Marriage Customs in Jinzao Town

Jinzao is located in Chaoshan area, and its wedding form still retains many traditional Chaoshan characteristics. The wedding customs in Chaoshan are certain, and in the old days, it paid more attention to "hiring the right media". Although the customs vary from place to place, the more consistent expressions and rituals are: proposing marriage, betrothal, hiring, inviting guests, welcoming relatives, commonly known as "six rituals". It is also summarized as "four rituals": writing, inviting, sending and hiring, and marrying. The marriage custom in Chaoshan has undergone generations of evolution, but it has been simplified and varied. Most of the contemporary customs have been abandoned and simplified. Traveling to get married, holding small tea parties and attending group weddings have become fashionable. Some people who love the old still keep the old marriage customs. The wedding custom in Chaoshan is roughly as follows

On the wedding day, the groom goes to the bride's house and takes the bride back by bike, motorcycle or car, and the bridesmaid and uncle (the bride's brother) accompany the bride. My uncle should bring gifts to the man's house. This gift should include a male and female chicken, especially a bottle of lamp oil, which means that the man "adds to the wedding". When the brother-in-law arrives at the in-laws' house, he will be warmly treated.

when getting married, the bride should bring a dowry. In the dowry, there must be lamps, clogs, needle and thread, mirrors, combs, rulers, rice tubes, grass-headed Chinese-style belly pockets (with two grass-headed incense, namely sedge), etc., and toys and stationery for children and socks for relatives and friends should be prepared. Among them, the clogs mean "grow old together" or "follow suit"; Wearing a comb symbolizes that the bride does things like combing her hair, methodically. Jinzao Town is a 1,-mu anti-season banana planting base in Shantou City, a three-edged olive planting base in Shantou City, and a standardized cultivation demonstration area for banana oranges and three-edged olives in Chaoshan City. The town's annual output of all kinds of fruits is about 7, tons. In 25, the GDP was 233 million yuan and the agricultural output value was 279 million yuan.

Jinzao Town has formed a banana industrial belt in the plain area with a planting area of 24, mu; Olive, Myrica rubra and Yougan industrial belts in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas, in which olive planting area is nearly 1, mu, Myrica rubra planting area is over 1, mu, and Yougan planting area is over 8, mu. In mountainous areas, persimmon money and persimmon processing industry with fresh persimmons as raw materials have been formed. The agricultural economy of Jinzao Town is taking fruit planting as the main body and fresh fruit processing as the driving force, and constantly promoting the process of agricultural industrialization. In order to improve the economic benefits of agricultural products planting in Jinzao Town and achieve the goal of "increasing agricultural efficiency, increasing farmers' income and prospering rural areas", Jinzao Town Committee and the town government have made great efforts to provide various services for agricultural products and solve the sales problems of agricultural products after harvest. Among them, from the end of 24 to the beginning of 25, Jinzao Town Committee and the town government successfully planned and organized the "China Centennial Trigonum Olive Boutique Certification and Auction", which effectively promoted the sales of Trigonum Olive in this area, greatly improved the economic benefits of Trigonum Olive planting, and promoted the sales of other varieties of olives, so that farmers tasted the sweetness and improved their production enthusiasm. June 25. After the successful auction of Trigonella olives, the Jinzao Town Committee and the town government successfully held the "First Yangmei Festival in Jinzao Town", which promoted the sales of Yangmei through various channels such as tourists picking and tasting, buying and visiting the scenic spots in Jinzao Town, attracting foreign merchants to purchase, and launched the brand awareness of "Jinzao Yangmei" to improve the economic value of Yangmei. This year's Yangmei Festival * * * sells 5 million kilograms of Yangmei, with an output value of more than 1 million yuan.

through the publicity effect of "one meeting and one festival", the popularity of agricultural products and cultural landscape in Jinzao Town in eastern Guangdong and even in Guangdong Province has been improved as never before. In order to seize this opportunity, promote the economic development of the town, explore and develop the tourism resources of the town, and combine the characteristics of the town's agriculture, the Jinzao Town Committee and the town government are making great efforts to plan and build the "Jinzao Town Tourism Ecological Agriculture Grand View Garden", which will provide "rural ecological experience tours" for citizens in surrounding urban areas such as Shantou and Jieyang on weekends. Through the consumption activities of tourists in this town, the development of related industries in this town will be promoted. Dianjin "is a unique building in Chaoshan custom, which is named because there is a room shaped like" gold "at each corner. In the old days, only Fidelity's family could build it. The architectural pattern of "Four Points of Gold" is a bit like the quadrangles in Beijing. Generally, there is a wall around the perimeter, in which Yang Cheng is drilled and water wells are drilled; There are "wall bellies" on the left and right sides of the gate; As soon as you enter the gate, it is the front hall, and the rooms on both sides are called the front room; Entering is an empty patio, with a room on each side and a kitchen called "eight-foot room". The other room, as a firewood room, is generally called the "hand room"; Behind the patio is the back hall, also known as the hall, which is a place to worship ancestors. There is a big room on each side, which is the bedroom where the elders live. It is disrespectful if the younger generation lives in it. Therefore, Chaoshan dialect says that "the younger brother lives in the ear."

"Four Points Gold" generally does not open windows to the outside, but only to the inner court. This is because "every house takes the patio as its wealth and the front house as its mountain." The courtyard is wide and narrow, and wealth is gathered "("Summary of Yangzhai "). "Wealth" accumulates in the patio from the gate or from heaven, and then "sucks" into the house through the doors and windows of each room. If the window is opened to the outside, the gourd leaks and the "wealth" leaks. There are many kinds of "four-point gold" structural buildings. There are only four main rooms before and after, but there are no "hand-holding rooms" and "eight-foot rooms", and those with four halls facing the patio are called "four-hall meeting"; If the front and rear rooms are equipped with "hand room" and "eight-foot room", it is called "four water sprays" to change eight rooms into ten rooms. If you build a circle of houses around the "four-point gold", it is called "four-point gold plus a bag". The architecture of "pokeberry root" is more common in rural areas of Chaoshan area, also known as "lion climbing". As the name implies, the beginning of "pokeberry root" is a bit like pokeberry root and a crawling lion. The architectural pattern is simpler than the "four-point gold", with two anterior chambers less than it, and the rest are basically the same. "pokeberry root" is different in access, so there is a difference between opening the main entrance and the side door. Usually, the door is not opened in the middle, but opened on both sides. The doors on both sides are also called "Dragon Humen", and some of them open the main entrance without opening the side door. The shape of "pokeberry root" is very old. Its predecessor can be seen in the Ming wares of the Han Dynasty unearthed in Guangzhou and You Chuntu, which was handed down by Zhan Ziqian in the Sui Dynasty, and its pattern is quite similar to that of the "One Seal" residence of the Bai nationality in Yunnan.

In the past, most of the houses were occupied by one family. With the development and increase of social population, the form of one family living is gradually broken by people. There are often three or four families living in a folk house. Although this kind of house is crowded and messy, it is very suitable for friendly exchanges between people. The patio is paved with smooth marble, and murals are painted on all the doors. The contents of these murals are different from the flowers and plants on the "gatehouse belly", but the drama stories, myths and legends that are widely circulated among the people, such as "Mu Guiying is in command", "Xian Ji sends his son off" and "Guo Ziyi Debao". On the main hall wall, there is a long mural, mostly "Ten Immortals' Happy Birthday". There are also red sandalwood and blue citron. These colorful paintings make "pokeberry root" a real painting garden, just like the promenade of the Summer Palace, with art everywhere to enjoy.

Individual painting can't show the splendor, but there are more treasures that are representative of Chaoshan culture and art: exquisite carving, glittering Chaozhou embroidery and vivid paper-cutting, and never-fading porcelain inlay make the whole "pokeberry root" magnificent and beautiful. "Four Horses Trailer", also known as "Three Falls and Two Fires Lane and One Rear Package", is a complication of "Four Points of Gold".

"Four Horses Trailer" has its special functions in all parts of the building. The first "reflection" is to block the sight of passers-by and guests, so as not to make the room unobstructed. The corridor is the place where the host and visiting guests park their vehicles. The north and south halls are usually used to receive guests, while important meetings and discussions of elders are held in the halls of Erjin and Sanjin. The hall of Sanjin also set up ancestral niches to worship the ancestral spirits. On holidays, the death of ancestors, and family members going abroad, it is necessary to open a niche door to worship or "say goodbye" to ancestors; Family members who have done immoral things should be brought to justice, and they should also open shrines to burn incense and let him confess his sins in front of their ancestors. The back library is a place where coffins can be parked during the funeral. The big room of the main building is occupied by the elders, the highest elder generally lives in the Sanjin house, and other rooms are occupied by the younger generation. Mill, kitchen, bathroom, toilet and other living rooms are all concentrated in the fire lane on the left. In the event of a happy event at home, everyone goes into the Zen cave in the hall. The funeral is even more grand, not only to unload the "reflection", but also to unload the Zen gate of each entrance. All patios are put on the floor, and tents are put up over the patios. In this way, one, two and three have formed a spacious space, which is convenient for all kinds of activities. Generally speaking, the front of the main building is low and the back is high, and three stone steps are increased every time it enters, which is convenient to highlight the main hall, and more importantly, to prevent the forward from covering the backward and ensure the lighting of the backward. The rear package is designed to protect the main building and guard against theft. The main feature of Jinzao dwellings is the maximum integration of traditional architectural culture with traditional arts and crafts unique to Chaoshan, such as gold lacquer wood carving, craft stone carving, porcelain inlay art, metal craft, calligraphy and painting art. Residential buildings are magnificent but not vulgar, elegant and charming, with rich cultural background and luxurious style, and they are large in scale, light and transparent, pay attention to decoration, exquisite in craftsmanship, pursue harmony with nature, and pay attention to geomantic omen. They can be comparable to the palace in terms of architectural sequence pattern and decoration technology, so they have been said since ancient times as "the palace rises in Chaoshan", "the imperial palace in Beijing, and the home of Chaoshan people".