On the wedding day, the groom goes to the bride's house and picks her up by bike, motorcycle or car. The bridesmaid and uncle (the bride's brother) accompanied her. My uncle is going to take a gift to the man's house. This gift should include a male hen, especially a bottle of lamp oil, which means that the man "adds color to the wedding". Brother-in-law will be warmly received when he arrives at his in-laws' house.
When getting married, the bride should bring a dowry. There should be lamps, clogs, needle and thread, mirror, comb, ruler, rice tube, grass-headed Chinese-style chest covering (there are two grass-headed incense, that is, sedge) in the dowry. There are toys and stationery for children and socks for relatives and friends. Among them, clogs mean "grow old together" or "imitate"; Wearing a comb symbolizes that the bride combs her hair in an orderly way. Jinzao Town is a 10,000 mu off-season banana planting base in Shantou City, an olive planting base in Shantou City, and a standardized planting demonstration area of banana orange and olive in Chaoshan City. The annual output of various fruits in this town is about 70,000 tons. In 2005, the GDP was 233 million yuan and the agricultural output value was 279 million yuan.
Jinzao Town has formed a banana industrial belt in the plain area, with a planting area of 24,000 mu. Olive, Myrica rubra and Yougan industrial belts in mountainous and semi-mountainous areas, in which the planting area of olive is close to 1 10,000 mu, the planting area of Myrica rubra is more than 1 10,000 mu and the planting area of Yougan is more than 8,000 mu. In mountainous areas, persimmon money and persimmon processing industry with fresh persimmons as raw materials have been formed. The agricultural economy of Jinzao Town takes fruit planting as the main body and fresh fruit processing as the driving force, and constantly promotes the process of agricultural industrialization. In order to improve the economic benefits of agricultural products planting in Jinzao Town and realize the goal of "increasing agricultural efficiency, increasing farmers' income and prospering rural areas", Jinzao Town Committee and the town government have made great efforts to provide various services for agricultural products and solve the sales problem of agricultural products after harvest. Among them, from the end of 2004 to the beginning of 2005, Jinzao Town Committee and the town government successfully planned and organized the "Certified Auction of Chinese Centennial Fenugreek Olives", which effectively promoted the sales of fenugreek olives in this area, greatly improved the economic benefits of fenugreek olive planting, promoted the sales of other varieties of olives, and made farmers taste the sweetness and improve their enthusiasm for production. June 2005. After the success of fenugreek olive auction, Jinzao Town Committee and the town government successfully held the "First Yangmei Festival in Jinzao Town", which promoted the sales of Yangmei through various channels such as tourists picking and tasting, purchasing and visiting scenic spots in Jinzao Town, attracting foreign merchants to purchase, and started the brand awareness of "Jinzao Yangmei" and improved the economic value of Yangmei. This year's Yangmei Festival * * * sells 5 million Jin of Yangmei, with an output value of 10 million yuan.
Through the publicity effect of "one meeting and one festival", Jinzao Town's popularity of agricultural products and cultural landscape in eastern Guangdong and even Guangdong Province has been enhanced as never before. In order to seize this opportunity, promote the town's economic development, tap and develop the town's tourism resources, combined with the town's agricultural characteristics, Jinzao Town Committee and the town government are making great efforts to plan and build the "Jinzao Town Tourism Ecological Agriculture Grand View Garden" and provide "rural ecological experience tours" for the citizens in Shantou, Jieyang and other surrounding urban areas at weekends. Through the consumption activities of tourists in this town, the development of related industries in this town will be promoted. "Jin Dian" is a unique building in Chaoshan style, named after a "golden" room in each corner. In the past, only Fidelity's family could build it. The architectural pattern of "Golden Four Points" is a bit like quadrangles in Beijing. Generally, there are walls around, where Yang Cheng and water wells are drilled. There are "wall bellies" on the left and right sides of the gate; As soon as you enter the gate, it is the lobby, and the rooms on both sides are called the lobby; The entrance is an empty patio with a room on each side and a kitchen called "Eight Foot Room". The other room, as a woodshed, is generally called a "hand room"; Behind the patio is the backyard, also called the main hall, which is a place to worship ancestors. There is a big room on each side, which is the bedroom where the elders live. It is disrespectful if the younger generation lives in it. Therefore, Chaoshan dialect says, "Brother lives in ear. "
"Four golds" generally do not open windows to the outside, but only to the inner courtyard. This is because "every family takes the patio as their wealth, and every family used to use the house as a mountain." The courtyard is wide and narrow, which gathers wealth (Summary of Yangzhai). Wealth "accumulates" in the courtyard from the gate or from the sky, and then "sucks" into the house through the doors and windows of each room. If the window opens outward, the gourd leaks and the "wealth" leaks. There are many kinds of "four-point gold" structural buildings. There are only four front and back rooms in the main room, but there are no "hand-held rooms" and "eight-foot rooms". Those with four halls facing the sky are called "four-hall clubs"; If the front and back rooms are equipped with "hand room" and "eight-foot room", it is called "four-water spray" and eight rooms are changed into ten rooms. If you build a house around the "four cents", it is called "four cents plus a bag". The architecture of "Shanglugen" is more common in the rural areas of Chaoshan area, also known as "lion climbing". As the name implies, the beginning of "Phytolacca acinosa" is a bit like Phytolacca acinosa and a crawling lion. The architectural pattern is simpler than the "four-cent gold", with two anterior chambers less than it, and the rest are basically the same. "Shanglugen" is different, so there is a difference between opening the main entrance and the side door. Usually, the door is not opened in the middle, but on both sides. The doors on both sides are also called "Dragon Humen", and some open the main entrance without opening the side door. The shape of Phytolacca acinosa root is very old. Its predecessor can be found in the Ming wares of the Han Dynasty unearthed in Guangzhou and the You Chuntu handed down by Zhan Ziqian in Sui Dynasty, and its shape is quite similar to the "one letter" residence of the Bai nationality in Yunnan.
In the past, most of the people living in the house were families. With the development and increase of social population, the life style of one family is gradually broken by people. There are often three or four families living in a private house. Although this kind of house is crowded and messy, it is very suitable for friendly communication between people. The patio is paved with smooth marble, and all the doors are painted with murals. The contents of these murals are different from the flowers and plants on the belly of the gatehouse, but are widely circulated folk opera stories, myths and legends, such as "Mu is in command", "Ji Xian sends his son" and "Guo Ziyi Debao". On the wall of the main hall, there is a long mural, mostly for "Ten Immortals' Birthdays". There are also rosewood and blue citron. These colorful paintings make "Shanglugen" a real painting garden, just like the promenade of the Summer Palace, where art is everywhere.
Individual paintings can't show brilliance, but there are more treasures representing Chaoshan culture and art: exquisite carvings, sparkling Chaozhou embroidery, vivid paper-cuts and never-fading porcelain inlays, which make the whole "Shanglugen" magnificent and beautiful. Four Horses Trailer, also known as Three Falls and Two Fires Lane and One Back Pack, is a complication of Four Points of Gold.
Each part of the "four-horse trailer" building has its special function. The first "reflection" is to block the sight of passers-by and guests, so as not to make the room unobstructed. The corridor is where the host and visiting guests park. North and South halls are usually used to receive guests, while important meetings and discussions of elders are held in Erjin and Sanjin halls. The Sanjin Hall also set up an ancestral shrine to worship the ancestors. On holidays, ancestors' birthdays, and family members going abroad, we should open niches to worship or worship ancestors.
Goodbye "; Family members who have done immoral things should be brought to justice, and they should also open shrines to burn incense so that they can repent their sins in front of their ancestors. The back garage is a place where coffins can be parked at funerals. The big room in the main building is occupied by the elders, the highest elder generally lives in Sanjinfu, and the other rooms are occupied by the younger generation. The living rooms such as the mill, kitchen, bathroom and toilet are all concentrated in the fire lane on the left. When there is a happy event at home, everyone enters the Zen cave in the hall. The funeral is more grand, not only to unload the "reflection", but also to unload the Zen gate at each entrance. All the patios are paved on the floor, and tents are put on the patios. In this way, the 123 has formed a spacious space, which is convenient for all kinds of activities. Generally speaking, the front of the main building is low and the back is high, and three stone steps are added every floor, which is convenient to highlight the main hall. More importantly, it is necessary to prevent the front cover from being covered and ensure the lighting after. The back package is designed to protect the main building and prevent theft. The main feature of Jinzao dwellings is to combine the traditional architectural culture with the unique traditional arts and crafts in Chaoshan to the maximum extent, such as gold lacquer wood carving, craft stone carving, porcelain mosaic art, metal craft, painting and calligraphy art, etc. The dwellings are magnificent and charming, with rich cultural heritage, luxurious style, large scale, transparent lighting, exquisite decoration, exquisite craftsmanship, pursuit of harmony with nature and geomantic omen. They are comparable to the imperial palace in architectural sequence and decoration technology, so there have been sayings since ancient times that "the imperial palace rises in Chaoshan" and "the imperial palace in Beijing is the home of Chaoshan people".