Among the colorful folk activities in Chaoshan area, one activity is unique, and its beauty and grandeur are amazing. This is the activity of "erecting lamp poles, climbing high to collect wind" in Longsha, Jiedong County. Its uniqueness lies in the ceremony that the villagers of Jiang (formerly known as Longsha) in Jiedong County and its surrounding areas passed down from generation to generation in the middle of14th century to commemorate their ancestors patriots in the Southern Song Dynasty. It is rare to commemorate our ancestors in the folk form of "erecting lamp poles and climbing Cai Feng" in Chaoshan area and even in the whole country. In 2009, it was listed in the provincial intangible cultural heritage list.
At the end of the Southern Song Dynasty, the Yuan Army attacked the Southern Song Dynasty, and Jiang Wanli, the Prime Minister and Tang Dynasty, led the troops to guard Raozhou City. Because of the disparity between the enemy and ourselves, Raozhou fell and his brother Jiang was killed. Jiang Wanli and his family voted for martyrdom in the swimming pool. After the Song Dynasty, Jiang Wanli's third brother, Jiang Wanzai, and Jiang Wanli's second son, Zhu Jiang and third son, Jiang Tang, helped the young emperor to enter Fujian with Wen Tianxiang and Lu Xiufu and continue to fight against the Yuan Army. After the war, Jiang Wanli's descendants lived in Kaiyuan Street in Chaozhou several times. Later, their grandson Jiang Ruzu and his son Jiang Tianxi lived in seclusion in Longshan, Jieyang. At that time, they missed Jiang Wanli, the ancestor of the anti-Yuan Dynasty, but under the pressure of the rulers of the Yuan Dynasty, they did not dare to commemorate it positively or expose their identity. Later, when I thought about the happiness of Jiang Wanli's life, I commemorated it by promoting Cai Feng to show that I had not forgotten my ancestors. From the end of the Yuan Dynasty, the descendants of Jiang who lived in Longsha commemorated their ancestors by "setting up a lamppost and going to Cai Feng", a custom that has continued to this day.
"Standing a lamppost on Cai Feng" is a bamboo with a length of 10 meter, with bamboo leaves at the tail, a red lantern hanging at the tail, and a five-color "Cai Feng" standing above the lantern. Cai Feng made a phoenix out of good wood, cut it into phoenix wings and phoenix tails with iron sheets, put it on the phoenix, and dyed it red and yellow. Cai Feng is made of hardwood, iron sheet and embroidered satin; When Cai Feng boarded the bamboo pole, Feng Wei and Feng were covered with red silk embroidered with gold thread, which read the words "good luck" and "happiness". Wind chimes are hung under the phoenix. When the wind blows, the "Cai Feng" turns and the bells are crisp and melodious. During the day, from afar, a bamboo pole, a "collecting wind", one after another, seems to be a bamboo forest full of phoenix branches; In the evening, lanterns and various flashing lights installed on the "Cai Feng" light up together. This is a city of colorful lights, which is really beautiful. Cai Feng has a high production technology, mainly made of wood and thin steel plate, and then coated with colored oily pigments, which is durable and colorful. Today's lanterns are all made of bamboo paste wax paper, Cai Feng is decorated with lanterns, and modern acousto-optic electronic products are added to the bells, which shows that Cai Feng's technology for lamp poles keeps pace with the times.
At first, a commemorative ceremony was held once a year to "erect lampposts and climb high to collect wind". Later, following the frugal family style, Jiang clan agreed to hold it once every 12 years. It was held on the eve of the founding of the People's Republic of China 1948, closed during the Cultural Revolution after liberation, resumed in 1983, resumed in 1994 and 2005, and was held again in 20 16.
This commemorative ceremony is usually held from early October to early November of the lunar calendar and lasts for one month. The villagers set up a lamppost in Cai Feng. During the period, the villages also held entertainment activities such as Chaozhou opera performance, Chaozhou string performance and gongs and drums flag parade, which was very lively. This unique folk form is not only a great cultural landscape in the village, but also a form to commemorate the sages and carry forward the spirit of patriotism. Its uniqueness, historicity, symbolism and regionality are also of great value to the study of China folk culture.
(It's really spectacular)
2.。 Jieyang lion dance
Lion dance has a long history in China. It can be traced back to the Han Dynasty. At that time, "masked play" was popular among Han people. People dressed up as wild animals and imitated the shape of wild animals, among which lion dancing was the most representative activity. In the Tang Dynasty, lion dancing was a kind of palace entertainment. In the Tang Dynasty, people called it "Five-faced Lion Dance".
The lion is the "king of beasts". The ancients believed that lions can ward off evil spirits and belong to auspicious things, meaning "eliminating disasters and pests" and "indicating good luck" They personified this auspicious beast and gave it dance movements, which were transformed into folk art and traditional folk culture through simple jumping, dancing, gradual improvement and change.
The traditional lion dance in China can be divided into northern lion and southern lion. Lion dance pays attention to skills, which is a comprehensive art integrating martial arts, dance and skills. The performance forms of the Northern Lion are mostly male and female dances or large and small group dances. Lion dancers are hidden among lions, and their performances are light and flexible. Usually in a gentle, soft, relaxed and happy atmosphere. The Northern Lion is equipped with Luo Jing, drums, cymbals and other fast-paced musical instruments, which mainly symbolize auspiciousness, peace and joy. People call it the Swiss lion. When the Southern Lion performs, it is usually composed of three people, one dancing the lion's head, the other dancing the lion's tail, and the other dressed as a laughing Buddha with a sunflower fan or a samurai with colored balls. During the performance, the smiling Buddha or warrior seems to lead the way, followed by gongs and drums. At this time, with the light, heavy, fast and slow drums, the lion performed in various ways, sometimes shaking his head and wagging his tail, sometimes prancing and jumping, sometimes holding his head high, and sometimes kneeling on the ground, making actions such as scratching his head, bowing down, licking his hair, and sleeping soundly. In the performance skills, there are actions such as climbing the pole, crossing the bridge, turning over, biting the ball and picking the green. The action is full of fun and makes people laugh. The South Lion has a wide range of dancing, brave modeling, low-high jumping and flexibility. With vigorous and powerful people, it uses all kinds of waist movements and horse stance just to show its strong and heroic will to forge ahead. Lion dance in the south is often accompanied by magnificent and exciting musical instruments such as gongs, drums and cymbals. Southern lion is not only majestic, but also can express various emotions such as joy, anger, sadness, joy and surprise, so people call it lion awakening.
When Jieyang lion dance originated is not clearly recorded in the history books. /kloc-At the beginning of the 9th century, Chen Nanzhi, a descendant of Shaolin in Quanzhou, Fujian Province, came to Jieyang to give a lecture on martial arts and teach Jieyang disciples the skills and movements of learning lion dance. Jieyang lion dance belongs to the performance art of Southern Lion. The traditional southern lion dance is divided into three colors: lion, yellow lion and black lion. These three colors of lions represent three famous historical figures in the Three Kingdoms period, Liu, Guan and Zhang. Namely: the yellow lion represents Liu Bei's demeanor; The red lion represents Guan Yunchang style; The black lion represents Zhang Fei's style. In the history of our country, Liu, Guan and Zhang have always been admired and worshipped by Wulin people for their loyalty, righteousness, benevolence, courage, chivalry and heroism. Nanshi's performance technique is very wonderful, and worldly desires's dynamic and static performance is incisive: he is happy when he sees hunting, angry when he is disappointed, and happy when he hunts. It not only shows courage and strength, but also expresses subtle emotional changes.
In the past, lion dancing was followed by martial arts performances, and performers performed various martial arts routines. The way of performance is as follows: first, one person goes on stage and fights a set of fists with his bare hands. Then, everyone performed a set of marksmanship with a knife, a mallet, a spear and a fork. Finally, fighting, that is, unarmed against knives, knives against mallets, mallets against spears, double hammers against spears, and spears against forks. Some sparring partners are four sparring partners, while others are eight sparring partners. Sometimes there are acrobatic performances, such as darts, knives and rings of fire.
In recent years, many lion dance teams in Jieyang have devoted themselves to improving the artistic skills of lion dance and trained and performed many difficult movements. Including stepping on piles, jumping high and low piles, climbing poles, climbing ladders, picking hydrangeas, hanging couplets and other skills.
As a folk activity, on traditional festivals such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and National Day, whenever new buildings are completed and roads and bridges are opened to traffic, organizers or individuals will invite lion dance teams to perform, which will not only increase the festive atmosphere, but also set off auspicious meanings. Therefore, lion dance has become one of the main entertainment activities of Jieyang folk festival celebration.
We live in Rongcheng. Every year, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chinese New Year and other major festivals, there are organizations in the village to perform in or outside the village, which is very lively.
3. Jieyang hanging paper
Jieyang people (or the whole Chaoshan people) have a strong family concept and have always attached great importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day. No matter where you are, you will go home. This festival is as important as the Spring Festival.
Chaoshan people call sweeping graves "going to the grave" or "hanging paper", and the form is not complicated. People fill graves in front of ancestral graves, sweep away dust and weeds, and hang notes on tombstones and graves for sacrifice. Hanging paper is the most important and only essential link. In some places, you can hang paper without paying homage. It probably means that future generations have not forgotten and marked it. Hanging paper is very simple, that is, pressing a pile of red Huang Qing paper on the top of the grave with stones, or scattering colored paper on the grave. If there is a tombstone, careful descendants will use iron oil to describe the inscription, but the coloring of the name on the inscription is not allowed. Green means death, and red means that the person is still alive.
After the annual Tomb-Sweeping Day, when families get together, they can easily tell some old stories in front of their ancestors' graves and pay homage to their ancestors, which also enhances their mutual understanding and feelings.
I go there every year, but some families don't go to Tomb-Sweeping Day, but go climbing in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
4. Jiedong enjoys folk customs
(1) Sun Bride
In the past, in Xupu Village, Quxi Town, on the 17th and 18th of the first month, there was a God Touring Competition in the village, and a Chao Opera was staged in the village's convention city at night. Just in front of the stage, stood a row of brides who got married this year in the village. Most of them are led by their mother-in-law, and they come out at about 7: 30 in the evening and stand until more than 10: 00 in the evening. The brides stood quietly, being watched, judged and savored. Let's see whose bride is beautiful, whose bride is virtuous and whose bride is elegant. Brides come out to bask in the sun together, which is the most nostalgic and noisy occasion for unmarried boys. In this way, the gongs and drums are loud on the stage over there, and the noise of young people here is getting louder and louder. The whole village is really lively, and it is really an interesting folk custom. Later, I don't know why this folk custom was cancelled.
(2) Sticking couplets
Sticking couplets is an important folk custom in China, especially on holidays. Usually put a couplet on the gate. However, in the area of Wu Meicun and Mei Feng Village in Didu Town, Jiedong County, the customs of people posting couplets are somewhat different. They usually buy a pair of couplets and stick them on family ancestral temple's door when they get married and have children. Especially in the Spring Festival, it goes without saying that people have to post couplets on their own doors, and people have to post couplets on every window (mostly only in horizontal batches); More importantly, I want to buy a pair of couplets and put them on the gate of family ancestral temple. In this way, there are many couplets on the facade of the ancestral temple, so a large piece of red is naturally beaming. When there is a happy event, you will post couplets in the ancestral temple, which has a kind of psychology of reporting good news but not worrying; There is also a willingness to report good news to ancestors, because ancestral halls are mostly places to worship ancestors. This way, whether realistic or psychological, is a unique and interesting folk custom.
5. Jieyang weaving
Weaving is a unique folk art in Jieyang. It originated in the early 20th century and flourished in the 1930s and 1940s. Jieyang folk artists draw "thin bitter bamboo" into small strips as soft as silk and as thin as paper, and then weave them into various handicrafts with dexterous hands, such as flower baskets, bamboo fans, laundry baskets and other unique handicrafts, and then weave figures, flowers, calligraphy and patterns on them, which can be described as ingenious.
At the beginning of the 20th century, Lin, an artist from Yuecheng Songshan, Jieyang, pioneered the knitting technology. Lin was brilliant since childhood and made great achievements in poetry and calligraphy. On this basis, he devoted himself to the weaving technology, and the weaving story was vivid, dignified and beautiful. 1936, one of Lin's works was brought to Nanjing by a college student and won the second place. 1943, Lin was invited to screen 8 pictures for Jieyang's "Honesty and Number Shop", and then 8 pictures for Taishi of Laozixian in Dongzhou, each with a character of 1200. The picture layout is reasonable, the structure is rigorous, and the dots and strokes are interwoven into relief, which is clear and eye-catching. Lin also woven a small crab basket, as small as a finger, with fine lines. There are several sea crabs in the basket, which are lifelike. 1954, Lin also wove a portrait of Chairman Mao for Chaoshan Art Troupe, with 10 screens. Its superb skills are amazing.
After the forest, many skilled weavers emerged, among which Chen Daling was the most famous. Chen Daling weaves beautifully animals, flowers and birds, and seals. 1954 Make up two bamboo fans, and make up a picture of the Eight Immortals crossing the sea on them. The characters are lifelike and the skills are superb. He won the second prize and the excellent prize of Shantou Arts and Crafts, and his elaborate painting Screen of Meiju was selected as a national ceremony, which was taken overseas by the central leadership to present to international friends.
6. Hangcai Bridge
Caiqiao is a traditional folk activity of Lantern Festival in Chaoshan area. It has been passed down for hundreds of years with its special cultural charm, and it has also infected Chaoshan people from generation to generation.
At present, only two places have been found in Chaoshan, one in Rongcheng and the other in Hongyang. Although the two places were different counties in ancient times, they all belong to Jieyang now, so the colorful bridge is unique to Jieyang. Among them, Rongcheng has three complete stages: the first month of the eleventh month, the second month of the fifteenth month and the last month. Hongyang is currently only held on the fifteenth day of the first month. Although the colorful bridge activity has existed since ancient times, the relevant records are extremely simple. Regarding the Lantern Festival in Rongcheng, the Chronicle of Jieyang County, Volume 7 of the Qing edition, says: "In the Yuan Dynasty, lanterns were set up, fireworks were set off, lions were danced, and puzzles were expressed in the square. Scholars get together to guess, and the winner will be rewarded. Women and children throw building blocks across the bridge, which is called Du E, or take green flowers to pick up bottles and return to the mouth, so as to get the right meaning for men; In rural areas, swinging is a play, she songs are a fight, and the good win; After the Lantern Festival, send lanterns to the deceased heirs, send bamboo swings to the countryside, and drink all night. " This can be seen from the ancient Lantern Festival, in which the description of the colorful bridge is only "women and children throw blocks across the bridge, which is called Du E". It can be seen from this clause that in ancient times, women and children who participated in colorful bridge activities threw stones while walking on the bridge, which was regarded as helping their families to eliminate disasters and pray for good luck.
There is no record of the origin of the colorful bridge in Jieyang county annals, but there are two related legends among the people, one of which is a mortal legend: it is said that a poor family in Rongcheng had a pair of children, the daughter was the eldest and the son was the second. After the eldest daughter got married, she was often discriminated against because her family was understaffed and developed too fast. Later, she often went back to her family to help. One year during the Lantern Festival, her husband and his brother decorated the small bridge in front of their house for entertainment. That year, my sister had a baby, and my brother tried it, so the construction of the colorful bridge was regarded as an auspicious move and passed down. The custom of "going back to her parents' home" is still maintained in today's Rongcheng Color Bridge, mainly because the newly-married or unborn daughter goes back to her parents' home with her husband before or after the Color Bridge. That night, the bride's family should prepare a new lantern to light and give it to her daughter to take home. Because the word "Deng" is homophonic with "Ding" in Chaozhou, there is also the custom of "sending lanterns to eat glutinous rice balls". The other is a myth: It is said that one day in ancient times, a villager in Rongcheng dreamed that there would be a flood in the city, and a fairy told him that a colorful bridge would be built in the sky when there was a flood. As long as people crossed the colorful bridge and did not look back, they would be safe. According to the guidance of the immortal, the people in the whole city really escaped the disaster. Later, there was the custom of taking the colorful bridge, and they could not turn back or return from the original bridge. Although this legend was invented by modern people, it also added a bit of magic to the traditional colorful bridge activities.
Caiqiao has a strong tradition and folk customs, and most of them are spontaneous actions of civil organizations. Take Shishi Bridge as an example. Since 1990 established the Rainbow Bridge Club, the activities of Rainbow Bridge have never stopped, especially in the past ten years, with the promotion of enthusiastic people such as Lu Bo, Yang, Huang and Chen Kemao, it has been bringing forth new ideas every year, becoming more and more exciting and attractive. In addition, colorful bridges are often endowed with good wishes, such as "spirit, wealth and promotion". Therefore, during the annual "bridge-walking" period, there are no fewer than150,000 people who spontaneously go to participate in activities, and in the past two years, it has reached 200,000 people. Participants have gradually expanded from the initial Rongcheng residents to the suburbs and even all parts of the city. There is even Shantou in recent years. A small bridge with a width of only seven meters and a length of about twenty meters passes through such a huge crowd in one direction overnight, and it is orderly every year, which is a miracle of the world. In addition, there is a special activity to visit the Rainbow Bridge at Shishi Bridge-touching lions. Although the custom of touching lions has existed since ancient times, it is said that the stone lions at the bridgehead of Shishi are specially placed for the whole city to protect the aura from the west. They have always been regarded as god lions and spiritual lions in need, so the touch of lions here has a mysterious color and is different from others. For example, touching the lion's ears gives birth to brothers, touching the lion's nose and writing elegant characters, touching the lion's head and being a sage, touching the lion's belly and marrying an elegant wife, touching the lion's mouth and wealth, touching the lion's feet and wealth have a good result. However, some people think that the reason why lions were touched in the past was because there were stone lions carved on the railing of the bridge. As an ornament, it is harmless to touch the colored heads. Since the Shishi at the bridgehead of Shishi is a spiritual lion and a sacred lion, it deserves to be respected and worshipped. If you touch them at will, it is blasphemy against the sacred lion. No matter what attitude you take to understand the meaning of touching the lion, in fact, the lions at the bridge head of Shishi are surrounded by lions on the eleventh day of the first month every year, so few people can touch the lion that night. The second climax of the colorful bridge activities of Shishi Bridge was on the 15th day of the first month, when the Second Bridge was on the road. In addition to the lanterns on the bridge, more importantly, I enjoyed the lion dance and martial arts performance of Yang Xiguang's lion dance team that night. Although the performance usually lasts less than an hour, the people who go to see it are still crowded and lively. As for the "Hangwei Bridge" on the 16th day of the first month, after the Lantern Festival, people have already started to work, so most of the "Hangwei Bridge" is indifferent to the citizens and appears deserted.
Whether rich or simple, whether Rongcheng or Hongyang, the colorful bridge activities in the two places can still be favored by the general public after hundreds of years of circulation, which shows that they have unique cultural charm. What's more gratifying is that last year, the colorful bridge activity in Rongcheng was listed in the intangible cultural heritage list of Guangdong Province. If the packaging is promoted, it can be made into Jieyang's cultural business card to boost Jieyang's popularity.
I go there every year. Many people walk on colorful bridges, touch stone lions and pick bamboo. Very lively, every year on the eleventh day of the first lunar month.
7. Jieyang Sailong Victory Gold Folk Custom
The dragon boat race has a history of more than 400 years in Jieyang. In 2007, the "Bailong Nayong Rongjiang" pushed this folk activity to a climax. Today's dragon boat race is not only a folk custom, but also a sports activity. The new era has also given it more humanistic spirit: struggle, enterprising and rushing to victory. As for Jieyang's dragon boat modeling; Dragon boat race form; Dragon boat launching and launching ceremony; What are the folk cultural connotations of the dragon boat making process?
Thousands of years of dragon culture is deeply accumulated in the folk culture of China. Numerous folk customs are related to dragons, such as Dragon Lantern Festival, Youlong, Dragon Boat Festival, dragon burning and dragon boat race. Especially the dragon boat race is more common and has a deeper influence. Dragon boat race is a folk activity to commemorate Qu Yuan, a patriotic poet of Chu State during the Warring States Period. From 65438 to 0984, the State Sports Commission listed the dragon boat as a traditional folk sport in China, so dragon racing to win gold became a popular folk custom and sport, with great development in scale and connotation. Jieyang Dragon Boat Race has a long history. Dragon boat is vivid, colorful and beautiful. From the construction of the dragon boat to the launching, water supply and competition of the dragon boat, all kinds of ceremonies should be held, which are solemn and elegant. Therefore, the dragon boat race in Jieyang has profound folk culture connotation and strong local characteristics.
Qing Qianlong wrote in Jieyang County Records: "From the first day to the fifth day of the Dragon Boat Festival, the rivers and lakes will hold dragon boat races, or enjoy the winners with bonuses, and officials and scholars will hold wine banquets to watch." "Huilai County Records" written by Yongzheng in Qing Dynasty has been published for thirteen years: "Dragon Boat Festival ... Xigangtang boat race to win the flag." It can be seen that before the early Qing Dynasty, Jieyang had the custom of dragon boat racing. There is a folklore in Nanxi Town, Puning: there is Rongjiang River outside Nanxi Town and Xinxi River inside, which is known as the water town. According to legend, in the middle of Ming Dynasty, Liucun Village in Xinxi had a large population, and Mr. Liu's family in the village was well-off. His daughter lives in seclusion and reads widely, and his father is regarded as the apple of his eye. His daughter dreamed of the dragon boat one night and told her parents to have it at dawn. Hearing this, my father built a dragon boat and recruited migrant workers to dig a new river next to the village, named Xinxi, which is dedicated to rowing dragon boats and still exists today. There is a legend that Lin Tianmu moved the red dragon in Mianshu Village, Pandong. According to these legends, Jieyang has been racing dragon boats for more than 400 years.
In the 19th year of Guangxu (1893), Ding Richang, the governor of Fujian, settled in Jieyang in his later years. He invited some dragon boats from Chaozhou and Pujie to race in the south of Rongjiang River. The Red Dragon of Mianshu Village in Jieyang won the first prize, and Ding Richang was awarded the red velvet flag as an imperial envoy. When the blue dragon in Beixi Township rushed over the iron rope as the end mark, the dragon's mouth caught the iron rope, but because of its fast speed and great momentum, the iron rope broke and the blue dragon lost a tooth, so it was called a live dragon. It is said that a tooth was missing from the dragon's mouth during the blue dragon competition in Beixi Township today. These historical stories are widely known and circulated.
In 2007, Jieyang City held a dragon boat race in front of the municipal government of Beihe River in Rongjiang, with 100 dragon boats, which was called "White Dragons Nozzle Rongjiang". The grand occasion is unprecedented, and its grand occasion will go down in history forever.
Not only Rongjiang, but also many places in Jieyang have dragon boat races, such as Nancuo.
8. The dean sings and dances
Puning De 'anli is located in Hongyang Town, Puning City. Founded in the seventh year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1868), he was the prefect of Guangdong Navy, Fang Yao. De 'anli is divided into Laozhai and Zhongzhai. The architectural layout of Laozhai is commonly known as a hundred birds paying homage to the phoenix, while Zhongzhai is a four-horse trailer. There are ancestral halls, Buddhist temples, living rooms, study rooms, pavilions, lotus ponds, gardens, warehouses and torture room in the village, with hundreds of houses covering an area of more than 40,000 square meters. Building a moat outside is a rare large-scale luxury building complex in Guangdong. Later, the Fang Yao family also built a huge new De 'anli not far from the south of De 'anli (Zhongzhai). At present, part of De 'anli (Laozhai and Zhongzhai) is used as a teaching building and part as a residential building in Puning No.1 Middle School. New Deanli is used by the town government.
In the Qing Dynasty, the village of De 'anli, where Fang Yao, a family of Guangdong Navy, lived, almost contained the essence of Jieyang folk architecture. It is divided into three villages: old village, middle village and new village. The old village is "a hundred birds fly at the phoenix", while Nakamura and Xincun are "Hummer trailers". The three villages are connected together, and the scale is particularly spectacular. De 'anli's wood carving, stone carving and porcelain inlay techniques are elegant and exquisite in still life, lifelike in animals and both in form and spirit.
Puning song and dance is a kind of folk dance with local characteristics. It was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage in 2005. Dancers play Liang Shanbo's hero, and each dancer's face and costume represent a Liangshan hero. Holding two sticks in their hands, they jumped forward in the sound of gongs and drums, and the sticks in their hands beat and rotated rhythmically, accompanied by shouts. The momentum is like the ancient battlefield. Songs and dances developed from the bottom culture of Chaoshan are regarded as auspicious symbols. Closely combined with folk activities, it is deeply loved by the masses.
When Puning's English song team came to De 'anli, when these two cultures with Jieyang folk customs were combined, the picture became a classic. It is almost a microcosm of Jieyang culture-long and rich, hardworking and beautiful.
Very nice. You must go and see for yourself when you have the chance.
Tell you a little legend (from Huang Qishan, Jieyang).
Huang Qishan Tower is located at the top of Huang Qishan. It is divided into five layers, octagonal and about 20 meters high. They are all stone structures with a gap in the middle and a window on each floor. According to records, the Huang Qishan Tower was built in the Ming Dynasty, with only three floors. It was knocked down by lightning during the Tongzhi period of the Qing Dynasty. In the 23rd year of the Republic of China (1934), Xie Henian, a magistrate of a county, rebuilt and added five floors. The spire was originally built as a lotus flower. There is a saying that a copper gourd was built. After liberation, the spire was damaged by lightning and has not been repaired so far. A boulder in front of the tower is engraved with poems left by Xie Henian when he repaired the tower.
There is also a touching legend circulating here. In ancient times, at the foot of Ma 'anshan behind Huang Qishan, there lived a poor widow named Aunt Huang. Aunt Huang raised a pair of children with different surnames, and her son Ma was an orphan of the Ma family she adopted. The daughter named Huang Shanzhen is her own child. Aunt Huang brought up the child with great pains. Ma Yingshan, with his heroic spirit and high martial arts, is an expert in shooting and hunting. Huang Shanzhen is a beautiful girl with ingenuity.
Aunt Huang has a plan when her children grow up. One day, she called the child to her side and said that she would choose a good marriage for their brother and sister. Hearing this, Shan Ying's brother and sister jumped for joy. Two half-brothers, no one guessed, became closer from then on. Every time Shan Ying goes hunting in the mountains, Shanzhen always goes with him; Shanzhen was washing clothes in the river, and Shan Ying also fell into the river to catch turtles. Just wait for mother to choose a lucky one in autumn, and the bridal chamber will be married.
Unexpectedly, there is a rogue named Bai Chongbao in this place. His brother-in-law was a general under Yi Digao's account, so he was bullied by dogs. People in this area hated him, so they gave him the nickname "White Five Days". On this day, Tian came to Huang Qishan to play with a group of dog slaves. He suddenly saw a beautiful girl washing clothes by the river, so he stepped forward to cater to her and asked her to go home with him and enjoy life. This girl is Huang Shanzhen. Shan Ying, her brother, was fishing by the river. Seeing that the dog's head was so hateful, he immediately rushed up and stabbed him, which made him bite shit. When the evil slaves saw that their master was defeated, they gathered together to attack Ma Shan Ying. The man in the saddle-saw it, so he rushed up to fight "Bai Wu Tian" with a mallet and a stick. Beat the villain to flee for life in an instant.
Tian was beaten black and blue by everyone, gnashing his teeth with anger, and immediately ran to his general's brother-in-law and cried, borrowing 500 troops from him to raze Maanshan to the ground. After learning the terrible news, people in Maanshan immediately packed their clothes and money and fled across Maanshan with their children. Seeing that the villagers were suffering because of their affairs, Shan Ying's brother and sister asked their mother to follow them first, and their brother and sister had to cover for the villagers in the back.
As soon as everyone left, "Baiwudian" took the troops to Maanshan. Seeing that the village was empty, they set fire to a saddle. Then ordered the soldiers to search the mountain to kill. Seeing that the situation was not good, Shan Ying's brother and sister were afraid that everyone would be arrested, so they ran to Huang Qishan hand in hand, inviting villains to come after them, so that the villagers could escape. Sure enough, when Baiwudian saw Shan Ying's brother and sister, he immediately followed and ordered the sergeant to surround Huang Qishan.
Shan Ying's brother and sister just ran to the top of the mountain when they suddenly saw that they were surrounded in all directions. They were coming this way. Afraid of being captured and humiliated, the brother and sister embraced each other and jumped down, and both of them were crushed to death on a big stone at the foot of the mountain.
At this time, it happened that the barefoot fairy in the sky passed by here. He could see clearly in the clouds, so he wanted to save the kind and loving couple. So they read incantations and blew fairy tales, and the two brothers and sisters immediately turned over and became a pair of white swans flapping their wings and flying into the sky.
Tian watched his brother and sister turn into white swans, shouted angrily, and ordered his men to shoot down the white swan and let him eat swan meat. This time, the barefoot fairy was even more annoyed. With a wave of his cane, it was dark, flying sand and stones, and all the little people were blown down the mountain. However, "White Five Days" turned into a big toad, squatting on the top of the mountain and watching the swan drool. He still wants to eat swan meat.
Seeing the viciousness of "lawlessness in white", the barefoot immortal still refused to change, and turned him into a big stone with a fairy wand. People call this big stone "Toad Stone". But who knows that although the toad turned into a stone, the saliva still couldn't flow out. When the barefoot fairy saw it, she lightly stepped on the toad stone with her heel, and the bottom immediately turned into a sunken stone trough, which stored toad saliva to prevent it from flowing all over the mountain. Later, the barefoot fairy was afraid that the toad would jump away as a monster for a long time, so she put fairy wand on the hill, pulled out a hair, tied the toad with a magic rope, and then turned fairy wand into a "magic wooden tower".
Five hundred years later, "Toad Stone" gradually changed because it absorbed the essence of the sun and the moon. One spring rain season, toad really moved, but he was tied by a magical rope and couldn't jump. It was struggling, and was immediately killed by Da Leixian with a thunderbolt hammer. "Zhenlai Wooden Pagoda" and "Mo Binsuo" were also burned by fireworks.
During the apocalypse of the Ming Dynasty, Feng came to Jieyang as a county magistrate with his concubine Huang Yuerong. On the Double Ninth Festival that year, the husband and wife went to Huang Qishan to play together and heard the story of the magic tower in this town, which was very touching. Mrs. Yuerong asked her husband to contribute money to rebuild a stone tower on this wooden foundation.
Until now, the "toad stone" is still squatting beside the stone tower, and the "toad saliva" in the stone trough still does not dry up all year round.
People who have been to Huang Qishan must know that there is a big stone beside the tower at the top of the mountain, and the water in it does not dry up all the year round, which is amazing.
Jieyang now governs Rongcheng District, Jiedong, Jiexi and Huilai, and puning City (county level).
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