What folk activities are there in Hainan Junpo Festival?

For office workers, the Spring Festival holiday is coming to an end! But as the saying goes, fifteen is not finished. In Hainan, if there is a Chinese New Year in 2008, you will see that there is no public holiday, and it will be considered as the end of the year after the public holiday! Today, I will introduce this custom in Hainan to you.

What's the difference between Junpo and Gong period?

The army here refers to people taking Gong Zu to a village to celebrate a certain Gong Zu's birthday, or Gong Zu going out to patrol the village to pray. This festival also involves the word "military slope field", which can also be understood as the meaning of the village's public sacrifice day.

Usually, when Gong Zu from each village comes to celebrate a certain Gong Zu's birthday, the organizer will beat gongs and drums in the military slope field to warmly welcome the Gong Zu teams from each village. The so-called Naokonpo is a public holiday in a village. There is a visiting Junpo team. Some of them came from a village in Gong Zu, this _, to celebrate Gong Zu's birthday, or another village in Gong Zu to celebrate Gong Zu's birthday.

The typical activity of this festival is that on the day of the festival, local people will visit relatives and friends, carry Gong Zu around the village and watch Qiong Opera. This folk activity is also called making trouble with the army.

What is the public period?

Hainanese call Gong Zu's grandmother a public official, so Hainanese hold a peace ceremony for Gong Zu's grandmother, which means to be a public ceremony, not a woman's ceremony. This ceremony refers to Gong Zu's grandmother's birthday, so people call it a public ceremony. Of course, some places are called Shiva Period, because they celebrate their grandmother's birthday, so they are called Shiva Period, but generally speaking, their grandmother's name is Gong, and their grandmother's birthday is called Gong Period.

This festival belongs to Hainan's local cultural customs! Festivals are usually held from February to March in the lunar calendar, but some villages in Wenchang, Haikou hold public holidays every 4 years, 6 years and 10 years, and several villages hold them in turn.

Tracing back, this traditional festival has a history of 1400 years! This public festival is also called "Junpo Festival". During the festival, the whole village carried statues of their ancestors from house to house to pray for peace. The villagers held a sacrificial ceremony to worship their ancestors and invited relatives and friends to have dinner at home.

Eating "public holidays" is the top priority for Hainan people in a year. In Hainan, especially in Qiongbei and Qiongdong areas, public sacrifice is a very important folk festival, which is completely different from the major temple fairs in Beijing. For foreigners, the official period (Junpo is your Hainan friend's birthday in the village, please come to their house for free to eat and drink, watch various folk performances and watch Qiong Opera for free.

The best way to play this festival is naturally that you have a friend from Hainan who can take you to play with!

Content of traditional custom activities

Hainan public holiday lively scene

Hainan premiere "Wearing a Stick"

Hainan premiere "Flying over Volcano"

Hainan Qigong Qiongju Performance

If you want to experience Hainan customs, it is the best way to participate in local folk festivals!