保苗祭

2019/Color/Chinese+English/hakka/59mins
　　類型 紀錄片
　　製片 許雪蓮
　　導演 張鳳英 甯元乖
　　攝影 鬼叔中 陳汝輝 王夢陽 張鳳英 甯格 邱加貴
　　剪輯 甯元乖
　　音樂 客家十番
　　影片簡介：
　　草長鶯飛的農曆二月，中國福建省西部的客家人製作大粽以祭祀五穀真仙（神農），期盼禾苗大熟，周而復始的春耕由此拉開序幕。
　　Logline
　　This film recorded the seedlings protection rite practiced in the 2nd lunar month in a Hakka villiage of Western Fujian province,China.
　　故事大綱：
　　保苗祭（遊大粽）是閩西客家人的一項春季農業節慶習俗，它以五穀真仙（神農）崇拜為核心，自清初延續至今已三百多年。農曆二月初，村民採摘數千匹新鮮粽葉縫製成粽衣，裹一對各重120斤的公母大粽，並裹上萬個指頭大小的公母小粽，供祈盼添丁的四方信眾帶回家。農曆二月十五，民眾抬出五穀真仙像、大粽，在鑼鼓彩旗、客家十番樂隊、兒童古事棚、花車等伴隨下繞村巡境，祈禱田禾大熟、人民清吉。土地被喚醒，災害被驅散，春回大地，萬象更新，一個新的農業週期又開始輪回。
　　Synopsis
　　Seedlings protection rite (also called the parade of big rice dumplings) is a spring agricultural festival of Hakka people in Western Fujian,China. People worship the the God of Grains (Shennong) in the rite. People collected thousands of fresh bamboo leaves, sew them together and make a pair of big dumplings wrapped with 120 kilograms of rice each. They also made tens of thousands of finger-sized rice dumplings for believers to take home.On the 15th day of the 2nd lunar month, villagers carry out the statues of the God of Grains and big dumplings. Followed by flowers cars, eight sheds carried children chooesn from every surname who dressed up as ancient heroes, people paraded around the village. After the rite, villagers believe that farmland was awakened, disasters would be dispersed. A new agricultural cycle begins.