Customs and habits in Chaoshan area

Folk custom 1 is a traditional thought of group fighting and xenophobia. After the Minnan people moved to Guangdong in the Ming Dynasty (Hongwu immigrants in Zhu Yuanzhang's era and Yongle immigrants in Judy's era), there were village-to-village fights, Chaozhou fights in Guangdong and Fujian, Chaozhou fights in Singapore and Fujian, Chaoshan people believed in Minnan people's fights and Minnan people fought among themselves. The temple in Cai Shifu Village, a suburb of Xiamen, is a fighting god.

Folklore 2 Fujian cuisine is a Chaozhou cuisine, and Chaoshan Kung Fu tea is not lost to Fujian Kung Fu tea. In the Ming Dynasty, Minnan immigrants developed Fujian cuisine into Chaozhou cuisine.

Folk custom 3 Chaozhou music is synchronized with the popular "Nanyin" variant in Zhangpu area of southern Fujian, and its phonological style is very similar. The authoritative experts and scholars who study ancient music are called "living fossils" of ancient music in the Central Plains and have the reputation of "green music". Zhangpu county paper-cut and Quanzhou paper-cut are the most representative folk paper-cuts in southern Fujian. Zhangpu paper-cut and Chaoshan paper-cut are both called "hinge flowers" in dialect, and their uses in artistic style and folk activities are very close. Chaoshan is rich in folk resources and has its own characteristics in customs, etiquette and costumes. There are Hummer trailer, Shanglugen, Sijinjin and other folk buildings, as well as folk products such as water cloth and city blue. There are not only seven kinds of soups and winter festival pills, but also marriage and childbearing customs such as making four sentences, eating ding wine, eating red tables and going out of the garden. There are entertainment folk customs such as lanterns, cursor flags and "camp owners", as well as communication etiquette such as giving gifts in pairs and giving gifts in singular. There are gods such as "King of Three Mountains" and "Tianhou Palace", as well as folk folk folk art culture such as Chaozhou songs and Chaozhou operas. And Chaoshan congou tea featuring "harmony, love, refinement, cleanliness and thinking". etc