What is the custom of Putian Lantern Festival?

The custom of Putian Lantern Festival is to put a brown sedan chair. On the fifteenth night of the first month of each year, the brown sedan team in Nanmencun community returned to the picket temple levee after the patrol. After the break, when several piles of hay representing various communities were lit, many teams of brown sedan chairs came on stage at the same time and performed around the fire representing their own communities to see who swung fast and turned violently until the hundred loads of hay were burned out.

Characteristics of the custom of putting brown sedan chair on Putian Lantern Festival

The rocking brown sedan chair has certain sports action elements. With the rhythm of gongs and drums, performers walk or jump, or sit in a sedan chair or shake a sedan chair, which is a unique physical activity, with leg movements, arm and trunk movements, straight line movements and curved movements. Moreover, performers and onlookers echoed each other in the activity and expressed their feelings incisively and vividly, which not only brought visual impact, but also caused spiritual shock. While enjoying life, people express their admiration for God.