Enshi social festival social festival

Enshi Shehuo, called "Meeting" by Enshi people, is an annual festival that must be celebrated. It mainly includes "eating cooperatives" and "stopping cooperatives". It is held on the fifth day after the beginning of spring, that is, the spring association, that is, during the association.

"Eating common rice" means picking wild Artemisia annua, chopping it up, rubbing off the bitter water, baking it into a common dish, and mixing it with diced bacon, diced dried bean curd, wild onion, garlic sprout and glutinous rice. And then steam it into a public meal. Friends and relatives are invited to get together for dinner and give gifts to each other. This custom originated from the social sacrifice of ancient people. It was originally a meal to worship the land god, and now it has evolved into a dietary custom with national characteristics. Because Artemisia annua has a good pharmacological effect, it can treat and prevent many diseases such as "injury, swelling, pain, tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, hemorrhoids", so social meals are the traditional medicinal meals of Tujia people. With the progress of the times, social food has become a delicacy in Enshi. Every year, social food is sold in markets, hotels, restaurants and supermarkets, and social food is rated as one of the top ten famous foods in Enshi.

"Stopping the club" means sweeping new graves in the first three years of the Spring Festival club, and the third year is the most grand, which is called the round grave. The host family asked the Houqi family to send a team of flowers, gongs and drums, prepare wine, vegetables, paper flags, umbrellas, treasure covers and other sacrifices, knock and knock to the grave to pay homage, hold a ceremony to soothe the soul, hang a red memorial account in front of the grave, and perform lions, umbrellas and treasure covers in front of the grave. This custom originated from the idea that the soul of the ancient people is immortal. It is believed that the soul of the dead person is still floating in the world within three years, and it will be sent away after a certain ceremony three years later before it really enters the ghost world. Because the ceremony is similar to the burial ceremony of the deceased, there is a saying that "one person is buried again", which is related to the custom of second burial.

Social sacrifice is the most important and grand agricultural festival in ancient China. The Autumn Society declined a long time ago, and the legacy of the Spring Society only stayed in some minority areas such as Enshi, Hubei. Enshi social fire is primitive, mysterious, national, regional and completely natural inheritance. With the improvement of people's living standards, it is becoming more and more grand. In Enshi social fire, people were educated and enlightened by traditional culture, entertainment and beauty enjoyment.