The scale of "Yueye" is uncertain, and men, women and children can participate. When they went, they all wore festive costumes, and the "Song Team" and "Lusheng Team" went with the troupe. The host village entertained with wine and meat, and the host and guest sang Dong Opera or Lu Sheng during the day, and sang Dong songs in the evening, and * * * celebrated together for three to five days. When leaving, the main village will also give gifts of pigs and sheep. Depending on the harvest, this village will pay a return visit to other villages in the next year or several years. The "Moon Festival" is only held after the autumn harvest or during the Spring Festival to celebrate the harvest and celebrate the festival, while not delaying the farming season. There are many contents of "Yueye", mainly including the following seven kinds:

Yueye Opera

"Yueye Opera" (as a performer), that is, collective social activities with Dong Opera as the main platform and various folk cultural exchanges at the same time are generally carried out in the first month of the lunar calendar. Its main forms of activities are Jia Zhai going to Yi Zhai to sing Dong Opera, singing Dong songs in pairs, making friends with young men and women, and visiting relatives and friends with the elderly. After the New Year's Eve, the troupe master or the chorus master suggested to Zhai Lao which village or villages to sing and sing. After the Zhai Lao discussed the permission, he chose an auspicious day to make the two Lahan (young men) take the red stickers written by Zhai Lao and go to the designated stockade to worship the stickers. After the person who sent the post came to the designated stockade, he had to play three lusheng songs under the Drum Tower, and then sent the post to the old man in Yizhai Village. After receiving the letter, the village elders of B Village arranged Lahan in this village to prepare good wine and food for the guests, and called other village elders to discuss. If you agree to accept Jiazhai for the "Moon Show", please ask the old messenger who accompanied Jiazhai to present three sticks of incense, three glasses of wine and three bows to the Dong goddess Sa in the Satang of this village to show respect for the ancestors and the villagers (in Dong village, it is a very serious ceremony to worship Sa before entering the village, and it is a ceremony that must be held for various activities such as Moon Show). Then put the red stickers on the main doorpost of the Drum Tower to inform all the villagers that a village will come to the "Moon Show" one day, so that all households can get ready. After satiated with food and wine, the old man in the village arranged two Lahan people, blowing lusheng to send the messenger out of the village.

after receiving a positive reply, Jia Zhai Zhai Lao organized the whole village to make positive preparations. On the day of the moon, men, women and children in Jiazhai went out together. Before he left, Zhai Lao first went to Satang to ask for the protection of Sa, then the whole village Lahan and the girl played lusheng, beat gongs and drums, invited Sa to the Drum Tower, and sang three songs praising Sa first, and then three songs blessing Sa first. After everyone finished singing, three guns sounded, so all the staff began to go to B Village. When approaching the second village, they play lusheng and beat gongs and drums to show their news. The old man of B Village has already called all the people in this village to the entrance of the village and set up obstacles to sing songs to welcome guests. When the guest lead singer sings "Road Song", Miss Lahan in the main village will beat gongs and drums and play lusheng to guide the guests to the bottom of the Drum Tower in this village. * * * will turn around the four pillars of the Drum Tower three times, and the guests will temporarily rest in the Drum Tower.

when entertaining guests, most of them go home separately. Meals are arranged by each family, without specific provisions, and each family tries to do it decently, so as to expand the reputation of this village.

guests usually sing in the main village for three days. If the play is well sung and beautifully sung, the main village will stay for two or four more days. On the "Moon Day", the host and guest mainly sing Dong Opera during the day. After dinner, the host and guest all go to the Drum Tower to sing "Ga Lao" (Dong big song, the girl in the main village sings with Lahan in Kezhai, and Lahan in the main village sings with the girl in Kezhai), or step on the karaoke hall together. Singing "Ga Lao" (the big song of the Dong nationality) or stepping on the karaoke hall will last until late at night. In the middle of the night, the young men in the main village asked the girls in Kezhai to sing love songs, and the young men in Kezhai also asked the girls in the main village to sing love songs. This is the famous Dong Yuetang love song.

after three or five days, Kezhai will say goodbye. When the guest village said goodbye, every household in the main village wrapped glutinous rice, salted fish and bacon with straw for guests to have lunch on the way. Before leaving, the host and guest went to the drum tower of the main village to sing the song of stepping on the hall; The two sides praised each other with songs, and then sang farewell songs. The young men and women in the main village sent the guests to the gate of the village and gave them gifts tied with red and green feathers on towels as a souvenir.

The moon is also old

"The moon is also old" (as a crowd guest). Generally, in the first month of the lunar calendar, the number of people is all men, women and children in the two villages who are objective. The main content of "Moon is Old" is to sing Dong people's big songs, step on the hall songs and young men and women sing love songs. This kind of village belongs to Jia Zhai and B Zhai, both young and old, and they have a friendship. Jia Zhai sends out all the posts and sends them by special personnel. When B Zhai receives the invitation, she organizes a troupe or a lion team to go to the party. As soon as the guests arrived, the host village organized the girls of this village to block the way to welcome guests at the gate of the village with spinning machines, farm tools and other things, and the host and guest sang a song of blocking the way. After singing, the main village fired three iron cannons, then beat gongs and drums to play lusheng, guided the guests to the altar of "Sa Sui" and held a sacrificial ceremony, and then introduced the stomping hall under the Drum Tower. The host and guest each sang three songs. The lyrics were "Please" and "Welcome" and "Apologize". After that, during the day and night, or acting, playing with lions, bullfighting, or men and women in villages A and B stepped on the hall to "do more" (singing). Guests stay for three or five days (all must be singular) before they are released. When seeing off the guests, every household in Jiazhai uses straw bags of glutinous rice or bundles to hang Ciba, and a string of three to five eggs dyed red and green is tied on the side of each bag of rice and rice. This kind of gift is especially kind to others, and chickens and ducks are tied to give each other. The whole village collective also gives a sheep, pig or cow, and the girl in Murakami gives a towel to each young person in Kezhai. This kind of gift is called "a gift." When seeing off the guests, the whole village, old and young, poured out, set off iron cannons, set off firecrackers, beat gongs and drums, played lusheng, and sent them out of the village. Generally, this kind of guests felt that the conditions were suitable the next year or a few years later, and sent out invitations to invite Jiazhai to return them.

The moon is also free

"The moon is also free" (as a club guest). When the Spring Club is in a hurry, Jiazhai picks up the girl from Yizhai as a group guest. When the girl comes, Lohan treats her warmly in the morning and evening, and sings songs in the hall during the day, and at night. This kind of "moon girl" doesn't return it, but her brother goes to the other girl.

Yueyezuolou

"Yueyezuolou" (as a guest of the Drum Tower) is usually held at the beginning of the first month. At the inauguration ceremony of the newly-built Drum Tower in Jiazhai, men, women and children in Yizhai poured into the village to congratulate them. The number of people was the same as that of the reception, seeing off and helping the guests, but the activities were more enthusiastic. The second village organizes people to make "Nama" (that is, to make a painted face), which consists of dozens of people, including carrying "officials", riding on high school stilts, dressing up as warriors, businessmen, beggars, etc., carrying couplets of He Bian, beating gongs and drums, playing lusheng and setting off firecrackers to congratulate them. In addition, girls' teams were organized and dressed in festive costumes. When Jiazhai led the guests to the Drum Tower, they walked around the Drum Tower, where the painted people gave various interesting performances and distributed pickled fish, while the girls scattered rice flowers. The girl in Jiazhai stopped the sedan chair and sang songs to beg for money. Generally, this kind of guests only stay for one day. During the day, they mainly step on the karaoke hall and sing the songs of the floor. This kind of public guests can only pay a return visit when they stay in B Village and the Drum Tower is newly built or renovated.

the moon is also called the tripod

"the moon is also called the tripod" (to be a guest of mass subscription), also known as the girl Luohan. This activity lasts for a long time, some of which can last for several months. It is the best opportunity for young men and women and their parents to get to know each other. There are villages and villages, and there are also surnames and surnames. Although they are girls, they are all run by the elderly. First of all, after the old people from two villages (or two surnames) were interested in getting together, they indicated to the girl Lohan that when the rice was heading in Tian Zhonghe, the girl from Jiazhai cut off the bamboo leaves with a bamboo root, leaving three or five or seven branches, each with a cotton and a red pepper tied to the tip, and selected a hill of the Lohan family in B village to quietly plug it in, which was called a "table". If it is three branches, it means small, and only some girls are about to carry out some arhats; If it is more than five branches, it means that it is about the whole village or the whole surname, so that even the children held in their hands are listed as girls and arhats. Lohan in the second village met with chickens, ducks and geese, and went to the girl village (the girl had already been informed by the dark news) to make a visit by singing songs and sitting on the moon. At first, the girl and her parents refused to admit that they were afraid to climb the high door. After many nights of singing songs and sitting on the moon and having a midnight snack (that is, cooking supper), the woman admitted that she was interested in climbing the portal and inserting the "table". So the two sides chose an auspicious day and formally erected a "big watch." The "big watch" was made by girls. Seven big bamboos were cut off from the original seven branches, and the bamboo leaves were removed. Each girl presented one to two kilograms of the best and whitest cotton, and tied it with white thread one by one, and then wrapped each bamboo branch. Some bamboo tips were tied with Cai Feng flying.

On the day of erecting the "big watch", Luohan in Yizhai killed pigs to prepare wine, beat gongs and drums, played lusheng, sounded firecrackers and carried them to the field. Accompanied by her brothers, girls in Jiazhai carried the "watch" tied and wrapped in the finest white cloth they knitted, and also beat gongs and drums, played lusheng and sounded firecrackers and sent them to the field. The grain of the field where the watch was inserted was the table number. After the erection, the two sides gathered for a picnic and sang praises to their "watches". Then they went home separately, and when the ears of grain were 8% or 9% mature, the two sides discussed the "table" of choosing an auspicious day. On the day when the watch was reversed, the grain was folded and carried to the woman's house. On that night, the woman's parents and brothers feasted their guests, calling them "son-in-law's visit", and they ate "shriveled rice" at night. Since then, Lohan has been going to the girl's village to sing songs and sit on the moon and talk about love, until the following year, when he chose the auspicious day "Lunding" at the beginning of the first month (that is, to end this engagement). The second village invited Jiazhai girl and her elder brothers to visit her home, and the exchange ended in three to five days. Through this activity, many young people get married and become lifelong lovers.

Moon Wheel

"Moon Wheel" (as a Lusheng guest) is usually held during the Jiaxu Festival and the Mid-Autumn Festival when Lusheng is played. The activities are mainly cultural and social activities in which the host and guest compete in Lusheng, and at the same time, they are held through singing, singing in a karaoke hall and congratulating the harvest. Take the Lusheng Saiping in Jitang, Zhaoxing Township as an example, which is held every two years on the Mid-Autumn Festival. There are dozens of Lusheng teams (with 2 to 5 Lusheng players in each team) from Zhaoxing, Pilin, Cenjiao and Longe in the county, Luoxiang, Qingyun and Xin 'an in Congjiang, and Miao Village in Dong Village in Fulu Township, Sanjiang County, Guangxi Province, gathered together to hold a Lusheng Friendship Competition, with a crowd of more than 1, people every time.

On the day of the competition, the host's Jitang and Dengjiang villages, Lusheng team entered the Ping early, and sent experienced old people to the top of the high slope to listen to the sound evaluation (because Lusheng Village was mainly crowned by the sound man), so that the winner could be judged after the competition. When each visiting team arrived at the pingbian, they played three pingping songs first, and the host immediately fired three iron cannons, and then played three friendship singles with the visiting team to show their welcome. Then firecrackers were set off to lure visitors into the ping to compete with other teams. At about noon, all the Lusheng teams from far and near arrived, and after the team-to-team singles were widely held, 2 or 2 girls from the village, the host, dressed in festive costumes, armed with umbrellas and carrying red paint buckets on their shoulders, filled with sweet wine that had already been brewed, entered the stadium under the guidance of the little Lusheng, then played the little Lusheng and set off firecrackers, which were sent to each Lusheng visiting team one by one and presented to the Lusheng players. After drinking liqueur, the whole audience played three songs at the same time. After playing in unison, the Lusheng players of the visiting teams bought candy and filled sweet casks. blowing sheng shot the girl away and thanked her. Then, according to the listening level, the host will award the prize flag and the memorial flag (the memorial flag will be issued by all participating teams). At the end of the game, when the game is over, the village pulls people to be guests, and people pull people to be guests at home. In the Lusheng competition, after the Lusheng teams of two villages make friends at the Lusheng meeting, the young people propose that the two villages agree to hold it, and the "Moon Wheel" begins.

Moon also respects

"Moon also respects" (to respect the guests in the village), which means to help the main village to respect the guests. The biggest feature of this form is that when two villages are having a "Moon also", the other village will send a letter and post to the main village. After receiving the post and with the consent of the village elders, the main village will stick it on the doorpost of the Drum Tower in the future to inform the villagers that a village is coming to "respect".

The forms of "Moon Worship" are basically the same as the previous ones, and they are all cultural activities such as singing Dong songs, Dong operas, stepping on song halls, singing love songs, making friends and visiting relatives. However, it is also different from the previous "Yueye". First of all, on the post, the post of "Yue Ye Xi" and "Yue Ye Ding" is that Zhai Lao appointed two young men who can speak and sing to send the post directly to his hometown in the main village. "Moon Wheel" means that the main village sends letters and cards to the guest village, while "owe" means that five or seven young people are appointed by the village elders to make up their faces. While the young men and women in the main village and the guest village are stepping on the karaoke hall, they hold up red posts and blow lusheng, and rush into the karaoke hall frantically, setting off three firecrackers first, and then blowing lusheng to run around the karaoke hall three times to the right, which means to respect the master first, and then. Then he went to the front of the village old man who was sitting in the center of the singing hall, kowtowed three times, sent a post, and finally blew three lusheng tunes to leave. Secondly, there are differences in the time of "moon", such as "moon drama", "moon tripod" and "moon wheel", which are as few as three days, as many as five days, and also seven or nine days. And "moon worship" is only one day. "Moon Opera" mainly uses erhu, gong and small six-tube five-tone lusheng.

"Yue Ye Lao" mainly uses erhu, gong, small six-tube five-tone lusheng and pipa.

"Moon Wheel" mainly uses large-scale six-tube three-tone lusheng, medium-sized six-tube three-tone lusheng and small-scale six-tube five-tone lusheng, and also uses pipa and Dong flute.

"Yue Ye Ding" mainly uses the cow leg piano.

Road-blocking songs, which are sung by the Dong people when welcoming guests and seeing them off, are mostly used in "Moon Festival" occasions. The length of the "Moon Festival" is determined by the content, and the number of participants is generally one representative from each family. Led by prestigious people in the village, they collectively visited the friendly village. When the guests from Jia Zhai are approaching to B Zhai, everyone from B Zhai will meet them at the entrance of Zhai Zhai Zhai. At the same time, they will set up heavy roadblocks with daily production tools or household appliances, and the two sides will spread out a song array and sing songs to block the road. The home team asks questions with songs, the visiting team answers with songs, and one roadblock is removed once the answer is correct. If the answer is wrong, the visiting team will set off firecrackers to express their apologies and respect, and the home team will remove roadblocks, welcome guests into the village, and participate in colorful get-together activities, such as performing Dong opera, singing Dong songs, dancing dragons and lions, and competing Lusheng.

When the "Moon Festival" ended, the main village assembled a team to see off the guests, and when they arrived at the entrance of the village, they sang a roadblock song to show their retention. It shows the solidarity and friendship between compatriots.