What are the folkways and customs of Longyan?

Fujian Longyan Folklore [Hakka marriage]

Western Fujian Hakka wedding is interesting. Men's welcome team arrived at the woman's home, the bride went out and stood in the painting of the gossip Tai Chi figure of the rice sieve to change into new shoes, known as the "rice sieve" symbolizes leaving the mother's home of the living soil (wealth), to the in-laws to re-establishment. Then back out of the house, get on the car (ancient sedan chair) when the brothers with a bowl of water thrown into the car, said married out of the female, thrown out of the water. At this time, the bride let out a mournful cry. After arriving at the man's home, a blessed woman holding a mandarin oranges (meaning sweet, auspicious garden plate) under the traction across the red charcoal stove, to show "prosperity". When entering the door, the bride crosses the chicken and passes through, called "stopping the door chicken". After entering the hall to pay homage, that is, into the bridal chamber, the wedding banquet began. Late at night in the bridal chamber, until the sound and music.

[Spring] is in the lunar calendar on the day of spring, the state officials county Yin personally went to the outskirts of the ceremony held to welcome the spring cattle, by the officials personally dressed as spring officials whipped paper spring cattle or real cattle plowing in the field, to show that the heavy farming hard work. Rural areas in front of the gods, families pick holly branches and peach and plum blossoms, tied on bamboo poles, made of "spring handle", from the patio to the sky, in front of the hall on the offerings, "spring" hour to one, burning incense and candles, firecrackers, saying that the "welcome spring to receive blessings", praying for the family to live in peace and happiness, a good harvest of rice and beans. In some places, the soil pinched into a spring cow or paper spring cow, sent to each household, placed next to the stove, in order to pray for wind and rain, a good harvest. [Hakka women's hats have a history of more than 1,000 years. Cold hat with a thin piece of scorn or wheat straw woven, the top of the hat sewn with cloth, some also embroidered with flowers (more embroidered plum blossoms), around the edge, in addition to the front, but also hanging five inches long folded evenly colorful cloth, as far as a floating like a gorgeous flowers. Unmarried girls are still hanging cloth at both ends of the colorful ribbons woven. Colorful ribbons will become a sign of Hakka girl's marriage or not. In addition to the cool cap has a shield from the sun, rain, dust, sand, but also the Hakka women's unique headgear. [Liancheng "walk the ancient things"] Liancheng County to pray for the wind and rain, the country and the people's peace of folk entertainment. Walking the ancient things, to the opera dressed up children standing in the sedan chair on top of the platform, carried by 22 young adults, in the first month of the fourteenth morning at 10:00 Xu, in the bodhisattva sedan chair, ten thousand people umbrellas, colorful flags, ten times under the auspices of the drums band, all the way to the cannon, in the tens of thousands of townspeople and tourists in the onlookers, began the race, and straight to the lead of the "heavenly palace" shed with the second shed! "Ancient things" out of joint, the cannon into the inch, the first "go ancient" end.

The second time is on the fifteenth day of the first month, when the "ancient things" are paraded to the stream in the village. Drum band splash each other wet, and then rang three cannon, "ancient affairs" shed swarmed into the water, against the water path, they ignore the cold water, river rocks slippery, fell and then climbed up, bravely forward, fierce jing fight until the end of the arrival of the square allowed to curb, people in the amusement in the fun, in the jing fight fitness, is the Spring Festival during the unique folk sports, recreational activities. It is a unique folk sport and recreational activity during the Spring Festival. [Longyan Tea Ceremony Dance has a history of more than 150 years. The tea-picking lantern dance takes "tea-picking" and "butterfly-fighting" as the base, matched with easy and smooth folk tunes, singing and dancing, full of joyful and warm atmosphere, which is a marvelous piece of folk dance in Fujian. It is a wonderful piece of Fujian folk dance. UNESCO has included this piece in its library. [Gutian Dragon Tour] The Lantern Festival Dragon Tour is a traditional mass recreational activity in Gutian, Liancheng, which began in 1751, the 16th year of the Qianlong reign in the Qing Dynasty. Gutian paper dragon diameter of 70 centimeters, more than 600 meters long, consisting of one hundred and fifty sections, by more than 600 young adults to participate in the dance, known as "the world's first dragon". [Western Fujian Han Opera]

With a unique style, it is widely popular in the Hakka region of western Fujian and Longyan, Zhangping and other places, and is one of the major local opera genres in Fujian Province. It is divided into four lines: Sheng, Dan, Chou and Jing; and there are four major instruments: headstrings, moon zither, three strings and pipa, as well as erhu, flute, suona, large and small gongs, gongs, bowl gongs, hall drums, large and small money boards, and plywood, etc. The traditional Chinese opera of Benzi has been collected and documented. There are more than 200 traditional repertoires collected and recorded in the book. [Western Fujian Puppet Theater]

Puppets as many as 36, each puppet by more than 10 line manipulation hanging, puppet body length 76.59 centimeters, the head is about 8.32 centimeters, the eyeballs will turn, the mouth will open and close and limbs can move. The puppets are divided into the roles of Wen and Wu Sheng, Wen and Wu Lao Sheng, Zheng, Wu, Chou and Lao Dan, Wen and Wu Jing, and Wen and Wu Chou. There are two types of music: "High Cavity" and "Chaos Bomb". The basic tunes of "High Cavity" are "Nine Tunes and Thirteen Chambers", which are mainly sung in Hakka, while "Chaos Bomb" absorbs the Xipi and Erhuang singing styles of the Han Opera of western Fujian and is sung in the official language, which is the most common form of puppet theater. There are hundreds of puppet theater repertoire. 50's, Minxi puppet theater team went to Shanghai to participate in the East China regional opera performance, won the "special art performance award".