What are the customs and hobbies of Yueyang people in Hunan?
In Yueyang, there are many popular folk arts, such as Tiens in Linxiang, "Iron Story" in Miluo, and clam shell drama in Huarong.
the Spring Festival; Chinese New Year
Yueyang, commonly known as "Chinese New Year", has the same customs as other parts of the motherland. Besides killing chickens and ducks, setting off firecrackers and pasting Spring Festival couplets, it is very rich to have a "reunion dinner" on the thirtieth day of the twelfth lunar month. There must be a dish of fish in twelve bowls, which shows more than good luck. Before liberation, there were almost no fish in some areas. In order to have the dish of "Hundred Miles Fish", a "Hundred Miles Fish" was carved out of wood, put in a basin and sprinkled with chopped green onion, just like a real fish. People attach great importance to the reunion dinner. People who go out are rushing home, and their families wait and wait. When having a reunion dinner, the door should be closed to prevent the treasure from running away. Setting off a firecracker after a meal means that people have finished their New Year's Eve dinner and can walk around.
Dragon Boat Festival
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional festival in China, also called Duanyang Festival. According to legend, Qu Yuan died in the river on this day, and people want to express their memory. On Duanyang Day, there are stickers around Yueyang (that is, poems are posted on the door wall, mostly five or seven quatrains), and customs such as tying Ai people, hanging swords, drinking realgar wine, eating zongzi, steamed stuffed buns and carrying sachets are the most distinctive. Yan Min said: "It is better to be deserted for a year than to lose the May boat." . Dragon boat race is a very distinctive sport with intense scenes. "Qu Yuan, the Chu people, has been going on for thousands of years", and there is a large-scale dragon boat race every year. 1983, the government allocated funds to repair the Quzi Temple in Guluo, and held a dragon boat race in Guluo, with an audience of more than 65,438+million. 1987, the first Quyuan Cup International Dragon Boat Race was held in Bajiao Lake with an audience of 300,000. 1998, the 4th Quyuan Cup International Dragon Boat Race was held in Nanhu with an audience of 600,000.
marriage customs
In the old society, there was no free marriage, and old habits such as concubinage, child bride, marriage and engagement with dolls were more common. There are many rituals and customs of marriage: first, engagement, matchmaking, and the consent of both parents through the combination of eight characters is regarded as engagement. The second is to get married, also called visiting, and choose a good day. When getting married, there is a custom of crying to get married. Most of the lyrics are about parents' difficulties in raising their children, scolding the matchmaker, and how to treat others when they go to their husband's house. In the new society, old customs have been broken and marriage is free, but there are still some old bad habits in rural areas, such as bride price.
Mourning custom
The main ways to deal with the dead are burial and funeral. "Nocturne" is a funeral ceremony and a kind of mourning. Old people and adults in Yueyang usually have funerals when they die. In some parts of this country, the ancient custom of "serenading" still remains. After nightfall, the singer surrounded the coffin with his dutiful son, beating gongs and drums, eulogizing, and his tone was sad. Most of the lyrics are negative thoughts that see through the world of mortals, as well as historical stories and life knowledge, or praise merits, virtues and parents' hardships. Overnight, besides singing, there were gongs and drums, whipping and bowing to the dead. Relatives and friends sit by the coffin all night listening to songs, commonly known as "mourning" or "sitting at night" Choose a cemetery and build a grave with blue bricks and lime (overhead, not closed). After death, put the coffin on the seat and seal the door. This is the grave. Some people go from meditation to death for decades. Now, since the funeral reform and cremation promotion, the people have changed their old habits, and only a few remote villages still have such old habits.
Yueyang International Dragon Boat Festival:
Yueyang is the birthplace of dragon boat sports. As early as the beginning of the fifth month of the lunar calendar in 278 BC, the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan drowned himself in the Miluo River. After hearing the news, the local people led boats to save Qu Yuan, and threw zongzi, steamed bread and other food into the river, begging the water monster not to swallow Qu Yuan. In order to commemorate this world cultural celebrity, people hold a grand dragon boat race on the river every year. Every household will hang mugwort leaves and calamus, set off realgar wine and drink realgar wine to ward off evil spirits.
This activity continues to this day. Since 1987, with the strong support of the State Sports Commission and the National Tourism Administration, Yueyang City has held a large-scale Dragon Boat Festival (competition) in Nanhu, which integrates sports, culture, economy and trade and tourism. The 10 International Dragon Boat Festival (Race) has been successfully held, and it has been identified by the National Tourism Administration as one of the 23 important festivals in China facing overseas markets.
Junshan specialty Yinzhen tea:
There are three treasures in Junshan, namely bamboo, scarab and silver needle. This silver needle refers to Junshan silver needle tea, which is famous at home and abroad. Junshan is an island in Dongting Lake, Yueyang City, Hunan Province. The soil on the island is fertile, mostly sandy, with an annual average temperature of 16- 17 degrees, an annual rainfall of about 1340 mm and a high relative humidity. In spring and summer, the lake evaporates, the clouds are filled, the island is shaded by trees, the natural environment is suitable for the growth of tea trees, and the mountains are all over the tea garden. There are two kinds of silver needle tea: green tea and yellow tea. Tomb-Sweeping Day mined it three or four days ago. It is made of the first round buds of spring tea, and the buds with a length of 25-30 mm should be selected. It is made of a single tea bud through a special process, and its appearance is even and tidy. After brewing, the tea is fragrant, refreshing and memorable.
Junshan tea has been dried since the Tang Dynasty and incorporated into tribute tea in the Qing Dynasty. In Qing Dynasty, Junshan tea was divided into "pointed tea" and "velvet tea". "Sword tea" is like a tea sword with white hair, so it is called tribute tea, so it is called "Gong Jian". Junshan Yinzhen tea has high aroma, mellow and sweet taste, high yellow soup color, strong and uniform buds and light yellow velvet shape. After brewing, the buds rise vertically to the surface of the water in the soup, slowly sink, then rise and sink again, three times and three times, which is full of fun.
Junshan Silver Needle, with its superb quality and peculiar charm, has won great interest and high praise from Chinese and foreign tea scholars and tea tasters. Junshan Silver Needle produced by Hunan Yueyang Tea Company caused a sensation when they participated in Leipzig Expo in 1954 and 1956 respectively, and won the gold medal in Leipzig Expo in 1956, which was well-known at home and abroad. Since 1980, it has been rated as a high-quality famous tea in Hunan Province for many times. 1982 was rated as a national high-quality famous tea by the Ministry of Commerce, and 1983 was awarded a quality product certificate by the Ministry of Foreign Trade. In recent years, it has been exported to Japan, the United States, Hong Kong and Macao; There are also a few sales in big cities such as China and Beijing.
Dayun mountaineering festival:
Dayun is 9 1 1. 1 m above sea level, and is now open as a national forest park. Dayun has been a famous religious mountain in northern Hunan since ancient times, and there are many temples and Taoist temples. Every year, there are countless pilgrims who go up the mountain to pray for God and worship Buddha on March 3 and September 9 of the lunar calendar. Since 1999 Yueyang Tourism Bureau and Yueyang County Government held the Chongyang Gaodeng Festival in Dayunshan, there have been an endless stream of guests coming for sightseeing and incense.