Muyu Rap

Yitantangsing:

Playing the three-stringed instrument without stopping, old songs and new lyrics about selling oneself. In the past, there was no interest in selling oneself, and one only wanted to make a living by selling others.

I don’t dare to say how much the wages are, but Qianqi can’t wear a veil.

Today is the second day of February again, and my eyebrows are full of joy and smiles.

Second number board:

The party committee team is always diligent and strives to be the first in one city.

Grassing the town’s grand plan, the economy is booming.

Dedicate yourself to doing practical things for the people, and keep the lead forever.

Government with integrity and integrity will bring endless businessmen from all over the world.

A good party, good officials and good people's customs will make parents happy during the "Double Festival".

Written, practiced and rehearsed by myself, playing and singing all over the place.

Education strengthens the town and sets goals, and primary and secondary schools are like gardens.

The sound of the book spreads thousands of miles, and a new chapter is written in the old revolutionary base.

Three Tans and Sings:

A new scenic spot on both sides of the river, the Caotang Garden is endlessly beautiful.

Dongyin is like the Golden Palace, and China Resources Mall has all the goods.

People are flocking to Century Plaza, and Kangyi Building is rising into the sky.

Today we sing "Prostitution Day" again, a well-off life is sweeter than sugar.

Allegro: Dongkeng local specialty, Yincai pumpkin tofu balls;

Past guests praised the food, and Hong Kong and Taiwan bosses like to try it.

The floats are like rainbows, the phoenixes are dancing, the dragons are flying, and the drums are playing loudly;

The honor guard band is playing joy, and the songs are reverberating among the pavilions.

The Eight Immortals toasted to celebrate the New Year together, the fairies came down to earth to dance gracefully;

The long legs on stilts twisted and danced, and the lions rolled the ball across the roadside.

The water shooting carnival and water fights were held, and thousands of people rushed forward;

The festival of prostitution turned into a festival of joy, with fireworks and fireworks all day long.

Singing:

The beautiful east of Hanxikeng is smiling, and the yellow house on the edge of the pond is dancing;

The holy mountain of Jingmeitagang is singing, and the people of Pengwu Pavilion are guarding. Houses connected.

The harmonious land has upright folk customs, and the world is peaceful and full of laughter and noise;

Dongguan Dongkeng welcomes the purple air, creating a peaceful year for business and trade. Agricultural Era

The beautiful legends and history are enough to show that the reason why Dongkeng formed the peculiar festival "February 2nd" is because Dongkeng had the glory of the "Agricultural Era".

In Dongkeng, it is known as "Lujia Land and Xiejia Field". Connecting to the bank of Hanxi River, a Qinghe River was uniquely positioned to become the main transportation artery that ran through the provincial capital at that time. Cargo ships from Guangzhou, Dongguan, Shilong and Huizhou often come to Dongkeng. The sugar dumplings sold on Mashi Street in Dongkeng have become a transit terminal for agricultural and sideline products and daily necessities. Sericulture cultivation, sugar processing, rice processing, and oil processing have emerged one after another. Especially after the summer harvest and planting, there are continuous cricket nests on both sides of the river where crickets are fighting. Its gambling dens, opium dens, and brothels are prosperous. Provincial and Hong Kong Cantonese opera stars are near the busy town of Tung Keng, singing, dancing, and feasting. It is known as "Little Macao". The specific transportation environment and specific farming needs have composed an ode to "the second day of February".

Legend has it that the "Self-Selling Festival" originated from Tangchun Village in Dongkeng. There was a wealthy family named Lu who was rushing to farm before the Qingming Festival. On the second day of the second lunar month, in front of Tangchun Village, people posted Announcement to hire long-term agricultural workers. Since then, it has become a habit for young and middle-aged people without farmland to sit on the fence in front of Tangchun Village on the second day of February, wearing bamboo hats and coarse cloth towels, to show that they are "selling themselves" and selling their labor. , waiting for the wealthy man to hire him. On this day, rich people with land went to Tangchun Village to select young men and cowboys who would "sell themselves" and hire them for a year. This was called "selling themselves".

Subsequently, many "meetings of immortals" were spread in this treasure land with numerous talents: Legend has it that on this day, immortals from heaven descended to earth, and went to Dongkeng to watch "selling their bodies" and perform good deeds to save all sentient beings. For example: "Curved Grinding Arm", "Straight Fishhook", "Golden Hoe", "The Story of "Dongzi"", "Candy Can't Be Dumped", "It's cloudy even if the sky is partly sunny". It is so miraculous that some people call the "Selling Your Body Festival" "Encountering Immortals Festival". The legend became more and more magical, so on the second day of February, there were crowds of people on the banks of the river and on both sides of the wooden bridge. Businessmen from far and near gathered in Dongkeng. From far away, Sheng, Fo, Chen and Long came by boat from the waterway; from nearby, people from surrounding villages came on foot, saying they wanted to meet immortals. It was an unprecedented event. When leaving, everyone must buy an item to take back to show that they have met an immortal and bring good luck. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, it has continued to this day.

After several vicissitudes of life, the second day of February in Dongkeng was called the "Self-selling Festival", also known as the "Meeting Immortals Festival", and later changed to the "Returning Festival". It was renamed "Happy Festival" because tourists love to shoot water with toy water guns on the street for fun, so it is also called "Water Shooting Festival". People who come to celebrate the Happy Festival on the second day of February all hope that on this day, the water from Dongkeng will sprinkle them with good luck and bring back good luck.

One of the legends of the Immortal Miracle of Selling Your Body Festival (Hope Chapter) - the story of "Dongzi"

"Go to Dongkeng to sell yourself, squeeze in the crowd, and at the end of the year I will definitely give birth to a Lin'er and hold a 'Dongzi'." This legend is widely circulated among married, especially infertile women, in places as close as Chashan and Fucheng, as well as as far away as Zengcheng and Boluo.

In Zengcheng Fairy Village, there is a family named Ding. The owner is called Ding Chuanzong, and his father is Ding Caishou. It has been passed down from his ancestors to his generation for nine generations. Marrying a wife named Wang, she has a strong temperament, but she is also loving as a husband and wife. After nine years of marriage, my wife has not shown any signs of pregnancy.

In old China, where there were three types of unfilial piety, and having no offspring was the most common, it was not uncommon for infertile women to be abandoned by their husbands' families.

In the lantern scene of the first month of that year, Ding Caishou went home after drinking other people's lantern wine. When he saw someone else's family adding a new child to their family, he was very happy. Thinking that he was the only son of the ninth generation, he complained naggingly because of the scene. The daughter-in-law came to tell her that her son had married a hen that couldn't lay eggs. Unable to stand her father-in-law's scolding, Wang packed up some spare clothes the next day and went straight to live with her relatives in Beitang Village, Dongkengling, without even saying hello to her family.

Ding Chuanzong saw that his wife had been away for more than ten days and still did not come back, so he went around to inquire about his whereabouts. He heard from a fellow villager who went out to file sickles that he had seen his sister-in-law in Dongkeng, Dongguan. At the end of the first month, Chuanzong embarked on the road to find his wife. The second day of the second lunar month is the Selling Day in Dongkeng. In the early morning, there were only vendors pulling carts on their shoulders along the way, and there was an endless stream of people rushing to take advantage of the market from all directions. Ding Chuanzong was a little tired of walking. He sat in the tea pavilion, ate dry food, and asked about the distance to Dongkeng. A hawker pushing a cart said: "Sir, you must have come from afar. How come you didn't know that today is the big day of Dongkeng Body Selling Festival? Everyone is going to the festival."

Ding Chuanzong cheered up The spirit, along with the people going to the market, went to Dongkeng, where he looked for his wife among relatives and persuaded her to go home. Relatives said: "It's rare for you to come from afar and I haven't seen a local event. After February 2, it won't be too late to go back tomorrow."

A farewell is better than a wedding. Ding Chuanzong held his wife's hand and Come to Dongkengxu. ah! Good guy, there are waves of dark crowds, so crowded that you can't tell the difference between east, west, and north. The couple was separated by the bustling crowd. Wang was afraid that her husband would get lost in an unfamiliar place, so she squeezed into the crowd and went in and out to find her husband, like Zhao Zilong who was looking for Adou among a million soldiers. When he was tired from the crowd, he sat under the banyan tree by the market and rested. Ding Chuanzong was also looking for Mr. Wang and met his wife under the tree. After meeting, the couple hugged each other and cried.

The next day, the couple said goodbye to relatives and went home. The daughter-in-law met her father-in-law. Ding Caishou blamed himself for his drunken remarks and told his daughter-in-law not to keep the past in mind.

A month later, Wang shyly said to her husband: "My husband, you are going to be a father soon." Ding Chuanzong asked in surprise: "Really?" Sure enough, at the end of November of that year, the baby was born. Next boy. Due to many years of infertility, she thought she had a child through crowding at the Tung Keng Selling Festival, so she named the child "Tung Tsai". It means it was obtained from Dongkeng. This incident slowly spread, so the first scene appeared.

The Legend of Selling Your Body Festival Part 2 (Punishment of Evil) - Zhi Fish Hook

There is a gentle old man in Liangdutang Village, Liaobu, who is loyal and kind-hearted. I have a very good relationship with Lu Lao'er from Tangchun Village in Dongkeng. Every year during the Body Selling Festival, I stay at Lu Lao'er's house for a few days. On the first day of February in the second year of Daoguang (Renwu), Old Man Wen and his nine-year-old grandson Wen Xiaoniu visited Mr. Lu's house again, preparing to attend tomorrow's grand meeting.

At dawn, the noisy people woke up the sleeping old man Wen. After taking a shower, he and his grandson went to play in the market. At this time, the bustling crowd was mixed with different local dialects from different places. Miles. There were stalls, opera singers, jugglers, food sellers, and farm tools such as pennies and sticks. There was everything you could want. The grandfather and grandson had a great time.

Suddenly, Maverick ran to a stall selling needlework and sundries, holding a needle and shouting: "Grandpa, I want to buy a fishhook." Old Man Wen smiled and said: "Silly boy "This is called a needle, not a fishhook. The fishhook is curved." Maverick said, "This is obviously a fishhook, but it is curved. Grandpa, why don't you buy it for me?" The grandfather and grandson saw different things and quarreled. The sound attracted onlookers. What everyone saw was clearly a needle. Where did the fishhook come from? Everyone laughed at Mavericks for being stupid. In order to avoid the laughter of everyone, Old Man Wen quickly bought this special "needle".

After returning home, Maverick invited a few friends to go fishing at the river with the newly purchased fishing hooks. As soon as I set the hook, I immediately caught a big fish. I set the hook three times and was able to catch a big fish, but when I set the hook again, no fish took the bait. I can only catch three big fish every day, every day. Other friends can only catch some small fish and shrimps. Everyone calls this straight fishhook the divine hook.

This incident reached the ears of the village villain Li Mazi. This Li Mazi ran rampant in the village and did all kinds of bad things. Everyone had long hated him. As usual, Maverick went to the river to fish again. Before he could set the hook, Li Mazi forcibly snatched Maverick's magic hook away. Due to the power of the villain, Maverick could only swallow his tears.

Li Mazi was so happy that he immediately lowered the magic hook into the river. He saw that the float was extremely heavy. He thought he had caught a big fish, so he hurriedly closed the hook and saw that what he had caught was a fish weighing four or five kilograms. I dived with the Kei Kip venomous snake. The snake bit off the rope, pounced on Li Mazi, bit Li Mazi severely, and then swam down the river. After Li Mazi was bitten by the snake, he died in less than an hour and returned to the west.

The third part of the Legend of Selling Your Body Festival (Promoting Good Deeds) - The Golden Hoe

The owner of Dongkeng Shuiwei, Lu Longguang, is a famous and wealthy man. Before he got rich, he was still a very unlucky poor man.

One year during the Selling Day, he went to the market to buy a hoe for farming, and happened to see a hoe seller next to the Qingjing Temple. He rummaged through his pockets and found only a few copper coins, which was not enough to buy half of the hoe.

He knelt down and saw a chipped hoe (defective product). He wanted to give it a try and asked the hoe seller if he would sell it to him with the only money he had. agreed to his request.

An old man next to him said: "This rotten hoe can only shovel half of the grass, and it can't hoe the ground well. What use can it be?" Lu Longguang replied: "If you have money, you can do rich things, if you have less money, you can do less money things. Just use it."

The next day, he went to work in the fields with the hoe he just bought. Once he hoeed, he could reach more than a foot, as if he didn't use any effort, and he hoeed the ground faster than usual. Several times, wherever the hoe turned over, it became fertile soil, and the weeds in the ground naturally withered as soon as they touched his hoe. Long Guang was so excited that he believed that the hoe was a treasure given to him by the gods, so he got up early and worked in the dark even more happily.

He planted ginger in all the hoeed fields, and managed them carefully regardless of wind, rain, scorching heat or sun. The ginger was growing luxuriantly, and he was looking forward to the harvest and hope.

That year, rainfall was extremely abundant and floods occurred everywhere. Lu Longguang cultivated the highlands. Ginger planted far and near, and all the ginger planted in every family became necrotic, which was called "ginger plague". Only the ginger grown in Lulongguang is free from the disaster of "ginger plague".

Due to floods, most crops have failed. In years of famine, people are prone to edema. In an era when medical treatment is scarce, ginger is the only effective medicine for treating edema. It was confirmed by ginger traders who traveled far and wide that only two gingers were found in Laolong (Longchuan), which shows how precious ginger was at that time.

Lu Longguang harvested ginger and took it by boat to places where edema was a problem. He shipped boatloads of ginger and returned with boatloads of silver, becoming a well-known rich man far and wide.

The fourth part of the legend of the Immortal Miracles on the Festival of Selling Your Body (Chapter of Preventing Corruption) - Qumoji

Fairy creatures and miraculous miracles have appeared many times during the Festival of Selling Your Body. Every time on the second day of February, , people from near and far who visit the market want to try their luck and buy something to go home, hoping that what they buy are all fairy treasures.

It’s another year of selling one’s body. The wild man from Huanglong Temple in Luofu Mountain was quietly thinking about it. He cut off dozens of branches of thousand-year-old trees in the mountain, which were like arm-grinding branches, and headed east to the Kengxu site. He became a mortal.

Huang Yeren's arm is an unprocessed natural branch, which looks very rough and difficult to use, but he charges a very high price and will not sell it to anyone who bargains. He has a bad rule when it comes to pricing: he always bids based on the previous customer's counter-offer. After a long time, the asking price for the arm grinding was only one and a half penny. The night was falling, and the market was about to close, and he had not sold any of his grinding arms. Just as he was packing his things and preparing to go back, there was a mean-spirited rich woman who happened to have a broken grinding arm at home. Seeing that the goods were cheap, she I bought one without counter-offer. I said to myself that the work of pushing and pushing is done by the servants anyway, it doesn’t matter whether it works well or not.

Huang Yeren packed up his things and went back to the mountain and passed by the sand pond. He said to himself: "There are crooked trees in the mountains, but there are no straight people in the world." He gently pulled the remaining arms, and they all became He picked up the straight tree, threw it down onto the sandy pond, and floated away in the clouds. At that time, the onlookers all heard and witnessed it, and the legend is still talked about today.

Early the next morning, the rich man's mother-in-law installed the newly purchased grinding arm and told her maid Bi Gu to go to the teahouse.

After a handful of grains were added to the rice hulls, a lot of white rice continued to flow out, and there was no need to add more grains.

The rich man's wife came back from drinking tea and saw this scene. She danced happily, regardless of the life and death of the maid, and shouted greedily: "Push quickly, push hard." She thought, this must be in I bought the treasures of the immortals on the Selling Day, and I wanted to push the grain rice out of the mountains of rice.

The maid was usually afraid of being beaten, so she hurriedly exerted her strength. Suddenly there was a "pop" sound, and the grinding arm was broken. The rice hulls would no longer automatically flow out of white rice.

The Festival of Selling Your Body is an ancient Han folk culture. It is said that the gods come to inspect the people, examine the people's sentiments, and rescue the poor and do good deeds. Therefore, people often gather in the square on the second day of the second lunar month to show themselves. , allowing the gods to more truly observe the truth, goodness and beauty of the world and "ask for diagnosis and prescribe medicine". Over time, it became a festival, which was named "Selling Your Body Festival", also known as "Meeting Immortals Festival", and later also known as "Turn Over Festival" , and later people competed to splash water on the streets for fun, and it was combined with the "Water Splashing Festival". From then on, the "Prostitution Festival" that has lasted for hundreds of years in Dongguan, Guangdong has become a unique local cultural heritage and has become a part of Guangdong Province. Intangible cultural heritage is loved by the people.

It is also said that a large local family named Lu was rushing to start farming before the Qingming Festival. On the second day of the second lunar month, a notice was posted in front of Tangchun Village to hire long-term farm workers. Since then, it has become a habit for young and middle-aged people without farmland to sit on the fence in front of Tangchun Village on the second day of February, wearing bamboo hats and coarse cloth towels, to show that they are "selling themselves" and selling their labor. , waiting for the wealthy man to hire him. On this day, wealthy people with land went to Tangchun Village to select young men and cowboys who would "sell themselves" and hire them for a year. This was called "selling themselves".