Quanzhou's folk culture is profound and colorful.

Dynamic and static, all kinds of things.

Among festival folk customs, the Lantern Festival is the most spectacular and is known as the "Carnival" of Quanzhou people.

During the festival, various places in urban and rural areas are decorated with lanterns, lantern exhibitions and art parades, and the streets are filled with thousands of people, bringing joy to the whole city.

With the reform and opening up, this traditional custom and cultural landscape has become a major local tourism resource and has been developed. In recent years, it has been designated as a "Tourism and Culture Festival".

The May Festival, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, is also very popular in Quanzhou, and the customs of "dragon boat racing" and "lotus picking" are spectacular.

Quanzhou people’s Mid-Autumn Festival is second only to the Lantern Festival in terms of liveliness. When the moon is bright in the sky, families gather to enjoy the moon, eat cakes or compete for the “No. 1” cake.

In the city of Quanzhou, many people went boating on the river to admire the moon that night, and some sang southern music leisurely by the river, which was very interesting.

Quanzhou is known as the "hometown of opera" and "the home of opera" and has a number of rare traditional art treasures with various styles.

On the stage, there are the elegant and euphemistic Liyuan Opera, the witty puppet show, the dignified and humorous Gaojia Opera, the superb martial arts Dacheng Opera, and the profound Nanyin art.

Nowadays, these ancient and rare arts that are "rare in China and rare in the world" are still spread with their strong vitality in urban and rural areas of Quanzhou, on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, Southeast Asia and even Europe and America.

In addition, there is also a dazzling array of folk music, dance, folk arts, etc., such as Longchui, Beiguan, Shiyin, tea songs, folk songs, drums, breast clapping dance, ball dance, car drums, Huoding Gongpo and Quanzhou

Dialects tell stories about ancient times and so on.

Quanzhou is the cradle of the southern Shaolin martial arts. Among them, the Five Ancestor Boxing, White Crane Boxing and other southern Shaolin martial arts ancestral boxings are unique and spread in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and other places.

Quanzhou's folk martial arts practice was very popular in ancient times and has been passed down to this day, so mass martial arts movements are very active.

In terms of traditional crafts, there are colorful tie-ups, paper-cutting, embroidery, bamboo weaving, etc.

Wood carvings, stone carvings, and porcelain carvings are famous at home and abroad, especially Hui'an bluestone carvings, which are very proud of overseas Chinese.

Fan Shouchun, vice president of the Southern Fujian Cultural Research Society, said: "Overseas folks have great affection for bluestone sculptures. My hometown is in Hui'an, so of course I have even more affection for Hui'an bluestone sculptures. Hui'an bluestone sculptures (including granite sculptures) are mainly made of

As for architectural decoration, it is represented by dragon pillars, stone lions and various character reliefs. It is characterized by the combination of carvings and paintings, fine carvings, vivid images, and strong national characteristics. "Quanzhou has a long history of opening up to the outside world and has formed a multi-religious society.

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Here, there are not only the monuments of Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Manichaeism, and Hinduism, but also folk beliefs and customs spread across urban and rural areas, such as Tianhou Mazu, Baosheng Emperor, etc., all of which are respected by Quanzhou people and even Taiwan compatriots.

Worship the local gods with piety.

Among them, the Manichaean temple, a rare Manichaean relic in the world and unique in China, is Cao'an Temple, located at the foot of Huabiao Mountain in Luoshan Town, Jinjiang.

Ms. Cai Huiqiong, who graduated from the history department of the university, knows the landscape of her hometown well. She said that Manichaeism is a religion founded by the Persian Mani in the third century AD. It was introduced to China during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty and had spread to Quanzhou by the Kaizhong period of the Tang Dynasty.

This thatched nunnery is a national key cultural relic protection unit.

"The nunnery is built on the cliff and is made of stone. It has a single eaves on the top of the mountain. There is a circular Buddhist niche carved on the cliff, with a Mani Buddha statue carved inside. The Mani Buddha statue is 1.52 meters high and 0.83 meters wide. The Buddha statue is wearing a wide-sleeved monk's robe.

Sitting on the lotus seat, the face is plump and solemn. "The residential buildings in Quanzhou are another beautiful sight.

Walking around the ancient city of Quanzhou, you can see ancient mansions everywhere.

Huang Jinliang, director of Quanzhou South Architecture Museum, said: "The architectural characteristics of Quanzhou embody the architectural style of 'red brick and white stone with double dials, bricks and stone swallow-tail ridges, carved beams and painted buildings, palace style'." Among them, the "official-style mansion",

The central axis is symmetrical and magnificent. The roof has an overhanging curve and a swallow-tailed ridge, which is full of vitality. The wood carvings and stone carvings under the house are magnificent.

The existing complex of ancient residential buildings of Cai Senior in Guanqiao, Nan'an, are row upon row, made of bricks and stones, and are antique and majestic.

These houses are the essence of Quanzhou's ancient architecture.

Quanzhou's character costumes are even more unique.

The most distinctive among them is undoubtedly the Hui'an girl.

Yellow bamboo hats, flowered headscarves, belly-length suits, silver belts, and big-fold trousers are jokingly called "feudal heads, democratic belly, frugal shirts, and wasteful trousers." The strong colors, unique styles, and coordinated shapes are in harmony with the benefits.

The azure waters and golden beaches along the east coast complement each other beautifully, attracting many artists and style collectors.

Another example is the girl from Xiapu, Donghai, who likes to put flowers and hairpins on her hair in spring, summer, autumn and winter, forming a "garden" on her head and a "rainbow in her bun".

Quanzhou’s food culture is even more unique.

As the saying goes, if you rely on the mountains, you will eat the mountains; if you rely on the sea, you will eat the sea.

Rich food resources, combined with traditional production techniques, create flavorful food in the hometown of overseas Chinese that is famous all over the world.

Director of the Quanzhou Municipal Tourism Bureau said: "Quanzhou beef soup is well-known at home and abroad. It is crispy, crunchy and delicious. Oyster omelet, fried crab flowers, Shenhu water ball soup (fish ball soup), Chongwu fish roll, bundled hoof

etc. are all very distinctive.” In addition, time-honored brands such as Yuanxiao glutinous rice balls, roasted pork rice dumplings, noodle paste, Yakou peanuts, Anxi persimmon cakes, Yongchun old vinegar, Anhai native bamboo shoot jelly, Quanzhou mung bean cakes, Nan’an peanut cakes, and Dehua glutinous rice cakes

Food is the hometown scenery that overseas children dream about and arouses endless homesickness.

Today, Quanzhou Wenling Food Street has become one of the windows for Quanzhou flavored food.

With the deepening of social reform and the expansion of opening up to the outside world, comprehensive festivals and customs with the theme of promoting traditional culture and developing local economy have also emerged based on local conditions.