The temple is for people to worship Shennong. It is customary for people to "choose a social day to worship God in order to pray for the valley", and worshippers are in an endless stream. First, people sell incense sticks and paper money, and then trade herbs, rattan ropes, hoes, hats and so on. And the scale is getting bigger and bigger, and it has gradually developed into a transaction of agricultural and sideline products. In the fifth year of Song Xianping, he moved to the county to govern here, and decided to have the annual "vernal equinox" and "Spring Festival" (one year 12 months, the lunar calendar is divided into 24 solar terms, and about 15 days is one day. Choose three days before and after the vernal equinox as the social day, also known as the Spring Festival to hold sacrificial activities, commonly known as "pruning") Festival in Nanmenzhou, the county town, each pruning lasts for 7 to 10 days, among which herbs are the most distinctive. Every year around the vernal equinox, people from all directions gather in Anren County to offer sacrifices to Emperor Yan and trade Chinese herbal medicines, grain seeds, farm tools, agricultural and sideline products, bamboo and wood utensils and other commodities. During the rush to the branch, the medicinal materials market was filled with nearly a thousand kinds of Chinese medicinal materials collected from all over the country and even Southeast Asian countries. Every year, when drug dealers from Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Guangxi, Jiangxi, Henan, Xinjiang, Inner Mongolia and other provinces and cities 10 and nearly 100 counties come to Anren "Chong Branch", more than 10,000 tons of medicinal materials are distributed in the market. People bring it back with good medicinal materials, supplemented by pig's trotters, and plough the fields after eating, which not only strengthens the body and bones, but also eliminates the cold. In recent years, the local government has set up a stage with "branches" and sang opera in economy and trade, "prospering the Millennium drug market and attracting merchants from all over the world", which has made the traditional custom of driving branches glow with vitality. The Yao people celebrate the Spring Festival, which is a spring ploughing commemorative festival for the Yao people. Every year on March 1 1 day of the lunar calendar, Yao people hold green leaves and branches, beat gongs and drums, and gather in Wang Pan Temple to hold the Spring Festival, offering sacrifices to mountains and rivers, and praying for good weather and good harvests. Yao Reunion Festival Yao Reunion Festival is to commemorate the day when six men and six women of Yao ancestors got married and got married together. Every year on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month, the Yao people slaughter animals to celebrate. At night, we beat gongs and drums, burn bonfires outside the village, dance dragons and lions, and sing and dance around the hall until late at night. Yao Festival Yao Festival is the most solemn and sacred traditional festival of Yao nationality. Since October 16th of the lunar calendar, the Yao people have held a ritual activity of "offering sacrifices to the king" in Wang Pan Temple, which lasted for 7 days and 7 nights or 5 days and 5 nights. During the festival, there are not only solemn sacrificial activities, but also entertainment activities such as singing, chanting, singing, dancing, performing, talking, joking and singing with guests.
In the old society, it was a long-standing wedding custom to get married and cry together in the city and countryside. In all parts of Chenzhou, Jiahe County is called "Sitting in a Song Hall", Guiyang County is called "Sitting in a Flower Banquet" and Suxian District is called "Sitting in a Garden". Marriage songs are called "marriage songs" in Jiahe County and "singing the goddess" in Guiyang County. Weeping wedding song is called "Weeping Wedding Song" in Jiahe County and "Weeping Wedding Feed" in Rucheng County. Although the names are different, the contents are basically the same. Lyrics are for married girls to cry about their parents' upbringing, their feelings of parting with their sisters, and more to express their dissatisfaction with the feudal marriage system and their yearning for a happy marriage. The wedding song is simple and concise, with beautiful melody and strong sense of rhythm. When singing, there is no musical instrument to accompany. Singing forms include solo, chorus, duet, round singing, singing and talking, dancing and crying and cursing. Chenzhou has had the custom of going to the market since ancient times. Since the Ming Dynasty, Chenzhou people have set up markets (fairs) around the land and water intersections and towns to trade goods. The trading date or "one, four, seven" or "three, five, eight" or "three, six, nine" is determined by local customs and has been passed down to this day. Like our town, it is the first day, the fourth day and the seventh day of every month. There are all kinds of goods for citizens to choose from in the market, which provides great convenience for the surrounding citizens. Every time a market is held, it is very lively! With the reform and opening up and the development of the socialist market economic system, market trade activities have become increasingly active, which has become the main channel for the circulation of rural commodities in the city, forming a number of large-scale markets that are well-known in southern Hunan and even the whole province, such as Tangcun Town Market in Jiahe County, Matian Town Market in Yongxing County and Tian Liang Town Market in Suxian District. Yizhang Nighttalk is a traditional folk mass cultural activity with a long history. During the Spring Festival, from the first day of the first lunar month to the fifteenth Lantern Festival, there are night storytelling organized by a single house, many parties, or groups and units. During the "Story" exhibition, torches were brightly lit, firecrackers roared, gongs and drums roared, and people crowded into the street. Because "storytelling" takes place at night, "telling stories at night" got its name. From 65438 to 0995, the Provincial Department of Culture awarded Chengguan Town of Yizhang County the "Hometown of Night Story Art", and Linwu Nuo Opera was called "God Lion" by local people, which was a way for people to pursue a better life, mainly through petitions and wishes from villages, families or individuals.
This expression of prayer is popular in the form of "Nuo opera", that is, entertaining gods and people, passed down from generation to generation. Nuo opera was formed in the Chenghua period of Daming, and gradually recovered in the early 1980s. Only in the first month, the venue is outdoor and not fixed. In the process of Nuo opera performance, Buddhism, Taoism and Confucianism are intertwined, which has rich and mysterious cultural color of Chu and Wu and precious artistic value. Known as "the source of drama art" and "the living fossil of China's drama". In order to write this paper well, I collected a lot of information and called some old people and friends in my hometown, so I learned a lot of unique folk customs in my hometown that I had never heard of before, and I felt a sense of pride in my heart. I am proud of the long cultural tradition and various folk customs in my hometown. My favorite sentence is "every word and deed of a person's life, even an idea, cannot be separated from the land where he lives." A person and his hometown have the same taste. " From this sentence, we can deeply appreciate the power of folk customs. I believe that the folk customs of every place have a great influence on people who grew up in that land. I think, in the future life, I must know more about the folk customs of my hometown, and at the same time, I must introduce the folk customs of our hometown to others, so that the culture can be passed down from generation to generation!