May 13th send sheep Handan Zhanghe River on both sides of a custom, the day of May 13th of the lunar calendar, grandpa and uncle to give the little nephew to send sheep, the ancient send live sheep, now send the white flour steamed noodles sheep. This custom is related to the myth that Shenxiang split the Erlang God used to hold down the Three Virgins of Mount Huashan, Shenxiang split the mountain to save his mother, to go to the Erlang God's head, but the Three Virgins of the brother-sister relationship, do not let Shenxiang, Shenxiang to the Erlang God to send 2 sheep skinning meat, Yang Erlang know about this matter, send 2 live sheep to Shenxiang, when it is the thirteenth of the fifth month of the Chinese lunar calendar. This custom was later spread on both sides of the Zhanghe River. Sending sheep also means to send Yang Erlang's life, so this custom has been passed down to the present day.
Jinan fan drum dance in Handan, Xingtai and some counties under the jurisdiction of Shijiazhuang, whenever the folk temple fair, there is a fan drum dance as a custom to honor God. Fan drum dance is also known as playing fan drum, the use of fan drums, whip these 2 props, fan drum by the drum and drum handle composition, drum is a round iron ring, which is covered with sheepskin, drum handle is an iron stick, the lower end of the iron ring, ring hanging on the small copper bell, the shape of the fan, it is known as fan drums. When playing the fan drum, the dancers hold the drum in the left hand, the right hand holds the whip, with the rhythm of the dance while moving into the side shaking the fan drum, so that the bells on the decorative ringing, and at the same time, according to the rhythm of the sound to whip the drum, to make a variety of dance movements. Playing fan drum singing and dancing, the number of participants is generally not less than 8 people, the performers are not subject to gender and age limitations, but Ji'nan area whenever the temple fair, playing fan drums are mostly middle-aged and elderly women, they leave behind the usual multitude of chores and scruples of a dance to open up, and thus playing fan drums is said to be the carnival of the Ji'nan peasant women. Whenever the temple fair is held, a variety of fan drum repertoire is spread to perform. Plays are generally complete plot, strong storytelling historical legends formed opera stories, staged more plays are "catching the General", "catching the heavenly soldiers and generals", "catching the nine immortal nuns", etc., are quite popular with the peasant masses love the play.
Congzhong Flower Festival Congzhong is a town in the ancient city of Handan, where there is a fixed pattern of folkloric flower show. It is rumored that the Congzhong Flower Festival began during the reign of Emperor Taizu of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of at least 600 years. Congzhong Huahui has a fixed time, more in the ancient lunar calendar in February 14 to 16 these three days, six years a small drama, twelve years a big drama. Congzhong Huayi has 20 kinds of performance forms, 24 classes, divided into plastic arts 5 classes, martial arts 4 classes, performing arts 9 classes, small juggling 6 classes. The main form of performance is along the street. The whole flower will be divided into 4 combinations, each combination of mutual coordination, or divided or together have a line connection, so that the whole performance is always integrated. The traditional programs of the Flower Show are based on the expression of the love and hate of ordinary people, as well as entertainment, through centuries of refinement has been perfected, the performance is becoming more and more mature, and has now formed a fairly large-scale type of folk art. Every flower fair time, the people in the neighborhood always gathered here, enjoy the entertainment.
Yuanxiao Festival swing Handan the western part of the urban and rural people have a Yuanxiao Festival swinging custom. Festival since the beginning of the first ten swing frame began to swing, swinging climax is in the first month of the fourteenth, fifteenth two days. Every Yuanxiao Festival before and after the people around the western part of Handan will be home to set up a swing, people young and old and young people and young and strong with swinging. By this time, each village and town will also be held on their own or with neighboring villages and towns swinging competition, this custom is quite like the Korean national customs. There are several forms of swinging, such as single swinging, double swinging, sitting swinging, and standing swinging. The usual swing method is relatively simple, but here there are more special swings, one is swinging wooden donkey, one is over the bridge, a board is not brake. The swing is more complicated and can be swung out of the pattern, and the frame of the swing is also different from the usual one. Because swinging can not only exercise, but also add to the entertainment atmosphere, so, Handan swinging activities continue to be passed on to the present day, is a form of mass enjoyment.
February 2 Beggar's Tree Festival On the second day of the second month of the lunar calendar, there is a custom in the mountain villages near the Magnetic State that the girls have a Beggar's Tree Festival. On this day, the girls can be free to partner, dressed in good clothes, with good millet, white flour, oil, salt and pots, bowls, pots, spoons and other tools, together on the mountain picnic, which is the Magnetism State has been handed down from ancient times, "the girl on February 2 to eat begging for food," the custom. After the girls go to the mountain, find a suitable place for picnic, then build a stove, pots and pans, cooking rice, simmering millet, dumplings, rice porridge can be. After the rice is cooked, the girls also need to go to the hillside bushes to pick back a wild plant's red Oh needle tip, and then or five, six or more than a dozen people sitting around the picnic pot, begging for coquettish rituals. Begging for coincidences Ceremony is very charming, the girls who come together each person must be carried out, everyone with a cloth to cover the eyes of a girl, let her throw seven oh-needle tips in the rice pot, and then let her use chopsticks in the pot to stir three churns, and then hand chopsticks to pick up the rice and eat it, can only eat seven mouths, everyone so that, each person to pinch the rice and eat it before the seven Oh-needle tips to make up for the seven Oh-needle tips, in order to show that it's fair. In this ceremony, where the girl who can eat the oh-needle tip of the child, will become a clever sister or clever sister, will be highly appreciated by the village people, door to door to ask for marriage more people. Only when the begging ceremony is over do the girls begin the official wild silkworms and the day's entertainment.
After thousands of years of cultural accumulation, a rich and colorful array of folk art forms have emerged across the land of Hebei.
Among them are various painting schools rich in folk characteristics, such as: Wuqiang New Year's Paintings, Cloth Paste Paintings, Tugu Paintings, Orchid Printing Cloths, Inner Paintings, and Xinji Nongfeng Paintings
And there are also rich ceramic arts, such as: ancient ceramics, black ceramics, Magnetic Porcelain, Dingzhou Porcelain, Dezhou Porcelain, and so on.
The category of stationery includes: Yishui ancient inkstone, Hengshui brush and so on.
Handicrafts include: grass weaving, clay figures, face people, Zhuozhou carpets, lanterns and kites, Quyang stone carvings, paper-cutting in Weixian County, and shell carvings in Qinhuangdao.
The arts include: opera, rice-planting songs, Yu opera, fishermen's music, Hebei opera, Tangshan shadow puppets, Baoding old tunes, Wuan Luozi, Shijiazhuang silk strings, and Donglu Errentai.
The temple fair around Shijiazhuang has a long history, and it first arose from sacrificial activities. According to the evidence, as early as the Han Dynasty, Fenglong Mountain, there is a mountain festival, which is the origin of the Fenglong Mountain temple fair. With the development of religious culture, the temple altar is flourishing. Such as Guandi Temple, Medicine King Temple, Guanyin Temple, Grandmother Temple, Holy Mother Temple, three official temples, Zhenwu Temple, Lvzu Temple, Chenglong Temple, five temples, Land Temple, Mountain God Temple, etc., gradually spread all over the place, sacrifices to the gods and fairies activities are also followed by frequent and popularized, and the temple will be prevalent. Luancheng Xigong big temple fair is the activities of the South China Sea Goddess of Mercy, the well-furnished snowflake mountain temple fair originated in the sacrifice of the gods. There are also temple fair, is the masses in order to pay tribute to their revered people and set up. Such as Lingshou Chengguan the first day of February in the lunar calendar, "into the official" temple, is to commemorate the Lingshou county into the Zhao Lin and set up. Guangxu 27 years (1901) the German and French allied forces to pursue the western flight of Cixi and Guangxu, passing through Lingshou, coerced into the county to provide grain, horses and carts, women. Cheng Zhixian flatly refused, was tied to the back of the horse by the French army, running around the city. Cheng Zhixian unwilling to be humiliated, but also difficult to escape the clutches of the clutches, so late at night to throw himself into a well. The people of Lingshou set the day of his martyrdom as the day of the temple fair.
Old times, the temple fair content is more complex, both large-scale sacrificial ceremony, but also the masses of spontaneous activities to seek the gods and worship immortals, such as tethered baby wishing, asking for medical care, begging for rain and blessings, exorcise the devil to repair virtues and so on. Some of the rituals have grand ceremonies, accompanied by singing opera. Temple fair, martial arts, juggling and other folk arts also show their style. With the socio-economic development, temple fairs and fairs are integrated, there will be a set of rituals, entertainment, trade in one of the unprecedented prosperity. Now, the religious rituals of the temple fair has been diluted, the temple fair gradually evolved into a material exchange conference, business
product trading, mass cultural and entertainment activities and tourism has become the theme of the temple fair around.
Snowflake Mountain temple fair originated in the gods. As early as in the Ming Jiajing years, Snowflake Mountain built Bixia Yuanjun Temple, in order to worship Bixia Yuanjun so the temple fair, the time for the lunar calendar April 16 to 18 three days, organized by the village where the old city of Jingfu, around 40 to 50 villages to participate. Its temple fair has a very strict ceremony, from the preparation of the meeting, to the formal meeting, there is a set of procedures.
"Passing the gong will check": before the meeting, the head of the meeting sent to the village to knock the gong notice, *** three times. March first first pass the gong, gong sound a point, meaning that the beginning of the meeting, the village to prepare; March 15, the second pass the gong, gong sound two points, indicating that the temple fair period is close; April first, three pass the gong, three points, the gong sound urgent, indicating that the meeting period in the near future, the villages to make all the preparations to go to the meeting on time. "Passing the gong man" dressed in yellow lapel plum blossom banner, wearing soft-soled tiger boots, wearing red and green chicken feather tassel lotus leaf tops. The third time the gong was passed, the gong passer sent a posting of "April 18th, Our Lady's General Assembly, the pilgrimage to the mountain to enter the
incense, wind and rain," to all villages.
April 1, four-way meeting of the head of the meeting to discuss the arrangements, draw lots to determine the order of lifting the bar, at noon, "pass the gong man" in the East Polygraphic Gate Tower, will be the source of the door to see the show building, the Beiguan Pavilion, East Lane Pavilion, shouting the three "will be turned to check out", the gongs sound continuously to show that the "will check out", "will check out", the gongs sound continuously. "will check" end.
"Please drive": April 15, the day before the temple fair, the head of the incense led eight sedan chairmen drums and music, to the top of the temple in the snowflake mountain top worship, "please God to receive the driver.
The so-called "driving", is a top eight open temple-style sedan chair, arching eaves, fine carving, gold (copper) top yellow curtains, exquisite and gorgeous, embedded in the week of mercury glass, cornice hanging treasure gourd, silk fringe fluttering, front bells jing block. Driving in the enshrinement of the Virgin Mary walk like (dedicated to lift the image), driving before the full deputy deacon, there are eight flags, silence sign, retreat sign, hanging seal, Wanmin umbrella (umbrella around the last name of the giver full of years of small silk strips). Three iron cannons sounded, starting driving gongs, and then with light, heavy band, a variety of percussion instruments and blowing and playing musical instruments, a drums and music, driving slowly into, flow through the Mianhe River, by Caizhuang, the "God" driving for the Xiguan.
"Perform driving" for three days, sixteen, seventeen successively in the surrounding villages along the village performances, eighteen is the main meeting, in the city street performances.
"Acting driving" the order of the procession is: the front for the upside down to carry, upside down after the bar for a variety of singing and dance programs, and then is the social fire, social fire is the deacon, band, and finally the divine driving before the divine driving. The 18th performance drive at nine o'clock in the morning from the west gate, east through the city streets, Dongguan, Beiguan, Hedong, Nanguan, and finally to the snowflake mountain.
"Performance driving" began, nine iron cannon sounded, "horse" bare shoulders "open road". Initially for the whip to open the road, the 30s changed to dance meteor to open the road. After the opening of the road, that is, the bar. 36 bar box, or 48 bar box, arranged in teams. Bongbang people or dressed in flesh-colored spun silk tops, lantern pants, or dressed in martial arts attire, or dressed in strange costumes to do clowns dressed. Bump bar performance from nine o'clock in the morning generally to two or three o'clock in the afternoon or so, the scene is grand, the performance is wonderful.
Following the kung fu performance are the Shanxi opera, Hebei opera, rice-planting songs, silk-string and other types of drama, pull flower, rap, mime and other forms of programs. Then there are about 20 teams of martial arts social fire brigade performances. There is no fixed place for the performance, while performing while traveling to the foot of the snowflake mountain, it is nearly dusk. The lanterns and torches were lit and the pilgrimage to the top began. After burning incense in front of the holy elephant, carry bar, program, social fire performance, followed by running formation, formation has plum blossom formation, eight seal formation, yin and yang formation, five tigers formation ......, endless changes, meaning that "the gods defend, bless me the people". Running the array, "Turtle Pack Tablet" licensed into the temple, in front of the "Mother of God" like a large basket basket squatting in the group worship dance, the actors try to touch the basket basket "oil money" (system money, copper yuan), loaded into their own. Turtle is also a holy thing of longevity, loaded with oil money is considered to be "God's" special gift. Perform driving at the end of the abbot to receive the "driving", the Virgin Mary to go like a temple. The whole process, drums and firecrackers, smoke, until the next morning, the temple fair came to an end.
The temple fair, in the city of Longmiao performed four days of opera; the Qing Dynasty, the beginning of the Civil War can "pull the official theater". Performed in the county territory of the troupe if the head of the meeting and the government see agreed, they will send people to the performance of the place, on stage will be reversed drums, that is, "pulling the official play", April 15 to perform in Chenglong Temple for four days, do not give the performance fee, but the supply of good tea, the actors live in a comfortable place, and "treats table "Abundance. Daily three open box will have two to engage in Taiwan, the big business reward steamed buns, pork, moving tens of pounds, or snacks. Sometimes it is "double treat Taiwan" (reward double).
Not pulling the official theater, you have to "write a play" (booking performances), funding can only rely on charity. Zhengfeng coal mine is the big "giver", followed by the major companies, followed by the mine's coal division, master, Mr. accountant and the Yamen in the "top man". The company's business is not a business that is organized by households.
The temple during the Snowflake Peak at least one play, sometimes sing against the stage, if not a village or a large family wish to offer a play, rely on the good men and women of the oil money. Should be expenses, the temple will be announced after the yellow list, who do not dare to eat black money, for fear of "God" to retribution.
Programs performed along the street, can also be rewarded. If you lift the bar through the hall (i.e., in the old Yamen Hall square through the front), the Yamen "dignitaries" also have to pay out of their own pockets, several governors have been out of the reward money. The head of the temple, the management of the preparation of the temple fair, are all white obligation, the branch to send people to liaise with the event, door to door is also the nature of the obligation, the village also has a lot of enthusiastic people. Actors bring their own dry food, squatting next to the stall to eat between performances. Just buy some candy and pear cake for the little actors of the twisting flower, and that's the reward.
The temple fair is also the largest material exchange conference in Jingfu. Commodities to agricultural tools as much as the temple fair of livestock market transactions often up to two or three hundred head. Daily groceries, children's toys, women's products, coarse cloth and flower cloth is also very rich. Flavorful snacks, fried noodles and tea soup also rush to market. Sugar man, noodle man, fan, sweat umbrella, attracted many children and women.