2020-202 1 time and place of winter fishing in Chagan Lake

Every winter, Chagan Lake begins to fish in winter, and this year is certainly no exception. The winter fishing time of Chagan Lake this year is1February 26th, and will last until 202 1. If you go during this time, you can go to see the winter catching scene.

The time and place of winter fishing in Chagan Lake in Jilin Province is from February 26, 65438 to February of the following year. It refers to ice and snow fishing (or fishing and hunting) in Chagan Lake in winter, which is a traditional fishery production method (custom) in Qianguoerluosi Mongolian Autonomous County, Songyuan City, Jilin Province.

In 2006, "Chagan Lake Mongolian Folk Tourism Festival" and "Chagan Lake Ice and Snow Fishing Tourism Festival" were rated as "Top Ten Folk Festivals in China" and "Top Ten Natural and Ecological Festivals in China" respectively. Recently, it was awarded "China Festival with the most tourist popularity" and "China Festival with the most cultural heritage value". It has become an important fishery production base in Northeast China, a grassland tourist scenic spot in western Jilin Province, a green edible fish development base in Jilin Province and an eco-friendly economic demonstration zone in Jilin Province.

Chagan Lake has also been listed in the list of important wetlands and wetland nature reserves in China, and has been approved as a national nature reserve.

Activity introduction 1. Wake up the net by offering sacrifices to the lake

This is a traditional ceremony of "offering sacrifices to the lake to wake up the net", which has two meanings: First, through offering sacrifices to the lake, to the father of heaven, to the mother of earth and to the god of the lake, all living things are blessed for sustainable reproduction, and people's lives are auspicious and healthy; The second is to wake up the sleeping fishing net through the sacrificial net and put the net into the lake, which is stable and safe.

The scene of "awakening the net by offering sacrifices to the lake" is quite spectacular, somewhat mysterious and magical. First of all, the fisherman's leader announced that "the ceremony of awakening the net to offer sacrifices to the lake began", then drums and trumpets sounded, lamas with bells and bottles (holy water bottles) blew conchs and horns around the altar, covered with Aobao filled with Hada's pine and cypress branches and charcoal fire, and then stood in front of the altar with their hands folded to chant; At this time, dancers wearing traditional tea-horse costumes, masks and props such as knives, forks and swords danced the traditional tea-horse dance; Then the fisherman and the horse pulled the sleigh full of winter fishing gear into the wake-up net of the sacrificial lake. The fisherman asked the Lama to recite the sacrificial scriptures, and the Lama rang the bell by hand, sprinkled the holy water in "Bemba" into the air, and recited the sacrificial scriptures in unison.

Cut the ice and break the hole

The fisherman held fragrant milk wine in his left hand, chanting the words of offering sacrifices to the holy lake to the sky, then kneeling on the ice, dipping his right middle finger in the wine and bouncing it to the sky and the ground respectively, then pouring the wine in the bowl into the ice cave carved by the lake, and the lamas threw the offerings on the table into the ice cave while chanting. The fisherman took Hada from the Mongolian girl, and the Mongolian youth threw the candy in their hands at the crowd, sprinkled the milk in the bucket on the sky and the ice, then presented the fisherman with milk powder and fried rice, and served Zhuang Xing wine in a big bowl. At the same time, there will be an auction of winter head fish in Chagan Lake!

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After drinking Zhuanghang wine and taking the fish head "on the ice", all winter catchers J will jump on the trawl or sledge and start working on the ice.

4. Others

There are also folk-custom projects such as ice fishing, centralized signing of investment projects, agricultural products exhibition, people's promotion experience, song and dance concerts, half marathon and other colorful economic, trade and cultural activities.

Nowadays, winter fishing in Chagan Lake has become a local characteristic activity, and fishing and hunting cultural activities are held every year, which not only protects local cultural customs and traditions, but also brings many tourists and increases income.

Overture-ceremony of "offering sacrifices to the lake to wake up the net"

Historically, Mongolians worshipped mountains and rivers and had the custom of offering sacrifices to them. It is said that in 12 1 1 year, Genghis Khan and his Nine Wings fighters arrived at the "Qingshantou" platform on the north bank of Chagan Lake at dawn. Under the guidance of "Sulu Ingot", we held the "Jiujiu Ceremony" with others. With the bursting sound of nine piles of blazing flames, we hung it around our necks, hung its crown on our wrists, stood in front of the altar, faced Chagan Lake, knelt to the sun for nine days, worshipped the lake for nine days, and shouted "Chagan Lake Festival" in unison. Then sprinkle the fragrant milk wine into Chagan Lake, which means that the fragrant milk wine will be permanently integrated with the endless Chagan Lake.

This Millennium "Sacrifice Lake" with traditional religious color? The ceremony of "Awakening the Net" has spread to this day, and the scene is spectacular and mysterious. The ceremony was announced by the head of a distorted fisherman wearing a Mongolian robe, and the deafening gongs and drums and the roaring French horn suddenly sounded.

Playing conch and horn with French bell in hand, standing in front of the altar where nine kinds of offerings are offered and nine-wick sandalwood is lit, Aobao is covered with Hada, filled with pine and cypress branches, burning charcoal fire for three turns, hands folded and chanting; Chama dance followed closely; Fishermen in white stubble sheepskin jackets and wide belts around their waists, tall horses with colorful stripes and chords, pulled sledges full of winter fishing gear and entered the wake-up net site of the offering lake.

The fisherman raised his head and reached for a big wooden bowl full of mellow milk wine with his left hand. Facing the sacred lake in the sky, he chanted aloud the words of offering sacrifices to the lake. Then he knelt on the ice, dipped his right middle finger in wine and bounced to the sky and the ground respectively. Then he poured the wine in the bowl into the ice hole cut by the lake. Lamas also chant Buddhist scriptures and throw the offerings on the table into the ice cave.

The fisherman took Hada from the Mongolian girl and wrapped it around an Aobao full of pine and cypress branches. Mongolian youth jumped up, threw the candy in their hands at the crowd and spilled the milk in the bucket to the sky and the ground.

Sacrificing to the lake to wake up the net is a sacrifice to the heavenly father, the earth mother and the lake god, so as to bless all living things for sustainable reproduction and people's auspicious and healthy lives. It expresses the people's desire for a better life and their gratitude to nature.

Fishing in Winter —— An Ancient Production Mode

The four-wheel drive is "overbearing" and flies all the way on the snowy ice. By the faint morning light, three black spots loomed on the ice ahead: horse-drawn sleigh. On the carriage sat a group of fishermen in sheepskin jackets and fox fur hats. They braved the biting cold wind and ran towards the center of the lake in the mist.

About an hour later, the sky in the east was a fish-belly grey, and we also arrived at the winter fishing spot in the middle of the lake. The horse's sleigh stopped, and the fishermen jumped off it and began to get busy. Wang Fengge, the fishing head, stood at the selected net mouth. After determining the position, he poked a rectangular mark on the ice with a flag drill, and the two fishing heads immediately chiseled an ice hole. The first ice eye dug is to get off the net, and then walk hundreds of steps from the net to both sides, with the direction at 70 ~ 80 degrees from the front, and insert a banner, which fishermen call "wing flag".

Wang Fengge walked hundreds of steps from the position of the wing flag to the front, and then planted the flag, which the fishermen called "the round beach flag". Then the two "round beach flags" meet hundreds of steps in advance, determine the mesh and insert the net flag. The ice surface planned by these banners is the "net nest".

Fishermen cut an ice eye at the wing flag every 15 meters along the lower net. After the huge fishing net enters below the ice surface from the net opening, a thin wooden rod called "transmission rod" (equivalent to a needle for sewing clothes) closes the net along these ice eyes, pulls the walking force of the thin wooden rod with a "walking hook" and adjusts it with a "twisting spear".

The determination of the position of the net nest, the size and direction of the lower net opening and the net outlet, the angle of the fishing handle, the breeding weight of the net drift, etc. , are inherited by teachers and constantly enriched and improved in practice, which contains great knowledge. This primitive fishing and hunting mode of production is an intangible cultural heritage handed down by the people of Chagan Lake with their labor and wisdom.

After five or six hours, around ten o'clock in the morning, I began to go out of the net. The reason why it is called "red net" is because the first net has been given heavy expectations. Three horses get out of the net wheel, and the two sides of the net are fused together through the cooperation of the dry belt and the hooks on the net wheel. A large net consisting of 96 nets, each wing is pulled out three times, which is called one pull, 16 pull. The first one has no fish, and the second one starts fishing.

When fishing, directly use the net to pull the fish hanging on the net to the ice and then take it down, and use the "scoop" to fish out the fish floating at the net outlet. Finally, because every time I catch fish, more fish are concentrated in the net belly. The web belly is a pocket at the back end of the web. A net bag can hold 1 million Jin of fish. After fishing the fish in the net bag, pull the net bag out of the ice and put the fish away. The net was shoveled, speared and hooked again on the sledge. Here, the winter fishing with one net a day is over.

The fishermen in Chagan Lake are very clever. They regard Chagan Lake as a holy water lake, they know how to cherish and protect it, and they also know how to raise lakes with lakes. They have warned their descendants from generation to generation that they should cherish mountains and rivers forever, so that there will be a big pool preserved today.