Large gatherings near Jining

Jining is the place with the highest concentration of canal folklore. In those days, there were lively temple fairs in front of Cideng Temple, the City God went on patrol in spring, the Little Dragon King was welcomed during the summer flood season, the smoke and fire of Lu Gongtang flourished at the birth of Lu Dongbin, and every year in the Spring Festival, the dragon lanterns, dry boats, stilts, rice-planting songs and lion dances went on and on in an endless stream, as well as the perennial fisherman's drums, comic dialogues, quick books, juggling, qigong and wushu, each displaying their own stunts, and making the place bustling with excitement.

Here, a special mention needs to be made of Jining's Xiaotushan (now People's Park). Little Tushan is located at the foot of the city wall in the southeast of Jining's old city, which is a large mound of earth dug and piled up when the canal was dredged, and this is the traditional public **** amusement park of Jining, which is known far and near in southwest Shandong, with its many trades and noisy flourishes, not inferior to Beijing's Tianqiao and Nanjing's Fuzimiao.

On the ground of more than 60 acres, there are four theaters: "Fung Chun", "Bookbelt Pavilion", "Chang Chun" and "Tongle Stage". "four theaters; a dozen teahouses almost all have a bookstore, of which "Four Seas Spring", "Yuxian Pavilion" two teahouses, boasted 'martial arts will be friends! Among them, two teahouses, "Four Seas Spring" and "Yu Xian Ting", advertised 'meeting friends through martial arts' and often organized martial arts performances for people to watch. In addition to the book field into the teahouse, there are scaffolding for rent, there are also stronger capital of the celebrities to set up their own scaffolding.

There are many kinds of music, there are big drums, yangqin, fishing drums, commenting on the words, fishing drums fall, Shandong drop, woodblock drums, Ling's tune, flat tone, Shandong Qingyin, three-stringed commenting on the tune of more than ten kinds of, as for the comedy, juggling (magic), martial arts (now known as the Shandong Express Book), as well as sparring, splitting the bricks, lifting weights, wrestling, swallowing the iron ball, sell vigorously pills, you can only be put down to the stalls to pull the field.

The three religions and nine streams of various lower industries will gather in the small Tushan, singing and selling estimated clothing, boiling plasters, repairing watches, pulling teeth, soldering pots, mending pots, fortune-telling, finger-painting, chess games, spotting moles, pedicures, drawing lots, catching color, betting on treasures, pushing pai gow, yells five and six people boiled over.

Nearing the Spring Festival, the small earth mountain is more crowded and noisy, all people have to seize the territory, pulling the foreign film, go monkey Lutou (puppets), monkeys, play bears, sets of circles to compete for a field, and even more toys for sale; lances, wooden knives, beards, swords, clattering hammers, leather mice, poodles, clay dolls, paper flowers, lanterns, New Year's Eve paintings, kites, the small earth mountain wrapped up in a colorful. There are also selling glazed clam clam, glass number, play gyro, crane lights and fireworks, etc., the small soil mountain fried like a water star frying pan. The old Jining proverb says: "out of the south door to the east, in addition to eating and drinking do not fall for" is the reference to the small Tushan.

There is a wide range of industries here, but counterfeiting and cheating are also mixed in, so the most affordable is still the food industry. Most of the food in Xiaotoushan is low-grade snacks, crowded stalls, vendors shuttle, the aroma, mouth-watering.

The stalls have deep-fried noodle cakes, sesame flowers, pot stickers, vegetable boxes, hot pots, steamed buns, hot and sour soup, tofu brain, beef liver soup, wontons, porridge, mutton soup, and small hotels are equipped with lo mei, chicken, boiled peanuts, five-spice peanut kernels, dried fava beans, fava beans, bad fish, tofu jerky, and so on, and the peddlers with baskets and carriers yell loudly, "There are sugar balls, melon seeds, sesame cakes, orchid beans, fresh fruits and lotus seedpods! As for melons and pears, sweet sticks (sugar cane), cold noodles, soft drinks and fried snails, they can be found everywhere. Jining Xiaotoushan mat shed, cloth mantle shoulder to shoulder, earth platform wooden frame jagged crowded, hawking and cheering very clamor, here cohesion of the Jining hundreds of years of flavor.

Confucius was born 2555 years ago, his descendants at home and abroad, according to the relevant departments of the existing more than 4 million people, settled in Qufu 11 million people.

Historically, the first grandson of Confucius lived in the Confucius House in Qufu. During the Song Dynasty, Song Renzong ordered the 46th generation direct grandson, Kong Zongwang, to change his title from Duke of Wenxuan to Duke of Diffractive Sage, which was hereditary and unchangeable, and formally built the Duke of Diffractive Sage Mansion (Kongfu).

The title of Duke of Diffractive Sage was passed down from the 46th generation of Kong Zongwang to the 77th generation of Kong De Cheng, a succession of 31 generations that lasted nearly 1,000 years

The father of the last Duke of Diffractive Sage, the 76th generation of the Duke of Diffractive Sage, Kong Lingyi, who had lost his father at a young age, was an only son with no siblings and inherited his title at the age of 5. He passed away at the age of 48 in 1919.

Kong Lingyi had two daughters and one son, the 77th generation of direct grandson: the eldest daughter, Kong Deqi (died early); the second daughter, Kong De Mao, now in Beijing; the son, Kong De Cheng, now in Taiwan, all born of one mother. Kong De Cheng was a posthumous son, who was knighted on the 100th day of his birth. Kong De Cheng and his sister Kong De Mao in the Confucian House, living together, on the family school reading, grew up in the Confucian House. Kong De Mao married in Beijing, the "July 7 Incident" eve Kong De Cheng far away to Chongqing.

From Kong Zi to Kong De Cheng, among the 77 generations of direct grandsons, only three generations left their hometown of Qufu. First, the 8th generation of Kong perch, when he heard that Qin Shi Huang burned books to come to Qufu, he overnight will be the ancestral scriptures hidden in the sandwich wall, only to go to Songshan to join Chen Sheng insurgent army, was honored as a military adviser. He was honored as a military instructor. Later, he died in the army due to illness. Secondly, the 48th generation Kong Duanyou was ordered to move south with the Northern Song Emperor and settled in Quzhou, Zhejiang Province. In the Jin Dynasty, King Taizong of Jin Dynasty honored Kong Duanyou's younger brother, Kong Duanfang, who was still in Qufu, as the Diffractive Sage, thus dividing the two clans into North and South for more than 100 years.

After the unification of China by the Yuan Dynasty, Yuan Shizu thought that there should be only one Duke of Diffraction, and Kong Su of the Southern Clan gave up his title to Kong Zhi of the Northern Clan. Later, it was changed to a Doctor of the Five Classics of the Hanlin Academy, which was hereditary for more than 400 years. Thirdly, the 77th generation of Kong De Cheng, in the face of national difficulties, not to be used by the enemy, left the thousand-year-old ancestral property and the homeland to the rear, passing through Wuhan, that is, published in the newspaper "Declaration of Resistance to Japan". After the anti-Japanese victory, Kong De Cheng with the then central government from Chongqing moved to Nanjing, take sister Kong De Mao and his children to the Nanjing residence *** with life, and then due to changes in the current situation, and the two sides of the Taiwan Strait are separated for decades. Finally, God's wish, siblings can be reunited.

Confucius descendants have to be in accordance with the word generation name, or not allowed into the family tree. The word generation of the word first Ming dynasty Ming Tai Zu Zhu Yuanzhang fixed 10 words, after the Chongzhen emperor and fixed 10 words, the Qing dynasty Qianlong emperor and fixed 10 words, the Republic of China, 76 generations of Deng Sheng Gong Kong Lingyi renewed 20 words, reported by the Beiyang government for approval by the Beiyang government ordered the provinces and counties will be the 50 words of the word bulletin for public knowledge. ~