【亚洲·日本】广岛县的壬生花田植 Mibu no Hana Taue, ritual of transplanting rice in Mibu, Hiroshima（2011年）

Mibu no Hana Taue是日本广岛县北路岛镇的Mibu和Kawahigashi社区举行的一种农业仪式，目的是通过庆祝米神来确保丰收。在6月的第一个星期日，在实际的水稻插秧结束后，这个仪式将设定种植和插秧的阶段。村民们把牛带到米布神社，用精心装饰的马鞍和五颜六色的项链装饰。一位长者拿着一根神圣的棍子，然后带着他们来到一片专门为仪式保留的稻田。牛耕地后，穿着鲜艳衣服的女孩在一位长者的指导下一边唱歌一边把幼苗放在箱子里。然后用一个器具（eburi）平整稻田，据说里面有稻田的神灵。然后，女孩们一个接一个地移植幼苗，向后走，然后是eburi用户和携带幼苗的人，他们经过时平整田地。仪式歌曲由鼓、笛和小锣伴奏。一旦这种仪式性的移植完成，eburi将与三束水稻幼苗一起倒放在水中。长老们知道种植水稻的歌曲和音乐，并监督仪式的顺利进行，确保了传播。

2011年度列入人类非物质文化遗产名录。

来源：联合国教科文组织亚太地区非物质文化遗产国际培训中心

Mibu no Hana Taue is a Japanese agricultural ritual carried out by the Mibu and Kawahigashi communities in Kitahiroshima Town, Hiroshima Prefecture to assure an abundant rice harvest by celebrating the rice deity. On the first Sunday of June, after the actual rice transplanting has ended, the ritual enacts the stages of planting and transplanting. Villagers bring cattle to Mibu Shrine to be dressed with elaborately decorated saddles and colourful necklaces. An elder carrying a sacred stick then leads them to a rice field specially kept in reserve for the ritual. After the cattle have ploughed the field, colourfully dressed girls place seedlings inside a case while singing a song under the direction of an elder. Then the rice field is levelled with an implement (eburi), said to contain the deity of rice fields. The girls then transplant the seedlings one by one, walking backwards, followed by the eburi-user and the person carrying the seedlings, who level the field as they pass. Ritual songs are sung accompanied by drums, flutes and small gongs. Once this ritual transplantation is completed, the eburi is placed upside down in water with three bunches of rice seedlings. Transmission is ensured by the elders, who know the songs and music for rice planting and oversee the ritual’s smooth execution.

Included in the list of human intangible cultural heritage in 2011.

Source: UNESCO International Training Center for intangible cultural heritage in the Asia Pacific Region