Ganxian culture

Ancient customs peculiar to Egret Village in Ganxian County.

Leicha

This custom generally exists only among Hakkas. When making tea, the drummer sits down, holds a ceramic bowl on his legs, puts a handful of green tea into the bowl, and holds a rolling pin half a meter long, knocking and spinning frequently. Add sesame seeds, peanuts and herbs (vanilla, yellow flowers, fragrant leaves, rattan grass, etc.). ) pour it into the bowl while grinding. When the contents of the bowl are mashed, the tea will be ground. Then, filter the ground tea with a spoon sieve, put it in a copper pot, add water and boil it, and it will be fragrant in a short time.

Mount a tin cannon.

Every Spring Festival, photographers and folklorists from all over the country meet in Gannan, and they tirelessly wander around the enclosed houses and rural areas in Gannan, looking for unique Hakka customs. They will not miss the unique Hakka "Ding Bao" scene.

walk on stilts

Walking on stilts is one of the traditional folk activities of the Han nationality. Walking on stilts, commonly known as tying firewood feet, also known as "stilts", "walking on stilts", "tying high feet" and "walking high legs", is a popular folk performance. In some folk festivals, dancers usually perform in the square with long wooden stilts tied to their feet.

Mid-Autumn Burning Tile Pagoda

In Meilin Town, Ganxian County, Jiangxi Province, local Hakkas held a grand folk performance in front of an ancient temple to celebrate the Mid-Autumn Festival.

Manual papermaking process

Manual papermaking, also known as "indigenous papermaking", refers to the manual papermaking method that has been passed down from generation to generation without machinery or only with very simple machinery since the invention of papermaking.

Welcome lamp

As a tradition of Gannan Hakkas, "welcoming lanterns" has a history of hundreds of years, and it is a form of praying for the Hakkas in Gannan.