Longgang Women Crying for Marriage
The Hakka people of Longgang in the old days kept the traditional Hakka customs, and "women crying for marriage" is one of the very characteristic examples. Every woman has more than seven days to cry before she gets married. Crying for such a long time, tears also flowed a lot, the eyes are slightly red and swollen, and this makes the bride even more attractive, may be just the right "regular tears help beauty" and "the girl before the wedding looks the most beautiful" as the saying goes. On the wedding day, when the wedding party is approaching the village where the girl to be married, the village men will burn a fire in the middle of the road "to avoid the evil spirits", the groom led the wedding party through the fire "to avoid the evil spirits" before entering the village to meet the bride formally. After meeting the parents-in-law, the village elders announced that the good time has come. At this point, the bride that is delicate and lingering crying resignation parents, lightly moving lotus steps, out of the door, often looking back, and then that is boarded the sedan chair line, accompanied by the dowager also with the sedan chair to the husband's home. Welcome the bride team all the way to the song, firecrackers, fireworks non-stop. Accompanying the bride's bridesmaids every ten or so steps away from the roadside to spread an inch-long red rope, meant to finish the bride's first visit to the bride's home and "lead the way". With the change of time, Longgang women crying marriage custom is not very popular.
Pingdi cage house
Pingdi people in the past to live in a way to retain the traditional customs of the Hakka people, their residence in the past is quite unique. They built a cylindrical hut out of concrete, bamboo, wood, bricks, reeds and straw, and the whole family lived in it. This kind of cage house generally covers an area of 30 to 40 square meters, and some of them are made into two floors. The appearance of the cage house is very much like an ancient fortress, high walls and eaves, the momentum is very grand. Large landlords of the cage house covers a larger area, the four corners of the house with pavilions, for the lookout and sentry, because the building is quite strong, and usually only one door to enter, and therefore easy to defend, it is easy to protect others from attack. The biggest feature of the cage house is that it is warm in winter and cool in summer. When it is hot in summer, you can go up to the attic and feel cool, and when it is cool in winter, you can keep warm because it is airtight. Moreover, it is also a great advantage that it is sturdy and durable. Generally speaking, the cage can be used for several generations and can withstand typhoons of magnitude 8-10. The Pingdi cage house embodies the peculiar style of Hakka architecture.
Pingshan Dipping
The residents of Pingshan Town are mainly Hakka people, who have preserved the unique traditional customs of Hakka. In the past, the people of Pingshan paid special attention to ritual activities, praying to the gods and worshipping Buddha with great devotion. One of the most solemn ceremony that is once every eight years to play dip (collective sacrifice to the gods), the place gathered in the square in front of the Guandi Temple, a clamor, bustling, nearby vendors also gathered to take advantage of this opportunity to do business. First by the head of the Ping Shan Wei presided over the ceremony, the sacrificial table full of exquisite preserved fruit wine and food, a large incense burner full of sandalwood incense, a fog of incense. Behind the head, surrounded by the whole dike residents. The head of the salute, the townspeople followed by bowing to the ground, nine times after the ceremony, the residents in the square began to play continuously for seven days and eight nights, eat, drink and gamble to their hearts' content, all night long, a noisy atmosphere. During the dipping period, people were extremely extravagant, spending a lot of money; at the same time, eight days of fun, but also missed the agricultural work. Some residents of the economy is not generous in playing dip after the only debt or begging day. The dipping of this bad custom, the people hurt money, was abolished in 1943.
Cool hats to hide their shame
Dapeng people speak Hakka dialect and maintain Hakka customs. Dapeng women have always had the custom of wearing cool hats, regardless of winter or summer. Its cool cap is made of bamboo and fabric, the first bamboo strips burned with fire, which can make the bamboo more pliable, and then split the bamboo strips into gabions with a cleaver, woven into a circle, the center of the perforation, bamboo scorn around the cloth sewing hanging. Other Hakka women's hats are sewn and hung with black cloth strips, while Dapeng women's hats are made of blue silk cloth strips, so they also look more elegant and charming. This custom of wearing a cool hat has a long history. It is said that in the past, women should strictly abide by the "women's morality", "women's appearance", can not show their faces, but the Hakka women forced by the environment, after the migration to the south to go out to work with the men as much as the mountains, firewood, rice-planting in the fields, catching up with the polder, relatives in and out of, in order to In order to "cover up their shame", they put on this kind of cool hat. Women wearing a cool hat, they can see others, while others can not see themselves, very little veil flavor, but also to add a hazy beauty and charm. At the same time, wearing a cool hat is both lightweight and can prevent solar radiation and cool, so generations, has been popular to date.
Fishermen marrying
Located in Nan'ao Town on the coast at the southeast end of Longgang District, its folk customs are simple and simple, retaining more folk customs. In the past, most of the residents of Nan'ao relied on fishing to make a living, so "fishermen marrying" has become one of the town's most distinctive customs. When the day of the wedding of the fishing village women, the bride bride was a large number of fishermen sisters flanked forward, behind the drums and bands and several groups of dancing dragons and lions singing and dancing, and behind them, there is a man dressed as a woman fisherman led a group of heads wearing fishing hats, hand-operated oars of fishermen's women, marching in a line, all the way to the oars, welcome the bride to the home. Welcome a large-scale procession, vast, many spectators, a joyful atmosphere. Drums and music on the road, the ceremonial cannons shake the sky, lively and extraordinary. The day of the "fishermen's marriage", the whole village, regardless of men and women, young and old, do not go down to the sea and rushed to celebrate the newcomer. The best gift of congratulations is to use colored paper cut in pairs of big fish, meaning to wish the new couple a hundred years of good luck, family prosperity.
Cao Long Dance
Cao Long Dance is a very unique custom in Nan'ao Town. Every year on the second night of the first month of the year, fishermen boys with grass into a "dragon", a section of the section added up to two or three hundred meters long, and then in this "dragon" body full of burning incense. With the "dragon" swimming, the band banging gongs and drums, through the streets and alleys, the sound is extremely magnificent. When the dragon body dance, the top and bottom of the flickering light, like a fire dragon in the flopping and moving. Grass dragon through the place, the onlookers are very many, in order, fireworks and firecrackers, praying for purple gas always, as good luck, prosperity, a festive scene. Cao Long Dance is an extremely favorite activity of Nan'ao fishermen, the bravado of the dragon dancers and the enthusiasm of the spectators constitute a grand, vibrant and joyful picture. Dance grass dragon is not only the fishermen look forward to smooth sailing, life rich psychological expression, but also a kind of public participation in the fitness exercise, and thus prevailed until now and more lively than a year.
Folk Festivals
Shenzhen folk festivals include New Year's Eve, Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Ching Ming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival, and Lychee Festival, which are common to residents of all towns. However, some festivals are celebrated differently in different places. For example, on New Year's Eve, Gongming people put up Spring Festival couplets, and from midnight onwards, every household sets off fireworks and firecrackers; Longgang and Dapeng people bathe in "New Year's Fragrant Water" made of lemongrass and pomelo leaves for good luck in the coming year; Longhua people kill geese to offer sacrifices to their ancestors on this day. Another example is the Spring Festival, Longhua people on the first day of the vegetarian, the town Peng surname people to the first month of the 15th for the New Year rather than the first day. In addition to these *** have festivals, some towns have their own unique festivals. Pingshan has the Bakong Festival on the second day of February, the Rice and Noodle Festival on the eighth day of April, the Mung Bean Porridge on the sixth day of June, the Immortal Sacrifice Festival on the fourteenth day of July, the Tea and Fruit Cake Festival on the first day of October, and the Winter Solstice on the eleventh day of November; Nan'ao Town has the Cao Long Dance Festival on the second day of the first month of the lunar year; the Xixiang area prevails in the 28th of February to the second day of March of the "Northern Emperor's Birthday", and so on. Since 1987, Guangdong Province held the first folk art "Happy Festival", many of the local characteristics of the festivals in front of people in a variety of colors .
Folk Taboos
In contrast to the richness of folk festivals, many taboos have been passed down throughout Shenzhen. The formation of folk taboos is the result of people's inability to understand and change the many objective phenomena of nature, thus creating a sense of mystery.
Shajing and Gongming residents on the first and fifteenth day of the Lunar New Year, the need to incense for God, and fasting to show sincerity, praying for God to drive away the evil, to protect the family peace. Longhua people on the first day of the Lunar New Year to eat vegetarian one day, avoid meat and greasy food; Ching Ming Festival to eat chicken poop vine (Chinese herbs), ai cake, etc. in order to "avoid evil spirits", "to avoid the God of pestilence". Longgang and Dapeng people in the wedding, when the wedding party near the village of the woman, the village men in the road to light a fire in order to "avoid evil spirits", the bridegroom by the fire "to avoid evil spirits" before entering the village to meet the bridegroom; they have to use the lemongrass, pomelo leaves, calamus and pomegranate leaves on New Year's Eve to cook into a "New Year's perfume". "New Year's fragrant water" bath to wash away the "bad luck" of the old year, praying for the New Year children can grow strong, adults can be energetic, the elderly can prolong life ...... this folk taboo! Although with a strong color of feudal rice letter, but all reflect the people of Shenzhen on the desire for health and happiness.
Shenzhen specialties
Lychee
Shenzhen lychee is the king of the four famous fruits of Lingnan. The skin of the fruit is red and bumpy, the kernel is as big as an egg, the flesh is white as fat and sweet as honey.
Sweet peaches
Mainly distributed in Nanshan, Songgang, Tangxiachong, Luotian, Yantian, Longhua, Shiyan and other places. But to Nanshan sweet peach is the most famous, Nanshan sweet peach planting has a history of more than 70 years, the production of sweet peaches sweet as honey, as big as a bowl, a half a catty, Nanshan sweet peach and Nanshan Lychee with the reputation.
Golden Turtle Orange
The main places of origin are Pingshan, Golden Turtle and Malan. The color is golden and bright, the flesh is thick and juicy, the taste is sweet and pure, and each orange comes with turquoise leaves, which is very popular.
Sand Pear
Sand Pear is one of the main fruits of Shenzhen, characterized by fruit as big as a bowl, the largest up to half a catty, thin skin, crisp juice, white meat without dregs, juice sweet as honey. Can cure fever. Mainly produced in the northern mountainous areas such as rock, Longhua, Guanlan, Shahe, Pinghu and Buji, the main varieties of yellow pear and honey pear.
Shajing oyster
Oyster scientific name oyster, is one of the valuable seafood. It is rich in protein and has a delicious flavor. Oysters single in Baoan Shajing, Fushui, Xixiang and Shenzhen Nantou, Shekou, Shatou, Shangsha and other places. But to Shajing oysters are the most famous. Shajing oysters a milky white color, fat and smooth known as Hong Kong, Macao and Southeast Asia.
Dapeng abalone
Produced in the area of Dapeng Bay named, belongs to the sea shellfish. It is attached to the sucker in the sea on the cliffs of the stone rows, because of its meat is fresh and crispy delicious, high protein, is "abalone, ginseng, shark's fin, tripe" four kinds of seafood treasures of the first.
Kiwi shrimp
In Songgang, Shajing area known as sand shrimp, produced on both sides of the Pearl River Estuary, shallow beaches of the Kiwi, Shatianli. Food methods, such as white burn shrimp, steamed, fried shrimp, fried shrimp section.