Ethnic customs of Huilai County

Scenic screen: or known as the living scenery, hidden scenery, beautiful scenery screen.

It is a kind of square traveling exhibition type modeling art.

To play out the scene as the content, the characters played by children, with certain scenery.

Real people (so called live scenery) fake scenery framing modeling, constitute a certain theme of the landscape.

Touring exhibition or with gongs and drums, eight sounds, more grandiose, become the Spring Festival or a grand festival of the top programs.

Jinghai Town, Zhang, Lin, Zeng three surnames, known for landscape, passed down from generation to generation.

Teochew music: the early Republic of China, the county has Confucian music society, also known as leisure between, music society, the Department of people who can play will play, in the spare time, the combination of playing.

The county has a "Yixiangshe" music class.

Republic of China in 36 years (1947) and created "Tao sentimental society", proficient, favorite Chao music people gathered in a small group, and played the role of accumulating and organizing sheet music.

Dialect Songs: The Teochew Songbook is a long narrative poem in the Teochew dialect.

When you sing a songbook, you will sing and recite according to the songbook, and your voice will be melodious and pleasant.

The listener listens to the song while doing the work at hand.

The songbook is only recited by the singers, and the rhymes are seven words, five words, and simple rhymes, with four names and one rhyme, and no musical accompaniment.

Fishing songs: The content of fishing songs reflects the life and production of fishermen.

In 1958, the Shenquan Town Amateur Drama Troupe organized a number of fishing songs, of which "Singing a New Fishing Village" participated in the Shantou Regional Folk Song Festival.

Big Drums and Gongs: Big Drums and Gongs is a recreational activity for *** performances during the Spring Festival in Huilai County.

A team of big gongs and drums can be composed of hundreds of people, and the head and tail can be set up for 1~2 miles.

In front of them, there is a big flag, and behind them, there are gongs and drums, and silk and bamboo sound.

When the big gongs and drums are performing, a red streamer is hung from a green bamboo in front of the team, with the words "National Prosperity and People's Peace" written in gold on it.

Next is the big flag team, carrying a big flag on their shoulders, a team of dozens of people, or hundreds of people, advancing slowly.

Next is the band with 24 gongs (some as many as 32), 8 cymbals and 10 conchs.

Ao Dance: the dialect says dance ao, ao fish made of bamboo, wood, cloth tie-shaped coloring, 3 feet long, the dragon head fish body.

The dancers wave the ao fish in their hands.

There are 5 of them in a class.

In the accompaniment of gongs and drums, there are chasing, wearing flowers, jumping paths, leaping the Dragon Gate, biting bucket, clamor spring and other actions.

Lion Dance: In the dialect, it is called Tiger Dance.

Huilai County Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival has a lion dance.

The lion body is a nearly ten feet of yellow cloth, the lion's tail is a large cluster of red linen in the shape of a fragrance.

When dancing, one person dances the lion head in front, and one person bends down and dances the lion tail, performing according to the beat of the gongs and drums.

The movement of the demeanor of the hair, licking the back, scratching, dozing, etc.

There is also a kind of lion dance, the lion's head.

There is another kind of lion dance called "high-footed lion", the lion dancers limbs on stilts, and add a masked lioness.

After the lion dance, there are martial arts performances, mostly for the southern school of hand punch, stick, fork, double knife, double mace and other real skills.

Some also perform the thrilling action of stringing fire rings.

Dragon Dance: the dialect called the Dragon Dance.

The dragon dance in Huilai County began in the reign of Emperor Xianfeng of the Qing Dynasty.

Crab Village in Castle Peak Township and Changchun Village in Kwai Tan Township have a program called "Double Dragon Grabbing Treasure".

In the Guangxu period, Yingnei Village in Huicheng Town began to organize a dragon dance team, and since then, there has been a dragon dance every year during the Spring Festival.

The dragon is made of bamboo, wood, cloth and colorful paintings, with nine or eleven sections as a dragon, accompanied by a drum, a gong and a cymbal.

The movements are anti-double, tumbling, jumping the Dragon Gate, chasing beads and so on.

English song and dance: Huilai English song and dance, a team of English song is roughly divided into robust and majestic buckle stick for the "front shed"; colorful pieces of opera for the "back fence".

Set dance, opera in one.

Seven kinds of vegetables: In the Chaoshan plains, on the seventh day of the first month, the people of Huilai have the custom of eating seven kinds of vegetables, which is said to be able to brighten their eyes and good fortune.

It can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, and is documented in the "Answers to Rituals and Customs" by Dong Xun, a member of the Jin Council.

The seven kinds of vegetables are not specified, and most of them are based on Chaozhou-Shantou produced cabbage, spring vegetables, kale, thick lotus, etc., and there is no limit to the number of how much can be arbitrary.

Thanks to the gods: the lunar calendar, 10 ~ mid-December, every village, every community, every household to choose an auspicious day, prepared to worship the gods.

Usually theater (including shadow puppets), big gongs and drums, Banyin class, paper dragon robe crowns, whole pigs and sheep, Daya naked ...... special rituals are on the knife ladder, burning fireworks, and ten years of sacrifice to beat the fire jiao.

Prayer: the custom of praying for a son is closely related to the lamp.

"Lamp", in the Teochew language and "Ding" sound, there is for the in-laws to bring a male child meaning.

People who have given birth to a boy will hold a "lantern" event on the night of the Lantern Festival.

In fact, the custom of praying for a son with "lamp" is not only found in Chaoshan, but also in other regions.

Every year on March 23, every A-Ma's Christmas day, the villagers in Chaoshan have to go to Tianfei Temple to carry Tianfei out of the tour, which is intended to ask for A-Ma's blessings to give children.

Those who are not able to carry the sedan chair for A-Ma, stand on the side of the road, waiting for A-Ma to pass by, touch the A-Ma sedan chair, is also considered to be a light.

In the folklore activities, there are also a lot of people who are looking forward to this kind of psychology in the folklore activities.

Like the bride to get married, in addition to preparing an oil lamp, but also to prepare some dried longan.

In addition to containing the meaning of wealth and prosperity, also contains the wish to have a son.

Those who got married in this year, after rubbing the dumplings, always count the dumplings, if the dumplings are singular, then it means a boy; if it is an even number, it means a girl.

Foetus preservation: there are many taboos when a woman is pregnant; when a woman is in labor, she must have a midwife; a husband cannot stay in the delivery room to serve his wife, but must leave the delivery room with all the men in the family.

In order to have a smooth labor, some people also go to the temple to worship the "birth mother", to bless a smooth labor.

After giving birth to a baby, the fetus clothes cannot be thrown away; the mother's family must prepare eggs and send them to the mother's home to nourish her.

Sitting wax, open meat: a week after the birth of the mother, the delivery room can not breathe, this period is called "sitting wax".

By the seventh day (in some places, the ninth or twelfth day), the "meat" ceremony, the mother began to eat meat, fish to nourish the body.

At the same time, there are also gifts for neighbors and friends, sweet noodles for a boy, and potato flour for a girl, called "round".

By the full moon, it is necessary to prepare a sumptuous feast for friends and relatives, called drinking "full moon wine".

In many places, on the twelfth day of the baby's life, a stone as big as a bowl is put into the bath tray to show that the baby will be bold in the future.

The largest beacon tower

The sea beacon lighthouse.

Located in Huilai Jinghai Town Banmei Village southwest of Shibei Mountain headland.

Originally built in 1882, several built several destroyed.

The lighthouse was built in 1989, reinforced concrete structure, tower height of 68 meters, the top of the tower light view 24.5 nautical miles, the main light flashes every 10 seconds, and is equipped with radar transponders and radio navigation systems and other equipment, is the highest of China's 16 navigation stations, there is "Asia's first beacon tower," said.

Kwai Tan Dagong Park

Kwai Tan Dagong Park is located in Kwai Tan Township on the north side of National Highway 324, by the 81-year-old representative of China's intangible cultural heritage, the world's cultural and artistic research center members, Chinese ancient architecture experts Xue Fuxin presided over the design.

Dageng Garden covers an area of 16,800 square meters.

Chisongguan Longzang Cave

In the town of Huicheng, Huilai County, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, Guangdong Province, 8 kilometers northwest of the town, there is a goat's intestinal tract leading to the ancient past of an immortal temple, known as "Longzang Cave".

Here, the mountains are beautiful, quiet and elegant, beautiful natural scenery, folklore: the local drought water shortage, only here all day spring water gurgling.

Kwai Tan Shikang Home

Shikang Home is located in the Xuanwu community of Kwai Tan Township, Huilai County, and was invested by Mr. Lin Shikang.

Sek Keng Home is divided into two parts.

The front part of the stone carving of nine dragons spitting beads, surrounded by a spectacular scale of 280 marble monuments, carved with Ye Xuanping, Ma Wanqi, Qigong, Shen Peng, Sun Yiqing, Guan Shanyue, and other leaders from around the country, as well as in Hong Kong, Macao, Taiwan, celebrities and artists gratuitous gift of 278 pieces of ink and calligraphy, the collection of the hospital of the famous paintings and drawings*** more than 500 pieces.

After part of the main building of the nine courtyards in one, the halls of painted buildings and beams, gold and jade carving, stone carvings and stone pillars, distinctive style, extremely heavenly, the halls and four compartments engraved with hundreds of frames of poems, lyrics, couplings and plaques, the East and West Corridor hanging plaques, couplets, a wide range of all the treasures; the roof was sculpted with various types of screen with the Jiangnan Teochew Shantou area of the people's homes and folklore, eighteen vertical marble columns engraved with twelve portrait animals, a variety of animals, realistic, calling out the animals, and the animals, and the animals, and the animals are very realistic.

Cape Ganquan

Cape Ganquan is located in the southeast corner of the township of Shenquan, Song time is a freshwater spring on the beach, when the Ming Dynasty built into a spring well.

Wang Wei, the county magistrate of the Qing Dynasty, built a pavilion next to the well, which was carved on the pavilion columns with a monument written by Sufu Dulian.

In the Qing Dynasty, there is a poem about the divine spring, "There are wonders at the end of the world, and sweet springs come out of the cape", which gave rise to the elegant name of "sweet springs in the cape".

Huangguangshan Foguang Temple

Huilai County Huangguangshan Foguang Temple.

Located in the northwest of Huilai County, 17.3 kilometers away from the county town, located in the mountains between the Xixi Town Luyang Village and Quxi Village.

Originally known as "Huangtenggang", once called "Huangtinggang", later renamed "Huang Guangshan".

Qing Xuantong three years (1911) Guiyue (lunar August) inscribed as "Huang Guangshan", 1997 renamed "Huang Guangshan Buddha Light Temple" hence the name.

In 2004, Buddha's Light Temple was named by the Provincial Ethnic and Religious Affairs Commission of Guangdong Province, "Guangdong Provincial Committee of civilized places of religious activity".

In October 2005, at the invitation of the Huilai County Buddhist Association and the monks of the temple, the Abbot of Nanhua Temple, Monk Chuanzheng, formally assumed the presidency of Buddha's Light Temple.

Rongshi Yongfu Zen Temple

Rongshi Yongfu Zen Temple is in the north of Huilai County.

There was a shrine on the stone enshrined in the Nine Sons of the Mother God, the Ming Dynasty and its side of the building of the Rongshi nunnery, this nunnery has been through the vicissitudes of life over the centuries, a number of ups and downs, after the liberation of the overseas Chinese donations to rebuild a new temple, called the "Rongshi Yongfu Temple", the existing Daxiongbao Hall, East and West Pavilions, Shrine of Virtue, the Ancestor's Temple, and so on.

Mirage

Mirage appeared from time to time in the sea southwest of Shenquan Harbor, the time is more in the spring and summer, the sky will be the eve of heavy rain.

"Mirage" appeared again and again different, there are ancient pavilions, pavilions, there are modern skyscrapers, but also appeared in the Japanese invasion of China war scenes.

Jinghai Fort

Jinghai Fort is located in Huilai County, Jinghai Town, the ancient name of Jinghai.

Jinghai set up in the mountains high, the city narrow circumference of more than 1500 meters, nearly 5 meters high.

The north-east side of the city is complete, there are urns and towers, the wall is built of stone, there are battlements and lookout holes.

Jinghai has always been a military stronghold in the Chaoshan area, the Ming Dynasty in the vicinity of the North and South Battery and Beacon.

Hak Bird's Tail Stalagmite

Jinghai Town Hak Bird's Tail Stalagmite area is only 30 kilometers away from Huilai County, along the way is a beautiful seaside promenade, in the middle of the country's first beacon tower and other scenic attractions, as well as in the construction of the country's largest wind power plant, is a golden route for tourism.

Golden Bay International Golf Club

Golden Bay International Golf Club is located in the Golden Bay Botanical Garden in Dongpu Village, Xianan Town, Huilai County, Guangdong Province, with an international standard golf course, the ball will be designed and modeled by the Australian T.W.P. company, Mr. Peter Thomson, Mr. Ross, Mr. Peter, and Mr. Liang Guokun of China *** with the international standard American, Australian, and Australian style golf courses. International standard American, Australian and Japanese fairways, standard seventy-two hole course.

Supported by the Golden Bay Island green long strike driving range.

Shuang Yen Zen Temple

Shuang Yen Zen Temple of the Flowers Mountain is located in Shi Jia Village, Zhou Tian Town, 30 miles east of Huilai County, commonly known as "the tip of the flowers".

It was founded in the Song Dynasty, and has been repaired and expanded in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.

In October 1983 was listed as a county key cultural relics protection units, in August 1988 was approved to register open, is one of the famous attractions of Lingdong.

Huilai Song Dafeng Ancestor

Huilai Song Dafeng Ancestor is located in Huilai County, Longjiang Township, Gangqian Village, dedicated to Dafeng Ancestor, by the private sector to collect more than seven million yuan to build, the moment of the wood carvings are from the hand of the master craftsmen, is a fine piece of traditional folk art, highly appreciated value.

Wenchang Pavilion Tower Wenchang Pavilion Tower is located in the south of Huilai County, was first built in Ming Jiajing years, the Qing Shunzhi destroyed in a fire, the 26th year of the Kangxi (1687) County Zhang Bingzheng repair Pavilion, move north to south.

Qianlong two years (1737), the county governor Yang Zongbing in the pavilion in front of the ancestral temple in situ to build the three-storey Wenchang Pavilion Tower, the forehead is said to be "kuiguangge".

This tower is a feng shui tower, is an ancient masonry structure, shell ash rammed, shape for the three octagonal, dense eaves tower eaves, 23 meters high, each layer has a stone pillar bracket, outside the balustrade, inside the rotary ladder can be up; Algae wells painted on the eight trigrams.

The third floor of the north door is engraved with the Qing dynasty governor Zhou Shuo Xun "Chao Feng Ling Yun" in regular script.

The tower is a great view of the sea and mountains.