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Festive customs of Minnan people
Qingming Festival

There is also the custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day's ancestor worship in southern Fujian, but it is generally not limited to "celebrating the sun" and the time is relatively wide. The customary time for sweeping graves is the first ten days and the last ten days in Tomb-Sweeping Day. During this period, people who go out will generally strive to go home for the festival to worship their ancestors and go to the graves of their loved ones to sweep graves, cultivate soil, plant trees and present paper. There is a saying in southern Fujian that "there will be no tomb (ancestor) if you don't go home on Qingming Day", which shows that people attach importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day.

In Tomb-Sweeping Day in southern Fujian, people generally have the habit of eating "tender cakes". Tender cakes, that is, vegetarian dishes sacrificed to tombs, such as fried carrots, dried beancurd, pork, fried oysters or other foods, are cut into filaments, mixed with mushrooms, raw bamboo shoots and monosodium glutamate, sprinkled with seaweed powder, wrapped in tender cakes, rolled into a round roll, and dipped in sweet sauce or hot sauce for eating.

Mid-Autumn Festival

Barreled cake

Mid-Autumn Festival cake is also called champion cake. From big to small, the cakes are divided into "Top Scholar", "Top Scholar", "Flower Exploration", "Scholar", "Juren" and "Scholar" step by step. The total number of 63 cakes is called "Full Box". When playing, each person throws a lottery ticket with six dice in turn, and wins by analogy with the "four reds" and the highest number of points, and takes cakes according to the order.

Solve riddles; solve lantern riddles; guess riddles on hanging lanterns

Also known as lantern riddles, there are many styles such as "seeing plum blossoms", "swinging", "shrimp whiskers" and "rolling curtains". Please arrange the riddles and get the prizes in advance, and then stick the riddles on the lanterns respectively. When the answer hits, the deacon will beat gongs and drums to report the color and give prizes.

Knot a "brocade shed"

Also known as the knot "light shed", that is, the Mid-Autumn Festival is composed of Nanyin (or other folk arts) voluntarily, or sung and ensemble by individuals or associations. Generally, it is very lively to set up a platform in the open areas such as the palace gate, the front of the temple or the threshing floor, with shading on the top, curtains on the left and right sides, carved wooden screens in the middle, etc.

Dragon Boat Festival

The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is the Dragon Boat Festival, also known as Duanyang Festival, Noon Festival, May Festival, Ai Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chung Noon Festival, Noon Festival and Summer Festival. Although the names are different, the customs of people everywhere are the same. Dragon Boat Festival is an old custom in China for more than two thousand years. On this day, every household hangs clocks and statues, hangs mugwort leaves and calamus, races dragon boats, eats zongzi, drinks realgar wine, swims in various diseases, wears sachets and prepares sacrifices.