Customs in Andong County

The last day of December is called New Year's Eve, commonly known as the 30th (with or without the 30th). After the kitchen arrived, every household was busy, buying fish food, shoes and hats, making tofu, steaming steamed bread, steaming dragon cakes, frying meatballs, washing quilts and putting up New Year pictures ... until the day before New Year's Eve, they were very busy. It's good. People from other places have to come back to reunite with their families. On the morning of New Year's Eve, the dyehouse prepared a sacrificial ceremony, lit incense sticks and offered sacrifices to the altar owner. At noon, every family worships their ancestors with food and wine, burns paper and tin foil, and bows down and prays. The whole family get together for a reunion dinner. Then paste new couplets and hang the corridor (red engraved paper). Parents should also burn paper money on the graves of ancestors or relatives in the wild; Kowtow and pray, be filial and virtuous. In the evening, after lighting candles and flogging and kowtowing, all the offerings on the stove were removed and the posted running stove was torn off. II shovel stove, representing the kitchen god returning from the west, is still the god of the family. Tie a cash cow with pine branches and sesame stalks and set up a cornucopia. Stir-fried peanuts, melon seeds and sunflower seeds are eaten, and the whole family gathers together to tell stories until midnight. This is called shou sui, and parents give their children lucky money. Parents usually stay up all night, offering dates, longan, water cakes, tea, wine (full cup) and so on. Put it in front of the statue in class. At present, most of the activities to celebrate the New Year are to watch TV programs and greet the New Year with the people of the whole country and set off firecrackers to celebrate.

18 years old, there are also some competitions to meet the gods. In the old society, they were called social days and temple fairs. On the eighth day of the first month, it is said that this is a meeting to pray for a good year. The main activity is to pray for a good year. Some strong young people tied the old man who prayed for the New Year in the King's Temple to a wooden pole, held him high above his head and ran fast for four streets. They were called the old man who prayed for the New Year. There are no candles to celebrate this activity. On the fifteenth day of the first month, it is the day of Shangyuan, and it is the birthday day of the Tianguan God in Sanyuan Palace. It's called the Heavenly Palace Society. According to Taoism, Sanyuan is another name for Sangong, that is, Shangyuan blessed Wei Zi, the Emperor of the Heavenly Palace, Zhongyuan pardoned Qing Xu, and Xia Yuan relieved the Emperor of the Cave of the Water Palace. The fifteenth day of the first month, the fifteenth day of July and the fifteenth day of October are the birthdays of the three emperors. On the fourteenth night of the first month, monks and some good men and women in the temple began to decorate the incense hall with bright lights and tall candles. The next morning, pilgrims from far and near came one after another, some carrying incense tables, holding red umbrellas, leading horses, beating gongs and drums and sending them to Sanyuan Palace (there were more than a dozen Sanyuan Palace and Sanguan Hall in Qing Dynasty). The temple is full of cigarettes kowtowing, which is extremely religious. There are people selling incense, acrobatics and snacks outside the temple. There are also some beggars who beg through the crowd or kneel on the road, and their feelings are also tragic. March 28th, the legend is the birthday of Emperor Dongyue. Emperor Dongyue was Huang Hufei in the list of gods, and was sealed by Jiang Ziya after his death. During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, an Apocalypse Temple was built in Gaogou Town, and the main hall was dedicated to Emperor Dongyue. On March 28th every year, a grand Tianqi Temple Fair will be held in Gaogou area. The temple fair kicked off on the afternoon of March 26th. In the big stone tripod in front of the main hall of Tianqi Temple, sealed incense and sandalwood are burning day and night, and cigarettes curl up. Under the care of the young monk, the incense burner gave incense money. Some good men and women who believe in Buddhism are very busy, arranging activities, raising funds, arranging birthday banquets and entertaining local businessmen, landlords and gentry. This is not only a solemn moment of the temple fair, but also an opportunity to raise funds. On the morning of 28th, the temple fair officially started. First, Emperor Dongyue died. Dongyue Cable; The two nettles sitting on the idol are called walking and sitting on the altar. When going out, people invited the Dongyue altar to a sedan chair, and asked the altar bearer to carry the idol around the Fourth Street. In front of them are three classes and six rooms, holding the words of silence, avoidance and' re, respectively, to clear the way. Cucumber and axe: stools, knives, swords, knives and spears, full of arrogance; Suzaku Banner, Xuanwu Banner, Flying Tiger Banner and Huanglong Banner are flying all over the sky. An outpost horse, dressed in a red trousers, shirtless, with a steel needle in his nose and an iron whip in his hand, lunged forward.

The land god sat on a wooden pedestal, dressed in a red robe and black gauze, symbolizing the local officials and leading the way before Luanjia. Emperor Dongyue wore a yellow embroidered robe, a crown and a yellow hat! Luo sat on the wooden altar with an umbrella, accompanied by several classes of civil and military musicians. Strike hard and knock slowly, leisurely. Stroll the streets and cross the square. Behind the scaffold, there was a fake old man riding on a wooden pole, wearing an official hat and a leather jacket, which was carried by a servant. There is a boy carrying the burden of tea and food. The front is filled with a dung dustpan filled with horse dung, and the back is filled with a urine bucket filled with donkey urine, which can satisfy the hunger of the fake owner when he is resting. Another local security guard sometimes reports the local situation to the fake owner. After listening to this, the fake master did not ask questions indiscriminately, but ordered him to hit the 20 boards that reported the case to demonstrate. The local literature and art museum, Youqing and ancestral halls of Wang, Zheng and Xu, which were carefully prepared by local gentry in Gaogou, also performed wonderful programs in the back. The rest place of the parade is on the earthen platform in the southeast corner of Beiweimen in Gaogou Town, which is called Ghost Platform. Thousands of people watched the birthday activities, followed them and surged back and forth. The whole activity was postponed until sunset. Koguryo Tianqi Temple Fair has a great influence. The audience comes from Shandong in the north, Huaibei in the south, Yanfu in the east and Shushu in the west. I took the trouble to attend the meeting. At a temple fair in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, Liutanghe ferry capsized and dozens of people died. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, Tianqi Temple Fair was rarely held. The last time was in the 26th year of the Republic of China (1937). 1939, the Japanese army set fire to Gaogou town, and the whole street was shaking. The props of Tianqi Temple Fair were all burned out. Other temple fair activities include the birthday of Master Guan () on May 13. These activities are obviously superstitious and have long been forgotten. Since the reform and opening up, foreign economic activities have increased, and large-scale economic and cultural activities with local characteristics, such as1992 Apr. Liaogaogou Wine Culture Festival, are far superior to past temple fair activities in content, form and momentum. Of course, as the essence of folk art, it still has certain historical significance and reference value to eliminate the feudal dross of temple fair activities.