"Fish Lantern" Inheritance Exhibition
2023-02-06
In Wangmantian Village, Shexian County, Huangshan, Anhui Province, villagers played fish lanterns to celebrate the New Year, attracting many villagers and tourists to watch. February 3, the 13th of the first month. After the car entered Xitou Town, She County, Huangshan City, Anhui Province, the road became narrow. After climbing over the mountain and walking along the river, you can see the vehicles parked at the roadside, including many foreign license plates, about 1 km away from the village. "It's all to see the fish lanterns. Today is the first day." Wang Junhua, secretary of the General Party Branch of Wangmantian Village, Shexian County, introduced and organized people to direct and guide on the mountain road. The fish lantern custom in Wangmantian Village has a history of 600 years. According to legend, most of the houses in the village are made of wood, with frequent fires. In order to seek peace, the villagers take the form of fish and play on both sides of the river for four consecutive days from the 13th to the 16th of the first month of each year. The fish lantern night tour, which respects heaven and earth, sacrifices ancestors, and prays for blessings, carries the good wishes of peace and prosperity for the country and the people. The village is located in the depths of the mountains, with winding mountain roads, but this traditional lantern festival now attracts countless tourists outside the mountains. How can this provincial folk intangible cultural heritage be passed down from generation to generation? How can this traditional "fish lamp" swim out of the mountains? The inheritors "better understand the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage by their ancestors", small mountain villages and old ancestral halls. Wang Zaishan and several teachers in their sixties and seventies, Fu, and a group of young people in their twenties are holding the fish king lamp together, making and painting. Hold a red candle, dip the wick in oil, and then wrap it in incense ash. The swallow carefully stuffed the candle into the "fish belly". In front of us is a fish lamp 7 meters long and 3 meters high. The bamboo strip is woven into a skeleton, the paper is pasted into a fish skin, the lines are drawn, and the fish scales are painted. "This is the" fish king "of our ancestral hall fish club. There are more than 100 candles to be placed in the fish belly alone. It took us four or five days to complete the fish club," said the swallow. Swallow, known as Wang Chunyan, usually sells torreya grandis for his mother and makes a live broadcast. It is also the "fish head" of this year's Wang Mantian Ancestral Fish Festival. "Fish head" is equivalent to the commander in chief and the leader of the fish club, responsible for fund-raising, procurement, and organizing villagers to make, lift and repair lights. On the one hand, Wang Wenquan, who has just returned to the village from Hefei during the Spring Festival, is now circling around the fish body to help everyone. Although he is only 21 years old, he has been a "fish head" for three years. The ancestor of Wangmantian Village has long established a rule that the "fish head" of the annual fish festival should be held by young people. Wang Wenquan said, "We have to rob the fish head here. At the entrance of the ancestral hall, we can set off firecrackers and put up good news to inform the whole village." In the words of the elders in the village, Huizhou people "throw the fish head when they are thirteen or four years old", let the children of sixteen or seventeen years old be "fish heads", and also cultivate their comprehensive ability when they go out of the mountain village. And the young people in Wangmantian Village, no matter how far they go, still want to return home in every way during the Spring Festival. "The taste of the year is not as strong as that of Wangmantian Village." Although this year's "fish head" was preempted by Wang Chunyan, Wang Wenquan was still happy to follow the swallow's command and also actively applied to be the main force to lift the fish head. After seeing the completion of the "Fish King" system, Wang Wenquan went out of the ancestral hall, turned into the lane, and went straight to the fish club in Tianjie. Seeing that the villagers were tying the cotton thread to the fish lamp skeleton, he immediately stepped forward, took the thread, and wound it little by little along the bamboo strip. "My fish will come here to help after they are busy. It's easy." Wang Wenquan said while doing it. He loved to play when he was young
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