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Cannons are set off, sacrifice music is started, fighting drums are beating, fishing horns are presented, guards are in their place, and the Dragon King is welcomed... At 9:38 am on March 17, at the main venue of Zhougezhuang Village, the Tianheng Island provincial tourist resort Tianheng Island provincial tourist resort , the Tianheng sea sacrifice ceremony, which has been passed down for more than 500 years, is being performed, presenting the most grand scene of fishermen's sea sacrifice. According to statistics, 150,000 visitors were welcomed on the Sea Festival in Zhougezhuang Village on the 16th and 17th, of which as many as 100,000 visitors participated in the sea festival ceremony on the 17th. This year's Tianheng Sea Festival , the activities at the main venue of Zhougezhuang Village will last until March 18, and a branch venue will be set up in Shandong Tou Village from April 6 to 7.
The square sells various delicious and fun vendors, attracting the attention of many citizens, especially children.
17 at 7:40 am on the morning of 17th, the reporter rushed to Zhougezhuang Village, Hengdao provincial tourist resort in Jimo Tian. Although the weather was cold that day and there were two hours before the sea sacrifice ceremony, the sea sacrifice square was still very lively. "My family lives in Tian Heng, and it only takes about 10 minutes to take a bus. I come to see you every year and join in the fun." Li Haiyan from Bozi Village, Tian Heng Town, told reporters.
China·Tianheng Sea Festival is the largest folk sea sacrifice ceremony in the north. It originated from the "online" custom of fishermen in Zhougezhuang Village, a provincial tourist resort in Tianheng Island, and has been passed down for more than 500 years. In 2008, it was included in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list and won the "Best Public Participation Award" award at the first festival China Awards. It has become an important "business card" of Jimo's culture and tourism image.
Stars selling seafood at the event were rushed to buy.
This year's Sea Festival is still spontaneously organized by the villages in accordance with traditional sacrificial customs, highlighting the theme of the "Sacrifice for the sea and pray for blessings and travel to the fields" festival. For many years, local fishermen have lived by the sea for generations. It is the sea that nurtured them, and they are full of attachment and gratitude for the sea. Although fewer and fewer fishermen make a living by fishing now, more fishermen have not given up their hard-working pursuit of a happy life. They "wash their feet and go ashore" and have begun to engage in seawater breeding, sea treasure seedlings, and seafood processing... Sacrifice to the sea is a kind of faith, a kind of celebration, and a kind of hope for fishermen.
Festival main contents include sea sacrifice ceremony, singing and dancing and local opera exhibitions, Tianheng tourism products and specialties across the country, food exhibitions, etc. While watching the sea sacrifice ceremony and wonderful literary performances, the audience can also taste various special and delicious snacks, appreciate the original folk culture, and participate in the wonderful photography competition.
worship of the Dragon King
The sea sacrifice ceremony has developed to this day mostly carries the gratitude and pursuit of a happy and beautiful life by the people. Walking on the sea sacrifice square in Zhougezhuang Village, a lot of blessings come, the great archway of harmonious people and seas, the ever-changing and agile Baifu Stone, the East Sea Wall Painting of the Mazu Blessing Cultural Wall, and the magnificent sea sacrifice screen wall... embodies the blessing cultural demands of fishermen in the new era. "The new year's Sea Sacrifice Festival is held in the newly built prayer square, enjoying the five hundred years of traditional folk customs, accompanied by the beautiful scenery by the sea, and the salty and fresh sea breeze, taste Tianheng tea and taste Tianheng original seafood. This kind of tourism experience is more worth it..." Liu Dongsheng, secretary of the Zhougezhuang Village Branch, said excitedly, "The wall painting of the prayer culture, Qingaitang street lights, sea Sacrifice blessing square, and landscape sculptures in our village are all manifestations of the "Fu" culture. Now the Folk Museum is in preparation, and will more fully display the fishing culture of the old fishing village."
According to statistics, the Zhougezhuang Village Sea Sacrifice Festival welcomed 150,000 tourists on the 16th and 17th, of which as many as 100,000 people participated in the sea sacrifice ceremony on the 17th. In addition to being held at the main venue of Zhougezhuang Village from March 16 to 18, this year's Tianheng Sea Festival will also be set up in Shandongtou Village from April 6 to April 7. "The sea sacrifice ceremony is a tradition of coastal fishing villages. The elders of Shandong Tou Village have also held it. Now that the villagers are rich, they have more cultural needs. Holding the sea sacrifice festival is in line with the voice of the people, and at the same time, they also take the opportunity to show off the beautiful landscape of Shandong Tou Village." said Wang Yongbai, secretary of the village branch of Shandong Tou Village.
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As a ceremony, one kneeling for a month,
17 Before dawn was still early in the morning, the fishermen carried black-haired boars, -sculpted and other tributes from their homes to the Sacrifice Sea Square, arranged in rows, neatly. At 9:58, when the auspicious time comes, firecrackers are ringing, the fishermen begin to burn incense, and ignite the written "Taiping Wenshu" with piety and gratitude to the sea. "The guards are in place, the main priest and accompany the priest to the stage, supply the Dragon King, kneel..." At the sea sacrifice ceremony, accompanied by the host's instructions, nine actors wearing Tang Dynasty costumes on the stage took the stage one after another, and then one of them was the leader, and the other 8 were in pairs, facing the direction of the Dragon King, and performing the kneeling ceremony neatly. This set of movements looks quite simple, "We have started rehearsing after the Chinese New Year." Actor Tang Zhengwei told reporters that although the performance was not long and the movements were not many, the most important thing was, "it must be neat." Whether it was going on stage, standing still, raising your hands to salute, or lifting your skirt to kneel down, they must be neat and uniform, "I have practiced for nearly a month."
According to reports, Tianheng Island is a marine folk culture tourist destination with more than 2,000 years of history and culture. Fishermen living in Tianheng have been relying on fishing for generations. Due to limited production and operational capabilities, shipwrecks occur from time to time, and fishermen put their hopes for peace and harvest on their devout prayers to the sea god. At first, the sea sacrifice activities were simple and there was no fixed date. Most of them, after the preparations for ship repairs and fishing gear were completed, they chose the birthday of the Dragon King or Mazu of the Middle Sea, or chose a zodiac auspicious day to carry the fishing net onto the boat, and then began to sacrifice to the sea, commonly known as "surfing the Internet".
The tribute table set up on the scene is full of incense, attracting the attention of a large number of citizens.
Whenever this time, the fishermen put on new clothes, put their newly renovated ships in full bloom, and sent firecrackers and drums into the sea to moor. When sending the boat into the sea, in order to get the blessing of the Dragon King, there is also the custom of throwing food into the sea. On the day of the sea sacrifice, the fishermen also placed various sacrifices such as large fat pigs, hot cakes, red roosters, and large perch, burned Taiping documents, kowtowed and worshiped devoutly, and officially went out to sea the next day of the sea sacrifice. About 100 years ago, Tianheng's sea sacrifice activities began to form a collective ship delivery and sea sacrifice activities based on families or ship groups.
Colored noodles with small steamed buns beautify the sea festival
"The red-shell crab waving crabs, the octopus with fangs and claws dancing, the old birthday star with a childish face, and the curved and winding dragons playing with the pearls..." At the Tianheng Island Resort Wali Village Dazhou steamed bun shop, Tian Heng's wife skillfully pinched the colorful noodles in her hand, and placed the special dough in her hand on the 5-pound steamed bun blank, and at the same time pinched it into green leaves, seaweed, etc. for embellishment. "These dough patterns are specially prepared for Tian Heng's Sea Festival." said Wang Caiying, 73-year-old inheritor of Tian Heng's big steamed buns.
Tianheng big steamed buns are famous for their unique shapes with coastal fishing village characteristics. They are well-known for the holding of the Tianheng Sea Festival. Tian Heng has a big steamed bun, a single steamed bun is made of 3 to 5 kilograms, and it is made of kneading more than ten times. What stands out is that the auspicious dough sculpture on the steamed buns is lifelike and vivid. The clever daughters-in-law of the coastal fishing village used high-gluten flour and dough with paint to make colorful dough, and then kneaded them into various shapes such as fish, shrimp, crab, dragon, phoenix, birds and beasts. After the dough is molded, dipped egg white on the steamed buns, or inserted them with toothpicks.
Now, the clever young generation of Tian Heng has made some innovations. According to the preferences of young people and the characteristics of children, they use vegetable juice to make colorful noodles steamed buns in the shape of birds, piglets, watermelons, etc., which are beautiful and delicious. At the exhibition that day, the reporter saw a lot of such steamed buns. "I brought 200 bags this time, 6 each." Jiang Yuan, the owner of Qingdao Fuxi Noodle Arts Floor, told reporters that this kind of cute and varied steamed bun is very popular among young people, especially children, and is very easy to sell. "I sold more than 90 bags in two hours."He said that young people nowadays like things that have a sense of experience, so he opened a noodle art shop and asked the masters who make Tian Heng big steamed buns as a guide to develop more cartoon style steamed buns with a sense of the times. In terms of raw materials, matcha, black rice, pumpkin, etc. have been added, which has attracted the attention of many children and young people. "Many people come to me to experience making steamed buns, which can be regarded as injecting new vitality into traditional big steamed buns. "
■Close-up
The sea sacrifice ceremony that travels through 500 years
The first thing to sacrifice the sea is steamed dough sculpture. Four or five days in advance, the daughters-in-law of the fishermen were busy traveling to the east and west to discuss new dough sculpture styles. The dough sculptures vary in size and shapes, and the shapes of "Dragons and phoenixes present auspiciousness, the Eight Immortals cross the sea, the flowers bloom, the underwater world" and other shapes are lifelike. Panlong dough sculptures, commonly known as the gods and ascending insects (meaning the gods and ascending insects). ), it has a head, eyes, body and tail, with vivid selection, colorful painting, and full of energy. Nowadays, the wives are busy working to make money, and the special steamed bun shop has assumed the heavy responsibility of steaming noodles.
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decoration of the Dragon King Temple. A few days before the sea sacrifice, the captains elected special personnel to clean and neatly decorated the surroundings of the Dragon King Temple, hang big red lanterns, and each household should paste red couplets on the screen wall. The beach in front of the Dragon King Temple should be tied up by an old artist to cypress doors, hang colorful lanterns, and hang plaques on the pine doors, and on both sides are two dragons playing with pearls and fish jumping on the dragon gates. The vertical pavilion with patterns is equipped with red couplets, which looks spectacular and grand; a temporary stage must be set up by the beach.
ships. The day before the sacrifice, the fishermen must organize the fishing boats in an orderly manner, and then paste the red couplets: "There are many blessings, many wealth, and many gloriousness, a good year and good harvest", "The weather is good, and the rain is good, and the load is full of", "The fish is full of cabins, and the wind and waves are calm." The main mast on the ship is pasted with "The general is majestic on all sides", the second mast is "The second general is majestic, the rear mast "The three generals are sending each other with the wind", the bow is pasted with "The bow of the boat has no waves," and the stern "The wind is traveling thousands of miles behind the boat". The fishing boats must be moored to the bay in front of the village, with the character "one" arranged, the stern facing the shore, the bow facing the sea, and the anchor positioning.
is presented. On the day of the sacrificial ceremony, fishermen began to offer sacrifices on the beach in front of the Dragon King Temple before sunrise. The tabletop is covered with auspicious red cloth, with three animals, dough sculptures, sea bass, wine, peanuts, etc. A bunch of "stand tassels" (a symbol of the sea-middle net) tied with bamboo poles should be set up in front of each group of altars. Arrange the yellow paper and incense burners that were ready to be burned, and several thousand-thousand-sounding firecrackers were wrapped around the bamboo poles, lined up the word "one" to wait for a good time.
Commemoration. The time for sacrifice to the sea was in the past, the earlier the better, and there is a saying that you can get rich first. As the hour comes, firecrackers are ringing, gongs and drums are shaking the sky, and people are clamoring for the crowd. People start to burn incense, paper, and kowtow to worship. Fishermen also believe that the firecrackers are loud and lasting for a long time, and whose boat will prosper and become rich this year.
sings opera. Locals believe that Peking opera is solemn and grand, and every year they have to invite opera troupes from all over the world and sing several shows. Folk performances such as yangge, dragon lanterns, dry boats, waist drums, etc. were lively, and the fishermen's fatigue for a year seemed to be lost.
dinner party. After the sea sacrifice ceremony, fishermen used to have dinner on the boat and pedestrians were welcomed to eat fish, meat and drink wine on the boat. The more people came, the more people came to bless them. Now we hold a banquet at home to entertain relatives and friends who come to participate in the sea sacrifice ceremony. The three animals, wine and bread used during the sacrifice have become the main food for the dinner.
■Behind the scenes
text/photo/video panoramic display of Tian Heng Sacrifice Sea
Tian Heng Sacrifice Sea Festival. In order to let more people feel this fishermen's carnival feast that has been passed down for 500 years, the Peninsula's all-media newspaper, network, terminal, and micro have made all-round efforts, using handheld cameras, drones and other modern new media equipment, multiple cameras, ground and space integration, while showing the grand scene, the wonderful details of the Sea Festival beating drums, fishing quotations, welcoming the Dragon King, offering sacrifices, and setting off firecrackers were carefully photographed. At the same time, the high-altitude aerial footage of the camera and the drone were synchronized back to the background, and released instantly through the Peninsula client, making this live broadcast more intuitive and three-dimensional. The audience who are not present can also see the grand occasion of the sea sacrifice.
It is reported that in the live broadcast of text, pictures and videos of the Tianheng Sea Festival last year, the total number of video visits exceeded 3.5 million in just three days. The users who watched the live broadcast came from all over the world, covering not only domestic provinces such as Shandong, Beijing, and Heilongjiang, but also foreign fans in France, Australia, Canada and other countries. This year's grand ceremony of the sea festival has also attracted widespread attention and strong response on all-media platforms such as Peninsula client, Peninsula official WeChat, and Weibo.
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