Tibetan compatriots in Baoxing stony soil, Sichuan Province, danced happily. Liu Zhongjun photo
Ya'an, Feb. 22 (Xinhua) -- On Feb. 22, the "China - stony soil on the nine festival and Baoxing County Tibetan Tihu New Year" celebrations in Baoxing County, Ya'an City, Sichuan Province, kicked off the grand opening. Into the stony soil, the Tibetan people's enthusiasm and boldness came to the face.
"On the ninth festival" is the traditional festival of the Tibetan people in the mountains, every year on the ninth day of the first month of the lunar calendar, Baoxing stony moraine Tibetan compatriots have to hold a variety of lanterns, perform lion dance, dragon dance and other traditional programs.
11:00 noon, I came to the stony moraine Tibetan cottage, the cottage pulled up a symbol of the holiday banner, men, women and children dressed in festive attire, full of wind out of their homes, banging gongs and beating drums, and line up. Walking in front of the team is the dragon lamp, cattle lamp and lion lamp, colorful Tibetan costumes make the flow of people become a gorgeous "ribbon".
13:00, the celebration officially began, "stony soil pot Zhuang", "stony soil on the nine festival", "stony soil original ecological polyphony" has been awarded the provincial and national level Intangible cultural heritage. In addition, the relevant leaders also "stony soil original ecological polyphonic chorus" inheritor issued a certificate.
Subsequently, the "two dragons play pearls", "Erlang cattle"...... a wonderful program in the National Square in turn. Let people enjoy is the program "swan hatching eggs": four large square table overlap, which stands a roll of sunshade tube with a dustpan, head masked performers turn on the overlap of the square table, from the lower end of the sunshade tube into the top from the upper end of the dustpan and out, and then put the dustpan under the feet, and then the dustpan "swan hatching eggs" wonderful performance. Then, in the dustpan, they perform the "swan hatching eggs" performance. Superior skills, clever action, thrilling performance, so that the audience from time to time the heart tightly closed, from time to time open heartedly happy, the crowd continued to burst out of a burst of applause and fierce applause.
Speaking of "on the nine festival", while watching the show with me chatting with Zhang Xu said: as a child, held "on the nine festival" when the cottage held next to each other to watch most of the people of Ya'an, and often split up, see the show here can only miss the other performances. The other performances were missed after watching the performances here. Later, the performance of the place gradually centralized, good program in order to debut, as long as there is time, one will not fall.
"Now, many of those who come to us to watch the show are from outside Ya'an." Pointing at the crowd roaming the mountains, Zhang Xu grinned.
Li Xuequan, who lives in the village of Stony Township, said that the biggest hope of the year is the "last nine festivals". Since I can remember, every year, "on nine festival" he and his friends went around to see the show, "now no longer have to run all over the five cottages to see the program, the National Square, each village good program have, once to see the end." Speaking of this "on nine festival", Li Xuequan's red face swung up a happy smile, "the night jump pot Zhuang, drinking, eating meat."
"Every year, everyone is very happy at the time of the festival, and a lot of young people often get drunk." Li Xuequan said, "I seldom get drunk, my drinking capacity is kilograms, but today I intend to get myself drunk, happy, since I was a child, the first time I saw such a lively 'Shangjiu Festival'."
According to historical records, stony soil Tibetans were first migrated by the nomadic people in the north, with the continuous development and progress of human civilization, affected by Tibetan, Qiang, Chinese culture, Tibetan, Qiang, Chinese civilization continues to integrate, the formation of a unique stony soil Tibetan civilization, although there is a language, but no text, "on the nine festival" how to come to be unknown.
The stony soil Tibetan civilization, although there is a language, but no text, "on the nine festival" is how to come is unknown.
Over the past hundred years, stony soil Tibetan people have been "on the nine festivals" this sacred festival of care, in order to better protect the national culture, protection of the soil nourishing the national culture, in 2006, stony soil Tibetan township "on the nine festivals" was officially listed on the Ya'an Intangible Cultural Heritage List. In 2006, stony soil Tibetan township "on nine festival" was officially included in the Ya'an intangible cultural heritage list, in 2009, stony soil Tibetan township "on nine festival" was officially included in the Sichuan provincial intangible cultural heritage list. "On the nine festival" is also integrated into the stony soil multi-part folk songs, national song and dance performances and other new content, so that "on the nine festival" development into stony soil Tibetan compatriots to show the stage of national culture.
At present, the local authorities are re-collecting, organizing "on the nine festival" archives, in order to further develop and inherit this unique national culture.