Fengting Lantern Tour custom since the Song Dynasty Wei Cheng to the present day, from the first month of the lunar calendar on the thirteenth to seventeenth, by the market town area of Xiaqiao, Xia Street, Lan You, Bachelor, and other four communities and Xia Street, the North Gate of the natural village in turn. Every night, the residents participate in the lantern activities of more than 300 to 1,000 people, more than 20-30 programs; from the province and overseas to watch the lanterns of more than 30,000 to 40,000 people. 2008, "Fengting Lantern Lantern Lantern Customs" was listed as the national intangible cultural heredity masterpieces.
Fengting Lantern Festival has a long history, and is said to have originated in the Northern Song Dynasty during the Qingli years (1046), when the Fengting people in the dynasty for the government, they are rich in characteristics of the lantern temple in Kyoto lamp style back to their hometowns, and hometown of the Lantern Festival combination of innovation, the formation of a unique regional flavor of the Lantern Festival. "
The festival of lanterns of Fengting has been a great success in the ancient times, and in June 2008, the custom of Fengting Lantern Festival was included in the list of intangible cultural heritages at the national level.
Red plum to welcome the spring, the spring melt, the first month of the lunar calendar from 13 to 17 days, Fengting dressed in festive attire, from the foot of the Tower Doo Hill to the Xiaqiao community, from Caixiang Mausoleum to Lan You Street, from the bachelor's Longshu Shed to the Song Dynasty ancient Ly Chiling, everywhere, high lights, flags fluttering, fireworks such as a rainbow, fireworks colorful, appeared in the "city of the lanterns, 10,000 households empty alleys! The moving landscape of the "city of lanterns, ten thousand empty alleys. A stream of people like the tide from all directions to the North Gate Square. At night, at eight o'clock, by hundreds of colorful cars and motorcycles composed of the team, along the brilliant lights of the market slowly marching forward on the new road, colorful cars on the tweeter playing a beautiful and pleasant music, large banners glittering colorful large horizontal strips and pictures, thousands of young and strong men and women to hold up the exquisite and colorful "flower pots lamps lamps", "nine carp leaping lamps", "centipede to drive away evil spirits lamps," "pine umbrella lamps "," a hundred plays colorful frame lamps "," running horse story lamps "," the "light", the "light", the "light". ", "Horse Running Story Lantern" ...... is like a vast dragon tumbling and swimming. A tractor delicately decorated with traditional folk opera characters, such as "Goddess of the Straits", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Spring Grass intrudes into the Hall", "Cai Xiang", "Eugenics" and the modern atmosphere of "famous, special, excellent products" and Fengting Industrial Park, township enterprises modeling, the image of the ancient town of the economic and cultural construction of the cause of the booming development. Double lion fun, double dragons play pearls, jade rabbit blessing, skillful, imposing. The spectacular women's marching band, Recommends drum team and waist drum team are even more eye-catching, and the youthful charm of "Half the Sky" riding on the business trip is the only one who is not envious. There are also witty performances by men dressed as women, singing and dancing, and dancing on the street, making people laugh. Unprecedented Lantern Festival, each program is poured Fengting people's wisdom and hard work, to show the charm of ancient and modern lantern art. No wonder the emperor of the Song Dynasty, the imperial chariot to watch the lanterns, inscribed poem "invited to the night of the yuan without a double view, leading the first spring of the Feng River" praise.
The magnificent light festival touched Chinese and foreign guests, overseas Chinese, Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan compatriots also enjoy the Fengting Festival of Lights artistic style, attached to "the moon is the hometown of the bright, the lights is the hometown of the red" of the hometown, hometown feelings. Putian, Hui'an and Leicheng, Lai store, Pungtou, Longhua and other towns and cities drove to Fengting into the trend of viewing the lights. At the end of the Qing Dynasty, the situation was turbulent. In addition to the black and white flag strife, more people are not happy. At this time by the lotus pearl village, Donglin village, such as the first initiated, Xiajiang village actively participate in the secret tandem activities, and gradually united with the village of Xiujiao, Dongding village, Cangxi village to form a "six townships" as the main body of the civil self-defense organizations. Formation of "Baohe Tang", enshrining the famous patriotic general Yang Wulang (Yang Gong Taishi) of the Song Dynasty, publicizing Weizhong Weixiao, loyalty and love for the people, and promoting the fine traditional culture of the Chinese nation to "protect the border and protect the people," "and harmony with the townships. "for the purpose of promoting good and suppressing evil, resisting the strong and supporting the weak, correctly dealt with the then extremely intricate "black and white flag" strife, to turn the war into peace, to create an environment of harmony with the surrounding villagers **** place. The reputation is growing, the prestige is growing, the influence is growing, the development of 36 townships. 1985, there is also a 鈥墘厝, under the horse two villages to join, become 38 townships, the population of nearly 50,000 people.
Every Lantern Festival, Fengting Township, Linshan Palace in the territory of the 38 natural villages are routinely out of the tour, tour light ceremony, the number of participants reached more than 2,000 people, the activities lasted three days, out of the tour distance of more than 50 kilometers, the middle of the village of the 2 places. When the tour, to "Soap Clerks Dance" in front of the lead to open the way, followed in turn by the arrangement of gongs, lamps, colorful flags, banners, palace flags, gold claw axe money, dragon and tiger flags, deacons, gun classes, pipe bands, horsemen, dragon dance, lion dance, eight classes, the God of the pawns, high-ranking officials, low officials, incense Pavilion, the sedan chair, as well as all kinds of colorful driving team, all the way to the Hao Hao, very spectacular. Zhuzhai is the collective name of Hai'an Village, Haibin Village and Heping Village." Zhu Zhai parade, also known as Zhu Zhai Palace tour, to Fengting dozens of villages in the eastern part of the village surnamed Zhu, held a collective "tour" street activities. Tour time, generally in the New Year's Day to the end of the month before the end of the first month, the farmers by agricultural leisure, to carry out a large-scale mass cultural and entertainment parade. The parade team of men and women to participate voluntarily, the elderly have octogenarian old man, the young have 5-6 years old children, thousands of people lined up, all the way to the flags, drums and music, the viewers of the road, very lively. The parade team has: gongs and lanterns, colorful flags, banners, flags, publicity signs, ancient bronze, dragon and tiger flags, deacons, put things, flower stretcher, ten sound, eight music, car drum team, military bands, look at the horse team, get the dragon, get the lion, the eight classes, soaps, God pawns, flag officers, high officials, short officials, incense pavilion, sedan chair, as well as all sorts of masquerade historical figures, the parade team is in good order, the participants in most of the travelers in disguise, there is the ancient dragon robe, phoenix crown, swords, bow and arrow, there are contemporary suits, very lively. Swords and arrows, contemporary suits and clogs, long shirts and short skirts, men and women with the same music, the old and young with the spring. Along the way, sounding gongs and drums, singing and dancing, *** Celebration of peace and prosperity, the new wave of disco dance, men and women dancing, friendship dance, have teamed up, or dance on the ground, or dance on stage, or dance while walking, and the ancient soap Li dance, walking sedan chair dance, cool umbrella dance, as well as get the Dragon Dance, song and dance, the fusion of the ancient and modern, the various show off their style, reflecting the townspeople to welcome the auspiciousness and blessing of the festival of joy and its rich and colorful folk culture, y reflecting the richness of the local community, the local culture, the local people, the village people and the community. It y reflects the rich local folk characteristics and the rich history of traditional folk culture.
The Tongying fire stomping is one of the major features of Zhuzhai parade, Tongying fire stomping has a long history, every time Zhuzhai parade Bodhisattva back to the palace, Tongying fire stomping is staged in front of Zhuzhai Grand Palace. According to the tradition of Zhu Zhai Palace will first build up a large pile of wood, wood pile pressure has tribute silver talisman, etc., in the parade team back to the Palace before the ignition of the pile of wood, to be the fire will pile of wood burned into charcoal, five or six children in turn out of the Ying, barefoot stepped on top of the pile of fire, without the slightest scald, such as the gods of the King Kong blessed the general, the Ri people of the strange also. The first out of the children's English hand-held flag, horizontal and vertical step over the fire, and then five or six children's English a successive Zhu Zhai Dagong ran out to step over the fire, week after week, stepped on the field dozens of times, the crowd close to see the deep sense of the heat of the fire, and more admirable step on the fire of the courage of the children's English. "Dongzhai Temple Fair", is the Fengting Town, Dongzhai Village, the next social village, the village of the head of the mountain, the village of the south of the stream, the village of the north of the stream and the town of Jiaowei dye Chu Village, Tangbian Village, the village of the ancient lion and other 53 natural villages to hold the worship of the Lord of the gold, the 10th Yama King of the folklore activities.
From the Tang to the Song Dynasty, 66 people from Dongzhai were on the scholar list. At the end of the Tang Dynasty, Yongchun people stayed in Chihuzhaizhai (now Fengting Dongzhai Village), and later in the Fifth Dynasty, they were awarded the title of King of Jinjiang; Cai Jing, a Chiling man, was appointed as a prime minister five times, and his brother Cai Bian was a prime minister in the same dynasty; Cai Xiang, a doctor of the Duanming Temple in the Song Dynasty, lived here; and Chen Zheng, the vice lieutenant of Inscription Guards of the Tang Dynasty, was buried in the Chihuzhaizhu Tomb Tou (today's Dongzhaizhu Village Fruit Farm) after his death. The rich historical and cultural deposits have influenced the folk belief activities and are the important foundation for the formation of "Dongzhai Temple Fair".
Liu from the effect of moving to stay in the village settlement, had for the village rituals and prayers for the gods to donate the "worship stone" a, is still preserved; Cai Jing, Cai Bian ancestral tomb is located in the north of Dongzhai Village, under the hill of the goat corner Zhai. Every year, Qingming, winter solstice rituals to sweep the tomb has become an essential ritual of the Cai family, these rituals contributed to the formation of the "Dongzhai temple fair" folk customs, and generations of inheritance and development.
Dongzhai Temple in the Tang and Song years was originally a small temple, is the local people believe that the common gods and places of worship. Legend has it that during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, flooding occurred here, and a scroll of paintings floated from the upper reaches of the river and hung on a tree. Since then, a few nights in a row, the surrounding townspeople are heard from the small temple came out of the Division He Temple, pass the sound of dao ascension, the townspeople are surprised. So they found the scroll and decided that it must be a manifestation of the painting. Immediately, Chen Qingyun, a ziang student, mobilized the people to rebuild Dongzhaemiao. Since then, Dongzhaemiao has been flourishing, and the number of believers has expanded from 5 palaces (5 villages) to 53 palaces (53 villages), and a large number of believers from overseas have also come to worship, and the scale of the temple fair is even more spectacular. On the 18th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar, and on the 1st day of the fifth month of the Lunar Calendar every year, believers from 53 villages gather at Dongzhaemiao to hold grand temple fair activities. During the temple fair, the East House Temple organizes lantern tours, idol parades and sacrificial activities.
"Dongzhai Temple Festival" rituals, in the temple lanterns and colorful feast, set up three fasts and six fruits, three sacrifices and five kuey teow, worship worship enshrined in the ten Yanwang and Jin Dajin and other gods. Outside the temple, a stage is set up for the performance of a drama and the playing of the Ten Sounds and Eight Music, which lasts for three days. Believers from 53 villages and all sides of the root believers in this incense worship, music donations margin gold, burning tribute silver, firecrackers, thank God, pray for peace and good luck, good weather, national prosperity, local wealth.
"Dongzhai Temple Fair" held on the 16th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year Lantern Festival activities, the main temple within the six villages organized by the East House, a string of 10 per household, each village connected to a group of lamps, to participate in the tour of the lamps up to more than 1,000 people, lamps by the headlamps, plaques guide, the band interspersed with, the tour of the lamps team all over the Dongzhai village of the main village road, the whole 5 km. The main village road, the whole 5 kilometers. Crossing the village believers burning incense, with a band to receive, and lighting fireworks, firecrackers, welcome the transit. Each sub-spiritual temple lantern activities held at the same time in the local. On the 18th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the first day of May, "Dongzhai Temple Fair" held statue parade activities, organized by the main temple board of trustees carrying palanquins, statues, sounding the gong to open the way, plaques, flags, banners, deacons, soap, eight classes, God pawns, horsemen, guns, bands, and play the story of the historical figures of the literary team composed of the vast procession, the participants of more than 1,000 people. Participants amounted to more than 1,000 people, from the main temple tour, touring the East House, the next community, the head of the mountain, Xinan, Xibei and other villages, a journey of 10 kilometers. Passed by the temple set up incense, with a band to welcome, transit village believers also welcome, fireworks, firecrackers, burning silver tribute, and for the statue of the gods hanging beans music donation. The road is crowded with spectators and is very lively.
"Dongzhai temple fair" after a thousand years, it retains the unique characteristics of folk traditional beliefs in the Xinghua area folk culture, is an important basis for the study of local beliefs and customs, for the protection of folk culture, rich and active cultural life in rural areas, to promote the people's unity and build a harmonious society has an important role in promoting. In May 2013, approved by the Putian Municipal People's Government, "Dongzhai Temple Fair" was included in the fourth batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage list.