When is the Fuqing light cake eaten?

Fuqing abbreviated as "Rong", located in Fujian Province, the central hub of the economic zone on the west coast of the Taiwan Strait and the provincial capital of the southern wing of the city of Fuzhou, is an ancient and young city. As early as 4,000 years ago in the late Neolithic period, there are ancestors in this piece of land. The county was set up in 699 AD, and the county was abolished in December 1990 to establish a city, now has jurisdiction over 20 towns and 1 street, with a total area of 2,430 square kilometers, of which 1,519 square kilometers of land area and a population of 1,217,000 people, and is one of the first batch of national pilot counties and cities for comprehensive reform, and a pilot county and city for the construction of the national villages and towns.

I, Fuqing regional characteristics

One is rich in mountain and sea resources. Fuqing northwest of the mountains, southeast of the sea. Mountain area of 1.02 million acres, producing loquat, longan, lychee and other seasonal fruits; shallow sea mudflats 920,000 acres, stocked with razor clams, clams, oysters, fish, shrimp and other seafood treasures; and a large amount of reserves of mineral resources. Fuqing coastline up to 348 kilometers, accounting for 13% of the province, building port conditions are superior, can build 5-300,000 tons of deep water berths more than 100. Has built 5,000-ton Rongqiao Container Terminal, 30,000-ton Yuanhong General Purpose Terminal, 50,000-ton Jiangyin Harbor Berth 1 Container Terminal, in the construction of the second phase of the Yuanhong Terminal, Jiangyin Harbor Berths 2, 3 and thermal power projects and other professional terminals, is a national class of open ports.

The second is a special regional location. National Highway and Fuquan Expressway running north and south, Fuqing and the provincial capital of Fuzhou and Xiamen, Zhangquan and other economically most active areas of the province connected. East of the Taiwan Strait, the nearest and Taiwan's Hsinchu City is only 84 nautical miles away, is the Fujian Province, Taiwan, foreign cooperation and exchange of an important window.

Thirdly, there are many people who love their hometown. Fuqing people have always had a love of hard work and courage to win, the spirit of love and righteousness qualities. Existing overseas Chinese and new immigrants more than 780,000, distributed in Southeast Asia, Europe and the United States, Australia, Africa and other 112 countries and regions, and nearly 100,000 Yurong sons and daughters are active in the country's main battlefield of economic construction. The majority of foreign folks get rich without forgetting to benefit their homeland, or back to their hometowns to donate public welfare, investment in factories, or actively matchmaking to assist in attracting investment, the economic development and social progress in Fuqing contributed to the outstanding, build a great success. Fourth, the humanities attractions. Within the territory of the national 4A-level tourist attractions Shizhu Mountain, one of the three major Japanese Buddhist Phellodendron Bark Sect ancestral home Wanfu Temple, the South Shaolin Temple site, Lingshi National Forest Park, as well as national key cultural relics of Ruiyanshan Maitreya Buddha statue and many other attractions. Fuqing is the ancestral home of Lin Zexu, the national hero who was the first person to open his eyes to the world, and a large number of outstanding historical figures, such as Zheng Man and Ye Xianggao, have won the reputation of "Famous State of Literature" for the Yurong County.

Two, Fuqing development status

Reform and opening up for more than 20 years, especially since the establishment of the city for more than 10 years, along with the **** and the country's pace of progress, millions of people in Fuqing leading the opening up of the wind of the first, borrowing policy-driven benefits, Yang Overseas Taiwanese location advantages, in the reform and opening up, the rich and strong city of the road to stand up bravely to the tide, striding forward, constructed Fuqing in the new century of the strong cornerstone of the economic take-off. Fuqing economy and society in 2004 to continue to maintain a strong momentum of development, the main economic indicators continue to grow in recent years, reaching the best level since entering the new century, Fuqing undertakings and mounted a new and higher development platform, the city presented a positive wind and gas smooth, people and industry in a good atmosphere. First, the total economic volume has risen sharply. Comprehensively exceeded the municipal party committee in early 2004 put forward the economic development "234" target tasks, including total fiscal revenue reached 2.038 billion yuan, the realization of the gross regional product of 30.328 billion yuan, industrial output value above designated size reached 47.097 billion yuan, respectively, an increase of 23%, 15.56% and 45.06%, the main economic indicators, the incremental increase, the main economic indicators, the city's various undertakings have been on a new platform of development. The increment and increase of the main economic indicators are among the forefront of Fuzhou counties and municipalities. It is particularly worth mentioning that last year, the national economy has realized "three historic leap":

One is the gross regional product from 2001 exceeded 20 billion to 2004 exceeded 30 billion mark, in just three years; the second is the total revenue in 2001 1.027 billion yuan on the basis of the basic to achieve Secondly, the total financial income in 2001, 1.027 billion yuan based on the basic realization of the double, also took only three years to become the province's second fiscal revenue of more than 2 billion yuan and the state tax revenue of more than 1 billion yuan in one of the three counties and cities; Thirdly, the city's per capita GDP last year, close to 25,000 yuan, equivalent to 3,000 U.S. dollars, which means that Fuqing has been the first in advance of the central government to achieve the construction of an all-round moderately affluent society in advance of the 16 years of the per capita GDP economic indicators. To achieve these breakthroughs, the industrial economy plays the most obvious role, the dominant position of industry is more prominent, last year the city's industrial output value of 62.43 billion yuan, an increase of 32.28%, to the main body of the secondary industry value added accounted for as much as 58.96% of the proportion of gross regional product.

The second is the "three needs" strong growth. Investment, consumption and exports, as a driving economic growth of the "three major demand", have been rapid growth. Strong growth in investment in fixed assets, the total annual cumulative investment of 6.694 billion yuan, an increase of 53.4%; "affinity project" results gradually appeared, overseas, at home and in Fuqing "three Fuqing people team" has become the backbone of the promotion of the economic development of Fuqing, last year, Fuqing, the "three Fuqing people team". Economic development of the backbone of the force, last year, the actual domestic capital reached 2.149 billion yuan, an increase of 52.53%, the actual utilization of foreign capital of 203 million U.S. dollars. Foreign trade and exports have been increasing rapidly, with the total export value of 3.415 billion U.S. dollars, an increase of 64.95%. Business market is becoming increasingly prosperous, the introduction of Gome Electrical Appliances, Topford building materials supermarkets and other large-scale chain of business enterprises, Fuqing, modernization of trade circulation further enhance the level of total retail sales of consumer goods 7.228 billion yuan, an increase of 10%.

Third, the rapid advancement of industrial parks. Rongqiao Development Zone, "national" brand advantage is further highlighted, the southern part of the development and display industrial park declaration, the construction work is steadily advancing, the construction of export processing zones have been launched; electronic information, automotive glass as the representative of the industrial clusters have taken shape, industrial output value of more than scale reached 36.6 billion yuan, accounting for 77.7% of the city's industrial output value of more than scale. The industrial output value above scale has reached 36.6 billion yuan, accounting for 77.7% of the city's industrial output value above scale; the output of TPV and JieLian monitors has exceeded 20 million units and ranked the first in the world; Fuyao Auto Glass has realized the breakthrough of the city's "Chinese Famous Brand Products", and the first production line of Float Glass has been successfully put into trial production, and Fuyao was selected as one of the sixth listed companies with the most potential for development by the Chinese government. Fuyao was selected as one of the top 50 listed companies with the most development potential in China and ranked 7th. Yuanhong Investment Zone towns and streets bundled investment and "enclave" industrial development has been effective, many economic indicators to achieve a multiplier growth, the first phase of 100,000 square meters of standard plant has been fully completed and the basic investment completed. Jiangyin Industrial Zone infrastructure construction is in full swing, 2, 3 berths of the terminal and steel pre-projects, power a key project has been formally started to Fu resistance, Fuxing pharmaceuticals as the representative of the emerging industries are taking shape, all kinds of projects are accelerating the agglomeration; Jiangyin port open to the outside world through the national acceptance of the new U.S. and West, the Mediterranean Sea, Europe, and Japan three international routes, coupled with the opening of 2003, the West African routes, the current **** open to the outside world, and the opening of the new international airport. West African routes, currently **** opened four international routes. Key townships and townships to make new progress in the construction of industrial zones, industrial agglomeration, industrial agglomeration effect is more obvious, and become an effective carrier to promote the development of the township economy.

Fourth, the development pattern is more coordinated. Synchronized development of the three industries, agriculture and rural economy is rising steadily, the total agricultural output value of 6.094 billion yuan. The income of urban and rural residents continued to grow, the masses to further improve their lives, per capita disposable income of urban residents 10,964 yuan, per capita net income of farmers 5,963 yuan, an increase of 9.4% and 10.28%, respectively, the residents of the local and foreign currency savings balance of 23.3 billion yuan. Fully implement the strategy of science and education in the city, last year's college entrance examination on-line rate and the rate of excellence in secondary school exams reached the best level in recent years, a year ahead of the province to take the lead in achieving the goal of universalizing the basic high school education; YATTON set up the first national postdoctoral scientific research station in Fuqing, the output value of high-tech enterprises (including Jiehlian) accounted for 52.7% of the proportion of total industrial output value. The appearance of the city further improved, municipal infrastructure construction efforts continue to increase, launched the Qing Sheng Avenue, Fuye Avenue, Central Road and other major roads in the city, completed the widening of the Yuanhong Road reconstruction work, built the Longshan Park and other places for mass recreational activities; further improve the traffic situation in the urban area, the "Smooth Construction Project" to reach the national second-class city The traffic condition in the urban area was further improved, and the "smooth traffic project" reached the national second-class city standard. Has won the national advanced county and city of scientific and technological progress, the national food industry city and provincial health city and other honorary titles.

Life Customs

Section 1: Clothing

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, men and women in Fuqing wore rough clothes with wide sleeves and knee-length lapels, and pants with wide leg openings that reached the top of the feet. Men of rich families wore long shirts and waistcoats, and bead hats on their heads. Winter and summer clothing changes distinctly, while spring and fall only in the winter and summer clothing to reduce and increase. Fabrics are finely woven, and the colors are blue, green, red, green, yellow and white. Clothes and pants color collocation, interlocking, contrasting colors are obvious, mostly blue clothes, green pants. Generally unmarried women wear pants, not skirts, married women are wearing red skirts. Long Kao Peninsula, can still be seen in the husband alive elderly women wearing red dresses. Widowed after marriage, women do not wear red, red skirt for life, the first three years of mourning, must wear green, white skirt, after three years changed to green, green skirt, skirt must cover the feet. Coastal sandy, women go out to farm or sea, commonly used towels wrapped around the head, around the neck; men wear pants pants are wider, conducive to sea work. Young girls wear single or double braids with one or two flowers or red velvet ropes at the end of the braids, and married women wear long buns, embellished with gold and silver jewelry.

Republic of China period, Zhongshan suit became popular in towns and intellectual circles, and there were many women wearing cotton tunics. Among university and high school students, men wore suits and women had cheongsams.

***At the beginning of the establishment of the Soviet Union and the country, the Soviet way of life, the women have short hair, the men have a "sideways" hairstyle. In the countryside, the elderly peasants mostly wear cloth buttons folded plain clothes and pants without pockets, the color of blue, green-based; middle-aged and elderly women mostly wear large-breasted clothes, under the plain pants. With the improvement of farmers' life, from the late 50s, Zhongshan clothes, youth clothes and military-style civilian clothes became popular in the county.

During the Cultural Revolution, grass-green, yellow and gray military-style civilian clothes were popular throughout the county.

After 1978, especially in the 80s, fashion was constantly updated. Fuqing as a hometown of overseas Chinese, by the influence of foreign fashion, especially obvious. Spring, fall, summer and winter in Fuqing popular main fashion has spring and fall clothing, summer and winter fashion. Women's spring and fall clothing outer tops of the collar is mostly small collar or round suit collar, straight waist, shoulder pads, clothing length to the thighs of the knee, pants for straight pants. Skirt dresses are mostly popular in the summer, the late 80s, some young girls, wearing a dress, jacket a woolen undershirt. Men's spring and fall clothing tops are mostly straight neck, broad shoulders, row of buttons, or zipper type, pants are straight pants.

Summer fashion, women like to wear dresses, after 1985 there is a large contrast, that is, black, gray and white with each other. Skirt clothing in the suit skirt, undershirt skirt, halter dress, denim skirts and tricot skirts and so on. In addition, various kinds of suit shorts, denim shorts, Bermuda pants, towel shirts, Yuko shirts, etc. were also very popular. Men's popular clothing is still stand-up collar shirt with suit shorts.

Winter fashion, women mostly like different colors of windbreakers, long and short tweed coats, bateaux and ski shirts. There is also a wide range of fancy stick knitwear. The tunicization of sweaters is a new trend. Men generally wear suits, hunting clothes, riding clothes, traveling shirts, ski shirts or sweat pants, and long and short tweed coats. Farmers tend to wear Zhongshan suits and military-style civilian clothes.

Fashion is easy for young men and women to accept, but the majority of rural areas, especially remote, poor areas of clothing has not changed much, to the 80s, some still retained the dress of the 1950s.

Section 2: Diet

Fuqing people eat three meals a day, generally diluted in the morning and evening, dry at noon, and in some areas, all three meals are diluted. The staple food is rice and sweet potatoes (potato chips), and the side dishes are mainly meat, seafood and vegetables. The condiments are sauce, □, monosodium glutamate (MSG) and a small amount of sugar and wine.

The meat and vegetable diet has been inherited to the present day. In addition to monks and Buddhists who are forbidden to eat meat, only vegetarian, most people in Fuqing like to eat pig, sheep, beef and fish, shrimp and other meat. 1984, the rich families pay more attention to nutrition. A part of the family food from the coarse food type gradually transferred to fish, meat, poultry, eggs, milk-based fine food type.

Style snacks are colorful, mainly flat meat, fish balls, taro cake and oyster cake. Fuqing cake is crispy and delicious, crispy and pleasant, and has been famous for a long time. Other flavorful snacks evolved from Fuqing cake, there are cooked meat, cooked razor clams, cooked clams or seaweed in the middle of the light cake, the taste is more delicious. Flat meat made of swallow skin or flour skin with lean meat as filling is very popular. Fuqing Fish Balls, with fine fish as the skin and lean meat as the filling, high quality fish balls are elastic and crispy, and after 1978, the fish balls around Longtian were also exported to Hong Kong and other places, generating foreign exchange for the country. Meat powder, fish powder, oyster powder, razor clam powder, etc. mixed with sweet potato flour are also the favorite snacks of Fuqing people.

Wedding celebrations, funerals, years of festivals or other banquets, banquet specifications, after the 80's increasingly upscale. Too much grease, the production of crude has been eliminated, replaced by "high, fine, clear, sharp" lean meat, pork liver, pork belly and shark's fin, sea cucumber, hairy vegetables, hairy sea-crab, shrimp, mushrooms, octopus and other delicacies into the feast. The appearance of the hitchhiking dish (i.e., combined dish), image dish, also accompanied by four fruits (pear, apple, banana, mandarin orange), four plates (melon seeds, candy, olives, candied fruit). Refined phoenix cold dish, eight treasures of the whole chicken, mandarin ducks and fish fillet, peacock open screen and other patterns should come into being. The wine banquet is usually 10 plates, more often 16 plates. In the middle and at the end there are two dim sums (famous pastries) and two sweet soups (peanut soup and pineapple soup, loquat soup). In the plate, there must be cucumber fish and peace egg, which implies peace and longevity and the meaning of the year.

Drinks, Fuqing people generally drink hot tea and boiled water, tea lovers almost throughout the county. Some people also specialize in teahouses, recruiting tea guests. Guests visit, the host can not be separated from the tea please. However, Fuqing people's habit of drinking tea is to drink in big gulps, and they are not good at savoring it.After 1985, various kinds of colas, coffees, and juices flooded the market, and became the drinks of rich families. Dongzhang, a mountainous area is rich in white plums, processed into sour plums, is also a good drink in the summer season.

Wine, Fuqing people can't live without wine for three meals, and some women can't live without wine during their menstruation. In worship ceremonies or banquets, the consumption of wine is even more amazing. The average person drinks rice wine and groundnut wine, and after 1985, there are many people who love to drink beer, fruit wine, white wine or imported wine.

Section III Residence

Fuqing farm houses, most of the old-style four-panel room, generally in the hall, the two sides of the room, the two sides of the opposite side of the ear drop room, the hall in front of a small courtyard. Most of the earth, brick and wood structure. Houses surrounded by rammed earth wall (inside and outside the shell ash powder), or red brick wall, more than the base of the green stone, the roof are tiles. Most houses are two-story. Longtian and Gaoshan areas, because of the sea wind, more stone and wood structures, firm and beautiful.

The affluent people built a large six-panel house, its design is basically the same as the four-panel house, two rooms on each side of the hall, the space is more open. Some of the six-panel house three side by side, three into the connected, individual as much as fifteen into. The "fifteen falls" in the county town are the remains of such group buildings. They usually cover an area of 2,000 to 3,000 square meters, or even tens of thousands of square meters. There were pagodas and stone lions in front of the houses, but most of them are gone now.

Xincuo and Yuexi, which border Putian, were influenced by Putian's architectural style, and most of them built palatial houses with carved beams and magnificent buildings.

Dongzhang, Yidu mountainous area of local materials, inner roof frame, rafters, walls, almost all with wood.

*** and after the establishment of the country, especially into the 80's, four, six fan of the ancient form of construction is gradually eliminated, replaced by four sides of the window, the front of the balcony of the modern house. The number of houses ranges from one to five or six storeys, and in the late 1980s, reinforced concrete houses appeared in large numbers in both urban and rural buildings. Institutions, enterprises and institutions of the collective dormitory also built suites.

Section IV Walking

Ancient times, Fuqing people walking, mainly by trekking. The Fuqing people who went to Beijing to take the examination in the past dynasties could not leave their feet and shoulders. Only the rich and powerful official family can ride horses, rattan or sedan chair. Mountain stream area, the slippery pole (sedan chair), bamboo sedan chair and ferry canoe is an important means of transportation. Plain area, the rich and noble family sitting two or four people carry the bar of the cool sedan chair or sedan chair. The official government long-distance transmission of information, military intelligence rely on "Pegasus", set up a station in the middle of the station, called the post, also known as the post office, the official post. The county official post alley, that is, the former site of the former post.

Republic of China period, the emergence of plate car, after the yellow car, bicycle, bicycle back and four-wheeled vehicles (commonly known as "mouse tail") used one after another, can carry people, but also to transport goods. The use of animal power and wind power transportation in Fuqing is also very common. Flat highway with horses, donkeys pulling carts, the sea with sampans, canopies and wooden sailing boats, passenger and freight can be used.

***After the establishment of the country, motor vehicles gradually replaced the old means of transportation. Especially after 1978, the transportation system reform, individual, collective, state-run development, large tractors, walking tractors, large and medium-sized freight cars running day and night in the county's various highways, a variety of buses are endless.

People go out, at any time you can buy tickets by car. To go to Hong Kong and Macao can take a luxury bus car. Many organizations, enterprises and public institutions with their own jeeps or cars of all sizes. 80s, private cars, when the most bicycles, almost every family. Domestic and imported motorcycles are also becoming popular.

Industry customs

Section I Agriculture

Qing Dynasty, Fuqing women more foot-binding, can only take care of household chores, or spinning and weaving, agricultural work borne by the men, there are men plowing women weaving said. During the Republic of China period, the number of women with footbinding decreased year by year, and the number of women who went to the fields to help men work increased year by year. In order to make a living, women from poor families were also used by men, but the number was not large. ***After the founding of the Republic, men and women became equal. Women were paid the same as men for the same work and became one of the main laborers in agricultural work.

Fuqing paddy rice-planting, regardless of the field of large and small pieces, from the middle of the open line insertion, the first person must be a few people in the field of the more skillful rice-planting veterans, inserted a few rows, the other people down to the field to follow the insertion. Some rice-planting hands do not need to hold the line, can be straight backward insertion, showing a high level of agricultural technology. Gathering grass, kneeling between the seedlings, forward hand pulling grass roots. Late-season rice, in the white dew before the paddy field ridge edge to dig a water canal (ditch), drain the water in the field. The rice planting and harvesting process is very tiring, so a good meal is provided every night. At the end of the morning and evening rice harvests, a few bowls of good food were prepared to celebrate the harvest.

Section 2: Building a house

Building a house, most people in Fuqing chose an auspicious day to break ground and lay a foundation. In the countryside, neighbors and townspeople take the initiative to come out to help, commonly known as the gift of work. When the house was completed, friends and relatives prepared candles and cannons, noodles and eggs or cloth and other congratulations. When the beam, the owner of the house to celebrate the firecrackers. Beam hung with relatives sent red cloth and baskets (now changed to red lamp), beam head and the gate side of the red cloth incense bags, for good luck. In the evening (some after the completion) set up a feast, commonly known as do on the beam wine, completion of wine, feast civil engineering mason, grant workers of the neighboring townspeople and congratulations on the guest, meant to show appreciation. In the countryside, the house was built, although not decorated, the owner should be moved in to live, said that some people live, not occupied by ghosts and gods, the family can prosper. The new house, friends and relatives are sent egg noodles or other gifts, to express the celebration.

Third section of the boat

Fuqing coastal fishermen, the second and sixteenth day of the month, we must prepare a sumptuous food and wine, facing the sea, in front of the beach or the Sea God Temple, the Dragon King Temple, set up offerings, a reward for the God of the sea, the Dragon King's grace in the past, and secondly, to pray to the God of the sea, the Dragon King to bless the safety of their future boat trip. According to the legend that sea turtles can float on the surface of the sea and save fishermen from danger when their fishing boats are in distress, sea turtles are used as totems. Whenever a fisherman catches a turtle unintentionally, he always carves his name and the time of release on the turtle's shell, and then puts the turtle back into the sea in the hope that he can be saved by the turtle in case of danger. When traveling on a boat, once they find a floating body on the surface of the sea, they will try to salvage the body on shore and bury it according to the custom. The fishermen also regard the boat as a holy thing, and do not allow women to get on board, and even do not allow women to cross the boat's cable, which is considered to be conducive to the safety of the boat.

Etiquette and customs

Section 1: Marriage

Old times, men and women married at the behest of their parents, matchmakers, and the phenomenon of child brides and early marriages was widespread in rural areas.

In 1951, the Marriage Law was enacted, enforcing the autonomy of marriage and forbidding parents and others from interfering in the marriage. However, the marriage of young men and women in the private sector is still mostly proposed by matchmakers. According to marriage customs, the matchmaker to propose marriage within three days, the two families safe and sound, is considered an auspicious omen. If the "marriage", the woman's family to the man to check the family, the man to the woman's family matchmaking. After both sides agreed, the man to pass "on the half gift" (half of the bride price) to the woman's family, is considered to be engaged. Rural engagement, men and women by the neighborhood (or relatives) accompanied by young men and women, to the town to take photos of the engagement, and the man to buy daily necessities to the woman, as a sign of engagement.

Before the wedding, the man's family will repair the house and make furniture. One or two days before the wedding, the two families of the man and the woman change the peach symbols, stick red couplets, and the man's house is decorated. Both sides of the guests are full of doors. The women's guests are often given clothes as gifts (i.e., additional boxes), while the men's guests are given money as gifts.

In the 50's, most of the marriages in Fuqing were relatively simple, and the superstitious marriage ceremonies were almost eliminated. The new trend of the woman not wanting the man's bride-price, and the man not wanting the woman's dowry, appeared in the late 60s, when old habits began to emerge, and a lot of people were acting in accordance with customary practices. The woman asked the man for a bride price and gifts such as sewing machines, bicycles, watches, radios, and so on, called "three turns and a sound". By the 1980s, the requirements were even higher, with the man paying a high bride-price and hiring cars in towns and cities to welcome the bride. The woman with a television set, electric fans, washing machines, dual-use recorders, large cabinets, chests, sofas and other dozens of kong sent to the male family.

Folk marriage, there are several unique customs:

One, stop the sedan chair

The groom went to the woman's home to meet the bride, Fuqing is called to invite the new man. On the way back, people can stop the way with a bar chair, etc., the groom, the bride shall not be angry. In the old days, the bride sat in a sedan chair, accompanied by a band, the groom to stop the sedan chair people divided into melon seeds, candies, etc. Now do not sit in the sedan chair, the band is also a good idea. Now do not sit in the sedan chair, the band also changed to recorders, roadblockers or ask the bride and groom, the bride sings, or to them to the roadblockers to distribute cigarettes, candies. Both in the past and at present, only when the roadblockers are satisfied will they be allowed to pass. The more people stopping along the way, the more the bride's talent is known far and wide, and the more honorable the groom will be.

Second, to avoid rushing

The groom to welcome the bride to the door of their own homes, the male family will firecrackers to welcome the new. At this time by the male relatives or neighbors in the blessing of the elderly women and the bride to help the bride into the door, the male family members of other women temporarily avoided, such as the bride into the hall to meet. This custom is called avoidance of Chong.

Three, off the new room

In the bride did not arrive at the male home before the groom's family to pick a smart boy waiting at the door, to receive the bride's team to the boy will go up to the dowry in the new toilet to take over, which is called guan guan (mention) toilet. The boy should also enter the new room, with the boys and girls in the room beforehand, close the door and ask the groom to pay for cigarettes and candies before opening the door. At this time, the bride and groom worshiped their ancestors and parents, aunt and uncle, after the wedding by the bride as a guide to the introduction of the new room, then to shoot the door. In the old days, the door to shoot the room by the bride singing "shoot the door song", and now more by the groom and close the door to bargaining. The longer the bargaining time, the bride and groom, the more patience, it means that the couple in the future, the longer the days of love. Finally, the groom agrees to the request of the child who closes the door, and only then does the child open the door and let them into the house. The bride's new toilet has a number of gifts in it, which is a reward for the flinging toilet boy.

Four, haunting the room

It was the night, both families prepared a sumptuous feast to entertain the guests. Among the guests, the groom's uncle is the most honorable, and he should be treated with the utmost respect and courtesy, and should be the chief of the banquet. The night, most of the Xingjia room. Haunting the room by the friends and relatives to participate. The content of the room is out of some of the bride and groom, the bride embarrassed by the subject, teasing a new couple.

Five, back to the door

Old times, the bride married the third day, the bride's family sent people to invite the newlyweds to return to the bride's home. Fuqing all over the custom, the old name of the return to Ning, also known as the door, commonly known as "please head line". 50's, not married on the third day after the door, but the next day that is invited back to the bride's home. On this day, the woman sends her family to invite the bride and groom back to the bride's home. The woman's family hosted a banquet for her son-in-law and daughter. Before the banquet, the son-in-law is allowed to cut the hard-boiled eggs with a spoon before the banquet begins. The family banquet is held in the afternoon or evening, accompanied by the female relatives, during which the parents introduce the son-in-laws one by one and tell them what to call them. According to the old custom, after the invitation, the groom goes home, and the bride has to stay at her mother's home for a month. Now it has been changed to the next day or the same day back.

Section 2: Childbirth

Women give birth to a child in the month of childbirth, which is called Yue Li in Fuqing. During this time, outsiders are generally not allowed to enter the maternal room, commonly known as the ban on Chong. In fact, it is afraid that outsiders will bring in germs and cause post-partum diseases.

14 days after the birth, Fuqing folk have the custom of annunciation, that is, the maternal family to friends and relatives to send red eggs and a bowl of noodles (now changed to split candy). Relatives and friends should be in the full moon before the maternal chicken, meat, eggs and noodles and other gifts, folk commonly known as sending the month. Full moon, the mother's family to send children's clothes, children's hats and cradles and other gifts to the newborn grandson. Other relatives and friends should also send gifts to the child to show congratulations. According to the old custom, the new child to host a banquet to entertain friends and relatives to congratulate, called the full moon wine. After the banquet, give friends and relatives back to the red egg, to show that everyone is happy.

Announcement of good news, send the month, do full moon wine, red eggs and other customs, in the feudal society, which emphasizes men over women, is limited to add boys. ***After the founding of the Republic of China, although some remote places still practiced the old customs, most towns and cities did the same for both boys and girls.

Third section of the birthday

Fuqing have daughters to the birthday parents do birthday custom. Where on the life (that is, more than 50 years) of the old man, every year on his birthday, his married daughters should be in the old man's birthday day to send parents eggs, noodles, pig's feet and clothing. There are also men do nine, women over ten custom, ten birthday is more lively. The birthday is mainly organized by the children. Before the birthday, all married daughters have to do birthday gift cake, distributed to relatives and friends of the mother's family, there are a few married daughters have to share a few copies. After receiving the birthday cake, friends and relatives to prepare red packets, candles, guns, noodles and other gifts, in the birthday of the day to go to congratulate the worship. Some also send birthday screen, birthday axis and other things. Son-in-law, granddaughter-in-law shall send peach, take peach prolong life, long life meaning. The master of the house to hang red lanterns, sticker birthday couplets. In the old days, but also set up banquets, on the birthday of the old man sitting in the hall to accept children and grandchildren and friends and relatives to congratulate.

Section 4: Funeral

Fuqing folk call the funeral a white happy event (as opposed to a wedding). There are many unique customs and traditions that have been inherited from □ Xi Shou to funeral, burial and Fushan.

I. Xishou

Fuqing countryside is mostly earth burial, so making a coffin is a big deal. When an old man has a birthday, he is qualified to have a coffin pre-made, which is called □XiShou (or □ShouBan). When it is time for a birthday party, daughters who are married should buy eggs and noodles to congratulate them.

Two, out of the hall

On the birthday of the old man in the dying to move from the bedroom to the ancestral hall, commonly known as out of the hall. Relatives should accompany the guardian. The relatives in the foreign land, also as far as possible to come back to see the last time, listen to the last words. If an elderly person passes away outside the home and is unable to move to the ancestral hall in time for his or her death, he or she is generally not allowed to leave the hall. Those who have not yet passed away are not eligible to go to the ancestral hall, but can only build a simple hut outside the house to put the body.

Three, into the coffin

The deceased dying, relatives should comb their hair, change clothes, shoes, hats. The clothes worn by the deceased called life jacket, life jacket is generally sewn by the daughter has been married. Folk custom wear single not wear double, avoid wearing wool category. In the old days, there is a face masked white paper, eyes covered with copper custom, has been gradually abolished. Into the coffin, the eldest son to hold the head, women, daughter-in-law, grandchildren and other hold waist, knees, feet. After the coffin, children and grandchildren around the bier crying, and then men first women, each holding a candle, to the left around the coffin three times, and then to the right around three times, commonly known as ring coffin. Finally, the relatives see the deceased again, and then cover the coffin. Around the coffin is a form of farewell to the body, is still inherited. After the coffin, the deceased to sleep on the straw mat and used things on the side of the road to burn.

Four, funeral

Funeral in Fuqing folk is a big event, mostly held at noon. The funeral ceremony is hosted by the more prestigious people. Before the funeral, family members and relatives first in front of the funeral cry, children and grandchildren in accordance with the customary rules of mourning, kneeling in front of the casket, friends and relatives three bows, and then the bier out of the door. In some places, a reputable person among the relatives and friends will make a sacrificial speech. Friends and relatives, such as the casket out of the door or on the road in front of the sacrifice, called road sacrifice. The funeral procession is usually preceded by a white flag, followed by wreaths and couplets sent by friends and relatives, and a palanquin (with a built-in photo of the deceased); followed by a band and friends and relatives. The children follow the funeral procession with the coffin, followed by other relatives of the deceased. Funeral relatives and friends to the main intersection, accept the children of the deceased to thank the gift of filial piety, then can be dispersed. The children and relatives of the deceased must be sent to the cemetery. On the way through the ditch, canals, bridges, the children of the deceased have to cry and call some, both the expression of grief, but also to remind the coffin carriers to pay attention to roadblocks.

Five, burial

Children and relatives will be sent to the casket to the cemetery, into the dug grave. Then the eldest son will lead the way and lead other children and grandchildren around the grave three times to the left and three times to the right, sprinkling a little soil on the casket as they go. This ceremony is also called a ring coffin, which is meant to show the children's mourning for the deceased, before covering the earth and burying it.

Sixth, back to the dragon

After the burial, the white flag into a red colored flag, mourning clothes for wearing a suit, burying the dead tools are sticking a piece of red paper, parade back, commonly known as back to the dragon. Back to the hall and then sacrifice the spirit, led by the elders of the family to the deceased statue kneeling or bowing. Evening banquet to thank friends and relatives to participate in the condolences and funeral, this meal is called downhill meal.

Seven, Fushan

The day after the burial, the funeral family to the cemetery to burn paper to pay homage and cultivate soil, called Fushan. This is the end of the funeral activities.

New Year's Eve of the lunar calendar, the funeral home door sticker blue paper, write the two words to keep the system, do not participate in the celebrations.

Bereaved family members are required to wear mourning. Sons and daughters-in-law must serve three years of mourning. Daughters take off their mourning on the anniversary and wear auspicious clothes instead. Wives also serve their husbands for three years, and husbands are allowed to take off their mourning after one year of serving their wives. The son to be a hundred days before shaving, commonly known as stay a hundred days.

Fuqing also pick up the bones of the custom, that is, a number of years after the burial of the dead, due to infrastructure, water conservancy and other land, or to choose a good feng shui place, the survivors of the family dug out the bones of the ancestors, buried in another place.

Now advocate the funeral from the simple and funeral reform, some of the superstitious color of the old customs have been gradually abolished, and gradually changed to memorial services and other forms of mourning the dead, cremation has also begun to replace the burial

Section 5, the family

Most families or to become rich, or to deal with the relationship between sisters-in-law, mothers-in-law and daughters-in-law, up to a certain stage of all the separation of the family. The family is divided by the father and mother to preside over, please uncle or clan relatives have the prestige of the elders ruled, the eldest grandson according to the treatment of the tail child, but also share a share of the family property. 80's, the "inheritance law" after the announcement of the towns and cities in accordance with the inheritance law of the division of the family more and more, the eldest grandson does not enjoy the treatment of the tail child. After the separation of the family, relatives are sent thread noodles, eggs and other gifts; daughter-in-law's mother's family to send a set of kitchen utensils to the daughter, son-in-law, commonly known as the pressure to do congratulations. There is the first day of the year early, the whole year are up early. On the first day of the morning meal, families eat line noodles, but also with a pair of peace eggs, hoping that a year of good fortune and longevity, peace as desired. The first bite of this meal more noodles or eggs, not first soup, which has also become a habit. Thus, it is said that it rains when you go out because you drink noodle soup.

After the meal, they all go out to pay homage to the New Year, and the master or mistress of the house stays at home to receive guests. The guests bow to their hosts and wish them all the best, and peace for the whole family. The master should also bow to return the congratulations, and then invite the guests to enjoy the fruit, melon seeds. On this day, all acquaintances encountered on the road, whether friendly or not, should nod their heads in greeting, but also to congratulate each other, and wish each other peace and prosperity.

There are many taboos early in the morning on the first day, mainly:

(a) taboo sweeping. Fear of sweeping away the wealth. Later, it was changed to sweep from the front door inward, the garbage is not poured out, wait for the first three days after the opening of the holiday pour.

(2) avoid manipulating the knife. Fear of moving the knife is unlucky. This taboo is to prevent the first day inadvertently hurt hands and feet, destroying the joyful atmosphere of the festival.

(C) avoid saying bad luck. Lest