Pingyao China Year is a large-scale activity to celebrate the Spring Festival, which was gradually formed on the basis of "I celebrate the New Year in Pingyao" in 2000 and the Torch Festival of Shanxi Merchants. It was held in Pingyao ancient city from the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month to the 16th of the first lunar month. While doing a good job in the lantern festival, the activity organically combines exhibition, entertainment, performance, lottery and other activities, integrating folklore, viewing and participation. Its large scale, novel design, advanced creativity, elegant and popular taste and unique charm have attracted great attention from CCTV, Beijing TV Station, Shanxi Literature and Art Radio and Television Station, Sohu Travel Website, Shanxi Economic Radio Station, Shanxi Evening News and other media. As the main position of "Our Festival-Spring Festival" determined by Publicity Department of the Communist Party of China and the Central Civilization Office, China Year in Pingyao was well received by Chinese and foreign tourists and local people, which made Pingyao people and tourists have a happy, peaceful, lively and festive Spring Festival. The successful creation of Pingyao China Year has become another brand of winter tourism in Shanxi. Significance of the activity: carry forward the traditional "Nian" culture and show folk customs. Activities: Watching lanterns, watching dramas, celebrating the Chinese New Year, and building social fires, including wrapping jiaozi, writing couplets, lighting a fire, setting off firecrackers, and participating in a lively lucky draw. , rich in content.
Pingyao folk custom
Pingyao's annual customs can well represent China's "Year". In the traditional sense, the Spring Festival refers to the La Worship sacrificial ceremony from the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month or the 23rd day of the twelfth lunar month to the 15th day of the first lunar month, with New Year's Eve and the first day of the first lunar month as the climax. Only rich and colorful activities can have strong China characteristics. On the first day of the twelfth lunar month: eat popcorn, frozen fried soybeans, wheat, flaxseed and so on. Also known as "avoiding epidemic". The eighth day of the twelfth lunar month: the day when eight wax figures were worshipped in ancient times. Eight wax gods are a group of gods who ruled agriculture in ancient times. After Buddhism was introduced to China in Yongping period of the Eastern Han Dynasty, Sakyamuni became a Buddha in the first day of the twelfth lunar month and celebrated by eating Laba porridge boiled with various grains. Twenty-third of the twelfth lunar month: Send the kitchen god to heaven and offer a sacrifice to honeydew melons, so that he can "speak well in heaven and return to the palace for good luck". On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month: Pingyao folk song: "On the 24th of the twelfth lunar month, Grandpa Zao doesn't care about anything, cleaning and moving furniture." Every household rummages through everything to clean up and welcome the New Year. New Year's Eve: Pingyao called it "Niansi". This is the last day of the Lunar New Year. Stick Spring Festival couplets during the day, hang treasure paper, eat noodles and jiaozi at noon. Good luck. "Money is getting better every year." I look forward to good luck in the coming year. Save some raw noodles for next year, which is called "overnight meal". I hope there will be no spring shortage next year. In the evening, families get together and laugh. Parents sincerely bathe to meet God, display the shadow of ancestors or wooden owners, and set off firecrackers to show the light, which is called "receiving God". Charcoal blocks are placed in the yard to symbolize "wealth", or to burn fire to help fortune. There is a "lamp enclosure" on the sill of the outer window, which is brightly lit inside and outside and will last all night, beaming. Adults in the family stay up all night, which is called "staying up for the New Year". On the first day of the first month: at the beginning of the new year, the whole family will get together. Before the sun rises, the family man needs to go to the ancestral temple to worship his ancestors, or set up a shadow of his ancestors. The wooden sign of the gods is equal to the hall, lighting candles, burning incense, worshiping, setting off firecrackers, eating jiaozi, then saying hello to his family and neighbors' elders and kowtowing for the second time. Elders should give lucky money to children under 65, 438+02. Meet your peers, meet each other late, and make a fortune. This is a day to avoid unlucky words, needlework, cleaning, and pouring sewage in the morning. When Jiang Ziya was said to be a god, he forgot to give himself a territory and responsibility, so he had to wander around all the year round. Everywhere he went, the gods abdicated out of respect for Jiang Taigong, which made the squire feel at ease. But every year from New Year's Eve to the morning of the Spring Festival, immortals have to sit in their seats and receive incense from people. At this point, Jiang Taigong can only make do for one night in the only unsealed dung field. If you pour sewage in the morning, you will commit Jiang Taigong and invite God to punish you. So Pingyao women don't pour sewage out in the early morning of the first day. Every village and community is beating gongs and drums, beaming with joy, wishing the new year a bumper harvest and good health. On the second day of the first month: young couples go to their mother-in-law's house to pay New Year's greetings, and unmarried people go to their uncle's house to pay New Year's greetings. Relatives pay homage to each other on the third and fourth days. The fifth day of the first month: commonly known as "Breaking Five". Among the people, Marshal Zhao Gong and his team will be called Zhao Baotian Zun, Natian Zhenzun, Auspicious Messenger, Lishi Xian Guan, etc. * * * is the "five-way god of wealth". It is said that the fifth day of the first month is the day when the god of wealth meets on the fifth day, so Pingyao people should avoid going out on the fifth day of the first month to avoid blocking the way of wealth. The eighth day of the first month: it is a festival to sacrifice stars, that is, drinking tea and eating, and offering sacrifices to stars. First, write the memorial tablet in yellow paper, dedicate it to the gods of Jiuyao Star, Nandou Liulang, Big Dipper and Putian Star, and stick it on the wall at home. Then steamed nine cakes, arranged in a nine-star map, ordered cakes to burn incense, offered three glasses of wine, and housewives bowed down. Pingyao folk also pay attention to men committing crimes at the age of 18, so it is essential to offer sacrifices to heaven, which is held once a month on the eighth day of every month. After that, the sacrifice was repeated every nine years, and 54 years old was the year of the last crime. The tenth day of the first month: commonly known as "ten motionless". It is said that the Japanese mouse got married. In order to pray for the mercy of the mice in the coming year, every household eats jiaozi to celebrate, and puts three or two jiaozi in an urn, which is named as a rat hole. On the 13th day of the first month, commonly known as "West Western jackdaw Paste Mouth", a small amount of rice flour was symbolically sprinkled on the roof to pray for crows to harm crops in the coming year. The fifteenth day of the first month: commonly known as Tianguan's birthday, the people call it "Lantern Festival", also known as Shangyuan Day. In order to pray for God to bless the people, all villages and communities should decorate lanterns, offer sacrifices to the three officials (heavenly officials, local officials and water officials), beat gongs and drums, light community fires, dance dragon lanterns, run dry boats, walk on stilts and dance yangko. The festive atmosphere is stronger than the Spring Festival. In many villages, busybodies also organize a "send children to the newly-married home". A man with two children will pretend to be a messenger to give their children to the queen. There are many clay dolls in the bamboo basket, and gongs and drums will be drummed with "Xingyang Song", or music such as "Meng Liang Bowing and Your Legend" will be delivered from door to door. Every time they go to a family, they will sing a few words of blessing and wish the main family an early birth. All the merchants along the street in the city should hang lanterns under the eaves outside the pavement, each with its own new ideas, competing to attract tourists to watch, and also improving the visibility of the font size. Folk social fires in the city and suburbs will be performed in the city. Please perform in front of the door and enjoy cigarettes and money for good luck. Every family has Yuanxiao for dinner. The 20th day of the first month: commonly known as "Little Tim Cang", also known as "Tim Cang Day". In the evening, people will barbecue a kind of "cloth bag" filled with white bread and brown sugar, symbolizing a bumper harvest, which is used for offering sacrifices to the gods to get a bumper harvest and provide food for them. The 25th day of the first month: commonly known as "God Warehouse", the customs and habits are the same as before.
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On the street, there are lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, and people come and go. The cultural station is even more lively. Look, the "Golden Pig in Spring" lamp is 2 meters high. Three big golden pigs and three little pigs are flying in the beautiful palace. The big pig is naive, the little pig is cute and cute, with watermelon in his hand.
Before the Spring Festival, I heard that the town cultural station will hold a lantern festival this year. I waited and hoped that this day finally came.
As the saying goes, it snows and lights on the fifteenth day of the first month. The heavy snow turned the town into a silver world. As night fell, I couldn't wait to get to the cultural station.
On the street, there are lanterns and colorful decorations everywhere, and people come and go. The cultural station is even more lively. Look, the "Golden Pig in Spring" lamp is 2 meters high. Three big golden pigs and three little pigs are flying in the beautiful palace. The big pig is naive, the little pig is cute and cute, with watermelon in his hand. The "flower basket" lamp is exquisite in workmanship and unique in shape. There are tulips, lilies and chrysanthemums in the huge flower basket, showing a scene of spring. There is also the "Fuwa Lantern Festival" lamp. Beibei, Jingjing, Huanhuan, Yingying and Nini warmly welcome everyone who comes to watch with open arms. Yes, next year's world-famous Beijing Olympic Games, I believe that every one of us in China will welcome guests from all over the world with warm arms like this lovely Fuwa to enhance our friendship. Goldfish lanterns, "home and everything" lanterns, hexagonal palace lanterns, etc. Let the tourists be dazzled and amazed!
The Lantern Festival in the town is really booming, because everyone in the town is booming!