Fuzhou customs mainly include festival customs, wedding customs, food customs, and traditional skills. The details are as follows:

1. Festival customs

Wandering gods and welcoming gods are Fuzhou A customary activity held in the countryside during the first lunar month. The third to fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the time for wandering gods. Taking a village as a unit, sometimes several villages unite, using open sedans to carry statues of local gods, and parade around the village in groups amidst the sound of gongs, drums and firecrackers. People line the streets to watch and greet them, and the scene is lively.

Fuzhou has a traditional "Aojiu Festival". Married daughters must cook "Aojiu porridge" on the 29th day of the first lunar month and send them back to their parents' homes as early as possible to honor their parents. So far, the suburban counties of Fuzhou still maintain this custom, but the "Aojiu Festival" in urban areas has gradually been replaced by "Mother's Day". On this festival, flower shop business is particularly good. Banquets for parents can also be seen in restaurants.

2. Food customs

Fuzhou cuisine is the representative of Fujian cuisine. Fujian cuisine is known as "Fuzhou cuisine is fragrant all over the world, and the food culture has been passed down through the ages." The ingredients are carefully selected and the knife skills are rigorous and careful; the heat is paid attention to and the soup is adjusted; condiments are used to create a variety of tastes. Famous soups include the time-honored Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, which has the reputation of "the aroma of meat rising from the altar floats around, and the Buddha jumping over the wall after hearing his Zen abandonment".

The five representative dishes of Fuzhou are Buddha Jumping Over the Wall, Sea Mussels in Chicken Soup, Snail Slices with Light Sour Sauce, Lychee Pork, and Drunken Slag Chicken. The five representative bowls are Tai Chi taro paste, pot side paste, meat balls, fish balls, and meat swallows. Fuzhou's vegetarian dishes are also famous, using plant foods such as gluten, tofu skin, tofu tendons, mushrooms, and fungus as raw materials. There are more than 30 kinds of famous vegetarian dishes such as "Nanhai Golden Lotus", "Half Moon Shenjiang", "Shigu Three Fresh Delicacies", "Yongquan Three Silks", etc.

3. Marriage customs

Fuzhou wedding customs include an engagement ceremony, a betrothal gift from the man, a return gift from the woman, a dowry from the woman, wedding reception, a meal, bed making, meeting the elders, and a banquet in the hotel. , return to the door. After the "ceremony", both men and women can agree on a date, go to the local government to apply for a marriage certificate, and formally confirm the marriage relationship.

4. Traditional skills

Fujian Opera, also known as "Fuzhou Opera". In the Ming Dynasty, Kunshan tune, Yiyang tune, etc. were introduced to Fuzhou, and Fuzhou dialect opera gradually emerged. Around the time when Guangxu of the Qing Dynasty came to the Revolution of 1911, they were called "Fujian Class". In the 13th year of the Republic of China (1924), Zheng Zhenduo published traditional plays such as "The Purple Jade Hairpin" and officially replaced the title of "Fujian Troupe" with "Fujian Opera".

Pinghua is the main folk art variety in Fuzhou area. It pays attention to singing, speaking, acting and performance. It has the reputation of "living fossil of humanities".

Shifan's original name is "Xie Huan", which means harmony of sounds creates joy. It is one of the main local music in Fuzhou. It evolved from the folk dragon lantern dance and has melodious and beautiful tunes.

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Fuzhou City Logo

1. City Logo - Three Mountains and One Water

Fuzhou City Yushan and Wushan The "three mountains" of Pingshan and Pingshan stand side by side, and the Minjiang River passes through the city like a green belt. According to historical records, in the second year of Liang Kaiping in the Five Dynasties, Wang Shenzhi, the king of Fujian, expanded the city and surrounded the beautiful Yushan, Wushan and Pingshan mountains into the city, forming Fuzhou's unique style of "mountains in the city and city in the mountains". "Three mountains and one water" have become the main symbol of Rongcheng, so Fuzhou is also called "Three Mountains".

2. City tree - banyan tree

Planting banyan trees in Fuzhou has been a common practice since ancient times. The banyan tree is evergreen all year round, has luxuriant branches and leaves, is majestic and tall, and is full of vitality, symbolizing the spiritual outlook of Fuzhou city. There are nearly a thousand ancient banyan trees in Fuzhou city. Among them, a thousand-year-old banyan tree in Fuzhou National Forest Park is known as the largest banyan tree in Fuzhou. According to legend, it was planted by three military attachés during the Yeping period of the Northern Song Dynasty when they were practicing martial arts here. The tree is 20 meters tall. meters, the canopy ground projection area reaches more than 1,330 square meters.

3. City flower - jasmine

Fuzhou specialty, ranking first in China in terms of output and quality. Jasmine was widely cultivated in Fuzhou during the Song Dynasty. There are many jasmine gardens cultivated in the suburbs of Fuzhou. It symbolizes the fragrance of Fuzhou, a famous historical and cultural city. Fujian jasmine tea made from jasmine flowers has also long been famous and sold at home and abroad. On February 8, 1985, the 12th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Eighth People's Congress of Fuzhou City decided to name jasmine as the city flower.

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