paper cannons blew up the iron pot that the principal cooked in the house, and the meat pots, urns, water urns, etc. were blown up into a mess, and the whole place was in a mess... No matter how you "toss" it, the master is still as calm as water, as steady as a rock, and like no one else, he still takes out good cigarettes and good wine to warmly "entertain" these "enemies who have come to offend". This is because everyone knows in their hearts that playing with social fire every year is such an old tradition. Without the spirit of "fighting the community fire", the community fire in the village cannot be "burned". Because of this, no matter how "noisy" the crowd of the other party's social fire club is, the principal will not "red face" (meaning angry). Of course, at the end of the social fire every year, according to the rules handed down over the years, all damaged things will be compensated to the owner according to the price. After such and such repeated tossing and turning, the other party is still sitting on the Diaoyutai, which shows that the popularity of this year is not strong, and the social fire cannot be played. If the other side takes the move and actively faces the battle, then Jixian Baozi will be stirred up by the "social fire" this year.
Jixian Village is divided into thirty-six banners by region. Later, with the "Killing River" as the boundary, it was divided into the East Eighteen Banners and the West Eighteen Banners, which were each other's, and there were thirty-six social fires. In the past, every year, more than a dozen social fires would compete with each other secretly, hoping that their own social fires would be applauded all the way. After the performance teams gathered, they paraded around the main street of the village. Walking in front of you is a mighty gong and drum. A large drum is propped up in a car, which is both the opening of the road and the commander-in-chief. The subsequent gong and drummers, as few as dozens of people, as many as hundreds of people, only the drummers are Zhan, a gong and a hammer have a number of roads. The red tassels were tied to the cymbals, and the moment dozens of pairs of cymbals clapped together, the trees on the side of the road seemed to shake with them. Suddenly, the hands of the hands were raised at the same time, and the red wisps were vigorous, creating a blooming ceremonial flower.
The gong and drum team is the prelude and honor guard for the appearance of the community fire. Then, a team of social fire brigades came over. First, the horse community fire, various costumes and costumes of actors riding on horseback, one person and one horse, some riding backwards on horseback, some holding weapons in their hands, doing slashing and archery postures. A horse team is a riddle, the mystery is a play, and the audience can only judge from the appearance of the actors. "Selling water", "Three Niang godsons", "Broken Bridge", "Three Dozen White Bone Essences" and so on. Everyone was shouting and arguing, waiting for the last clown with white eye sockets to pick up a card and reveal the name of the play that was out of the society. Most of the social fires in Jixian Village are mainly horse fires and Chetai fires. The social fires of thousands of households in the south of Jiufeng Town are mostly based on pole fires. Whether it is the Horse Society Fire, the Chetai Society Fire or the Pole Society Fire, what is inherited is a culture, which shows a kind of feeling...
Buckets turn to stars, things are not people. The changes from agricultural society to market economy have also made traditional folk customs such as social fire handed down by our ancestors gradually drift away from the lives of modern people. Even a large fort with a deep cultural heritage, such as Jixian Village, has not been traced by the social fire for more than ten years. Whenever I think back to the past when I was a teenager and went to Jixian Village to watch the "community fire", there is always a kind of nostalgia that haunts my heart.
The social fire, like a powerful adhesive, brings together the hearts of the sages. If the hometown is the root of the wanderer, then the social fire is the soul of the hometown, and it is the topic that the wanderer can never finish talking about when he misses his hometown. In the hometown, the social fire is the clarion call for the charge at the beginning of the year, and it is a vision of a better future. Which year of social fire is beautiful, which year is a harvest year.
(The author is a staff member of Shaanxi Ma'anqiao Ecological Mining Co., Ltd.)