Explore Guangzhou Zengcheng Beggar Festival: from ancient folk customs to urban business cards

On August 4th (July July of the lunar calendar) is the traditional Tanabata Festival. The Qiqiao Festival is prevailing in the region of Guangzhou and the Pearl River Delta. However, in Zengcheng, only Xiancun Town has maintained this custom and rarely interrupted. So far, the tradition of "Sister Seven Sisters" in Xiajing Village has a history of more than 100 years, and has strong traditional folk customs.

On the occasion of the seventh batch of district -level intangible cultural heritage of Zengcheng District, the seventh batch of district intangible cultural heritage project list was selected as the Qiqiao Festival (Sister Sister), on August 3, the reporter walked into Xiajing Village to explore the ancient folk customs of Qiqiao Festival from inheritance. Today, it has become an important cultural festival to attract the participation of the whole people, and as a process of urban cultural business cards.

Zengcheng Qiaoqiao Jianjie "Qiao"

Xiajing Village has always attached great importance to the Qiqiao Festival. The Song of the Song Dynasty Liu Kezhuang Shiyun: "The Cantonese people are in good deeds, and the lights reach Tianming." Sesame is the rice candle as a bridge, and Qiao begging the heavenly Sun Ye. Lang Bi Morning Niu Jian Nu, every night is tonight. Here are the Qiqiao Festival activities set up in the four handsome temples of Xiajing Village. The festival activities include many contents such as Qiaoqiao, worshiping immortality, begging, eating Qiang Niang rice, and watching Qiang Niang drama. The festival is based on "ingenuity" and forms a series of unique traditional Tanabata crafts, such as Zhaota, Sesame Fragrance, Qiaoqiao Landscape, Qixiang Pan, Qixi Festival, etc.

According to Chen Yujin, the inheritor of the Qiqiao Festival (Seven Sisters) project, the unique "worship" ceremony is an important feature of the Qiqiao Festival in Xiajing Village. This sisters reflect the custom of worship of the deed worship since ancient times.

Zengcheng's Qiqiao Festival reflects more a clever culture, focusing on the word "ingenu". "Putting the" Seven Sister Birthday "is the" Sister Sister "and" Qiao Po "to focus on the sacrifice (various crafts) of his own, which is both a custom and ritual, but also a crafts. Exhibition. "Chen Yujin said.

The archway is the classic in the classic bridge section of the "Sister Seven"

Qiao Qiaojie, pray for women Qiaohui

"Sister Seven Sisters" also has three layers of meaning. One is to miss the strong love of the cattle (Dong Yong) and the weaver (seven sisters); the second is that young men and women want to worship through devotion, and move the cowherd and the weaver girl Ruyi's heart; the third is the clever and wisdom of the parents begging the cowherd and the weaver to give themselves their children.

Chen Yujin said that the most important thing for "Sister Seven Sisters" is the display of handicrafts on the Tanabata tribute. Hundreds of handicrafts contain beautiful morals. The "Seven Sisters' Birthday" of Xiajing Village will be set up for about ten days in a row from the beginning of July of the lunar calendar every year. Due to the cumbersome and large number of handicraft production, the beginning of June of the lunar calendar every year, the "clever sisters" and women in the village will start hand -made sacrifice.

The reporter saw in the four -handsome temples of Xiajing Village that handicrafts have different themes, including all aspects of flowers, birds, insects, birds and beasts, Guoguo Peach, natural scenery, farming workers, park landscapes, myths and legends, covering pearl embroidery , Guangxiu and Flowers and other folk crafts.

The reporter noticed that the materials used are "grounded", including wooden boards, foam, straw, beads, rice, cloth strips, etc. The handmade craftsmanship is lifelike, which fully reflects the cleverness and beauty of the villagers of Xiajing Village. The expectations of life.

Chen Yujin introduced that the archway can be said to be a classic in the classic bridge. The "Sister Sister" and "Qiao Po" in Xiajing Village will make archway every year. One archway often requires a few people for more than half a month or even a month to complete. There are many details, exquisite. The exquisite Chinese knot is hung on the archway, which means that the wind is smooth, and Guotai people. From the beginning of July, these handicrafts have been put on the tributes one after another. Until the evening of July 6th, all items were set up to celebrate the "Seven Sisters' Birthday".

Handicraft display on the Tanabata Gong Case

Let people don't forget traditional folk customs

Chen Yujin said that with the progress of the times, not only the begging activities are more colorful, but the materials and themes of Qiqiao's works are also constantly enriching and innovative, incorporating new technologies such as sound, light, electricity, etc. Over the years, Chen Yujin has led Qiao sisters, and has created new works since he predicted his own pockets. He also received a lot of praise and honor.

As a non -genetic inheritor, in Chen Yujin's view, the Qiqiao Festival is from the people's festivals. People express their longing for a better life and expectations for a happy family by showing the production of labor skills. Although the form of begging activity and begging crafts are constantly innovating, its cultural connotation and soul cannot be lost. Begging folklore can carry out the light in the lower realm village. It is the folk culture that retains the original folklore, so that it can truly become a festival for the cities. "Every year on Tanabata, we will call friends to come to Xiajing Village for holidays. During the holidays, tourists from Xiajing Village are also endless, including tourists from Dongguan, Guangzhou, Shenzhen and other places come to watch and pray for blessings." Chen Yujin said.

In order to further inherit the beggar culture, Chen Yujin also often organizes Qiao Sister to teach students to do hand -made students in the local area to allow traditional culture to enter the campus and get strong support from the school. In addition, Chen Yujin also regarded Qiqiao Culture as the school -based curriculum and special education of the school, and prepared related textbooks to perfectly integrate Qiqiao culture with education and teaching.

Source: Zengcheng District Rong Media Center

Author: Reporter Li Shimin Xiong Wei shed/Photo

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