What are the customs of Fujian Lantern Festival?

The customs of Fujian Lantern Festival are:

Fuzhou 1

From the Spring Festival to the eve of Lantern Festival, Fuzhou people have the custom of sending lanterns and sugar cane. For married daughters, the bride's family always sends a lamp, and "lamp" is homophonic with "ding", which means jiading. Sugar cane means a happy life. Not only that, every Lantern Festival, lantern riddles are held all over Fuzhou.

Many happy and interesting riddles are not only welcomed by everyone, but also popular parent-child activities in Fuzhou for thousands of years. Now West Lake Park, Taijiang Cultural Palace, Yantai Mountain and other places are traditional solve riddles on the lanterns places.

2. Pingtan

"Walking the streets and lanes" is an essential activity for Pingtan people to eat midnight snack. Every year, thousands of people walk the streets and parade the Lantern Festival, which is quite spectacular. Flying dragons soar in clouds, waist drums suddenly ring, and snakes carrying lanterns stretch for hundreds of meters. Every household, old and young, holds lanterns and rattan cards and prays for their families with the "stepping on the street" team.

3. Quanzhou

Unique folk customs such as Gaojia Opera, Bag Puppet Show, Ding Huo in-laws, and Breast-beating Dance in Wudian City, Jinjiang City were staged in turn, with good wishes.

Fengcun, Shi Mei, east of Jinjiang, holds the Lantern Festival for three consecutive nights every year, and holds various fire-playing games such as "dancing dragons", "burning torches", "drinking lanterns" and "burning torches".

4. Putian system

Eating flowers is an ancient ceremony in Putian. At night, Ji Tong reached into the fireworks shirtless. Mars splashes, which is very ornamental. Flower-eating activities are staged in Fangshan, Hanjiang River every year.

5. Longyan

Longyan Hakkas moved here from the Central Plains. Therefore, the local traditional folk performances such as Youlong, "going through the motions", walking on stilts, boating and playing Taiping drum all have the shadow of Central Plains culture. Tongfang Town in Changting has a history of hundreds of years. The statue of Guan Gong was carried to the rice field. Four people ran around the circle and competed with each other. The fastest runner won, and the test was teamwork.