February 2nd wenchang meeting
According to legend, the second day of the second lunar month is the birthday of wenchang bodhisattva (master of the god of fame), the day of enyang scholars for the imperial examination, there are gathered in wenchang pavilion worship wenchang bodhisattva and other old customs.
The second day of the second lunar month was called "zhonghe festival" in ancient times, commonly known as "dragon's head". Ming shen bang "wan wu miscellaneous records" records: "wan people call February 2 for the rise of the dragon. Township civil grey from the door winding cloth into the kitchen, swirling water tank, call to lead the dragon back. < / p > < p > Ming yu yizheng, liu dong "di jing scenery slightly" volume two • spring field records: "on February 2, the dragon picked up the head, Fried New Year's day sacrifice more than cake, smoked bed kang, said smoked the worm, said lead the dragon, insects not out. Therefore, when the twenty-four solar terms of the "awakening of insects" around, spring back to the earth, all things recovery, hibernating in the soil or cave of the insect snake, will wake up from hibernation, the legendary dragon also woke up from a deep sleep, so called "dragon". The rise of the dragon will be clouds xingyu, heralding the New Year, the grain harvest. On the second day of the second lunar month, Chinese people have proverbs such as "February 2nd, the dragon raises its head" and "February 2nd, the dragon raises its head, the man raises his foot", which means that today is suitable for a long journey to realize the ideal and ambition on the day of the "dragon xing ecliptic".
According to legend, the second day of the second lunar month is the birthday of wenchang bodhisattva (master of the god of fame), the day of enyang scholars for the imperial examination, there are gathered in wenchang pavilion worship wenchang bodhisattva and other old customs.
The first gift of writing: children's first gift on the second day of February, indicating the beginning of formal learning. In the past, there were four gifts for students in enyang: the first gift, the first gift, the first gift, the first gift, the first gift and the first gift. To begin writing is to start writing articles. The ceremony mainly includes worship of Confucius, teaching of the most basic principles of life, and presenting the four treasures of the study room.
Burning fireworks rack: fireworks rack for the tower layer type, hanging in wenchang pavilion behind the mountain rock on a branch of the oblique extension of hemp willow, more than 30 zhang from the ground. Fireworks rack is generally seven or nine, are odd. Each floor shows a pattern or text composed of gunpowder light, the first floor is "wenchang holy meeting", 10 seconds later the second floor is set off, hanging out of a group of color light composed of four characters "grain harvest", "the world is peaceful", "the eight immortals celebrate life" and so on. Also constantly show "sun wukong" "pig eight quit" and other drama characters.
Tie lamp mountain: the bamboo that builds into resemble mountain with bamboo frame, every 8 to 10, tie a diamond in the middle to go up in each hole to make a face with hot face nest, put rape oil inside, put the twist of a lamp like 3 nails. When it gets dark, hundreds of lights are lit together, which is very spectacular. Seen from a distance, the mountains and valleys have distinct layers, forming a very spectacular great river and mountain.
Shaving the dragon head: in the folk, this day the biggest custom is "shaving the dragon head", people generally think this day to shave the head, especially men. Shaving the head will make people lucky, lucky stars.
Bogey needle and thread: women in this day can not do needlework, because the dragon in this day to look at the world, use the needle will stab the dragon's eyes. Before the woman gets up, first read "February 2, dragon look up, dragon don't look up I look up". After getting up, but also with a lantern according to the beam, the side according to read "February 2, according to the beam, the scorpion centipede nowhere to hide." In some places, women are forbidden to wash clothes for fear of hurting their skin.

The temple will be
Since enyang formed the size of the town, there is a grand event every month. Such as the first month of the dragon Lantern Festival, February wenchang will, march qingming will, April Buddha will...... Huaguang will have the oil industry, the iron industry will have the old gentleman, the department store industry will have the leather head and so on. Wenchang fair is the largest temple fair in enyang river. On the second day of the second month, the statue of wenchang bodhisattva will be carried by eight people in a big sedan, blowing and beating all the way, parade out of the temple, and walk through the enyang river three times (old field, new field, back to the dragon field). Folk fire (commonly known as the ground to carry the son), dragon lamp, colorful lotus boat, dozens of sets of gongs and drums accompanied. Each street to make a tall archway, wenchang pavilion temple chanting, the mountain gate theatre singing. At noon at the gate of wenchang pavilion temple dam square held an open-air dinner, wine play. Fireworks and river lights in the evening. The streets and lanes are full of people. There are activities every day during the month of February.
Wenchang pavilion of enyang river is located on the north side of wenzhi village. Built a temple, pavilion, theatre. The temple was built in a natural stone niche, where the statue of wenchang, the god of the emperor, was worshipped. February 2 is the birthday of wenchang dijun, because he is the bodhisattva in charge of the world's achievements and benefits, on the second day of the month to wenchang incense worship.
Wenchang pavilion was built in memory of zhang yazi in the jin dynasty. Zhang yazi, also known as zhang yizi, was a filial son who was especially filial to his mother. He died in battle in the jin dynasty. After death, the people set up a temple for him. At the beginning, they sacrificed him as the god of thunder and thunder. Later, it gradually evolved into the important god name of zitong and called him "zitong god". Taoist priest song and yuan pretended to use zitong god to write the so-called "qinghe inner biography", said he was born at the beginning of zhou dynasty, after the seventy-three generations, the end of the western jin dynasty was born in sichuan, named zhang yazi, became zitong god, and said the jade emperor ordered him to be in charge of the wenchang palace and human lu ji.
Folklore has it that during the chaos of anshi, li longji, emperor xuanzong of tang dynasty, fled to sichuan province. The god of zitong met him at wanli bridge, and xuanzong made him prime minister of the left. Later, li xuan due to run away from social upheaval in the shu, and sealing zitong for god to shun king. It is also said that zitong god also helped the tang army to quell the rebellion, so the tang emperor vigorously promoted the status of zitong god, from a local god to a national god, and gradually merged with the wenchang god. For this reason, the wenchang palace in qqu mountain of zitong county has become a large temple in China.
To the yuan dynasty emperor qing years, renzong emperor zitong tong god as auxiliary civilization wenchang lu hongren, referred to as "wenchang di jun."
En Yang wen chang will be a hundred drama long performance. In the month of February, all kinds of troupes in the surrounding counties of enyang will meet successively to sing opera in enyang, and the main opera will be performed on the upper floor of the opera at the gate of wenchang pavilion temple. There are altogether eight opera houses in enyang town. During the wenchang festival, there are performances of sichuan opera, puppet shows, shadow puppetry, and various kinds of "folk acrobatics and magic". The second is to carry out "shehuo" activities. "Shehuo" is a stage parade. Enyang town streets, commercial guilds are very much, are to compete for the play. The big square table turned over, with two wooden poles four people lift, standing on the table makeup of the drama characters, generally for children dressed, this kind of "she fire" for the platform she fire, a lift a play. There is also in the special production of artificial lift line platform, stand high bar, pole top set a ring, there is a foot pole, makeup into the children standing on the foot pole, waist set in the ring, holding props to perform a dramatic action, such as "three dozen white bone essence" and so on. According to the number of performers on the stage to carry the number of people, generally for 8 or 16 people to carry line, left and right sides there are four people with four high fork, remove the obstacles on the street, to protect the safety of children performance. This kind of "shehuo" is called gaotai shehuo.
Enyang wenchang will also light fireworks, river lights. Fireworks rack peculiar shape, its scale is grand, even chengdu people are tut-tut say absolutely.
The discharge of the river lamp is carried out on the night of the meeting of the wenchang meeting. In the old days, water transport was the lifeblood of enyang's economy. Put the river lamp as a sacrifice to the river god, bless the water transport safety of enyang river, the people do not suffer from floods, everything is smooth, prosperous. More than a dozen boats were loaded with plantain blocks and tens of thousands of candles and hauled to the mouth of wayao beach before dark. In a big boat with a ledge to chant buddhist scripture, when it faces after the fireworks, the ship of the monks to chant buddhist scripture is, more than ten the boat began to send light, will be lighted candles on the banana piece, into the river, the wind drift, drift has been late into the night, the grace of about 200 meters wide elements into a light river, the lights in the river rafting silhouetted against a long, short, different light dot, line, sparkling flow, beautiful spectacular, as if heaven fell grace Yang Milky Way.

The 16th day of the first lunar month
Climbing a mountain on the 16th day of the 1st lunar month is a traditional folk festival in enyang. "When the age of emperor jing record victory" in write: "yuan xi women group tour, pray to avoid disaster. The previous man, with his incense, went away sick." According to records, the first year of the tang yonglong (680) in August, wu zetian banished zhang huai prince li xian to the remote daba mountain in bazhong, since then, every year in the 16th lunar month, the prince have to visit the south shrine mountain, wang wang mountain north chang 'an, pray to return to the family. The people appreciate the prince heavy agricultural reclamation, shirt people's feelings, invited to follow with the mountain climbing, long become a custom, successive. In addition, the customs of bazhou, "the 9th day of the new lunar month gathered at wangwang mountain to burn incense, 16 women went out to say that it was to walk all diseases, harmonic temple held a big jiao festival, Buddha please. In front of the mountain, there are two holes in the round cave, the woman without children to throw things, depending on whether to pray for heirs, that is to play the children hole, "which explains that the custom of sixteen climbing has been followed for more than a thousand years.
The custom of climbing on the 16th day of the first lunar month is to visit the temple, worship the Buddha, to touch the blessing of longevity, to play the hole for children, to pick the small cypa ya don't on the body or head to dispel diseases and evil spirits. Because of the double ninth hill-climbing on September 9, siyang people regard the 16th day of the 1st lunar month as the first "hill-climbing festival" in a year. The ascent on the 16th day of the 1st lunar month contains many traditional folk activities, which provide valuable material materials for the study of the folk history, folk belief and folk culture of enyang. At present, with the continuous progress of society and the prejudice against traditional culture in the society for many years, some traditional customs are on the verge of extinction. With the passage of time, other folk cultural activities with research value are also in danger of extinction.
The long-inherited 16th lunar month mountaineering festival has played an active role in enriching mass culture, carrying forward folk culture, promoting mass fitness and promoting local economic development. In July 2009, it was announced by sichuan provincial people's government as "the second batch of sichuan provincial intangible cultural heritage protection list". Since its establishment, enyang new area has attached great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On the premise of protection of traditional culture, advocate recover part of the traditional culture, make full use of the 16 day climbing festival this local folk activities, to build up the local cultural tourism brand, to enhance the popularity of grace Yang, influence and radiation, make it play the positive role of cultural, economic, synchronized advancement.