Hundreds of tables are seated, the village is happy, and 10,000 people drink together. After a four-year absence, on February 24, the Chinese New Year's Festival, the "first blessing banquet in the world" - Taishun Hundred Family Banquet was held in Zhangzhai Village, Sankui Town.
This year, Taishun also launched the "Auspicious Taishun Hundred Family Feast" folk culture plot". Theme market, puppet show, intangible cultural heritage performance, Chen Shi Niangniang's parade to the gods, drone show, fireworks show ......As a traditional folk culture full of New Year's flavor, Taishun Hundred Family Banquet has upgraded its interest and "doubled" its liveliness.
The hundred family banquets are "cooked" with a strong New Year's flavor
Taishun Baijia Banquet, also known as Zuofu, is a unique and ancient Lantern Festival custom, which originated in Zhangzhai Village, Sankui Town, and has a history of more than 800 years. At first, it was the "ancestral hall wine" of the Zhang clan, and later, regardless of near and far, relatives could come, and gradually evolved into a "hundred family banquet".
The most flavorful part of the Chinese New Year is when the whole family sits together for a reunion dinner. More than 5,000 people at 490 tables ate together, feeling the most authentic festival folk customs and New Year's flavor in Taishun, so that the young people from Tajikistan who participated in the Taishun Hundred Family Banquet for the first time called it spectacular: "I have seen a table of eating, but I have never seen so many people eating together, it feels very good and lively." Many villagers lamented that Sankui Town had not been so lively for many years.
On the first street of Baijiayan - Guiyan Road, the fiery red flags are hanging and fluttering, although the weather is cold, everyone sits together, and the strong New Year's flavor and nostalgia are overflowing. Each table has empty lucky bags and red envelopes, allowing visitors to fill the lucky bags with melon seeds and take away the blessings. Shou Mian Yingmen (longevity noodles), Nian Nian Gaosheng (rice cake), Honghonghuo (braised pork), Shiquan Shimei (Hecai), Yuyue Longmen (Kung Fu Fish), Fugui Shuangbao (pork belly chicken), Ruicai Qiantiao (sweet potato powder) ......16 carefully selected "color, aroma, taste" are all good, put on the full, everyone while tasting the dishes, while talking about wine, the original unfamiliar also quickly chatted.
Chef Zhang Qingxia said that in order to make a good banquet, they began to prepare for this banquet on February 22, and the tourists who participated in the Baijia banquet were booked early, including villagers from various towns and villages in Taishun, as well as many tourists from Fujian and Shanghai. Why do so many people come all the way to eat the 100 family banquet, Ruian tourist Xiao Wang said: "Eat 100 family banquet to be auspicious, there are many interesting activities on the scene." ”
As the most complete and well-preserved New Year's flavor cultural brand in southern Zhejiang and even the whole of Zhejiang, in 2007, the "Hundred Family Banquet" in Sankui Town was identified as a demonstration site for the protection of traditional festivals of the Lantern Festival in Zhejiang Province, and was included in the third batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage protection list in 2009; During the Lantern Festival in 2010, the Taishun Hundred Family Banquet was recorded in the Guinness Book of Records as the "No. 1 Blessing Banquet in the World" because of its scale of more than 6,000 tables and more than 60,000 guests. The relevant staff of Sankui Town told reporters that this year's scale is not the largest, it can only be regarded as medium, but the activities are more exquisite, and the content of the "feast" of Baijiayan folk culture is becoming richer and richer.
Taishun has its own intangible cultural heritage "Wandering God".
In recent years, the Hundred Family Banquet has gradually evolved into a grand local folk event, attracting countless tourists from other places to experience.
On the same day, all kinds of lanterns were dressed up in Yinggangdian Street in Sankui Town, and visitors to the theme cultural tourism market were shoulder to shoulder; Intangible cultural heritage performances such as marionettes, Yue opera performances, dragon dances, dragon and phoenix lion lanterns, puppet excerpts, and eight treasure lanterns; Drone shows and fireworks shows bring amazing visual experience ......
However, the most lively is Chen Shishi's Niangniang parade to the gods. This Spring Festival, Fujian's "Youshen" successfully came out of the circle with a strong New Year's flavor, in fact, Taishun also has its own intangible cultural heritage "Youshen".
The God Festival is a unique temple fair in the mountainous area of southern Zhejiang Province that the villagers of Taishun pray for the gods to bless the country and the people, the wind and rain are smooth, and the five grains are abundant, mainly sacrificing Xu Sanweng and Chen.
Ten. Fourth, Ma Xian and other local gods are generally held in the sixth and seventh months of the lunar calendar. As early as 2008, the Yushen Festival was included in the third batch of representative projects of Wenzhou intangible cultural heritage.
Photo courtesy of the Propaganda Department of the Taishun County Party Committee.
The highlight of the Hundred Family Banquet after the dinner is that the "Fu Shou" (the chief manager of the Hundred Family Banquet, responsible for the size of the banquet, at the same time, they are also the sedan chair bearers when Chen Shishi Niangniang goes out to patrol the street, and the main participants in the sacrifice) Organize the villagers to carry the statue of Chen Shishi Niangniang out of the temple and start the mighty "out of the palace and on the street" parade.
Along the way, the procession carried the shrine of Chen Shiwei Niangniang, there were honor guards, gongs and drums, lantern dance teams, opera characters, etc., and tourists from all over the country also enthusiastically followed the team to move slowly, the gongs and drums were noisy along the way, and there were villagers holding incense and firecrackers to greet them along the way, and the scene was very lively.
The reporter at the scene saw that there were many young people, and Xiao Chen, who temporarily decided to drive from Yueqing, was one of them. Because of curiosity, she accosted the locals and learned that Chen Shisi Niangniang in the Linshui Palace of Zhangzhai Village, the divine hero in folklore, was widely praised and worshiped because she was good at "healing, eliminating demons, helping the danger, relieving misfortune, saving childbirth, protecting the fetus, and sending children". It is said that wherever the portable shrine goes, the people it sees are prosperous, so it attracts onlookers from the villagers along the way.
In recent years, the local innovation multi-industry integration development model has opened the road of market-oriented operation of Baijiayan. This year, Taishun also launched the "Auspicious Taishun Hundred Family Feast" folk culture plot". At the launching ceremony, the signing of the provincial marketing project of Baijiayan was signed, and the mascot of "Baijiayan" was also released. The relevant staff of Taishun expressed the hope that Baijiayan can become a "luminous" cultural tourism industry in Taishun.
Contributed by: Wenzhou Evening News.
Reporter: Chen Yi.