Hair Chandelier
Pingyang's hair chandelier is about 1.6 meters to 1.8 meters high, with a diameter of about 1.2 meters, and is an octagonal pavilion structure. Lamp with bamboo, hemp stalks, reed stalks and colored paper tied and become, divided into the upper, middle and lower three layers. The upper two layers are grouped and interspersed with opera characters, birds and animals, such as "Wu Sung fights a tiger", "Jiang Taigong fishes", "Di Qing competes in martial arts", "The Empty City Plan" and other images. "and other images, with hair strands holding the key joints, composed of moving images with a plot, the bottom is a rotating horse lantern. "Pavilions and pillars are also labeled with riddles and couplets, which are highly ornamental and entertaining. "Paper as clothes and bamboo as body, fire as blood and hair as soul." This is a local poet Pingyang describes the hair chandelier of an old couplet, apt and appetizing.
Hair chandelier, although also like the Lantern Lantern traditional folklore, "the first month of the fifteenth light on the temple", "the first month of the eighteenth light down the temple", but as a lantern viewing at the same time, but also has its own special meaning. Hair chandelier has always been "bamboo for the bone, paper for the meat, hair for the pulse, fire for the blood" said. In the past, the hair chandelier relied on the charcoal fire placed under the lamp base to heat up and rotate. The rise of the hot air flow drove the chandelier axis disk rotation, by the hair pulling the character of the animal joints parts also with the activities up. "Newly made octagonal a city, how many soldiers and horses are hidden inside. The red face sits in the sky with soldiers and horses in turmoil, the black face sits in the sky with a peaceful city." The words "red face" and "black face" refer to the burning and extinguishing of the charcoal fire respectively.
Tin Paper Cutting
The content of Taiping Tin Paper Cutting is mostly related to festivals and harvests, such as "Shou", "Fu" and "Fu (in) Shou", "Prosperity", "Peer to Peer", "Longevity", "Fortune and Glory", "Double Happiness in Flower Basket", "Evergreen Pine and Cypress", "Live as long as Mt. Nan", "Peace and Auspicious Celebration", "Family Qingji", "Four Seasons of Peace", "All Things Go Well", "Great Luck", "A Thousand Years", "Step by Step", "Fish and Water for a Thousand Years", "A Hundred Years of Good Harmony", "Five Sons" and so on. People put the cut Taipingtian patterns on the lintel, windows, chairs to express their joyful feelings; or put Taipingtian patterns on the congratulatory gifts to show the celebration and praise.
"Selling Skills"
"Selling Skills" is a special folk art in the Wanquan area of Pingyang. It is characterized by clear singing without musical accompaniment. It is also called "Sell Qi" and "Singing Paijie". Its singing form with the Wenzhou Daoxiang. In Pingyang, "the night of New Year's Day, the natives even into the family, made up slang words sung aloud, called 'selling skills', even three nights and stop." ("Pingyang County Records") is generally to a place, sing a line, depending on the content of its improvisational singing praise words, to point money and cakes and rice, such as the tofu store, singing the words: "tofu store, there is a hall of fame, the situation said that the points square, beans round root and long, out of Hubei and Xiangyang. Tofu dregs are bought by my mom to raise pigs; tofu water is used by my sister to wash her clothes. Clothes washing, snow can be white, with the sun, spray can be fragrant," etc., so commonly known as "singing thirty-six lines".
Puppetry
Puppetry is also known as puppetry. Pingyang puppet theater, a long history, as early as the Southern Song Dynasty Pingyang folk puppet theater activities, folk also inherited the ancient medicine hair puppet. In addition, Pingyang is also one of the birthplaces of the Southern Opera, since ancient times, it has been said that "Pingyang is a playwright", such as the Southern Opera's "Zhang Xie Scholar", the 53rd there is a section of puppetry borrowed from the "Dance of Bao Lao" scene, Pingyang puppetry honors Hangzhou Tiebanqiao Tian Du Marshal as the grandmaster. The puppet theater of Pingyang honors Tian Du, the head of Tie Ban Qiao in Hangzhou Province, as its grandmaster.
Year-old
Nanji fishermen in the festival day, is no more than rituals and banquets, the first to fish, chicken and duck fasting for the ancestral spirit, ancestral temple, and then the family gathered, drink a meal. In addition to the Dragon Boat Festival is held at noon, the rest are evening. In the meantime, there are married daughters give gifts to their families. Originally they were gifts in kind, but later they were transformed into "gift money". The previous generation to return gifts in kind, such as back to the dumplings (indicating "return"), rice cakes, muffins (high yearly), clever food (pastry, indicating dexterity), oranges, Sydney (indicating good luck) and so on.
Marriage
Pingyang people's marriage is inherited from the customs of the coastal provinces of Zhejiang and Fujian, and there are cumbersome ceremonial procedures. Before the wedding, there is a discussion of marriage, the joint geng, pressure to set, after the post, send the day and other etiquette, when the wedding has to welcome the marriage worship, respect for the relatives, into the cave and other items, after the wedding, there is a share of the makeup, back to the flower and so on. Minnan Zong has a "rooster on behalf of the worship" custom: pre-selected wedding date, because the male party has not returned from the sea (fishing season is generally about 10 days on the ocean), and the wedding date can not be easily changed, for this reason, by the best man (or bridesmaids) hold a large rooster instead of the groom to pay homage to heaven and earth. Routine rules, the rooster decorated with colorful phi, to be crowned, after worship the rooster will be fed in the cave until the groom returns to be released.
Dress
Pingyang fishermen used to wear cuffed clothes and caged pants. Its color is deep Chu, cotton clothes after quebracho dyeing Yu water is not dirt, resistant to sunlight and salty and wet erosion, there is not brittle and not corroded characteristics. The quebracho juice garment flaps to take the left open type, in order to avoid the sea production buttons and nets, line hook entanglement. Cage pants have a large leg and crotch, and the straight crotch is folded and tucked, resembling a net-like meridian. The hem of the pants and the side of the waist and legs at the diagonal pockets, embroidered with patterns of dragons and phoenixes, insects and birds, flowers and plants. With the change of people's concepts and the improvement of living standards, the traditional fishermen's clothing was lost in the 1970s.
Doing Fish Blessing
Before the fishing boats of Pingyang fishermen go out to catch fish, the fishermen first offer sacrifices to the God of the Sea or Chen and Yang, also known as "Shunfeng Wine". Burning incense and candles, burning gold and silver paper foils, and setting off firecrackers. Praying for the safety of the people who go out to sea, lifting the net can get more fish. In the winter of the year, they buy pig's head to return the wish. East Ou Cai Feng Le Fu" cloud: "money tired of burning firecrackers, beach fish god do fish blessing. Lift the net for wishing more fish, fish blessing how to get the power? Don't you see that there are many new systems of fishing boats in Taixi, and they catch no living creatures of the aquatic race, and KAM household learns that there is a sea shortage, and it is even more difficult for them to ask for prayers for sacrifices. The mud head of the gods and nuns under the incense case, do not know how to retreat to repair the fishing net." After the establishment of the People's Republic of China, with the popularization and improvement of fishing technology, this custom gradually died out.
Fish Lantern Dance
Similar to the fishing villages on the islands, Pingyang Nanji also has the tradition of fish lantern dance. Spring Festival, where the beach, the sun field, the village, the square can be as happy as possible and dance, fish lantern team wherever they go, drums and music in the sky, the fish leaping dragon, firecrackers, the sound of music into a piece of sound, showing a faction of cheerful and enthusiastic fishing area festival life scene, a special kind of fun.
Fish lamps to wood as a frame, with gabions, cloth, silk and other forms of fish according to the tied corridor, and painted with fish scales and fins color. Candles are inserted inside the lamps or small light bulbs are installed. Dance meandering through the village at night, it is beautiful and moving. Lantern dancers are wearing "dragon pants", playing tied legs, waist tie red ribbon, head wrapped in a horseman's head, clothing color with the color of the fish lamps held by the different colors. Dance with suona, also with bamboo strings, plus drums and gongs, wooden fish, touch bells, large and small cymbals and other accompaniments, appearing to be cheerful and enthusiastic.
In addition to the fish lanterns to express the auspiciousness of the surplus, from the Wenzhou coastal migration of fishermen, but also for the Xing dance dragon lanterns and stool board dragons, etc., in order to meander the momentum of the significance of the blessing of the life extends.