A folk festival
Jinyun folk festival are: Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming, summer, worship ceremony, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chrysanthemum Festival and so on.
Spring Festival: The Spring Festival is the lunar New Year in China, and it is the largest and grandest traditional folk festival in both urban and rural areas of the country. In order to welcome the arrival of the Spring Festival, people have to make a series of preparations, such as doing New Year's goods, cleaning, hanging colorful lanterns, sticking Spring Festival couplets, and setting off fireworks in rural areas. Family members working abroad, generally need to rush home before the New Year's Eve.
Jinyun around the New Year from the lunar calendar December 25 to 30 days. Eat New Year's dinner in addition to their own families, but also invited neighbors and close friends, the more people the better. It means that the neighbors are in harmony, and it is a sign of prosperity. New Year's Day on the 30th must also be ready to eat the next day to wear all the things. The first day of the year, on the other hand, wear new clothes, eat the rest of the meal, and do nothing else. It is a sign that you will have food, clothes, money and leisure in the coming year. You also have to visit your family and friends during the Spring Festival. Now there are also many people to travel around the country or foreign countries to visit, which is a new way to celebrate the festival and the new social fashion.
Lantern Festival: Jinyun people on the 15th day of the first month called the first half of the month, from ancient times, people have long been formed to haunt the half of the month or haunt the Lantern Festival tradition. Just after the first day of the first year, everyone is excited, busy organizing the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival preparations. Such as the board dragon, generally 1 ten feet 2 feet long, 18 centimeters wide, 8 centimeters thick dragon board for a section, and to be made of top-grade pine; dragon shell to be made of top-grade moso bamboo, split into very thin and very thin strips, with the storage of linen tied up, glued on the transparent paper, and finally asked to have a fairly high level of art artists on the color, a fake dragon on the creation of a success. The twelfth day of the first month of the official opening of the welcome, welcome before to worship, and by the respected old man drawing the dragon eyes, before you can get on the light dragon. A board dragon by the dragon head, dragon body, dragon tail composition, the long has more than 300 sections, short also has more than 100 sections, each section of the 2 people to carry, the dragon head to be carried by 16 people, wagging the tail, the front of the four gongs, the band to open up the road, the dragon ball rolling, rows of lamps in two, sometimes a long dragon, sometimes a dragon, lights flashing firecrackers, a good scene of bustle. Days from 3 p.m., 12 p.m. after the return to the end of the night of the first month of the 16th, to tear the dragon, the dragon board to the room to be reused next year. The board dragon welcome, lift the cabinet, horse lanterns, rice-planting teams, eight immortal team, lion team also set off, the streets and alleys to welcome, watch the people crowded on both sides of the road, gongs and drums, firecrackers, applause, ringing through the clouds.
Qingming Festival: mainly sacrificial activities. The big one is Xanadu folk sacrifice to the Yellow Emperor activities, presided over by the county CPPCC, the head of private enterprises or individuals funded the main sacrifice. Etiquette and public worship of the Yellow Emperor consistent. The small ones are folk clan and family festivals, in which people who are out of the house generally go home to participate in ancestor worship to show their admiration and remembrance of their ancestors. Ancestor worship, Qingming 馃 is essential, it is a specialty food in Jinyun, rural families will be homemade, the county market can be purchased.
Lixia: Lixia to eat Lixia rice, Lixia soup, some also eat oak Tu (a kind of egg and flour paste pancakes). Lixia rice with rice mixed with broad beans, bamboo shoots, mustard greens and other made, plus fried eggs. Summer soup for red dates, cinnamon, lychee, beans, peanuts and brown sugar boiled, usually as a snack or eaten at night. Beginning of summer, farming is gradually busy, folklore says you can eat bamboo shoots to pick up the bones of the foot, fried eggs like Ruo hat, said to be able to cover the sun and rain. Summer this day is taboo to sit on the threshold, in order to prevent the bitter summer, folk and weigh the custom.
Dragon Boat Festival: the fifth day of the fifth month of the lunar calendar for the Dragon Boat Festival, this day, Jinyun custom is that families will be hanging in the hall, used to ward off evil spirits drive miasma. Calamus as a sword, inserted in the lintel, has the divine effect of exorcism. People have to eat andrographis wine, sprinkle andrographis powder at the corners of their homes, or adults have to smear their children's faces and bodies with andrographis wine to expel germs, moths and other diseases. Give children to wear scented pouch, not only to ward off evil spirits and expel the plague, but also the style of lapel head embellishment. Cinnabar inside the capsule, andrographis, incense medicine, outside with silk cloth wrapped, fragrant, and then with the five-color silk string buckle into a rope, for a variety of different shapes, knotted into a string, colorful, delicate and eye-catching. In Jinyun, the Dragon Boat Festival dumplings must be married daughters sent. This day is also the first day that children can start to take a cold shower.
Tanabata Festival: July 7, the biggest event is the dedication of the mountain temple fair (we will describe in detail later in the guide), followed by stacking Luohan. Lohan is the history of Jinyun County passed down the most representative of a folk performance art, divided into welcome Lohan, stacked Lohan and back Lohan three.
Welcome Luohan is a traditional festival in the village of Jinyun, mainly in the seventh day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, when the temple is opened, the county villages composed of Luohan team, which tuba, trombone, gongs and drums team to open the way, the Mao Gong flag (long flag) followed by the Luohan team, the thirty-six rows of eighteen foxes, coins, whips, rice-planting teams, from the village to walk to the fixed temple, the villages along the way to be entertained with tea, rice, with firecrackers and gongs to send and receive the village to the village. With firecrackers, gongs and drums pick up and drop off, the temple in front of the tower 2 - 5 stage, please amateur and professional theater troupe acting or called Pin theater, lively and extraordinary. This festival is mainly to beg for good weather, year after year and world peace.
Folding Luohan choose in the relatively large Taoist altar, dressed in antique clothing, waist tie big Zabao, by the strong and strong people as Luohan column (by the base column, the middle column, the top column) and the left and right, before and after the 4 people (called insertion of the wings) and the top of the Luohan, **** 8 - 12 people, this is called stacking Luohan.
Luohan stacked, firecrackers, Luo drums, suona, tuba sounded, to be around the patio 8 - 10 circles, and choose the most spacious road in the village along the street to meet, the audience followed, bustling, mainly for begging for good luck, good harvest.
Mid-Autumn Festival: Jinyun folk an important festival. Its form is generally similar to the whole country, the upper generation asked the lower generation to try to go home to reunite. During the festival, each family in addition to eating moon cakes, but also cook a sumptuous feast, the whole family will get together to enjoy the joy of family.
Chung Yeung Festival: The most important thing is the official ceremony to honor the Yellow Emperor. Xanadu Dinghu Peak is the Yellow Emperor alchemy goblet hundred God ascension place, the Yellow Emperor Shrine is the South of China's important place of worship of the Yellow Emperor, and the Shaanxi Huangling echo, forming a "northern mausoleum south shrine" pattern of remembrance of ancestors. Every year, civil and public ceremonies for the Yellow Emperor are held on the Ching Ming and Chung Yeung Festivals respectively. Sacrificial activities using the "ancestral rites" (the highest ancient ritual sacrifice) specifications, with traditional and modern, rituals and music combined way to carry out during the period will carry out a variety of athletic activities, folk arts and cultural performances and Xanadu cultural exchanges, and other activities (which we will be in the Dinghufeng Scenic Area tour guide will be explained in detail). September 9, another Senior Citizens' Day, the county carries out a number of elderly fitness and recreation and respect for the elderly activities. Sometimes also held a large rock climbing mountaineering activities. On this day, there is a folk tradition of eating mochi and jinduan (a sweet made of glutinous rice).
Two Culture and Entertainment
1, wu opera: is one of the famous plays in zhejiang, originally called gaoqiang, kunqiang, huiban, chaoban, sanheban, etc., because it is mainly popular in the area of jinhua (anciently known as wuzhou), it is unitedly changed to use this name after liberation. Wu Opera is a new type of opera formed through the fusion and development of many parties, which includes the essence of Kunqu Opera, Hui Opera and other operas. The performance of wu opera is exaggerated, vivid, graphic and strong, paying attention to martial arts play and literary play, so-called: "martial arts play comes slowly, literary play steps on the broken stage". Due to the past clothing without sleeves, performances in the fingers, wrists, debut, frame similar to the Dunhuang murals of the characters posture, a style of its own. And there are many stunts, such as face-changing, playing teeth, rolling lights, red fists, flying forks, playing beads and so on. The role of the line is divided into the old man, Lao Wai, vice end, the young man, big flower face (net), two flower face (vice), small flower face (ugly), four flower face (Wu net), flower Dan, for Dan, Dan, the old Dan, Wu Xiaodan, three beams of Dan, (the third flower Dan), and miscellaneous (play the gods, tigers, dogs, by the management of the "three boxes" of the part)* * * fifteen rows.
The famous actors of wu opera are Jiang Heyi, Xu Dongfu, Zhou Yuexian, Xu Ruying, Zhou Yuegui, Xu Xigui, Wang Jinlong, Ye A Gou, Zheng Lanxiang, Ge Suyun, Wu Guangyu and so on.
The traditional repertoire of wu opera is very rich, and the more influential repertoires are: "Monks and Nuns Meeting", "The Pair of Classes", "The Golden Seal", "Sun Bin and Pang Juan", "Three Invitations to Pear Blossoms", "Broken Bridge", "Tears of Xishi" and the modern play "Peach Storm".
2, picking tea opera: folk theater, also known as "lamp play", according to legend, as early as in the Ming Dynasty Yongle years Xinbi Xiaoxi village has been performed, to the Qing Dynasty has been widely circulated. Its music comes from folk songs and ditties, and its programs include "Twelve Tea Picking", "Tea Peddling", "Plate Tea", "Tea Rent", "Four Sisters Picking Flowers", etc. It began to be mixed with Huizhou and Chaos Opera in the 20's. Now, it is still performed in the folk theater. Now there are still folk performances.
3, drum words: folk music, commonly known as "singing drums", popular in Jinyun County. Most of the drums are sung by blind people. Drum lyrics content more adapted from the traditional opera, folk tales, most of which are not sung by the book, relying on oral memory. Drum lyrics accompanied by musical instruments for drums and boards, singing words to 7 words mainly, or 4 - 11 words. The singing style is mostly chanting, and is compatible with white, table and singing. According to the needs of the plot, also inserted into the opera singing and folk tunes, there are three types of slow, medium and tight rhythm; according to different feelings, there are flat, clear plate, scolding plate, crying plate, wave plate.
The traditional repertoire is often sung, such as "Buying Chai", "Love and Righteousness", "Jade Phoenix Hairpin", "Full House", "Double Golden Tin", "Water Red Robe", "Jade Hairpin", "Hibiscus Fan", "Double Pearls", and "Heavenly Treasures", and so on.
4, Lotus: folk music, in the welcome to the gods will be, singing team wearing robes, wearing straw hats, large-scale dozens of people, hundreds of people, the use of percussion instruments are big boards, small boards, centipede sign, rattling discs, rattling marigolds, wooden fish, bamboo tie. The basic tunes are "High Rhyme", "Flat Rhyme", "Shalamei", etc., sung by a leader and a strong rhythm. Each lotus team has a set of fixed repertoire, which has been passed down from generation to generation. Due to the popularization of tunes, lyrics spoken, sung content for the masses, popular in the folk very quickly.
5, Steel Fork Dance: According to Zhu's genealogy, the Steel Fork Dance began in Ming Longqing years (1570 AD), nearly 500 years from now. Its origin is related to the worship of Guan Yunchang. It is said that every year on the 13th of May, which is the anniversary of Guan Yunchang, the villagers, in order to express their gratitude to him, always invite a famous troupe to perform a three-day and three-night play, and the village organizes to welcome the case. Welcome to the case is a generalization of folklore, including Luohan class, Taiwan corner, high platform, long-footed deer, carts, stacking cards square, turning the pig knife and other content. Luohan class is actually a martial arts class, including dancing swords, beating sticks, boxing, double mace, spears, shields, ringing bells, forks, etc., ringing fork also represents a weapon, is imitated from the ancient eighteen weapons, he is full of masculinity, it is said that there is a role in the protection of evil, to promote Guan Yunchang loyalty and righteousness to serve the country, in addition to the evil protection of the spirit of the spirit of righteousness, so every year, the case should be the first to the temple of Guan Di to pay homage to the temple, and then only to the street performances, ringing fork (i.e., steel fork) thus emerged. The ringing fork (i.e. steel fork) was thus created. In order to promote this folk culture, a few previous performers gradually promoted it to become an activity for the general public. The "Steel Fork Dance" also took part in Lishui's large-scale street stepping activities and the provincial Wushan Square Culture and Art Festival, and was highly praised. "Steel Fork Dance" was also awarded the 2002 Zhejiang Province, the third Square Culture and Arts Festival opening ceremony and the province's Square Folk Dance (Drums) Competition Gold Medal.
6, the temple fair to meet the case: from the worship of Hu Gong, Chen fourteen Niangniang and other development of the cultural temple fair, has a history of nearly a thousand years. Commonly known as the "welcome case" of the temple fair, in fact, is a large-scale folk sports and cultural performances. In early September, Chiyanshan welcomes "three generals" and on October 15, the county town welcomes the city god. Among them to Chiyan Mountain, dedication to the mountain temple and the most grand and grand, miles around the village team to send the case, when up to thirty or forty teams. Welcome the case of the team to Luohan class is the main, and there are stilts, thirty-six lines, eighteen foxes, lotus, mute mouth back wind, small singing class and so on. Before the Luohan class group, there is a "big head" in charge. The principal is proud of this, the first to fund a series of village people, called "wear nose", and then set up a meal party, fund-raising to hire a coach, after the completion of the event again set up food to celebrate. The day of the temple fair, welcome to the case to the field, several villages have to offer performances, the climax of the day, there are forty or fifty zhang "playing Luohan" team, the villages show their skills, colorful, spectacular.
This is a customary folk entertainment and fitness activities, is the farmers' own grand festival. Many of these excellent traditional programs have been preserved to this day and have become treasures of folk art.
In addition, Jinyun songs and dances, concerts, nightclubs, folk performances and karaoke activities, etc., are colorful, adding endless fun to people's night life.
Three specialties
Friends, our Jinyun specialties are very rich, mainly tomato dill, Jinyun noodles, yellow cauliflower, alpine wild rice, alpine radish, alpine chili pepper, October wine, and stone carvings, mushrooms, tea, ducks and so on.
1, tomato dill chips: in ancient times, Jinyun people were called "Jinyun tomato dill", for two reasons: one refers to the Jinyun people thick and honest, and the other refers to the Jinyun County is the production of tomato dill county. Slices of dill by the potato by selecting, cleaning, peeling, slicing, cooking and fishing, sun-drying and become. Collection of soft and translucent, crunchy sweet and savory. Top quality products for 8 × 16 cm or so, rectangular, sheared and turned into a variety of auspicious unique pattern, after deep-frying is very ornamental, edible features, as a welcome to VIPs.
2, yellow cauliflower: commonly known as gold needle. Jinyun yellow cauliflower cultivation history of more than 600 years, yellow cauliflower dry products for the light yellow or golden yellow strip, glossy, fleshy and thick, nutritious, containing 18 kinds of amino acids. According to "Materia Medica", yellow cauliflower has the effect of tranquilizing the stomach, relieving fever and analgesia, diuretic and swelling, etc. It is a good family food.
3, Jinyun Suo noodles: also known as Jinyun soil noodles, the use of local special wheat flour, edible salt, natural spring water, along the traditional craft production, without any additives. For the folk traditional specialties in the treasures. Jinyun people whenever they visit friends and relatives, all with Suomian gift; birthday celebration with Suomian feast, to show longevity; the first day of the New Year, every family ate Suomian eggs, to seek a new year of good luck, good fortune and prosperity.
4, alpine wild rice: alpine wild rice meat fluffy, tender white texture, delicious flavor, rich in nutrients, containing about 4% sugar, protein about 1.5%, as well as a variety of vitamins and amino acids. As a "pollution-free" green food sells well in large and medium-sized cities inside and outside the province.
5, alpine radish: alpine radish is the main varieties of root vegetables, containing sugar, vitamins and inorganic salts, in particular, contains amylolytic enzymes, can promote appetite and digestion. This radish has tender flesh, rich in water, not easy to hollow, smooth skin and other characteristics.
6, alpine pepper: a vegetable of the Solanaceae family, the fruit is green when not ripe, red after maturity, the fruit is rich in carotene and vitamin C, especially vitamin C in the first place in vegetables. My county produced chili pepper, spicy flavor medium, soft skin, suitable for cooked, pickled or processed into chili powder. Each gram of chili pepper containing iron about 97.5 mg, containing about 353 mg of calcium, a variety of ingredients are higher than other similar vegetables.
7, October wine: Jinyun people have a tradition of home-brewed local wine, each family selected in the lunar month of October brewing, so also known as October wine. October wine, fragrant, sweet flavor, and has the effect of strengthening the body. Jinyun people entertain friends and guests with October wine. If the wine with slightly hot and then with ginger, brown sugar, drink can pass tendons, blood, nourish the spirit, go cold, Jinyun people have children, are to drink October wine.
Four local flavor
Jinyun's flavorful snacks are many and varied. The most common are wontons (noodle dumplings), doughnuts (Tian Luo Si), buns, soybean milk, burritos, mochi, knocking meat soup, tofu balls and so on. I mainly introduce you to a few representative snacks:
1, mochi, folk snacks. After the summer new glutinous rice on the market, the glutinous rice steamed, broken into cakes in the stone mortar, and then picked into small pieces, wrapped in brown sugar, the outside of a layer of cooked glutinous rice flour, in order to not see the sugar as a pass. Every market, under the ancient trees, willow pavilion, there are people selling. After winter, you can make thin cakes of glutinous rice, hot baked in a pan, adding brown sugar, sweet and sticky, very popular.
2, Jinyun biscuits, also known as barrel cake. Production method is to mix and flour, rubbing, rolling thin, coated with oil. First, the flour rolled into a thin roll like, picked into small sections, and then flattened with the palm of your hand, inside the dried vegetables and fresh meat filling, rolled into a cake, coated with potato flour sugar oil, and finally pasted on the inside wall of the barrel furnace baked. This cake is both crispy and fresh, full of flavor.
3, knocking meat soup: traditional folk snacks. Its practice is: first pig hind leg fine meat cut, mixed with mountain powder, put on the cutting board, and then the back of the knife to knock the meat fine, the pot at the same time boiling fresh broth, and then the meat in the pot, cooked thickened into a soup. This soup smooth, cool, fresh, tender, four flavors, everyone likes.
4, tofu balls: traditional folk snacks. It is: two spoons have been mashed tofu scooped into a bowl, add minced meat and mix well, and then shake the bowl, so that the bowl of minced tofu meat rolled into a ball. Then, put it into a pot of boiling water, boil it for a few moments and then put it into another pot of meat and bone broth to continue to simmer. Oddly enough, the tofu balls just won't fall apart no matter how much they are simmered. For a dollar, you can have 4 tofu balls with tender tofu and flavorful soup.
5, thousand layer cake: also known as early rice cake. Pot town area called sugar molasses. Grind the rice into pulp, steamed in a steamer, then add a layer, so up to ten layers, thick like sugar cake. When it comes out of the pot, it is divided into small diamond-shaped pieces and ready to be enjoyed. If you add vegetables fried or fried flavor is better. Peeled pieces of sun-dried, deep-fried into a crisp, known as sugar molasses pine, festivals for fruit points to eat, crispy and refreshing.
6, Qingming 馃: the use of green pong wash, boiling water cooking dip, to remove its bitter taste, fine chopping, mixed into the rice flour, rubbing the dough to tofu, bamboo shoots, pork, etc. as a filling, padded with fruit leaves steaming cooker, fragrant and unusual, it is the Qingming Festival ancestor worship essential food. During the period from March to May, Jinyun's hotels, restaurants and markets are supplied with them, and they are very popular among citizens and tourists.
Five local dishes
Friends, we can say that Jinyun is a taste of food paradise, not only a rich variety of flavorful snacks, there are fresh raw materials, the practice of all kinds of dishes.
1, braised creek fish: the main material is produced from the good creek of the wild colorful fish, characterized by bright red color, tender fish.
2, dried vegetables and tofu: also known as mother-in-law tofu, the main material is the farmer's own sun-dried vegetables and salt brine tofu, usually with a slow fire stew, characterized by tofu bite, crisp and flavorful. It used to be used as a nourishing dish for women in rural areas.
3, Jinyun duck: the main material is Jinyun old duck, take a number of small bamboo shoots, into the pot stewed. Characterized by fresh, clear mouth.
4, fragrant children's duck: also known as salt and pepper children's duck, the main ingredient is a number of male duck just hatched, into the fresh vegetable oil in the frying and roasting. Characterized by fragrant and crispy.
5, Jinyun chicken: the main ingredients are farm-raised chicken, plus a number of young ginger, and stewed, both pure and nourishing.
6, farmhouse noodles: the main ingredient is the soil, green vegetables, oil residue, characterized by soup, fresh flavor, color and luster, the soil is not easy to rise the noodles paste.
7, yellow cauliflower buckle meat: the main ingredients are yellow cauliflower, pork, characterized by red color, rich flavor, meat is crispy and not greasy.
8, honey fries: the main ingredient is a number of sweet potato fries, fried and cooked with honey stirring. Characterized by crispy, sweet taste.
9, pickled beans: the main ingredients are homemade pickles and beans, characterized by bright color, refreshing appetizing.