What are the traditional festivals of the aquarium?
The aquarium is one of the ethnic minorities in our country, mainly distributed in Sandu Aquarium Autonomous County, Guizhou Province. The current aquarium population is about 340,000 people. Speaking water language, it belongs to the Dong Shui language branch of the Zhuang Dong language group of the Han-Tibetan language family. It has a origin with the ancient "Luoyue".
National festivals of the aquarium
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Forehead Festival, which means Eating Forehead, is the annual festival of aquarists in Yongkang and Lajiao areas of Libo County. Except that there are no horse racing activities, the time period and connotation of the festival are similar to the end festival.
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The Maofen Festival is called "borrowing mao" in water language, which means eating mao. It is celebrated in four batches between September and October of the water calendar (corresponding to May and June of the lunar calendar) after the summer harvest and summer planting. It is one of the major festivals to wish a bumper rice harvest and population proliferation. The first three batches are distributed in water conservancy, Dongtuo, Shuipu and other places in Libo County. The grandest fourth batch of Maofen is the end of Jiuqian Town, Sandu County, Yongkang, Libo County and other places. The festival is considered to be "the most prosperous season for green life" in the "Water Book". The Maofen Festival is a festival with the earth branch and Maofen day as the festival, and the Xinmao day as the auspicious day, and the Ding Hai day as the most fierce day. I am worried that the drought will seriously affect the harvest. Ancestor worship, rice seedling sacrifice, rain prayer, antiphonal songs as the main content, is to pray for rice production and population proliferation of the traditional festival.
Sunny Festival
Shuixi Festival, transliterated in water language, means the Ugly Day of April in the water calendar. The month of April in the water calendar corresponds to the twelfth lunar month. It originated from the ancient festival of sacrificing to the birth mother and the empress. It is known as the Women's and Children's Day of the Aquarium. It is the New Year's Day in Bankong, Heyong Village, Jiyong and Huozhai, adjacent Dushan County, Sandu County, Guizhou Province. During the festival, people visit and celebrate each other, but the children have a lot of fun. They carry special small cups and team up from house to house to ask for an auspicious New Year's meal. Received warmly by the people, they distribute colorful waxy rice, meat cubes, dried tofu and red eggs to everyone.
Bronze Drum Festival
The Bronze Drum Festival is a festival celebrated by aquarists living in Jichang, Yanghe Township in Duyun City on the first day after the Qingming Festival in Yakou Village, Chenmengpo. According to legend, when the ancestors moved here, tribal struggles were frequent, and tigers and leopards flocked together, and through efforts to relieve the disaster. The village gatherings agreed that from now on, on the day after the Qingming Festival, Chen Mengpo will gather to celebrate the victory. In addition, there is the bathing festival in the hot spring on the 6th day of the lunar month in the Yangchang area of Dushan County, and the quaint "Xia Festival" that honors the rain god in Sandu, Libo and other places. The festivals of the water people in Gugang Township, Fuyuan County, Yunnan also include the second festival of offering sacrifices to white dragons (Zhonghe Festival, or offering sacrifices to small white dragons) in February, the dragon festival in March (the festival of the earth branch and the sun is celebrated, which is the legacy of the ancient Shangsi Festival), the land in June, and the mountain god in June. Pray for good weather, abundant years, and peace in the village.
Aquarium religious practices
The belief culture of the aquarium belongs to the category of primitive religious beliefs. The aquarium believes that all things are animistic and worship multiple gods. Nature worship, ancestral spirit worship, and god worship constitute the core of the aquarium's belief. In the aquarium society, whether it is the worship object of primitive religious beliefs, the form of worship, belief rituals, or the content, form and inheritance of primitive morality, it clearly reflects the characteristics of the hybrid and inextricable connection between belief culture and folk knowledge.
Aquarium wedding
Aquarium marriage follows traditional customs and adheres to the principle of not marrying by blood of the same clan and opening a marriage between clans of different clans and surnames. "The order of parents, the words of the matchmaker" are still the mainstream of marriage between young men and women in the aquarium area. Pay attention to the right family, and pay attention to the official marriage of the clear media. Even in contemporary times, love is not very free, and it is relatively common for marriage to be completely autonomous. The aquarium practiced monogamy very early, and there were very few concubines in the feudal era. The scope of marriage agreed upon by the aquarium in ancient times was very serious, resulting in various legends such as "Upside Down Fir", "Upside Down Maple" and "Breaking Surname Open Dear". At the same time, it is closely related to the local customary law, so there is the proverb "Nan Xiaoyu, you can't eat it", that is, the mourning meat under the eaves of the same blood family can't be eaten, and special attention is paid to the cohesion effect within the marriage group, even if the distance is long. In violation of the above principles, the most severe punishment for customary law is burial, and no cases of desperate risk have been found. Fish is a totem worship object of the aquarium. In marriage customs, fish often appear as a token and sacred object. When a marriage is concluded, when the matchmaker is invited to propose marriage in Libo, Jiuqian and other places, the man's mother quietly puts a few small dried fish wrapped at the bottom of the bamboo basket containing gifts. When the woman's mother receives the gift, she also first checks whether there are small dried fish at the bottom of the basket. If you agree to the marriage, you will accept gifts and dried fish. Fish are even more indispensable on the ancestral altar before the bride leaves the cabinet, and the bride also has to eat a chopstick of fish to obtain the blessing of the ancestors. When greeting the marriage, the woman must see the man's fish cage and the vines symbolizing the big fish and other tokens before she can send her marriage. When greeting the marriage, you should use a fish pitcher to bless, that is, use a new small jar to fill the well water and two small fish, and place it at the gate and the door of the new house. Blessing the newlyweds like a duck to water, love the whiteheads, and obtain the vigorous reproductive ability of fish. For the prosperity of the family and the strength of the nation, the custom of fish as a token and sacred object of marriage has been passed down from generation to generation in the aquarium society.
After the woman agrees to marry, she usually has to eat recognition wine and engagement wine. The man presents the woman's family with a fat pig, silver jewelry, gifts, clothing and brown sugar, etc., to make the marriage news public. Eat big wine to greet the marriage, and all the betrothal gifts are given, which is even more spectacular. When the bride is welcomed into the house, the groom's family all retreated outside the house and opened the door to welcome him. Outside the door are firewood blocks, or bamboo baskets and knives for cooking. When the fully dressed bride arrives at the gate, she grabs the firewood blocks or baskets outside the door and pushes the door into the house, symbolizing the family owner who has returned from work and created a happy new life through work. When the bride is about to step into the door, the groom's mother often sprays a mouthful of water on the bride, or wipes it with a bunch of brassgrass, or sprinkles a handful of evergreen leaves to drive away green-eyed ghosts that may be tainted with evil on the way, and they will be happy and auspicious from then on. In the traditional aquarium wedding, the newlyweds do not have the customs of worshiping and making a new house. The bridesmaids will accompany them that night and return to their mother's house the next day. In a few days, the groom will invite the bride and start the wedding life. In the past, the uncle had great power and had the right to marry the aunt's daughter as his daughter-in-law, commonly known as returning the mother's head. Now, the custom of returning the mother's head has gradually disappeared. Even if the niece gets married, as a communication etiquette, only general gifts are In traditional weddings, the groom generally does not welcome his relatives, but invites several unmarried men and women to serve as the "Fei, Zhu" of his aunt and uncle. Brides in most areas walk with umbrellas, but there is a custom of "avoiding footprints", that is, when they encounter a dead person or another bride passing through the road, they should carry the bride to avoid disasters. The aquarium in the Dotou area of Duyun City still retains the ancient custom of brothers carrying the bride to the groom's house throughout the journey.
