The custom of Changle

Changle, a suburban county more than 30 kilometers away from Fuzhou, is a fairly wealthy county-level city. There are many overseas Chinese, many people who go abroad illegally, many people who go out to work, and many local enterprises, but there are also unprecedented large-scale folk activities-wandering the gods. The visiting God is Five Blessingg the Great, one of the local protectors in Fuzhou. The villagers happily carried the gods from village to village and carried out a series of symbolic ceremonies called "chasing the epidemic along the door" in folklore. More people made wishes and asked the gods to help them realize their dreams. The ceremony will last from morning till midnight.

Meeting the gods is a folk activity held in Changle village in the first month, which has a strong Taoist color. After the fourth day of the first lunar month, it is a time to wander around and become one of the important activities of "New Year" (Spring Festival) in rural areas. Wandering gods often take villages as units, and sometimes several villages unite. They use open-top buses to carry statues of local gods, such as Huaguang Emperor, White Horse King and Linshui Milk, as well as bamboo "bones" statues of the main gods and their subordinates, such as children's brothers, seven lords and eight lords. People hold gongs, drums and firecrackers and parade in groups in the village, and people stand on both sides of the street to watch.

Before fugue, blood-related families usually put tables together, and wealthy families will naturally offer more tables, and the longer they wander. In foreign countries, the guardian of God is called an angel. Here, the guardian of God is a child with the appearance of an official. This is the head of the protagonist, Five Blessingg the Great with golden face and three eyes. According to legend, Five Blessingg the Great was one of the five sons of Fuzhou. On his way back to his hometown, he saw athel Loren poisoning the well. Five people were poisoned to death by throwing themselves into the well to warn the villagers without informing them. After they knew it, they were grateful and dedicated it to the Five Emperors (there are also five athel lorens, which may be unpleasant, but there is only Five Blessingg Temple in Fuzhou). Only men carry their backs on God, and most of them are women, probably because men are outside and women are inside. The gods lined up and patrolled its "territory" with an unchanging look. ...

residence

In the old society, Changle people's houses were mostly single-story civil structures. Some quadrangles, small ones with four straight (bay), big ones with six five straight or eight seven straight, are surrounded by wind and fire walls; Generally, it is a hall, with rooms on both sides and eardrop rooms on both sides; Some have halls and patios in front and back. Usually houses are fixed with earth walls in three rows and six rows. The scattered houses are mostly single-family houses, with Chai Fei as their shelter. The mansions of rich families and officials were built in the sixth, fourth, third and third rows. In addition to corridors, pavilions, halls, patios and flower halls, there are deep courtyards with "three entrances" and "seven entrances", such as "Sima Di" in the county seat and "Qiyang Village in Shang He", and some still have archways and stone lions in front of the door.

The residential structure in the old city of Changle is relatively unified except that Zhongshan Road (now Jiefang Road) is made of brick-wood structure and He Xia Street is made of Chinese fir. Most of the rest belong to the single-story civil structure format of "four fans, three" or "six fans, five" in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, with wind-fire walls and high land consumption rate.

After the founding of New China, most of the newly-built houses have two floors, some with four or five floors, some with stones, some with bricks and some with concrete. It is common to lay concrete on the ground and use reinforced concrete on the roof. After 1980s, the number of new houses in urban and rural areas increased. Modern residential design attaches importance to the format of four windows and front balcony. Most of the dormitories and commercial houses in institutions, enterprises and institutions are suites. The ground floor is the utility room, and the suites are equipped with bedroom, living room, kitchen and bathroom. Modern houses are row upon row, more than ten stories high, which are both beautiful and land-saving.