1, chest-beating dance
The chest-beating dance is a major feature of Quanzhou folk dance. The number of chest-beating dance performers is not limited, but they are all strong men with round leather hoops on their heads, bare upper bodies and colorful belts around their waists, and they perform with the slow, medium and fast rhythms and dance steps in a formation of jumping paths along with the accompaniment of "wind-beaten pears" and "3,000 taels of gold" and so on.
2, colorful ball dance
Colorful ball dance, also known as "kicking the ball", "tribute to the ball", is the New Year's festivals, meet the gods, weddings and funerals and other performances of one of the main forms of folklore activities. The dance is performed by four young girls with flowers in their buns, dressed in colorful clothes and shoes, and one ugly woman with a "clove butt" on her head, dancing around a colorful ball held by a male with a long handled colorful ball in both hands.
The young girl, the ugly woman with hands, shoulders, head, knees, holding the ball, ball, top ball, kicking the ball, lively and colorful ugly woman performances witty and funny, or to the back of the ball, or with the knee to catch the ball, or shoulders, or the ball, or lift the feet around the ball, singing and dancing, but also very good.
3, abetting gong puzzle
"Abetting gong fan", also known as "Cailian", is a folk dance performed in the Dragon Boat Festival in the Quanzhou area, originating in ancient Quanzhou, "exorcise the epidemic" and the Tang and Song court "Cailian dance team". Dance team is generally composed of 10 to dozens of people.
4, fire tripod male fire tripod female
"Fire tripod male fire tripod female" by three people: fire tripod male hand-held orange wood long pipe; fire tripod female hand-held a large round fan; village girl dressed in sash and wide pants, wearing embroidered soft-soled cloth shoes, shoulder a load of firewood with a rope tie system, is the "maiden" dress.
Male and female carrying a long bamboo pole with a large iron tripod, tripod flame, along with the folk tune "ten flowers string" and other musical rhythm, in the people watching the stampede through the streets of the alleys and dance, with comical gestures, humorous language with the audience to communicate and amusement. The village girls follow behind them, carrying firewood burdens and dancing along with them.
This dance is a symbol of hope for a prosperous life.
5. Donkey Visiting Relatives
The Donkey Visiting Relatives is performed by four people, a pair of clowns dressed as old men and women with donkeys framed in bamboo and paper tied to their bodies as if they were riding donkeys, and the old man leading the donkey, followed by his daughter and her "simple son-in-law".
The plot is that the old man and his wife have a quarrel with their in-laws over their daughter's marriage, and they take their daughter on a donkey ride to the man's house. The dance shows this family of four on the road: lively, witty, funny." Donkey visiting relatives" first appeared in the late Qing Dynasty in the folk social fire "makeup people" performance.
6, car drum dance
"Car drum dance" performance form varies greatly from place to place. Most of the movements are absorbed from the opera. The music is mostly folk tunes, such as "car drum tune", "four seasons song", "more drum tune" and so on. The team dance is spectacular, neat and tidy, and the atmosphere is warm.
7, Hui'an female
This is an ancient traditional costume popular in Quanzhou City, Hui'an Chongwu. Head draped in brightly colored small flowers scarf, covering the cheeks and jaw, only perforated eyes, nose, mouth, wearing a tilted shirt, short and narrow, exposing the belly, wearing black wide-legged pants, the waist beam wrought chain, hand with silver bracelets, hand-held bamboo basket, which is the traditional Huidong female dress.
8, Xunpu female
Quanzhou suburban fishing village women, there are retained hairpin flowers around the custom. This kind of women's hair ornaments are rumored to be a custom spread by the Arabs in the Song and Yuan dynasties. The hairpin is easy to make and has a chic pattern, with the budding or newly blossomed flowers decorated with linen threads and encircled into a hairpin, which is placed around the bun, with as many as three small rings of different colors, and also inserted with jade hairpins and silver combs, etc.
The women in the fishing villages in the suburbs of Quanzhou have kept the custom of hairpin.
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Main Specialties of Quanzhou p>Quanzhou's main specialties:
1. Specialty Staples
Salted Rice, Radish Rice, Mustard Rice, Cauliflower Rice, Marinated Pork Rice, Taro Rice, Pot Rice, Quanzhou Fried Rice? Fish congee, Duck congee, Lo Mein, Noodle Paste, Hutou Rice Noodle, Bean Stick, Floating Fruit, Vermicelli Dumplings, Bean Dumplings, Sweet Dumplings, Meat Dumplings, Sweet Potato Flour Kuey Teow, Au Kuey Teow, Pickled Vegetable with Shredded Chicken Noodle, Floating Kuey Teow.
2. Specialty Soups
Gongwan, Fish Balls (Shamshu Shui Balls), Lantern Balls, Yongchun White Duck Soup, Black Bean and Dragon Bone Soup, Bitter Vegetable and Large Intestine Soup, Horse Mackerel Soup, Cuttlefish Stalks, Mushroom and Bean Pork Tongue Soup, Enema Soup, Shi Shi Beef Soup, Lotus Roots and Spareribs Soup, Radish Spareribs Soup, Corn Spareribs Soup, Tofu Soup, Dried Scallop Soup with Colorful Dried, Meat Bird's Nest Soup, Pig's Blood Soup
3. Specialty Buns
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Crystal buns, meat buns, oriental buns, vegetable buns, fried buns.
4.Special Vegetarian Dishes
Anxi Water Urn Vegetables, Tender Cake Vegetables, Cellar Vegetables, Dehua Huai Shan, Cold Bitter Gourd, Bamboo Shoots Vegetables in Spicy Oil, Eggplant in Garlic Paste, Seaweed in Fragrant Oil.
5. Special meat dishes
Hongse Chicken Claw, Chongwu Fish Rolls, Xijie Whelk, Ginger Duck, Dried Eel Stewed Pig's Feet, Stewed Pork Knuckle, Baked Pig's Feet, Steak (as opposed to Western Steak), ShuiMen Lane Stewed Mutton, Pig's Blood and Intestines, Oysters (DongShi Oysters) (XunPu Oysters), Steamed Tuna, Steamed Eggs with Clams, Clams in Soya Sauce, Steamed Clams in Oil, Stir-fried Naikan, Steamed Bitter Whelk, Stir-fried Bamboo Razor Clam, Fried Conch, Frozen Sand Fish Jelly Stir-fried Shrimp Skin with Mustard Greens, Whole Duck with Ten Spices, Stewed Duck with Taro.
6. Specialty Desserts
Shihua Paste, Xi Cao Kuey Teow, Orange Cake, Mung Bean Cake, Meal Balls, Mochi, Pungshe Turtle, Bowl Cake, Peanut Soup, Bean Paste Cake, Shishi Tangtou Sweet Kuey Teow, Shishi Taro Dumplings, Taro Cake, Taro Paste, Taro Cake, Persimmon Cake, Vegetable Sourness, Lotus Root Slices in Sugar and Sour Sauce, Sugar Cake, Coconut Cake, Cherries Cake, Sigao Tang, and so on.
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