The winter solstice customs in southern Fujian include sweeping tombs to worship ancestors and making rice dumplings during the winter solstice.

1. Sweeping tombs and worshiping ancestors

According to traditional Chinese festivals, generally sweeping tombs to worship ancestors takes place during the Qingming Festival. However, in some towns and villages in Quanzhou, there is a custom of sweeping tombs during the Winter Solstice. On the day of the winter solstice, no matter how busy they are, everyone will go home and sweep the graves to show their respect and condolences for their deceased relatives. To sweep the tomb, you need to prepare ghost coins, offerings, etc., and during the winter solstice, you need to prepare glutinous rice balls.

2. Rice dumplings during the Winter Solstice

People in the north eat dumplings during the Winter Solstice, while people in Quanzhou eat rice dumplings during the Winter Solstice. People in Quanzhou not only eat glutinous rice balls, but also use glutinous rice balls to worship ancestors, worship the sky, worship Buddha, the Earth God, etc.

Special attractions in southern Fujian

1. Sanping Temple in Zhangzhou

Sanping Temple is a famous thousand-year-old temple in southern Fujian. It is located in Wenfeng Town, Pinghe County, Fujian Province , nearly fifty kilometers away from Zhangzhou City, a famous historical and cultural city in China. It was founded by Master Yi Zhong more than 1,100 years ago.

The total construction area is more than 2,000 square meters. The building complex is divided into two groups: the mountain gate, bell and drum tower, monk's room, and main hall form the front group, and the ancestral hall, Zhaitang, and pagoda hall form the back group. The unique architecture of the temple has gone through many vicissitudes of life, and has been repeatedly destroyed and rebuilt. The scale of Sanping Temple that is displayed in front of pilgrims today was rebuilt in the Qing Dynasty. Master Yizhong, known as "Sanping Patriarch" in southern Fujian and overseas folks, was originally from Gaoling County, Xianyang, Shaanxi Province.

2. Tulou

Fujian Tulou, with its long history, unique style, ingenious construction and magnificent scale, is known as a wonder of residential architecture in the world. The earth buildings in Yongding, Nanjing and Hua'an are already famous, but the various earth buildings in southern Fujian are also attracting more and more people's attention. The earthen houses in southern Fujian are masterpieces of human architectural culture and a pearl in the treasure house of world civilization.

Nanjing Tulou is the crystallization of the hard work and ingenuity of the working people of Nanjing. Its scale, structure, craftsmanship, and functions have amazed many modern architectural experts and scholars; its architectural style, folk customs, and cultural connotations have amazed sociologists.

Reference for the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Southern Fujian Region