"Climbing the knife ladder", also known as the mountain of knives, is an ancient national folklore activities, circulating in Zhanjiang City, Ma Zhang District, Taiping Town, Kirin Village, aiming to drive away the evil spirits, pray for peace. Every year on February 11th and 12th of the lunar calendar for the year, the main content of the tour of the gods, walking sedan chair, climb the knife ladder, over the sea of fire and so on. One of the "climb
Knife ladder" is a unique project, that is, in the flat ground erected 18 meters high symmetrical wooden ladder, 36 sharp shiny steel knives were diagonally tied to the wooden ladder on the two sides, known as the "knife ladder". Barefoot bare palm performers in the cheerful suona, gongs and drums, firecrackers, hand grasping the blade, feet step on the blade, step by step to climb to the top of the knife ladder. The steel blade is incredibly sharp, but the performer's hands and feet are unharmed. The village has always been the annual lunar calendar 11, 12, "annual" as the supreme festival. "Climbing the ladder of knives" is the main event of the festival, which is divided into four parts: sacrificing the ladder, setting up the ladder, climbing the ladder and collecting the ladder. In the evening, a fire show is held. The charcoal in the fire pit in the village square has been burning red for more than four hours. At around 4:00 a.m., the priest wields a short sword and gently picks up the red-hot plow head, then bites the tip of the plow head tightly with his teeth and walks around the pile of charcoal. Then another priest led the lads through the fire barefoot without a single burn victim.
Ma Zhang District, Taiping Town, Tongming Harbor Village is the Ming and Qing dynasties Leizhou Marine Division camp White Pigeon Walled. Mangrove forests in the harbor, hundreds of fishing boats connected, the shore is preserved with more than 400 years of history, "Xuanfeng" temple, the temple has many cultural relics. The villagers are the descendants of the garrison left behind, *** there are 48 different surnames, but the village style is simple, the villagers have been living in harmony for generations, the village to preserve many valuable cultural relics, such as hexagonal wells, farewell monument, etc., the city is a rare place to look for the ancient.
Taiping Town, Luzhai Village is a new rural construction in full swing, the old village well-protected model. Outside the village there is a well-protected mangrove forest, the shore of a temple in the preservation of a piece of the Qing Jiaqing years the court set up to protect the mangrove monument, it is understood to be the earliest records found so far to protect the mangrove forest. Lvzhai old village is well protected as a whole, an old well in front of the village is still sweet and clear, an alley where more than ten big families live in the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, both sides of the residential building art is unique, and the wealth of the past is vaguely recognizable, walk to the end of the alley, pick up the stairs is a "flying dragon in the sky" of the ancient tree. The other side of the ancient tree is a microcosm of the city's brilliant achievements in new rural construction, a small building rose, public **** place in the theater, stadium, pavilions, stone fountains are complete. It is a good place to compare the old and the new, the ancient and the modern.
Nanbianyuan Village filial piety Xiang Gong far-sighted, proficient in geography, the public see this place Nanbianyuan Village terrain dignity, the mountain capacity towering Cui came, and after the negative mountain undulating turn bay situation, facing the small river flow, its ins and outs from the east and the west have dozens of miles long, north and south and the spring rolls and flows to the deep sea is the front of the scene, the left is a green dragon to hold and protect the right has a white tiger to defend the obvious far tidal wave of the Hohan Dragon is the right and Broker points towards the natural, its fertile soil and the beauty of the field, the public *** place in the theater building, stadium, pavilion, stone fountain. Natural, fertile soil and beautiful fields, can really be called the holy land; Xiaoxiang Gong for the village of South Bien Yuan foundation ancestor, but also Taiping Town, Zheng's ancestor.
Nanbianyuan Village has been flourishing in the future generations, and the descendants are living in Taiping Town, Caokeng Village, Xianpo Village, Xuanwen, Leizhou, Suixi, and all over Zhanjiang, overseas, etc. There are houses and schools moving in, and the family reputation is obvious and famous, and the descendants have many talented people.