Year,/kloc-the custom of Maoming when he was 0/8 years old. Special festivals in Maoming City, Guangdong Province. According to Guangxu's "Customs Records of Maoming County", "December to February (February of the lunar calendar), villagers Nuo, chasing ghosts along the door and singing folk songs, is called the year."

Maoming Year has been included in the intangible cultural heritage of Guangdong Province. 20 16 CCTV Old Story Channel "Hometown" column group fully planned to shoot 28 episodes of large-scale documentary-Maoming Year.

"Maoming City Records" also said: "The" year example "is unique to villages in Jianjiang and Luojiang river basins in western Guangdong, and it has been very popular in the Qing Dynasty. The' New Year Festival' is a local traditional folk activity to offer sacrifices to gods, visit gods, offer sacrifices to the country, and pray for good weather, prosperity of all trades and prosperity of the country and the people. In fact, "Nian" is an expanded Spring Festival, Lantern Festival and temple fair, and it is a comprehensive festival including the anniversary of ancestors' migration. Urban and rural residents take the community as a unit to raise funds to hold community sacrifice activities according to the original date, so as to pray for a good weather and a rich life, commonly known as "legislation" or "community sacrifice", which generally lasts for three days.

The calendar days in Maoming City vary from place to place, among which Dianbai District in Maoming City is the most famous, generally from the second day of the first month to the end of the month, especially on 15 and 16, and some places are February of the lunar calendar. The festivals on the calendar are usually on the same day, in one village and several nearby villages.

The main purpose of this year's Fa Conference is to pray for good weather, prosperity of all trades and prosperity of the country and the people. During the Spring Festival in a village, people from the surrounding villages come to watch the excitement, and every household holds a banquet to entertain relatives and friends, whether they know them or not. Every year, the streets of villages and towns are decorated with lights and colorful decorations, and every household holds a banquet to invite relatives and friends. The more visitors, the happier the host. Therefore, there is a saying that "Chinese New Year is a big festival", and the activities include wandering gods, playing lanterns, playing tricks, dancing lions, dragons, floating colors, eight tones, martial arts performances, making big dramas (Cantonese operas) and puppet shows. With the development of society, the tradition of chronology has also changed, and many places have gradually become accustomed to changing "making chronology" and "looking at chronology" into "eating chronology". However, as a unique traditional festival in Maoming, it still has a deep complex in the hearts of Maoming people and is of great significance to Maoming people.

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Legend 1: Year comes from the Lantern Festival. There are two reasons for this statement: first, the time for making annual regulations in various places is mainly concentrated in the first month, generally starting from the second day of the first month, the Lantern Festival reaches its peak, and gradually fades after Qingming; Secondly, festivals in many places are decorated with lanterns and colorful decorations, which are quite temple fairs. After the Han and Tang Dynasties, the cultural customs of the Central Plains gradually penetrated into the land of western Guangdong, and the habit of playing with lanterns was accepted, so the people expanded the Lantern Festival, temple fairs, social festivals, and the anniversary of the relocation of local ancestors to the capital, which was held once a year. Later, they gradually evolved into a grand and warm folk festival, which was highly valued by the villagers.

Legend 2: The rise of chronology is related to the fairy lady. There are two reasons for this statement: first, historical data show that "the annual festival activities first arose in Xian family, and after a long time, they evolved into today's annual festival activities". Second, there are many temples of Mrs. Xian in Maoming, and you can often see "Mrs. Xian" when wandering around Maoming. It is understood that Mrs. Xian, who was born in Gaozhou, was a famous Baiyue leader in Lingnan during the Southern and Northern Dynasties. She led her troops to quell the 540-year-long military rebellion in Hainan and made outstanding contributions to safeguarding national unity and national unity. She had a profound influence on western Guangdong and Hainan.

Legend 3: The annual rule is to drive away the plague and the epidemic. It is said that there was a god of plague in ancient times who often did evil to the people in western Guangdong, making them miserable. Therefore, the people in western Guangdong spontaneously carried out activities to drive away the plague, but the plague god was very cunning. Drive it away from one place and it will run to another. Because of this, the wise people in western Guangdong adopted the "year-round" approach in various villages to drive away the plague.

In addition, the origin of some village chronologies is closely related to history, humanities and people's livelihood, which is of great commemorative value.

For example, in Baipo Village, Qi Jing Town, the older generation of Baipo Village said that during the previous drought, the Taoist Lin Zhenren in Baipo Village made a mistake about the time and time of asking for rain, and it didn't rain until the altar was burned. In order to commemorate him, later generations took Lin Zhenren's birthday on 1 1 month 19 every year as the year of Baipo Village.

This legend is similar to the legend of Yugong Mountain Taoist Temple in Yugongling, Qijing Town.

Shan Yu Gongshan Daoyuan in Yugongling, Qijing Town (Yugongshan Park is being developed now), formerly known as Gong Yu Temple, was built in Ming Dynasty 1388 according to records. There are two main halls in Yugongshan Taoist Temple, Sendai Hall on the left and Gong Yu Hall on the right. Gong Yu Temple also refers to Gong Yu Temple. In the center of the temple are three portraits of Lin Zhenren, a master of Dafa Rain, and his disciples. On the left side of the temple are Yuan Shi Tian Zun, Zhi Bao Tian Zun and Tai Shang Lao Jun; On the right side of the temple is dedicated to Zhang Tianshi (Zhang Daoling), the founder of Taoist orthodoxy and fax school. There is a touching legend about "Yugong" in the Taoist temple of Yugong Mountain, that is, Lin Zhenren, a master of casting spells to ask for rain:

Lin Zhenren (1336 ~ 1378), formerly known as Lin Qichu, was born in Maogang (formerly Dianbai County). He was born in poverty, smart, studious, kind-hearted and ambitious, and he was determined to solve problems for the people from an early age. After learning from the teacher and going through all kinds of hardships, I finally got a high tutor in Longhushan, Jiangxi, and gave each other Taoist secrets. After his success, he traveled all over the world, and his dharma number traveled to Taoist priests. One day, the master took two disciples through Dianbai, and happened to encounter natural and man-made disasters, drought and people's livelihood. Everyone knelt down in the scorching sun and begged for rain. Seeing this, the master led his disciples to put the altar for rain and fight to the death with the drought demon and the fire demon. In the end, because of a false alarm, I defeated the devil, a master and apprentice, gave my precious life and won a pleasant scene of showers everywhere. Future generations are very grateful. In memory of this great sage and merciful mage, Cai Zhongying, a businessman from Dianbaipozi, led the villagers to find a rain-seeking incense burner on the rugged mountain top with towering ancient trees, so he raised funds to build a temple here another day to lay the foundation stone for his master. This is the original temple of Gong Yu.

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"1" and "chronology" are rare customs in Guangdong Province and even the whole country, and are unique to a few people in Maoming City and Zhanjiang City. Especially in Maoming, the annual festival rules are more common. Maoming people have a saying that "2008 is a big New Year". People who are away from home can not go home during the Spring Festival, but Nian will definitely come back.

2. Various activities in the calendar express the general public's desire to pray for peace and good luck.

3. The feeling of contacting relatives and friends every year. Relatives and friends usually don't communicate much all year round, but on the day of their own year, no matter whether they are rich or poor, they will hold banquets to invite relatives and friends, and friends will also go to various homes in droves to eat New Year's goods, which makes the atmosphere of the New Year feel very strong.

This year is the biggest festival in Maoming countryside. From the initial ceremony of entertaining gods to the festival of entertaining people, it has developed into a comprehensive cultural festival integrating communication and entertainment activities, which has made Maoming's annual regulations widely recognized in the local area;

5. It has promoted the economic development of Maoming for many years. Chronology has not only the characteristics of spiritual culture, but also the characteristics of material culture. Many merchants in Maoming are optimistic about the "new year economy" and have opened new year shopping streets. Markets and roads are full of new year's goods, and the sales of fruits, sweets, biscuits and drinks have greatly increased. On holidays in the village, a small market will be temporarily formed at the entrance of the village, and hawking voices will come and go ... According to statistics and analysis of relevant people, the sales of Maoming's "New Year's Festival" goods account for about the whole year's rural market.

6. Time has promoted the development of food culture. Every year, families rack their brains to arrange dishes, and every year, various novel dishes appear, greatly enriching local dishes.