Chongzhou cultural customs

Jinji Township, chongzhou city is the largest kite-making base in China. It is famous at home and abroad for its exquisite craftsmanship and variety, and enjoys the reputation of the hometown of kites. The annual Chongzhou Golden Rooster Kite Festival is a grand kite festival in China, where Sichuan Kite Competition and National Kite Classic are often held. Every March, kites fly over Chongzhou with the warm spring breeze, and tourists from home and abroad like flying. Activities: East-West Kite Competition, West Sichuan Kite Classic Competition, performances by famous domestic kite-flying performance teams, large-scale, super-large, miniature, fine, collectible kite exhibitions, orchid exhibitions, Sichuan Opera, Beijing Opera performances, soldering iron paintings, strange stones, root arts, Ming Dow bamboo weaving exhibitions, and large-scale cultural programs; Visit the hometown of golden rooster kites, mass free flying hope activities, kite making performances, and tourists make their own kites; Famous snacks in Chongqing include Zhazha noodles, chicken slices from Catholic Church, king chicken, home-cooked chicken and Huaiyuan Sanjue.

custom

When Chongzhou people celebrate their birthdays, those under 50 can only live or live. Generally, they eat noodles on their birthdays and pray for a long life. Families with better conditions hold birthday presents, prepare banquets, greet guests, fire guns and give gifts. At that time, they held a ceremony to pray for a happy birthday and end this grand banquet. Although there are people who do great things now, more people eat cakes, blow out candles and sing birthday songs instead. Chongzhou is known as the "state of etiquette", which was highly praised by Huayang Guozhi in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. Qing Guangxu's "History of Chongqing" records: "Outside Chengdu, scholars are gentle, respectful and frugal, and the voice of string songs reaches all corners of the country." It is praised by people in western Sichuan. Chongzhou people who live in this hot land are accompanied by customs from birth to death, including birth ceremony (including birthday ceremony), coronation ceremony, wedding and funeral. There are all kinds of rituals and customs of offering sacrifices and congratulations, as well as countless taboos and customs, as many as in those days.

It is a custom in chongzhou city from New Year's Eve to Lantern Festival the following year. The midnight snack reaches its climax, and towns such as Chengguan, Huaiyuan, Tong Yuan and Sanjiang are the most lively. There are two types of lights: chandeliers and swimming lights. A chandelier is a lamp hung under the eaves in front of every house, which is made of colored paper, round, square, diamond, flat and changeable; Fish lanterns, shrimp lanterns, melon lanterns and palace lanterns have different shapes. Lanterns, in particular, are the most eye-catching. They integrate carving, pasting, paper-cutting, poetry, painting and calligraphy. Generally cylindrical, the height is about 1 m, and a turntable is placed in the middle. After burning the lamp, the turntable rotates due to the airflow, and the landscape figures, birds and animals attached to the turntable will change repeatedly.

dragon lantern

Every Spring Festival, there are dragon lanterns in urban and rural areas of the city to welcome the Spring Festival. The lights are turned off five times and turned off fifteen times. There are many kinds of dragon lanterns in towns and villages such as Chengguan, Jixie, Dahuan and Sanjiang, and dragon dances, colorful dragons and fire dragons are all kinds, which compete with each other. Dragon dance is exquisite, decorated with yellow cloth, 5 to 7 knots, 6 to 8 people waving. Longbao is decorated with gold, hanging on the top of the pole and rotating freely. 1 people make fun of it. Generally, there are 7 or 9 knots, and all kinds of soft satin are used as dragon skin, which is realistic in shape. When traveling, fish, shrimp, snails, mussels, turtles and other lights are used to perform various actions in percussion music such as "rolling hydrangea" and "dragon wagging its tail" or Sichuan opera gongs and drums. Besides the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, it is often active in large-scale temple fairs. There are 99 colorful dragons on the Tomb-Sweeping Day in Tong Yuan.

Lion lamp

The skills of lion lanterns in Xishan, Huaiyuan, Sanjiang, Ma Yang, Wangchang, Dongguan and Wanjia are superb. Huaiyuan Lion Lantern is particularly famous. During the Republic of China, it was skipped in Chengdu, Wenjiang, Xinjin and Leshan. Lion lanterns in these towns are divided into "Wen Lion" and "Wu Lion". Tattooed lions are more important than expressions, such as scratching, licking, curling and shaking. Wushi is good at acrobatics and can jump, roll and turn. They are strong and brave, and there are as many as 100 kinds of formations above their heads as Wutai Mountain. The "broken array" of Chongzhou Lion Lantern is particularly wonderful. The host of the Lantern Festival set up an elevated frame with poles, tables and stools, and put the reward money in the top bucket basket, so that the "monkey" who accompanied the dance could be his own, integrating drama, juggling and dancing. Others let the "lion" also go up to the elevated level, showing the lion's intelligent and mighty character as the king of beasts. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), lion dancing became fashionable and out of date. Since the 1980s, the Spring Festival has been active in urban and rural areas every year.

Niudeng

Farmers in towns and villages such as Baitou, Tingjiang, Ming Dow and Ma Yang are good at dancing cow lanterns, decorating and making cow heads with dustpans, and connecting head and tail with linen to show the cow body. A man is the head, a man is the tail, and a man is a shepherd boy. Dragon lanterns are often followed during the Lantern Festival. Performing feeding cows, morning glory, Daniel, etc. during the March; When playing with lights, there are procedures such as killing cattle, turning around and being trapped. Simple and funny, strong local flavor.

Yao meideng

There are two kinds of lanterns in the city: cars and boats, both of which mainly sing. Yaomei dances in a float or lotus boat. When riding a float, a driver pushes a cart and holds a square flag with wheels in each hand to show the car; Tie the trolley to your shoulder with colored silk to show it. Sister Yao performed with her hands holding the flag. In the lotus picking boat, Yao Mei stood in the boat with a ferryman beside her. When singing, another "Lianxiang Team" led, Jin Qiangun stepped on the cross, and one person led the singing. Everyone had their own voices, drumming and dancing along the street. The lead singer is mostly the traditional lyrics of December, but also improvisational and flexible; The intercessors are vivid and colorful, such as "Liu Ya De Liu Ya" and "A Lotus Flower De Begonia". Yaomei danced T-dance in the music, mostly dressed as men, wearing colorful clothes and sunglasses on her nose, which was very charming. Wherever this lamp goes, it often attracts people to gather together to talk about it and guess who the imitator is.