Introduction of Yunqiu Mountain Zhonghe Festival
In 2011, Qiu Yun Zhonghe Festival was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list announced by the State Council. As the grandest traditional folk festival in China, the Mid-Autumn Festival has become a cultural festival and tourism festival with certain influence at home and abroad, and is an important window to show the unique charm of Shanxi and an important platform to promote exchanges and cooperation.
The fifteenth day of the second month of the lunar calendar is the yang day of the Mid-Autumn Festival. At this time of the year, hundreds of thousands of people in a hundred-mile radius spontaneously go to Qiu Yun to worship the top of the mountain, pay homage to the gods, and pray for favorable winds and rains, abundant harvests, prosperous six animals, and future generations.
Qiu Yun collects, protects and displays the culture of Zhonghe. It can be said that Qiu Yun is the last inheritance place of Zhonghe culture in China, and Zhonghe culture is the soul of spiritual civilization of Qiu Yun. Qiu Yun also attracts domestic and foreign tourists to this festival with its unique charm.
When: March 20 - March 23, 2008, Haiyun Zhonghe Culture (Zhonghe Festival) Tourism Festival will be held grandly.
2010 to 2010, the Festival will continue the core concept of "blessed place and wish", "cloud mound blessed place and wish for harmony" as the theme, organized dozens of folk cultural activities (pray for harmony) --The festival ritual ceremony and opening ceremony, pray for heavenly blessings - 10,000 people pray for the festival, blessed Qiu Yun Jiubian sign, blessed Qiu Yun - lead a tree of blessings, plant a kind of blessings, Qiu Yun Old age.
:Lunar 010 to 1010 February 15 (March 31) is the yang day of the Festival of Chunghwa. On the morning of that day, as the grandest ceremony of the Nakato Festival, the Sacrifice Ceremony will be held at the Nakato Square. That's when all three animals are prepared and all grains and cereals are served. Flag bearers will line up to raise the flag, beat gongs and drums, and the chief priests, dressed in traditional national costumes, will recite hymns, burn incense, pray, offer sacrifices, and perform music and dances.
Everyone prays that God will bless the Chinese people with no natural or man-made disasters, which means harmonious ****ing and continuity. The scene is solemn and spectacular. The Qiu Yun Zhonghe Festival preserves this ancient ritual, which is not just a ceremony, but a historical legacy and a deep Zhonghe culture.
Willow flogging is an important part of the Spring Festival rituals of the Mid-Autumn Festival, a way for people to punish the spirits of heaven and earth as a sign of gratitude for their sins, and an ancient ritual of seeking rain. By whipping the body of an evil person, people confess their previous faults, sincerely exchange the forgiveness of heaven and earth, and pray for a new year with good weather, abundant grains, good food and clothing, peace and good luck. The reason for beating the willow until it bleeds is that the local people have been calling the first rain blood for generations, and beating the willow until it bleeds is the highest expression of people's inner sincerity.
Yunqiu Mountain Zhonghe Festival Introductory Activities Tips
As soon as the gates of Qiu Yun Mountain were opened, handsome men and women from the four townships and eight villages below the mountain cheered and ran to Qiu Yun to take part in this annual event.
A pair of flower baskets and a whip stick show us the ancient wedding custom. When the annual Zhonghe Festival arrives, the curtain rises on a stage play of wedding customs, and the distant landscape becomes a formality, leisurely staged in Qiuyun. Men and women show themselves through song and dance performances, holding flower baskets or whips respectively, and feel the wedding customs with Qiuyun's national characteristics by gathering fairy fish to the meeting, meeting to fall in love with the ice cave, and celebrating the Yuanyang Bridge.
Activity Highlights I: Pray for Zhonghe - Ritual Ceremony and Opening Ceremony of Zhonghe Festival
During the Zhonghe Festival from March 20 to April 23, the Five Blessings Porridge will be cooked in the square of Wulonggong Palace for the tourists who come to pay respect to the mountain. The congee will be served free of charge 24 hours a day during the Zhonghe Festival (15th day of the second month of the lunar calendar). The Five Fortunes congee is made of five kinds of grains, symbolizing the abundance of grains. People
After drinking the congee, you can come to the Avenue of Things next to Babao Palace, take an apricot sapling, plant an apricot tree blessing, make a good wish, and let the happiness and the sapling grow strong together.
Font March 20, Qiu Yun's Zhonghe Temple Fair begins. Men, women and children can enjoy local Shaanxi folk performances, watch lively flower-drum performances, listen to traditional Pu Opera, and visit the specialty Qiu Yun food street. It's very lively. If you want to see the traditional crafts left behind by your ancestors, you can go to the Commercial Street to admire the exhibition of beautiful flower buns, which symbolize good luck. You can also go to the Ice Cave to admire the icicles, ice shoots, ice stalactites and ice stone flowers.
Activity Highlight 2: Yunyunqiu Wedding Extravaganza - Whipstick Picking Flower Baskets
As the primitive mountainous area where human beings flourished and the holy place where life flourished, it is the heartfelt wish of the pious mountain people that the culture of Zhonghe has taken root and extended here. During the Mid-Autumn Festival, enter Yunyun Qufu Gate, walk Yunyun Qufu Road, and gather the nine scenic views of Fuqiang Fuqiang, and feel the culture of Qiuyun Mountain Fuqiang.
The Taoist ceremonies held in Wulong Palace and Babao Palace, through a series of rituals, offerings to heaven and ancestors, so that people realize the truth of heaven and earth, pray for the masses, eliminate disasters, blessing peace.
The Festival of Harmony embodies people's good wishes and expectations for life, and profoundly reflects the centrality of the spirit of harmony to people's livelihood in the world. As the last heritage site of the Festival, Yunshan has a deep sense of responsibility and mission to promote the culture of harmony. With the inheritance and development of Zhonghe culture, Qiu Yun will also become more brilliant and radiant!
In this good season of spring, recovery of all things and abundant harvests, ask your family and friends to come to Qiu Yun for the Zhonghe Festival!
Activity highlights 3: Drinking blessed porridge, planting blessed trees, praying for blessed wishes, blessed to Zhonghe
Song and dance "Look at the mountains, look at the water, look at China"
Xiangning folk song "Catching up with the meeting"
Singing "Searching for the mother-in-law's house"
Xiangning folk song "Please come to Yunqiu to get away"
Dance "Spring comes to Yunqiu"
Male and female duets "When the flowers are blossoming you will Come to see me"
Singing "Holding the Salt Shaker"
Song and Dance "Blessing Xiangning"
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