Nowadays, the standard of living is getting better and better, and the urbanization rate is getting higher and higher, but many people feel that the taste of the New Year is getting weaker and weaker.
In Nanyue, the flavor of the New Year has never faded, and it has become more and more rich and mellow in the inheritance.
The chicken crows, the dog bites, and the Hengshan guy eats in the middle of the night; Thirty nights grabbed the first incense, and acquaintances were open-mouthed when they met. The tower of Nantai Temple, the Zen of Zhusheng Temple, only one day you can't finish; Xi grass dragon, stilt god, walking all over the street are the people in the story; Zhu Rongfeng's fire, the lamp of the temple, and the painting of a lantern blessing ......”
These are all well-known and unique New Year's flavors in Nanyue.
A bowl of Laba porridge on the eighth day of the lunar month kicked off the prelude to the "Nanyue New Year's Flavor".
Eat "New Year's Dinner".
Laba "early in the morning, in the Nanyue Temple, diameter 236 meters, 18 meters, weight 5The 6-ton "Thousand Monk Pot" was erected high, and the roaring firewood burned at the bottom of the pot.
The masters kept stirring with a big spoon, and red beans, red dates, lotus seeds, and peanuts ......In the pot, the "somersault" is happily "somersaulted", and the fragrance is overflowing, attracting many tourists and citizens to line up for a long time.
Drinking a bowl of hot laba porridge on a cold winter day, Nanyue people feel that they can dispel the epidemic and welcome auspiciousness. Over the years, going to the temple to drink a bowl of Laba porridge has become the opening mode of the Nanyue people's New Year.
Nanyue "Thousand Monk Pot" boiled Laba porridge. (Photographed around).
The twenty-fourth day of the lunar calendar, the New Year.
From this day on, our parents will tell us to speak auspicious words and not to beat bowls; From this day on, the usually strict parents will also become gentle and kind in front of us, until the Lantern Festival.
Therefore, we grew up in a strict father and mother environment, and we are looking forward to the New Year just after the festival, in addition to receiving red envelopes, visiting relatives, and eating delicious foods that we usually can't eat, but also because of the New Year, we can play more "crazy", and we don't have to worry about being beaten and scolded.
After the small year, the flavor of Nanyue New Year is getting stronger day by day.
The streets and alleys, especially the ancient town of Nanyue, began to be lit up and beaming; Nanyue Hengshan archway, Nanyue Temple, Wanshou Square and other ** gathering places, hung with lantern riddles, monks and calligraphers also began to write Spring Festival couplets to tourists and citizens to send auspicious.
The monks and calligraphers wrote Spring Festival couplets for the citizens. (The following ** are all taken by Li Mianxing).
The festive Spring Festival couplets and the word "Fu" were taken home with smiles on their faces.
Every household has also started to clean up, saying goodbye to the old and welcoming the new.
Eating "New Year's Dinner" at midnight is an incredible New Year's custom.
In the early morning of the thirtieth day of the Chinese New Year's Eve, when the chickens were still crowing and the dogs were still biting, every household in Nanyue ate the "New Year's Meal".
When we were children, we were usually woken up by our parents in our sleep: "It's time to get up and eat the New Year's more!" "With the sound of firecrackers, we mostly yawned and ate in a daze.
Nanyue people are competing for the time of eating "New Year's Rice" earlier than the other. Some people didn't sleep long after watching the Spring Festival Gala, and then they heard the firecrackers of eating "New Year's Dinner", as if to announce to everyone: My family will eat earlier than your family, and will prosper and be happy sooner.
Before the official opening of the meal, the people of Nanyue first have to hold a sacrificial ceremony in front of the ancestral tablet, thank the ancestors for their education and protection, and pray for the prosperity of the family in the coming year.
Nanyue on the night of Chinese New Year's Eve.
There are many theories about the reason why Nanyue people get up to eat before dawn, one of which is that in the process of eating "New Year's Dinner" in the early morning, the sky is getting brighter and brighter, which has the meaning of "the more you eat, the brighter it is", indicating that the days are getting better and better.
And for the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner on the night of the Chinese New Year's Eve, the Nanyue people have been preparing at least since the winter solstice. In addition to hard dishes such as Nanyue Tutou bowl and button meat, there must be a unique "flavor" on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table.
On the day of the winter solstice, the fish, meat, and chickens bought are slaughtered and washed, and hung under the ventilated eaves and beams. The swaying wind seems to give these ingredients a second life, and they dance in the wind, like the trophies of every family, and symbolize a good harvest and a good harvest.
After a month, the chickens, fish, meat, and radishes brewed by the wind ......It has become a unique wind chicken, wind fish, wind meat, and wind radish.
The fish on the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner table cannot be moved, and must be left until the first day of the new year to eat, and it has to be New Year's Eve, which means "more than every year".
Worship the god of fire. After eating the Chinese New Year's Eve dinner, the people of Nanyue are preparing one thing: to pay a New Year's greeting to the god of Zhurong Fire.
Legend has it that Zhu Rong, one of the ancestors of mankind, invented a new method of making fire, and the Yellow Emperor sent him to take charge of southern affairs and appointed him as the "Fire Official".
Nanyue Hengshan is the palace and station of Zhurong, where Zhurong uses fire to transform the people, teach the people to cook, make fire to keep out the cold, raise fire to drive away beasts, and its merits melt into the world.
Nanyue Spring Festival temple fair row street.
In order to commemorate the great achievements of this ancestor, people named the highest peak of Nanyue Hengshan as Zhurong Peak, and built a shrine to commemorate it.
The emperors of all dynasties sent ministers to Nanyue to make grand sacrifices, praying for Zhu Rong to defend the society and bless the living beings, and gradually evolved into the god of Nanyue Hengshan.
After that, all dynasties and dynasties held "temple enjoyment" here every year, coupled with folk sacrifices, formed a regular incense period, which continues to this day, and the grand occasion is unprecedented.
From the early morning of Chinese New Year's Eve, people from all over the world will go to the Nanyue Temple to pay homage to the god of Zhurong, and they will pay the first incense of the new year to Zhurong, hoping for good luck in the new year, which the Nanyue people call "out of heaven".
On the way to the big temple, everyone hurried without distractions.
On the way, no matter who they meet, they can't say hello, they have to say the first words of the new year and the first blessing to Zhu Rong.
If you say hello and speak, it means that the New Year's jackpot will be "broken", and it will be difficult to have good luck this year.
The crowd waited outside the Nanyue Temple to offer the first incense of the new year to Zhu Rong.
At about ten o'clock in the evening of Chinese New Year's Eve, people were already waiting in line outside the big temple with the old and the young, and as the Lingxing Gate slowly opened, people rushed to the Holy Emperor Hall of the big temple as fast as possible.
After paying tribute to Zhu Rong, people at this time, whether they are born or acquaintances, will congratulate each other when they meet: Happy New Year!
Relatives. The first cub of the first year, the second cub of the first year".
On the first day of the Lunar New Year, I got up early in the morning, and my parents burned incense and paper, put on offerings, and worshiped the heavens and ancestors. Then prepare the fruit plate, pour rice wine, brew a cup of hot "Nanyue Yunwu Tea", and wait for the sons, daughters-in-law and grandchildren to come to pay New Year's greetings.
After worshipping his parents, the family carries offerings to their ancestors.
Kowtow a few times in front of the grave of your ancestors, thank your ancestors for their nurturing and enlightenment, and tell your ancestors their New Year's wishes.
After returning home, it is time to pay New Year's greetings to the elders of the neighborhood. The east family goes in and out of the west house, tastes a sip of green tea, chats about homely things, and the past contradictions, opinions, disputes, and conflicts are all dissolved in this series of New Year's greetings, which is really "a New Year's worship and enmity".
Nanyue Spring Festival temple fair row street.
In the second year of junior high school, the daughter's family went back to her parents' house to pay New Year's greetings.
When the father-in-law and mother-in-law saw their son-in-law, the father-in-law greeted him, the mother-in-law poured tea, and the brother-in-law moved the stool; During the meal, his father-in-law clinked glasses with him, his mother-in-law poured vegetables into his bowl, and his brother-in-law poured wine for him.
The third and fourth days of junior high school worship my aunt.
When I was a child, my favorite thing was to go back to my grandmother's house. When I arrived at my grandmother's house, the table was full of mouth-watering dishes, and every bowl of dishes was piled high, as well as kind and kind grandparents, uncles and aunts.
At this time, the mother who had been tired for a year suddenly turned back into a daughter, and her grandmother stir-fried vegetables, she lit the fire, and the mother and mother had endless words, chattering, stir-frying and the fireworks in the kitchen woven a warm scene of the world.
The grandchildren sweetly called "grandpa" and "grandma", and the big red envelopes were immediately put into the bag.
At this time, the temple fair on Nanyue Street also began to row streets. The "heavenly official" dressed in a dragon robe gave the children red blessings and red envelopes, the young and beautiful "Magu" waved water sleeves to offer people's birthdays, and the witty and humorous "Zhu Bajie" "flirted" with the roadside audience, 3The 3-meter "long legs" shuttle flexibly through the crowd ......The variety of folk performances made citizens and tourists laugh and bend over.
Nanyue temple fair. The Lantern Festival is the first full moon night of the year, and it is also the day when Zhurong sows fire.
For a long time, the people of Nanyue will take the lantern with New Year's wishes written on the day before the Lantern Festival, go to the Zhurong Hall or Nanyue Temple, and take the everlasting lights in front of the Holy Emperor's Hall to take home, and tens of thousands of ever-bright lights will reflect the ancient town of Nanyue with brilliance and shine.
The dragon and lion pilgrimage team, the temple fair queue, and the ordinary people in the streets and alleys form a mighty folk parade procession, and the carnival crowd does not disperse all night.
In recent years, Nanyue District has held dragon and lion competitions every year to celebrate the continuation of the New Year and look forward to a prosperous New Year.
From hanging "flavor", drinking laba porridge, sending Spring Festival couplets, pasting Spring Festival couplets, cleaning up, eating "New Year's Rice", to paying the first incense to Zhurong Fire God, and then to the temple fair street and the Lantern Festival dragon and lion competition, Nanyue's Spring Festival can be described as full of New Year's flavor and full of rituals.
It wasn't until the first month that Nanyue was really out of the New Year.
Nanyue Fire Lantern Festival.
The Spring Festival has relieved the ups and downs of Nanyue people in the past year, satisfied their emotions, and improved and harmonious relationships between relatives, friends and neighbors.
A series of special New Year's flavors have allowed everyone to have good childhood memories, experience the taste of happiness, deepen the concept of home, feel the charm of traditional culture, and also "heal" wanderers and students abroad.
Generation after generation of Nanyue people have naturally become the "carrier" of Nanyue's New Year's flavor and the inheritors of excellent traditional culture.