Xunpu Girl is pronounced as: xún? The title of the fisherman girl from Xuanpu Village, Quanzhou, Fujian Province. Legend has it that they are descendants of the ancient Arabs, and they still retain the custom of wearing hairpins on their heads.

The customs of women in Xunpu are one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Xunpu retains many traditional customs in southern Fujian, including unique wedding festival customs, New Year festival customs, festive festival customs and sacrificial rituals, among which The wedding custom of "getting married in the middle of the night" and the sacrificial ceremony of "Mazu's incense patrol" are the most prominent.

Early Xianpu girls grew their hair long when they were children. When they were eleven or twelve years old, they would put their hair on the back of their heads, tie it with a red headband, comb it into a bun, and then wear it. On the top of a "bone bun", the buds or buds of flowers are strung into a garland, with as few as one or two rings, as many as four or five rings, and then the bun is used as the center of the circle, and the circle is worn behind the head.

Then insert a few bright red or pink hairpins, silk flowers or flowers symmetrically around the center of the bun, and then insert gold or silver hairpins or combs for your feet. The whole head is decorated like a small flower bed full of spring, beautiful and fragrant.

2. Cunpu Village

Cunpu Village in Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province has a history of a thousand years. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, it was known as the largest port in the East - Cipu Village. Tonggang is the location of numerous ocean-going merchant ships that have set out here.

The people of Xunpu "live on the sea and use the sea as their farmland". Their husbands go fishing or do offshore business for days or months at a time. Regardless of the cold winter or summer months, or when the tide is low, the women of Xunpu carry fish baskets on their backs, roll up their trousers, and walk barefoot among the "oyster plants" to raise oysters and plant razor clams. For a long time, the Chunpu girls have shown the female style of Southern Fujian women who are hard-working, enterprising, filial to their relatives and elders, and advocating virtue and doing good.