Nineteen temple fairs, the nostalgia that the people of Xiguan can't forget!
Located in the south of the village, xiguan niangniang temple once had a poetry song and was known as one of the eight scenic spots of xiguan. Legend has it that a long time ago, a torrential rain washed a stone here, because the stone appeared, the ancestors built a temple here, known as the stone to send the child. In front of the temple, there is a necessary road from Shanxi to the west entrance, and The Jin merchants often traveled back and forth to this place, and when they entered the temple to worship the gods and burn incense, they begged for children and hoped for phoenixes. In the coming year, I will return to the temple and wish thanksgiving. Millennia of incense are raging, and worshippers are endless. Every year on the 19th day of the first month, there is a three-day large-scale temple fair. It can be described as fragrant around the milk luo, the spirit of the Kamakura Mountain, the famous Qin Jin.
I remember the seventeenth and eighth day of the first month of 66, when the three teams called down the play of the North Thorns, the stage was set up at the cross, and at night people moved to the stool to see the play. The lights haven't been lit for a long time, and there is no sign of acting
Later, I learned that the "Cultural Revolution" was coming, and the brigade did not allow the "old drama" to be performed! At that time, the people in the audience did not leave, the dolls were chaotic, and there was no movement on the stage, hoping for an empty space. About the 1980s, initiated by the four teams, the Nineteenth Temple Fair of the First Moon, which had been suspended for decades, sounded the mighty gong and drum of Xiguan Village again, twisted the joyful song, and ignited the rumbling "Three-Eyed Hammer". It is: gongs and drums are noisy and noisy, guns and cannons are ringing fireworks, dragons and lions are playing in the village lanes, singing and celebrating the mother-in-law on stages, incense outside the temple is flourishing, and the crowds are pouring into the scenery. With the restoration and reopening of the Niangniang Temple in 2015, the 19th ancient meeting of the first month of each year is even more brilliant, and the climax is repeated. However, in 2020, the sudden new crown, the epidemic from Wuhan to the country's normal production and Spring Festival joy, should have been held by the second team to hold a celebration sacrifice, had to be forced to stop the gong, the cannon stopped incense extinguished!
In 2022, the tiger roars in the new years, and the epidemic demons disperse with the spring. The Nineteenth Ancient Meeting of the First Month, which had been suspended for two years, was rekindled by the second team. Today's temple fair is not only a sacrifice of the mother, but more importantly, a kind of nostalgia. With the acceleration of urbanization, the number of people left behind in rural areas has declined severely. Although some Xiguan people living in a foreign land may not be able to go home for the New Year in the future, and may not be able to participate in the annual ancient festival and sacrifice activities, they look forward to seeing the 19th ancient meeting of the first month of the year, because the ancient meeting is connected to their roots, and nostalgia worries their hearts. When I saw the news of the meeting through the self-media, the grand event that shook out was like returning home! It is as if in front of the temple with the sound of drums to praise the hometown.
The ancient locust wall is the home we can't forget, and the Niangniang Temple is also the place where we miss it the most. In the future ancient meetings, the grand situation is difficult to continue, mainly because there are villages without homes, there are family shortages, a village and a half alleys are empty, and multi-family door padlocks. There is no popularity, there is prosperity; there is no fanaticism, that can raise funds! Such a status quo, the development of the future, is likely to form a temple without a meeting, there will be a difficult to rejoice in the dilemma. The ancient meeting should also keep pace with the times, from the original one team to rotate for one year, whether to change the two teams into one, or the strength of the whole village, to hold. Or, with the help of the power of the neighboring village, turn the nostalgia of the Xiguan people into a carnival of one party! In terms of time, starting from the eighteenth day of the first month, organized by Korean people, the whole village can be mobilized to beat gongs and drums, sing and dance in the family temple, first sacrifice the ancestors, and then pass the ancient meeting on the nineteenth, forming a combination of ancestor sacrifice and sacrifice, remembrance and celebration, so that this traditional culture can be passed on from generation to generation, becoming an endless cultural landscape of the Xiguan people, and gradually striving to be included in the county-level and even municipal intangible cultural heritage!
