Sanming is a city in Fujian Province.
Sanming is located in north-central Fujian, located between the Wuyi Mountains and the Daiyun Mountains, with a total area of 23,000 square kilometers, ranking second in the province, with jurisdiction over 1 city, 2 districts, 8 counties, with a national civilized city, a national health city, the national model city of double embracing, the national comprehensive governance "Changan Cup", the Peaceful China construction model city and other honors. China's construction demonstration city and other honors. As of the end of 2022, Sanming City has a resident population of 2.455 million.
Sanming is rich in material resources and is a major grain-producing area, a key forest area, a tourist area, an old revolutionary area and an emerging industrial base in Fujian. Historically, Sanming was an important transit point for the southward migration of the Hakka ancestors, and an important residence for the Hakka people to form and flourish, with a profound Hakka culture, making it a famous Hakka ancestral land.
Folk culture in Sanming City:
1. Festival of the Year: Dragon Dance has always been one of the most prominent folkloric amusement activities of the festival of the year, which is practiced in all parts of Sanming City. During the festive seasons, people get together to dance dragons in the villages, lawns, streets and squares, to add festivities to the festival, and to pray for a prosperous year ahead.
2, marriage: began in the Zhou Dynasty wedding customs, in some parts of Sanming can still be seen. Most of the bride in the middle of the night or before dawn; welcome the bridal party arrived at the female home, the female will blow out all the lights in the home, and so the male party to enter the door with the lamps brought to the female home lights will be part of the light, the bride can go out.
3, put the river lamp: every year around the 15th day of the seventh month of the lunar calendar a few days before and after the Hakka people to worship the deceased relatives of the day, which is the most interesting is to put the river lamp. River lanterns are waxed red paper cut into lotus, fish, boats and other shapes, inside the press on a paper twist, into the night by the monks to the boat. After burning the rituals, the lanterns are filled with lamp oil and lit into the river.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia-Sanming City