The custom content of the Hongdong family custom, the historical origin of the Hongdong family custo

As an ancient Han folk culture, the Hongdong family customs activity area spans five townships and towns of Ganting, Wu Village, Xinchuan Shannai Village, Longma and Wan'an in Hongdong County and Yaodu District, Linfen City, Shanxi Province, involving more than 20 villages, crossing the east and west banks of the Fen River, with a wide range of influence.

Regarding the "picking up the aunt and welcoming the mother" to visit the family, there is such a local legend that Wei Pai said: Yang Qi Village was originally called Zhoufu Village, and later a female sheep gave birth to a one-horned sheep, its name is "Hedgehog", it is a divine beast, with the ability to distinguish between good and evil, as the "History of the Road" said: "Sex knows the straight, knows the guilty, and can not touch the straight."

This matter was known to Gao Tao, the sage of the Judges Village and the judge of Yao, and reported it to Emperor Yao. King Yao of Pingyang, the capital of Dingdu, came to inspect his pregnant wife in person, but his wife gave birth to Nuying in the place where she was born. Yao saw that there were divine beasts and holy babies in this place, so he moved his family to live and changed the name of the village to Yang Qi.

Although there are more than 20 place names called Lishan in China, the locals firmly believe that Shun is cultivating on this Lishan, and was favored by King Yao, who visited Xian, and married Empress E and Nuying to Shun. So, the sheep and the mountain are the two goddesses of the maiden family and the mother-in-law, because of the generational disturbance of the spring relationship, the sheep and the people of the sheep are called "aunt", and the people of Lishan and other places call them "Niangniang". Every year on the third day of March of the lunar calendar, when it is close to Qingming, it is the day of sweeping the tomb and worshiping the ancestors, the sheep and the people of the sheep and the people pick them up from the mountain to go back to their parents' homes, until the 28th day of the fourth month of the lunar calendar (the birthday of King Yao), the people of Lishan come to pay homage to King Yao, and take the two mothers back, and then they are about to enter the busy season.

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The custom of visiting relatives in Hongdong is a kind of traditional folk culture of the Han nationality that spreads in the five townships of Ganting, Wucun, Xincun, Longma and Wan'an in the two counties (districts) of Hongdong County and Yaodu District of Linfen City in Shanxi Province, involving more than 20 villages, crossing the east and west banks of the Fen River, and has a wide range of influence. The local Han folk call it "March 3rd Kiss", "Pick up the Auntie and Welcome the Niangniang", which is related to the legend of the marriage relationship between the daughter of Di Yao "Nuying" and Shun. It is listed as the first batch of intangible cultural heritage in Shanxi Province and the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.

First of all, the ritual and legend of the family visit are an important way for the Han working people to remember together, and they are the oral records of the evolution of regional history. Legends are born with an interpretive function, and when people tend to blur and forget history, history gradually evolves into memories and enters people's minds, and gradually forms a rich Han folklore when it is passed down from generation to generation. The explanation of the legend of Yao Shun and the origin of the village name obviously has the nature of this common memory, and it is also a warning to future generations not to forget history.

Secondly, the customs and legends of visiting relatives maintain the social order of a region. During the event, people everywhere they went were enthusiastic and pious, conveying a kind of social ethics, morality, and even various taboos. Eating "waist rice" and living in the village after dark has realized the process and purpose of recognizing relatives, highlighting their importance to family affection, which has played an important role in strengthening regional ties, especially in this society where the sense of space is getting stronger and stronger, and interpersonal relationships are becoming more and more tense in society, such a family ceremony will undoubtedly bring people a lot of inspiration, about between people and between living spaces.

In short, the March 3rd Kissing Ceremony has become an important belief and entertainment activity for people in southern Jinnan in addition to farming, which affects people's life attitudes, values and kinship concepts. It is a kind of kindness, a way to express beliefs and wishes, a way to vent emotions, to find spiritual sustenance in personal dedication and experience, to achieve the harmony of neighborly relations, and to maintain their friendship with outsiders.

According to research, the earliest surviving records can only see that there was a Shun temple on Lishan during the Northern Song Dynasty (see "Shanxi Tongzhi Ancestral Temple"), therefore, the custom of "picking up the aunt and welcoming the mother" should have originated before and after the Song Dynasty, but in the local area, whether it is ordinary villagers, local intellectual elites or even ****, they all firmly believe that this is the real history, and believe that the entire "picking up the aunt and welcoming the mother" family activities have also been handed down from the Yao Shun era, with a history of four or five thousand years. They were extremely proud of this and defended their faith with practical actions, and even during the period when the Cultural Revolution strictly banned such activities, they still risked danger and dressed up to secretly pick up and drop off their aunts, and many of them were detained and imprisoned.

National Intangible Cultural Heritage Information Project Content Project Name Hongdong Family Customs Level Batch The Second Batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritage List Approval No. Guo Fa 2008 No. 19 Approval Time 2008-06-07 Category Folk Customs Reporting Unit Hongdong County, Shanxi Province Approval No. 1003 Project No. -96 Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Information Project Content Project Name Family Walking Customs Level Batch The First Batch of Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage List of Shanxi Province Approval No. Jin Zhengfa 2006 No. 46 Approval Time 2. December 18, 6th year Category Folklore Reporting unit Hongdong County, Linfen City Approval No. 99 Item No. -12 Serial Number of Representative Inheritor Name Reporting area or unit 118 Li Yinzi Hongdong County, Shanxi Province 119 Shao Caiwang Hongdong County, Shanxi Province.