What are the customs and traditions of Xiamen?

Lunar New Year's Day, the Lantern Festival Lantern Festival, stamping street, lanterns, dragon and lion dances these traditional festivals in China, Xiamen, there is the first nine days of the first month of worship, Qingming Festival tomb sweeping and trekking (tomb sweeping activities in southern Fujian region, focusing on China's ancient people to pursue the end of the cultural psychology of the distant), the Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings and ducks, the 15th of August, Mid-Autumn Festival wrestling cake.

Xiamen is located in southern Fujian, southern Fujian culture has a long history, retained a lot of unique features of the custom, the New Year's Day when these traditional customs will be reflected particularly strong. In addition to the Lunar New Year, on the Yuan Festival Lantern Festival, step on the street, lanterns, lion dance these traditional festivals in China, Xiamen, there is the first nine days of the first month of worship, Qingming Festival tomb sweeping and trekking (tomb sweeping activities in southern Fujian region, which focuses on the ancient people of China's culture of caution to catch up with the distant past), Dragon Boat Festival to eat rice dumplings and ducks, the 15th of August, Mid-Autumn Festival wrestling cake.

The Shangyuan Festival, also known as the " Festival of Lights" or the "Lantern Festival", is the birthday of the Ziwei Emperor. On this day, the people of Xiamen to pray for blessings to the Heavenly Palace, every family early in the morning that is the five animals, fruit, wine, food, paper money, etc. on the table, to the Heavenly Palace God burn incense worship, and divination, predicting the year's blessings and misfortunes, after the offering of wine and burn gold paper, and then complete the rituals, withdrawing the offerings and other ceremonies.

This time the streets and alleys are decorated with beautiful lanterns, Zhongshan Park, temples or Workers' Cultural Palace and other public **** place will have a dragon dance, lion dance, stilt walkers, running boats, fireworks, welcome the purple aunt, guessing riddles, eating dumplings and other festivities. Dragon Boat Festival is also called "May Festival". Xiamen around the Dragon Boat Festival and the rest of China **** with the same content, such as eating rice dumplings, rowing dragon boats, but also unique local characteristics of the content, such as catching ducks, catching pigs and other athletic activities.

Dragon boat racing is generally held in Jimei's Dragon Boat Pond, if you happen to go to Xiamen during the period before the Dragon Boat Festival, you may want to go there to see. Catching ducks is a folk sports competition that tests physical strength, perseverance and skill. The arena is located on the water, participants have to walk through a round wooden column coated with slippery oil to open a wooden box containing ducks, and then jumped into the water to catch the ducks fall, the scene is hot, the atmosphere is warm, with a strong southern Fujian flavor. Mid-Autumn Festival Mid-Autumn Festival, flowers and full moon, is the day when people get together with their families or miss their friends and relatives from afar.

Xiamen people attach special importance to the Mid-Autumn Festival, many folks living abroad, as well as Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots, when they have embarked on the journey home, with family and friends reunion, **** enjoy the joy of heaven, and talk about the friendship after the farewell.