【New Year's Festival Competition】+Chaoshan Yingge Dance[Copy link]
The video is still being transcoded on Youku. It may take some time to upload~~ However, nowadays, it is easy to find videos of Chaoshan Yingge Dance by searching online. ——In fact, for many years, I could only call it in my hometown dialect, but I didn’t know the specific words. Here is a brief explanation. The so-called Yingge Dance is actually a parade to welcome the gods, similar to those in other places. However, the special thing is that the most distinctive part of it is that there are dozens of people, two people in a row, holding two short sticks, dancing. Of course, it is not the kind we usually know. I have never seen this kind of dance anywhere. It is a bit similar to the previous dance with guns and sticks, but this time it is not fixed in one place, but dances as the whole team walks, which is quite entertaining. As for why it is called Yingge Dance, I actually didn’t know until I was older that these people usually dress up like Chaozhou opera characters, with their faces covered in costumes, and they are playing none other than the 108 heroes of Liangshan. ——Of course, I didn’t count specifically whether there were really 108 people, but in the entire parade, this part is divided into three sections, with adults at the beginning and end, and a section in the middle for the young people who joined this year. The ages of those kids ranged from about 12 or 13 to 6 or 7 years old. Now I feel that there may really be 108 people in total. This is very interesting. Because the Liangshan heroes are green forest heroes, but in the end, they are considered rebels. I think that only the Chaoshan area has this as the theme of the most important annual welcoming event. In fact, before the Yingge Dance section, there are indeed words like: Liangshan heroes, pacify the people and protect the territory. I have always been very interested. In addition to the name Yingge Dance, there is actually another local name, called welcoming the master. The so-called master is the god. Another special feature of Chaoshan is that temples often worship gods such as Buddha and Taoism as well as city gods. Some people say that Chaoshan people are superstitious and worship all kinds of gods. Of course, it can also be said that this is a symbol of tolerance. From my observation, the biggest god among the masters is Xuantian Shangdi, that is, Zhenwu Dadi, the North Star Lord. In my limited historical knowledge, the main understanding of this god is that it is Taoism, specifically Quanzhen Sect, especially the Ming Dynasty Zhu Yuanzhang specially conferred it. Interestingly, after Zhu Di seized the throne, he also specially conferred this god in Wudang Mountain, Hubei. However, in the main temples where we worship gods, the main seat is the parents of heaven and earth. There is also a god that is not found in other places in the local area, called the King of Three Mountains. I once looked up this thing on Baidu. I found that its original source may come from the ancient Ryukyu Kingdom. Therefore, I have always felt that some of our ancestors may come from the Ryukyu Islands. Moreover, as the belief of Chaoshan people, they accompany Chaoshan people across the ocean, so they may be seen in any corner of the world. The above is a bit far-in fact, for me, the significance of these things is like the significance of myths and legends to history and archaeology. I use them to guess and trace some of our own origins and some legends, that's all, just as a hobby. Finally, let's talk about Yingge Dance. Yingge Dance starts on the sixth day of the first lunar month every year and lasts for three days. Basically, most of the towns and regions in the Chaoshan area will organize their own Yingge Dance and walk through the main streets of that area within three days according to a fixed route. I haven't been home for many years during the Spring Festival, or even if I go back, I often leave on the fourth or fifth day of the first lunar month. So, although I watched it almost every year when I was young, it has been 12 years since I last watched it live. Despite this, what Yingge Dance is actually is also a very familiar thing to me, not to mention those who have been living here. But for some reason, every day where Yingge Dance passes by, there will be a lot of people watching. Including myself, I saw it once near my fourth aunt's house on the sixth day of the Chinese New Year, and I ran down to see it again when it passed by my own house on the seventh day. I think this year, when I returned to my hometown and chatted with my aunts and uncles, I found that my mentality had changed a lot: One is that I no longer regard them as a group of people different from me, even though most of them have not read much, and do not have the living environment of fixed office work like us, and the life in the countryside is now surrounded by the Internet and modern civilization, but in fact, the living habits and people's thoughts in these places are actually very different from those in the city to a large extent. For example, in such places, there is basically no soil for the growth of petty bourgeoisie. But this time, my sense of alienation in this regard seems to have faded a lot, almost. It was the first time that I really had a heart-to-heart chat with them. Including the issue of urging me to get married, which annoyed me a lot. In fact, I was suddenly enlightened by my fourth aunt's words. This directly changed my previous swing between staying single and living a convenient and comfortable life and accepting the trivialities of life, getting married and having children. For the first time, I felt that I wanted to get married. This change reminded me of a saying: In fact, it is not them who have changed, but I myself who have changed. In fact, they have always been like this, but I used to be too proud and too ignorant, thinking that I was different from others.
okhxyyo posted on 2019-2-12 23:25 Do the Chaoshan parades have puppets like the Seven Lords and Eight Lords walking in a procession? They are the Black and White Impermanence or something like that
No. I don't know what the Seven Lords and Eight Lords are. As for the Black and White Impermanence, there are none. The ones here don't seem to be very related to the gods and immortals commonly seen in Journey to the West. They are more related to Taoism. When they hold funerals here, they don't invite monks, but Taoist priests.
Xin Xin published on 2019-2-13 01:20 No. I don't know what the Seventh Lord and the Eighth Lord are. As for the Black and White Impermanence, there is no such thing. The ones here don't seem to be very related to the gods and immortals commonly seen in Journey to the West. ...
The gods and immortals here look like those in the Investiture of the Gods.
God puppets are puppets made from ancient mythological figures, including "Shunfenger", "Qianliyan", "San Taizi Nezha" and other well-known mythological figures (also known as Shenjiang, Jiangye, Haidi, Prodigy, God, Daxian Turtle, Daxian Wengzi, etc.). Huge gods made according to the appearance of gods are one of the indispensable formations in the local parade and temple fairs in Fujian and Taiwan. They are usually accompanied by Beiguan or gongs and drums to parade or enter the temple. As long as there are local temples or temple fairs, they will appear. They are most prosperous in Yilan County, Luzhou District, New Taipei City, and Daxi District, Taoyuan City. Note: God puppets are the parade formations of the unique parade culture in Fujian and Taiwan. Each god puppet that has been blessed represents a god. The parade culture and god puppet culture originated in Fujian Province, but the parade and god puppet culture are most prosperous in Taiwan Province. Daxian Wengzi is a Minnan dialect, meaning god puppet. "Daxian Wengzi" is the incarnation of the gods. In the temple fairs and parades in central Fujian and Taiwan, the gods are represented by puppets, and "Wengzi" is a puppet. The gods are divided into tall and short. The tall ones are generally called Dashen Weng, for example: Generals, marshals, and military generals: Marshal Zhongtan, Erlang Shen, Jin Zha, Huang Feihu, Qianliyan, Shunfenger, General Jinji, General Yuquan... etc. High-ranking civil officials: Prince of Western Qin. Officials and soldiers of the underworld: Qiye, civil and military judges, Niutou, Mamian, Yinyangsi. The short ones, such as Baye, Zhong Kui... etc. are generally called shorty. The Third Prince, Tudigong, big and small ghosts... etc. are called Tongzi. Special for funerals: Golden Boy and Jade Girl, Crying Boy, etc.
okhxyyo posted on 2019-2-13 09:57 The god puppets are puppets made based on ancient mythological figures, including "Shunfenger", "Qianliyan", "Third Prince Nezha" and other well-known mythological figures...
The best time to get married in life is when you meet a woman who wants to marry you and you also want to marry her. This kind of marriage is the most perfect.
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