----- research on the Yellow River Lantern Festival of traditional culture in Pishan Village, Wuan City, Hebei Province
President Hu emphasized: "The national spirit is the spiritual support on which a nation relies for its survival and development. In more than 5,000 years of development, the Chinese nation has formed a great national spirit of unity and solidarity, peace-loving, industriousness and courage, and self-improvement with patriotism at its core. Our Party has led the people to enrich this national spirit in the course of long-term practice, taking into account the requirements of the times and the development of society. In the face of the mutual agitation of all kinds of thoughts and cultures in the world, it is necessary to promote and cultivate the national spirit as an extremely important task of cultural construction, and to incorporate it into the whole process of national education and the construction of spiritual civilization, so as to make all the people maintain a vigorous and upward spiritual state at all times.
To this end, I interviewed Wen Xuefang, secretary of the village party committee, whose introduction of some traditional culture about the lantern festival benefited me a lot, and the following are the results. According to Wen's introduction:
The name of the village is Eshanshan, according to the local villagers, from the Three Kingdoms period, Cao Cao's generals died here in battle, and when he died in battle, his two horses also died side by side (or were they buried side by side?), so the name "Eshanshan" was given to the village, and the village was named "Eshanshan Village".
The name "Pian" was given to this place because it was a place where the two horses died side by side (or were buried side by side?).
The Yellow River Lantern Festival is a folklore tradition in Pishan Village with a history of several hundred years. On the 17th day of the first month, the whole village will come out to entertain themselves with various performances during the daytime, such as opera competitions, table-carrying tours and street performances. In the evening, the Yellow River Lantern Array will be set up, and the whole village will sing and dance around the array, set up huge bonfires, fireworks and lanterns to pray for the village's good luck and well-being in the coming year.
The village is located in the northern suburb of Wuan City, 1.5 kilometers, the village was built in the Tang Dynasty, the village **** more than 1,300 residents, more than 4,500 people. the morning of February 14, the reporter came to the village of the Eshan to visit the preparations for the Jiuqu Yellow River lanterns.
On the tenth day of the first month of the year, many villagers are busy hanging lanterns and lanterns in front of their homes and on both sides of the street. In the center of the village street, six big pagodas have been erected skeleton. They said, tomorrow and two days will be installed on the top of all kinds of agricultural tools and colorful lamps, arranged as a "flower house"
In the village west of an open space, some old people are in accordance with the drawings of the stakes set up "Jiuqu Yellow River Lantern Festival" site. Although the shape of the formation is not yet clear, but inside the twists and turns of the route has been dazzling. According to reports, the Yellow River array from the first nine days of the first month of the groundbreaking, the first fourteen days of the first month can be completed to test the light.
Village cadres Zhang Zhenhai said, in order to prepare for this year's Lantern Festival, the village can be said to be every household all out, each with their own tasks, which build the pagoda and layout of the Yellow River Array workload is the largest, with the most people.
365 wooden stakes cloth into a maze of the Yellow River array; lighting each stake on the lamp, heralded every day bright; and smooth out of the "nine curves and eighteen bends", is a symbol of day-to-day smooth. On the 17th day of the first month, Wuan City, Handan, Tushan Township, Eshan Village, will hold a full flavor of the ancient folk activities - nine curved Yellow River Lantern Festival. During the day, thousands of villagers perform all kinds of folk arts and crafts; at night, nearly 10,000 people swim around the "chain of lights array", praying for the new year's wind and rain.
According to some old people in the village, the "Nine Quarter Yellow River Lantern Festival" is not a simple lantern display, not only a powerful "chain of lanterns", there are also exciting folk art performances.
The day of the lanterns, that is, the first month of the 17th morning from 9 to 11 o'clock, the village and the surrounding ten miles of dozens of theater will gather in front of the Temple of the Nine Masters on the square, thousands of artists at the same time on the stage competition, to perform for all of us dancing dragons, donkeys, dry boat, stilts, rice-planting songs, songs and dances, acrobatics, and other folklore.
According to the old party members, the most worthwhile part of the lanterns is the six "flower houses" that were temporarily built in the village. From the seventh day of the first month of the year, some old artists have been busy, they first use scaffolding to build a huge skeleton of five or six meters high, and then the plow, rake, spade, as well as hoe, sickle and other agricultural tools installed on the herald of a bumper agricultural harvest. Six pagodas built, but also with red cloth, lanterns, cypress branches, paper flowers, colored lights and other materials, will be dressed up as a colorful large flower basket. After the lights, in hundreds of colored lights, each pagoda looks brilliant, dazzling.
After watching the wonderful folk art performances and enjoying the starry lanterns and pagodas, the next is the grand finale of the "Nine Quarters of the Yellow River Lantern Festival" - the "Nine Quarters", which is also known as the tour around the Yellow River by locals. The local people also known as touring around the Yellow River array.
Wen Xuefang, secretary, said the so-called Yellow River Formation, in fact, is the first drawings on the ground, and then use 365 1-meter-long wooden poles, inserted into the different directions according to the map, the wooden poles are connected to the rope, which is laid out as a maze of square formations. The top of each stake and then paste a cylinder with five-color paper, the cylinder into a lamp, 365 days a year, every day bright. In the central position, there is also a 15-meter-high pole, the villagers called "old pole", the pole on the dragon and phoenix. And the corners of the square, respectively, there are four 5-meter-high wooden poles, symbolizing the four seasons of the year.
Around 9:00 p.m., 365 lights in the Yellow River Formation were lit at the same time, and various fireworks began to be set off around the scene, the atmosphere was hot. At this time, each troupe of gongs and drums to the entrance to gather, ready to lead the crowd around the "chain of lights array".
After the start of the "Nine Quarters", visitors can carry a lantern and follow the troupe into the array, while watching the artists perform and the surrounding fireworks, while feeling the "Yellow River Formation" of the wonders, it can be said that it is a lot of fun. Turning to the center of the square formation, people have to jump up and touch the "old pole", praying to get rid of diseases and prolong life. If you don't touch the light poles on both sides and get out of the labyrinth smoothly, it is a sign that everything will go well in the future.
The Yellow River formation laid down by Eshan Village this year covers an area of nearly four acres, and the winding roads within the formation add up to about one kilometer in length, taking more than an hour to go the whole way.
According to some old artists in Pushan Village, the "Nine Quarters of the Yellow River Lantern Festival" is an ancient folklore activity that has been passed down in the north. According to legend, at the end of the Shang Dynasty, Jiang Ziya beat the soldiers of the Shang Zhou Dynasty into retreat. In order to defend himself against Jiang Ziya, the Shang Dynasty's master Wen Zhong asked his friend Zhao Guangming to help him, but Zhao Guangming was unfortunately killed in battle. Zhao's three sisters, in order to avenge the death of their brother, set up the complex and varied Nine Quarters Yellow River Formation for Jiang Ziya to break through, and in the end, the three of her unfortunately also died in the formation. In order to commemorate that period of history, the descendants evolved the Nine Quarters Yellow River Formation into a Spring Festival amusement activity.
The Jingshan Village's Jiuqu Yellow River Lantern Festival has lasted for more than 700 years, and is the largest and best preserved in the surrounding villages. In recent years, with the development of the local economy, the village of Pishan "nine curves of the Yellow River Lantern Festival" can be said to run more and more red hot, last year
March, Handan municipal government has Pishan Yellow River Lantern Festival formally included in the second batch of municipal intangible cultural heritage projects.
Zhang Zhenhai, a village cadre, said that from this year onwards, the village decided to invest more money to buy more new-style colored lanterns and lanterns, and strive to make the lantern fair bigger and more ornamental.
Folk beliefs and folk traditions, belonging to the category of popular culture as opposed to the elegant culture, in the folk more far-reaching influence, which is not suitable for the modern social life of the dregs, but also play a variety of positive social functions of the positive factors, is to build a harmonious society indispensable to the important content. The state should allow the reasonable existence of folk beliefs, encourage the restoration of healthy folk traditions, and give full play to the positive and healthy factors in folk beliefs and folk traditions, such as entertainment, cultivation of **** life, and harmonization of psychological conflicts. In recent years, some scholars have advocated that some traditional festivals be set as legal holidays, which the state should take seriously and respond positively.
From the perspective of targeted solutions to the ideological problems of different social groups and a more scientific way of governing, the Chinese ****productivity party can be more active in promoting traditional culture and formulate a more scientific, rational, refined and effective traditional culture policy. Flexible and effective application of traditional cultural strategies will surely enable traditional culture to play a more positive and effective role in the process of building a moderately prosperous life and a harmonious society in China, will surely make the party's ruling strategy more perfect and its ruling foundation more consolidated, and will surely promote the Chinese ****productivity party's leading the whole nation to realize the wealth and strength of the state, the revitalization of the nation, the harmony of the society, and the happiness of the people.