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In Fujian, there are various forms to celebrate the Dragon Boat Festival.

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All over Fujian, these folk customs of Dragon Boat Festival subvert your imagination.

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Fuzhou: Smoking, drinking tea and dragon boat racing.

Dragon boat race: Fuzhou has a tradition of dragon boat race since ancient times, and this tradition has continued to this day. The dragon boat is more than 3 feet long and about 5 feet wide. Its head and tail are dragon-shaped, with colored dragon bodies painted on both sides. There are 28-30 rowers, flag bearers, gongs and drums players and firecrackers players, totaling 34-38 people. At present, although traditional customs such as "picking lotus" and hanging sachets are rare, the composition, training and participation of personnel are still spontaneously organized by rural farmers.

Smoked yellow smoke: At noon on the Dragon Boat Festival, every household should light yellow smoke and spray it on the corners of walls and corners.

Boil zongzi and wash your body: Fuzhou people will wash their feet, face and body with the water left in the pot after cooking zongzi. It is said that there will be no prickly heat and insect bite after washing in summer.

Drink "afternoon tea"? On the day of the Dragon Boat Festival, people go to the mountains, fields and other places to collect many wild grass leaves, or cut them into pieces or segments, and mix them with tea leaves to dry and save them for later use. Because of the Dragon Boat Festival, it is called "afternoon tea", which has curative effect on cough, stomachache and indigestion, and can also prevent heatstroke and cool down.

Fuzhou-Dragon Boat Festival presents in-laws? Fuzhou Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom, so the daughter-in-law gives shroud, shoes and socks, zongzi and fans to her in-laws.

Changle-throwing rice beam? Farmers in Changle and other places leave several rice trees in the fields and throw them on the beams of houses, thinking that houses will not be eroded by termites and other pests.

Changle-Drowning Goose and Snake? Changle and other places are still killing geese and snakes at noon, and their oil is soaked in salt for the purpose of mosquito bites and swelling.

Fuqing-steaming from scratch? On the second day of May, every household in Fuqing started housework. "Starting from scratch" means that starting from scratch has swelled up and cooked well. Glutinous rice is made of glutinous rice, which is fully developed, ground into pulp, packed in white cotton bags and dried, fermented by yeast, made into round cakes, and steamed with glutinous rice leaves. Because it will swell up after steaming, it is named "getting married", which means getting rich.

Fuqing, Pingtan-fried noodles? Fuqing and Pingtan have the custom of frying cakes during the Dragon Boat Festival. Coarse flour, that is, wheat, is soaked in water, ground into pulp and fried in a large iron pot. Bread is eaten the same as spring cakes, including fried or boiled bean sprouts, leeks, pork and so on. Because the words "mian" and "mian" in Fuqing dialect are homophonic, there is a good blessing of "long life" in it.

Minhou-the custom of "segmentation"? Minhou's son-in-law will give gifts to the Yue family on Duanyang Day, commonly known as "Duanjie". "Minhou County Records" contains: "The Dragon Boat Festival also has the custom of" sending festivals ",that is, marrying women with pig's trotters and noodles as gifts to honor their parents. This custom is mainly popular in Jingxi, Shang Jie, Zhuyu, Baisha, Hongwei, Liyang, Hu Da, Tingping and other mountainous areas and semi-mountainous towns. "

Minhou-Send "Red Festival" and "White Festival"? Some towns and villages such as Hu Da in Minhou County have the custom of sending "Red Festival" and "White Festival" during the Dragon Boat Festival. The Red Festival is a Dragon Boat Festival gift from the married daughter to her parents, including zongzi, noodles, eggs, pig's trotters, lotus leaf buns and so on. Gifts must be given on the third and fourth days. Send zongzi to relatives who lost their adults (parents) before the festival, and those who receive zongzi will come back with Daoxiao Noodles. According to local customs, families who lost their loved ones after the Dragon Boat Festival last year and before the Dragon Boat Festival this year can't make zongzi on the Dragon Boat Festival, otherwise it won't go well. The time to send "White Festival" must be before the second day of the second year. Now many people send "Red Festival" and "White Festival" in cash instead.

Minhou-the custom of "begging for summer clothes" has the custom of "begging for summer clothes" on the sugarcane Dragon Boat Festival. If a girl gets married from last year's Dragon Boat Festival to this year's Dragon Boat Festival, on the third day, her parents-in-law will give her son-in-law clothes, pants, bamboo mats, pillows, fans, towels, zongzi and other gifts. Some towns and villages also send clothes to nephews and granddaughters during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "sending summer clothes" by the people.

Xiamen: Water Race to Catch Ducks and Burn Birthdays

The cross-strait dragon boat race in Xiamen is well known, and catching ducks in the water is a unique custom of the Dragon Boat Festival popular in southern Fujian. During the dragon boat race, there is a cage hanging on the mast, in which ducks are hidden, and some of them contain pigs. The mast is placed horizontally, extending from the shore to the sea surface, and the mast is coated with grease. Those who volunteer to catch ducks should quickly reach the surface along the mast and reach the tail of the mast to catch the cage. At this time, the ducks flew into the sea and swam to catch them. Many people slipped into the sea half of the mast, causing laughter from the audience on the shore. It is said that this is the way for national hero Zheng Chenggong to train sailors, and this custom is also very popular in Quanzhou and other places.

Burn birthday cards by the water? In Tongan County, Xiamen, at noon on Sunday, the birthdays of the whole family are written down and sent to the water for burning, which is called "writing a poem". And insert pine branches and barnyard grass at the door to avoid evil and seek happiness.

Zhangzhou: Take "Gong Wang" and wash the ancient well.

Zhao 'an —— Taking the "tribute king" for hundreds of years, the folk custom of taking the "tribute king" on the Dragon Boat Festival in Zhao 'an County of Zhangzhou City is unique in China. During the Dragon Boat Festival, local villagers carried out the statues of Shen Shiqi and Li, two generals of Chen Yuanguang, the "Holy Kings", and marched around Beiguan, with temple lights leading, knives and axes lined up in double rows, and then sang "Wang Gong Song", formerly known as Dragon Boat Drum Song, which was very lively. In Zhangzhou, people regard the Dragon Boat Festival as a festival second only to the Spring Festival. There are folk customs of making zongzi, making noodles, preparing food for ancestor worship and worshiping God, and there are also customs of not steaming zongzi and sending zongzi to bereaved families.

Hua 'an-Gu Jing in the Bath? It is their custom to "bathe" the ancient wells on the Dragon Boat Festival every year in the Eryi Building of Dida Tulou Formation, Xiandu Town, Hua 'an County, which has lasted for more than 200 years. After noon on the Dragon Boat Festival 12, the cleaners first removed the ground part of the ancient well and cleaned a manhole cover and two auxiliary manhole covers. Then drain the well water, and one person goes down to the bottom of the well with a depth of 4 meters to remove silt and sundries. After cleaning, sprinkle 5 kg of salt into the well to remove the odor, and then seal the manhole cover.

Quanzhou: "Long talk", noon couplets, eating fried piles.

On the fifth day of May every year, the folk custom of "Youyou" in Quanzhou is very splendid. "soliloquy", also known as "picking lotus", has a history of more than 800 years. It is said that "nagging" is the legacy of the ancient Yue people, and "nagging" in singing is the mantra of the ancient Yue people to ward off evil spirits and eliminate disasters. In addition, some people think that "Solocile" is the name of the ancient Vietnamese for the dragon boat, so the transliteration word "Solocile" came into being. In the past, the "wordiness" in Quanzhou was quite prosperous, and it was generally carried out in various stores (in the past, Quanzhou was divided into four corners and thirty-six stores, and the store was divided into boundaries). From the early morning of May 1 Sunday, we first picked the "Toulian", "Erlian" and "Sanlian" from the people in this store, and then went door to door along the street.

Quanzhou —— Writing afternoon couplets "afternoon couplets" is written and pasted with yellow realgar wine or yellow water. The location is only at the entrance of the hall, and the posting time is noon. The commonly used conjunctions in "Wu Lian" are: "Acorus calamus exorcises evil spirits to welcome the celebration, and Artemisia argyi leaves to ward off evil spirits to keep peace", "Artemisia argyi leaves in Duanyang attract a hundred blessings like a flag, and Acorus calamus kills a thousand demons like a sword in the afternoon".

Quanzhou-eat fried dumplings? On the Dragon Boat Festival in Quanzhou, every household should eat "fried piles", which are made of flour, rice flour or sweet potato powder and fried into thick paste. Before the Dragon Boat Festival, it was the rainy season in Quanzhou, and it kept raining. In ancient times, there was a saying that "the sky leaks". People are eager for sunshine, imitating Nu Wa's practice of refining stones to make up the sky, so there is a folk custom of "blowing up piles to make up the sky".

Shishi-Water Splashing Festival at Sea? The custom of crossing the river between Fujian and Taiwan (water splashing festival at sea) in Shishi Hanjiang River is a traditional and unique folk activity with a long reputation. Hanjiang River is located in the south bank of Quanzhou Bay in the north of shishi city. It was once the general estuary of Quanzhou and intersected with Lugang in Taiwan Province. During the Dragon Boat Festival, people on the ferry boat dressed in costumes splashed water on the boat with the river, blended friendship and wished each other good luck, and gradually formed a unique folk custom in the country and even in the world. On the Dragon Boat Festival, the ancient crossing of the Han River is boiling, and people from all directions flock to the seaside. I saw a hundred horse races in Quanzhou Bay. People use all kinds of spoons and buckets to hold seawater, chasing each other to pour water, men and women bathing, steaming. People regard this kind of water as "auspicious water" and "happy water", and let this holy water soak in order to be auspicious, happy and prosperous.

Longyan "four-legged dog" prays for peace

"Four-legged dog" prays for peace? In the past, during the Dragon Boat Festival, adults had to be "four-legged dogs" for their children. In fact, this four-legged dog is consistent with the custom of hanging sachets in other places, but the things hung are different. The mother wants to make a four-legged dog for her child and hang it around her neck to pray for peace and wealth. The so-called "four-legged dog" is actually a cloth tiger. Sachets: Children will wear sachets during the Dragon Boat Festival. Legend has it that they are used to ward off evil spirits and plague. Actually, it is used to decorate the inner head. The sachet contains cinnabar, realgar and fragrant medicine, wrapped in silk cloth, and the fragrance is overflowing, and then tied into a string with five-color silk thread, with different shapes and all kinds of exquisite and lovely.

Zhangping-Covering Fake Zongzi Zhangping County and other places use bamboo leaves to cover chaff into fake Zongzi, and send it outside the house during the Dragon Boat Festival, which is called "sending mosquitoes". On the first day of May, children should be given "good Zongzi" to eat, thinking that children will be obedient after eating "good Zongzi".

Sanming Dragon Boat Festival presents exquisite gifts.

There are many exquisite gifts in Sanming, and there are many novel places in the Hakka Dragon Boat Festival custom in Jianning, Sanming. Generally speaking, the time to send festivals starts from the second day of May, mostly for the younger generation to send festivals to the elders, such as the newly engaged son-in-law to send festivals to her parents-in-law's family, and the nephew to send festivals to her uncle's family. Besides zongzi, there are pork, realgar wine, toys, fans, noodles and so on. There are also exquisite gifts, such as sending a fan, which means sending cool air, refreshing and healthy; Sending noodles, taking the white of noodles, means clean, and sending noodles means clean and smooth.

Shaxian-Pickling calamus Dragon Boat Festival Shaxian has the custom of pickling calamus. On the day of Dragon Boat Festival, the roots of Acorus calamus were washed, sliced and pickled, in case someone at home had a bad stomach and stomachache in summer.

Ninghua-don't drink in the river or in the well? Different from drinking water at noon in other areas, Ninghua and other places think that the water at noon is toxic, so they can't drink water from rivers or wells every day. Its dragon boat paddling is from the first day to the ninth day, and the dragon boat paddling on the ninth day is commonly known as "the ship of plague".

Ningde "send the festival"

During the Dragon Boat Festival in Ningde, the bride's family will give her daughter a Chinese-style chest covering, towels, fans, sachets and other things before the festival, and the bride will give them to the youngest and youngest in the family for three consecutive years, commonly known as "sending the festival". The son-in-law will send "holiday fish" to her parents-in-law, usually yellow croaker. The bigger the gift, the heavier it is, which means "more than gold". On the Dragon Boat Festival, the children in the neighborhood will gather around the newly-married family, and the newly-married wife will tie a five-color rope on her wrist, commonly known as "Memory Festival". At noon, adults drink realgar wine and order children.

In Zhouning, on the first Dragon Boat Festival when her daughter gets married, the woman's parents will send two Jin of pork, at least twenty zongzi, and also prepare green tapestries, red ropes, exorcism pills and other gifts. On the morning of Dragon Boat Festival, both men and women in the village went to their new wives' home for a "vacation". Young people went to use a green sash, and children wrapped their hands and feet with red ropes, which meant that they would climb higher and "rise higher" in the future.

Xiapu-Mazu Water Dragon Boat Race? On the Dragon Boat Festival, there is a unique "Mazu Water Dragon Boat Race" in Songshan Village, Xiapu. Songshan Village is located in the coastal area, and the local people have believed in Mazu for over 1000 years. On the Dragon Boat Festival, believers carried Mazu statue to the seaside, put it on a flower boat, and walked around the village at sea, followed by five dragon boats, forming a spectacular scene of "Our Lady of the Dragon Dynasty". When the fleet landed, it was necessary to immerse Mazu's golden sedan chair in the sea for 36 times, which meant that Mazu sheltered believers every day for 365 days a year, so the lively dragon boat race began.

Shouning-Dragon Boat Festival on the fourth day of May? Shouning still retains the custom of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival on the fourth day of May. In memory of Liu Liang, Li Qiu, Liu Bin and so on 13 "magic doctors" who made great contributions to Shouning County, the custom of celebrating the Dragon Boat Festival in advance on the fourth day of the fifth lunar month has been circulating in Shouning since the Ming Dynasty, and has remained unchanged for 560 years.

Putian recites formulas to celebrate festivals.

The proverb "the first cake, the second zongzi, the third snail, the fourth wormwood and the fifth egg" sums up all the customs of the Dragon Boat Festival in Putian except the dragon boat race.

The "first cake" refers to the rice cakes that people make in the fields on the first day of May. Although the styles of cakes are different, the raw materials and methods of making them are basically the same. Rice is ground into powder and then steamed with sugar, spices and peanuts, which is called "early rice cake". There are also "mint cakes" named after the characteristics of condiments.

"jiaozi the next day" refers to jiaozi the next day. Its production is almost the same as other places, but it is mostly a square jiaozi.

"Third-grade snail" means that most people eat snails in the third grade, which is intended to improve their eyesight.

"Four-day Ai" means that every household inserts Artemisia argyi leaves and calamus on the door to ward off evil spirits, which also means that inserting Ai will make people awake.

"Five-day eggs" means boiled eggs on the fifth day. In the morning, people collect herbs, calamus, pomegranate branches, peach branches and orange branches, which are collectively called "afternoon grass". At noon, "afternoon grass" is cooked with eggs, which tastes delicious. People take a bath with boiled egg soup, put on new summer clothes after the bath, and each person eats two eggs for good luck.

Xianyou-feeding paper to Huxiaotan? After the Dragon Boat Race in Xianyou County, paper was presented at Huxiao Beach to commemorate Qi Jiguang's drowning here during Jiajing period.

Nanping bamboo raft makes phoenix eggs.

The bamboo raft race was held in Wuyishan. Dragon Boat Festival did not use dragon boats as a competition tool, but only passenger bamboo rafts on winding streams competed for water flow. Compared with dragon boat, bamboo raft seems simple and simple, but it is a symbol of Wuyi Mountain's water culture for thousands of years, and it is not a substitute for ordinary dragon boat.

Make phoenix eggs? Wuyishan countryside also has the custom of making phoenix eggs on Dragon Boat Festival, which has nothing to do with commemorating Qu Yuan. Phoenix eggs are smaller than eggs, dark brown, and unattractive, but they are necessary and commonly used local herbs, and have certain curative effects on common diseases such as headache, brain fever, and infantile food retention. Phoenix eggs are made on the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of May. The method is to collect twenty or thirty kinds of medicinal materials, air-dry, mix and mash them, knead them into egg shapes, and air-dry. The collection time is concentrated on the first day of the third month of the lunar calendar or the fifteenth day of March.

Shao Wu-Dou Niang? Before the Dragon Boat Festival in Shaowufu, women used crimson yarn as a symbol of bag filling, five-color velvet as the victory, and colored thread as the hairpin. The girl hung upside down on her back and was called "Dou Niang".

Jianyang-drying medicine bags? Jianyang county takes the 5th as the day when the medicine king dries medicine bags, and every household makes sauce on this day.

Jian' ou-send athel loren? In Jian 'ou, people think that there will be many plagues in May, so in the old society, a grand "send the plague god" activity will be held every night during the Dragon Boat Festival, hoping to exorcise evil spirits and eliminate disasters. This is a large-scale activity attended by the people of the whole city. "Boat Song" (referred to as "Boat Song") is one of the traditional performances of Jian 'ou Dragon Boat Festival. ) The team is also among them. Dozens of people lead singers, help singers and backup singers, with paddles on their shoulders, singing loudly. As the parade went on, good wishes for peace and happiness were sent to every family along the way. ...

As one of the important traditional festivals,

It is essential to pack jiaozi and eat zongzi on this day.

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Fuzhou baizong

Fuzhou has a custom of wrapping white zongzi since ancient times, and peanuts will be added to it. Because white zongzi has no stuffing, it is made of glutinous rice, so most of them will be dipped in white sugar when eating.

When zongzi is cooked, it will leave the water in the pot for washing feet, face and body. It is said that it can disinfect and relieve summer heat, and it will not get prickly heat in summer, and it is not easy to be bitten by insects.

Minnan roasted meat zong

Shaorou Zongzi is a famous traditional food in China in Xiamen, Quanzhou, Zhangzhou and Minnan. Jiaozi with minced meat is made of mushrooms, shrimp, taro, chestnuts, pork and glutinous rice. The wrapped jiaozi can only be cooked by boiling water. After cooking, the brown clothes are opened and the aroma is fragrant. Zongzi is red and yellow, so it tastes sweet but not greasy. When eating, it is delicious with spices such as sand tea sauce, chopped garlic and sweet and spicy sauce. "Hot" and "burning" in Minnan dialect have the same meaning. The so-called "roasted zongzi" means zongzi to be eaten while it is hot. Hot food is more delicious.

Minnan alkali zongzi

Another kind of zongzi that Minnan people like to eat is alkaline zongzi. Alkaline zongzi is cooked by adding lye to glutinous rice, which is soft and slippery. Dragon Boat Festival is in summer, and it is especially popular to add honey or sugar after thorough ice cooling.

Unique bamboo jiaozi in Shejiazhai, Ningde

If you go to Jinbei Shejiazhai in Ningde during the Dragon Boat Festival, you can try the unique Jiang Zong here. On the Dragon Boat Festival every year, the She people will wrap the long leaves that can be collected everywhere in the mountains and make them into round and long closed leaves zongzi. When eating Kanye Zongzi, she people will prepare brown sugar solution in advance and dip it in. It's delicious ~

Fuan Baowen Zongzi

The so-called leopard-print zongzi is actually wrapped in a layer of dried bamboo leaves. The leopard-print zongzi in Ningbo, Zhejiang Province is the most famous, and Fu 'an also has it.

Longyan niujiaozong

It is said that Longyan people also call the Dragon Boat Festival the May Festival. Usually, children put on new clothes and the whole family get together for a big meal. Because Longyan people like to eat incense, they usually fry onions, mushrooms and meat together as the stuffing of zongzi. There are usually two kinds of zongzi, one is the usual shape, and the other is "Niu Jiao Zongzi", with a big head and a pointed tail.

Locals often say to children, "Don't make noise, I'll give you eight shots." This kind of baga gun is a kind of gun. Because jiaotangyuan is very similar to a gun, adults often coax children like this during the Dragon Boat Festival.

Nanping glutinous rice balls are going to beat us.

Zongzi is also the highlight of the Dragon Boat Festival in northern Fujian, but Nanping people usually make zongzi before the festival, so they should catch up early rather than late. Because they have a special family, the first family to make zongzi is the most auspicious. But it is always difficult to win the first prize, so most people will choose the second and third grade clothes and the fourth grade clothes, but they will quarrel.