National Customs in Huilai County

Scene screen: or scene, Tibetan scenery, beautiful scenery screen. It is a plastic art of square exhibition. Taking the scene as the content, the characters are played by children with certain scenery. The fake scene of real people (hence the name "living scene") is fixed and shaped into a landscape with a certain theme. When traveling, it may be accompanied by gongs and drums, which is more magnificent and becomes the top program during the Spring Festival or major festivals. Jinghai Town has three surnames, Zhang, Lin and Zeng, and is famous for its landscaping, which has been passed down from generation to generation.

Chaozhou Music: In the early years of the Republic of China, there were Confucian music clubs in the county town, also called leisure clubs and music clubs, which were places where people could play and play collectively after work. There is a music class of "Art Youth Club" in the county. In the 36th year of the Republic of China (1947), the "Taoqing Society" was founded, which was a small group of people who were proficient in and loved the tide music, and played a role in accumulating and arranging music scores.

Dialect song: Chaozhou song book is a long narrative poem in the form of Chaoshan dialect. When singing an album, sing according to the album, and the songs are melodious and melodious. The audience listened to Wen Qu while doing the work at hand. The songbook is only recited by the singer fluently, with seven words and five languages in even rhymes, four rhymes and no music accompaniment.

Singing fishing songs: The content of fishing songs reflects the life and production of fishermen. During 1958, Shenquan Town Amateur Troupe arranged a number of fishing songs, among which "Singing a New Fishing Village" participated in Shantou folk songs.

Big gongs and drums: Big gongs and drums are entertainment activities of parades and performances during the Spring Festival in Huilai County. A group of gongs and drums can be composed of hundreds of people, and the head and tail can be defined as 1~2 Li. Flags are flying in front, gongs and drums are sonorous, and silk and bamboo are melodious. When the big gongs and drums were performed, a red banner was hung in front of the team with the golden words "Peace for the country and the people". Then the big flag team, with a big flag on their shoulders, marched slowly, with dozens of people and more than 100 people. Then there is a band with 24 big gongs (some as many as 32), 8 deep cymbals and 10 conch.

Aowu: It's called Dance Aowu in dialect. The anchovy is made of bamboo, wood and cloth. It is 3 feet long and has the body of a lead fish. The dancer waved the octopus's hand. There are five people in class one. Accompanied by gongs and drums, there are actions such as chasing, wearing flowers, jumping, yue longmen, fighting and ringing spring.

Lion Dance: The dialect is called Tiger Dance and Lion Dance. Huilai County has the custom of dancing lions from the Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival. The lion's body is a nearly vertical yellow cloth, and the lion's tail is a large cluster of fragrant kenaf. When dancing, one person dances the lion's head in front, and the other person bends down to dance the lion's tail and performs according to the beat of gongs and drums. Reasonable movements, such as licking back, scratching, dozing off, etc. There is also a "stilted lion", where the lion dancer steps on stilts and adds a masked lioness. After the lion dance, there are martial arts performances, mostly boxing, sticks, forks, double knives, double maces and other southern real kung fu. Some people also perform the thrilling action of jumping into the ring of fire.

Dragon Dance: The dialect is called Dragon Dance. The dragon dance in Huilai County began in Xianfeng period of Qing Dynasty. Crab village in Qingshan township and Changchun village in Kuitan town all have the dance of "Shuanglong grabbing treasure". During Guangxu period, Yingnei Village in Huicheng Town began to organize dragon dance teams, and since then, dragon dance activities have been held every Spring Festival. Dragons are shaped and painted with bamboo, wood and cloth. Nine or eleven sections are Yi Long with drums, gongs and cymbals. The movements include belly turning, somersault, jumping over the dragon gate, chasing pearls and so on.

Song and dance: Huilai song and dance, a group of English songs can be roughly divided into thick buttons as the "front shed"; The colorful drama segment is The Back Door. It integrates dance and drama. Seven dishes: In Chaoshan plain, Huilai people have the custom of eating seven dishes on the seventh day of the first month, which means they can improve their eyesight and make money. It can be traced back to the Jin Dynasty, and it is recorded in Dong Xun's Customs of Answering Questions. There is no specific regulation on which of the seven dishes is. Most of them are Chinese cabbage, spring vegetables, kale and thick lotus produced in Chaoshan, and the number is unlimited.

Xie Shen: From 10 in the middle of June to 12 in the middle of June in the lunar calendar, every village, every community and every household chooses an auspicious day to prepare for offering sacrifices to the gods. Usually there are performances (including shadow play), big gongs and drums, eight-tone lessons, paper robes and shoes, whole pigs and whole sheep, elegant nudity ... Special ceremonies include climbing the knife ladder, burning fireworks and lighting once every ten years. Pray for children: The custom of praying for children is closely related to lights. "Deng" is homophone with "Ding" in Chaozhou dialect, which brings masculinity to the husband's family. People who have given birth to boys will hold the Lantern Festival at midnight. In fact, the custom of "lanterns" and "ding" for praying for children is not only found in Chaoshan area, but also in many other areas.

Every year on March 23rd, every year on Mazu Christmas Day, Chaoshan villagers will go to Tian Fei Temple to give Tian Fei a ride, hoping to pray for Mazu. Those who can't afford to help Mazu's sedan chair just stand by and wait for Mazu's sedan chair to pass by, feeling Mazu's sedan chair, thinking it was stained with light.

In folk activities, there are still many people who put this psychological expectation in folk activities. For example, when the bride gets married, she should prepare some dried longan besides an oil lamp. In addition to the meaning of wealth and perfection, it also includes the desire to have children early. Married people these days always count after rubbing jiaozi. If jiaozi is singular, it means a boy has been born. If it is even, it means giving birth to a girl.

Fetal protection: there are many taboos for women to get pregnant; When a woman is in labor, she must hire a midwife; A husband can't stay in the delivery room to wait on his wife. He should leave the delivery room like a family man. In order to give birth smoothly, some people will go to the temple to worship their "mother-in-law" and wish them well. After the mother gives birth to the baby, the afterbirth can't be thrown away casually; The bride's family must prepare eggs and send them to the bride's family to make up.

Confinement, end of non-eating: The parturient can't breathe in the delivery room for one week after delivery, which is called confinement. On the seventh day (in some places, it is the ninth or twelfth day), a ceremony of "ending meat" was held, and pregnant women began to eat meat and fish to nourish their bodies. At the same time, we should also prepare gifts for friends and relatives in the neighborhood. For example, boys eat sweet noodles and girls eat jiaozi made of potato flour, which is called "jiaozi". When the moon is full, you must prepare a rich banquet for your relatives and friends, which is called drinking "full moon wine". In many places, babies will be bathed on the twelfth day after birth, and a stone as big as a bowl is put in the bath tray, which indicates that the child will have courage in the future. The largest beacon tower

Beacon tower at sea. Located in the corner of Shibei Mountain in the southwest of Banmei Village, Jinghai Town, Huilai County. Originally built in 1882, several buildings were destroyed. Built in 1989, the lighthouse adopts reinforced concrete structure, with a tower height of 68 meters and a top light of 24.5 nautical miles. The main light flashes every 10 second, and is equipped with radar transponder and radio navigation system. It is the highest in the domestic 16 navigation platform and is known as "the first navigation tower in Asia".

Kuitan Dageng Garden

Kuitan Dageng Garden is located on the north side of National Highway 324 in Kuitan Town. It was designed by Xue Fuxin, an 8 1 year-old representative inheritor of China's intangible cultural heritage, a member of the World Cultural and Art Research Center and an expert on ancient buildings in China. Dageng Garden covers an area of 16800 square meters.

Yingshi ancestral hall

Eight kilometers northwest of Huicheng Town, Huilai County, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, there is a narrow path leading to Guyixian Temple, which was called "Longdong" in ancient times. The scenery here is beautiful, quiet and elegant, and the natural scenery is beautiful. According to folklore, when the local area is dry and short of water, only the spring water here gurgles all day.

Kwai Tam Shek Path Hospital

Shikeng Hospital is located in Xuanwu Community, Kuitan Town, Huilai County, and was invested and built by Mr. Lin Shikeng.

Shikeng Hospital is divided into two parts. On the front, there are nine stone carvings of Buddha beads, surrounded by 280 spectacular marble forest of steles, with 278 paintings of Danqing donated by leaders and celebrities from Ye Xuanping, Ma Wanqi, Qigong, Shen Peng, Sun Yiqing, Guan Shanyue, Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan. This hospital has a collection of more than 500 famous paintings. In the second half of the main building, nine courtyards are integrated. The temple is carved with beams and painted buildings and inlaid with jade carving columns, which is unique and exquisite. Hundreds of poems, words, couplets and plaques are engraved in the main hall and the four compartments, and plaques and couplets are hung in the east and west corridors, all of which are treasures. There are various screens carved on the roof with the folk customs of Chaoshan area in the south of the Yangtze River. 18 vertical marble columns are carved with twelve kinds of portrait animals, all of which are lifelike and ready to come. Quiet flower beds, flowers and trees, lush vegetation, full of vitality.

Cape oasis

Ganquan Cape is located in the southeast corner of Shenquan Town. It was a fresh water spring on the beach in the Song Dynasty, and it was built into a spring well in the Ming Dynasty. Grace Wai Wong, a magistrate of a county in Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty, built a pavilion by the well, carved Fu Su's couplet on the pavilion column and wrote an article on the tablet. There is a phrase in the poems praising God Springs in Qing Dynasty, "Where there is no wonder in the end of the world, where there is no sweet spring in the end of the world", which gives rise to the elegant name "Where there is no sweet spring in the end of the world".

Huangguangshan North Temple

Huangguangshan in Huilai County is fortunate in the north. It is located in the northwest of Huilai County, 7.3km away from the county seat/kloc-0, and in the mountainous area between Luyang Village and Quxi Village in Xixi Town. Originally named "Huangtenggang", it was once named "Huangtinggang" and later renamed "Huangguangshan". In the third year of Xuantong in Qing Dynasty (19 1 1), the inscription in Gui Yue (in August of the lunar calendar) was "Huangguangshan", which was later renamed as "Huangguangshan Beixing" in 1997. In 2004, Bugu Temple was named as "the venue for civilized religious activities of Guangdong Provincial Committee" by the Provincial Ethnic and Religious Committee. June 5438+October 2005 10, at the invitation of the Buddhist Association of Huilai County and the monks in the temple, the abbot of Nanhua Temple gave a lecture, and monk Zheng Da was officially presided over by Bukoji.

Rong Shi yongfu temple

Rongshi yongfu temple is in the north of Huilai County. There used to be a temple on the stone, which was dedicated to Jiumu. In the Ming Dynasty, another Rong temple was built next to it. After hundreds of years of vicissitudes, this temple has been abandoned several times. After liberation, a new temple named "Rongshi yongfu temple" was rebuilt with donations from overseas Chinese. Now there are Daxiong Hall, Dongxige Hall, Gongde Hall and Zushi Hall.

castles in the air

Mirages appear from time to time in the southwest of Shenquan Port, mostly at the turn of spring and summer, before the rainstorm. The appearance of "mirage" varies from time to time. From ancient pavilions to modern high-rise buildings, there have also been war scenes of Japanese invasion of China.

Jinghai ancient castle

Jinghai Castle is located in Jinghai Town, Huilai County, and was called Jinghai Institute in ancient times. Jinghai is located in the high mountain area, with a circumference of1.500m and a height of nearly 5m. The city in the northeast is complete, with urn and tower. The city wall is made of stone with battlements and observation holes on it. Jinghaiyuan has always been a military stronghold in Chaoshan area. In the Ming dynasty, there were north and south forts and beacon towers nearby.

Bird-tailed stalagmite

The stalagmite area of Keniao tail in Jinghai Town is only 30 kilometers away from Huilai County. There are beautiful seaside promenades along the way, including the first beacon tower in China and the largest wind power station under construction in China. This is the golden route for tourism.

Golden Bay International Golf Club

Golden Bay International Golf Club is located in Golden Bay Botanical Garden, Dongpu Village, Xian 'an Town, Huilai County, Guangdong Province. This is a golf course with international standards. The club is designed and modeled by PeterThomson, Ross, Peter from Australian T.W.P Company and Mr. Liang Guokun from China. It has international standard American, Australian and Japanese fairways and a standard 72-hole golf course. There is a long driving range on the green of Golden Bay Island.

A solemn temple

Baihua Mountain Zhuangyan Temple is located in Shijia Village, Zhoutian Town, 30 miles east of Huilai County, commonly known as "Baihua River". Founded in the Song Dynasty, it was rebuilt and expanded in the Ming and Qing Dynasties on a large scale. 1983 10 was listed as the county's key cultural relics protection unit, and 1988 was approved to register and open in August, which is one of the scenic spots in Lingdong.

Huilai is the founder of Song Dafeng.

The founder of Song Dafeng in Huilai County is located in Gang Qian Village, longjiang town, Huilai County. It is dedicated to the founder of Dafeng. It was built by the people raising more than 7 million yuan. Wood carvings in past dynasties were made by famous teachers and skilled craftsmen. It is a masterpiece of traditional folk art and has great appreciation value.

Wenchang Pagoda Wenchang Pagoda is located in the south of Huilai County. It was built in Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty and destroyed by fire in Shunzhi period of Qing Dynasty. In the 26th year of Kangxi (1687), the pagoda in Zhangxiu, a county magistrate, moved from north to south. In the second year of Qianlong (1737), Yang, a magistrate of a county, built the third floor of Wenchang Pagoda in the original site of Baota, which was called "Kuiguang Pagoda". This tower is a Feng Shui tower, which belongs to ancient masonry structure. It is made of shell ash, with three octagonal layers and dense eaves. It is 23 meters high. Each floor is supported by stone pillars, with railings outside and spiral ladders inside. There are eight diagrams painted on the algae well. At the north gate on the third floor, Zhou Shuoxun, the magistrate of Qing Dynasty, carved the regular script of "Chao Ling Feng Yun". Climb to the top of the tower and overlook the sea, lights and mountains.