闹春田

在福建省长汀县童坊镇举河村，每年正月十三都会举行关圣帝君（协天大帝）巡田活动，当地人习惯称之“甩泥佛”“疯烂泥菩萨”，而官方雅其名曰“闹春田”。举河村为多姓氏杂居共处的客家社区，“闹春田”是以血缘和地缘为双重纽带的地方狂欢节庆。每年的大福首以打破宗族界限的“棚”为单位递年轮值，负责酬神建醮，大宴宾客，其间还伴有船灯、青狮武术、十番、艳舞等娱神娱民活动。各姓氏青壮男子则接力将关帝爷抬至各姓的水田中奔跑嬉闹，这种人神共欢场面由晨至昏，由村头至村尾，分别会在刘、胡、陈王、马、黄、曾诸姓所在六坵田高潮迭起。在过去没有化肥农药的时代，村民用如此方式来减少虫害，并以蓬勃的生命力唤醒春田。

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.