What are the customs and customs of Jinhua?

Jinhua Customs 1) Lantern Festival Lantern Festival entertainment, as early as the time of Emperor Wu of the Western Han Dynasty, there was a "play of fish and dragons, horns and beasts". Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, lanterns have become more popular. People welcome lanterns to ward off evil spirits and eliminate plagues, eliminate disasters, pray for blessings, and pray for abundant harvests and safety for people and animals. In the old days, lantern festivals were held on the Lantern Festival, and the Lantern Festival was also called the "Festival of Lanterns." Generally, lanterns are put up on the tenth day of the first lunar month and scattered on the 20th day, with the lanterns most popular on the 14th, 15th and 16th days. The Jinhua Lantern Festival has a wide variety of lanterns with various shapes and colors. The dragon lantern is the main lantern of the lantern festival. The most representative dragon lanterns are the multi-bridge lanterns (called bench lanterns in Jinhua and Lanxi, and long lanterns in Pujiang). Generally, they have more than a hundred bridges (one section is a bridge), and sometimes there are hundreds of bridges, or even more than a thousand bridges. The lamp is divided into two parts: the faucet and the lamp bridge. The main formations of the bridge lanterns include: iron rope hoop, belly roll, green snake slide, wheat cake pick, lotus twist, scissor strands, double doors, around the room pillars, etc., which are extremely exciting and thrilling. The people are rich and happy, and the lantern festival becomes more and more prosperous. In addition to the Lantern Festival, Jinhua, Yongkang and other places also hold lantern festivals during the Mid-Autumn Festival and Double Ninth Festival. During the Spring Festival of 1983, a character lantern party was held in the new hall of Xu Zhai in Dongyang. The video team of the Ministry of Culture and Zhejiang TV Station made a special trip to record a feature film. During the National Day in 1984, Dongyang Lizhai's large-scale water lanterns (lotus lanterns) went to Hangzhou to participate in the Sino-Japanese Youth Gala and shined on the West Lake. During the Lantern Festival in 1985, Pujiang County held a lantern craft exhibition, with thousands of lanterns hung, 44 lantern teams and more than 7,100 people participating in the performance. There are more than 3,000 lantern makers of various types, more than 500 flags, more than 700 bronze guns (a kind of folk cannon), and more than 300 gongs and drummers. The scene is spectacular. Shanghai TV Station recorded the feature film "Lantern Festival on the Bank of Puyang River". During the Lantern Festival of the same year, factories and mining enterprises in Lanxi City tied lanterns on their cars, and 36 cars formed a fleet of lanterns, creating a spectacular sight. 2) Temple fairs: There were many temple fairs in the old days, especially the Temple Fair of Emperor Hu Gong on the 13th day of the eighth lunar month. At that time, faithful men and women would burn incense and worship Buddha in an endless stream. Businessmen gathered and department stores were displayed. In addition to holding customary ceremonies such as welcoming the Buddha, there were also entertainment activities such as welcoming the big flag, thirty-six rows, climbing the ninth floor, welcoming the pavilion, and performing dramas. Nowadays, temple fairs in various places are mostly entertainment activities, material exchange meetings and cultural festivals. However, feudal superstitious activities such as worshiping gods and Buddhas have been basically abolished. There are various activities such as performances, movies, dragon lanterns, entertainment, and exhibitions. 3) Social Opera: In the old days, in order to reward the gods of the land for blessing the harvest, a village or several villages hired a theater troupe, which was called "social opera". She operas are usually performed during the Spring Society and Autumn Society, and are also performed on the birthday of a certain god. The "Shoulong Opera" is performed on the 15th day of the first lunar month in Yongkang, the "God of Wealth Opera" is performed on March 16th, and the "Five Grain God Opera" is performed on May 25th. There are also performances for bridge tours, birthday celebrations, childbirth, forbidden mountains, music composition, etc. The performance venue may be in an ancestral hall, a sunbathing area, or a temporary stage may be set up on a field or beach. Funds are raised from the clan and regular expenditures, or from the public by the host. Social opera also has the style of "fighting stage", that is, several troupes perform in the same place at the same time, and the one with the largest audience wins. In front of the fighting platform, the organizer orders the firing of cannons as a trumpet. The first and second cannons are prepared. When the third cannon is fired, the vanguards of all the theater troupes fire in unison, and the gongs and drums sound. No one is allowed to start the game first. The troupe with the largest audience at that time is the "Red Square" troupe. The "Dootai" style is most popular in Pujiang River. 4) Arhat class: It is based on villages in Dongyang and Yiwu areas. There is no limit to the number of people. Training is concentrated in the middle of July every year. Start recommending one person to take the lead, called "leader". Host the "Pan Lantou Wine", and those who have eaten Lantou Wine will be added to the roster to form an Arhat class. Arhat class martial arts include boxing, stick, fork, saber, spear and shield, stacking Arhat, etc. All hire boxing coaches. The patterns include "one-legged back", "folded dragon pavilion", "folded door", "Naihe Bridge", "folded horse", "folded lotus", "monkey hole", "typesetting", "folded archway", etc. The performances include flying fork, group fork, step fork, set fork, hook and so on. In addition, there are marching, shield fighting, opening four doors, fighting five tigers, etc. The props include eighteen kinds of weapons such as old-style swords, guns, swords and sticks, green-haired lions, etc., accompanied by gongs, drums and suonas, and can be performed outside during the leisure time. All the people in the Arhat class wear black clothes, red trousers, bamboo socks, black and white cloth shoes, a white towel tied around the waist, no shirts, and no hats. 5) Fist-guessing is an entertainment activity in the wedding banquet, also known as "guessing the fist". There are "Guessing" (two people throwing punches), "Three Passes" (three people throwing punches), etc. When women drink at a banquet, they do not break their fists, and punish the drinker by turning the spoon: put the spoon on an empty plate, and the people at the same table take turns using their fingers to turn the spoon handle. After the rotation stops, whoever the spoon handle points to will be punished. drink wine.