What does the custom of Tanabata provide to Sanming and Tanabata in Fujian?

The annual Chinese Valentine's Day is coming. While busy preparing holiday gifts and arranging holiday itinerary, we should not forget to know something about Valentine's Day in China. Let the old calendar introduce you to the benefits of Tanabata in Sanming, Fujian.

Sugar tower, most people know about it from the folk crafts of Xiapu, Ningde, Fujian. However, many people don't know that in Sanming, sugar towers have a history of hundreds of years. For Sanming people, sugar tower has another meaning.

According to legend, the appearance of sugar tower has a bright future in Qi Jiguang's fight against the Japanese aggressors. This is a sacrificial offering used after victory. It first spread in the coastal areas of Fujian, and was imported to Sanming, a mountain city. As a major feature of Sanming's traditional foreign folk culture, sugar pagoda is a folk handicraft that only appears on Tanabata, which Sanming locals bought on Tanabata.

Tanabata is an ancient Valentine's Day, and there is also a saying that it is a begging festival. So what is the relationship between Sanming's Tanabata and this sugar tower? In fact, this is because Chinese Valentine's Day in Sanming can be regarded as the "Admission Festival" for children.

There are still two months before the primary school starts in July, but in Sanming, parents have already begun to prepare, hoping that their children can study hard through worship and family gatherings, and become the number one scholar. When Sanming local children (especially boys) are in the first grade, grandparents (in-laws) should celebrate Tanabata for their grandchildren according to local customs.

According to local customs, grandparents must prepare learning tools. On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, the elders will put some offerings and sugar towers, then burn incense, light candles and set off firecrackers, praying that the children will be ingenious, clever and successful in their studies.

In the past few decades, even hundreds of years, on the seventh day of July, there were always "sugar towers" of different shapes on the local streets of Sanming. Shaped sugar towers have various shapes, including champion lang, rooster, pagoda, lion, pen container, schoolbag, horse and bird.

So many shapes are actually related to "being the first". The shape of the champion Lang can be understood at a glance, and I hope the child can become a talent. Schoolbags and pens are also related to learning; But what about the horse? Originally it meant riding to Beijing in ancient times; Lions represent wealth and status, while birds and cocks represent good news and diligence.

Now it's Tanabata, and some Sanming locals still keep the original tradition. They will buy sugar towers to eat at home, and some young people miss the old taste of childhood. However, with the passage of time, in Sanming, the custom of supplying sugar towers on Tanabata is less and less known and passed down, the demand for sugar towers is less and less, and fewer and fewer people make sugar towers. In order to protect this long-standing custom, people need to work together.

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