N Haidu reporter Huang Yiwei intern Zheng Qiuju Tan Dong
At 10 o'clock in the morning of April 9th, the Shengzhimen Square of Mazu Temple on Meizhou Island, the sound of gongs and drums, the sound of trumpets, two flags embroidered with "Our Lady of Heaven" and 18 red lights printed with "Raising flags to celebrate the Christmas of Mazu, hanging lanterns to lead the people to thousands of miles of mercy" slowly rose from the cast bronze flying phoenix flagpole, and the month-long "Mazu in the world returns to her mother's home" was officially launched.
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Meizhou Mazu
At the event site, representatives of Mazu cultural institutions from Thailand, Vietnam and other countries, as well as nearly 50 Mazu temples and cultural institutions in Shandong, Guangdong, Fujian and Taiwan in New Taipei, Yilan, Hualien, Taitung, Tainan, Taoyuan, Keelung, Kaohsiung and other places, respectfully invited Mazu to walk up the stairs to the ancestral temple Tianhou Temple. In the Tianhou Temple, Lin Jinzan, chairman of the board of directors of Meizhou Mazu Temple, paid tribute to Mazu in various palaces and temples, and held a solemn three offering ceremony with Mazu admirers at home and abroad to pay homage to Mazu and share peace. The most grand and exciting thing is to appreciate folk culture and watch intangible cultural heritage performances.
Many of the teams participating in the performance this time came from all over the country, and the Guangdong Zhanjiang Yigu Dragon Tour was an eye-opener.
The ancient dragon is a unique traditional dragon dance technique in Wenwenwan Village, Chikan District, Zhanjiang City, which began in the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 300 years.
It is a common wild plant in the south, with long and strong leaves, sharp thorns on the leaf margins and leaf backs, and it is easy to grow roughly, and livestock dare not mess with it, and the villagers generally use it as a fence to protect their crops. The ancient dragon, as the name suggests, is the dragon composed of the original ecological fresh ancient leaves by the locals, with orange as the dragon's eye, grapefruit peel as the dragon's nose pineapple skin to decorate the dragon's forehead, the ancient leaves as the dragon's horns, the sisal slices as the dragon's tongue, the banyan tree aerial root as the dragon's whiskers and then embedded with the ancient fruit as the dragon's teeth, and the mouth is decorated with red cloth. A lifelike, domineering dragon head takes shape, and one cannot but marvel at the subtlety of the technique. On July 20, 2009, it was included in the third batch of intangible cultural heritage list of Guangdong Province.
Quanzhou chest beating dance, is one of the most representative traditional folk dances in Fujian is the remnants of the ancient Min Yue dance, the simple and lovely, the scene is spectacular.
Meizhou women, Hui'an women, and Pupu women are also the most beautiful scenery in this parade.
Meizhou women's headdress costume is a traditional dress for women on Meizhou Island in Putian, which spans thousands of years and has been passed down from generation to generation, and is a provincial intangible cultural heritage project.
Hui'an women's headdress clothing is a special folk custom on the Huidong Peninsula in Hui'an County, Quanzhou, Fujian. Women have incorporated elements of marine culture and Central Plains culture into their clothing, and have been included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
Pupu is a famous fishing village along the southeast coast of the mainland, and the dress of the famous historical and cultural village of Pupu is unique, and has been listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Lin Jinzan said that with the approach of Mazu's birthday, Mazu admirers from home and abroad have gathered on Meizhou Island, setting off an upsurge of "Mazu in the world returning to her mother's home", according to incomplete statistics, since the beginning of the first month, there have been 660 groups of more than 680,000 Mazu admirers from Tiannan and Haibei to return to Meizhou Island to pay homage to their ancestors. In order to further promote the excellent traditional Chinese culture, as the hometown of Mazu and the ancestral garden of Mazu Palace Temple at home and abroad, the board of directors of the Ancestral Temple will take "telling the story of Mazu, spreading the culture of Mazu, carrying forward the spirit of Mazu, and inheriting the beliefs and customs of Mazu" as its own responsibility, give full play to the advantages of the ancestral land, and promote the integrated development of the two sides of the strait and serve the country's "Belt and Road" around the two major cultural brands of "Mazu in the world returns to her mother's home" and "Meizhou Mazu patrols the world" Advocate to enhance the spiritual harmony of compatriots at home and abroad, and work with the majority of Mazu admirers to jointly draw a beautiful picture of Mazu cultural undertakings.
Editor: Ding Xiaoyan