What are the customs in Anfu South Township?

The folk customs of Anfu South Township are unique, and the civilized etiquette is complex and grand, from a person's birth, three dynasties, full moon, one year old, confusion, marriage (looking for a matchmaker, eating, giving gifts, meeting people, setting a date, being burdened, getting married, and returning to the door), celebrating a birthday to funeral, building a house on a picking day, digging land, and returning to the door.

According to relevant records, "Eating New", also known as "Taste New" and "Eating New Festival", is a traditional folk festival in Nanxiang, Anfu County, and the second largest festival in the local area after the Spring Festival. Among the traditional folk festivals in China, "Eating New Festival" is the only festival with no definite date, which is between "Little Summer" and "Big Summer" in the lunar calendar and matures with early rice. Due to the inconsistency of soil and water climate conditions in each village, the maturity of early rice often differs by one or several days, so "eating new things" in each village comes first and then comes. At present, the specific time of "eating new things" is basically decided by the local township government. At the same time, due to different regions and customs, the rituals of eating new foods are slightly different in different places, but the ritual procedures of offering sacrifices to Xingu, gods and ancestors and taking seats in the order of generations are almost the same. More importantly, all localities attach great importance to "eating new food". On the day of the festival, all the villagers who went out to work and do business rushed home for the New Year. The villagers carefully picked the full ears of rice, tied them into rice bundles, worshipped the local gods and ancestors, and then took their seats in turn according to their generations. The seats are mainly steamed pork with new rice and rice noodles, fresh and tender seasonal vegetables such as eggplant, pepper, cucumber, pumpkin and pod, as well as chicken, cliff, fish and meat. "Eating new things" can not only show farmers' incomparable joy in their hard work, but more importantly, it is a traditional custom to promote harmony and unity among relatives, friends and neighbors. It is a rare intangible cultural heritage of the county and has important reference value for studying the folk customs of the county.

"Eating new" means eating new rice for the first time when early rice is harvested. The festival lasts for one day, which is decided by the Zhou Hu Town Government according to the practice of Nanxiang, and is posted and announced. Every year around the first and middle days of July in the Gregorian calendar, all towns and villages in Nanxiang celebrate the "Eating New" Festival. In Anfu South Township, the "Eat New" Festival is as important and grand as the Spring Festival, commonly known as "Eat New Year's goods, don't tell the truth". On the Mid-Autumn Festival, there is also the custom of burning towers. Every Mid-Autumn Festival, young people and students will go around to pick up many broken tiles to build a tower that is more than one person high. Several children will knock on the village gong to donate straw to every household, and adults will surround it with straw and burn it on the top of the tower, saying that it is to burn Yuan Tatars. This activity will last for three nights. Every household will set off firecrackers when the moon comes out and put round food such as moon cakes and oranges (grapefruit) on the moon.

On the first day of the Spring Festival, children should wear new clothes. On this day, parents tell their children not to curse, not to curse. People in the same village will go to the villagers' home to pay New Year greetings, and they can't go out to visit relatives until the second day of the second year. On the seventh and eighth days of the Spring Festival, dragon lanterns (there used to be lion lanterns) were started. On the first day, the dragon lantern dance first went to the river at the entrance of the village to send water to the dragon, which means to worship the river god. Then for the Spring Festival, every household holds a dragon lantern dance. On the thirteenth day of the Spring Festival, the Dragon Lantern Dance ended. That night, the dragon lantern was released and quietly carried to the river that originally fed the dragon with water. Take the paper off the dragon and light it again, and the dragon lantern dance will be over. After eating Yuanxiao, the Spring Festival will be over.

cultural atmosphere

Nanxiang area in Anfu County has a profound cultural background. Since the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the style of writing has become more and more prosperous, and talents have emerged in large numbers. This is a land of outstanding people. There are many celebrities, scholars, loyal ministers and righteous people in the past dynasties: Xing Si, the seventh ancestor of Zen Buddhism in the Tang Dynasty, Liu Yao, Wang Tingjue, the prime minister Shi Peng, the famous Neo-Confucianism scholar Zou Shouyi, Liu Shuying, one of the "Seven Gentlemen", and the patriotic poet Lixi Wang were all born here. The old Red Army in Anfu Nanxiang has three generals, namely, He, Mao, who have made outstanding achievements and written a new chapter in Nanxiang's history.

There are many ancient folk culture villages in Anfu South Township, among which Tangbian Village in Zhou Hu Town, Sanshe Village in Ganluo Township, Zhexi Village in Jintian Township, Chajiang Village in Yangmen Township and Gaozhou Village are of large scale and high value. There are hundreds of buildings in Ming and Qing Dynasties with unique shapes, exquisite carvings and profound cultural heritage. They are good places for tourism and historical research.

Tangbian Ancient Village is a natural village in Anfu County, Jiangxi Province, about 30 kilometers away from the county seat, with convenient transportation. 1996 was discovered in the general survey of tourism resources along the Beijing-Kowloon Railway. Over the years, some publicity and introduction have been made to the outside world, and tourists coming to the ancient village are in an endless stream. In August 2003, with the approval of Jiangxi Provincial People's Government, it was listed as the first batch of "historical and cultural ancient villages" in Jiangxi Province. In 20 14, it was rated as a famous historical and cultural village in China.

"Sweep the grain with a dustpan and teach children to read" is a fine tradition handed down from generation to generation in Nanxiang, which emphasizes respecting teachers and attaching importance to education. Nanxiang people are industrious in farming and business, creating a splendid culture with strong local characteristics.

In Nanxiang, there is a Zhou Hu Middle School in Anfu County with a long history. The school, formerly known as Fuzhen Academy, was founded by Zou Shouyi, a famous neo-philosopher, in the thirty-seventh year of Jiajing in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1558). It was one of the famous lecture academies at that time. In the 31st year of Guangxu reign in Qing Dynasty (A.D. 1905), it was renamed as "Fuzheng School". In the early years of the Republic of China (19 1 1), it was changed to "auxiliary school". Zhou Hu Middle School is one of the oldest schools in Jiangxi Province and even the whole country. The long history of running a school has formed an excellent school spirit of "respecting truth, seeking truth and being pragmatic, pioneering and enterprising", which has trained all kinds of talents from generation to generation. Since the resumption of the college entrance examination, more than 500 outstanding freshmen have been sent to colleges and universities, and 40 cadres at or above department level, 27 doctors and 17 professors have been trained, as well as a large number of key talents who are active in all fronts of the motherland's construction. Teachers have published more than 30 papers/kloc-0. In all kinds of teaching competitions at or above the county level, 3 16 people have won prizes successively.

Women in Nanxiang will get together to drink "wife tea" when they are free. In the name of drinking tea, many women eat good tea when they are pregnant. After the child is born, they eat three dynasties tea, full moon tea and one-year-old tea. They began to go to school and have tea to continue their studies. A woman eats her sister's tea before marriage, and her 60th, seventieth, eightieth and ninetieth birthday tea when she marries a daughter-in-law. To build a house, she has to dig, repair and cross the nest. After the old man died, she wanted to eat Daoqi tea. After the Spring Festival, there will be spring tea, busy farming tea, small production teams will also eat wife's tea together, and neighbors next door will get together in their leisure time. After your family finished eating at my house, every household began to be busy with farm work.