Are there any customs in Chaoshan?

Some festivals are extremely grand, with sacrifices all over the table. The "five bowls of heads" must also be placed at the top and become the protagonist. Even when they get married, the bride and groom go out and eat the same four dishes, one soup and five bowls. In some places, there are six bowls of vegetables, even. Why are there five kinds of sacrificial gifts, no more or less? The influx of people has a sense of sacredness towards the word "five". This first comes from the ancient ancestors' explanation of nature, because "five" is among the nine ordinal numbers from one to nine, which is called the median, and it is the most gentle to deal with the problem. Therefore, the food "rice, wheat, beans, sorghum and rice" on which they live is called "five grains" and the ground where they live is called "five sides" and "five soils". People often say that the five gods of wealth are also related to this concept. There are five time series: spring, summer, long summer, autumn and winter. There are also five colors: red, yellow, blue, white and black. Gold, wood, fire, water and earth. Wuyin Palace, Shang, Jiao, Zheng and Yu. The five flavors are salty, sweet, sour, spicy and sweet. The human body has five senses, five internal organs and five internal organs. When you admire others, you say "full of admiration". Boasting that people are learned is called "learning to be excellent is to be an official." There are five kinds of feelings, such as joy, anger, sadness, joy and resentment, which are called "five emotions". All these are produced by mutual correspondence. Su Wen of Huangdi Neijing also said: "Five grains are the supplement, five fruits are the help, five animals are the benefit, and five dishes are the supplement". This is the basic human need. For human society, the ancients also often used "five" to classify. The copula of Yi is "five days and five places". Therefore, the Emperor of Zhou set up five divisions: Situ (in charge of household registration), Sima (in charge of military forces), Sikong (in charge of engineering), Sikou (in charge of punishment) and Shi Si (in charge of officials). Monarch, father and son, husband and wife, brothers and friends are called "five ethics". Heaven, earth, monarch, relatives and teachers are collectively called "five clothes", and the titles are divided into five categories: public, Hou, Bo, Zi and public. Lu's status only passed to the fifth generation. "Gentleman Ze was cut in the fifth generation." "Five Rites" refers to the ancient auspicious ceremony, fierce ceremony, military ceremony, guest ceremony and Jia ceremony. People's five moral accomplishments "benevolence, righteousness, courtesy, wisdom and faith" are called "five permanents". In addition, the punishment is divided into five categories: ink (face-cutting), slap (nose-cutting), beheading (foot-cutting), palace (cutting people) and monarch (beheading), which are called "five punishments". The Book of Rites also has five offerings, namely Nissan, Door, Well, Kitchen and Zhong Ling. Zhongling is the center of the room. The "Five Blessingg" that people yearn for is called longevity, wealth, corning, Xiu De, and finishing the exam. There are also "five emperors", "five tyrants" and "five bugs" in history. With the development of human society, many things are deepening. For example, officials have changed from the "five divisions" of the ancients to "six divisions" and "nine nobles" ... The understanding of nature is also deepening, and the five colors have become "seven colors". Only Chaoshan people always adhere to the "five points" method. For all kinds of complicated personnel in society, it is often summed up as "five colors and five numbers" Raoping Haishan incense boat is a ceremony to send incense boats to send athel loren. This custom is found all over Chaoshan. However, the whole country refers to it. Paper boats are fragrant boats. Chaoshan has this custom, but the performance of each county is similar. But some places are called country boats. In fact, the township boat is not accurate, but it is actually a fragrant boat. Both Furen Village and Gaotang Township in Haishan Town, Raoping County have the custom of worshipping gods, which is called sending incense boats. Sending a fragrant boat is sending plague to the countryside. The "fragrant boat" is made of bamboo paper, while the floating village is a puffer fish with a huge mouth, exposed teeth and a big belly, while Gaotang Township is directly tied into a boat shape. The time of "You Xiang Boat" is the 16th day of the first month in Furen Village, and the 2nd day of February in Gaotang Township (it is said that it is also the 16th day of the first month, but it was changed to the 2nd day of February because of the mutiny, and continued along the back edge), and the forms are basically the same. On the day of walking the incense boat, sacrifice to the gods first, and sending the incense boat is the last ceremony. The ceremony of floating village is: first, the village "big brother" (the patriarch) sprinkles red flowers and clear water around Sanshanwang Temple to show good luck and purity, and then asks for a sign and answers until the three saints sign (one yin and one yang is the "holy sign"), and "big brother" shouts "holy" loudly! Everyone cheered, and with three shots, the incense boat began. A pair of big lanterns with the words "Peace in my hometown" lead the way, and then the "fragrant boat" (dolphin) comes out. At the back, eight big sedan chairs carried the statue of the prince (idol), with colorful flags flying on both sides, horns ringing and drums roaring. The incense boat is composed of middle-aged and rich people in the village, dressed in white and surrounded by red cloth towels. They danced and ran on the avenue outside the village, while onlookers threw stones at the incense burner. After walking around the village for a week, people who take the incense boat should send it to the seaside as quickly as possible and throw it into the water, which symbolizes throwing all the ominous things in a village into the sea and flowing away. After the incense boat was thrown into the sea, the dharma body of the prince of Sanshan Kingdom was carried back to its original place, and the ceremony ended. For the fragrant boat in Gaotang Township, the preparatory work in advance is to marry the bride after the second day of February last year. Young men who give birth to boys should sign the "ferryman" (that is, the person who supports the fragrant boat), and the booked person must invite all relatives to complete this miracle. On the second day of February, a fragrant boat made of bamboo hangs a banner of "Smooth sailing". The boat was loaded with ominous things left by the villagers, that is, bowls, bowls and other ceramic fragments broken by households from the first day of the first month to the sixth day of the first month, and "paper money" wiped by households to solve the crisis. The incense boat, weighing several hundred catties, was carried by "ferrymen" and escorted by hundreds of people (in fact, the incense boat was carried by more than 100 people), followed by gongs and drums, colorful flags, weapons of eight treasures, an ancient costume team and idols of eight masters, which drove the incense boat out of Huanggang River 2 kilometers away. Along the way, onlookers threw stones at the incense boat. When the density is high, stones are like raindrops. After running the incense boat, people who carry the incense boat are often scarred. Walking on the incense boat, the villagers were all in high spirits, beaming, men and women, old and young, dressed in festive costumes, and invited relatives and friends from other places. When the incense boat sends out ocean currents, people always seem to have unloaded heavy burdens and feel extremely comfortable, singing and cheering for a while. When I was on a fragrant boat in Gaotang Township, I posted a couplet: "How happy I am to see the new fashion; The spring breeze is full of comfort. " A good portrayal of this scene at this time. Lantern Festival Chaoshan custom Lantern Festival is also called Shangyuan Festival. This is because Taoism believes in the three official gods (Tiangong, Underground Palace and People's Palace), and the fifteenth day of the first month is called Shangyuan Festival, hoping to be blessed by Tiangong. Most activities of Chaoshan Lantern Festival include hanging lanterns, swimming lanterns, lion dancing, solve riddles on the lanterns, eating soup and medicine, and so on. Its main content is lanterns, so it is also called Lantern Festival. It has the strongest entertainment color, so it is called the Lantern Festival. The Lantern Festival in Chaoshan is second only to the Spring Festival. Old-fashioned God Tours are held around the Lantern Festival, with long activities, many events and more rich folk culture. After the reform and opening up, local governments advocated to carry out various healthy cultural and social activities at home and abroad during this period, making this festival more contemporary and positive. Lantern Festival lanterns have always been very popular. Ming Jiajing's engraving of the Chao Opera "Mirror Flower Edge" was once folded, saying that "three streets and six lanes are good light sheds". Qing Jiaqing's "Chenghai County Records" quoted the old zhiyun: "Since the eleventh night, the temple street has been decorated with lanterns, ladies-in-waiting wandering, flowers blooming and falling, swinging and singing to the peak." He also said: "On this ordinary night, all the temples are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, competing for wonders, picturesque Aoshan, pavilions and pavilions ... competing for lanterns." The most famous is Chaozhou. After the rise of Chaozhou Seiryuji in the early Qing Dynasty, the whole city indulged in lanterns and drums for three nights every year. Every second night, we gather at the North Gate Arrow Road for appraisal, and strive for perfection year after year, making Chaozhou Lantern famous at home and abroad. Chaozhou folk song "Hundred Lights Song" shows the prosperity of Chaozhou Lantern Festival. Except for the large-scale Lantern Festival, festive lanterns are hung in every household. Starting from the 13th, I went to the ancestral temple to hang lanterns. On the 15th, I brought them back and hung them at home, called Xing Lantern. "Light" and "Ding" are homophonic. All the old customs should be "popular" to facilitate the writing of homophonic "Xing Deng (Ding)" on lanterns during Lantern Festival. Nowadays, Lantern Festival viewing basically has no such connotation. In towns and some rural areas where civilization has developed, the old customs have been abandoned and replaced by neon lights of various commercial advertisements, decorative lights of government agencies, stars in parks and roads, and lanterns filled with dry batteries for children to enjoy. Many families have colored lanterns, and some families traditionally hang red lanterns with light bulbs. Cities and counties also hold large-scale light shows, with colorful fire trees and silver flowers, old bottles and new wines, which are pleasing to the eye. Since ancient times, Chaoshan people have been handed down from generation to generation. On the night of Mid-Autumn Festival, families get together and the full moon is round. Until, holding up my cup, I asked the bright moon if she was happy. In this beautiful day and night, the folk custom of enjoying the moon with the whole family, Yue Bai and inviting the moon has a long history. Everywhere in urban and rural areas, every household is reflected by night lights. On the balcony or courtyard of the building, there is a rich vegetable altar with splendid silk clothes. The altar table is full of moon cakes, moon cakes, black sesame cakes, peanut towers, peanut peaches and taro. On both sides of the altar (platform), sugar cane is tied tightly by "red rope", sugar cane leaves are pulled into a gate, the golden basin rises and incense sticks are lit. When the sky is empty, people bow down and pray to the moon to express their yearning for a better future, which means that the moon is round and people are round. After the blessing, the whole family, old and young, gathered in front of the court (balcony) to enjoy the moon, while eating moon cakes, and enjoying tea, fragrant tea, solve riddles on the lanterns, and string strings. It was fun. "Looking up, I found it was moonlight, and then sinking back, I suddenly thought of home", "I wish people a long time and a thousand miles of beautiful scenery" and other ancient poems that have been familiar for thousands of years are most loved by people who are affected with damp. "The moon is full tonight" and "the sky is high and the clouds are light and the moon is reunited". Those who stay up late are lucky enough to see the colorful halo of "Yuet Hua". In the past years, women, children, old people and young people knelt down to pray, begged the "Moonlight Fairy" (incense ashes), drank a glass of water or put it on as a "sachet" to pray for peace, health and happiness. On the other hand, farmers like to predict the winter conditions of farming on the moon, hoping for good weather and a bumper harvest. As the saying goes, "Clouds cover the autumn moon and rain shines on the Lantern Festival". It is to look at the dark moonlight on the Mid-Autumn Festival to predict the sunny weather and good luck of the Lantern Festival next year. Men and women often like to pray for "the elderly under the moon" to indicate a happy marriage in the coming year and so on. In addition, the Mid-Autumn Festival folk custom also has "burning towers". The tower is built on the wasteland of the square, usually made of bricks or tiles. There is firewood in the center of the tower. Adding salt when igniting makes a crackling sound, which is very spectacular and fascinating. Legend has it that the folk custom of "burning towers" was raised by Han people at the end of Yuan Dynasty in order to resist the feudal rule of Yuan Dynasty. Please "laundry list": please "laundry list" is a myth and legend for women to play in the Mid-Autumn Festival. A woman chooses a dress worn by a woman, hangs it on a "basket" woven with bamboo poles, and then lights three incense sticks on the front. The women sat on the floor, singing the ballad of "Please, please ……".