What are the traditional folklore of Fujian

Traditional folklore in Fujian includes Fuzhou Qingming Festival customs, Hakka mountain songs, Longyan Hakka marriage customs, Quanzhou folk customs, Ningde folk customs and so on.

1, Fuzhou Qingming Festival customs

Qingming Festival is a traditional festival in China to sweep the graves of ancestors, but the Qingming Festival in Fuzhou has its own unique customs, every year before and after the Qingming Festival, Fuzhou citizens go to the outskirts of the countryside, every family, sweep the graves of ancestors, pressure paper, soil. After sweeping the graves, they must fold pine branches and bring them back, inserting them in front of their homes to explain to their neighbors that the household has fulfilled its responsibility of sweeping the graves and paying homage to their ancestors.

2. Hakka Songs

Hakka songs are one of the most famous folk songs in China. The Hakka people living in Fujian are as good at singing songs as other Hakka people in other areas, and they use Hakka songs to express their feelings about their lives, labor and love. Hakka songs are sung in the oral language of the Hakka people, and they are characterized by the language of the Hakka people, which makes them unique among the folk songs. Hakka people are located in the environment of most of the mountains and mountains, men and women **** the same work, there is no "male dominated, female dominated" status difference, Hakka people are mostly simple and hardworking, Hakka people these unique background and culture, but also affect the Hakka songs.

3, Longyan Hakka marriage customs

Living in Longyan Hakka welcome wedding is interesting, the male side of the wedding team arrived at the woman's home, the bride went out to stand in a painting of the gossip Tai Chi figure of the rice sieve in the new shoes, the Hakka folk known as the "rice sieve", symbolizing that left behind the family of the mother's living soil wealth, to the in-laws to go! Re-establishment. Then to carry the bride out of the house, get on the sedan chair when the bride's brother with a bowl of water thrown into the car, said married out of the female, thrown out of the water. After arriving at the male family, the bride should be held in the hands of the bridesmaids holding citrus auspicious disk traction across the red charcoal stove, said the "fire red prosperity", into the hall after worship, that is, into the bridal chamber, the wedding feast began.

4, Quanzhou folk customs

Quanzhou is located in China's southeast coast of Fujian, the ancient Min Yue ethnic group, a long history, rich in cultural heritage, for thousands of years, Quanzhou folk simple, culture and education flourished, people hard work and perseverance, know the etiquette of the legacy of goodness for generations, the formation of a unique Quanzhou folk customs and folkways.

5. Ningde Folk Customs

Ningde City, Fujian Province, is the main settlement of the She people. Starting from the Tang Dynasty, the ancestors of the She people migrated from the junction of Fujian, Guangdong and Jiangxi Provinces to the eastern part of Fujian Province one after another. As an ancient ethnic group, the She people have gradually formed distinctive and unique customs and flavors in the course of history. The She people have their own language and use Chinese characters, and they call themselves "Shanha", meaning guests living in the mountains. She people like to sing songs, in their daily lives and labor, often with the song of speech, song to pass the love, sing the praises of labor.