Educational DVD-Swinging Mud Buddha

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In Juh e village, Tongfang town, Changting county, Fujian province, the lord Guan (Xietian the great) visits the fields on the 13th day of the first lunar month. The local people are used to calling it “Mud Buddha” and “Crazy Mud Bodhisattva”, which is officially named “Awaken Springfield ”. Juhe village is a Hakka community where people with multiple surnames are living together. “Awaken Springfield” is a local carnival festival with blood relationship and geography as the double link. Each year, the chief Fushou changes in turn, according to the unit “shed”, which breaks the clan boundaries. The chief fushou is responsible for treating the god, building jiao, feasting guests, which also accompanied by ship lamps, green lion Kongfu, the ten-fold of the opera, sexy dance and other activities, in order to entertainment the god as well as the local. Young men of each surname will relay the lord guan from one water filed to another, and run and play in different water fields which belong to different surnames. This kind of activity that people and god are happy together will last for a whole day, from morning to faint, from one end of the village to another end, and will appear on every surname’s filed, such as Liu, Hu, Chen, Wang, Ma, Huang, Zeng. In the past, when there were no chemical fertilizers and pesticides, villagers used this method to reduce pests and awaken the spring fields with vigorous vitality.  

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