Hezhou Travel Guide

Hezhou has been in the middle of the Nanling National Corridor. Since ancient times, it has been a place where multi -ethnic and multiculturalism has gathered. Diversity folklore culture is very rich, the context has a long history, and the heritage is deep. The ancient Central Plains Culture, Jingchu Culture, Huxiang Culture, and Wuyue Culture were integrated with Lingnan Baiyue Culture. There are more than a dozen ethnic groups such as Han, Zhuang, Yao, Miao, etc. here for generations to form a situation of harmonious living in multi -ethnic groups. Different ethnic groups have different customs, and they have different branches in the same nation. In terms of clothing, food, housing, travel, entertainment, etc., it can be described as "different winds of ten miles, different vulgar."

Zhuang clothing

According to Volume 4 of the "Imperial Qing Dynasty Tribute Map" compiled by Fu Heng of the Qing Dynasty, the article "He County Guardian" states: "He County Guardians first came from Chu and lived in Nanxiang in the county, and there are two types of raw and mature. Those who are mature are mature. When he was naturalized and taxed, the living lived in the mountains and was fierce. During the Longqing period of the Ming Dynasty, his chief Yang Gongman and others caused rebellion, and the chief censor Yin Zhengmao and others tried to pacify him. Since this dynasty, the servants have farmed and weaved and collected cultural relics. The man wrapped his head with a scarf. The neck is decorated with silver rings and embroidered edges of green clothes. The women's rings are covered with silver hairpins, the cotton-edged short clothes, and the pure cotton skirt is gorgeous and self-loving. They can weave sacks and scarves and sacks. The men will carry them, and they must be the ones who will be self-woven. .”Adult men and women have no collars. The collar of the men's right collar opened to the right armpit to the waist and turned to the center, then opened about 10 cm to stop. The cloak is inlaid with edges, about 3 cm wide, with copper buttons and a long belt. Women's clothing also has the right collar and the sleeves are wide and full. The middle-aged and elderly people's shirts are long to the knees, with two or three sides inlaid, with the inner side of the shoulders against the contrast, and three seams are made of seams, which are called "back-arm shirts". Men and women have wide pants and the same style, which is called "bull trousers". Men and women generally wrap their heads with black or white turbans and do not wear hats. Women wear headdresses when visiting relatives or attending festive ceremonies. The headdress is made of bamboo shells to form a round inner support, which is more than 30 cm high. It is wrapped in white cloth and then wrapped in blue and black cloth. The white cloth reveals a white edge about 16 cm wide, and is wrapped around the middle of the headdress to the back of the head, forming two streamers, which is quite dignified and beautiful . Unmarried women have long hair and combed bangs, and their hair is separated by 30% and combed from the left to the right, fixed with a hairpin, or tie a long braid.

Initially, Hezhou Zhuang people had their own national specialties. The pants are wide -footed large pants, white cloth as pants heads, and men and women. Men wear short plackets, cloth buckle clothes, some wearing long shirts, and women's clothes are also thick -faced, wearing clothes plackets and lower feet and flowing flowers. Since the 1950s -1960s , the Zhuang and Han people have not been able to distinguish them from clothing, regardless of whether men, women, and children are wearing the same . After the reform and opening up in the 1980s , the dress of Zhuang people also followed the trend of the times. No one had made clothes by themselves. Instead, they bought ready -made industrial production costumes. Therefore, they could no longer distinguish between Han and Zhuang.

Yao clothing

The departments of the Yao people of Hezhou grow cotton and blue crickets, and they are dyed and dyed in their own clothes. Every family has wooden texture cars and fabrics, and the whole family's clothes are sewn by girls or women. Hezhou Yao nationality has many styles, colorful, simple patterns, and exquisite craftsmanship.

The man who crosses Shanyao generally wore a round neck -shaped lace coat, buckled with plackets, and slit on both sides. Women generally wear round collar shirts, plackets or right plackets, collar, placket, and bottom edge inlaid; wearing flower trousers with a lower body, a three -wide lace on the trousers, tie their legs. The belt is generally woven with silk wire, which is a flower apron, pearl skewers or silver jewelry. Men Yao's men's and women's clothing is all weaving soil cloth, most of which are embellished with red, yellow, blue, green, and green. When the Women of Shanyao make clothing, they can use the weaving, dyeing, picking, and embroidery process to make various styles of clothing. Their stabbing skills can be superb to embroidered various patterns with symmetrical, harmonious colors, and realistic images on the clothes. The content of these patterns is based on life, such as animals, plants, characters, and folk stories circulating by the nation. These pattern patterns are simple and elegant lines and clear colors. They add them to clothes, giving people a simple and thick beauty. The decorations of the Shanyao women include the head, earrings, collar, waist chain, bracelets, etc., mostly silver. Those crickets, rings, keys, bracelets, carved phoenixes are very exquisite. Shanyao, men, women, and children, and the customs that like to tie straps on the calf. Its straps have different lengths and different widths and widths. Generally, adults use five feet wide and seven inches long. The strap starts to tie it from the right from the ankle joint, until it goes under the knee, and then tie it with a self -contained flower strap. Due to the long -term work and life in the mountains, this strap can prevent cold and heating, and to prevent mosquito bite.

The costumes and hairstyles of Pan Yao, Poin Yao, Bao Pa Yao, and Tuyao are different.

Pan Yao , women leave long hair, rolled into three triangular hair buns in the front two, and then use 30 cm wide and 10 to 20 meters in a grid flower with thick cloth 2 / 3 % off , 1 /1 /1 / 3 Do not fold , stack the 10 cm wide band -shaped cloth , wrap the screw ring on the head, wrap it on the top of the ear, and wrap it into a basal pelvic headgear with a diameter of 0.5 meters . Then cover a embroidered scarf with flat head. Wearing a cyan -pair -pair giurea, a lace with a shirt length to the knee, the placket embroidery is about 10 cm width , a diamond -shaped or semi -moon -shaped silver buckle on the chest , a 20 -centimeter long silver chain , 3 less, ten more than ten, more than ten ones , more than ten ones. Seven or eight. The lower end of each silver chain includes "silver butterflies", "silver knife", "silver tooth picking" and "Tremella dug". The waist is 2. 7 meters square grid belt.

The headdress of the women's headdress (also divided into Dongshan Yao and Xishan Yao), first use a black cloth of more than 60 centimeters long , 16.5 cm wide with 1 piece, tied the hair into a bamboo shoot -shaped , and then use 10 -30 pieces of long square shape. The white, red blue boschie is overlapped into a pointed hat -shaped hat. The hat edge is 16 cm -20 cm thick, about 40 cm high. A total of more than 10 meters of cloth , weighing more than 10 pounds. Dongshan Yao women wear the headgear , the tip of the hat is straight up, and a silver flower card is inlaid in front of the hat. The pointed hat worn by Women's Women, the tip of the tip is skewed backwards. In addition to the same theory as the women of Panyao, the cuffs are also decorated with embroidery or red, white, and blue cloth. Wear down jumpsuit, embroidery or red, white, and blue cloth on the pants tube. Some women do not wear a pointed hat, and they are wrapped on their heads with a black and thick cloth of 10 meters to 13 meters , forming a Pan Yao style. Men's Baotou is the same as women's black and rough cloth. Wear Tang shirts, short shirts, and round copper buckles.

Bao Pa Yao's married woman used a 50 cm square black cloth as a head Pa , and Paibian used a blue cloth of about 3 cm wide ; young women who did not marry wearing an embroidered flower hat. Women wear big collar pairing, collar and cuffs with colorful embroidery; with trousers with trousers and 10 cm wide color pattern. Wear butterfly earrings , Pie 1 Road -2 diamond -shaped, semi -moon -shaped silver buckle on the chest, and colorful brocade belt.

The man in Hexian Yao wore a light blue placket on a light blue placket , only forty centimeters long, and a cloth bag on each side of the chest. In the winter season and during the wedding banquet, wearing nearly ten tops, one color. Put on a wide -footed large crotch trousers, and the trousers are tried with white cloth. Women shaved their heads, and the Luo -shaped circular hat made by wearing Tong Tongkin, stained with white paper into yellow or green on the outer edge of the hat, painted light oil, and then painted with a piece of vertical line with black. The glass paper is protected, and it shines in the sun. The top of the hat is stacked on the top of 10 -20 pairs of folding towels , and the towel is decorated with color songs on the towel; the three types of wool of red, yellow, and cyan are tied directly from the two sides of the cap to the lower chin. There are more towels covering the top of the hat during the holiday or attending the wedding , and there are more than 10 skewers hanging up . Wearing a green cloth robe , long to an ankle, no waist, three pieces, the sides of the front and rear sides are slit, until the belt is not buckled, the waist is used to use the waist, and the back of the front and back of the front and back; In the belt, a triangular front placket is formed. Do not wear trousers, only wearing shorts on the side of embroidery with geometric pattern, wrap towels with legs, and naked thighs. Tuyao men generally wrap their heads with 3 -4 towels , and increase to about 10 during the wedding ; men's tops are the placket buckle with 4 pockets super short blue cloth shirts , about 40 cm long, and only navel. Two floors, one blue and one white match, white blue outside, the diameter of the pants tube is 40For trousers with remaining centimeters. When participating in collective activities such as weddings, dozens of beads on the chest weighing thousands of grams.

Hezhou Pingdi Yao women only wrap their heads with a headscarf , and their headscarfs are different due to their age status. All -inclusive women; fold the headscarf into strips, exposing three creases around the forehead is the unmarried girl; the young women who have not revealed the campaign are the young women who have already become a family. In fact, the best preservation of national costumes in Hezhou should belong to the Yao people. A considerable number of people still wear their own national costumes, but the Yao people living in town or flat ground are rarely wearing national clothing and gradually wearing modern clothing.

Before the 1980s , Wuzhou people (some ethnic groups living in the Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County) still wore clothes without Ling Qingyi and wide -mouth sleeves. The buttons of the women's top are opened on the left, and the bottom of the top is very wide. Women have their own headscarves. The style of women worn before and after marriage is different. The way to wear before marriage is to stack the towel into three layers, then tie it back from the front forehead, and then knots at the back of the head. After marriage, wrap the head directly with a towel. After the reform and opening up in the 1980s , until the current 2005 , the clothing that the Yao men and women usually wear are basically the same as that of the Han nationality. Only when major activities such as festivals or marriage, they wear their traditional national costumes .

Characteristic food

Hezhou is rich in rice, and the Han nationality uses rice as a staple food. The Yao people living in the mountains are dominated by corn in the history, supplemented by miscellaneous grains such as sweet potatoes, cassava, and taro. The non -staple foods include pigs, cattle, chickens, ducks, geese, fish and other vegetables.

Yaoshan bacon lives in the Yao people in Fuchuan, Zhongshan, Eight Step, Pinggui, and Zhaoping Mountain. The Yao people live in Dashan all year round, and the source of meat mainly depends on the chickens, ducks, pigs, sheep, cows and so on. The Yao men like to hunt, and when they are leisurely, they go to the mountains to kill pigs, hare, pheasant, birds and other spectacles as a supplement to meat. The meat that can't be eaten is saved by making bacon. The method of making is: cut the meat to grow strips, marinate with raw salt for 2 days to 3 days, and then use bamboo or rattan to string one end to dry, and then hang it on the stove of cooking water, or put it in winter Above the fire hall of the baking fire, let it smoke. Such a smoky bacon, the meat is unchanged for many years, the fat is cool but not greasy, and the lean meat is chewing and fragrant. Whenever there are guests, the enthusiastic Yao component will use bacon to entertain guests.

Powder -pickled meat lives in the mountainous area of Tuyao, the mountainous areas of the six villages of the Mingmei, Gluton, Daming, Lion East, Jinzhu, and Xinmin Six Villages in Bantong Town in Badu District. Before the Spring Festival each year, every family kills the pigs, cut the meat into small slices, stir well with an appropriate amount of salt after drying the water, then grind the rice or corn into powder and stir. Mix the medium and powder evenly, then put it in the altar to compact, so that the meat slices are seamless. After full, use the banana leaves to seal the altar and tighten it with a rope to put a wooden board inverted the ground on the ground, and make the altar mouth obsessed with the wooden board. Powder -pickled meat made in this method and stored in the altar after two or thirty years, the taste is still delicious and does not deteriorate.

Hundreds of vegetables "There is no banquet, no banquet, no unsuccessful disrespect." Some people have made rough calculations, and there are as many as 108 kinds of vegetables in Hezhou. The variety of vegetables is rich in vegetables , with bean products, fruit vegetables, rhizome dishes, leafy vegetables and other vegetables, and even brewed vegetables made of pork large intestine, pig blood and pork net oil. It can be said that there is no dish without brewing. The brewing of vegetables occupies an important position in the Hezhou diet. In all the annual festivals, brewing is a necessary dish, various celebrations and recipes, and vegetable brewing must be one of them. It is indispensable.

Babu Dengzhanji is a traditional snack for He Jiangchuan’s family. The method of making is : mix radish, diced meat, shrimp, onion (or garlic), peanuts, salt, wine, sugar, MSG, five-spice seasonings, etc., marinate for a certain period of time to make a bread-sized blank, and then Mix the rice flour into a paste and pour it on the skin of the blank, put it in a hot oil pan and fry it for a while. After picking it up, add a layer of paste, then put it in the oil pan and fry until golden brown. Drop it out of the pot. The remaining oil is done. The glutinous rice crust is crispy and soft, with a unique taste.

Nanxiang Baiqiu Ya Nanxiang Ma Duck has the characteristics of tender meat, smooth and fishy. The method is : kill the live duck and remove the hair and internal organs, put it in a pot and boil for 20 minutes , take it out and cut it into pieces and put it in a bowl and dish, use fermented black beans, ginger, oil, salt, onion, garlic, etc. to make seasonings, and cut the white Duck is eaten with spices, and the duck meat is sweet and crispy. Nanxiang Zhuang compatriots are often used as a delicacy for guests.

Fried citrus. Locals among the Han people in Hezhou often make fried citrus as gifts for guests on holidays and festive days. The production method is: use water and glutinous rice flour to form a powder, and then divide it into a blank ( 0.5 kg of powder about 12 blanks ); grind the blank into a thin piece of paper and knead it into a spherical shape, and then use a small bamboo tube . Continue to blow air into the glutinous rice balls to expand it into a ball, then seal the air port and put it in a boiling oil pan and fry until it is golden brown. The fried rice dumplings are scorched on the outside and tender on the inside, sweet, fragrant, smooth and glutinous.

Festival customs

The sacrifices to the gods mainly worship the community gods, the village gatehouse owners, public wells, family ancestral hall ancestors, small family gatehouses with courtyards, and small family hall ancestors. The order cannot be chaotic, and the principal priest is a young male from the family. The offerings include whole chicken (rooster) pork (pig head and pig tail when killing pigs), small bowl of rice, rice glutinous rice, fruit and wine. Generally, when offering sacrifices after noon, the earlier the better you get, the better it will be. The procedure is equivalent to that of the sacrificial god of the kitchen god; only when offering sacrifices to the community god, the village master and the well, a stick of incense is added in front of the altar to express the intention of greeting other gods. When worshiping ancestors, you also need to put a stick of incense in the courtyard and the gate, and stuff paper money into the cracks of the door. Now: the content of the sacrifice is the same as the procedure, and the slight difference is that both men and women can be the principal sacrifice, and some sacrifices are advanced to the morning; the concept of men and women has changed; some families have no male or young males; young people have to go to the morning to sacrifice in advance in order to hurry.

The beginning of the year of Hezhou has different days. Locals use the third day of the first lunar month as the opening day. The family that recognizes the gift set up a throne of Guanyin Bodhisattva in the courtyard to worship. The boy and girl who recognize the gift set will go to the gift set to worship the ancestors, and stick it on the gift set to the gift set to the gift set to the gift set to worship the ancestors according to the rules of the boy as white flowers and the girl as red flowers. A red note called "Red Mark" reads, "Now there is a white (red) flower that sends it to the ancestors of your mansion, hoping to bless you to grow up." Now: As a Qizi or a Qi girl, you need to bring a gift package to "receive" (i.e., gifts) pork and tofu to visit Qifu's mother, worship Qifu's ancestors, eat a meal, take a bath, Qifu's father gives to you. You can only go home after you give me New Year’s rewards and gifts for vegetarian gifts. You can also move forward to the second year of the junior high school to complete the ceremony of visiting your father and mother.

The opening day of the shopkeeper is the second day of the first lunar month . On this day, the throne of Guanyin Bodhisattva is placed in the courtyard to worship. The boys and girls who recognize Qifu will go to Qifu's house to worship their ancestors, and the boys are white flowers and the girl is red flowers. The rules posted a red note called "red sign" on the Qifu's ancestor's platform, and wrote "Now there is a white (red) flower that has sent to the ancestors of your mansion, hoping to bless you to grow up."

Hakka people use the third day of the first lunar month as the "day to send off poor ghosts". They do not visit relatives on this day. The first thing they do after getting up is to clean the hall (the first and second lunar month are not cleaned). According to the custom, they go inside from the door. Sweeping, especially taboos to sweep from the inside out, means to sweep the good fortunes that come during the Chinese New Year from the outside, rather than sweeping out. The garbage should be placed on the roadside or in the thorny trousers away from the house. The locals in Guiling do not have this custom.

On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, the Yao people invited their masters to serve as sacrifices and collected glutinous rice cakes on the divine platform, which was called "the beginning of the year".

Shanglan Festival Shanglan Festival is one of the traditional festivals in Fuyang Street, Fuchuan County (Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County). It began in the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty and gradually evolved into Shanglan Dragon Blasting Festival after the 1990s. The main contents include drinking lantern wine (commonly known as "eating lantern wine"), watching lanterns, watching dances (commonly known as "tuning") dragons (fried dragons). In some years, you can also watch guitar dramas, color tunes, costume stories and dragon lions. Competitions, etc. The themes of the festival are to thank the gods, celebrate the new life, pray for blessings and wealth, and celebrate the Lantern Festival. The festival is from the tenth to the fifteenth day of the lunar month, and lasts six days.

There are 9 lamp building (Shen Building) on Fuyang Street ( 2 Nanmen Street , 1 Cross Street, Yamenkou, Shibapo, Beimen Street, Guandi Temple, Caihua Building and Xinyong Street ) . The light buildings are cleaned, maintained, decorated and arranged before the ninth day of the first lunar month every year. Every year on the ninth night or the tenth morning of the first lunar month, according to the streets and alleys and residents under the jurisdiction of the Lantern Building, all families (commonly known as "Lankou") who were born in the previous year (commonly known as "Lankou") will carry sacrifices, lanterns, firecrackers, etc. to the lamp. Hang up the lamp (upload the lamp) on the floor and hand over the lamp head money. It is not until after 160 o'clock that the lamp is removed and returned home. There are many kinds of lanterns, including revolving lanterns, lotus lanterns, carp lanterns, star anise lanterns, cartoon lanterns, etc. There is a blessing sign at the bottom of each lantern, and the words on the blessing sign are written vertically. The content of the lantern blessing sign in Xinyong Street Lantern Building: The top (when facing the right) is "Muen's disciple XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX , the next head is the blessing of the return of the family, the joy of the family, and the Lantern Festival of a certain year of XX.

Bu Tian Chuan and Jian Bizhu Hexian Pumenmen used the 20th day of the first lunar month as "Bu Tian Chuan". On this day, each household made glutinous rice cakes to repair the holes worn in the sky so as not to suffer from floods; they also hung them with bamboo branches. The rice cake is inserted into your own fields to make the birds fill their food, in order to avoid the damage to the crops in the future. The Han people in Shuikou also made a basin-sized glutinous rice cake on this day to "replenish the sky". Legend has it that only in this way can the spring rain not be rotten.

The Yao people of Babe Street, Huangdong, and Bobe use the first day of the lunar calendar as the day of sticky birds. On this day , each household made a ravioli and woven it into four birds with bamboo crickets , which were inserted on both sides of the gate and on both sides of the shrine. The intention is to make it unable to peck the grain.

Fichuan crosses Shanyao to call the "Bird Cub Festival" on the first day of February of the lunar calendar, also known as the "Birds Festival", "Cove the Birds" and "Recruiting Bird Festival". On this morning, all households made a lotus, sticking a group of ravioli on the tip of the long bamboo pole and inserted on the gate. It means that the sparrow's mouth is stuck to prevent him from entering the building to eat valley species. This day does not do farm work, and it is strictly forbidden to walk through the Yao people from the cultivated land . If someone walks in the arable land on this day, the land will be fired, and the crops of one year will not grow well. On this day, every household made dumplings and ravioli, and burned incense to pray.

Fushange Festival Fushan is a small island in the river in Hejiang, Hejie Town, Babu District . For a long time, local people have never seen this island flooded by the river, nor have they seen the water level fluctuations, as if the water rises and the mountains are high. It is amazing, so it is called Fushan. There are two important festivals in Fushan in the year, namely King Chen (King Chen was originally a loser Chen scholar, and because of his kindness and pleasure, he transformed from a mortal and became a god) birthday (the 26th day of the fourth lunar month) and the birthday of death ( The "cannon period" and "singing period" of the fifth lunar month). The main function of the cannon period is to sacrifice, follow the basic procedures of large-scale sacrificial rituals, including the necessary content for sacrificial activities. Of course, it also arranges considerable entertainment programs, such as grabbing fireworks, singing big shows, etc., and connoting the meaning of competition. The main function of the song period (song festival) is competition songs, including men and women singing and village team competition songs, as well as entertainment events. The Fushan Song Festival has become an important festival for the nearby people. During this period, there were thousands of people of all ethnic groups coming to celebrate the festival, and even people from other provinces such as Guangdong and Hunan. On the day of the Song Festival, on the Diaoyutai in Fushan, in the Huanbi Pavilion, in front of the Chenwang Temple, and in the Song Festival, the singers showed off their talents, and the scenes of fighting wits and songs were enthusiastic, and the melodious singing sounds came one after another. Most singers use villages as units, playing the pioneers with the best singers, singing as they write and sing as they are on the same page, while experienced old singers are in the background. The folk songs have diverse forms and rich content, including the local folk song "Li Luohe", the Hakka folk song "Ding Dong Ding", the Daning folk song "Lianshan Tune", and the Yao folk song "Lafa Tune".

The Zhongyuan Festival is the Zhongyuan Festival , commonly known as the "Ghost Festival". It usually starts from the 13th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar, and villages celebrate the festival one after another until the 16th day of the seventh month, but it usually celebrates the festival on the 14th day of the seventh month. The most grand event for locals every year is the Spring Festival and the Millennium of July. There are villages in Daning Town, Babu District that start celebrating the festival from July 13th, but most villages choose July 14th, while Hakkas in Guiling Town, Babu District generally choose July 15th. On this day, the locals in Guiling mainly use duck, with pork and fish as meat dishes, plus tofu, green vegetables as vegetarian dishes to entertain relatives and friends. The people of the Pumen call the Zhongyuan Festival the "Yulan Festival". On this day, we will worship our ancestors and "drink blessings" like the spring festival. That night, people were going to set off water lamps on the He River.

In addition to lit water lanterns on the night of the Zhongyuan Festival, the Han people in Hejie also lit a row of incense outside the door, resulting in two long incense dragons forming on both sides of the street.

The residents of Zhaoping Huang Yaoyao Town take each year's lunar calendar on July 14th as the "Central Yuan Festival". Its special traditional custom is to put grapefruit lamps. According to legend, whenever the rainy season is often unexpected, and people and animals die from drowning. People think that it is a ghost and god monster, so it is sacrificed by grapefruit to form a grapefruit lamp festival. In order to sacrifice the river gods, the residents of Guzhen will hold grapefruit lamps. Generally, starting at 8 pm , starting from the Orb, until below Xingning Temple, it will be drifted. At the time of the release, a leaf -flat boat is definitely a leading leader to lead the lion. Then use the "Lantern" boat made of five -color paper (the growth square base is made from four grapefruit, and it is made into a tent on it. After that, dozens of grapefruit are linked, more than 20 meters long , all of the fragrant candles or plug in the triangle flag. Finally, the tail of the lamp is connected (it is made by three grapefruit as a finished structure, and each grapefruit is also a fragrant candle or a triangle flag). In front, there is a leading navigation of the gongs and drum dance, and the long water lamps of dozens of meters float on the water surface. A star lights flashed on the river against the sun in the clear sky. Essence Borrowing the two couplets of the ancient town can express the simplicity of this folk customs and the peace of mind: "The Sangzi people belong to the music soil, and are dressed as Yujing in the memory of the remains."

Fuchuan Hipu Yao generally takes his ancestors to home on July 12th of the lunar calendar , and send his ancestors to heaven on the evening of the 14th. During the festival, every family prepare dumplings, fried fish, pork, duck meat, etc. Before entering the meal, sacrifice ancestors in front of the hall of the hall. On the evening of the 14th, in addition to worshiping their ancestors in their own halls, some also took the incense paper to the village entrance and the roadside to order incense, commonly known as "incense dragon", which means that they are rewarded to those lonely ghosts who do not have future generations Essence

Among the many festivals , the Tuyao people in the Baobu District attach great importance to the July 14th of the lunar calendar (July) and the Qingming Festival. In July, in order to have a good festival, one or two days before the holiday, every household must prepare pork, chicken, duck, fish, tofu, rice ravioli, wine and other foods, and buy some paper money, candles, and incense for later use. On the day of the festival, Tuyao people would not work in the ground. Get up in the morning, clean the rooms, courtyards and surroundings, and organize types. After lunch, began to burn water, kill ducks, kill chickens, remove hair and wash off the internal organs, and cook them in a pot with pork. After removing from the pot, put it in the plate and install it with a bamboo basket to facilitate lifting. After completing the above series of preparations, start sacrifice work.

On July 14th, the Zhuang Zhuang people of Nanxiang cut into pieces with white paper , wrote the name of the ancestors, arranged in the hall, completed the provenance in turn, and then burned. On the night of July 15th, when people were quiet, they lit incense candles in the suburbs, burned paper money and paper clothes, worshiped wine and meat, sacrificed the past gods and rewarded lonely wild ghosts to accumulate yin. In addition, Zhongyuan Festival is also the second time to marry a woman in the year to return to the province (the first time during the Spring Festival). On this day, she married her daughter and her husband and her children back to her mother's house to visit her parents and relatives.

Panwang Festival, also known as "Returning Panwang Wish", is the most solemn festival for the Yao people to commemorate their ancestors. The time for Yao people to return Pan Wang's wishes is different in different places. Some are February 28, some are May 18, and some are July 7, etc. Now the 16th day of the 10th lunar month of the lunar calendar is the unified time of the "Panwang Festival". Panwang Festival worships Panwang’s ancestor Panjun to repay his kindness and seek to realize his good wishes. With the development of society and the change of people's concepts, the nature of "Panwang Festival" has gradually transformed from a single focus on faith to a trinity of entertainment, entertainment and celebrating a prosperous harvest. On the Panwang Festival, it usually relies on small wishes once every three years, once every six years, and once every big wishes once every twelve or twenty-four years. "Repaying the Vow" is for three days and three nights, and the whole village has a dinner together, which is very lively. The ritual of fulfilling the vows is mainly divided into two parts: the first part is to recruit grain, sacrifice to the five flags of soldiers, lead the grain to the warehouse, and pray for the good harvest in the coming year; the second part is to invite the ancestors of the Yao people to celebrate the festival together, Yao people. It is called "encircled hall". During the "Entering Hall", the long drum artist performed 36 sets of long drums ; the singer took the virgin and the singer and the boy to sing each other, singing 24 or 36 sections of Panwang's song to celebrate Panwang and prayed to Panwang to bless the village and village. All households will be safe, and the next year will bring good harvests and the six animals will prosper.

Some Yao people also carry the statue of Panwang God on a trip during the Panwang Festival . Some of them are used to magnifying fireworks, blowing reed selves, and dancing long drums. The wish to return small will focus on villages and villages, and the wish to return big will be held. Before the festival, every household and village must clean up, and then slaughter pigs, chickens, and make glutinous rice cakes as festival offerings. When fulfilling the great wish, the village natural leaders organized the "Panwang" travel team. The travel team is mainly composed of Yao elders, Taoist masters, suona team, long drum team, Lusheng team, sedan team, and flag-holding team. They carried statues of the gods such as Pan Wang and traveled to various villages and villages. Whenever you arrive in a village, there are three sacrifices for the altar. The elders and gentry with a certain level of cultural level and respectable virtue in the village call for sacrifice, read the sacrifice, and then dance the long drum of the reed selves to express devout sacrifice. During the period of fulfilling the wish, the opera troupe should be invited to perform, and both men, women, young and old should wear new clothes to participate in festival activities. The festival time ranges from three to five days, which is a good time for young men and women to sing and fall in love.

Fuchuan Heping Yao also known as "Tap Chao", which is carried out in a collective form. The two teachers and three leaders have mastered and presided over the sacrifice. If it is "Xiao Ta Chao", the people wearing white robes, blue robes, waist tie -tie leucorrhea, and head circumference flower cloth towels dance "Pan Wang Ge". One of them was dressed as the Virgin, and the other eleven people were dressed as aunt, leading the Virgin. If it is a "big stepping dynasty", this pedestrian must increase to twenty -four. In addition, Fuchuan's Shanyao was also dressed as a Phoenix and Phoenix girl with three men and three women. There are generally sixteen idols in the Panwang Temple in Fuchuan. The central government is the Pan King. On the right is the temple king, martial arts maiden, two Taoist teachers, captains, judges, land, on the left is the King of White Horse, Liu Xianniang, Bai Long King, Liu Xianniang, two Liu Xianniang's daughter, Liu Sanji, and Yun Fei. When you also want to sing the songs about the deeds of the gods in your life.

In 1990 , it was sponsored by the Guangxi Yao Society, and Hexian County (now Bobu District, Hezhou City) hosted the joint meeting of the Yao representatives in the Nanling area. This is the origin of the "Nanling Yao National Pan King Festival", including Jianghua and Jiangyong in Hunan, Fuchuan, Gongcheng, He County, Zhongshan in Guangxi, Lianshan, Liannan, Lianzhou, and Ruyuan in Guangdong . county. In November 1992 , He County held the first year of the Nanling Yao Pangwang Festival in Ten County, three provinces and districts of Hunan, Guangdong and Guizhou. In November 2004 , the 7th Nanling Yao Nationality Panwang Festival was held in the Fuchuan Yao Autonomous County, and the "Nanling Yao National Panwang Festival" was renamed the "China Nanling Yao Pan Wang Festival". The Panwang Festival has evolved from folk festivals to official festivals and is expanding its influence with the promotion of Yao culture.