The calendar year is the most familiar festival for Zhanjiang people. It is said that during the Cultural Revolution, some superstitious activities such as "wandering the gods" were interspersed in the calendar year for political reasons, which ended for a period of time. However, with the turmoil of the past and the opening of people's minds, the unique festival in western Guangdong has once again become popular. There are also many changes in the traditional calendar: superstitious activities are relatively reduced, and more attention is paid to the emotional connection between relatives and friends.
It can be said that Nianguan has become the carnival of Zhanjiang people at the end of the year, and it is a festival to celebrate the hard harvest of the year and connect feelings. The general process of a year. Zhanjiang people often say "the year of eating" and "the year of eating". Generally speaking, eating is the main year, and more customs are still kept in the countryside, so we should go deep into the countryside to understand the out-and-out year.
During the Chinese New Year, every household is decorated with lanterns and colorful buildings, colorful galleries and galleries. The roadside is covered with colorful flags, firecrackers and gongs and drums come and go, and all kinds of folk art performances are presented to the public. Cantonese opera, movies, songs and dances, puppet shows, tea-picking shows, flower-jumping sheds, floating colors, dancing spring cows, dragons, lions, zaju and various entertainment activities have appeared one after another. The floating colors of Zhenlong in Xinyi and Huang Po in Wuchuan are folk art treasures with a history of nearly 300 years. In China's long history, its well-known myths, legends, historical stories and dramatic figures, through vivid character performances, reflect people's customs, tastes and aesthetics in real life, and show the intelligence of the working people in western Guangdong. Studying Zhenlong ancient town will be an excellent way to study the culture and customs of western Guangdong.
Gone with the wind is a kind of dramatic plastic art on the floating stage of Guangdong folk. Usually, two or three children play characters and scenes in fairy tales or historical legends on the board, and four people carry them slowly, accompanied by the music played by the eight-tone gongs and drums team for people to watch. The second episode of "Twenty Years of Fan Huameng": "First, set up the Five Blessingg and Auspicious No.1 Festival in Foshan, with 20 Marvin, more than 0 kinds of floating colors 10, and more than 0 pairs of drum music and horse events 10."
Gone with the Wind is an ancient folk art in China. The so-called floating color means that three or four people push a color platform about two meters long, one meter wide and 0.8 meters high. People or animals with different shapes are floating in the air on a colored platform, supported by an invisible colored stalk, which is like walking in front of people. This wonderful picture is amazing, amazing. Xinyi Town Dragon's unique 18-person large-scale high-difficulty floating color, with its huge floating body, majestic and lifelike, is praised by China folk experts as a unique folk art in China. "Flower-jumping shed" performers are dressed in ancient costumes, wearing grotesque masks, holding props such as axes, sickles and hoes, singing and dancing with gongs and drums, expressing the joy of "exorcising evil spirits, enriching the people and making things safe". On the performance day of "Flower-jumping Shed", it attracts villagers from eight neighboring villages, old and young, and it is unprecedented and has become a unique landscape in the rural areas of western Guangdong. Huazhou "flower-jumping shed", commonly known as shed dance by local people, was introduced from Fujian during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty. After continuous improvement and refinement, combined with local customs, it has formed a folk dance with simple and rich local characteristics, which has lasted for hundreds of years and has been passed down to this day. "Flower-jumping shed" set up a straw shed with bamboo poles near Tiantou Village and hung red lanterns and flowers. Actors ranged from 10 to 100, and were decorated with "seventy-two sages" and various flowers and plants. Shed dance has a fixed singing stage, which is divided into 18 performances, such as receiving gods, installing seats, opening shed doors, children, scholars, young people singing, hoeing fields, etc. Most of them take farming, love between men and women, and interest in life as their themes, and pray for peace, good weather and abundant crops in the coming year.
"Qiu Guang is good, dancing in the shed, celebrating the harvest, no evil." This is a portrayal of Huazhou's "shed dance" entering its heyday in the 1960s and 1970s. During the slack season after the autumn harvest, straw huts were set up everywhere around Huozhang, Guanqiao, Huazhou. When gongs and drums sounded and horns sounded, the villagers put on colorful costumes and masks to "jump into the flower shed", and the masses celebrated the harvest with joy and prosperity. Eight tones is one of the oldest music in southern China, belonging to folk music. Eight tones appeared at least as early as the Song Dynasty. It is named after the use of eight musical instruments, including stringed instruments (erhu), harp (Qin Yue, dulcimer and sanxian), flute (suona), pipe (long and short throat), flute (horizontal flute, straight flute and hole flute), gong, drum and cymbal. During the performance, two people carried it. Its music varies from occasion to occasion. Maoming people like to invite Bayin gongs and drums to the festival, and the whole village is completely immersed in the festive atmosphere. It is natural to play eight-tone gongs and drums as an annual ceremony. Its cheerful and passionate rhythm is inspiring, making the whole wandering team magnificent and awe-inspiring. When wandering, it usually follows God, and its "drumming" sound source can be heard far away. Many people judge whether it is time for them to set up gongs and drums by themselves. The sound of gongs and drums is loud, which proves that the wandering gods are coming soon. People quickly moved out of the table, laid out their offerings and waited for the arrival of God. Every year, people greet God with gongs and drums and send him away with gongs and drums. The sound of gongs and drums is enough for God to "feel" people's respect for it.
The information of Maoming Bayin, Guangdong Province, reads: "Bayin, a percussion instrument group, consists of eight people, including blowing, percussion and stringed instruments. There are fixed music scores and cards, which are selected according to the requirements of weddings, funerals, sacrifices or celebrations. There are prescribed costumes when playing, usually wearing gorgeous robes and dresses, lifting gongs and drums, and playing while walking in the order of percussion and orchestral music. During Jiaqing and Daoguang years, eight tones prevailed in Zhenlong area of Xinyi Town, Maoming, among which Deqiao was the most famous. "
In the forty-third year of Qianlong (1778), he retaken the main hall of Maoming County, Gaozhou, Guangdong Province, resigned again and took Bayin back to his hometown in Dehua, Fujian.