What are the customs and cultures in Leizhou?

1, Leizhou folk songs are famous overseas.

Leizhou song, one of the four major dialect songs in Guangdong Province, is a folk song of Leizhou Peninsula. Leizhou song is widely spread in Leizhou Peninsula 10 counties (cities) and overseas Chinese in Leizhou in Southeast Asian countries, such as Singapore, Malaysia and Indonesia, where Leizhou people moved in history.

Leizhou Peninsula was founded in the Qin Dynasty and belongs to Xiang County. At that time, Baiyue people lived, and Han people in southern Fujian began to migrate to Leizhou Peninsula in the Eastern Jin Dynasty. The residents of Leizhou Peninsula are mostly descendants of the ancestors of southern Fujian, and Leizhou dialect is a branch of southern Fujian dialect. After Minnan folk songs were introduced into Leizhou Peninsula, unique Leizhou folk songs, both ancient and novel, gradually formed.

2. Folk art "Dancing Eagle"

Eagle Dance is popular in Liang Dong, Anpu, Hengshan and other towns in Lianjiang City. Lianjiang was founded in Wude, Tang Gaozu in five years, formerly known as Shicheng County, and now it is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Zhanjiang City, Guangdong Province, with a total area of more than 2,800 square kilometers and a population of 1.5 million.

During Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty, there were eagle dancing activities in Xinhua Beach and Xinhua Beach. By the early years of the Republic of China, when Dianbai people set up museums to teach martial arts in Li Lai Beach and Liangtan Beach, Wu had a high performance skill; When you arrive at Liang Yingqing and Liang, you can only perform on the ground; When Liang and Liang arrive, they can perform on wooden poles 4-6 meters high, which greatly increases their difficult skills. It not only has a strong ornamental value, but also retains a strong folk customs.

The performing arts in Zhuyuan Village, Lianjiang City, after more than 100 years of inheritance and development, are becoming more and more mature. 1988, 1989, Zhuyuan village dancing eagle team participated in the first and second folk fun festivals in Guangdong province. In February 2006, he won the gold medal in Guangdong Folk Art Exhibition and Yunfu Nanjiang Culture and Art Festival. In 2006, it was listed in the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative list by Guangdong Provincial People's Government. ?

3. Leizhou Stone Dog

Dogs can suppress evil spirits, dispel evil spirits and eliminate disasters, control storms, give wealth and blessings, prolong life, advocate fame and fortune, and so on. Therefore, Leizhou people have the custom of naming their children "mud dog", "paparazzi", "dog health" and "dog treasure", and let them wear "paparazzi hat" and "dog shirt" (similar to vest). In urban and rural areas, stone dogs are also generally sacrificed at doorways, alleys, village entrances, intersections, wellhead, estuary, temple front and grave front, on holidays, on the first and fifteenth day of the lunar calendar, or in case of weddings, funerals and weddings.

The stone dog cultural relics in Leizhou are densely distributed and rich in remains. Nearly 10,000 stone dogs have been found in this city, which were carved from basalt from the Warring States to modern times. Leizhou has a huge family of stone dogs. Members have different faces, and the plastic arts are numerous, such as lying, squatting and waiting, and their expressions are portrait, abstraction, personification and exaggeration. Most stone carvings are equipped with additional carvings and decorations, such as copper coins, stone drums, gossip, handsome seals, black snakes, hydrangeas, ship anchors, fishing nets, puppies, ties, mother of pearl, braids and so on. , with obvious characteristics of the times and local flavor.

4. Watch the art of "climbing the knife ladder"

"Climbing the knife ladder", also known as climbing the knife mountain, is an ancient folk activity aimed at exorcising evil spirits and eliminating disasters and praying for peace. "Climbing the knife ladder" spread in Qilin Village, Taiping Town, Mazhang District, Zhanjiang City.

Qilin Village is located in the northeast of Leizhou Peninsula, 33 kilometers away from Zhanjiang City, near the east bank of the lower reaches of Tong Ming Bay. At the end of the Ming Dynasty, Chen Dalun, the ancestor of Leizhou, lived here. This temple was built to commemorate the trip of the marquis of Wu, and it falls on February 1 1 day and 12 of the lunar calendar every year. This "year-old" has a history of more than 400 years, and its main contents include wandering, riding in a sedan chair, climbing a knife ladder and crossing a sea of fire. Among them, the "knife ladder" is a unique project, that is, a symmetrical wooden ladder with a height of 18 is erected on the flat ground, and 36 sharp and shiny steel knives are obliquely tied to both sides of the wooden ladder, which is called the "knife ladder". Barefoot and bare-handed performers climbed the ladder top step by step, holding the blade and stepping on the green front amid the cheerful suona, gongs and drums and firecrackers. The steel knife is extremely sharp, but the performer's hands and feet are intact. This is a unique activity.

"Climbing the knife ladder" is one of the solemn and sacred contents of the local people's sacrifice ceremony, which fully shows the piety and sincere feelings of Leizhou people when they sacrifice their ancestors. With the progress and development of the times, "climbing the knife ladder" has become an exciting and fascinating ornamental art. The local people make this activity warm, grand and wonderful every year, which is well known and deeply loved by the people of Leizhou.

Extended data

Leizhou Peninsula has a long history and splendid culture. Named after the ancient Leizhou, it is called "the three peninsulas of China" together with Shandong Peninsula and Liaodong Peninsula. It is located at the southernmost tip of Chinese mainland, like a dragon rushing to the South China Sea, which is magnificent and shocking. Qiongzhou Strait in the south of the peninsula echoes Hainan Island from a distance, with a length of about 140 km from north to south and a width of about 60-70 km from east to west, with a total area of 13225 square kilometers.

Leizhou Peninsula is the base of Leizhou people, the birthplace of Leizhou culture and the spiritual symbol of Leizhou people all over the world. Backed by a thick mainland, hard to pull; Facing the blue sea and overlooking China. Gather the aura of heaven and earth, gather the essence of the sun and the moon, and nourish everything. Taking Leizhou dialect, Raytheon's thunder foot, Leizhou changing drums, Leile Leicai, Gray Lei Ju, Leizhou stone dog, lion dance, dragon dance, Nuo dance and many other cultural contents as carriers, the peninsula has built a unique human geographical scope.

reference data

Baidu Encyclopedia: Leizhou Peninsula