What are the customs of Fuqing City?

During the Spring Festival, Fuqing is commonly known as "Bei Nian". Fuqing Spring Festival activities started from the "Zen Hall", and the 23rd to 30th of the lunar calendar1February were chosen as auspicious days, and Hsinchu was bound to cut skills and clean houses. On the 24th day of the twelfth lunar month, people set a day for offering sacrifices to Zao Jun, and on this day, they prepared candied fruit and cakes for offering sacrifices to Zao Jun and sent him back to heaven to report his work, which is called sending him to heaven. After dinner on the fourth day of the first month of the second year, prepare incense sticks and fruits and take the chef back to his post, which is also called receiving god. Every year, from the 25th of the twelfth lunar month, the son-in-law should prepare new year's goods and send them to her parents' home. This is called sending new year's goods. On New Year's Eve, Fuqing has the custom of keeping New Year's Eve. This is a family, old and young, sitting at home and having a reunion dinner at night. In recent years, Fuqing also took the whole family to a more advanced restaurant for dinner. After dinner, the elders give lucky money to the unmarried younger generation, and housewives "pretend to be adult rice" and cut the vegetables and fish used on the first morning. On the first day of the first month, friends and relatives pay New Year's greetings to each other, which is a custom all over the country, but it is a unique custom in Fuqing to pay New Year's greetings on the second day of the first month. All the families who lost adults last year set up a mourning seat the next day for relatives and friends to pay their respects. It is also very important that visiting a friend's house on the first day is also a no-no. The fifteenth day of the first month is the "Dragon Dance Lantern". Every household has prepared ever-burning lamps, lined up in long queues, and went door to door, symbolizing the New Year's send warm, sending happiness and ensuring peace. Marriage customs. Fuqing's wedding customs are highlighted in the light and lively sedan chair, the lively "noisy bridal chamber" and the unpretentious Shizhu Mountain.

Courtesy and avoidance and affectionate invitation for three days are four distinctive customs. The groom went to the bride's house to meet her. Fuqing is called "inviting new people". The groom invited the couple back, and someone should hold a chair in the way. The groom should happily distribute melon seeds and candy to the sedan chair stopper. Now, the bride and groom no longer sit in sedan chairs. When someone gets in the way, they must sing for the person who gets in the way, or distribute cigarettes and candy to the person who gets in the way. The more people get in the way, the more outstanding the bride is. The groom invites the bride to his door, sets off firecrackers first, and informs the other women in the husband's family to go first. This is called "avoiding urgency". After the bride and groom enter the hall, they worship heaven and earth first, then their ancestors, then their in-laws, and finally the husband and wife worship each other. This is called meeting the bride. After church service, the bride will guide them, with the groom in front and the bride in the back, and enter the new house together. At this time, the groom will knock on the door, and the bride will sing "knocking on the door" to increase the festive atmosphere. On the third day of the bride's wedding, the bride's family sends her brother-in-law (if there is no brother-in-law, you can choose a boy from your peers) to her brother-in-law's house, and invites her brother-in-law and her sister to go back to her family together. This is called asking three questions and not knowing. According to the old custom, after three days, the groom will go home and the bride will stay at her parents' home for one month, so it is called mothering. Come back on the same day or every other day with the groom now.