What are the customs of Quanzhou?

Chest-beating dance is a major feature of Quanzhou folk dance. There is no limit to the number of chest dancers, but they are all strong men, wearing round leather rings on their heads, bare upper bodies and ribbons around their waists, dancing with the slow, medium and fast rhythm and steps of accompaniment songs such as "Wind Beating Pears" and "Three Thousand and Two Gold".

2. Color ball dance

Colored ball dance, also known as "kicking the ball" and "tribute the ball", is one of the main forms of folk cultural activities such as festivals, games to meet the gods, weddings, funerals and celebrations. The dance is in the form of four girls wearing "hairpin flowers", colorful embroidered shoes and an ugly girl wearing "lilac holder", dancing around a colored ball with a long handle.

Girls and ugly girls hold the ball with their hands, shoulders, head and knees, hold the ball, head the ball and kick the ball. Ugly women perform humorous performances, or carry the ball on their backs, or catch it on their knees, or swing it on their shoulders, or lift their feet around the ball, singing and dancing, which is vivid.

3. The Mystery of Wrong Palace

"Cuo Gong Fan", also known as "Lotus Picking", is a folk dance performed in Quanzhou during the Dragon Boat Festival, which originated from the "exorcism" in ancient Quanzhou and the "Lotus Picking Dance Team" in the Tang and Song Dynasties. A dance team usually consists of 10 to dozens of people.

4. Dismiss Ding Gong Ding Huo Bo.

"Ding Huo Gong Ding Huo Po" was performed by three people: Gong was holding a long orange pipe; Huo Dingpo holds a big round cattail leaf fan; The village girl dressed in cardigan wide pants, embroidered soft-soled cloth shoes and a load of firewood tied with rope on her shoulder was dressed as a "servant girl".

The couple carried a big iron tripod with a long bamboo pole, and the fire in the tripod was soaring. Accompanied by the rhythm of folk songs such as "Ten Flowers String", they danced in the streets watching people step on the streets and communicated with the audience with funny actions and humorous language. The village girl followed her, carrying a firewood, and followed the dance steps.

The moral of this dance is to look forward to a rich life.

5. Donkeys visit relatives

Donkeys visiting relatives are performed by four people. A pair of old husbands dressed as clowns were tied to "donkeys" on bamboo paper and let them ride on donkeys. The old man led the donkey, followed by his daughter and "silly son-in-law".

The plot is roughly that the old in-laws had a quarrel with their in-laws because of their daughter's marriage, and they took their daughter and other donkeys to the man's house to judge. Dance shows the scene of four people in this family on the road: lively, humorous and full of fun. "Donkeys visiting relatives" first appeared in the performance of "pretending to be people" in the folk social fire in the late Qing Dynasty.

6. Car encouragement

The manifestations of "car encouragement" vary greatly from place to place. Most of the movements absorbed the steps of China traditional opera. Folk tunes are mostly used in music, such as Chegudiao, Four Seasons Song and Genggudiao. The team dance lineup is spectacular, uniform and warm.

7. Huian girl

This is an ancient traditional costume popular in Huian Chongwu, Quanzhou. She wore a bright little flower towel on her head, which covered her cheeks and chin and only broke her eyes, nose and mouth. She was wearing a short and narrow cardigan, revealing her belly, wearing black wide-leg pants, forging a chain around her waist, holding a silver bracelet and carrying a small bamboo basket. This is the traditional dress of Huidong women.

8, Xunpu female

Women in fishing villages in the suburbs of Quanzhou have the custom of keeping hairpin flowers. This kind of women's hair accessories is a custom handed down by Arabs in Song and Yuan Dynasties. Zanhuawei is simple to make and unique in pattern. Flowers in bud or just released are composed of hemp thread, and there are three small rings around the bun, with alternating colors. Hosta and silver comb are also inserted.

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The main specialties of Quanzhou:

1, special staple food

Salted rice, radish rice, mustard rice, cauliflower rice, braised pork rice, taro rice, pot-covered rice, Quanzhou fried rice? Fish porridge, duck porridge, noodles, batter, tiger-headed rice noodles, bean strips, floating fruit, glutinous rice balls, beans, glutinous rice balls, meatballs, sweet potato flour kway teow, eggplant kway teow, shredded chicken noodles with sauerkraut, floating dumplings.

2. Special soup

Palace Pills, Fish Pills (Shenhu Shuiwan), Yuanxiao Pills, Yongchun White Duck Soup, Black Bean keel soup, Kucai Dachang Soup, Mackerel Soup, Cuttlefish Stems, Mushroom Bean Pork Tongue Soup, Enema Soup, Shishi Beef Soup, Lotus Root Pork Soup, Radish Pork Soup, Corn Pork Soup, Tofu Soup, Colorful Scallop Soup, Rouyan Soup and Pig Blood.

3. Special steamed stuffed bun

Crystal bag, meat bun bag, oriental bag, vegetable bag, fried bag.

4. Special vegetarian dishes

Anxi Shuiweng vegetable, tender cake vegetable, cellar vegetable, Dehua Hu Aishan, cold bitter gourd, spicy oil bamboo shoots, mashed garlic eggplant and sesame oil mixed with kelp.

5. Special meat dishes

Honglai Chicken Feet, Chongwu Fish Roll, West Street Snail, Ginger Duck, Braised Pig's Foot with Eel, Braised Pig's Elbow, Roasted Pig's Foot, Steak (Different from Western Steak), Stewed Mutton in Watergate Lane, Pig's Blood Small Intestine, Oyster (Dongshi Oyster) (Xunpu Oyster), Steamed Tuna, Steamed Eggs with Meretrix meretrix, Steamed Oil Clam and Stir-fried Mud Clam.

6. Special dessert

Shihua Cream, Qiancaoke (Xiancaomi), Orange Red Cake, Mung Bean Cake, Rice Pill, Hemp Cake (Maji), Snake Tortoise, Bowl Cake, Peanut Soup, Bean Paste Cake, Shishi Tangtou Sweet Cake, Shishi Taro, Taro Cake, Taro (Taro Paste), Frozen Bamboo Shoots, Persimmon.

References:

Baidu encyclopedia-Quanzhou