"New Year walking to the grassroots" Hokkien folklore expert Huang Yinjie interprets the characteristic New Year customs of Nan'an in nursery rhymes

Huang Yinjie said that there is a nursery rhyme that vividly describes a series of Spring Festival folk activities in Nan'an and other places from the first to the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year. Courtesy of respondents

Southeast network on February 10 (this network reporter Lin Xianchang) "Yesterday was the ninth day of the first lunar month, in Nan'an and other southern Fujian regions, jingtiangong is one of the most popular folk customs, not only that, in Southeast Asia, the overseas Chinese in southern Fujian are also widely prevalent, and the customs and specifications of the respect are roughly the same as those in southern Fujian." "On the 10th, Huang Yinjie, a representative of the intangible cultural heritage inheritors of Nan'an City and a folklore expert engaged in the study of Minnan language, told reporters that today the first ten days of steaming glutinous rice began to ferment to make wine, so it was called 'A jiusheng'.

"As soon as the sixteenth tooth of the twelfth month of the lunar calendar passed, the people of Quanzhou began to prepare for the New Year of 'Dust dusting'. There is a nursery rhyme that vividly describes a series of Spring Festival folk activities in Nan'an and other places from the first to the fifteenth day of the Chinese New Year, as well as people's production activities and living scenes. Huang Yinjie said, "The first one, the first two, the first three rats marry the bride, the first four gods fall to the heavens, the first five scoop fertilizer (the beginning of farming), the first six call more, the first seven wipes, the first eight complete (the turtle and the five animals or three animals that worship the Heavenly Gong are all complete), the first nine days of the public birth, the first ten a wine students, the eleven please concubines, the twelve go to look (the women return to the mother's house to visit the mother's family), the thirteen eat and drink with mustard vegetables; the fourteen knots of color Zhang Lantern, the fifteen Shangyuan Tour Scenery (also said: fourteen knots of lantern shed, fifteen yuan yuan yuan). ”

Huang Yinjie is a veteran, love Minnan culture, in 2012 published "Minnan Dialect Sayings" rated as the fifth batch of intangible cultural heritage in Nan'an City, and then continued to go deep into the fields to collect and sort, in 2017 compiled and published a book of more than 3800 articles covering inspiration, family, work, society, Post-Break language and Minnan agricultural proverbs "Minnan Folklore Teaching", under the guidance of well-known professors in Xiamen and Quanzhou, invented the Hokkien Dialect Hanyu Pinyin Method to facilitate readers' learning. After the book was printed, it was loved and praised by readers at home and abroad and taiwanese cultural circles.

This New Year's New Year nursery rhyme, catchy, rhyming and easy to understand, records the content and process of folk festivals and celebrations during the Spring Festival of ancient Minnan people and their life and social activities during the Spring Festival, with the promotion of diligence and dedication, humanistic care and so on.

He said the version of the nursery rhyme varies slightly from place to place, but is largely the same. "The first one, the second day, describe the warm scene of people celebrating the arrival of the New Year." In particular, the sound of firecrackers in the "Siege of the Cannon City" and the singing and dancing of the "Axian Throwing Ball" and the crowd of tug-of-war onlookers were the most lively. On the night of the third day of the first year, people were happy for two days, tired and sleepy, and the area around the house was the world and sports place of rats, running around, as if they were marrying a bride. Therefore, the Minnan people jokingly called 'the first three rats marry the bride.' On the fifth day of the first month, the farmers began to pick fat and water vegetables; the sixth day of the first year was called more, and the people who did business and opened shops and part-time workers began to go out to do business and work, and on the sixth day of the first year, they had to get up early to open the door to welcome customers to do business. After the seventh day of the first year, each family re-cleaned the hall and scrubbed the tables and chairs to prepare for the 'heavenly birth', the first eight were complete, the first eight people slaughtered chickens, ducks, geese and fish, scooped rice flour to make steamed cakes, etc. The offerings for the first nine days of the first birthday are the most abundant of the year, whole chicken, all duck, all goose, all fish, egg noodles, the most respected ones are pig heads and pig hearts, lungs, livers, etc. Some families also have "five fruits and six fasts" vegetarian food, new citrus and other fruits, and there are also dug up whole plants of gui cong sugarcane placed on the edge of the table, after the worship of the whole family to nibble sugarcane metaphor 'same sugar', 'eat sugarcane festival sweet'. Each plate of offerings are placed on a small piece of red paper to show auspiciousness, the eight immortals table where the offerings are placed must be raised with chairs to show that the heavens are high, the table faces outside the gate, three cups of tea on the left, three glasses of red wine on the right, red candles on both sides, after the hour, the candles are lit and incense, according to the family generations from the largest to the smallest, kneeling to worship the heavenly father, praying for family happiness, peace and auspiciousness and grain abundance, business prosperity, etc., after zero o'clock to put firecrackers and flowers. In the first ten years, the steamed glutinous rice was fermented to make wine, so it was called 'A sake sheng'. Fourteen, colorful lanterns, set up a theater, ready to make a Lantern Festival; fifteen 'Shangyuan Tour Scene', the fifteenth day of the first month has also become the Shangyuan Festival, people swim to enjoy the lanterns lingering.

Huang Yinjie said that with the progress of science and technology and the increasing improvement of the living standards of the domestic people, the original New Year customs of overseas Chinese and their dependents of "sending fan approval" and "receiving money from fanbian" have gradually changed to the use of telephones, WeChat to pay homage to the New Year, bank exchange business and support and sponsorship of various charitable undertakings in their hometowns, etc. The times are changing, but the unchanged atmosphere and scenes of the happy and lively atmosphere and scenes of the first to fifteenth day of the first month of the new month of the same year have not changed, and what has not changed is the people's love for the country and their hometown.