The so-called annual rules are annual rules or annual rules. It takes the "social environment" of the land god as the unit and makes an annual rule on a fixed day of the year. In Shi Lan, there are village rules and regulations from the seventh day of the first month to December, but mainly in February of the first month. Many villages have two or even three or four chronologies, such as Shi Lan Village in Shi Lan Town and Gu Village in Dun, with four chronologies.
In the past, most of the annual ceremonies were to worship the gods and dance with lions during the day, to perform a big play or puppet show or a movie at night, to set off firecrackers and fireworks, and to invite relatives and friends to eat and drink. Wuchuan's annual festivals are more colorful and lively. They not only put up doorplates and decorated with lanterns at the entrance of the village, but also the village bosses donated 100,000 yuan and millions to invite top domestic players to play basketball, invited famous singers and Cantonese opera troupes or celebrities to perform, invited mobile guards of honor to patrol the village or invited high-stakes lion dance teams. This small village attracts friends and relatives from all directions and is very lively. It was really a "New Year's Day". Year-on-year samples even make prices soar, and the market appears impatient and active, forming a unique year-on-year sample economy.
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Chronology of Shi Lan is everywhere, with different times. On the right are some village chronologies and some special chronology samples. The typical annual regulations are wandering spirits, burning firearms, offering cups, eating annual regulations, singing big plays, etc. It is a large-scale folk activity with the purpose of praying for disaster relief, human and animal safety and prosperity. During the Chinese New Year, every household holds a big banquet and warmly treats relatives and friends with tea, rice, wine and vegetables, which is full of unique customs and strong local flavor.
New Year's Eve: In addition to the festive activities seen in "Watching New Year's Eve", "Eating New Year's Eve" (inviting relatives and friends to eat New Year's Eve) is even more famous. Make an annual rule, a village makes an annual rule, and people in neighboring villages are not allowed to watch the fun or entertain relatives and friends, so "making an annual rule" is also called "eating an annual rule". In the sixties and seventies of last century, the annual regulations were once regarded as the "four olds" and were once interrupted, but the content of "eating" in the annual regulations still existed.
Salute to the gods: Bodhisattva leaves the temple and goes to the villages in the "social environment". Each village is not allowed to have one or more places for "offering cups", which is the highlight of "opening the year". Several tables of the Eight Immortals were placed on each "plot", and the villagers picked out the best fruits, cakes and sweets from home, put them in pots and put them on the tables of the Eight Immortals for the Bodhisattva to "enjoy". In the old days, a Taoist priest threw a "cup ratio" (cut a log into two pieces and threw it on the ground when asking God, with two sections called Yang ratio, two sections called Yin ratio and one section called Sheng ratio). Fireworks and firecrackers were set off at the ceremony, and there was a lion dance performance. At noon on New Year's Day, there are also worship and "posing". The form of "sacrifice" is the same as "sacrifice", but the difference is that the sacrifice is changed from fruit, cake and sugar to "three animals" (chicken, pork and fish).
Boating: The schedule for boating is 8:00- 10 on New Year's Eve. People patrol the village with statues and paper boats, or park on the land. Every family takes some chicken feathers, messy hair, hemp seeds and bean seeds (symbolizing measles and acne) from home and puts them in paper boats. Operators go to the fork in the road or the river outside the village to burn (that is,
Lion Dance: The custom of lion dance has a magical legend. It is said that there were no lions in ancient China. It is not clear whether it was the Qin Dynasty or the Han Dynasty. Countries in the western region have bad relations with China. One year, Fan Wang sent an emissary to send a lion to our country, demanding to tame the lion as a symbol of friendship, and agreed to come and watch the tame lion show on the birthday of our emperor the next year. Who knows that the lion is difficult to tame, but after half a year, he escaped from the iron prison and killed several beautiful women. Fortunately, the two animal trainers were skilled in martial arts and hacked the lion to death with three or two knives. This is a great disaster for the right wing. What should the emperor show to the envoys of various countries on his birthday? Maybe there will be another war between the two countries. Fortunately, these two animal trainers are clever. On the birthday of the emperor, they put on lion skins and performed on the stage, jumping around, swinging from side to side, waking up and sleeping, lifelike, just like real lions, and the envoys of various countries could not see any flaws. Since then, the custom of lion dance has emerged, and people like to perform lion dance on holidays.
Grab the gun head: In many villages, it is customary to grab the gun head after dinner. The "spear head" is the paper ball that falls after the fireworks are launched. The spear heads are "Fu Bao", "Pig Bao", "Tianding Bao" and "Vegetable Bao". According to legend, whoever found the spear head in those days made a fortune. Whoever finds a cannon will return it the next year. If you find a pig cannon, you will get a pig every two years. If you find a vegetable cannon, you will get a table of dining tables the next year. The scene of mandatory planning spear head is very lively. When the cannon burned, the rocket shot into the sky. With the crackling sound, the rocket exploded in the sky, and colorful colored balls danced in the air, which was very beautiful. The ultimatum "sou" shot a spear head from the gun chamber, drew a beautiful arc in the air and fell down. People are scrambling to grab it.
Put on a big show: Some villages also put on puppet shows. The puppet show is called "ghost play" and "ghost play". There are three kinds of puppet shows in Wuchuan: one is a one-man puppet show, which is popular in Changqi, Shallow Water and Shi Lan; The other is a small class puppet, which is popular in the towns in the southwest of Wuchuan, singing Wuchuan folk songs; And the other is a puppet in big class, also called Cantonese Opera Puppet, singing Cantonese Opera. Some large classes, such as matinee puppet shows and evening performances, are also called yin-yang classes. Puppets in small classes and big classes have basically disappeared, and there are a few single puppet classes, most of which are old artists in their sixties and seventies. Put on a big show. Wu has always called Cantonese opera "a play". Drama has a broad mass base in Wuchuan. In the 1960s and 1970s, almost every village had a troupe. After the reform and opening up, almost every village will stage a big drama every year. At the end of each year, the government organizes a booking party for the spring class of Cantonese Opera, and the performance agents from Guangdong and Guangxi Cantonese Opera Troupes fill the venue. In some wealthy villages, with a venue of nearly 100,000 yuan, the Guangdong Opera Troupe can perform for ten consecutive nights. In some villages, two Cantonese opera troupes were invited to perform for several nights at the same time. Although Wuchuan's ancient festival activities are full of superstition, they also have positive significance that cannot be ignored. It not only connects family ties and friendship, adds festive atmosphere and promotes local traditional culture, but also stimulates the growth of exaggerated consumption and promotes economic development.