What are the customs of Dongyang?

Dongyang Folk Customs

There are many temple fairs in Dongyang. The grandest events in the temple fairs are the welcoming of the Buddha and theater performances. When welcoming the gods, the temple Buddha statue carried out, or another small Buddha statue put in the shape of a pavilion in the Buddha sedan chair (line honors), parade around the street, incense lamps to lead the way, the band to open the way, flags, gongs, umbrellas, Singijeon and other types of ceremonial weaponry in the front, after the cross of the Lotus, twelve flower names, seven flowers, eight holes in the fairy, playing the drums, camel class, stilt team, the Taiwan Pavilion, the big head of the dance and other vaudeville, the lion class, the Luohan class pressure.

Dongyang folk the most sacred Hu Gong Da Di (Hu then). August 13, commonly known as "Hu Gong Da Di" birthday, this day, Wu Ning, Huai Lu, Hengdian, Qianxiang, South Horse are Hu Gong Temple, especially on the Lu Shemkeng and Hengdian Chao Shui Temple Hu Gong Temple will be the most grand. The temple fair in Shemkeng "was also attended by many people from neighboring Xinchang and Zhusheng Districts, and the incense was more prosperous than that of Fangyan in Yongkang. Gradually, they built mopeds, umbrellas, flags, and even cracked silk three or five zhang, tied to a long pole, known as the long flag, each to the gods worshiped in the temple on the first day of the rise, known as the temple, the next day to welcome back, drums and blowers in the lead, and successively graceful, sandy shore, men and women gathered to watch. Wing of the day: 'flags 100,000 shaking thousands of roaches, powder three thousand brocade embankment', as a party victory, no more than that has been". End of the Qing Dynasty, along to the Republic of China, the pomp and circumstance does not diminish, every year there are eighteen ways to welcome the Buddha team in the Shemkeng convergence, breathtaking. Hengdian towards the water temple fair, yongkang, yiwu, jinhua, xianju, tiantai, jinyun merchants come in droves, the eight precious things in the city, folk songs and dances and foreign arts and crafts juggling in a thousand different ways. In particular, three theater three days and nights fighting stage competition, dozens of miles around the hundreds of martial arts Luohan class division.

West House Hu's line Hu then belongs to the lineage, August 13, the village "tea" for the sacrifice of Hu Gong. "Pendulum tea" offerings are rice molding, glutinous rice, sesame, mung beans, mango, red beans as raw materials, glue system bonded into a lion, tiger, elephant, unicorn, deer five livestock, and the eight immortals screen, Kuixing Pavilion, mirage bell tower, Tengwang Pavilion, Guihua Pavilion, Phoenix Terrace, the pagoda, etc., the image of a realistic, reasonable composition, imposing, set building, wood carving, clay sculpture, paper cutting and painting and calligraphy in one furnace.