The Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, the traditional Lantern Festival in individual natural villages in Shiwang Town, Yangchun, Guangdong Province, and the lottery cannon will be held as scheduled.
The Stone Lookout Gun Festival is a traditional event that has lasted for hundreds of years. The so-called lottery is every time you put a cannon, rush to the sky, when the cannon ring (also called the cannon head) will fall, the villagers will rush to grab the cannon ring, each gun ring has a red packet, different cannons, the amount is not the same, this red packet is the lottery. At the end of a sentence: it is to pick up the gun circle, which is equivalent to picking up money.
The winnings come from the public income of the natural village, or from the donations of individual villagers who have made money. Anyway, different villages, the date of the event is not necessarily the same, the prize is not the same, different years, the prize may also be different, some red envelopes 2000, some red envelopes 5000.
The so-called cannon is actually a professional craftsman in the village, and the earthen cannon made by himself is similar to the manufacturing method of fireworks, which can rise in a straight line of about 50 meters after ignition, and then a small circle of bamboo weaving the size of a ping-pong ball will fall. This is also a professional heritage, according to the method of operation, there is no danger.
In fact, money is secondary, and the villagers like to grab it, mainly because grabbing the cannon ring means that the year is full of good luck, and the year is full of good luck until the end of the year. Moreover, a cannon delivery exclusive awakening lion into the house to welcome the god of wealth activities.
Every cannon meeting, scrambling for the cannon head, always left to the last show. At the beginning of the event, firecrackers will be burned for a few hours. These firecrackers are bought by the villagers themselves, or the villagers donate money to the members of the group in the village, and the unified organization buys them, burning them for several hours continuously, and the intervals cannot be stopped, and the sound cannot be stopped.
Some villages also have firecracker performances. For example, in this village, there are special people holding a string of firecrackers and dancing while burning in the middle of the field. These people who perform fancy firecrackers are professionally trained and have a lot of experience, and not everyone can participate in this show.
And, of course, the most critical dinner events. Even every household in the village will invite friends from all over the world to go to their homes and eat and drink from the sea. Which family comes more friends, it means that the luck of this year is better, but also seems to have extra face, so this day, it means that every household in the village is doing happy things. (Happy event of no gift money)
Friends, what is the difference between your gun clubs there and ours here? Feel free to leave a message in the comment area. #广东闹元宵 #
