Tian Heng Sea Festival symbolizes Tian Heng Sea Festival, which originated in ewald Village, Tian Heng Town, and has a history of more than 500 years. After careful planning, packaging and promotion by the local government, this ancient festival has developed into a well-known folk festival brand in Shandong and even the whole country, and it is also a carnival ceremony that modern people are fascinated by, attracting countless Chinese and foreign tourists and experts in folk customs and economic policies from all over China every year. In 2008, Tian Heng Sea Sacrifice was included in the second batch of national intangible culture.
Sacrificing to the sea is a fisherman's culture with unique regional characteristics created by fishermen in their long-term life of agriculture, animal husbandry and fishing. Every year around Grain Rain, fishermen will choose an auspicious day, carry their fishing nets onto their boats and start offering sacrifices to the sea, so it is also called "surfing the Internet".
Experts studied the ancient cultural sites in Tian Heng. As early as 6,000 years ago in the Neolithic Age, our ancestors made a living by fishing and hunting in Tian Heng. At that time, people were unable to explain the mysterious phenomenon of nature because of their limited understanding, and they were deeply in awe of the sea. When they went out to sea to fish, they prayed to the sea god to keep them safe. During the Yongle period of the Ming Dynasty, with the gathering of local population, villages gradually formed, and the ceremony of offering sacrifices to the sea began to take shape. The sea sacrifice in Tian Heng is a collective sea sacrifice activity with families or boat groups as the unit. Every time you worship the sea, it is the busiest day in the fishing village, just like the traditional Chinese New Year. With the improvement of production capacity, the popularization of science and technology and the change of fishermen's ideas, on the basis of retaining the traditional festival form, the sacrifice to the sea has gradually changed from praying for the safety of the sea god to yearning and expectation for a better life, forming a unique folk festival-the sacrifice to the sea festival.