The garden on the head of the woman

The women of Wormwood are the daughters of the sea, and the rising and falling of the tides every day

is a source of concern and hope for them.

Compared to Hui'an women and Meizhou women, there is nothing special about the traditional dress of Wormwood women, wearing nothing more than a dyed cloth shirt, narrow at the top and wide at the bottom, however, the headdress of Wormwood women is the most fascinating among the three major fishermen's women in Fujian, and the description of the "garden on the head" is the most apt portrayal.

When combing her hair, the Bug Hunting Po woman first discovers a round bun at the back of her head,

and inserts a large shark thorn or plastic chopsticks to fix it in the heart of the bun, and then wears a garland of two to three layers of seasonal flowers around the bun, and then symmetrically inserts a few large red and peach color colorful hairpins, silk flowers, or flowers, just like the modern city center's flower beds in the full bloom of spring (pictured above). Some of the bugs looking for Po women are not yet finished, and in the bun heart on each side of the double-horned hairpin or comb made of gold and silver. Such layers of orderly, flowery, fragrant and flowing hair, from afar, it has been a dark fragrance floating, dazzling, thus ignoring the bug-seeking Po women barefoot or shuffling slippers. This "head-heavy" dress, is the Fujian fisherwomen's *** with the characteristics of Oh.

In the village of Bug Hunting Po, when I walked into the patio of an old house, I saw a lot of old photos hanging on the ancestral hall, the woman's head is inserted with a large hairpin, the head of the back of the "flowers around the hairpin" is hidden. In such black-and-white photos, only the hairpins were painted in color, which shows that the locals never dared to neglect the "garden on the head". The locals told me that the bug seeking Po women are very willing to spend money for the head of the "flower hairpin", Fuzhou has a horn comb factory specializing in the production of a variety of colorful horn combs for them, there are fish, bird type, etc., neighboring villages, some people specifically for them to plant the hanxiao flowers, Su Xinhua flowers, coarse chaff flowers, and so on. The beautiful headdresses of the bug-seeking Pu women have become a small industry, which is really amazing!

Worm seeking Po women's clothing culture formed in when? This makes a lot of people puzzled, experts also say different things, more points of view that the Song and Yuan Dynasties with the formation of the Maritime Silk Road and foreign exchanges more and more closely, the aboriginal simple and natural aesthetics and distinctive characteristics of the marine culture and the fusion, the formation of such an alternative style of dress.

The women of Wormhunterpu like to dress up, but also hardworking and capable. These fisherwomen who lived along the seashore, when the men were out fishing or going out for business, they were at home weaving fishing nets, bringing up children, knocking oysters, and carrying goods for the merchants. Even today, when strolling through the villages, you can still see them carrying seafood in a hurry, or shucking oysters in their own small yards. To this day, in various food markets in Quanzhou, the seafood sold by Worm Seekers still has a good reputation.

Wormwood is so close to the bustling city of Quanzhou that many of the young women have gone for a fashionable look, and their hairstyles have changed. However, the middle-aged and elderly women in the village stick to the traditional culture, every day tirelessly coiled round bun, full of flowers, some also like to wear a small bright red plastic purse at the waist. Because of the rise of tourism fever, some young bug-seeking Po women also opened