What are the folk cultures in Nanchang?

In the past, many villages in Nanchang County have such a folk custom: lifting the Bodhisattva. On the 23rd day of the Lunar New Year, the "head man" of the bodhisattva of the family who kept the bodhisattva in his house, invited a lacquerer to stick gold on the bodhisattva (once a year). Before applying the gold, the lacquerer recites the sutra and asks the Bodhisattva to abdicate, then brushes a layer of lacquer over the entire body of the Bodhisattva, and then applies the gold to it, giving the Bodhisattva a new look, and the lacquerer recites the sutra again and asks the Bodhisattva to return to its place. After the bodhisattva has been pasted with gold, the "head man" will place it in a wooden sedan chair, which looks like a cabinet chair, and the bodhisattva sits on the chair. The palanquin is mounted and placed in front of the ancestral house. From the 24th day of the Lunar New Year, young and middle-aged people of the clan can be invited to carry the Bodhisattva outside the house (four people are required to carry the Bodhisattva) around the village at any time. This kind of "lifting the Bodhisattva" is to increase the atmosphere of the New Year, and it is also a kind of play similar to sports activities. There are two kinds of superstitious "lifting the Bodhisattva": (a) singing soldiers (also known as the closing of the army) On the 30th day of the Lunar New Year, during the day, in the village square set up a good incense burner, the sedan chair of the Bodhisattva will be placed in front of the incense burner, burning incense and candles, and until the evening, by the village temple monks to "close the army". "Spells. At this time, some villagers at home to keep the New Year's Eve or gambling, some villagers will be in the square to watch the closing of the army. Children can not sleep before the end of the closing of the army, so as not to be taken as the soul of the scattered soldiers to collect. Monk for spells to collect soldiers, by four young people carrying the Bodhisattva sedan chair, with the monk for law action, sometimes in the square circle, sometimes rolling sedan chair, like the Bodhisattva in the soldiers to catch the ghosts, suddenly, the monk put beforehand a rooster to catch up, in the rolling sedan chair in the moment, the rooster will be twisted off the head, the head of the chicken thrown into the altar placed on the field, and then use the yellow table tied mouth seal (this altar every year to sing the soldiers to be loaded with a) (This altar is filled with a rooster's head every year for the singing of soldiers, and is usually placed under the shrine where the Bodhisattva sits). At this point, the singing of soldiers ends, which means that the task of collecting soldiers and driving away ghosts is completed, and the whole village can be kept safe. (2) Welcoming the Gods The 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the day of the Dragon Lantern. In the daytime, the gods are first welcomed, that is, the bodhisattvas of each house clan have to put on their robes. According to the status of the Bodhisattva, the civil official wears a civil official's uniform; the military official wears a dragon robe and inserts a triangular flag. The civil and military robes worn are like the dress of the civil and military officials on the stage in ancient costume plays. The Bodhisattvas enshrined in the village are evolved from the civil and military officials worshipped by the masses in the past, such as the Bodhisattva Guan Gong, the Bodhisattva of the Lord of Good Fortune (Xu Xun), which has always been the idol of the common people's veneration. After the bodhisattvas of each branch and each house had put on their robes, they were successively lifted up and went on their way to the temple in the village. Along the way, they beat gongs and drums, and held up various dragon flags and parasols, much like the emperor's style of going to the palace. Carrying the bodhisattva on the road, to go from ancient times, the official horse road, as the saying goes, to welcome the gods to go to the ancient road that is out of this. When all the Bodhisattvas have arrived and have been seated in the temple for a period of time, each of them will carry the Bodhisattvas back by the same way. Then placed in the village square in front of the incense burner, until the evening to let the bodhisattva to see the lamp (or watch the opera), the New Year carry bodhisattva is considered to be the end. In May 2005, by the China Federation of Literature, Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, China Folk Literature and Art Association jointly organized the "China Jiangxi Nuo Culture and Art Week" in Nanchang, Fuhe Road for the grand folk art street performances, our county launched a very folk characteristics of large-scale folk dance "sedan chair song", is this folklore by the Activities for artistic sublimation adapted from this folklore.