Today, the editor will introduce to you the activities of the Yunqiu Mountain Harmony Festival. Maybe you are not very familiar with this event, but this event is indeed very popular here, and many people come here every year. Participate, then, let’s learn about the Yunqiu Mountain Harmony Festival today! Introduction to the Yunqiu Mountain Harmony Festival
In 2011, the Yunqiu Mountain Harmony Festival was included in the third batch of national intangible cultural heritage list announced by the State Council. As the most solemn traditional festival among Chinese people, the Zhonghe Festival has become a cultural festival and tourism festival with certain domestic and international influence. It has become an important window to showcase the unique charm of Shanxi and an important platform to promote exchanges and cooperation.
The fifteenth day of the second lunar month is the official day of the Zhonghe Festival. Every year at this time, hundreds of thousands of people from a radius of hundreds of miles will spontaneously go to Yunqiu Mountain to worship the mountain, offer sacrifices to the gods, and pray for good weather and good grains. Good harvest, prosperous livestock, and multiplication of descendants.
Yunqiu Mountain collects, protects and displays Zhonghe culture. It can be said that Yunqiu Mountain is the last place where Zhonghe culture is inherited in China, and Zhonghe culture is the essence of Yunqiu Mountain’s spiritual civilization. Yunqiu Mountain also attracts tourists from home and abroad to participate in this festival of great significance with its unique charm.
Time: March 20-March 23, 2019, the Yunqiu Mountain Zhonghe Culture (Zhonghe Festival) Tourism Festival will be held grandly in the year of Yihai. Introductory activity guide for the Yunqiu Mountain Zhonghe Festival
This year’s Zhonghe Festival will continue the core concepts of blessed land and wish-fulfilling, with the theme of Yunqiu blessed land and wish-fulfilling neutrality, and hold dozens of folk cultural activities (praying for wishes) Zhonghe - Sacrifice Ceremony and the Opening Ceremony of the Zhonghe Festival, Pray for Heaven - Thousands of People Pray for the Zhonghe Festival, Full of Blessings in Yunqiu - Sign on the Nine Realms of Yunqiu, Blessings in Yunqiu - Receive a blessing tree and plant blessing wishes, Yunqiu Zhonghe Old Temple Fair, Yunqiu Wedding Customs Festival - Whipstick Flower Basket, Yunqiu Zhonghe Wufu Porridge, Yunqiu Zhonghe Flower Bun Exhibition, Yunqiu Mountain Ice Cave Group - Freezing Point Challenge) will bring you a sense of the distant history. Highlight 1 of the event: Praying for Zhonghe - Sacrifice Ceremony and Opening Ceremony of Zhonghe Festival
The fifteenth day of the second lunar month (March 31) is the official day of Zhonghe Festival. On this morning, the sacrifice ceremony will be held as the official day of the Zhonghe Festival. The most solemn ceremony of the Zhonghe Festival will be held grandly in Zhonghe Square. At that time, all three animals and grains are ready, flag bearers line up in formation carrying flags, beat gongs and drums, and the officiant dressed in traditional ethnic costumes reads sacrificial inscriptions, burns incense, prays, brings in sacrifices, and performs music and dance to announce the sacrifice.
Everyone prayed to the Emperor and God to protect the Chinese people from natural and man-made disasters, and to ensure peace and prosperity for the country and the people. This meant that harmony existed and inheritance would continue. The scene was solemn and spectacular. The Yunqiu Mountain Zhonghe Festival preserves the originality of this ancient sacrificial ceremony. This is not only a ceremony, but also an inheritance of history and profound Zhonghe culture.
An important part of the Zhonghe Festival Spring Festival Ceremony - wicker whipping. Wicker whipping is a way for people to plead guilty to the punishment of heaven and earth. It is also an ancient rain-seeking ceremony. The body is whipped with wicker. , people repent for the mistakes they made before, exchange their sincerity for forgiveness from heaven and earth, and pray for good weather, good harvest, abundant food and clothing, peace and auspiciousness in the new year. Beating people with wicker sticks until they bleed is because local people have called the first rain drops of blood for thousands of years. Beating people with wicker sticks until they bleed is the highest expression of sincerity. Highlight 2 of the event: Yunqiu Wedding Ceremony - Whipstick Flower Basket
As soon as the gate of Yunqiu Mountain opened, handsome boys and beautiful girls from four villages and eight villages at the foot of the mountain rushed to Yunqiu Mountain to participate in this annual event. of the event.
A pair of flower baskets and a whip stick interpret the ancient wedding customs in front of us. When the annual Zhonghe Festival comes, the curtain of a wedding stage drama opens. The scenery far and far away changes into a form and is performed leisurely in Yunqiu Mountain. Men and women show themselves through singing and dancing performances. Holding flower baskets or whip sticks in hand, they can experience the wedding customs with Yunqiu ethnic characteristics by gathering at Shenxian Valley to attend meetings, meeting and falling in love at the Ice Cave Group, and celebrating the Yuanyang Bridge.
Highlight 3 of the event: Drink blessing porridge, plant blessing trees, pray for blessings, and bring blessings to Zhonghe
During the Zhonghe Festival from March 20 to April 23, at Wulong Palace Square, people who come to worship the mountain will be worshiped. Tourists at the top cooked Wufu porridge, and on the day of the Zhonghe Festival (the 15th day of the second lunar month), the porridge will be served free of charge 24 hours a day. Wufu porridge is made from five kinds of grains, which symbolizes a good harvest. People who serve the porridge can get five kinds of blessings: longevity, peace of mind, color, strength, and speech. People who drink the porridge can also get blessings; at the same time, it spreads the culture of charity. , let more people participate.
After drinking the blessing porridge, you can go to the Phenology Avenue next to the Babao Palace, get an apricot sapling, plant an apricot blessing sapling, make a good wish, and let happiness and the sapling Thrive together. Highlights 4 of the event: Appreciating folk customs, holding temple fairs, visiting ice caves, and having fun in Yunqiu
The Zhonghe Temple Fair in Yunqiu Mountain has started on March 20. Men, women, old and young can enjoy the temple fair Appreciate Shanxi's local folk performances, watch lively flower drum performances, listen to traditional Pu operas, and visit the Yunqiu food street, which is very lively. If you still want to take a look at the traditional crafts left by your ancestors, you can go to the commercial street to admire the flower bun exhibition with beautiful shapes that symbolize good luck. You can also go to the ice caves to admire icicles, ice bamboo shoots, ice stalactites, and ice stalactites. Stone flowers. Highlight 5 of the event: Thousands of people pray for the Zhonghe Festival, and Yunqiu will bring blessings to all living beings
Yunqiu Mountain is the original mountain of human reproduction and a sacred place for the reproduction of life. The culture of Zhonghe takes root and extends here. It is a wish-fulfillment place for devout mountain people. During the Zhonghe Festival, you can enter Yunqiu Blessing Gate, walk Yunqiu Blessing Road, and collect blessing wishes at the Jiujing Blessing Wall to experience the blessed land culture of Yunqiu Mountain.
The Taoist rituals held in Wulong Palace and Babao Palace, through a series of rituals and rituals, honor heaven and ancestors, let the human body realize the truth of the nature of the Tao, heaven and earth, and at the same time pray for blessings and eliminate disasters for the people. , bless peace.
The Zhonghe Festival reflects people’s good wishes and expectations for life, and also deeply penetrates the core of the Zhonghe spirit of establishing a heart for the world and a life for the people. As the last inheritance place of Zhonghe Festival, Yunqiu Mountain has a deep sense of responsibility and mission for the promotion of Zhonghe culture. With the inheritance and development of Zhonghe culture, Yunqiu Mountain will become more eye-catching and more dazzling!
In this good season when spring returns to the earth, everything is renewed, and grains are sown, I hope to meet you soon. Family and friends come to Yunqiu Mountain to celebrate the Zhonghe Festival! 2019 Yunqiu Mountain Zhonghe Festival opening ceremony performance program list
Song and dance "Looking at the Mountains, Waters and China"
Xiangning folk song "Catching up with the party"
Performance and singing "Looking for my husband's house"
Xiangning folk song "Please come to Yunqiu for a leisurely trip"
Dance "Spring arrives in Yunqiu" "
Male and female duet "Come and see me when the flowers bloom"
Performance and singing "Hug the Salt Shaker"
Song and dance "Blessings for Peace in the Country"
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