Enshi "Community Festival"

Hubei
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The Enshi "She Festival" is the most important and solemn agricultural festival in ancient my country. The Autumn She Festival declined very early, and the remnants of the Spring She Festival only survived in some minority areas such as Enshi, Hubei. The "Enshi She Festival", called "Guo She" by the people of Enshi, is a festival that must be celebrated every year. It mainly includes "eating She Fan" and "blocking She Fan". It is held on the fifth Wu day after the beginning of spring, before the Spring She Festival, that is, during the She Festival period. It is primitive, mysterious, ethnic, and regional, and is completely naturally inherited. "Eating She Fan" means picking wild Artemisia sibiricum, chopping, rubbing to remove the bitter water, and drying it to make She Fan, and then mixing it with diced bacon, diced tofu, wild onions, garlic sprouts, glutinous rice, sticky rice, etc. and steaming it into She Fan. Invite relatives and friends to gather together to taste it and give it to each other. This custom originated from the ancient She Fan. She Fan was originally a meal to worship the land god, and now it has evolved into a food custom with ethnic characteristics. Since Artemisia annua has good pharmacological effects and can treat and prevent many diseases such as "injury, swelling, pain, tuberculosis, malaria, dysentery, hemorrhoids", so Shefan is the traditional medicinal food of Tujia people. With the progress of the times, Shefan has become more and more refined and has become a delicacy in Enshi. During the Shefan period every year, Shefan vegetables are sold in the market, and Shefan vegetables and Shefan are sold in hotels, restaurants and supermarkets. Shefan is rated as one of the top ten famous foods in Enshi Prefecture. "Lanshe" means to sweep the new graves within three years before the Spring Shefan Day. The third year is the most grand, called Yuanfen. The host family invites the inner relatives to send a "po" and a multi-po flower gong and drum team, prepare wine and food and paper flags, umbrellas, treasure covers and other offerings, knock and beat in front of the grave to pay tribute, hold a soul-soothing ceremony, hang a red offering curtain on the grave, and perform lion, play, lotus and other entertainment activities in front of the grave. This custom originated from the ancients' idea of the immortality of the soul. It is believed that the soul of the dead is still free in the world within three years. After three years, it will be sent away by a certain ceremony and truly enter the ghost world. Because the ceremony is similar to the ritual of burying the dead, there is a saying among the people that "reburies a Taoist priest", which is related to the custom of secondary burial. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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