Xiao Huineng was tired of his head and said: "Well, it turns out that going to the 'king' is a few big brothers carrying the 'king' all the way, shouting all the way, this is called walking the 'king'." ”

Lu Xingyu said loudly: "That's probably it! Lu Xingyu looked at the team of "kings" and looked north affectionately......

Xiao Hui Neng saw that Lu Xingyu had stopped, standing on the side of the road, blinking Xiao Hui Neng's eyes, and guessing and asking, "Daddy, are you thinking about going to the 'king' in your hometown for the New Year?" ”

"Yes! Daddy is thinking, Daddy's hometown will go to the 'king' for the New Year. ”

Xiao Huineng took Lu Xingyao's hand and asked curiously: "Daddy's hometown is also lively and easy to see when he walks to the 'king' for the New Year?" ”

"Take a good look, it's a good ruin!" Lu Xingyu learned the words of the locals, and after finishing speaking, he proudly introduced to Xiao Huineng-

"Walking the King", in Daddy's hometown Fanyang, known as the "Great King", originated in the middle of the Han Dynasty.

The day when the "king" is invited in the countryside of Fanyang is also the time to worship the gods.

The villagers sacrificed chickens, pork, and fruits, and used them to worship their ancestors and the land. Land, also known as the earth god, the land god, the shrine god, the shrine lord. "The Legend of the Ram" says, "The society is also the lord of the land." Hence the name of the land. The god of the land is the god who guards the place and is responsible for protecting the safety of the party. The land loads and grows all things, and people worship it, on the one hand, it is a feeling of admiration, worship and gratitude, and on the other hand, it is also a prayer for the future to eliminate disasters and diseases, good fortune, good weather, and a rich life.

After worshipping the ancestors and the land gods, the next "sacred mission" is to invite the "king".

The next form, Datong and Xiaohui Neng, is just that: Xinzhou here is mainly walking, Fan Yang is there, kneeling and respectfully inviting the "king".

Wherever the "king" team goes, people who watch the excitement along the way will consciously or unconsciously join the "king" team.

Lu Xingyao took Xiao Huineng, watched, watched, and couldn't help but join the team of walking the "king", and Xiao Huineng was the youngest Huineng in the team of walking the "king" at that time.

Lu Xingyu and Xiao Huineng walked on the drummer's side, and as soon as the drummer saw Lu Xingyan, he greeted him cordially: "Lord Lu, you also brought your son to see the 'king'!" ”

Lu Xingyu said loudly: "Yes, Uncle Zhang! Come out for the New Year to have good luck, the New Year in the countryside of Xinzhou is really lively! ”

"This 'king' has only risen in the past two years, you see, I am not very familiar with the 'king' drum that I played!" Zhang Bo introduced while playing the drum.

"Go 'King', this drum music is called 'Victory Order', and it has a drum score." When Lu Xingyan was an official in Fanyang, he was deeply familiar with qin, chess, poetry, painting, calligraphy and gong and drum scores, so when he saw Uncle Zhang say this, he actually said that he had leaked his mouth, for fear that he would have to punish Uncle Zhang.

And Uncle Zhang, like most people in the mountains, has a generous, honest, and humble personality, plus Lu Xingyan is talented, he doesn't receive a penny when he writes Spring Festival couplets during the New Year, and he usually teaches his grandson to read and write, how can he blame him, it's too late to thank him!

I saw Uncle Zhang say sincerely: "Lord Lu, please teach me to make a 'victory order'." ”

At Zhang Bo's sincere request, Lu Xingyan took the drum stick and played the drum of the "Victory Order".

The majestic drum beat won bursts of applause from the audience. Since then, the drum music of "King" and "Victory Order" has spread in Xinzhou.

Along the way, the sound of firecrackers, gongs and drums and the shouts of carrying the "king" to move around, resounded, the scene was very lively, especially every time there was a village or a vacant land, the little Huineng man carrying the "king" would lift the "king" high, shake or bump the "king" vigorously, and then shout and rush forward, and the "kings" of the villages, villages and workshops behind also followed suit one after another......

Next, there will be a fierce competition, see that the team of the village, village and square first go to the "Dawang" temple.

The first one to arrive means that the workshop where it is located will be blessed throughout the year. After walking the "king" and celebrating in the square in front of the Dawang Temple, each village and each village beat the gong and drum to send the "king" back to the "king" house in each village, and then sent the person who threw the firecrackers, which lasted about 3 hours.

After the matter is completed, each village, each village, and each square will begin to put on a banquet, toast with relatives and friends to celebrate, accumulate stamina, and welcome the arrival of spring plowing and production in the new year.

In addition to going to see the "king" with Daddy during the New Year, Xiao Huineng also went to the village with Daddy and his mother to visit the lantern festival.

The prosperous and prosperous atmosphere of the Tang Dynasty has nurtured the majestic grandeur of China's excellent traditional culture.

The popular civil activities such as lantern festivals, cannon burning, and fire dance are known as the grand events in the history of folk customs since the Han and Tang dynasties.

Visiting the lantern festival is also full of strong New Year's flavor in the local area.

The origin of Xinzhou lanterns is inseparable from traditional Chinese culture.

During the first year of Tang Dynasty, in order to celebrate the peace of the country and the people, the lanterns were tied inside and outside the imperial city, and the flickering lights symbolized "the colorful dragon is auspicious, and the people are strong and the country is strong", and the lantern atmosphere has become popular since then.

Xinzhou was the place of exile for officials of previous dynasties, and the degraded officials and their families brought the art of making lanterns from the Central Plains.

Every year during the Lantern Festival and the Xia Yuan Festival, large-scale lantern festivals will be held in various villages in Xinzhou.

The village hall is full of lanterns sent by various households, with different forms, magnificent, and joyful.

At the same time, the village also invited the opera troupe to act, feast, and hold all kinds of ceremonies such as inviting the king and sending the king, which was very lively, attracting many outsiders to come to enjoy the lanterns and watch the play.

The lantern and the Lantern Festival are inseparable, in the traditional festival customs, the Lantern Festival can be said to be the atmosphere is more active, the inheritance is the best, the folk since the thirteenth day of the first month, go to the ancestral temple to hang the lantern, the fifteenth day of the first month will take the lantern back to hang at home, called the lantern.

The local dialect of NSW "lamp" is the same as "ding".

The old customs all want to "prosper people", which is convenient for the Lantern Festival to make a homophonic "Xing Deng (Ding)" article on the lamp (Ding).

Even if the lantern is burned during the fire, it is not a bad omen, on the contrary, it is a good omen for the lantern to burn, which means that the coming year will be auspicious.

In the past, every festival in the local folk, the villages and villages would dance joyful lantern dances, pray for good fortune, and have the custom of nephews visiting their uncles.

There is a folk saying in Xinzhou: "The nephew beats the lantern ——— shines on (uncle) old".

According to the old rural customs in Xinzhou County, during the Lantern Festival and Mid-Autumn Festival, the nephew went to visit his uncle, and when he returned home, the uncle would buy a lantern for the nephew to go home.

On the night of the festival, there are all kinds of lanterns hanging on the roadside, there are red gauze palace lanterns, there are all kinds of paper lanterns, and many uncles and concubines are busy buying lanterns for their nephews and nieces.

Lanterns are lamps that people use for lighting.

In the past, in the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival, weddings, move-ins, adults, Tianding and other festive days, lanterns were widely used by people, from local officials to ordinary Li people, all of them admired the culture of lanterns, and every household liked to hang lanterns.

The lantern represents good luck.

There is a popular folk song about lanterns in NSW:

Lantern meeting, lantern meeting, lantern black home sleeping.

Carry the lantern and shine on the uncle, who hid behind the door.

Watermelon lanterns, jack-o'-lanterns, lantern lanterns in the streets and alleys.

Kick once, kick twice, my lantern won't break.

After visiting the lantern festival, it was the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.

As the saying goes, "a hundred miles of different winds, a thousand miles of different customs". Lantern Festival, there are different customs in various places of the people.

After the lantern festival, it was the very lively Lantern Festival.

The most popular way to make Lantern Festival in Xiao Huineng Huineng's hometown is to "burn cannons". Every year from the first month of the first month to February, each village takes turns to burn cannons, and it can be said that the day of "burning cannons" is more lively than the first day of the new year.

"Burning cannons", known locally as flower grabbing cannons, has been in Xinzhou since ancient times.

Xiao Hui Neng Hui Neng listened to her mother say: "She Xiao Hui Neng went to see the cannon every year, and the day when the cannon was burned in our village was also the time to sacrifice to the gods." The villagers sacrificed chickens, pork, and fruits, and used them to worship their ancestors and the land. Land, also known as the earth god, the land god, the shrine god, the shrine lord. ”

"The Legend of the Ram" records: The society is also the lord of the land. Hence the name of the land.

The god of the land is the god who guards the place and is responsible for protecting the safety of the party.

The land loads and grows all things, and people worship it, on the one hand, it is a feeling of admiration, worship and gratitude, and on the other hand, it is also a prayer for the future to eliminate disasters and diseases, good fortune, good weather, and a rich life. After worshipping the ancestors and the land gods, the next step is to burn the cannon.

Folklore has it that the ninth day of the first lunar month is the birthday of the Jade Emperor, and on this day, people use fast fruit and tea to pay homage to the Jade Emperor.

For large-scale sacrifices, altars are also set up, firecrackers are set off, gongs and drums are beaten, music is played, and trumpets are blown during worship, and the scene is very enthusiastic.

After the worship is over, activities such as "going to the knife mountain", "going down to the sea of fire", and "grabbing flowers and cannons" will be held.

The so-called "Knife Mountain" is to climb a wooden knife ladder, and a number of special knives are installed on the ladder.

"To go down to the sea of fire" is to burn charcoal on the ground and walk barefoot over the coals. Those who can "go up the sword mountain and down the sea of fire" symbolize bravery, tenacity, and fearlessness of hardships and dangers, and also place people's wishes to eliminate disasters.

"Grab the flower cannon" is to put the cannon ring into the cannon in advance, and the cannon ring that bounces up after ignition falls from a high altitude, and people scramble, meaning to grab good luck.

The village where the winner is located regards the cannon ring as a holy relic and carefully worships it, saying that it can protect the clansmen and ensure the safety of the villagers, and life will get better and better.

Every year on this day, every family has to hold a family banquet to entertain the married daughter and other relatives and friends.

Running a family banquet is not complicated, there are generally chicken, duck and fish, and then a few dishes can be fried. Such as shiitake mushrooms, bamboo shoots, broccoli, snow peas, choy sum, sauerkraut, mushrooms, etc.

"Sour", the Cantonese dialect is homophonic with "Sun", with sprouts and mushrooms, etc., which is a metaphor for the full house of children and grandchildren, and the prosperity of Ding and Cai.

The place to burn the cannon is to choose a relatively open field, build a high platform in the middle, find a wood or bamboo pole to erect, in a little farther place, erect a long bamboo pole with pulleys, specially used to set off firecrackers, the colorful flags around are flying, very magnificent.

People came from all over the world, in several layers.

In this batch and wave of people, there are not only those who came to help, but also those who came to watch the fireworks and cannons, plus the villagers who joined in the excitement from ten miles and eight townships, such a "big battle" is really unprecedented.

On the day of "burning the cannon", the relatives and friends of the village, plus the villagers from ten miles and eight towns, the scene is quite spectacular.

At 3:30 p.m., the firing began.

The firecrackers are uniformly made.

When firing a cannon, the ring (made of metal or rattan) is first loaded into the cannon.

With the commander's order, the gunner lit the cannon with incense, and immediately heard a loud "boom", and the cannon circle rose into the air, and then fell from the sky.

The gunners first stared intently into the air, and the moment the gun circle fell, people rushed up.

The one who grabs the cannon circle, after it is raised high, others are not allowed to snatch it again, and the victory belongs to him.

The winner will quickly run to the gun owner and receive a big red envelope.

Of all the fireworks, the first cannon is the most solemn, and the winner is not only revered by the people, but also proud of it, which indicates good luck for the year.

After the cannon was fired, the fireworks grabbing activity came to an end.

After the crowd of onlookers dispersed, the host continued to organize the procession, beat gongs and drums, play joyful music, and carry the cannon ring and mirror screen to the home of the winner of the first cannon.

The winner needs to kill the chicken and worship the heavens and the earth and the ancestors after 3 days, and then send the mirror screen and cannon ring back to the village, where they will be kept by respected elders and kept for recycling in the next year.

At this point, the cannon burning activity is over.