Development and evolution of Zhanjiang chronology

Jiutouling Village, Boli Township, Tou Town is a small village. According to Chen Bo, an old man in the village, this village was moved from Tang Wei Village in Wuchuan. Before that, it had been holding an annual ceremony with Tang Wei Village on the 13th day of the first month, and the ritual activity was "worshipping the elderly". Because the village is a small village, in order to expand the village, a few years ago, the stone dog temple was built in the village, which changed the respect for the stone dog male, placed people in wealth and developed ethnic groups. Shigou Temple was built on the ninth day of the twelfth lunar month, so this day became an annual day in Jiutouling Village. This vivid case shows that the annual custom, as a group custom, will evolve according to different conditions in different historical periods. The so-called "changing customs" or "changing customs" means emphasizing the positive role of people in the relationship between people and customs, that is, abandoning vulgar customs that hinder people's lives, developing customs that are beneficial to people's hearts, and promoting the progress and development of human civilization. In fact, in the hundreds of years of inheritance, Zhanjiang's chronology has also changed and even been interrupted for a time. It is understood that chronology was recorded in the local chronicles of western Guangdong in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, which was popular from the early years of the Republic of China to the early days of liberation. In the subsequent "Cultural Revolution", the chronology was once interrupted by the influence of the "four old" (old ideas, old culture, old customs and old habits). Since the 1980s, with the reform and opening up and the rapid economic development, western Guangdong has been in peace and prosperity, so the Han people began to restore the custom of annual festivals. However, due to the strong religious atmosphere, the annual festival activities such as worshipping the gods have been banned by the relevant departments as "feudal superstitious activities" for a long time, and even temple buildings have been demolished, and statues, gongs and drums, flags and incense burners have been confiscated. For example, in Mazhang old county, Nuo dancing was banned by the public security department on the fifteenth day of the first month. Although the law prohibits it, it is getting worse. In many places, the original name is replaced by the reconstruction of "cultural activity room" or "clan ancestral hall". In some places, law enforcement officers even confiscated statues, gongs and drums, flags, incense burners and other necessities of the year, and even were besieged and attacked by all the local villagers. Finally, they had to re-examine the nature of that year, because "the law does not blame the public." In the mid-1980s, festivals were resumed in most places, and in addition to the traditional worship of gods, the scale of banquets was expanded, and activities such as film screening, large-scale cultural performances and Han folk art parades were added.

In order to meet the growing spiritual and cultural needs of farmers and build a harmonious countryside, Zhanjiang vigorously promoted the construction of characteristic cultural villages, cultural rooms and cultural festivals in 2004, bringing advanced culture into the village. After the activity, farmers began to excavate, protect and utilize the cultural resources of their village and organize their own cultural festivals. Tangbo village first turned the annual regulations into cultural festivals, and then farmers' cultural festivals were staged in various places. Farmers' Cultural Festival is rich in content, including modern ball games, fashion shows and farmers' karaoke singing competitions, as well as traditional martial arts performances, lion dance invitational competitions and grass dragon dance performances. On the basis of inheritance, the cultural festival has injected many new contents of the times and civilized elements into the traditional annual festival, such as floating color parade, family planning propaganda, going to heaven with God Five, Beijing Olympic Games and so on. Civic moral education such as "patriotism, law-abiding, honesty and courtesy" has been integrated into lion dance performances, Lei Ju performances, calligraphy and basketball competitions.

The role of cultural construction in education and civilization is obvious, and "dancing with lions to bury the hatchet" is a vivid example. Due to historical reasons, hundreds of people fought between Wenche Village and Xu Wu Village in Suixi County, which caused people in the two villages not to communicate with each other, and the feud was hard to get rid of. Through the Lion Dance Culture Festival, the two villages have strengthened exchanges, enhanced unity and friendship, and resolved grievances in the past decades.

Throughout recent years, Zhanjiang's annual example has also shown a new spirit and courtesy. Every year, the "old bottle" is replaced with "new clothes", and wandering souls become the propaganda team of the Han folk art parade and the policies of the party and the state. The integration of new political needs and traditional culture has become the universal law of the annual example evolution. For example, this year's chronology of people's villages shows the brand of "loyalty, righteousness, faithfulness and harmony" that was not seen in previous years, which is a return to Confucian culture, and the theme of Mazhang chronology is "creating health".

The diversification of modern people's cultural life has also prompted the Han nationality's ancient and unique folk custom "New Year Festival" to bring forth the old and gradually integrate into the life of the times, and increase cultural and sports activities such as floats, floating colors, Cantonese opera, light music, movies, songs and dances, acrobatics and so on. So that "Nian" has become a cultural feast of Xian Yi, Xian Yi, old and young. There are even many rural sages who return to their hometowns to donate money to build roads, help students and respect the elderly.