Who knows the cultural history of Luoding?

Luoding folk culture has different styles and customs since ancient times.

Those who are vulgar learn, those who study in the world call it wind, and those who study in the world call it vulgarity.

Feudal rulers also understood the importance of customs. As the saying goes, "entry is forbidden; Asked about the customs when entering the country; When in Rome, do as the Romans do and ask taboos. "

"Different households have different policies and people are different."

It is also the most important to distinguish morality from custom in politics.

Luoding once had different ethnic groups living together in history, and later became a military center in South Yellow River, which absorbed a large number of immigrants from all over the country, so the folk customs formed were extremely colorful and unique.

Since the Han Dynasty, China folk customs have been deeply influenced by Confucian culture, and the feudal consciousness of folk customs has been greatly strengthened and spread all over the country.

Today's Luoding has experienced a great integration of many nationalities, and folk customs are no exception.

The Central Plains immigrated to Lingnan three times, which had a great influence on Luoding. Under the influence of the powerful feudal dynasty and the subtle influence of a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains, the customs of ancient ancestors were quickly eliminated.

In the process of changing customs, the deep connotation of local folk customs actually comes from China folk culture.

However, although the ethnic groups in Luoding's history disappeared in ethnic blending, as some factors of folk customs, they still remained more or less through the channels of inheritance, variation and evolution, especially in diet and daily life. The temperament and personality characteristics of Luoding people still bear the special endowment of the ancestors of ancient Baiyue people everywhere. Until now, in the impression of outsiders, Luoding people are still covered with some extremely obscure legends.

Luoding folk culture, with its essence and dross, is generally healthy.

Most folk culture is produced in people's long-term life.

Some record the epic legends and relics of ancestors' entrepreneurship; Some reflect people's pursuit of a better life and infinite love and yearning; Some left a struggle full of blood and tears; Some fully show the pride of Luoding people as descendants of dragons; The most distinctive features are the daily life customs that reflect Luoding's local conditions and customs and the fashion hobbies that show Luoding people's pioneering, adventurous, enterprising and innovative spirit; Smart skills honed in the hardships of going out to make a living have a distinct food culture; Discordant marriage variations such as "crying marriage", "child bride" and "three-year-old pair of relatives" formed to resist the feudal marriage system; In order to commemorate the historical contributions, customs, deification and immortality of ancient buildings and historical figures, as well as other romantic and legendary festivals and commemorative methods. It constitutes Luoding's colorful and romantic folk culture full of beauty of life, human feelings and simplicity.

This is the most attractive and distinctive place of Luoding folk culture.

From the perspective of festival folklore, all the important festivals of the Han nationality, such as New Year's Day, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Tanabata, Magnolia, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, New Year's Eve, etc. It is also an important festival in Luoding. The content and significance of the festival are basically the same. The only difference is the expression and life content formed by form, region, people's feelings and living habits.

Of course, there are also many variations in inheritance.

Meng Lanjie, also known as Mid-Autumn Festival, is called Ghost Festival in Lingnan and Ghost Festival in Luoding.

The Mid-Autumn Festival is celebrated on July 15th. According to the Buddhist tripitaka, Mulian's mother fell into the Hungry Ghost Road, and the food would melt into charcoal at the entrance. Mulian would ask the Buddha for advice, and the Buddha would make it into a basin, where she would offer exotic fruits and vegetables, and then Mulian's mother would get food.

In the Mid-Autumn Festival in the north these days, Buddhist temples pay homage to orchids, and people hang money paper to prepare vegetarian dishes to worship their ancestors.

July 14 is the Mid-Autumn Festival in Lingnan.

It is said that at the end of the Song Dynasty, when people were preparing for the festival, Yuan soldiers suddenly invaded and had to sacrifice to their ancestors one day in advance.

From then on, people used to celebrate this festival on July 14.

Luo Ding has another saying: People are used to celebrating this festival on July 15. On this day, the Yao people all came down from the mountain and robbed the sacrificial food provided to the social workers in Abel Tamata, so they moved the festival forward one day to let the Yao people catch their breath. Since then, the Mid-Autumn Festival has been changed to July 14.

On this day, in addition to offering sacrifices to ancestors, every household will burn incense, paper clothes and pave the way in the corner of the field, so that ghosts and ghosts can have a full meal and seek peace of mind, commonly known as "giving seclusion."

Cattle and sheep are sacrificed in the north, chickens are sacrificed in Luoding, and chickens and pork are sacrificed by ordinary people.

The whole chicken should be cooked, cut into small pieces after the sacrifice, seasoned, delicious and smooth, while maintaining the original flavor of the chicken, commonly known as "white-cut chicken."

Because chicken is endowed with grand significance, besides offering sacrifices, it is also used to entertain guests, so there is a saying that "nothing can be done without chicken"

August 15th of the lunar calendar is the Mid-Autumn Festival. Most places in Luoding celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15, but there are also many places that celebrate Mid-Autumn Festival on August 16 or 14.

It is said that it is because the ancestors carried the bridge for a living (some avoided saying that the ancestors carried the bridge, but said that the ancestors were officials and sat on the bridge). Because they came home late, everyone opened a platform to worship the gods.

And I didn't prepare anything (sacrifice), so I decided to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival on 16, which has been handed down from generation to generation.

As for the Mid-Autumn Festival in August 14, I don't know why.

Mid-Autumn Festival in Yue Bai, the village is still popular to invite the moon god. In the village, in the dead of night, people of all ages sit around the "underground hall" and one person asks God. It is said that the moon god can be possessed, and the possessed person plays the role of the moon god, usually a woman, a bit like western hypnosis.

In addition, the village also put lanterns (Kongming lanterns) and formed a team composed of young people in the village to compete for the landing of Kongming lanterns.

The lantern grab is not limited by the terrain, and it is more spectacular than the lantern grab.

Lantern Festival is very grand in the north.

Lantern Festival, also known as Lantern Festival and Shangyuan Festival, is popular and popular.

Luoding customs, such as adding a man to the family, putting lanterns on the second day of the first month of next year, hanging lanterns on the trees of the village community, paying a New Year call to relatives at sunset on 16, and watching "Grab the Spring Lantern", whoever grabs the Spring Lantern will be lucky.

The festival closely related to China New Year is the winter solstice.

Winter solstice is one of the 24 solar terms in the summer calendar, which is of great significance in agricultural production. Because the sun shines on the tropic of Capricorn from the winter solstice, it is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. After the winter solstice, the days get longer and the weather gets warmer every day. The so-called "cloudy in summer and sunny in winter", the first month of the weekly calendar is winter to Sunday, which is the first day of the year.

In Luoding people's minds, the solstice of winter has the weight of Chinese New Year, and there is even a saying that "winter is greater than the year".