On February 2nd, Long Tou Tang Essays 1 The township where I used to work was called Baibu Township. It's also my hometown. In 2000, he withdrew from his hometown and built a town called Bailongbu Town. Baibu Village, the resident of Baibu Township, was originally called Bailongbu Village. On the back of the nameplate, it is recorded that in the Tang Dynasty, there were martial waters passing by, and the beaches on both sides of the strait meandered for miles, with the image of Bailong, hence the name Bailongbu. It means the place where the white dragon landed. Chen is a big family.
Baibu Street has the custom of having an ancient meeting on February 2nd. Baibu Street is a collection of night owls, which starts at four or five o'clock every morning and stops at dawn. There is only February 2 in the ancient meeting all year round.
There is a beautiful legend about "The Dragon Raises its Head on February 2nd". It was said that Wu Zetian became emperor, which annoyed the jade emperor and told the four dragon kings that it was forbidden to rain on the earth for three years. Soon, the Dragon King, who was in charge of Tianhe, heard the cries of folk people, saw the tragic scene of starving people, and worried that life on earth would be cut off, so he disobeyed the jade emperor's will and rained for the world. When the Jade Emperor learned that the Dragon King had been laid down to the mortal world, he was crushed under a big mountain to suffer, and a monument was erected on the mountain: "The Dragon King's rain violated the rules of heaven and should be punished by the eternal life; If you want to re-enter the Lingxiao Pavilion, unless the golden beans bloom. " In order to save the Dragon King, people look for blooming golden beans everywhere. By the second day of the second lunar month, when people are drying corn seeds, they think that this corn is like golden beans. Isn't it that golden beans bloom when they are fried? So every household exploded popcorn and set up a case in the yard to burn incense for the blooming "golden beans".
The Dragon King looked up and knew that the people had saved it. He shouted to the Jade Emperor, "The golden beans are blooming, let me out quickly!" As soon as the Jade Emperor saw that the golden bean flower in the courtyard of every household in the world was open, he had to send a message to the Dragon King to return to heaven and continue to give the world clouds and rain. Since then, people have formed a habit, and on the second day of February, popcorn is eaten. And fried soybeans.
I should have a deep memory of eating fried soybeans. When I was three or four years old, my fourth aunt lured me with fried beans and asked me to say "eat beans" and give me a bean to eat. My delicious nature was revealed at this time, and I finally developed a stutter. According to my mother, I was fine when I went out in the afternoon, but I can't come back at night. For this reason, my mother made a lot of vicious moves, slamming me on the back of the head with a brush when I was not paying attention. My father is a little gentler (although he can break the bamboo pole three times when he hits me sometimes) and bought me a stuttering corrector made in Tiantai County. I wore headphones all day listening to the crackling inside, calming my mood, but I didn't correct it. Go to school, basically afraid to talk to adults. At the age of thirteen, she reached 1.7 meters. Neighbors' relatives in another village often say that the child is in his mid-twenties and ignores people when he meets them. Actually, I'd like to say hello to someone. Riding a bike, meeting people, getting off the bus, is very polite. Just haven't say a word, people in the past.
I want to open up a little when I go to college, but I don't care more after I get married. After work, the leader summed up the "three noes" for me: singing without stuttering, making a report without stuttering, and seeing beautiful women without stuttering.
Actually, stuttering is a habit. Just like smoking, it is difficult to correct after it is formed.
I remember a famous saying: liking is a habit. It's just that I really don't like this stutter.
In 2000, when Baibu withdrew from the township to build a town, it was approved at the same time as Yitang Town. The forum was held on March 18, and Baibu was scheduled for March 28. I happened to see that it was the 23rd day of the lunar calendar. As the saying goes, "the first day, the fifteenth day and the twenty-third day" is a ghost festival, and everything is not suitable. I reported to the mayor at that time, and he said it had been decided and it was too late to change it. Baibu Township took great pains to build the town ceremony. On both sides of the gate, please ask the comrades in the cultural center to make two dragons, one white and one yellow, which means "the white dragon looks up and prospers"; Printed a silver dollar with ginkgo leaves as a guest gift, reflecting the characteristics of Baibu. The boss at that time said that even if Baibu Township was withdrawn, it would be a commemoration. Who would have thought it would be a prophecy. Eight days after the ceremony, Bailongbu Town was revoked and merged into Guanhu Town. Later, some people said that the day of the ceremony was not good, 328, let's break up.
Baibu Township was just about to take off. Since 1996, the plate industry has begun to take shape, and the plate deep processing enterprises have developed rapidly. Jiahe Wood Industry and Tianfu Wood Industry each have a tax revenue of 5 million yuan a year. Shanghai design experts were invited to re-plan the town, and four buildings were planned that year. Therefore, I often say that the biggest loss from the evacuation of the town is a foreman in Baibu, and the ten million projects of these four buildings are gone. Legend has it that when Baibu was evacuated from town, there were still 25.6 million yuan in the account. This money is available, but more than one million yuan is from the school, and the town has only over 700,000 yuan. At that time, the salaries of civil servants and teachers were still borne by the township level, and there were very few towns that could initiate salaries, and even fewer could have a surplus.
As soon as the white port was withdrawn, the construction of the township stopped. Fortunately, the former secretary of Guanhu Town was the deputy secretary when he was evacuated from Baibu Town, and he still had feelings for Baibu. A Bailongbu Square was built in the township. The environment has improved slightly.
It's from Baibu. The ancient meeting is still there on February 2nd. When I passed by yesterday, I saw that there were already businesses selling stalls. In the past, there were many folk gadgets at the ancient meeting. The stroller, put on with a barbed wire, will snap when the child pushes it. There are also small speakers, bamboo flutes and clay figurines. On both sides of the road, there are rows of neat shelves in the long red shed, and all the shelves are stuffed toys made in the factory.
On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up around the "fright", which meant that everything recovered, the weather turned warmer and thunder appeared, which was a good time to sow.
On February 2 nd, the dragon looked up and walked through Nansha Wo, near Huangqu Bridge, and faintly heard the loud gongs and drums rising higher and higher, and various vehicles on Linping Highway one after another. Look, there are stools in the carriages of those electric tricycles, with their daughters-in-law holding their children, and an old man. They are full of happiness. They go to Liaoquan to watch February 2, and the dragon looks up. The town culture stands at the Longwang Temple on the south bank of Huang Qu or the Black River to participate in the annual sacrifice to the dragon god. After that, they have a beautiful look at the Shaanxi opera, have the last addiction this year, and then have a busy year.
Inspiring ideas of gongs and drums fell from the clouds, floated from the Woods by the Black River, and squeezed out from the villages where the smoke curled up, prompting the homesickness of the neighbors to go out of their homes and drive all kinds of cars, agricultural liuzhou wuling and electric three-wheeled motorcycles on rural roads. Not to be outdone, the villagers nearby dragged their children and took Mazar to the town cultural square early to occupy a good place, waiting for the drama to be staged on the stage.
The leaping and tumbling dragon rises from time to time with the exciting rhythm, and sometimes it is like a dragon entering the sea. One contrast is wonderful, and the other contrast is vivid. On February 2nd, Liaoquan performed a folk drama in which the dragon flew into the sky, the dragon went into the sea, the Huanglong soared, and the dragon shone brilliantly. The venue was crowded and amazing. Outside the venue, the market is booming, with people buying oil cakes, mala Tang, vegetables, needles and needles, and a few people carrying Sugar-Coated Berry to squeeze the originally spacious streets, face to face. From Huangqu Bridge in the east to Zhaizi Village in the west, cars from other places are parked on both sides of the road to watch dragon dance and big drama shopping, and the whole Polygonum Spring has become a sea of joy.
From the east to the west, the dragon dance team in Wanzi Village takes off, the dragon head is high, and the dragon body and tail swing through, attracting passers-by to stop and watch. Not to be outdone, the Dragon Dance Team in Shuangquan Village, west to east, performed the dragon's head held high and upward, one after another wonderful movements, which ignited the carnival in the countryside. On February 2 nd, the land of Liaoquan was full of the jubilant feast of the folk custom of raising the head of the dragon. One after another, the dragon team walked into the town cultural square. The dragon dance performance began. The gongs and drums started in different directions, and the intensive rhythm seemed to wake up the sleeping land, the Heihe River and the sky, and the whole performance field began to boil. This is a sunny day that can make time stand still. Dragon statues of several colors, Huanglong and Qinglong, fall from the sky and break through the ground in the square. The dragon eager to fly in the air is no longer a prop in the hands of performers, but a genus and a lively life.
Suddenly firecrackers rang, gongs and drums rang, fireworks flew, and the performance officially began. A "crackling" sound resounded through the earth rushed out of firecrackers, two dragons rose from the sound of gongs and drums, and the long dragon body swayed, bent and fluctuated with the dragon head. Suddenly, it became a sea, a high sky and a vast sea of dragons! The high dragon head drags the dragon body around the crowd with irresistible momentum, enclosing a territory belonging to the dragon. A pair of lions lightly jump out of the crowd and dance with a red colored ball tied with silk to "laugh in the sky" and "snowball". The Liaoquan people standing behind me said that the lion is an auspicious treasure to ward off evil spirits, and the February 2nd of Liaoquan was held almost every year from the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. This is a show for local farmers to entertain themselves. Their movements are neat and elegant. Under the thunder of two big drums, they roll or relax the dragons held high in their hands, or close or unfold them, or twist each other, or circle the paddock. With their vigorous bodies and ingenuity, they have a good time.
When I was young, I followed my father to watch the dragon worship activities in Liaoquan. In the Longwang Temple on the Black River, nine dragons of various colors gathered at the Black River. The canal owner (also known as the canal head) put a thin wooden board made of fruits and steamed buns into the river, and sprinkled the whole grains mixed with colored paper foam into the river, mumbling and praying for good weather. Amid a burst of firecrackers, nine dragons performed on the riverside. On the stage set up by the riverside, well-known traditional operas such as "Xiahedong" and "Five Women Offering Birthdays" of Shaanxi Opera were staged, which lasted for three days and three nights, putting the end of the year into the melting countryside. On February 2nd, the dragon of Polygonum springs rose, and it was not easy for the people of Polygonum springs to keep this lively folk custom uninterrupted for hundreds of years. The old people in Liaoquan said that since the Huang Qu was opened by Liu En in the Yuan Dynasty, every February 2nd, the most annual gathering of folk customs, in which dragon gods are sacrificed and dragon dances are performed, has been preserved and continued. Pray for good weather, as the beginning of the pursuit of a better life, firmly in mind, handed down from generation to generation.
Liu Aiguo was born in Linze, Gansu. He is the author of prose collections "Zhao Wu Seeking Dreams" and "Home"; Story collection "Linze Folk Tales"; Poetry collection "Ancient and Modern Poems Chanting Linze"; Collection of literary and historical works "Linze Historical Talks". He has published more than 600 works in Literary and Art Newspaper, China Writer, Prose, Flying, Oasis, New Generation, Yanhe, etc. His works have been selected in Selected Novels and Selected Articles for many times, and he has won more than 50 national and provincial awards, plays and essays. He is currently a member of Gansu Writers Association and vice chairman of Zhangye Writers Association.
Today is the second day of the second lunar month, commonly known as the auspicious day for the dragon to look up. As for February 2nd, it is worth stating that most men have their hair cut on this auspicious day, in order to be lucky, which means that they are the real dragon's son of heaven, and they hold their heads high when they are lucky. Therefore, under the influence of this custom, the business of barber shops all over the world is particularly hot today, almost bursting into doors. And those who come out of the barber shop are full of vigor and vitality; There are long queues outside the barber shop, and the people waiting are so eager ...
On February 2nd, there is another story that has been around for a long time, and has constrained people's thinking and become a traditional custom, that is, shaving your head in the first month and dying your uncle. In fact, people got the real intention wrong. They shaved their heads in the first month to miss their uncle. As a result, the word "thinking" was confused with "death", which aroused objections. In the past, under the influence of this traditional concept, most people would not have their hair cut in the first month for the sake of family harmony, and they would not have their hair cut until February 2.
Although today's society has developed into an unprecedented scientific era, ideas and concepts have changed with the development of society. Some traditional ideas have lost their market, and superstitious and idealistic things have gradually faded away ... Young people have already paid no attention to these customs, which is expressed by today's fashionable words, that is, "willfulness", and they are not bound by customs at all. However, the elderly people follow the traditional customs and instill this traditional cultural thought into their children endlessly.
There is also a folk custom in the north. On this special day, the heads and feet of cattle, sheep and pigs that were prepared for winter meat slaughter years ago were carefully processed and prepared, and they were specially cooked on February 2 nd to make delicious food. The whole family got together and enjoyed it beautifully, celebrating the festive day of "Dragon Looking Up" on February 2 nd.
The Spring Festival is our traditional festival, which has a long history and still inherits the glorious tradition. It continues year after year, with little change, only a slight change in form. As the saying goes, there is money and no money to go home for the New Year; If you have money and no money, you can spend the New Year with your head shaved.
China is a country with profound cultural background, which shows cultural colors everywhere, such as wine culture for drinkers; There is tea culture for drinking tea; It is this haircut that has so much attention, so many stories, and it is customary to form a cultural atmosphere and render it, which gives it a comic color and shows the infinite charm of the cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.
The Chinese nation is a descendant of the dragon, which contains the spiritual strength of Chinese children's unremitting self-improvement and tenacious struggle. It's a great time when the spring breeze is overflowing and Vientiane is renewed. We should strive for progress in the spirit of dragon and horse, for the future of our motherland and for our better life, 1.3 billion Chinese people will strut forward, climb to the peak of the world, show the charm of dragons and soar in space ...