What are the traditional festival customs in Fuzhou?

Traditional Festival Customs in Fuzhou:

1. The first day of the first month. This is the first day of the beginning of the Chinese Lunar New Year. In the traditional concept of Fuzhou people, the luck of this day will affect the luck of the year. Generally, especially in the past, Fuzhou people do not go out on this day, snail at home.

On this day, it is forbidden to move knives (including kitchen knives and scissors), forbidden to sweep the floor, and even more forbidden to sweep the garbage out of the house (sweeping the garbage out of the house means that it will sweep the money of the family out of the house), and it is better not to do housework. Therefore, the dishes eaten on this day are all cut and washed the day before, and just need to be boiled, and some can even be eaten as soon as they are warmed up.

2, Fuzhou people this day there is a thing is bound to eat, and in addition to vegetarians is the first meal to eat. Vegetarians should also eat after ten o'clock in the morning. That is too flat. The plane is a special snack in Fuzhou.

Taipin, is a good soup (chicken soup, pig's trotter soup, etc.) soaked in thread noodles (thread noodles is also one of the specialties of Fuzhou, is made of flour pulled into the same shape as the thread and then dried in the sun) and an egg. This is the breakfast on the first day of the first month of the lunar year, and it is also the food that Fuzhou people used to serve to their first guests. The meaning of this breakfast is a year of peace, no disasters, good health and longevity.

3, the second day of the first month. This day is usually the day when married daughters return to their parents' home. Daughters with their husbands and children, a family and and amicably back to their parents' homes (this day married daughters generally do not bring things home.) . It is also possible to have a midday meal at her mother's house, or not. Instead, the daughter's parents will prepare the grandson or granddaughter with New Year's money.

4. The third day of the first month to the fourteenth day of the first month. After the daughter returned to her mother's home, it began various friends and relatives take turns to be guests for dinner, now usually do not eat at home, are on the restaurant. Such banquets, mainly to strengthen the friendship between relatives and friends, because usually their respective work life is busy, in the rare Spring Festival more free days to get together and talk.

5, the first month of the fifteenth. This is the busiest day of the first month on the streets of Fuzhou. Every year on the fifteenth day of the first month, Fuzhou has the custom of patrolling the gods. The god patrol is to carry the gods from the temples to the streets. In front of and behind the gods, there are big-headed dolls on stilts, and some of them dance with dragons or lions. There are also many people playing drums. Firecrackers and fireworks are also set off.

And Fuzhou people also have the habit of sending lanterns on this day. Parents want to send their daughters who have just gotten married and have not yet given birth to the Guanyin Sending Children Lantern, hoping that their daughters will give birth to children earlier and add children to their husbands' families. If the married daughter has already given birth, the grandparents will send lanterns to the nephew or niece. Then the nephew or niece has to burn the paper lanterns. That's why there are all kinds of paper lanterns for sale in the first month of every year in Nan Hou Street. Unfortunately, more and more people are using plastic lanterns instead, and this traditional craft may be lost.