What are the customs in Quanzhou?

1. Breast clapping dance

Breast clapping dance is a major feature of Quanzhou folk dance. There is no limit to the number of performers of the breast-beating dance, but they are all strong men. They wear round leather hoops on their heads, their upper bodies are bare, and their waists are tied with colorful ribbons. A dance performance with three rhythms: slow, medium and fast and dance step formations.

2. Ball dance

The ball dance, also known as "kickball" and "tribute ball", is a folk performance performed during festivals, games to welcome gods, weddings and funerals, etc. One of the main forms of literary and artistic activities. The form of the dance involves four young girls with hairpins in their buns, wearing colorful clothes and embroidered shoes, and an ugly woman wearing a "lilac holder" on her head, dancing around a colored ball held by a man holding a long-handled colored ball.

Girls and ugly women use their hands, shoulders, heads and knees to hold the ball, hold the ball, head the ball, and kick the ball. The ugly women perform lively and humorous performances, or carry the ball on their backs, or catch it with their knees. Ball, or ball with shoulders, or feet raised around the ball, singing and dancing, lifelike

3. The mystery of the gong

"The mystery of the gong", also known as "Cai Lian", is from Quanzhou. A folk dance performed during the Dragon Boat Festival in this region originated from the ancient Quanzhou "Quanzhou Nuo" and the "Lotus Picking Dance Team" of the Tang and Song Dynasties. The dance team usually consists of 10 to dozens of people. >4. Huo Ding Gong Huo Ding Po

"Huo Ding Gong Huo Ding Po" is performed by three people: Huo Ding Gong holds a long orange wood pipe; Huo Ding Po holds a large round cattail fan; the village girl Wearing a placket, wide trousers, and embroidered soft-soled cloth shoes, she carried a load of firewood tied with ropes on her shoulders. She was dressed as a "maid".

The father-in-law and the mother-in-law were carrying it on a long bamboo pole. A large iron cauldron with blazing flames dances through the alleys to the tune of the folk tune "Shihua Chuan" and entertains the village girls with funny movements and humorous language. Behind him, he is carrying a load of firewood and dancing closely together.

The meaning of this dance is to hope for a prosperous life.

5. The donkey visits relatives.

The Donkey Visiting Relatives performance is performed by four people. An old couple dressed as harlequins have donkeys made of bamboo and paper tied to their bodies, as if they are riding a donkey. The old man leads the donkey, followed by his daughter and his "silly son-in-law".

The plot is roughly that the husband-in-law has a quarrel with his in-laws over their daughter's marriage, and they are going to the groom's house with their daughter and others on a donkey. The dance shows the scene of the four members of the family on the road: lively, humorous, and full of fun. "It first appeared in the popular folk "make-up" performances in the late Qing Dynasty.

6. Che Gu Gu

The performance forms of "Che Da Gu" vary greatly from place to place. Most of the movements are absorbed The music is based on folk tunes, such as "Chegu Tune", "Four Seasons Song", "Genggu Tune", etc. The team dance lineup is spectacular and uniform, and the atmosphere is warm.

7. Hui'an. Female

This is an ancient traditional costume popular in Chongwu, Hui'an, Quanzhou City. The head is covered with a small bright flower scarf, covering the cheeks and chin, only covering the eyes, nose, and mouth, and the upper body is worn diagonally. The cardigan is short and narrow, exposing the belly, and she wears black wide-leg pants, a chain belt around her waist, a silver bracelet on her hand, and a small bamboo basket. This is the traditional Huidong female dress.

8 , Xunpu women

Women in the fishing villages on the outskirts of Quanzhou have the custom of retaining hairpin hair ornaments. It is said that this hairpin hair ornament was a custom spread by the Arabs in the Song and Yuan Dynasties. The hairpin hairpins are simple to make and unique in style. The budding or newly blooming flowers are decorated with hemp silk threads and surrounded by hairpins. There are up to three small rings around the bun, with alternate colors, and also inserted with jade hairpins, silver combs, etc.

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Main specialties of Quanzhou:

1. Special staple food

Salty rice, radish rice, mustard rice, cauliflower rice, braised pork rice, taro rice Rice, pot rice, Quanzhou fried rice? Fish porridge, duck porridge, braised noodles, noodle paste, Hutou rice noodles, bean sticks, floating fruit, dough balls, bean rice dumplings, sweet rice dumplings, meat rice dumplings, sweet potato flour rice dumplings , Australian eggplant cake, pickled chicken shredded noodles, floating cake.

2. Special soups

Gong balls, fish balls (Shenhu water balls), Yuanxiao balls, Yongchun white duck soup, black bean and keel soup, bitter vegetable and large intestine soup, horse mackerel soup , cuttlefish stalks, mushrooms, beans and pig tongue soup, sausage soup, Shishi beef soup, lotus root ribs soup, radish ribs soup, corn ribs soup, water tofu soup, colorful scallop soup, meat swallow soup, pig blood soup

3. Specialty steamed buns

Crystal steamed buns, meat buns, oriental steamed buns, vegetable steamed buns, and fried steamed buns.

4. Special vegetable vegetables

Anxi water urn vegetables, tender pancake vegetables, cellar vegetables, Dehua Huaishan, cold bitter gourd, bamboo shoots with spicy oil, eggplant with garlic paste, and kelp mixed with sesame oil.

5. Special meat dishes

Honglai chicken feet, Chongwu fish rolls, West Street snails, ginger duck, stewed pig trotters with dried eels, braised pork knuckles, baked pig trotters, Steak (different from Western steak), Shuimen Alley stewed mutton, pig blood intestines, oysters (Dongshi oysters) (Xunpu oysters), steamed tuna, steamed clam eggs, soy sauce clams, steamed oil clams, fried mud clams, steamed Bitter conch, fried razor clam, fried big head snail, shark jelly, fried shrimp skin with mustard greens, whole duck with ten spices, braised duck with fragrant taro.

6. Special desserts

Shihua paste, madder cake (immortal grass cake), orange cake, mung bean cake, rice balls, mochi (moji), bangshe turtle, bowl Cake, peanut soup, bean paste cake, Shishi Tangtou sweet cake, Shishi taro balls, taro cake, taro paste (taro paste), bamboo shoot jelly, persimmon cake, turnip sour, sweet and sour lotus root slices, tribute sugar, coconut cake, snow La Gao, four fruit soup, etc.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Quanzhou