Dongtou eight coquettish Dongtou eight coquettish, refers to: "wooden boat with fire baking, driving boat by feet, paper lanterns floating on the water, the animals run all over the boat"; "raw rice pot fried, cooked rice with powder package, cat ears boiled in the water, the beauty of your bite".　The first four coincidences are fishery production customs, and the last four coincidences are fishing village eating customs.　Wooden boat with fire baked </B> tourists to the plain beach, often see the fishermen to the wooden boat tilted, in the bottom of the boat burning fire. At this time you must not fuss and shout fire, fishermen are in the wooden boat "beauty" miles! Wooden boat sailing at sea for a period of time, the bottom of the boat will be attached to some sea shells such as oysters, barnacles and so on, if not removed in time, not only affects the speed, will also corrode the board, the consequences are endless. So every certain time, the fishermen will put the boat on the beach, first clear off the shellfish, and then baked with fire, which is equal to the bottom surface of the boat coated with a protective layer, so that the sea shells are not easy to attach.　Ride the boat by feet </B> Dongtou County has 100,000 acres of sea paint. Whenever the tide goes out, a large piece of the sea like black satin exposed. At this time people have been under the Tu, some catch clams, pick razor clams, some catch cuttings net stop the fish and shrimp. The sea is so vast and the mud is so deep that it takes a lot of effort to take a step. So the sea people invented the "mud boat". This boat is more than a meter long, 80cm wide, neither paddle nor sail, as long as both hands hold tightly to the middle of the boat's transom, a half-squatting foot inside the boat, a foot in the mud on the stirrups, that the canoe will be fast forward than in the mud on the walk, not only much faster, but also save energy. So there is "driving the boat by two feet" said.　Paper Lanterns Floating on the Water </B> In the past, every July 29 of the lunar calendar, Dongtou has the custom of releasing paper lanterns all over the world. Water lanterns with colored glossy paper cut into 7cm × 10cm size, folded paste into a small bowl shape, with vegetable oil soaked burlap rolled into the upper tip of the lower large cone-shaped wick, pasted in a small bowl; and then the small bowl arranged in order on a piece of thin wooden board. At night when the tide is out, light the wick, put the board underwater, paper lanterns will take advantage of the tide floating out to sea, gradually far away. Although this water lamp is made of paper, but because it is oil light paper, not easily permeable to water, so you can float in the sea for a long time. Put this paper lanterns, the earliest is to send away the "lonely souls and wild ghosts", later renamed "jellyfish lamp", praying for jellyfish production harvest. Now it has been changed into a folklore lantern event entertainment program. When releasing the water lanterns, there are many lights and even more people, the scene is very spectacular.　Animals running all over the boat </B> fishermen all year round in the sea running, to the sea for the field, to the boat for home, fishing boat is not only a production tool, but also a place to live. But in the past, on the fishing boat, there is no radio, nor newspapers and books, in addition to the partners of the same boat, can not find other creatures, life is extremely boring. Clever fishermen will be in the fishing boat brainstorming, with the zodiac and other animals to call the boat parts and fishing gear. Such as the bottom of the boat ridge the thickest and longest wood called "keel", the stern and keel of the boat at the intersection called "Tiger Tail", the mast of the boat to tie the wind vane of the rope is called "cowhair", lifting the pulley used for the tent sail is called "Monkey head", and rat bridge, snake rope, dog legs, chicken flag, antlers, tortoise shell and so on. In this way, take appliances or, work or, called the export of animals, as if the animals run all over the boat, not only seems kind and warm, but also easy to remember, the new young people off the boat as soon as possible to familiarize themselves with mastery. Really cohesive fishing people's ingenuity ah!　The above is about the production aspect, the following is the life aspect.　Raw rice fried in the pot </B> raw rice into the pot fried, into the "fried rice", the most simple and convenient food, we read from the Chinese People's Volunteers fought in North Korea in the article, the soldiers marching in the ice and snow, eating "a handful of fried rice a handful of snow! ". However, in our island, this practice of processing fried rice has existed as early as the 1920s. At that time, the fishing village poor, women have children in menstruation, nothing to nourish the body, a little rice is considered very good. Can boil rice for a long time, eat and fear of cold, so the first rice fried canned standby, when you need to pour out some of the pot congee, fast, taste is also good. Stir-fried rice smell quite fragrant, we called this rice "rice incense", is the maternal specialties. Now the fashionable name, should be categorized as convenience food, called "instant rice". It appeared much earlier than "instant noodles".　Cooked rice wrapped in flour </B> and raw rice fried in the pot on the contrary, Dongtou has a special snack, is to cook the rice as a filling, and then wrapped up with raw flour outside, you think this production method tricky, right? It is called "red round", the practice is: first cooked glutinous rice into rice, add peanuts, sesame seeds, sugar and other condiments; the other glutinous rice and stalks of rice into a certain proportion of ground into powder, mixed into the red color powder and water and kneaded well to flour for the skin cooked rice as a filling, wrapped and rolled into a semi-ellipse, steamed and spare. "Red round" is generally larger, the bottom diameter of most of the 20cm or so; it is mainly used in happy events, the daughter married for the first time back to her mother's home, the child's birthday, the old man birthday, major Buddhist activities, and so on, sent to neighbors, relatives and friends to symbolize the fullness of the circle, a blaze of red. This kind of powder wrapped in rice to eat, than the general rice preserved for a long time, can be eaten again when steaming hot, can also be sliced and fried, sweet and sticky, not sticky and not greasy.　Cat's ear boiled in water </B> This is not a real cat's ear! It is made of sweet potato starch as the skin, sesame seeds, peanuts, sugar and mixed as the filling made of sweet food, shaped like a cat's ear, so it is called. "Cat's ears" is suitable for cooking soup, cooked in the mouth, the outer skin is slightly tough, the inner filling is crispy, sweet soup nourishment. The three complement each other, with a long aftertaste. General dumplings, far less than it.　Beauty Bites </B> "Beauty Bites", also known as "Qiaoren'er", is a specialty snack, so don't get sidetracked. Dongtou island residents who speak Minnan language, every seventh month of the lunar calendar, we have to make sweets "Qiaoren'er", with rice flour kneaded in the woodcut template printed out the shape of people and animals, steamed in the "Tanabata" night to pay homage to the seven fairies, and then share the food. This custom originates from a legend. Queen Mother disguised as a beggar to check the good and evil in the mortal world, see the wealthy family with glutinous rice pound mortar to build graves, they went up to ask for food, was the wealthy housekeeper a scolding. Queen Mother back to the court of heaven, the Jade Emperor was furious, mortals so spoiled grains, should be severely punished! Ordered the disaster on earth, grass does not grow, let them "people eat people" to go! Seven Fairies learned that also dressed as a beggar down to the mortal world, to a fishing old man to ask for food, the old man to the only two chaff cakes let her. Seven fairies can not swallow this coarse food, then asked: "you use glutinous rice to build graves, how to eat this kind of thing?" The old man told her that those who used glutinous rice to build graves were black-hearted rich people, and that there were many poor people in the world who lived a hard life. The Queen Mother heard the seven fairies tell the truth, she knew she was biased, but the Jade Emperor's order can not be changed, what to do? Clever seven fairies came up with a good idea, and all the sisters down to the mortal world, teaching everyone to use rice flour to make human-shaped cakes to feed the hungry. In this way, the famine is over, "people eat people" order is also followed. This method is so ingenious that they named the cakes "Qiaoren'er". The people remembered the seven fairies' kindness, every year on July 7, we have to do "coquettish people", but also with bamboo gabions tied into a pavilion-shaped "seven-star pavilion", and pay tribute to the seven fairies, so that she can once again come down to the mortal world can be sheltered from the wind and the rain. The cakes printed by "Qiaoren'er" include both animals and beautiful women, so feel free to bite into them. Dragon Lanterns The dragon lanterns of Dongtou began in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty and have a history of nearly 200 years. Most of the dragon lanterns are made of gabion and papier-maché, while the dragon's body is made of cloth and painted with dragon scales. The dragon lanterns were originally lit by candles, but in the 1970s, dry batteries were used to light the lanterns. Dragon lantern team to the dragon as the center, supplemented by a variety of colored lanterns, there are also dressed as ancient theatrical characters, composed of a vast dragon dance team, traveled from town to town, when the dance, wherever they go, the audience as a tide, some families also burn incense and firecrackers to welcome, lively and unusual.　Fish Lanterns Dongtou's fish lanterns have a long history and are widely popularized. Speaking Minnan region of the fish lanterns, most of the realistic type, according to the shape of the sea animals, tied into a variety of fish, shrimp, crabs, jellyfish, snails and shellfish, etc., different sizes, realistic image. Fuck the Wenzhou dialect of the region's fish lamps, mainly for the illusion type, such as Sanpan Island, Dazao Village of the God fish lamps, began in the Qing Dynasty Yongzheng period, with dragons, tigers, leopards, lions, elephants, and other land-based animal heads instead of fish heads, tied even in the fish body, colorful, God is full of fun.　Dongtou fish lanterns, mostly with bamboo gabions, paper mache painted and made of candles inserted in the middle to illuminate. There are also a small number of wire tied into the fish and shrimp outline and then sewed with cloth, in order to preserve a longer period of time. Fish lantern activity time is mainly concentrated in the Lantern Festival, the form of a separate organization of fish lanterns, but also with the dragon lanterns, horse lanterns, lion lanterns for dance activities. The fish lanterns of Sanpan Dazao Village have developed into more than 30 kinds of fish lanterns, which are performed according to the name of "Pai Gow", and there are Yuan Bao Formation, Plum Blossom Formation, Yelping Formation, etc. The performances are stretching and the scene is active.　Horse lanterns Horse lanterns were introduced from Yongchun County, Fujian Province. In Yongchun County, there is the White Horse Temple, where horse lanterns are performed at temple fairs in honor of the white godly horse that prayed for sweet rains to relieve drought for the local people. In the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Yan and Lin moved from Yongchun to Dongtou's Xiaopu Village, where they followed the customs of their hometowns and also built the White Horse Temple, where they organized the Horse Lantern Parade. The neighboring village of Xiaosanpan also has horse lantern activities.　Horse lanterns were originally made of gabion paper mache, has been changed to bamboo cloth sewing; horse head and tail are divided into two parts, respectively, tied in front of the waist and behind the back of the horse dancers; horse team was originally 8 horses, 6 white, 2 rouge; now increased to 16, mainly white, supplemented by other colors of horses, plus a variety of fish lanterns, gongs and drums and drums, more than about 150 people. There are many kinds of dance formations such as Dragon Rolling Water, Horseshoe Running, and Pentagonal Flower, etc., with many variations. Horse lantern activity on New Year's Eve is called "Welcome Spring and Fortune Lantern", on the night of the Lantern Festival is called "Wind and Rain Lantern", and on the sixth day of the eighth month, in conjunction with the activities of the Temple Fair of the White Horse Temple, it is called "Fateful and Prosperous Lantern", also called "Horse peace lamp", incinerated after the activities of the temple. Now, after changing to cloth sewing, only symbolic incineration of paper lanterns, the rest of the preservation of the next year to be used again.　Water Lanterns Water lanterns, also known as jellyfish lanterns, were introduced from Quanzhou, Fujian Province, with a history of about 200 years. The form of its activities has been introduced in the "Dongtou Eight Great Crafts".　Empty Lanterns Empty Lanterns were also imported from Fujian, and have a history of about 200 years; they were modified and innovated by local people after the 1920s, and have become a large-scale lantern art activity. Empty lanterns more than 1 meter high, 60cm wide, with colored glossy paper tightly folded paste, do not leave a leakage seam, also do not tie the skeleton, only in the lower part of the hole reserved for a small bowl, the hole in the lead wire tied into a circle, the circle on the tightly tied to a large lead wire tripod under the tip, in order to be ready to ignite the fire. The lower end of the lamp tie a paper belt, so that the empty lamp after the rise, the center of gravity can be fixed. Release the lamp, after vegetable oil soaked burlap stacked on the tripod, ignite the kindling, to be saturated with air inside the lamp, the lamp is rising. Empty lights flying activities mostly in the square, wilderness or seaport, in order to avoid the trees and poles, because the empty light like a kite flying high, such as a star swimming in the night sky, see more people, so loved by the people. Legend has it that the lanterns were first created by Zhu Geliang, so some places also write it as "Kong Ming Lantern".　Welcome fire tripod "welcome fire tripod" is Minnan language, "welcome" for tour, patrol; "tripod" that is the pot. The "Fire Pudding" is a unique activity in fishing villages that is held together with the Lantern Festival to pray for good luck.　A large iron pot is filled with firewood, which is ignited by fire to become a "fire tripod". During the event, two people carry the fire tripod, and the person following them adds firewood from time to time to keep the fire from going out. Lantern Festival, dressed as ancient theatrical characters of the theater team, a variety of lanterns team and fire tripod team parade together, drums and music to match, firecrackers to help; swim to the masses in front of the door, the people automatically to the fire tripod to add firewood. The fire tripod symbolizes prosperity, red-hot, by welcoming the fire tripod activities, pray for good luck and peace.