Missy, she likes to make waves

The origin of the Xiayuan Festival is related to Taoism.

There are three officials in Taoism: heaven official, earth official and water official.

Shangyuan——Nine qi bless the heavenly officials

Zhongyuan—the official who pardons sins with seven qi

Xiayuan——Water official who relieves misfortune with five energy

October [-]th - Shuiguan resolves the disaster

The Xiayuan Festival is popular in Lingnan. On this day, in order to show reverence to the souls of the ancestors, every household will prepare rich dishes to worship the ancestors, and pray that the souls of the ancestors will bless their descendants in the dark and save them from disasters and misfortunes. There are also endless folk sacrificial activities for the ancestors.

The governor's office was busy early in the morning, and Li Yan and the little girls also got up early because they went to the streets to watch this traditional festival.

Unexpectedly, Zhao Zongping and Zou Yu came over early. Zhou Ziheng's eyes widened when he saw these two annoying people.

"Come so early?"

Zhao Zongping chuckled, "I'm in a hurry to have breakfast with you."

Otherwise, if you go out early in the morning, the street is so lively, where will he and Zou Yu go to find them.

When they saw Li Yan, they greeted her warmly. Zhao Zongping looked at the girl with a smile on his face, "Thank you for the pot of beautiful peonies, my sister. My grandfather liked it very much when he saw it. When he was happy, he rewarded me with 2000 taels." silver."

Zhao Zongping earned 1000 taels of silver without any effort, but he was happy. He had worked hard for decades to save this 1000 taels of silver. It was not thanks to the girl's national beauty, Peony.

After Zhao Zongping thanked Li Yan, he said to Zhou Ziheng, "Grandfather's birthday will be in three days. Grandfather asked me to tell everyone that on that day, he kindly invites everyone to have dinner."

Zhou Ziheng said, you boy, I still can't see that you have other plans.

Zhou Ziheng frowned and said, "As soon as the Divine Competition is over, we have to go back to the academy, and my sister also has to go back to He County. I'm afraid I won't be able to go. You can sue the old man for us. His kindness is appreciated by us brothers and sisters."

Zhou Ziheng didn't lie to him. Originally, there were not many days to rest in the college, and he accompanied his sister to attend the divine competition.

They still had to visit the governor, his sister rarely came to Lingnan, and he had to take her to various streets, and he really didn't have extra time to go to Zhao's mansion to pay his respects.

Zhao Zongping was inevitably disappointed after hearing this, but he was open-minded, and quickly put aside this worry.

It's just that he didn't complete the task that his grandfather had given him. After returning home, he couldn't avoid being told a few words by his grandfather.

His grandfather, a highly orchid-loving flower lover, got the beautiful peony from him yesterday and couldn't put it down. He heard that the girl who planted flowers was in Lingnan, and after getting up in the morning, he insisted on following him. It was difficult to persuade my grandfather, so early in the morning, my grandfather dug out a warm bed and came here.

After eating, the group went to the Earth Temple in Dongcheng.

Although Li Yan and the others went there early, Dongcheng was already overcrowded when they arrived. In order to catch up with the good days and find a good seat to watch the God Games, some local people came to the gate of the Tutu Temple overnight to occupy seats.

The little girl was very interested, looking east and west.

Xiaoqi stood behind Li Yan with a concentrated expression, holding his sword in both hands, and alerted the crowds around him. There are too many people, accidents are easy to happen, and his duty is to protect Miss Li's safety.

Cai Buqi was no more interested than the little girl, and his neck stretched longer than the little girl standing in the crowd.Yao Shisan traveled all over the world and saw a lot, but he was not so curious, and chatted with Zhao Zongping around him every day.

Zhou Ziheng held his younger sister's hand nervously, "There will be many people in a while, and it's easy to get lost. Don't be afraid, brother is holding you."

Li Yan looked at Brother Dumb Goose and wanted to laugh in her heart, how could she be afraid, look at Brother Cheap with wet palms, how nervous is she to this extent.

Zhou Ziheng's heart was beating incessantly. He also wanted to calm himself down, but he couldn't calm down at all when he shook his sister's hand for the first time. This hand didn't seem to be his own, and he couldn't control it.

Fortunately, when Zhou Ziheng was nervous, the little girl and Cai Buqi exclaimed, "Look, the wizard has come out, and the statue has been lifted out."

When Zhou Ziheng was distracted, his palms finally stopped sweating.

But in his heart, he was panicked, afraid that his sister would dislike him too much.

What should I do if I don’t let him hold hands anymore?
The so-called God-welcoming Games are actually for the well-known shamans in Lingnan to welcome the statues of the gods, hold a ceremony, carry the statues through the streets, and accept the incense and worship of the people.

As soon as the little girl shouted, everyone stood on tiptoe to look, and saw a shaman in shaman clothes at the entrance of the earth temple, dancing a big show, followed by four big men carrying the statue, and the sound of firecrackers rumbling. The streets were very lively with gongs and gongs being beaten.

Li Yan watched the sorcerer jumping big feet and singing a big show, and couldn't help but think of the scene when she was praying for rain at the Hejun altar, as if seeing another self, she couldn't help but chuckled.

With the presentation of lion dance, dragon and lion dance, Huangge unicorn dance, eight singles, acrobatics, floating colors and other programs, the present sound is even more crowded and full of voices.

Lion dancing, dragon-lion acrobatics, and acrobatics are commonly seen in festivals across the country, but Piaose is a folk entertainment project with unique Lingnan characteristics. People dress up as dramatic characters, sing and dance, which is called "excellent".

There are many folk "color arts" projects in Guangdong Province, which are divided into spring colors and autumn colors according to the seasons, and divided into floating colors, water colors, fire colors, horse colors and so on according to "excellent" characteristics.

The performances of this welcome competition are floating colors. There are strong men holding colored stems, children dressed in various costumes, and dancing in the air. The stories of Nezha Navigating the Sea are vividly played by young actors.

The little girl and Cai Buqi clicked their tongues when they saw it, "Miss, these children are too good. To perform this kind of high-altitude performance so well, you must start practicing hard work since childhood."

These children are between 4 and 10 years old. They are handsome in appearance and of moderate body shape. At first glance, it seems that they have been carefully selected so that they can express the feeling of flying and elegant when they are tumbling in the air. It is not easy to make a living at such a young age. Li Yan sighed in her heart. sentence.

The second ancestor Cai Buchu and the little girl watched with great interest. They followed the procession of worshiping the gods and watched several performances.

Li Yan lost interest after watching "Havoc in Heaven". Most of these performances are similar. After watching one of the performances, the subsequent performances basically followed the routine of the previous one.

When everyone's eyes were attracted by the children's performance, there was a scene at the corner of the street that was incompatible with the excitement in front of them.

A girl wearing sackcloth and mourning was kneeling on the road, and the body of an old man stood on the straw mat beside her.

Li Yan thought to herself that this little girl was probably going to take advantage of the trouble and sell herself to bury her father.

Such a scene is staged every day in this era, and sometimes it can happen several times a day.

Maybe some people would sympathize with the girl's plight and throw a few coins at her, but if they said they would spend hundreds of taels of silver to buy the girl.

Such benevolent people are really unique, because you can buy one, two, hundreds, thousands, and tens of thousands of refugees, and you can’t buy them all.