There is a unique folk lantern festival in Pancun Township, Shuikou Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen-Pancun Lantern Festival. The Pancun Lantern Festival originated in the Ming Dynasty and was first held on the 13th day of the first month in the eighth year of Tianshun, Ming Yingzong (1464). It has a history of over 540 years.
According to legend, due to successive local disasters, Jian Zhai, the thirteenth ancestor of Kuang family in Pancun, visited Chen Baisha, a famous Confucian in Lingnan, to avoid disasters. Chen Baisha thinks that there are five black stone beast mountains, lion, tiger, elephant, horse and cow, guarding the village. But because the lion king fell asleep, the other four beasts were in a mess, and disasters occurred one after another. You can hang lights and fire guns, beat gongs and drums to wake up the lion king to ensure local peace, and then it gradually continued to become a local custom.
Because the Lantern Festival in Pancun started in Shen Jianian, and the ancestral temple was built in the 10th anniversary of Guangxu, which was also Shen Jianian, the local people decided to take Shen Jia as the standard, and once every three years, a little dance was held, and once every sixty years, a anniversary was held. Because the whole process includes lighting, sending lights, lighting, dancing and lighting, it is named "Pancun Lantern Festival".
On the 13th day of the first month of each year, colorful flags cover the sky in Pancun Township, firecrackers are ringing, and every household is decorated with lanterns and happy faces. Local people walk around the town with lanterns, umbrellas and dragons and lions. Pancun Lantern Festival has a set of relatively fixed procedures and ceremonies, and its process includes tying, delivering, lighting, dancing and lighting.
According to the traditional custom, three lanterns are tied every year, the specification is wick 16 feet, 9 feet wide, 5 feet in belly diameter and 3 feet wide. Two feet. Longtian, Tangchun and Xiashu villages are responsible for tying lanterns, and each village must tie a lantern before noon on the twelfth day of the first month. On the afternoon of the same day, the tied lanterns were escorted by the lantern sending team, and set out from Xiashu Village to the Hall Spring Ancestral Hall for worship, and a ceremony was held to worship the gods and ancestors.
On the morning of the thirteenth day of the first month, when lanterns are lit, we should choose villages with dancing lanterns and sacrifice ancestors with golden pigs, live pigs, raw sheep, chickens and fruits. Lighting locations are located in Pancun, Datang, Tanglip, Longtian and Xia Shu. After lighting the lanterns, the three lanterns visited more than 40 villages in the township along different directions and routes. Every time the lanterns go to a village, they are given to the villagers to jump. Three weeks later, the lanterns went around the village and then turned to other villages.
In the process of dancing lanterns, the dancing skills such as wading into the village, climbing the wall into the house and outshining others are the most eye-catching. After three lanterns traveled all the villages, they lit lanterns at a fixed place, and when they were lit, they would burst. At this time, the villagers rushed up, vying for paper and lanterns, taking them home as mascots and wishing the six animals prosperity and peace.
According to legend, there are three kinds of elves in Pancun area, namely turtle, carp and dragon. People use the spirit beads of three elves as lanterns, so they hold lighting ceremonies in Tanjiang Village near Guishan, Shuxiufang and Jinchao Village near Liyu Mountain to show the return of the spirit beads.
Pancun Lantern Festival integrates dance, art, traditional handicrafts and folk art parade. The whole Lantern Festival is carried out in strict accordance with traditional customs and rules, and every link of the activity is endowed with special cultural significance. As a folk activity with unique regional cultural characteristics, Pancun Lantern Festival has a wide influence in Lingnan area. In 2008, Pancun Lantern Festival was included in the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
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