Folk belief and custom (Tanghe belief and custom)

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: folk belief and custom (Tanghe belief and custom)

Applicant: Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Item No.: 992

Project No.: Ⅹ - 85

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Ningcun village committee, Haibin street, Longwan District, Wenzhou City

A brief introduction to folk belief and custom (Tanghe belief and custom)

Applicant: Longwan District, Wenzhou City, Zhejiang Province

Faithfulness, also known as "popular belief", is a conventional traditional idea formed in the process of people's long-term production and life. Under the domination of this idea, people will have psychological and behavioral identification with some folk phenomenon. The deities worshipped by traditional folk beliefs are an important source of belief and custom. Praying for blessings and avoiding harm is the internal reason for the continuous inheritance of traditional belief and custom. The collection of various forms of folk culture forms the cultural space of folk belief and custom.

Tanghe belief custom is a kind of folk culture spread in Wenzhou area of southern Zhejiang Province, and it is also the most typical case of the ancient Zhongyuan festival custom in China.

In the early Ming Dynasty, the southeast coast was frequently invaded by Japanese pirates, and the people could not bear the hardships. At the order of Zhu Yuanzhang, the great general Tang He built 59 guard posts along the coastline, one of which is Wenzhou Ningcun post. After the Japanese invasion subsided, the people mourned Tang He's merits and virtues, built a temple in Ning village, a southeast fortress, and held ceremonies such as "Tang He's inspection tour" and "mourning the Japanese dead" on the 15th day of the seventh lunar month every year. The whole activity lasted for five days. Where the ceremony went, people put sacrifices in front of them. For a long time, it gradually formed a large-scale Tanghe Festival, which has a history of more than 400 years.

Tanghe belief and custom has a far-reaching influence in the southeast coastal area, with a wide range of folk and spontaneous. It breaks through the general customs of ancestor worship and ghost sending on the Zhongyuan Festival, and includes many kinds of folk arts, such as handicrafts, song and dance, quyi and so on. The two themes of patriotism and remembering our ancestors are infused into the belief and custom, which expresses people's respect and love for national heroes, and is conducive to the promotion of the Chinese national spirit and the inheritance and development of excellent traditional morality.