Taishan grandmother's birthday March 15 of the lunar calendar is Taishan grandmother's birthday, which is the most important folkloric activities in Tai'an, this time of year to worship the mountain people from all directions, Taicheng people are almost every family must go. If the traveler time is appropriate, do not miss, you can feel the shadow of the ancient people into the incense spectacle.
Dongyue Temple Dongyue Emperor's birthday is March 28, since the Song Dynasty, every year at this time to set up Taishan Temple, in order to sacrifice Dongyue Emperor. Location in Dongyue Temple that is Dai Temple. In addition to worship and prayer activities, later generations gradually increased the content of trade and entertainment activities, serving pilgrims from all directions. The Water Margin" in Yan Qing fight is in Taishan Dongyue Temple.
The current Dongyue Temple Fair will be held from May 6 to 12, generally in the square on the west side of Dai Zong Fang. Temple fair content in addition to normal religious activities, mainly economic and trade activities, tourism and cultural entertainment. In recent years, people come from all directions, and foreign merchants and tourists are also increasing.
Wangmu's Birthday March 3 of the lunar calendar is the birthday of the Queen Mother, every year this time to incense a steady stream of people, including overseas, Hong Kong and Macao, not a few of the incense.
FUNERALS There are a lot of things to be said about funerals in Taian. The first thing to do is to report the funeral to friends and relatives. Set a good day to set up a hut, the door is responsible for a special account of the people, friends and relatives to donate money to the list announced that the more people to come, the more money donated, that the main family of the more goodwill. The more money donated by immediate family members, the more family unity. The more money the immediate family donates, the more united the family is, and the more highly regarded they are. Every funeral from the immediate family members to cry beside the funeral, the more people the louder the voice, indicating that the more filial piety, and finally the main family to host a banquet guests to show their gratitude.
Drinking table Tai'an people and even the Shandong people drink on the table of the special, in the countryside is especially so. First of all, the seat, must not be mistaken, the seat has the main guest vice guest, the main accompanied by the vice accompaniment of the points, generally facing the door of the seat is the main seat, should be the main guest vice guest, back to the door of the seat for the main accompanied by the vice accompaniment of the seat. Drinking is generally used a few dollars of small wine cups, but there are many different patterns, "good brother and sister", "four happiness and wealth", "six, six, six, six, six, six, six", "twelve, twelve weeks full "and so on, not paying attention, I do not know how much to drink. Half of the country's liquor is produced in Shandong, where most people drink very well.
Greetings If you ask someone in Tai'an: "Where are you from?" The old Tai'an people usually say they are "from Taicheng". Because of the influence of Confucius, people in Tai'an usually greeted with the honorific "teacher".
The birth of a child in one's own family is the first to notify friends and relatives. Friends and relatives will come to visit, generally by the women in the family to receive, in the past, most of each family is a pair of small baskets, loaded with eggs and other items in the red cloth cover, the picker to send, now, most of the nutrients can be sent to an even number of, in the countryside, you can often see a few aunts picking the cover of the red cloth of the pick lined up figure. Afterwards, the host family will return the invitation, which has a nice name called "eating noodles".
This folk custom is the ancient custom of hundreds of miles around Taishan. According to the Republic of China Taian County Records: "Mount Tai for the first five mountains, and the temple of the Holy Field in which there is a request and must be answered, there is no sense of inaccessibility. Mountain prayers generally at the top of the mountain Bixia Shrine to Bixia Yuanjun Taishan Granny Prayer." "greed seeks wealth, the sick seek peace, plowing seeks years, Jia seeks interest, pray for life seeks years, the unchildren pray for the heir." And make a promise to Yuanjun. Once realized one must return the wish, both to carry out the promise made. Once the purpose is not realized, one prays again and returns the wish when one is finally satisfied.
There are many different forms of returning a wish, including those who make offerings, those who hang up robes and send plaques, those who donate money to repair temples, and those who plant trees and forests.
Introduction of Incense The preparation for the introduction of incense is complex. The preparations for the festival are complex, including contacting members, collecting dues, and purchasing offerings. There are "spring incense" and "autumn incense". Since Dongyue Daidai's birthday is March 28 and Bixia Yuanjun's birthday is March 15 on the lunar calendar, this is the period when the incense burns the most. Ready to start the journey to the mountain incense. The general procedure of incense is: "departure, along the way to burn ancestral temple, rushing fire, down the night, mountaineering, reporting number (to the Taishan Niang Niang Palace reported to the front), towards the top, the shelf, tribute, incense, down the mountain, back to the incense, to do back, An driving, thank the mountain".
There are three kinds of incense paper burned on the mountain: one is yellow grass paper (locally known as fire paper), the second is printed with the Jade Emperor as the head of the line, Dongyue Emperor as the head of the other line of large-denomination medieval coins, and the third is the Yuanbao, with tin foil, framed, gold and silver into pairs. Bixia Ancestral Temple has a party "Bixia Yuanjun seal", rich customers can ask the Taoist priests to stamp the seal on the paper.
Pursuing a child The mountain is the most sought after, from all over the world. Seek a boy in the Bixia Temple tie a gold male child, seek a girl tie a gold female child. And in this way to make a wish to the old Granny Taishan.
Fertility rites and customs Dai hundreds of miles in the vicinity of the lower part of the once had a complete set of fertility procedures.
One is to choose an auspicious date. In order to have a child, the wife must come forward and bring gifts to ask the local "God's mom" to set an auspicious date and arrange for a child-seeking ceremony.
The second step is to prepare the offerings. The main thing is to buy joss sticks and candles, fire paper, offerings, and so on. The table is set with two bowls of steamed buns, two plates - fish and eggs, and two fruit plates - dates and chestnuts. Three incense burners are placed in front of the offerings lined up. Red cloth strips are written with the address and husband's name of the person who seeks a child, put into a carton folded with fire paper, and the table is carried to the house of the goddess Ma-zi.
Third, the ceremony is held. The woman who seeks a child lights three incense sticks, inserts them on the incense burner, and kneels down in front of the table together with the godmother, who prays for the delivery of a child by the grandmother of Tarzan, and then burns the red cloth strips. Then, the godmother renews the incense, and then the woman who seeks a child enters the incense after telling her wish for a child, and takes a date and chestnut each and eats them, and kneels with the godmother until all the incense is burned out.
The fourth is to return the wish. If you really get a son, you should go to the nearby Taishan Granny's Palace to return the wish (it is best to return the wish to Taishan Bixia Shrine).
If you don't get a son, you will have to come back again, but you can't ask for a son more than three times.
Shikangdang In most parts of China and even in the Chinese cultural circle abroad, there is a belief in Shikangdang, which originated in Taishan. Will be written "Tarzan Stone Daredevil" stone monument or stone man in the road, bridge, or built in the walls of the house, to play the role of avoiding evil spirits, the pressure of the role of disasters. Japan, Singapore and other countries also have this custom.
Festivals and Customs In addition to the traditional festivals at the foot of Mount Tai, such as Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Begging Day (July 7), Mid-Autumn Festival, Chung Yeung Festival and so on, there are also Tian Kuang Festival and Buddha Bathing Festival with strong local colors.
Tian Kuang Festival originated from Emperor Song Zhenzong's Zen meditation on Mount Tai. On June 6 of the old calendar in 1008 A.D., a book was sent down from the sky to Mount Tai, so Emperor Song Zhenzong made a great effort to seal the temple. In order to thank the heaven, not only built the Tian Kuang Hall in Dai Temple, but also set June 6 as the Tian Kuang Festival. This festival has been interpreted as a festival for the girls who married out to visit their parents, or a day for sunbathing clothes and books.
The Buddha Bathing Festival is celebrated on April 8, which is said to be the birthday of Buddha Shakyamuni. On this day, the statue of Buddha is bathed with water. Taishan near this festival and added to celebrate the East Yue Da Di and Bixia Yuanjun's birthday, the Trinity, Buddhism and Taoism fusion, ancient times is very grand.
Legend:
Taishan grandmother tour Feedback
Taishan grandmother to choose the place, had been to Feedback once, she found that the top of Taiping around a large wasteland, full of all kinds of medicinal herbs, as well as a variety of flowers and grasses, *** more than three hundred kinds. Grandma Taishan loved this place and these flowers, so she named this place "Flower Slope". After she lived in Taishan for a long time, every year in May to Feedback Mountain to enjoy the flowers.
When she came, she had people push her cart up the mountain, leaving rut marks on the mountain, which is the origin of the rutted mountain.
She thought that although these flowers are good, but also need to be managed properly, she took a monk from Taishan Mountain, let him in the flower slope for her to raise flowers and medicines, so the flower slope next to the mountain, looks like a monk's head, called "monk head".
The monk watered the flowers here for Grandma Tarzan all year round. The next year, Grandma Tarzan came again, the monk asked her a few questions, so that he could think of a solution: first, there is not enough water here; second, there are often cows here to eat the flowers. According to the monk's request, Grandma Taishan ordered two pools near the flower slope, one is called "Upper Pool" and the other is called "Lower Pool", and the two pools of water are for watering the flowers; and on the road where people often walk into the mountain, she shook her robe sleeve, and came out with two stones called "Cow Clamping Stone". "Cattle Clamping Stone", if the cattle to here, will be clamped.
The third year she came again, sitting in a place to rest for a while, she saw a lot of old people up the mountain to collect firewood, shoes are worn out, with kudzu and thorns wrapped around a still continue to wear. Granny Taishan felt sorry for them and thought she should give some alms to the people, so she pulled off one of the hairpins on her head and said, "Change into an awl and awl the shoes for the people."
The hairpin was transformed into a shining cone hill. And she made the kudzu and the thorns circle the cone hill for the common people to use in mending their shoes.
When Grandmother Tarzan got to the mountain, she met the monk and said to him, "You've done a good job of raising the flowers, but they're not quite what I want."
The monk said, "The water in that upper and lower pools is too much for the flowers to bear, so we have to think of a way to water the flowers without letting it get waterlogged."
Tai Shan grandmother and a fluttering sleeve, the mountain came out of a spring, regardless of spring, summer, fall and winter, drought and waterlogging, it is always a little bit of water down to water flowers. It is now the "drip drip spring".
Tai Shan grandmother later felt that every year to see the flowers is not very comfortable, said to the monk: "Can you think of a way for me, so that every year I can come to stay a few days in comfort?"
The monk said, "You ask those people underneath to build you a Guanyin building!"
Grandmother Tarzan sent the monk to disguise himself as a commoner and ask the people in the village below to build a Guanyin building for Grandmother Tarzan. The people then offered stones and materials and built a Guanyin Building on the flowery slope.
Grandma Tarzan thought that the people had contributed their efforts and should be rewarded, so she threw out her sleeve, and there was a big crack in the slope, and in the crack there were two urns, one was called the "rice urn", and the other was called the "noodle urn", and in these two urns she planted crops, and she had a good harvest every year. The people came to the mountain to collect firewood. When the people came to the mountains to collect firewood, they ate the pancakes, wrapped a bag of rice and a bag of flour from the urn with the bag of pancakes, and went home.
Later, Grandma Tarzan invited her entourage of men and women to come along to see the flowers. This is very inconvenient to go to the toilet, so Grandma Tarzan danced again, the mountain appeared three strange-shaped stones, called "three people do not meet".
Grandma Tarzan picked a lot of flowers on Flower Mountain and wanted to take them back, but she couldn't. A woman in her entourage said it was the right thing to do. One of her female attendants said to her: "You are not with the basin, mirror and comb box? Can't we put the flowers in the box?"
Grandmother Tarzan said yes. Open the comb box, there is a comb and a hairpin, Taishan grandmother took the comb away, think hairpin is not much use, then casually thrown off the mountain, over time, it became a stone very much like a hairpin
Legend 2:
Taishan daughter of the legend of tea
Legend, a long time ago, a long time ago, near the Taishan fan cliffs lived a couple named single, their Half a hundred years old, no children, two people rely on each other, rely on planting a few acres of thin land on the mountain to maintain life, although the days have been hard, but also quite stable.
People are old, seven diseases and eight disasters came, one year, single old man's wife got a serious illness, after a thousand ways to save the treatment, although the life, but owed the mountain rice wealth masters of five taels of silver. At the end of the year, the sky almost did not rain, the crops in the ground basically did not harvest, at the end of the year, the rice wealth master sent to collect the debt, single old man can not even eat, where there is money to pay the debt.
Single old man came to the home of Mr. Mi Zaiwei, and told Mr. Mi Zaiwei about his difficulties.
The owner said that if he pays back the debt next year, he will have to pay back 20 taels with the capital and the money, and he felt breathless. When he came to the Black Dragon Pool, he suddenly heard someone crying in front of him, and saw a young woman crying while going to the Black Dragon Pool. Single old man pulled the woman back to the shore, said to her: girl, what can not think of, young can not find this short. The girl cried and told the single old man what happened to her, single old man pity the girl, said, you really do not have a place to go, not afraid of suffering, then follow me, my family lives in the mountains, no children at home, only an old lady, although life is hard, but not to starve to death. The sky fell such a lively and lovely daughter, single old man heart happy flowers, just now the trouble also disappeared, he led his daughter home, met his wife, the family lived a quiet life.
But, whenever the single old man thought of the rice wealth master that can not pay the debt of Hades, it is again sad. The girl wanted to share her father's worries, and she knew that the leaves of the green tung in the green tung stream under the fan cliff had the effect of clearing the plague and removing the fire, and diuretic and detoxifying, so if it was made into a tea, it would surely be good to drink, and it could also cure the disease. The girl went to pick a basket of Qingtong leaves that day, try to make tea, single old man tasted, there really is a tea flavor, sweet and fragrant, soft and refreshing. Single old man said, I see us this tea from Taishan, and you make out, simply called Taishan daughter tea it. After the girl created a daughter of tea, business in Taicheng bigger and bigger, Ye girl became a household name.
Who knows, the rice wealthier heard single old man did fire tea business, and there is a handy girl at home, came to the single old man's home, the old man said, "I heard that you sell tea and made a fortune, how to borrow my silver also do not return, want to renege on the debt?" The old man said ": save enough for you to count, I will send you in the morning." Mi rich man and said "If you really do not have silver, I do not make it difficult for you, I see your daughter is quite good-looking, so give me to do the five aunts." The single old man has long known the virtues of the rice wealth master, grabbed the flat stretcher to fight, but by the rice wealth master's lapdogs knocked down to the ground. Ye girl calmly and calmly said, you are not wanting someone, I promise you, since we are going to be married, even if we are small, we should be married in the open, at least we should carry a sedan chair to hire. If you agree, three days later can be married, otherwise you just wait.
Three days later, the rice owner with a group of people, blowing to marry, the girl on the sedan chair, a wind in the sky to scrape a dark cloud, not long after the rain fell, flash floods, destroyed the bridge, the rice owner of the gang washed into the Black Dragon Pool to feed the fish. At that moment the girl was seen sitting on a cloud, riding the wind towards the fan cliff.
Since then, the single old man has been making tea for a living, and the old couple has led a quiet life. It is said that the single old man's girl, not at all what the south bank of the Wenhe River Wu family, but the Taishan Qingtong Fairy, she was ordered by Bixia Yuanjun, come to promote the good and punish the evil, to help the single old man.
Legend 3:
Myths and legends of Mount Tai:
Zhu Yuanzhang did the emperor, passed down the decree to repair Mount Tai, want to the original Dai top of the small Zhaochen view, converted into Bixia Yuanjun Shrine. To build a brilliant, magnificent, all with green brick and copper tile. The project is so big, the mountain is high, the road is steep, brick and heavy, tile and heavy, all rely on the shoulder to carry people.
Beginning of the day to the top of Dai materials, picking hundreds of people, but each person can only pick two bricks, or two pieces of tile. From the foot of the mountain to the top of the mountain, one by one, each tired and sweaty, breathing heavily. To the eighteen plate, look up, plate road straight up and down, soft legs and dizzy. Everyone put down the stretcher, want to rest legs, breathe. At this time the mountain bladder on the mountain song. That song, leisurely self-satisfaction. The pickers looked up, only to see a goat-herding old man holding a whip in his arms, singing while walking toward everyone. Behind him was a group of white cloud-like goats, all of which were also gnawing on the grass at ease. The old goat herder, walked to the side of the plate road, tilted his head, look at the flat burden, and measured the poor look of the pickers, laughing. After laughing, he continued to sing his "Strange Song":
"Strange, strange, strange, strange, strange, strange. The two-legged one breathes heavily, but the four-legged one gets away with everything. "
The pickers were so angry that their eyes turned red. Some of them said, "We are tired to this state, this old man still scolded us miles!" Some people jumped up, want to go forward to catch the old man reasoning ...... but a turn of the eye, the old man of the goat herding without a trace; and then look at the mountain bladder, the group of white clouds like goats also disappeared. The people feel strange, together, pondering the meaning of the four lines of the song. They were so happy that they clapped their hands and laughed.
"Oops! This old man must have been enlightened by Lu Ban. He laughed at us for being so stupid, why don't we let the four-legged ones carry these bricks and tiles?"
So, we threw down the stretcher, drove the sheep, called a sheep on the back of a brick tile, one person to catch up with a hundred sheep, from the bottom of the mountain to the top of the mountain, fast and steady, two days of work on the brick tiles finished.
Legend 4:
Myths of Mount Tai: He Shouwu
Tai'an city south of the Hejiazhuang, living in the family name of He's father and son, to pick medicine for a living. The village also has a big rich man, opened a medicine store, want them to pick medicine for him. This year, the father's health is not good, the son because of the care of his father, seldom go to the mountains to pick medicine. The rich man said:
"If you don't go up the mountain to pick medicine again, I will throw you out."
He's son had no choice but to take his sick father up the mountain to gather medicine. When they arrived at the mountain, the father said, "I'll go up from the east road, you go up from the west road, and we'll pick it in two directions." "Okay!" And they parted.
The old man climbed halfway up the mountain, when suddenly thunder and lightning struck, and the rain came down in torrents. The old man's legs were weak, his stomach was hungry, his head was faint, and he was trying to find a place to avoid the rain, when he suddenly heard a child crying on a hill opposite. The old man thought: how can a child cry in such heavy rain? No matter how hard it is to save the child! Ran to the opposite side of the hill to go up in the rain. At first glance, there was a little black child, fat and greasy, very love, crying there! The old man was in pain, so he carried him to a cave. The kid stopped crying, and the old man fainted. When he woke up, the child had disappeared, and there was a black, groundnut-like thing in his hand, which smelled very good. The old man was hungry, so he ate it.
A little while later, his son came, pulling out his voice and shouting, "Where have you been, it's raining so hard!"
The old man answered from the cave, "Here it is! Here it is!"
His son came in and saw a young man with dark hair, so he went up and slapped the man twice: "You're pretending to be my father, how old are you?"
"I am your father, how do you not recognize me?"
The son he took a closer look, and sure enough, it was his father, so he said, "Why are you so young?"
And his father told him exactly what had happened. And said, "You see how half of this is left?"
His son took the thing down to the mountain, and went to the gentleman in the apothecary's store, and it turned out that the black thing was medicine. Since this medicine can make people's gray hair become black, and the family name of He picked, from then on, this medicine is called "He Shouwu".
Legend 5:
Myths and legends of Taishan Mountain: Sisters Pine
Once upon a time, Taishan Mountain, behind the Horse Estate, there is a horse outside, he colluded with the government, dominating the surrounding mountains and rivers, rich and powerful, wantonly oppressing the people, forcibly occupy the people's women, bad things to do, rampant, the people in the village all hate him. Because of his surname Ma, and so vicious, so people call him "big hornet".
The big hornet has a tenant Ma Boss, Ma Boss has a pair of daughters, the year square two eight, sisters, although born in a poor family, since childhood, but grew up in a thick eyebrow and big eyes, like a flower like jade, people in the manor who do not praise the boss of the horse of the two golden phoenix.
The big hornet, although over the age of one, but he was on the horse sisters but has long been in the eyes, happy in the heart, he could not wait to snatch them over. This day, the big hornet called the horse old man under the hall, said: "Boss, your two daughters I see is not young, should also find a mother-in-law. This relative I have long given you a good look, the person's looks like me, the family has ten thousand dollars, they married over there have to eat endless chickens, ducks, fish, meat, wear endless damask satin, enjoy endless glory and wealth. Boss, what do you think?"
Boss Ma had long seen that he was harboring evil intentions, and that he was a weasel paying homage to a chicken without good intentions, so he quickly said, "Thank you for your old man's goodwill, I have long since promised my daughters to someone else."
The big hornet ate a closed door, once heard, came to the gas, to the horse boss roared: "To put it bluntly, you these two daughters I want to be fixed, to give also have to give, do not have to give also have to give, unless it is tonight they a life to the sky, or tomorrow morning will be bye bye to marry."
When Boss Ma heard this, it was like a thunderbolt from the sky, his daughters are his lifeblood, how can he push them into the fire pit and give them to this beastly thing, so he begged to the big hornet, "Master, my family is poor and poor, my daughters are ugly, how can they be worthy of your old man. Please be magnanimous and spare us."
"Humph! Don't be ignorant of your honor, this is the bride price, hurry home and get ready." After saying that, he drove Boss Ma out of the door.
Boss Ma returned home as if he had no soul. The big hornet is the head of the sores, pus under the soles of the feet, bad, anything to do. Boss anxious fire, just hate the sky, no door, had to tell his daughter, finished father and daughter three hugging and crying. Sisters have to die relative, the boss busy persuade: "Your mother died early, I pulled you up, you died, leaving me this lonely old man, what is the point of living?" He pondered for a moment and said, "The sky is the limit. It seems that the only way to go to the back of the stone dock Qingyun nunnery. You do not blame me for being cruel, this is also your father has no choice. Sisters naturally know the life of a monk, but look at the old man is full of sadness, old and frail, if the death, who will take care of his old man in the future? The sisters had to agree. In the evening, the three of them went straight to Qingyun nunnery.
They came to the nunnery, met the nunnery master, explained the intention. The master of the nunnery said slowly and methodically: "The door of the Buddha is open, the good people come in. This is the pure land of Buddha, Buddha is in charge, Buddha blessing, Amitabha!" Boss Ma settled his daughter, thanked the nunnery master, and rushed back to the countryside at night.
The next morning, Boss Ma was about to go down to the ground, and was summoned by the big hornet again. The hornet sneered, "Boss, Qing Yun nunnery is a good place. Hmph! The Monkey King has not yet jumped out of Rulai's hand when he jumped 108,000 miles. Every blade of grass on this mountain is my eyes and ears, you want to escape from my hands, no way! I want you to watch me marry your daughter with your own eyes." After saying that, he sat on the mountain sedan chair, escorted the horse boss, and a team of people ran towards Qingyunan.
Originally, the nunnery owner has long been in secret communication with the big hornet, and the nunnery owner had sent someone to report to the big hornet on the same night about the Ma sisters leaving the house. At the moment, the owner of the nunnery heard of the arrival of the hornet, they walked out of the mountain gate to welcome, hospitality. After the ceremony, the hornet said, "Master, I would like to borrow your Buddhist temple to get married here, I don't know what does the master think?" The nunnery master quickly complimented, "Thanks to your old man's blessing, getting married here is the honor of this nunnery, I have already sent word to let the Ma sisters freshen up and dress up, please wait a little while." After saying this, they smiled with the big hornet with a frown on their faces.
The hornet and the master of the nunnery were just dreaming, when a little nun came running and cried out, "Something terrible has happened! The nunnery master, the Ma sisters escaped and jumped off the cliff." The nunnery master panicked when he heard this, and the big hornet was also dumbfounded.
Ma boss just saw the nunnery and hornet old, heart early cool half, now heard that the daughter jumped off the cliff, is more painful, can not help but lose their voices and laughed: "hahaha ...... Buddha's pure land, Buddha's blessing, to hell with it! Where in this world is there a way for the poor to live. Daughter, wait for me." After saying that, a head toward the incense, touch death in front of the Bodhisattva.
But the Ma sisters, the original help them grooming a few nuns, learned of their lives, are very sympathetic, so they let them sneak out of the back door to escape, coincidentally, was found by the big hornet's houseguests chased. Vast mountain forest, where there is a way to escape, the sisters ran, the front appeared a ten thousand feet deep abyss, see the people behind them to catch up, the Ma sisters looked at each other, the two of them pulled up their hands and jumped off the cliff.
Later, in the place where they jumped off the cliff, side by side grew two pine trees, branches, leaf traffic, as if hand in hand, people will give it a very image of the name called "sister pine."