Pan Wang is the ancestor of the Yao people, but also the founder of the farming culture, he has a great contribution to the farming culture, he is concerned about the future generations, so the Yao people every place to build Pan Wang Hall to commemorate the ancestor. Now visit the Pan Wang Hall is our Jianghua Yao Autonomous County in 1995, the 40th anniversary of the county celebration, from the original building site Gubu Mountain moved to the county city of Tuojiang scenic Pingtuyan Park, covers an area of 21 acres, a total floor area of 1,300 square meters, is the Yao compatriots at home and abroad ancestor pilgrimage travel tourism resorts.
Now we come to this semi-circular platform, platform on both sides of the two alabaster monuments, the left side of this monument is a carved disk king merit of the rituals, the right side of this monument is a record of the Panwang Hall from the Gubu Mountain relocation through. We look up again, in the main hall of the upper, there is "Panwang Hall" three big golden letters. These three words were inscribed by Fei Xiaotong, a famous sociologist and Vice Chairman of the Standing Committee of the National People's Congress. Stepping on the green stone steps, we can see that the green stone steps are divided into upper, middle and lower levels, each level has twelve steps, which has two meanings: the first one represents the twelve surnames of the Yao people; the second one represents the twelve months of the year. The twelve Yao surnames are: Pan, Shen, Bao, Huang, Li, Deng, Zhou, Zhao, Hu, Tang, Lei and Feng. Now we come to the second part of the Panwang Hall: the sacrificial platform, is the place to burn incense to the ancestors, the so-called sincerity of the spirit of the spirit of a request will be answered.
Bypassing the "sacrificial platform" is the third part of the main hall of Panwang Palace. The main hall is the tallest building in Panwang Hall, 26.2 meters long, 17.8 meters wide, 20.23 meters high, with a total floor area of 466.36 square meters. The ancient colorful paintings on the beams are mainly taken from various Yao folk tales and legends. The main hall is also the location of the statue of Pan Wang, which is 4.5 meters high. The ancestor sits on the altar with kind eyes. Beside him are crossbows and arrows and long drums. This is also the embodiment of the achievements of the king of Pan, who created the first hunting culture in Plow Mountain. Above the statue of Panwang hangs a couplet: "Panwang ancestor carry, woody water must not be forgotten." This was also written by Fei Xiaotong, Vice Chairman of the National People's Congress, when he was 87 years old. Next to the Panwang is Niangniang Huayin, the Third Princess, the wife of the Panwang. Next to the twelve small statues are the children born to Niangniang Huayin and King Pan, i.e., six men and six women, each child with one surname.
The main hall also has four large murals reflecting the history of the Yao people.
The east side of this is the "Pan Wang hunting map". This is a miniature of the hunting economy of the Yao primitive society. In the painting, King Pan took his children and grandchildren hunting in the mountains, found a group of antelope in the dense forest, King Pan led the way to chase, from the dense forest to the cliff side. At that moment, the antelope jumped from this side of the cliff to that side of the cliff, and King Pan quickly released an arrow from this side of the cliff, hitting the antelope. The king was so focused on the arrow that he didn't pay attention to the stone under his feet, and accidentally rolled down the cliff with the loose stone, and was unfortunately stabbed to death by the fork of a catalpa tree under the cliff. Pan Wang's children and grandchildren of the grief, the catalpa tree cut down hollow, peeled off the antelope's skin in the two heads, made of long drums to beat, in order to show for the Pan Wang revenge. This also gave rise to a folk dance ---- long encouragement widely circulated among the Yao people. Now, Jianghua Yao long encouragement has successfully declared the provincial intangible cultural heritage.
The Long Encouragement and the Short Encouragement with Sheep's Horns on the north side reflect the colorful culture of the Yao people. The long drum dance shows 'mainly the three major life contents of Yao people's clearing land and planting, cutting down trees to build houses and making long drums, but also imitates their own forms and sacrificial rituals. During the dance, the drum is held in the left hand and struck by the right hand, accompanied by suona and gongs and drums. The dancers are usually two men and two women, and each movement is done once in the southeast, northwest and north, which is called a set, and there are generally 72 sets. Each item of content before and after the connection, and each independent chapter, simple and sincere, full of interest, can be said to be a narrative poem of the life of the Yao people. Highly skilled long encouragement on the square table performance. Long drum dance in the style of "literary fight", "martial arts". The "Wen Ta" is more stable, with tiny tremors, gentle and soft, and a slower rhythm, which is more common among the Yao people who live in hilly areas. The "Wuda" is more active, with jumping movements, fast tempo and a lot of changes in patterns, and it is mostly performed by the Yao who live in the high mountainous areas. Now, the long encouragement to a new look in the art stage, inspire people to move forward.
The west side is the "floating across the sea", reproducing the Yao ancestors migrated from the scene of life. Legend has it that in ancient times, the Yao people left Chijiazhuang and traveled by boat across the sea, encountering great winds and waves. The boat could not dock for three hundred and sixty-five days in the sea and was in danger of being capsized. In order to survive, the Yao people knelt down on the boat and made a big wish to King Pan: "Please bless your children and grandchildren to cross the sea safely, and we will thank King Pan after landing." All of a sudden, the wind and waves calmed down, and the boat docked. This day was the 16th day of the 10th lunar month, which was also the birthday of King Pan. So people every year on the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar, worship Pan Wang, to celebrate the newborn. 1984, by the Yao Research Institute decided to study the sixteenth day of the tenth month of the lunar calendar every year, officially designated as the entire Yao **** with the festival.
Legend has it that Pan Wang is a courtier of the King of Evaluation, the King of Evaluation and the high king of the war, the King of Evaluation out of the reward: who obtained the high king of the head, to give a heavy reward, and give the three princesses as his wife. The first Yao ancestor, Discus, was summoned to the battlefield and retrieved the head of the High King. As a result, he was rewarded with the wife of the Third Princess, and was appointed as the king of the "Ten Treasures Hall on Mount Huiji in Nanjing". The king and the three princesses love each other, and have six men and six women, and pass on the twelve names of the Yao tribe.
Through the main hall is the fourth part - the spirit seat pavilion. There is a stone tablet engraved with the words "The Spiritual Position of King Pan". This is the place where the descendants of the Yao tribe offer incense and sacrifices to Pan Wang, praying for peace and happiness.
The fifth part of the Panwang side hall - Yao footstools to feel the ancient folk customs of the Yao people. This east and west two footstool is the Yao history of the showroom, displaying the leaders at all levels of the inscription, Yao production and living utensils, ceremonies, marriage customs, cultural activities and military objects and photos, with a visual approach to reproduce the long history and culture of the Yao people.
Come to the east room, may attract your attention is the top of the Yao family flower bridge, there is no one who wants to do a Yao bride? The first level of being a Yao bride is to be able to sing mountain songs and Yao songs. Men and women are free to choose their partners and fall in love through singing, and their parents never interfere. There are forms of singing, such as "sitting in the song hall", "singing across the mountain", and "male-female duet" in which men and women face each other. The love and affection of men and women are expressed in the songs. "Take the basket" is a way for young Yao people in hilly areas to choose objects. Whenever the dike festival, groups of girls carrying exquisite small bamboo basket, covered with a machine-made handkerchief, wandering around the dike. Young men also deliberately dress up and rush to the dike. When fancy a certain girl, it will take advantage of its "unguarded", her basket away, buy snacks into the basket, and then turn to the girl side, so they are out of the dike field to the field of the song to go. After the song, the girl to return to the basket, about a good day to meet again. To the date of the date, the girl is still holding a bamboo basket, singing songs to meet with the young man. At this point, the boy once again took the basket from the girl's hands. If the girl fancy young man, the bamboo basket will have a pair or several pairs of shoes she made for her lover. Bamboo basket so a "take" a "send", until the love is ripe. Both sides in contact, mutual acquaintance, understanding, love, and then through the consent of both parents, the formal engagement. Those who are freely united in this way will never be divorced, reflecting the loyalty of the Yao people to love. There is another remarkable feature of the marriage customs in Yao township - the recruitment of a groom (into the family). "Recruitment is the most common form of marriage in the high mountain areas, and has been passed down to this day. Yao women enjoy a relatively high status in the society, and usually do not marry outside, but stay at home to "ask for husbands". They mainly recruit men of their own ethnic group, and some of them also recruit men of the Han or other ethnic groups as "lang". Therefore, there is no daughter of the family, but also often to "pick up" a girl, after growing up, "recruiting Lang door," the continuation of the family. In the marriage, and there are "two do not open up the clan" and "men from women's surnames" points. "Two do not open the Zong" commonly known as "both sides go", that is, after marriage, both men and women's family production and life should be taken care of, both sides of the production in the female family, living half a month or a month, and then to the male family production, living half a month or a month, and so on and so forth. Throughout the year, both husband and wife take care of two families, truly achieving equality between men and women and caring for each other. The first child born takes the mother's name, the second takes the father's name, and so on. "Men take women's surnames" means that when a man goes to a woman's home, he changes his name and takes the woman's surname. When they get married, the man only pays a small amount of bride-price, and some men also want the woman to buy clothes and other things, and all the children they have take the woman's surname. There are also a few couples who change each other's surnames.
Pan Wang created the first farming culture, has become an important part of the Chinese farming culture, especially in the creation of the Pan Wang in the process of cultivating the culture of the mountain distilled from the spirit of hard work, self-improvement has become a symbol of the spirit of the Chinese nation.
Finally, we came to the sixth part - Yao Feng Yuan, the real epitome of Yao Feng back to simplicity.
In the Yao Style Garden, "Yao Village Thatched Corridor" and "Clear Springs and Waterfalls" show the natural ecology of Jianghua's beautiful mountains and rivers; "Squatter Hunting Interest", "Silhouettes of Plowing" reproduces the ancient charm of the Yao people's plowing culture; "Ancient City Beacon" brings us into the glorious history of Yao people's anti-feudalism and anti-imperialism; "Ancient Cars in Mountain Stream", "Fishing in Lotus Pond" and "Wooden Houses in Deep Mountain" let us appreciate the long history and customs of the Yao people; the long drums and Yao songs in "Bonfire Yao Rhythm" are the colorful The long drums and Yao songs in the "Bonfire Yao Rhythm" are the colorful Yao culture and art; Yao Ridge style will leave you an unforgettable scene and beautiful memories.
Friends, the open Jianghua welcome you, the beautiful Yao Mountain embrace you, may you this Panwang Hall a tour, leaving you a wonderful memory of life.
My explanation ends here, thank you!