What does Longyan Hakka culture include?

Longyan Hakka culture is mainly embodied in Hakka customs and dialects.

Hakka customs and habits

take a wife

Hakka weddings in western Fujian are unique. When the men's wedding procession arrives at the women's home, the bride should stand at the door, put on new shoes and stand in a rice screen with gossip and Tai Chi patterns, which is called "crossing the rice screen". This is a symbol of leaving the soil (wealth) of her mother's family to start a business in her husband's family. Then the bride is carried out of the house, and the bride's brother will splash a bowl of water on the car and show it to the married woman. At this point, the bride will cry. After arriving at the man's house, the bride should cross the hot charcoal stove to show "wealth". After that, the wedding procedure begins.

Hakka Mao Liang

Hakka cool hat has a history of 1000 years. The cool hat is woven with contemptuous sheets or straw, and the top of the hat is sewn with cloth. In addition to the front, five-inch colored cloth is hung around the brim, and unmarried girls have to hang colorful ribbons at both ends of the cloth. Ribbon is a symbol of whether Hakka girls get married or not. In addition to the functions of shading, rainproof and dustproof, the cool hat is also a unique headdress for Hakka women.

Gutian has Dalong.

Lantern Festival Youlong is a traditional entertainment activity in Gutian Town, Liancheng County, which began in the 16th year of Qing Qianlong (175 1). Gutian Paper Zhalong is 70 cm in diameter and more than 600 meters long. It consists of 150 knots, and more than 600 young and middle-aged people participate in the dance. It is known as "the first righteous dragon in the world".

Puppet show in western Fujian

There are as many as 36 puppets, and each puppet is hung by more than 10 ropes. The puppet is 77 cm long, with eyes turning, mouth open and limbs moving. It is divided into Wen, Wen, Wu, Zheng, Wu, Ugly, Wen, Wu, Wu and Wen Chou. There are hundreds of puppet shows.

Longyan language and culture

Hakka dialect spoken in Changting, Liancheng, Wuping, Shanghang and Yongding counties of Longyan belongs to Hakka dialect in western Fujian, accounting for more than 70% of the local language. Xinluo district (Longyan dialect area of Minnan language) and zhangping city (Zhangping dialect of Zhangzhou dialect of Minnan language; Some areas, such as Xin 'an Xinqiao near Quanzhou, speak Minnan dialect. Besides, Mandarin is widely used in this area.

Longyan Hakka cultural tourism

Longyan is the birthplace of Hakka culture, with many historical sites, including Peitian Village, Liancheng Fort, Tulou Folk Culture Village, Shanghang Lee Ancestral Hall and Fujian Tulou.

Ancient dwellings in Peitian village

Peitian Village is a national historical and cultural village, located in Liancheng County, known as the "Folk Forbidden City", which is another completely different architectural style of Hakka people. Featuring "nine halls and eighteen wells", it forms a contiguous ancient residential complex with grand scale, exquisite layout and exquisite design. Its halls are high and wide, with carved beams and painted buildings, criss-crossing, supporting hall compartments and scientific and perfect sanitary facilities, which is the perfect combination of architectural technology and technology.

Liancheng Bao Si

Bao Si, another ancient town in Liancheng, is the only living witness of ancient block printing in China. Bao Si woodblock printing began in the late Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. At that time, there were many printing houses and bookstores here, and hundreds of local booksellers distributed and sold at fixed points, and foreign booksellers also came to wholesale sales in an endless stream, which made Bao Si's printed books "monopolize the south of the Yangtze River, sell nationwide and broadcast overseas" and became one of the four largest engraving printing bases in China at that time. Liancheng Fort has been listed as a famous historical and cultural town in Fujian Province, and the surviving ancient bookstore group has also become a national key cultural protection unit.

Tulou folk culture village

Tulou Folk Culture Village is a national 5A-level tourist area, a national key cultural relic protection unit and a world cultural heritage. Yongding Hakka Tulou Folk Culture Village is located in Hongkeng Village, Hukeng Town, Yongding County, Longyan, Fujian. The buildings in the scenic area are unique, including more than 40 earth buildings, which have the characteristics of magnificent "round building prince".

Shanghang Lishi ancestral hall

Li's Grand Ancestral Hall in Shanghang County is unique in structure, reasonable in layout, exquisite in architecture and magnificent in momentum. It was the 16th year of Daoguang in Qing Dynasty (1836), and the descendants of Li (Li Menglan, the 23rd generation grandson of Li Huode) were built for four years to commemorate his ancestor Li Huode's entry into Fujian. There are countless festivals such as Tomb-Sweeping Day and Spring Festival every year.

Fujian Hakka Tulou

Hakka culture, a world cultural heritage, is represented by Yongding Hakka earth building, which is large in scale and introverted. The earth buildings here have a long history, many types and quantities, large scale, exquisite structure and complete functions, which are the best in the world. According to statistics, there are more than 30 kinds of earth buildings, such as round building, square building, pentagonal building, octagonal building, shamao building and diaojiao building, and there are more than 4,000 famous square buildings. The oldest earth building is Fuxin Building, which is located in xiazhai village, Lei Hu Town, Yongding County. It was built in 769 AD and has a history of 1200 years. Among them, there are more than 360 circular buildings, just like flying saucers falling from the sky and huge mushroom emerging from the ground. It is a huge single building, similar in shape to the Colosseum in ancient Rome and the modern gymnasium. United Nations experts call it "the unique mythical mountain residential building model in the world". As a unique world cultural miracle, it has been listed as a world cultural heritage, a national 5A tourist attraction and a Fujian tourism brand.