What are the customs of Quanzhou?

1. Chest clap dance

Chest clap dance is a major feature of Quanzhou folk dance. There are any number of chest dancers, but all of them are strong men, wearing round leather hoops on their heads, bare upper bodies and ribbons around their waists, and dancing with the slow, medium and fast rhythms and dance steps of accompaniment songs such as "Wind Beating Pears" and "Three Thousand and Two Gold".

2. Colored ball dance

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

Girls and ugly women hold the ball with their hands, shoulders, heads and knees, hold the ball, head the ball and kick the ball. The ugly woman is lively and witty, or she carries the ball with her back, or catches it with her knees, or lifts her feet around the ball, singing and dancing, which is vivid.

3. Cuo Gong Mystery

"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 1 to dozens of people.

4. Huoding Gong Huo Ding Po

"Huoding Gong Huo Ding Po" is performed by three people: Huoding Gong holds a long orange pipe; Huo Dingpo holds a big round cattail fan; The village girl is dressed in a cardigan and wide trousers, embroidered soft-soled cloth shoes, and a load of firewood tied with a rope on her shoulder, which is a "maid" dress.

The husband and wife carried a big iron tripod with a long bamboo pole, and the tripod was full of flames. With the rhythm of folk tunes such as "Ten Flowers String", they danced through the people's alley watching the tramping on the street, and communicated with the audience with funny actions and humorous language. The village girl followed her, carrying a firewood, and stepping closely with the dance steps.

the moral of this dance is to look forward to a prosperous life.

5. Donkeys visiting relatives

Donkeys visiting relatives are performed by four people, and a pair of old in-laws dressed as clowns are tied with "donkeys" mounted on bamboo and paper to make them ride donkeys; The old man leads the donkey, followed by his daughter and "silly son-in-law".

The plot is roughly that the old in-laws have a quarrel with their in-laws because of their daughter's marriage, and they take their daughter and others to the man's house to have a discussion. The 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 "dressing up people" in the folk social fire in the late Qing Dynasty.

6. Car Encouragement

The performance forms of "Car Encouragement" vary greatly from place to place. Most of the movements absorb traditional Chinese opera steps. Music mostly adopts folk tunes, such as "car drum tune", "four seasons song" and "more drum tune". The team dance lineup is spectacular, uniform and warm.

7. Hui 'an Daughter

This is an ancient traditional costume popular in Huian Chongwu, Quanzhou. She wore a bright little flower towel on her head, covered her cheeks and chin, and only broke her eyes, nose and mouth. She wore a short and narrow cardigan on her upper body, 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 women

Women in fishing villages in the suburbs of Quanzhou have the custom of keeping the hairpin flower enclosure. This kind of women's hair accessories is a custom spread by Arabs in Song and Yuan Dynasties. The hairpin flower circumference is simple to make, and the pattern is unique. The budding or newly-released flowers are made up of hemp thread, surrounded by three small rings around the bun, and the colors are alternate. Hosta and silver comb are also inserted.

Extended information:

Main specialties of Quanzhou:

1. Special staple food

Salted rice, radish rice, mustard rice, cauliflower rice, braised pork rice, taro rice, pot rice and Quanzhou fried rice? Fish porridge, duck porridge, noodles, noodles paste, Hutou rice noodles, bean sticks, floating fruits, rice balls, bean dumplings, sweet dumplings, meat dumplings, sweet potato flour kway teow, eggplant kway teow, shredded chicken noodles with Chinese sauerkraut, and floating dumplings.

2. Special soups

Gongwan, Fish Pill (Shenhu Shuiwan), Yuanxiao Pill, Yongchun White Duck Soup, Black Bean keel soup, Bitter Vegetable Large Intestine Soup, Mackerel Soup, Cuttlefish Stems, Mushroom Bean Pig Tongue Soup, Enema Soup, Shishi Beef Soup, Lotus Rib Soup, Radish Sparrow Soup, Corn Sparrow Soup, Water.

4. Special vegetarian dishes

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

5. Special meat dishes

Honglai chicken feet, Chongwu fish roll, West Street snail, ginger duck, braised pig's feet with eel, braised pig's elbows, roasted pig's feet, steak (different from western steak), stewed mutton in Shuimen Lane, small intestine with pig's blood, oyster (Dongshi oyster), steamed tuna, steamed eggs with clam and fragrant sauce.

6. Special desserts

Shihua cream, Qian Caoke (Xiancaomi), orange red cake, mung bean cake, dregs pill, Ma Ke (Maji), Bangshe turtle, bowl cake, peanut soup, bean paste cake, Shishi Tangtou sweet cake, Shishi taro ball, taro cake, etc.

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Quanzhou.