The first day of the first month of the lunar calendar is known as "New Year's Day" in folklore. ChaoYi attaches great importance to this festival, early in the morning, people will go to visit friends and relatives, called "New Year". Worship generally should bring "Daji" (i.e. citrus, greater than orange, so called "Daji"), the master should also be visited "Daji" back to show *** with good luck, and each other say "New Year's Day", "New Zheng Ruyi", "Congratulations" and so on in order to express the wish of good luck. On the first day of the Lunar New Year, according to the Jieyang traditional custom, most people eat fasting for breakfast, to show respect for the Buddha and the sincerity of the Buddha. During the Spring Festival, both urban and rural areas organize recreational activities such as lion dances, riddles, flag tours and Chaozhou gongs and drums. In addition, adults also give "New Year's money" to the elderly and children.
Ren Sheng Festival
The seventh day of the first month of the lunar calendar is the Day of Man, also known as the Festival of Man Sheng. From the Jin Council of Dong Xun "answer to the rituals and customs", "the first day of the first month for the chicken, the second day for the dog, the third day for the pig ...... seven days for the people" said. On this day, the folk to seven kinds of vegetables mixed as a soup to fill the food, said the food seven kinds of vegetables, you can get a fortune. This custom is still popular today.
Lunar New Year's Lantern Festival
Also known as the "on the Yuan Festival" for the first month of the lunar calendar, the fifteenth. Jieyang folk custom to worship ancestors on this day. In some villages, it is also customary to make "ding wine" (note, families who have a boy that year will set up a banquet for their neighbors on this day). The county usually has lantern races, fireworks, lion dances and other customs. Puning and other places in the countryside, there is also the night of the Lantern Festival "to see the bride, do four sentences" custom.
Ching Ming Festival
Ching Ming is one of the twenty-four solar terms in the lunar calendar. It is usually celebrated at the beginning of April (usually April 5th) every year. Around the time of the Qingming Festival, it is a time for people to sweep the graves and pay tribute to their ancestors and remember their martyrs.
Duanwu Festival
Commonly known as the May Festival, it is the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar. It is said to commemorate the martyrdom of the patriotic poet Qu Yuan. On this day, most families eat rice dumplings. Jieyang still have "pick dragon beard water", "wash dragon beard bath" custom, it is said that the Dragon Boat Festival, the water of the river for the "dragon beard water", or food or wash can avoid evil. In addition, some places also organized "dragon boat race" activities.
Out of the garden
Jieyang Teochew District, where the 15-year-old men and women are generally held on the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, "out of the garden" ceremony, to show that grown-ups. It is similar to the modern "Adult Day". When they go out to the garden, their grandparents will give their grandchildren a "garden ceremony". Usually there are red roosters, red clogs, and leavened rice cakes. Neighbors and relatives often prepare fabrics, meat and eggs as congratulations. The happy family organizes a ceremony to pay homage to the grandparents. On that day, the children eat sweet red eggs and sweet pig's liver, which is a symbol of success and advancement.
Midwinter Festival
The 15th day of the 7th month of the lunar calendar, commonly known as the "half of the 7th month", also known as the "Ghost Festival". Chiu everywhere generally have ancestor worship activities. One or two days before and after the festival, the goodwill halls and temples also have "Shi Ku" relief activities.
Mid-Autumn Festival
Mid-Autumn Festival
August 15 of the lunar calendar, is the evening of the family reunion to eat moon cakes, fruits and enjoy the moon. This district folk Mid-Autumn Festival products, must be moon cakes, taro, pomelo three. Legend has it that at the beginning of the Yuan Dynasty, the rulers forced the Han people to raise a Yuan soldier in each family, and those who resisted the Yuan Dynasty were dissatisfied with their oppression, so they borrowed mooncakes to pass on the book, and agreed to kill the raised "Yuanfan" at a certain time on the night of the Mid-Autumn Festival in each family, and succeeded in doing so on that night. At that time, the Han Chinese called the Yuan soldiers "Tartar ghosts", so the Mid-Autumn Festival food taro peeling called "peeling ghosts", peeling pomelo meat called "eating ghosts". Folklore, there is "worship the moon lady", swinging, burning Wata and other activities, overseas compatriots also like to choose the Mid-Autumn Festival to visit their hometowns and reunite with their families.
Chongyang Festival
Nine is the number of yang, so the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar is called "Chongyang", it is the day of ascending to the top of the custom, Rongcheng citizens more than climbed to Huangqi Mountain, Zimo Mountain play. The ground all around the fish porridge, some places have food stew porridge custom. On this day, the children more paper kites, folk song has "September 9, wind birds (kites) children, full of sky go" said.
Winter Festival
The winter solstice of the lunar calendar for the Winter Festival, commonly known as the "small New Year". The old custom of the Winter Festival to worship gods and ancestors, the offerings must have glutinous rice round, to show the reunion. Folk have "eaten winter festival round, on more than a year" said. There are also glutinous rice rounds glued to utensils, house pillars, plowing cattle, in order to pray for a good harvest custom.
Two, marriage
Jieyang old marriage customs, to be asked by the name, Naji, Nachei, please period, Naji, six procedures such as welcoming the bride, so-called "six rituals"; some places have a daughter to get married before the night of sleeping on a straw mattress of custom, rumor has it that this custom originated in the past years, a stepmother abused and humiliated the former left behind the daughter, to make her This sleeping method, unexpectedly this woman after the rich family, children prosper, since then people will follow the custom; In addition, there are still "mention oil uncle", "do four sentences" and other custom. "Oil uncle" that is, the day of the daughter's marriage by her brother to mention five gifts with the male family, called "oil uncle", the most popular in the groom's home, generally in the chief banquet seat. "Do four sentences" refers to the various ceremonies of the marriage, the woman's family to hire an old woman as in the theater Bin Xiang, singing four "praise language" to preside over the four sentences have been agreed upon, but also on-site self-editing, mostly rhyming, witty. Jieyi another custom, rare for other regions, will be married to men and women, such as the family funeral (generally refers to the elders), it must be married within a hundred days, otherwise three years after the feasibility of the marriage ceremony.
These old customs are still alive in some places, and most of the regions have been the wedding ceremony, simple to do, even collective wedding, traveling marriage and other fashion also gradually become the trend.
Three, dragon boat
Jieyang dragon boat racing activities, has a history of more than 300 years. Jieyang is known as the water town, streams and rivers intertwined around the Rongjiang North and South River, Lianjiang River, Longjiang River, deep and long, the river is wide, the waves are quiet, is a good place to paddle the dragon boat. Dragon boat racing activities, through the generations.
Jieyang dragon boat, more uniform specifications, in the Chaoshan cities and counties, the longest and largest: boat length 32 meters, 1.5 meters wide, *** set up 25 pairs of paddles, rudder. Jieyang dragon boat, the shape of the United States, the big spirit, the dragon's neck is long, the dragon head high, mighty and handsome. Every year before the Dragon Boat Festival, the dragon boat in the water to hold a ceremony, and then training, called "test paddle".
There are four forms of dragon boat racing: performance, friendly competition, winners and losers, tournament. At the end of the Qing Dynasty was the governor of Fujian Ding Richang, settled in Jieyang in his later years, had initiated the host, invited Chaoyang, Puning, Jieyang and other places in the Rongjiang River South Dragon Boat Team competition, the results, Jieyang cotton tree red boat won the championship, Ding Richang awarded the "Minister Ding reward" red velvet brocade flag. 1980 "Dragon Boat Race" was designated by the National Sports Commission as the "Dragon Boat Race", and then training, called "test paddle". "was designated by the National Sports Commission," traditional folk sports program "Jieyang dragon boat race more active.
Four, Ying Ge Dance
Ying Ge Dance is a kind of melting dance, Nanquan routines, opera acting in a furnace of folk square dance, the performance of the grandeur, the atmosphere is strong. Legend has it that the Yingge Dance began in the Ming Dynasty, based on the "Water Margin" in the story of the Liang Shan Po heroes of the Lantern Festival havoc Damianfu. The dance team is divided into the front shed and the back shed, the front shed is generally composed of 36 people, large-scale by 108 people, each person holding a pair of colorful wooden sticks, with gongs and drums and yells, swinging double stick staggered flip knocking, walking and dancing, a step a call, queue changes or "long snake advancing", or "double dragon out to sea ", "four tigers and drive", or "two dragons fighting", tumbling through 18 sets of style. The number of people in the back of the shed varies, but up to 72 people, dressed as a variety of jugglers with the front shed performance.
Jieyang Ying song and dance has a history of more than 300 years, popular in Puning, Jiedong and other places to Puning Ying song and dance is the most famous, known as "Ying song and dance of the township". 1956, Puning Ying song team to Beijing to participate in the "China's First Folk Arts Performance Conference ", in June 1991, Puning prairie town mud ditch English song team was invited to participate in the Shenzhen Lychee Festival performances, in September and invited to Guangzhou for the first world women's soccer tournament draw ceremony of the cultural evening performances.
Fifth, Chaozhou Opera
Chaozhou Opera, is a local Shantou opera, sung in Shantou dialect, Ming Jiajing years, Jieyang Chaozhou Opera has a unique local repertoire of plays, "Lai Mirror", "Su Liu Niang" and so on.
Teochew opera is spread in the eastern Guangdong, southern Fujian, Taiwan, Thailand, Singapore, Malaysia, Cambodia, Vietnam and other countries where the Chao people live. The singing style is a fusion of two systems, namely, the song and the plate style, and it retains the form of singing by one person, two or three people singing the same song and the end of the song. The music is divided into light three-six, heavy three-six, live five and anti-line, and the accompanying music is absorbed from folk music such as big gongs and drums, temple music and folk ditties, etc. The musical instruments include suona, flute, two-stringed instrument, huqin, yangqin, etc., and the gongs and drums include big gongs, small gongs and su gongs, etc. In the early days, the roles were performed by sheng, dan, and chou. In the early days, the roles of the seven roles, namely Sheng, Dan, Chou, Outsider, Sticker, End, and Net, were developed into ten kinds of clowns, seven kinds of Dan, five kinds of Sheng, and three kinds of Net, among which the clowns and Dan performances are the most distinctive ones.
In the late Qing Dynasty, many Jieyang Chiu Chow Opera classes, complete lineups, lineups, high performance, famous in Chaoshan, including the well-known Jiexi County, Mindanao Lake Bridge Garden "old Yu Tangchun", Jiedong County, Quxi Zhai "old Yu Chunxiang", fishing Lake Jiangxia, "old Yuanzheng", "old Yu Chunxiang", "old Yu Chunxiang", "old Yu Chunxiang", "old Yu Chunxiang", and "old Yu Chunxiang". "Old Yuanzheng" and so on. Now the Teochew opera world of performing arts celebrities, many of them are Jie artists.
After the founding of New China, the art of Teochew opera and the rapid development of performance activities, Jieyang Teochew Theater Troupe, "Ding Richang" and other plays have been to Beijing to participate in the repertoire and won awards, the city within the many Teochew Theater Troupe has been to Hong Kong many times to perform in Singapore, Thailand, etc., not only to strengthen the cohesion of the overseas compatriots homesickness, but also to promote the domestic and international cultural exchanges.
Six, paper shadow play
Paper shadow play, commonly known as the monkey play, is a leather or cardboard plane carved into the shape of a variety of characters, through the light in the shed window on the paper screen projection performance of a form of theater. To the qing dynasty, change the shadow now for shape now, the original leather or cardboard plane carving shape into a puppet three-dimensional modeling, puppet back and two hands each wearing a wire for manipulation of the show. Low shadow changed to puppets, but the Chao people are still called paper shadow theater.
The paper shadow play also belongs to the local theater, there are positive sound play, Chao Yin play, after the late Qing Dynasty, Jieyang paper shadow play is very prevalent and popularity, paper shadow theater classes up to several hundred.
When the paper shadow theater performance, there are only five or seven people on the stage, including students, dan, jing, chou roles in the performance of singing and reading and drums and music, so the Chao custom has "hand drums, foot gongs, mouth singing, head shells hit the deep wave" of the rhyme and proverbs.
Seven, Teochew Tea
The Teochew Tea has a long history and the most distinctive local flavor, which began in the middle and late Ming Dynasty.
Chaoshan Work Tea, focusing on the appreciation of taste, there is a set of tea utensils, tea, water, brewing method, taste of the tea scripture: selection of tea, the Teochew people most like oolong tea and so on. For water selection, mountain spring is the top, river water is the middle and well water is the bottom. Charcoal, the Chao people most like to use "twisted only bar" charcoal, this charcoal is smokeless, with charcoal flavor smell, this charcoal water, the fire is even. Tea utensils are teapots, tea cups, tea pots, tea wash, tea saucers and other 12 pieces.
Before making tea, the choice of boiling water to the teapot, tea cups scalded, known as "hot pots, hot cups", loaded with tea, pay attention to the small particles at the bottom, large particles at the top. There are also "high punch", "low pouring", "Guan Gong patrol", "Han Xin point of view" and so on. Japanese Chinese Professor Chen Dongda, president of the Japanese Koufu Association, said in his book "Tea Drinking" that "the Japanese method of decoction tea comes from the Teochew Kung Fu Tea."