Eighteen Dragon Gods and Eighteen Monuments —— Another Dragon Boat Festival in Zhou Tao

-Another Dragon Boat Festival in Zhou Tao.

? Time flies, and in a blink of an eye, it is another year's Duanyang Festival. Naturally, the Chinese world in the whole world is full of fragrant leaves, dragons chasing waves, willows wearing blue, and lotus flowers spreading fragrance.

? However, the Duanyang Festival in Zhou Tao (now Lintan County, Gansu Province) is a different kind of scenery, because there is a unique activity in China-eighteen dragon gods go to the shrine to interpret the heroic story of managing the army account and winning the battle. This stems from the short and heavy history of Zhou Tao.

? On the Dragon Boat Festival, hundreds of people around Zhou Tao wore beautiful clothes, helped the old and brought the young, and rushed to the ancient city of Zhou Tao. The smiles on their faces naturally reveal peace and happiness! In addition to praying to the Buddha, I met the 18 Dragon Gods, offered incense and made wishes, and more importantly, I relaxed my mood and enjoyed my life. Now that life is rich, every family drives and everyone takes the bus. Four or five miles outside the city, that is, the traffic is very busy and lively. Needless to say, streets, temples and square slopes are crowded and bustling. Under the Liu Yin at the head of the field, couples got together and took many beautiful photos. Big girls and kannika nimtragol are holding hands in the stream of people, laughing and pointing. Fashionable young people are like bees and butterflies among flowers, looking around! This is a grand gathering of God and people.

? The Eighteen Dragon Gods were the eighteen founding fathers of the Ming Dynasty. They are living heroes, queens, empresses, princess royal and others deeply loved by the military and civilians.

? In the first month of the twelfth year of Hongwu, in the Ming Dynasty, Mu Ying, a deputy general of Zheng, led an army of 100,000 troops to fight against the eighteen tribes controlled by Mongolian nobles at that time. Cao Guogong Li Wenzhong visited Mei Chuan, Zhou Min, and served as the conductor.

After the war subsided, Li Wenzhong, Mu Ying and others followed Zhu Yuanzhang's orders, built the Acropolis of Zhou Tao on the original basis of Honghe City in the Western Jin Dynasty in Zhou Tao, and set up the Acropolis of Zhou Tao, which was subordinate to Shaanxi Dusi, leaving 5,700 troops to station wasteland. After the Acropolis in Zhou Tao, it was changed to the military and civilian guard command post and command post in Zhou Tao, which became the bridgehead connecting traffic and snowy areas in the Ming Dynasty, transporting tea and horses, and welcoming the eminent monks and virtues in snowy areas.

? In the fourteenth year of Hongwu, the Ming dynasty moved most of the families of soldiers from Jianghuai area, and also moved a large number of people from Nanjing, Huaiyuan, Dingyuan, Fengyang and Chaohu. These left-behind noncommissioned officers, their families and immigrants constitute the foundation of Zhou Tao residents.

? The legend of Zhou Tao's haunted Yingtianfu Bamboo Lane began at that time.

? The left-behind troops settled the fields, lived in different places according to the military establishment, reclaimed land in the ravine, and realized food self-sufficiency. At present, flag names are still used in most places in Lintan County.

? Zhou Tao is located in the plateau, with a cool climate and abundant products. Natural disasters such as rain, snow, hail, drought, flood and frost often make our ancestors' hard work for a year go up in smoke. Although the military and civilians make full use of the advanced farming techniques and production tools in the south of the Yangtze River to maximize the grain output, they still can't meet the basic needs of100000 military and civilians, especially the shortage of military grain, which makes it more difficult for the people to eat. The imperial court often transferred grain from Hanzhong area to help.

? In order to achieve a peaceful heaven and a bumper harvest of crops, the soldiers guarding the city want their dead former coach to continue to exert his afterheat and worship, so as to ensure the good weather, the bumper harvest of crops, the safety of the people and the prosperity of six animals.

? The ancestors thought that their commander-in-chief was a founding father before his death and was brave and good at fighting. After his death, his great power naturally remained unchanged and he continued to protect the country and the people. So it was enshrined as a dragon god. At first, my family followed suit. Slowly, the soldiers and civilians in the four roads and eight townships have set up sacred cards, respected the sacred position, and sacrificed at four o'clock, gradually forming a custom.

On the first day of Duanyang Festival, people scattered in four roads and eight townships carried the gods of their Lord Shenmu and played ceremonial gongs and drums all the way into the city. Along the way, all the people burned incense, dressed in red, offered Hada and bowed down to meet them.

? The next day, a massive "stepping on the street" ceremony was held to show the heroic momentum of Jin Ge's iron horse and attacking the city and pulling out the village. The lion is mighty, dignified in ceremonial ceremonies, with a clear-cut flag and a high-rise building. Eighteen Dragon Gods, carrying their flags, were carried, twisted and jumped by their respective Zhuang guests in turn, and came to the Chenghuang Temple.

? On the whole street, people of all ethnic groups knelt down to burn incense and celebrate the New Year. A woman with a child in her arms goes through customs under a sedan chair and prays for good luck. They immediately entered the Dragon Shrines of the Chenghuang Temple, took their seats in turn according to their titles, and accepted the sacrifices of young crops and people.

In front of the Chenghuang Temple, I sang Shaanxi Opera for three days to entertain God and people.

? On the third day, all the dragon gods left the Chenghuang Temple and went out to visit Dashishan in the north of Zhou Tao, to show their military situation and discuss military affairs, and then returned to their hometown in different ways to accept the sacrifices of their people along the way.

Due to the gathering of merchants and the leisure of the people, the excitement of the festival lasts for at least six or seven days.

? The Eighteen Dragon Gods, collectively referred to as "Buddha" among the people, are said to have been sealed by Zhu Yuanzhang, Emperor Hongwu of Ming Taizu, with three kings, four males and five princes, one queen, one imperial concubine, one princess royal and one commander in chief of 200 households.

According to the titles on the Dragon Flag, the titles of the Eighteen Dragon Gods are roughly as follows:

First place: Wang Zhongshan, the capital of Tuolong Baoshan, Xu Da, king of Wuning.

Second place: Chang Yuchun, Kaiping King, Zhongwu King, Dalong King, Gai King, Governor Zhang Feng and Trilateral Changshan.

Third place: Li Wenzhong, Wang Dalong, Qiyang Wujing, Zhoudu Dalong, Zhongshishan Town, Sanbianduo and Fengwei Town.

Fourth place: Feng Tao and the capital of Blackpool in Wei County, Wang Dalong, the state of Yue, Wuzhuang, and Gonghu Sea.

Fifth place: Feng Putian Tongzhi Xianying is the capital of Ying Guogong.

Sixth place: Kang You, Qinglong, Baoshan, Dongjiao, Dalongwang, Kang Maocai, Duke of Wu Kang, China.

Seventh place: Fengxiang's eyes are red, Cai Guozhong, Wen Budu, the Great Dragon King, Desheng.

? Eighth place: Zhao Desheng, Duke Liang Guowu, Red Cross Dragon King, Feng Xiangyuan.

? Ninth place: Yi Feng, who was guarding the West Sea, sensed that Wu Min An Shikui, commander-in-chief of the Five Dragon Kings, knew the same thing.

? Tenth place: Ma Xiuying, the empress of Emperor Hongwu, the incarnation of Yuan Jun, the White Horse Mount Tai, was sealed for nine days.

? Eleventh place: Yuan Jun, Jiulong, Cao Guo, princess royal, Zhu Shi, and Toushan Xiangshui in the western suburbs.

? Twelfth place: Prince Wang Yongjia, Hou Zhuliangzu, Southern Governor, Heichi Capital Dragon.

? Thirteenth place: Hou Huayun, Wangdongqiu County, Dalong, Guodu, suffering from drought in four seasons and nine seasons.

? 14th place: Princess Guo Ningfei, Emperor Hongwu, Emperor Dalong Taizu, and the capital of Jinmuyuan.

Fifteenth place: Wu Zhang Dian, Dragon King, Red Horse, Five-Party Yudu General with Double Hook Arms.

Sixteenth place: The Great Dragon King, the capital of Shaguang and Du Ji, is dominated by hundreds of armies.

17th place: Yang Si, general of the Ministry of Water Resources, is the Dragon King, Gao Yang and Hou Han Cheng.

? Eighteenth place: Liu Gui, captain of Xiaoji Wang Long Zhao Xin in Yifeng Jinlong Longdong Baoshan, with a hundred hereditary families.

? They are eighteen local dragon gods and eighteen monuments in the hearts of ordinary people. The people praised them as "loyal ministers of the Ming Dynasty, but now they are the people's God of Wealth". The boy also has a pair of couplets, praising the sky:

? Born in the Jianghuai region, he is a master of the world. Ma Jinge once swept the world with Emperor Gao.

Righteousness gathers in Chuzhou, winning thousands of miles, showing great power and helping the people again.

? God or man, as long as you do good deeds, the people will naturally set up a monument for you!

? In a blink of an eye, it has been nearly 700 years. Nowadays, peace and prosperity bring happiness to all people, but the Zhou Tao Dragon Boat Festival still follows the original ceremony, and the people of Zhou Tao still retain the heritage of Jianghuai. For example, in the past, the bride's wedding was a large-scale event, including a rockhopper gown, red brocade embroidered on a silk plate, elegant silk shoes, a big sedan chair with gold and silver hair, a dry boat on the third day of the first month, singing dragon boat songs on the social fire, and the famous tug-of-war of ten thousand people in Lintan, all of which showed our ancestors' feelings of missing their hometown that year.