Who is the Grand Marshal of the Song Dynasty in Chaoshan?

Huang's Feng Shui team visited Marshal Song's Cemetery in Gurao Town, Chaoyang District. There is a picturesque cemetery of Marshal Song at the foot of Xiaobei Mountain in Gurao Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City, Guangdong Province. According to legend, this is the burial tomb of the soldiers killed in the bloody battle between Wen Tianxiang Army and Yuan Army. "

In Gurao Town, Chaoyang District, Shantou City, a huge social sacrifice activity is held every ten years (that is, the year when the mantissa reaches 8) to pay homage to "Marshal Song" and to commemorate Wen Tianxiang and his soldiers who died in the Southern Song Dynasty. These demonstrations were held twice in Tomb-Sweeping Day and at the end of the year. In addition to traditional song and dance and Chaoshan gongs and drums, lion dance, yangko, martial arts and acrobatics have been added to diversify the types of performances.

Wen Tianxiang was a schoolmaster since he was a child, which coincided with troubled times. He argued with Yuan and used all his possessions as military assets to recruit soldiers. According to legend, at the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, Wen Tianxiang, the right prime minister, consolidated his army in Chaoyang and planned to restore the country. Captured in the battle between Haifeng County and Yuan Army, the Southern Song Army and Yuan Army fought a decisive battle at the foot of Xiaobei Mountain in Gurao. Because of the disparity in strength between the two sides, most people in Song Jun died here.

The local villagers admired Wen Tianxiang and his men's integrity in defending the country and buried the soldiers who died in battle in Kunshan. Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, was deeply impressed by the national justice of the soldiers in the Southern Song Dynasty, and specially named these soldiers who died as "marshals". He ordered neighboring villages such as Duchiliao (formerly known as Gu Rao) in Guishan to regularly offer sacrifices to the soldiers who died that year. Since then, Gu Rao began to offer sacrifices to the society. There are five big houses in Gurao, and these five big houses and other surnames in neighboring villages take turns to offer sacrifices to the society.

In the festival year, thousands of people marched in long lines with great momentum. There are traditional cultural programs, such as lion dance, song and dance and gongs and drums. All men are handsome and all women are beautiful, which attracts a large number of participants. Most of this activity was spontaneously prepared by the villagers, which was very lively and attracted the active participation of local young men and women. Children in the village practice singing and dancing, Chaoshan gongs and drums and so on since childhood. It is with this cultural atmosphere that this local traditional culture can be passed down.