What are the special flavors and folklore of Quanzhou, Fujian?

Quanzhou Folklore Quanzhou folk culture, deep precipitation, colorful. Dynamic static, forests and forests. In the festival folklore, the Lantern Festival is the most scenic, known as the people of Quanzhou "carnival". During the festival, urban and rural areas are decorated with lanterns, lantern exhibitions, arts and culture street, ten thousand people empty alleys, the city of the same music. With the reform and opening up, this traditional customs, cultural landscape, has become a major local tourism resources and to develop, in recent years identified as "Tourism and Culture Festival". May Festival is also known as the Dragon Boat Festival, Quanzhou is also very hot, "Dragon Boat Racing", "picking lotus" custom, spectacular. The Mid-Autumn Festival in Quanzhou is second only to the Lantern Festival in terms of bustle, with the moon shining in the sky and family members gathering to enjoy the moon, eat cakes, or wrestle for the "Scholar's Cake". Quanzhou city, this night, many people go to the river canoeing to enjoy the moon, and some in the riverside leisurely playing southern music, very elegant. Quanzhou is known as the "hometown of opera" and the "nest of opera", and has a number of rare traditional art treasures with a variety of flavors.　 On the stage, there are elegant and graceful Liyuan Opera, interesting puppet shows, dignified and witty Gaojia Opera, superb martial arts fighting city opera, as well as the long and rhythmic Nanyin art. Nowadays, these ancient and rare arts, which are "rare in China and rare in the world", are still recited in Quanzhou city and countryside, across the Taiwan Strait, in Southeast Asia, and even in Europe and America with their vigorous vitality. In addition, folk music, dance, opera and so on, also a wide range of beautiful, such as cage blowing, northern pipe, ten sound, tea songs, ballads, drums blowing; beat chest dance, colorful ball dance, car drum dance, fire Ding Gongwu as well as Quanzhou dialect storytelling and so on. Quanzhou is the cradle of Southern Shaolin martial arts, in which the Five Ancestors' Fist, White Crane Fist and other Southern Shaolin martial arts ancestor fist are unique and have been spread in Fujian, Guangdong, Taiwan, Southeast Asia, Japan and other places. Ancient Quanzhou folk practice martial arts style is extremely prosperous, so far inherited by someone, so the mass martial arts movement is very active.　 In terms of traditional crafts, colorful tie, paper-cutting, embroidery, bamboo weaving and so on, in a variety of forms, a variety of colors. Wood carving, stone carving, porcelain carving is famous at home and abroad, especially Hui'an green stone carving is to make overseas Chinese proud. Fan Shouchun, vice president of the South Fujian Cultural Research Institute, said: "Overseas folks are very affectionate to the green stone carving. My hometown in Hui'an, of course, Hui'an green stone carvings are more emotional. Hui'an green stone carvings (including granite carvings), mainly used for architectural decoration, represented by dragon pillars, stone lions and a variety of figures in relief, which is characterized by the combination of carving and painting, fine carving, vivid images, and has a strong national characteristics." Quanzhou has a long history of opening up to the outside world, forming a pluralistic religious ****existence. There are not only the triumphs of Taoism, Buddhism, Christianity, Catholicism, Islam, Manichaeism, and Hinduism, but also folk belief practices all over the city and countryside, such as Tianhou Mazu and Baosheng Daidi, all of which are honored by the people of Quanzhou and even by Taiwan compatriots as local secular deities and worshiped with devotion. Among them, the world's rare and China's unique Manichaeism relics Mani Temple, also known as Caoan Temple, is located at the foot of Huabiao Mountain in Jinjiang Luoshan Town. Ms. Cai Hui-Qiong, who graduated from the history department of the university, knows the landscape of her hometown very well, and she introduced that Manichaeism is a religion founded by Mani, a Persian, in the third century A.D. It was introduced to China during the reign of Emperor Gaozong of the Tang Dynasty, and had already reached Quanzhou in the middle of the Tang Yuankai Dynasty. This grass nunnery is a national key cultural relics protection unit. "The grass nunnery is built on a cliff, constructed of stone, with a single-eave hermit roof, and a circular niche carved in the cliff wall, in which the statue of Mani Buddha is carved. The Mani Buddha statue is 1.52 meters high and 0.83 meters wide. The Buddha statue is wearing a wide-sleeved monk's garment and sitting on a lotus seat, with a plump and solemn face." The residential architecture of Quanzhou is another bright landscape. Strolling through the ancient city of Quanzhou, you can see old mansions everywhere. Quanzhou South Architecture Museum curator Jin Jinliang said: "Quanzhou's architectural features reflect the 'red brick and white stone double toggle, out of the brick into the stone swallowtail ridge, carved beams and painted palaces' architectural style." One of the "official-style Alley", the axis of symmetry, opulent, roof overhanging curves, swallow tail ridge, vibrant; under the roof of the wood carvings and stone carvings, brilliant. Existing Nanan Guanqiao Cai senior ancient residential complex, lined up, out of the brick into the stone, ancient colors, grandeur. These houses are the essence of Quanzhou's ancient architecture. The costumes of Quanzhou people are even more unique. Among them, the most distinctive ones are the Hui'an women. Yellow bucket hat, flower headscarf, belly suit, silver belt, big folding pants, was jokingly called "feudal head, democratic belly, saving shirt, waste of pants." The strong color, peculiar style, coordinated shape, and Huidong coastal blue sea water, golden sandy beaches reflect the interest, dumped a lot of admirers to come to the artists and wind collectors. Another example is the East China Sea Xiapu women, spring, summer, fall and winter are fond of hairpin in the head of the flowers inserted hairpin, into the head of the "garden", "rainbow in the bun". The food culture of Quanzhou is even more unique. As the saying goes, "live off the mountain, live off the sea". Rich food resources, with traditional production technology, the formation of the overseas Chinese townships of the flavor of food flavor, famous throughout the world. Quanzhou City Tourism Bureau, said: "Quanzhou beef soup reputation at home and abroad, it is crispy and fluffy, delicious. Oyster omelette, fried crab flower, Shenhu Shuiyuan soup (fish ball soup), Chongwu fish rolls and bundled hooves are all very special." In addition, Lantern Festival dumplings, roasted meat dumplings, noodle paste, Nga Kou peanuts, Anxi persimmon cakes, Yongchun old vinegar, Anhai clay bamboo shoots jelly, Quanzhou mung bean cake, Nan'an peanut cake, Dehua glutinous rice cake and other old food, is the soul of the overseas redneck, stirring up infinite nostalgia for the hometown of the local flavor. Nowadays, Quanzhou Wenling Food Street has become one of the windows of Quanzhou flavor food. With the deepening of social reform and opening up to the outside world, in order to promote traditional culture, the development of the local economy as the main theme of the comprehensive festival also according to local conditions, came into being. Such as Nanyin Conference Singing, International Puppet Festival, South Shaolin Martial Arts Festival, Plaza Folk Art Festival, Tourism Culture Festival, Folk Song Festival, and such as Dehua Ceramics Festival, Anxi Tea Festival, Hui'an Stone Culture Festival, Shishi Lantern Puzzle Festival, Jinjiang Clothing and Shoes Festival, Nan'an Building Materials Expo, etc. Integration of product promotion, travel and tourism, art exhibitions, folk customs in one, and show the new style of contemporary Quanzhou to the full! ......