Folklore
Quangang is situated by the mountains and the sea, and has been well connected by land and water since ancient times. It is also in the transition area between the Southern Fujian and Putian languages, and the specificity of dialect and geography has resulted in the diversity and uniqueness of its folklore art, which has made it an astonishing place for Chinese and foreign artists to enjoy the quartet of songs and the theater.
In the local folklore, there are Xiang Opera, Gaojia Opera, Putian Opera, Puppetry, Nanyin and the rare Beipipu.
The people of Quan are also able to adapt to the local conditions and flexibly utilize these operas for various large and medium-sized performances.
Xiangjiang (芗江) is the abbreviation for Fujian's Jiulong River, which flows through Zhangzhou.
Xiang Opera, as its name suggests, is a local opera popularized along the Xiang River in Zhangzhou.
It is popular in areas such as southern Fujian and Taiwan, as well as in areas inhabited by overseas Chinese in Southeast Asia.
Hokkien opera is one of the younger of the major local theater genres in Fujian, and its predecessor is the Taiwan Opera, which is a new genre formed by the integration and absorption of various folk art forms such as jingge, car drums, tea picking from the area of Zhangzhou, and the Siping Opera, Baizhi Opera, and Peking Opera that were later imported to Taiwan.
Therefore, Fujian Xiang Opera has the same root as Taiwan Opera.
Quanhang Xiang Opera uses the Zhangzhou dialect as its opera accent, traditional Xiang Opera tunes as its music, and Jingban gongs and drums as its percussion, so its basic outline is similar to that of Taiwan's Songzai Opera.
Xiang opera was introduced to the Qianhuang area on the eve of liberation, and was quickly accepted by the people of Quanzhou, stopped performing in the 1960s, and then re-emerged in 1978, reaching its peak in the 1980s and 1990s.
The seven-star lamp is an auspicious lamp in the Lantern Festival folklore of the villages around Shanzhai, Fengwei and Qianhuang, and people believe that this lamp can bless an early birth.
It is in a more than ten feet of bamboo poles hanging on the top of the gorgeous hexagonal lampshade, each corner of the system of a paper heaven and earth lamps, commonly known as the Kui lamp, and some of them are also in the lampshade on the top end of the paste with a head of a paper crane.
The villages enshrined seven-star lamp rituals vary, such as after the Zhang village is the seven-star lamp worship at home for three days, and then the Kui lamp to the married family, the rest of the object incineration; dam head area is a new addition to the family paste seven-star lamps, enshrined for 15 days to thank the gods; the peak of the end of the seven-star lamps horizontally arranged in a bamboo pole, hanging in front of the door to worship for three days, and then incineration.
Some villages in the hillside will also be held in the Lantern Festival to grab the seven star lamp activities.
When the lights come on, after the salute of three, hold up the lamp holder holding the seven star lamp, the square of the many robbing lamps dance, robbing lamps and other six lamps from the head when crossing, jumping up to seize the lamp, a collision with each other, the sound of thunder, captured the lamps of the Kuaidan smiling, will be brought back to their homes for enshrinement.
Grab seven star lamp folk activities since the Cultural Revolution has gradually disappeared, but the 1980s, some folk artists to absorb its cultural connotations, according to the unique scenarios of this folklore activities, compiled into folk songs and dances.
The song and dance "Seven Star Lantern" made by the old artists, selected the famous song "Guizi Tu" of the southern sound and northern pipe as the dance music, with suona and percussion, which made the whole dance show a joyful atmosphere, especially the male clowns, female clowns, the old man, the young girl and the children and other roles appeared in the dance, which showed a lively and tense, funny and elegant scene with different dance styles.
In 1986, "Seven Star Lantern" was processed and rehearsed by Hui'an Gaojia Theater Troupe to participate in the National Folk Music and Dance Competition, winning the first prize for creation, performance and choreography.
The artists also use the seven-star lanterns to rehearse into the seven-star lantern street stepping program, to participate in some of the city's large-scale street stepping song and dance activities.
The girls who participate in the street treading wear red traditional costumes, holding a red gauze lamp in their hands, wearing a golden round props on their heads, and the props are adorned with six small paper lamps.
Into the territory of Quan Hong Kong, Tu Ling under the furnace, a sudden mushroom-shaped stone can be seen, this stone is famous at home and abroad "Yu Wat Tiaotao".
According to the people of Quan Hong Kong, the "Jade Wat Towards Heaven" unites the elves of the people of Quan Hong Kong and symbolizes the hard work of the people of Quan Hong Kong.
Quanzhou, Fujian Quan Harbor District is a dazzling pearl set in the West Coast Economic Zone on the page.
There is not only a large national petrochemical base, there is also a more than two hundred years of history of the salt field - Hillside Salt Farm.
Shansai Salt Farm is located in the south coast of Meizhou Bay, Fujian Province, the enterprise's existing production area of 90,000 mu, the annual output value of 27 million yuan, the annual tax of 6.5 million yuan, is one of the country's 107 designated salt production enterprises, the largest salt (carrier salt) production and export base in Fujian Province.
Dongyue Temple is located opposite to Guifeng Primary School in Chengfeng Village, Fengwei Town, Quangang District, Quanzhou City.
Here in the north of the barrier Shag, near the south of Huangfeng, and Xinghua Jikou, Meizhou islands as each other's horns, since ancient times is a sea defense fortress.
Ming Hongwu twenty years (1387 AD), in order to prevent Japanese invasion, building stone walls, that is, Fengwei City, the city's old east of the top of the city high mound, built a smoke pier beacon.
Dongyue Temple was built next to the south gate of the city, sitting north to south, covering an area of 668 square meters.
Located at the eastern end of Shag Village, Nanpu Town, Quangang District, Quanzhou City, north of Meizhou Bay.
It was first built in the reign of Yuan Zhizheng (1314-1368) and is dedicated to Tianfei, the goddess of the sea.
For the Qing Guangxu five years (1879) remodeling, sitting north to south, east-west width of 18 meters, north-south depth of 22 meters, covering an area of more than 500 square meters.
Two by the mountain gate, worship pavilion, two corridors and the main hall.
The main hall is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with a heavy eaves and a resting roof, inside which hangs a large wooden plaque of "HaiTianYuanHou" made by HuWen, the governor of Huian County, in the 47th year of the Qing dynasty's Qianlong reign (1782).
Pavilion for the heavy-eaved hipped roof, there is an octagonal algal well structure.
Palace has five pairs of pyroxene, granite, carved stone pillars, are the Qing Dynasty Hui'an stone carving art of the best works.