Pu NV de tou Shang garden

The bug girl is the daughter of the sea, and the tide rises every day.

The ebb and flow have their worries and hopes.

Compared with Hui 'an women and Meizho

The bug girl is the daughter of the sea, and the tide rises every day.

The ebb and flow have their worries and hopes.

Compared with Hui 'an women and Meizhou women, the traditional dress of the insect-seeking woman is nothing special, but a dyed shirt with a narrow top and a wide bottom. However, the headdress of the insect-seeking woman is the most charming among the three major fishermen in Fujian, and it is more appropriate to describe it as "the garden on the head".

When combing her hair, the insect-seeking girl first puts a bun in the back of her head.

Insert big shark spines or plastic chopsticks into the bun and fix them. Then put two or three layers of garlands composed of small flowers in season around the bun, and then symmetrically insert a few bright red, peach-red Zan flowers, silk flower or flowers, just like the flower bed full of spring breath in the modern city center (above). Some women who are looking for Bao are not satisfied, so they insert double-angle hairpins or combs made of gold and silver on both sides of the bun. This layered, orderly, flowery and elegant hairstyle, from a distance, has a faint fragrance floating, dazzling, thus ignoring the barefoot or slippers of the insect-seeking girl. This "top-heavy" dress is the same feature of Fujian fisherman women.

In Xunpu village, I walked into the yard of an old house and saw many old photos hanging on the ancestral hall. A woman wears a big hairpin on her head, and the "hairpin" at the back of her head is looming. In this black-and-white photo, only the hairpin flowers are painted in color, which shows that the locals never dare to neglect the "Touyuan". The local people told me that women looking for insects are willing to spend money to buy "flower hairpin" on their heads. There is a horn comb factory in Fuzhou that specializes in making all kinds of colorful horn combs, fish and birds for them, and there are people in neighboring villages who specialize in planting smiling flowers, jasmine flowers and coarse chaff flowers for them. It is amazing that the beautiful headdress of the insect-seeking girl has actually completed a small industry!

When was the women's dress culture of Insect Soupu formed? Many people are puzzled by this, and experts also have their own opinions. There are many views that with the formation of the Maritime Silk Road and the increasingly close foreign exchanges in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, the simple and natural aesthetics of the aborigines and the distinctive marine cultural characteristics were combined to form such an alternative clothing style.

Insect-seeking girls like to dress up and are hardworking and capable. These fishermen's women and men who live by the sea go fishing or go out to do business. They weave nets at home, take care of their children, knock out oysters and carry goods for businessmen. Even today, walking in the village, you can still see them rushing by with seafood, or knocking and peeling oysters in their yard. Today, in various vegetable markets in Quanzhou, the seafood sold by the worm girl still has a good reputation.

Insect search is too close to the bustling Quanzhou. Many young women have gone to pursue fashion and their hair styles have changed. However, the middle-aged and elderly women in the village stick to traditional culture, wearing buns and flowers on their heads every day, and some like to pin a red plastic wallet around their waist. Because of the rise of tourism craze, some young women looking for Po are also driving.