2.1.2 Conventional Festivals Derived from Long Mu Faith
Long Mu Cultural Faith is always vividly conveyed by ritual behavior. Besides the sacrificial activities have mentioned above, there are some derivative ritual activities, which have became accepted traditional customs over a long-term development and affected people’s psyche and actions accordingly.
These conventional activities are including: touching Long Mu bed, drinking “holy water”, taking incense ashes with water, eating “golden pig” (roast suckling pig), freeing carp, stamping Long Mu golden seal, burning incense and joss paper, etc.
The touching Long Mu bed means that someone goes to Long Mu bedroom and touches her pillow, quilt, mosquito-curtain in her bed, which believed will bring good luck; and sometimes, temple keeper (miao zhu) also put some lotus seed, red jujube, peanut, and Long Mu magic figures, etc. between the pillow and the quilt, everything goes well w毕业论文http://www.751com.cnith people who grab them.
Temple keeper named a spring of mineral water as “Holy water”, which let the visitors buy some “Holy water” home. And later, temple keeper conducted the spring by running water pipe inside Dong Yu Tong, the “Holy water” will outflow when devotees kneel on cushions，and stop when they stand up, which seems miraculous, so many people buy them home.
“Taking incense ashes” means when the incense burned out, then people take the ashes with water. The ashes are regarded as “panacea” that could heal collywobbles and incised wound. Someone said in a ludicrously pompous manner, the incense should be made by sandalwood, or the ashes will be of no effect, certainly, which is lack of scientific evidence, the psychological factor is taking action.
Eating “golden pig”, actually, the so-called golden is because the color of pig is roasted to be golden. After sacrifice, sometimes, people will eat the roast suckling pig inside the Temple, which means that people could get health and wealth.
Freeing carps means that people set free carps to the river. Why? The answers varied, some said, "Long Mu find delight in freeing living creatures, so the others to do the same"; some said, "Long Mu died for choke with fishbone"; and also probably because fish is the embodiment of Loong.
Stamping Long Mu golden seal means that the temple keeper will help visitors stamp Long Mu golden seal on their new towels, which could dispel the evils.
Burning incense and joss paper is always joined with the freeing carp’s activity. People burn incense, joss paper and firecracker over the riverside, which purpose is to sacrifice the little decedents who died for a fire accident of worship boat during a year in Qing Dynasty. The sacrifice of mourning for the dead has grown up the burning custom.
Paying respect with “Long Mu fortune incense”: The “Long Mu fortune incense” is special-made incense, people can write their wishes of marriage, job, business, etc. on the incense according to their date of birth, and then some indications would display after burning out. Someone will succeed by acting according to the indications.
Besides the folk-custom activities, there were many competitive activities held in every village in the past, mainly including, Loong-Boat race, Wooden-Loong race, Loong-Boat parade.
The combination of folk-custom activities and sports and recreations makes legendary color fade away, meanwhile, secularized color strengthen gradually, which is the common trend of folk custom development.
2.2 Community Meritorious Service Capacity of Long Mu Faith
Long Mu Cultural Faith has formed and came down in South China, and restrains the native’s behavior and consciousness by orderly activities. The force of habit, traditional power and psychology faith constitute the basic of custom binding force, which isn’t depending on the power of law and scientific-cultural confirmation. Having this kind of foundation, Long Mu Cultural Faith custom activities have handed down, and exerted its service capacity to the society.
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