China's Oriental Valentine's Day - "daughter will"
Out of the city of Enshi, more than a hundred kilometers to the southeast, there is a surrounded by a bright river flowing along the mountains, the ancient name of the Shihe to be called with the harmonies of the present day called the Lime Kiln. It and Jianshi Guandian, Hefeng in the camp, Enshi Shuanghe, Xuanen Tsubaki camp adjacent to the 12th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year, is the traditional festival of the Tujia people here, "Daughter of the meeting", on this day, many young men and women will be out of the path of the path to the meeting, looking for the lover of their dreams.
Shiyao "daughters will" has a long history, according to legend, a long time ago, here, far away from the mountains, men and women are not constrained, they sing and dance in the labor, pouring out love, private life, and live a free and easy life of pastoral idylls. Later, there are ten surnames of people from the mountains outside the vine over the cliff, climbed the altitude of more than 1700 meters of the lime kiln, the ten surnames of people are Zhang, Xue, Li, Teng, Yang, Tian, Qin, Cao, Huang, Wang, they divided the residence, pulling the grass for the boundary, build a shed, set up a household business, known as the "Ten Sheds," to the end of the Ming Dynasty, Xue surnamed one of the people was pushed to be the "township priest" (learned, can order a township of people), Xue surname more women and fewer children (today's Lime Kiln Xue surname has been eliminated), the knee has nine daughters, Xue surname teach women, strictly guard the door, usually not allowed to travel. Children by their parents arranged engagement, no opportunity to meet, only waiting for the right age, after the hall can meet, at this time, "ten shed" of the children married, more than by their parents, female hair male Na eight gung stickers.
One year, Xue Xiangshi traveled to the mountains, returned home on July 11, the whole sheds for the township of the feast, to celebrate his return, Xue Xiangshi was very happy, while drinking, while talking about the journey, when the wine was full of fun, his favorite youngest daughter, Zhenmei called to the side, instructed: "tomorrow is the moon half of the festival, early in the morning, you and your sisters put on new clothes, go to the street to play a day, the view of the world, the most important thing is that you can not see, but to see the world, you have a lot to do. Clothes, go to the street to play a day, enjoy the autumn scenery, just wait for this day, usually shall not leave the shed ", nine sisters joy from heaven, three night rise, five night dress up, only to see their heads wrapped in printed folded handkerchiefs, dressed in red and green lace clothing, waist around the black gold embroidered scarf, feet wearing small shoes with flowers, wearing bright jade bracelets, dressed like a flower. Out of the door, the cottage lads watching from afar, not away from the left and right, to the song to catch up, to the eyes of love, the nine sisters are in this day in the match, until the return of the moon and the gentleman of their choice. Later, every July 12 this day, they will dress up, dressed in a new, sneak out of the house, and neighborhood sisters invited to the street, for several years as the same, accumulated into a habit, people will call the 12th of July of the lunar calendar for the "daughter of the meeting. At that time, the girl's life is too bitter, all year round, hard to stay at home, in addition to work is to keep in front of the house, guests can not show up, dinner can not be on the table, there is no half freedom, the girls look forward to that annual "daughter will", July 12 this day, after a year of hard work of the daughters to put on the most beautiful jewelry, wearing layers of different The color of the edging of the clothes, inside long outside short, layers of renovation into a bamboo shoot shell shape, which is called "section high", said rich and beautiful, and with a flower basket to carry some souvenirs on the street to catch up with the market, the daughters of the clouds gathered, competing for beauty, attracting a large number of young scion, scion in the market pretending to be a casual and relaxed look, a pair of eyes but the eyes are turning, and hit a girl will even rush to go! A sister will hasten to go close to greet: "Hey, sister, this pear much money a?" The girl pursed her lips and smiled, so they talked about the price. Smart young man said: "Aiya, good sister, this pear is gold or silver eggs?" Sister not sloppy: "I say this big brother ah, to be the price, but also the money, a year pear tree grows how high? A pair of pears knot how much? I spend effort you know? This price is still too high?" So the price, fighting wisdom, explore the depths, if the price is not down, that the sister do not see you, the young man quickly know the interest to go away, if the price is getting lower and lower, the young man's hope is getting bigger and bigger, the price is down to half, the young man has to rush to buy all the pears, for the sister on the back of the basket, the sister will naturally go with you.
Tujia girls see the beauty of song, song as a matchmaker. "The song is well sung, cool water to light the lamp", "one is not love you talent is good, two is not love your family rich and powerful, love you can sing and play gongs and drums".
At that time, there were a lot of trees growing around the village, and many clean and beautiful stones in the forest, so young men and women who were interested in love came to the depths of the dense forest, and chose a stone bench to sit down. Soon, a string of charming mountain songs floated out of the forest. ......
Top of the mountain, uh, a mound of fields
Lang half of the side of the sister half of the side
Lang's half of the side of the licorice
Sister's half of the side of the cucumber
Take a silk wire and entangle him
Top of the mountain, uh, a tree mulberry
The tree mulberry
The tree mulberry
The tree mulberry
The song mulberry is a very beautiful song.
There is a dyeing tank at the foot of the mulberry tree
You have blue, blue, and white cloth to dye
My new tank can dye old clothes
The wood leaves of the high mountains are fine
Let's see if your brother can blow
If he blows the leaves to make them scream
Only the leaves don't need to be matchmakers
The young man who is intoxicated by the sweet voice of the mountain maiden, her entwined love, also cannot help but brighten up.
Women: Sing a song, follow the solution of the three
What blossomed in two pairs of pairs?
Bamboo leaves are green, willow leaves are green
Bamboo leaves are green, willow leaves are green
Ten sisters are making a scene in the lanterns
Male: Sing a song of three, and solve it in reverse
Peas are blossoming in two pairs
Ducks are short in crossing the river
You can sing it again, but I'll solve it for you. ...
Falling in love with young men and women always have endless songs, from the "Wang Lang Song", "a bamboo top hitch top", "a pair of pugs towards the south to fly" to the "ten love", "ten want", "twelve time" ...... song as a matchmaker, private betrothal, and send each other to the engagement of love things, the man to send the woman has a ring, The male sends the female a ring, an ivory comb, an embroidered needle and so on, while the female sends the male a pair of green shoes, a pair of embroidered socks, or an embroidered purse. The company's website is a great source of information about the company's products and services, and the company's website is a great source of information about the company's products and services.
Daughters will be song bonding young men and women after the breakup, it is difficult to have the opportunity to meet, the song in the forest into a beautiful memory, into the footstools side of a permanent reminiscence:
Then sister embroidery
Think of the slave wrongdoer
I do not know who fell
Heart messy as a numbness
Boldly obsessed with the man and the woman sometimes also get rid of
At noon, I went to my sister's house
Sister was embroidering
Leaving the flowers behind
Getting up to sift the tea
Brother, you're here
Brother, you're here
Brother, I'm going to be there at midnight
Tugging at my brother's clothes
Not being an unlovely bird in the mountains
Don't listen to the yellow chickens in the cage
Don't listen to the yellow chickens in the cages
Don't listen to the yellow chickens in the cages. The twilight chickens in the cage
The slave will send you off at dawn
Many of the loving Tujia girls had their marriages arranged by their feudal parents, which turned the wine of love they made at the daughters' meeting into endless tears:
Six cups of wine and three pairs of wine
Concealing the wine from their fathers up to their mothers down
Concealing the wine from their brothers and sisters-in-law
Lest they should be left alone in the house.
Three cups of wine in the garden
Tears in my eyes as I climb the flowers
Flower blossoms and flowers fall every year
No one is old enough to turn into a teenager
Ten thoughts about my life
It's not what I thought it was going to be like
There's a rope hanging from the front of the hall
Early death is not good enough for a life.... ...
Leaves green and yellow, yellow and green, and I don't know how many years, the daughter will change, turned into a cultural event for the Tujia people here, suona team, flower gongs and drums team, swinging hand dance team, the bench dragon team shocked the mountain, and the old performers performed by the quilt play, monkey tricks, there are tens of people performing Nuo opera, there is a wrenching, against the chin, weight lifting, shuttlecock ball and other traditional Sports competitions, the daughters no longer have to worry about the family tracking, stepping song, greatly generous and the boys jumped on the scale of the pendulum dance, theater, to see who sings the most, sing the sweetest ...... daughters will be the day, Shiyao Street is a street of songs and dances, a street of joyful celebrations.
Today, the stone kiln "daughter will" has been the exchange of culture and material, back flower basket, holding horses and mules, carrying mountain specialties, hip-hop, ding ding ding ding ding, a steady stream of people on the street. Not only is the township native people, Hefeng, Xuanen, Jianshi, and even Hunan, Jiangsu and Zhejiang merchants have been pouring in, set up stalls, on the ground to open up business, the streets and alleys, street by street, goods to goods, people crowded, bustling, green and flowery, a street of prosperity and vitality. On the stage, the bamboo lotus dance pale and strong, swinging hand dance rhythmic, Nuo opera ancient, tea-picking dance extolling the times of the new wind, the changes in the cottage, Tujia children's freedom and happiness and love, the reporter carried a video camera, but also busy, they are capturing every wonderful moment, ingested this Tujia style, ingested this ancient cottage of modern civilization and Tujia girl's laughter.
"Daughters will be" like a magnificent epic poem, telling the sentiment of the Tujia children in the past, precipitating the decay of history, writing the changes of the times!
Nuo Nuo opera
Nuo Nuo opera is in the folk custom of rewarding the gods wishing rituals based on the derivation of the development of a local opera, characterized by masked performances.
Nuo opera is divided into "eight out" and "out of eight" two kinds of, "eight plays" collectively witchcraft rituals, "out of eight The "outer eight" is a plot of the folding play and a big play, the role of the four major lines of raw, dan, jing, chou, singing cavity into high cavity, flat cavity, mournful cavity, flower-drum cavity, mountain song cavity. It is not enough for theater, but more for singing.
Juggling
"Juggling" comes from the folk, from the social practice of the life of the predecessors, it is the crystallization of the civilized wisdom of the ethnic minority masses, and it is the treasure of national culture.
When did "juggling" start? This is to start from the Tang Dynasty: "Juggling" has such a rap lyrics:
Heaven and earth are the same, there was a small Tang King.
He was an immortal, and became an emperor.
On the fifteenth day of the eighth month of that year, the dragon's body lay on his bed of teeth.
The night was a nighttime journey to the heavens, and his spirit drove into the land of the immortals.
When I arrived at the moon palace, I saw many beautiful women.
Everyone was dressed in flowery garments, and every one played the lyre and sang.
And they were all playing, and they were all clanging.
Some sang in the front, some helped in the back.
The king of the Tang Dynasty remembered it in his heart, and his soul returned to the sun in his dreams.
The king of Tang woke up and thought about it, and the gods and goddesses in the sky entertained him.
The mortal world should also go on as usual, ordering the civil servants and military generals.
All the ladies in the palace learn from the heavenly example.
They play with lamps, and sing, and dance, and sing.
There are many names in the theater.
The Tang Dynasty was in full bloom, and the country was at peace. Taizong Li Shimin ordered entertainment theater color, dancing and singing, or double dance, or more people with the dance, from the palace drums within the sound, singing and dancing, singing and dancing lively very ...... began to only be lively in the palace, and then the King of the Tang dynasty ordered the government and the people of the same joy in the evening of the fifteenth day of the first lunar month of every year, the great lanterns, dancing lions, play dragon lanterns, jumping "Juggling", celebrate the Lantern Festival, "Juggling" from generation to generation down.
To the Qing Dynasty, "juggling" is more developed, because the Qing government at that time to implement the Zhou Dynasty rituals, "three principles and five norms", "three from the four virtues", "matchmaker's words, parents' orders", it is rumored that before the Qing Dynasty "land reclassification", there were three brothers and sisters in Exi region, who were self-appointed as "Tusi officials", engaged in the hegemony of the Tusi emperor, and carried out the "trial wedding regulations". "Trial wedding rules", where men and women get married, must be through the "Tusi officer" first trial marriage with the same night three nights, before marriage, or else, will be killed, many young men and women in opposition to the old system of inequality at that time, leave their homes, jumping
I. "Juggling" is divided into cultural and martial arts juggling, which are introduced as follows:
1. Cultural "Juggling" Actions
Combing and dressing up, picking melons with the cloud hand, sweeping the ground with the cloud hand, butterflies playing in the water, twisting and passing on the love, and the eagle spreading its wings, one-sided hand flower, double love, hand flower. Hand flower, left and right flowers Kill it
2. Martial Arts "Juggling" Moves
Combing and Dressing Up Rolling the altar, hand-rimmed flower, passing the token on the ground (short step), leaning against the body, kissing, and then somersaulting, Joe bowl somersaulting, and pushing the somersaults, and then closing the show
"Juggling "
There are two kinds of juggling, one is only jumping and not singing, using the action to express the interest of the two; the other is singing and dancing, jumping and singing, singing what you see, mainly expressing the real life, or compliments, or congratulations, or publicizing the party's policy, with the center, for the service of the reality.
"Juggling" singing a variety of, which is divided into North and South singing, the old singing there are several kinds,
1.foreigner tune: open the door of wealth
lanterns to your house to the public open arms Drums and gongs to play the platform
first the main east of the financial door to open the lanterns into the house to the main east of the New Year's greetings
Fortune comes rolling in
Spring opens the door to wealth and spring is prosperous, welcoming the new year by playing "Juggling" and playing with lanterns
From now on, the main east is full of joy, with a new look, a money tree and a treasure bowl
Gold falls in the morning and evening
Summer opens the door to wealth and summer is strong, and the young and the old are together in the same house, the old people are enjoying their good fortune
Long life is good for the old and young. The year is long and prosperous
Happiness lasts forever
Autumn opens the door to wealth, autumn after autumn, and every year there is a good harvest of food and clothing
The whole family is happy and carefree, everything goes well, the young and the old are together and strive for success
Magnificent aspirations
Winter opens the door to wealth, and the year is safe and sound
The winter opens the door to wealth and the year is safe and sound, and we do business, work hard and produce hard
Cultivation and study are the foundation of our life to overcome the difficulties of all times, and to strive to go ahead, to be ethical, and to set a good example.
To be an official from generation to generation.
2, the descendants of the past to open (Ming seven dark eight; idiom: following the past to open)
Mo learn from the previous dynasty Chen Shimei, unkind and unrighteous, throwing children, forgetting his wife's righteousness
recruited as a team of horse harnessed by the side of a team is very proud, do not recognize the ex-wife, the package of Prime Minister to support the righteousness of the
beheaded him
Some people love to scold their wives, the means of solid, it's not, it's not
Hands. Remember, don't go your own way. Wives are good, husbands are good, and they live together
They are united and happy
Husband and wife respect their parents, and filial piety is the most important thing in life.
Don't talk about your daughter-in-law's wrongdoing, others will point at your back, and you should especially talk about your morals
Don't go into your daughter-in-law's room
What we said in the previous article is an exhortation to learn from the ancients, who talked about morals and valued their feelings
People are old and polite, and they talk about loyalty, and how to be a good person should be set up to establish a noble character
Ten thousand generations will have a good name
3.
The people of the country have been liberated, the fighting spirit is high, the wise **** production party
Chairman Mao's good idea, the people will be the home, the dark clouds, see the sun,
the people are happy.
Since ancient times, the country has been in the right place, the five grains are abundant, Chairman Mao, the Commander-in-Chief,
Premier Zhou Enlai twisted the universe, the policy is wise, the anti-Japanese Ben, fight Chiang,
The world is at peace.
The country's officials have been praised for their honesty and purity, the country is rich and the people are strong, and the people are enjoying their blessings.
The young and the old are enjoying their well-being, and they are striving to be strong and vigorous, and the new world is a new world, a new phenomenon.
Happiness lasts for ten thousand years.
Turning over, we will not forget Chairman Mao, we will have clothes to wear and food to eat, we will build and work together,
Uniting in pace, we will work together to build socialism,
The revolution is unshakable.
The revolution is unswerving.
With one heart towards the ****productivity party, the will is strong, the workers, peasants and soldiers, together,
Industry and agriculture is the main program, the program is lifted up, the struggle is united, the war is won.
Build the city and the countryside.
Second, "juggling" short
This singing is very simple, as long as the tune to sing, singing content can be self-edited, what to see, what to sing, but to strict requirements of rhyme, according to the upper and lower rhyme, such as:
We lanterns to come to the yo fast yo yi
Come to the yo main east!
To put ah year Luo worship yoyi
Each board seven words to sing: such as
Into your house eye look,
Main East sit a good house field.
There are two dragons in front of you to grab the treasure,
and there are two birds in the sunrise behind you.
Your family will be prosperous,
and your children and grandchildren will be successful.
This kind of singing can be made up and performed according to the actual situation to congratulate the host family.
"Juggling" short board tune: "five seven five" ten love:
A love sister's head ah yo master, ivory comb on the hand yo
combed bare master, yo yo, combed bare yo master
two love sister's I'm not sure if you're going to be able to get a good look at this, but I'm sure you're going to be able to get a good look at this.
The third one is the ring, which is made of gold wire and hangs by the shoulder.
The fourth love sister's face, rouge and water powder hit the top, like a female sable cicada.
Five love sister's hand, ten fingers pointed white as lotus root, ring wear have.
Sixth love sister's clothes, red inside the set of green, four corners like Qi.
Sixth love sister's skirt, yellow skirt belt two sides divided, four corners tied evenly.
The pants of the eighth sister, not long but not short, were three feet and five feet long.
The feet of the nine love sisters, not too long and not too short a pair of feet, the fairy shells off.
Ten love sister's body, like the former Guan Shi Yin, love bad little scion.
"Juggling" running water tune: seven-word sentences, such as:
I ah we Luo had ah put ah Gui ah Guifu you Luo ah Yi master
Te ah to the Lord ah Dongluo, worship ah to worship the new year, ah Yi Yo Yi
Worship ah to worship the New Year, hey Hey Hey Hey Yo.
This kind of singing can also be seen what to sing, singing live play, the content of their own decision, not limited.
Grass-gathering gongs and drums
Singing labor customs:
"Peach and plum blossoms on the mountain, smoke and fire in the clouds are people's homes; silver bracelets and gold hairpins come to take the water, and long knives and short hats go to burn the She." (Liu Yuxi's words) This lyric describes the Tujia region with high mountains and steep slopes, men and women laboring, slash-and-burn farming, and it is because of this living environment, changing jobs, it has become a traditional custom in the Tujia region. "April and May months to work the grass, several families **** tend to a family, as many as thirty or forty people, a family after working, and then tend to a family, a person hit the drum, for gas; a person sound gongs to section of labor and ease, along with the work and song, from the leaf syllables ...... "Invited to group, the formation of synergy, weed gongs and drums is the The gripping gongs are the link between the group and the ploughing, the horn that motivates enthusiasm and inspires labor morale.
Farmers sing songs with their mouths, and the drums and gongs should be sung in the north and south of the country.
Mo think that the field is a lot of fun, a poor hoe sweat a nest.
Weeping songs fill the hills in June, and the sound of gongs and drums is a refrain.
It is said that there is no etiquette in the mountains, and that men and women have their own branches.
The drums and gongs of rice-planting and weed-gathering fill the hillsides.
On the backs of the children, in the shade, the men call the songs and the women answer them.
The Tujia harvest season is the happiest time, people before the moon before the lights to tear the leaves of the husk, playing riddles, telling ancient stories, jokes, self-entertainment, such as Li Huanchun's lyrics:
Pumpkin and red beans fine cooking kitchen, earning the townspeople peeling the night buds,
A mute riddle can not be guessed, before the moon before the lights **** mocked each other.
Singing of the seasonal customs: the masses of the Tujia region attaches great importance to the seasonal season, there must be custom, many bamboo words depicting a variety of simple and simple customs.
Opening the door on New Year's Day to make paper money, red lights and green wine out of the sky.
Returning home seems to be the first time a guest arrives, and each calls out to the other to pay his respects.
Dressed in women's wedding clothes, they went to the theater.
The night of the New Year's Eve is filled with flowers and drums, and the songs of the Yang Hua Liu Qu are in a Sichuan accent.
The first part of the poem depicts the opening of the door on the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar and the warmth of the family members at the time of the festival, and the second part of the poem records the custom of playing the flower drums in the villages and performing the Yanghua opera at the lantern festival of the first month of the lunar calendar, whereby the women are able to perform the opera and watch the lanterns on an equal footing with the men.
There are also descriptions of the Ching Ming and Chung Yeung festivals:
Onyx shirts, green skirts and emerald-colored garments are worn by women in mountain towns,
They occasionally pick mountain flowers and cause swarms of bees to fly around their temples.
This song describes the Qingming Festival, the young girl wearing red and green to sweep the tomb to return, along the way picked brightly colored mountain flowers inserted in the hair, colorful butterflies and bees chasing the fragrance and color, around the young girl fluttering, and add to the beauty of spring, a good picture of a moving young girl touring the spring.
Light shade and light rain is a good sunshine, the tank face of the family have wine to taste.
I love his tea-picking songs and phrases, and the sunrise of the year brings the fragrance of chrysanthemums.
This lyric depicts the festive mood of reunion and joyfulness of the Chongyang Festival.
Singing about love life: The love life of the Tujia people is relatively free and full of amusement. But the mountain adults are rare, or men often travel far to make a living, or the lover for many years to see, with words to the love of parting life depicted in a chic style:
Counts of cawing birds call brother, dense trees curled up the female Luo.
Lang in the opposite door I do not see, love is only a river.
This song is actually a love song, the cottage daughters heard the birds call "brother" sound, touching the scene to remember the love of brother, caused a continuous love, and also such as:
Couple deep love more and more thick, competing clouds a year a year to meet.
The night is good, the new fall is short, I am afraid that the day dawn language has not ended.
This song is a reminder of the long goodbye between husband and wife and the meeting of the Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden at the magpie bridge on the eve of the seventh day of the seventh month, which is even more y felt, and the words of love are endless, and also as follows:
The Lang Lang went to the Xiangjiang River after a couple of years of autumn, and the north and the south of the geese and the south of the island in the west wind.
With knitted brows, the sun and the moon are looking at the river, and I don't see the boat to see the passenger boat.
This song is a love song of a woman who looks forward to the return of the groom, the groom left his hometown and went to a foreign land, several times the northern geese fly south, spring and autumn, the woman with a grudge day and night, looking forward to the groom does not come back, touching the heart.
Singing clothes, food, housing and customs: the Tujia people live in the deep mountains and lush forests, clothing, food, housing and behavior has a chic customs, especially in the words of the most significant flavor of the chanting of drinking and eating tea, such as smacking the wine, oil tea, the words of the unique customs:
Smooth mountain face water a family home, the customs of the people is not bad.
Only the guests follow the old custom, often drink smack wine and oil tea.
Another example is the bamboo stick smack wine is better than the pot pouring cups to drink, big chunks of large bowls of pork and move altar to persuade guests to show the bravado of the Tujia people:
Barbarian wine brewed into the nose, bamboo sticks a branch is better than the pot goblet.
Crossing the bridge with a lotus bowl of pork, a big woman opens the altar to persuade the guests to taste.
Another example is the New Year's Eve custom of living in a hammock, the flavor of the flourishing scene:
Oil tea and smacked wine to catch the New Year's Eve, hammocks high up to look at the eyes of the fans.
Ya border is happy to see the prosperity of the elephant, I ask the three Tang belongs to which period?
The above chapters depicting labor life, marriage, funeral, seasonal festivals, love and separation, clothing, food, housing and transportation, depicting the scenery of the mountains and rivers, showing the good and the bad, delineating the hardships of life, and exposing the sins of the wicked can be said to be the world of all sorts of things, all kinds of things, just like a colorful painting of the Tujia customs.
Lianxiang
"Lianxiang" is a kind of folk performing art form between rap and dance, and it is called "Lianxiang" and "Lianxiang", "even ring" and so on, from the development of the origin, said "Lianxiang" is more accurate, from the performance form, said "even ring", because of the props issued by the beautiful sound and the name, indeed, has more The name of the show is "Lianrong", which is named after the beautiful sound made by the props.
"Lianxiang" props used in long and short variety, commonly used for 2 feet 5 inches long, the longest for 3 feet, no matter how long or short are 15 centimeters in diameter of the bamboo poles made of ten thousand, bamboo chiseled 12 eyes, eyes embedded in the 24 ancient copper coins, twelve eyes for the "Lianxiang "Marked brother and sister looking for their father 12 years, 24 money means brother and sister twelve years between inseparable, performers handholding" Lotus "gently move, it will send out a rhythmic coherent sound.
Tujia people love to play "Lotus", especially during the Spring Festival is more prevalent, by then, the Tujia cottage, the village can be heard "Lotus" dance, the performers, a man and a woman, dressed as a brother and sister look, hand-held "Lotus ", door to door, to the main East Hall for the performance area for the performance, the words sung by the East Happy New Year, blessing the East East and prosperity, and so on.
In the middle of the last century, "Lianxiang" siblings into the house performances, the main East most of the performers special point performers sing "Lianxiang" origin of singing, used to educate the descendants, the main East also think that only to sing "Lianxiang" origin of class "origin of the class is the authentic" Lianxiang "masters, the second period of the last century," Lianxiang "singing content is gradually enriched, most of the improvisation on the spot, the performers call themselves" see the son hit the son!
The "Lianxiang" song was gradually enriched in the second half of the last century, mostly improvised on the spot.
"Lianxiang" performance form is diverse, can be divided into high pile, short pile, rolling dragon Lianxiang, meat even, etc., high pile "Lianxiang" more standing performance, short pile Lianxiang performers must be half squatting performance, "Rolling Dragon Lianxiang", "Lianxiang" performance, "Lianxiang", "Lianxiang", "Lianxiang" and other performers. "Rolling Dragon Lotus Heung" is performed by two men and two women on a high bench. The performers use a high bench as the performance area, and the two of them shuttle on the bench, performing freely, just like a bench rising and falling, hence the name of "Rolling Dragon Lotus Heung", which is probably a folk artist, whose work is cooked to a state of skill, in order to demonstrate his superior skills. This is probably a form of performance designed by folk artists to demonstrate their superior skills. The above forms of performance performers are with props - "even ringing", another form of performance, no props at all, only wearing shorts all over the body, and occasionally there is a red silk tied on the head, wearing a red band on the chest dress up, the performer with his hands to beat the various parts of the body, send out as "even ringing". The performers beat all parts of their bodies with their hands, making beautiful and beautiful sounds like "even ringing", so it is called "meat even ringing", whether it is using props and not using props to hit the shoulders, arms, waist, head, legs, feet and other parts of the body to send out a rhythmic ringing, and its main performance actions are Yangge step, through the palm sucking leg step, trembling step The main performance movements are Yangge step, palm-absorbing leg step, trembling step, and head-turning. The performance team is divided into doubles, three rings, seven rings, ten rings and so on.
The origin of the performance form "Lianxiang" can be found in the folk oral tradition of "Lianxiang's origin" in some records, according to legend, the Tang Dynasty, there was a scholar named Zhang Chunfang, whose mother was as beautiful as a heavenly fairy, the dynasty, a military general passed by to marry forcibly as a concubine, the mother of the palace for fear that the poor life is revealed, it is killing the son of Zhang Chunfang, Chunfang, the son of his parents, and the mother of his son, Zhang Chunfang. Pro son Zhang Chunfang, Chunfang born of a son and a daughter, less than ten years old, separated from his father, was also sent by his grandmother to hunt down and kill, but the killer mercy of his siblings poor, then kill the blood of chickens coated with knives back to the court report pin business. Brother Jinlian, sister Yuxiang, wandering around, begging for a living, looking for their father, one night siblings dream of a fairy to show the way, teaching them to perform "Lotus incense" song and dance, said that only in this way to attract visitors, looking for their father's whereabouts, the siblings woke up, according to the dream, and from now on no longer lack of food and drink.
Tujia New Year's Eve
New Year's Eve, is the custom of each ethnic group over the Spring Festival, as the Tujia settlement Enshi area, since the Qing Yongzheng "land reclassification", by the greater influence of the Han culture, its customs and culture and the Han customs convergence, the formation of a strange and special New Year's Eve culture.
Killing the New Year's Eve pig, making bacon
Killing the New Year's Eve pig is a celebratory event in the year of the Tujia people, not only can you have a good year after killing the pig, but also is the usual hospitality to guests and the whole family of a year of grease and water security, the Tujia people to kill the New Year's Eve pig, the first to look at the day, and then ask the butcher, the butcher will be the pig to kill the pig to scratch the pig's nose and then planing to wash the meaning of the pig, but I broke the phase of the pig, and then will not be turned into a pig by the murder, actually this knife is the butcher's knife to the pig, and the pig is not a pig, but a pig. In fact, this knife is the butcher's psychological comfort for the "sin" of killing too many.
After the pig is cleaned, the butcher will divide it into pieces, if the family has a son who has become a bride or a bridegroom, he should "beat the elbow", generally use the hind leg, and the front and back legs of the family with more sons are used, and the family is good enough to beat the elbow with the spine, and the weight is heavier, and the family is poor enough to beat the elbow with the spine and the weight will be lighter, and these elbows will be lighter, and they will be more comfortable. Will be lighter, these elbows are for the son to the father-in-law to pay tribute to the gift prepared, have elbows to eat, is the Tujia have a daughter of the family's great pride, said who ate elbows, will know who the daughter of the family put people.
Killed a pig, the host family to entertain the butcher and friends and relatives a meal, generally do not use the pig's body meat, only not good to clean up the "collar meat" (pig neck) and hit the elbow after the edge of the meat, hoo this meal has a not so good name, called to eat "shaved soup The meal had a bad name, called eating "shavings soup". After the butcher and his friends and relatives leave, the main family begins to curing bacon, before curing to hit the red pot, that is, the iron pot burns red. Pork skin side of the red pot on the brand, so that a whole clean meat skin in the hair feet, two is meat kang wax and then eat, with a hot water soak a scrape clean, cook up is also easy to cook, the curing of meat is also very conscientious, will be the raw salt frying, shaking on the pepper, put a layer of meat in a pot or tank, wipe a layer of pepper salt, curing for seven days or so, and then up the cylinder hanging in front of the stove or fire on the smoked kang.
Playing poi shoot mash
To the end of the waxing moon, the Tujia people busy playing poi, shoot mash, ready for the New Year, poi has three kinds, one said patty cake, the second said that the Indian shells, the third said that the freezing poi. Patty is steamed glutinous rice, or pounded with a pestle and mortar, or pestle, mallet smashing, or with a sharpened bamboo handle to poke and knead, the glutinous rice into a whole mud, now sub-pinched into a ball, extruded into a cake or in a special wooden mold in the press molding, it is patty cake, the size of the host family to determine the large two or three pounds a pair of small only one or two a two, the large is mainly used to go away from the family as a gift with a sugary confectionery, it looks good and real, the high mountains do not come out! rice, glutinous rice is expensive, to mix some glutinous cereal rice, so that the patties made out of the gold bright color, baked to eat than pure glutinous rice is also sweet, India Sheller is glutinous rice and sticky rice two mixed, some also use sorghum rice, soaked in water and then ground into pulp, into the baggage suspended for one night, most of the moisture hanging loss, called hanging pulp, the hanging pulp into a ball of pinch, squeeze in the mold molding, steaming that is, and therefore the India Sheller also be The frozen rice is a seasonal food unique to the Tujia people of Enshi. In cold weather, the rice is ground into a pulp, half of the fried rice pulp and the other half of the raw pulp is shaken and fermented, then frozen for a few days in the snow and ice, and then pinched into a ball and steamed, which is soft and tasty to eat. The filling, wrapped in rice milk, placed on the monkey chestnut tree leaves steamed into a poop, eat up a different flavor.
La, the first month, into the Tujia people's homes, there is a pot or a jar of water-soaked patties and Indian shells, as long as the water is changed diligently, you can eat over the June is not bad to eat, but also particularly refreshing, so there is a "waxing month to do poop in June to eat" the theory of the Tujia people have also become a dietary experience.
Patting mash is brewing rice wine. This is not only the Tujia New Year's Eve essential food, or to predict the luck of the next year's customs, late Lunar New Year, housewives have to prepare the best glutinous rice, not out of the rice place with glutinous rice instead of glutinous rice, glutinous rice or rice steamed, poured into the dustpan and spread, sprinkled with cool water to stir the loose, and then shaking into the sweet wine quartz, while the heat of the fashion pots, so that the mash billet made in the middle of billet steak into a small kang, the pit around the insertion of a few chopsticks In the middle of the billet, a small kang is inserted, a few chopsticks are inserted around the pit to support it, and then it is wrapped in clean cotton fabric, which is called "out of the nest". Just out of the nest of the mash if the sweet water is full, called floating water more, especially into a ball of mash in the basin can turn, the flavor is particularly sweet, it will be a good sign of the coming year, the fate of the earth, the harvest, the family fortune, the family is happy, if the mash turned red, called "days of reflection", the Lord of the wealth, is even more joyful.
Before and after New Year's Eve, you walk into the Tujia family, entertaining you with fried patties, poi fried meat, if there is a bowl of mash fried meat, it is to treat you as a guest of honor, because the mash fried meat, generally Tujia women give birth to a child to do the "month of the mother of the child", to enjoy the special treatment.
Catch hairy dog
Night of the fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Tujia people put up lanterns, play lanterns Cailian boat, dance dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, mussel shell lamps, jumping swinging hand dance all night long, "Lantern Festival", with the Han Chinese custom. In addition, take the cedar tree branches, set up a shed outside the house to burn, children shouting, "drive hairy dog, drive hairy dog, a drive to the door of the Zhang family's sister-in-law's stove, sister-in-law a fart, the hairy dog is no longer a weapon", so called "drive hairy dog" or "drive hairy". This is a unique custom of Tujia. Speaking of the first day of the first month to take the hairy dog shed to catch the hairy dog, but there is a history. Legend has it that one year on the fifteenth day of the first month, the Jade Emperor drank a few more glasses of wine, in the South Heavenly Gate to see the world, think the nooks and crannies of the foot-hanging buildings, thatched huts ugly, called the fire god down to earth, the foot-hanging buildings, thatched huts are burned da. The Fire God just arrived in the mortal world, followed by the Roof God and the Doorstop God. The God of the Roof and the God of the Door knew that it was not easy for mortals to build houses and buildings, and advised the God of Fire to accumulate some virtue. The Fire God also knows that the Jade Emperor is too much wine, want to play a sloppy, called the heavenly soldiers and generals with firewood and grass in the mountains to build a lot of shacks, light the fire burning. Only to see the smoke and fog, the fire, the mortal world only see the smoke and fire, the children are not clear. The Jade Emperor in the sky to see, thought really burned out the earth's houses. Later, the people of the mortal world are in the first month of the 15th to build a shed to burn, specifically to fool the Jade Emperor. This thatched hut seems to be like the crops to guard the shed of the hairy dog, so it is called to take the hairy dog shed.