1, Lantern Festival
Time: the fifteenth day of the first lunar month.
Introduction: The fifteenth day of the first month of each year is the Lantern Festival, also known as the "Lantern Festival". On this day, every household put five animals, fruits, dining tables, paper money, etc. on the table early in the morning to burn incense to worship the gods. During the five days from 13 to 17, beautiful lanterns were hung on every household in the streets. Tangyuan came up at the top of the street. The Fujian folk song "Selling Tangyuan" sang: "Selling Tangyuan, selling Tangyuan, Yuanxiao's Tangyuan is round" is a true portrayal of "Yuanxiao eats Tangyuan".
2. Tomb-Sweeping Day
Time: April 5, Gregorian calendar.
Introduction: The hometown of overseas Chinese in southern Fujian attaches great importance to Tomb-Sweeping Day. The custom of Tomb-Sweeping Day in southern Fujian is a festival dating back to the origin of folk tradition, and its main activities are grave sweeping and ancestor worship. Sacrifice to ancestors is at noon on Sunday, and every household should make "wet cakes and vegetables" (spring rolls) and bring sacrifices to the class to worship the souls of ancestors, ancestors and foundation owners. Fujian Minnan doesn't necessarily only visit graves in Tomb-Sweeping Day. There are generally two dates for sweeping graves. The custom in Quanzhou is a few days before and after Tomb-Sweeping Day, while some people in Zhangzhou will choose to sweep their graves near Shangsi Festival on the third day of March, and Hakkas generally sweep their graves after the Spring Festival. The way is, after cleaning the grave environment (such as weeds and trees), worship the land god first, and then worship the ancestors. After the worship, press the "tomb paper" on the grave with a small stone, indicating that the grave has been repaired. In Tomb-Sweeping Day, Fuzhou, there are many tourists in the eastern suburbs, and most of them pick up wild vegetables to cook, which is called "cooking _". Hui 'an people fly kites and play wheat flutes when sweeping graves. Quanzhou Qingming eats "wet cakes" and makes "feet", which is a spherical snack.
3. Dragon Boat Festival
Time: the fifth day of the fifth lunar month
Introduction: Dragon Boat Festival is also called "May Festival". The Dragon Boat Festival in Xiamen has the same contents as other places in China, such as eating zongzi and rowing dragon boats, and also has unique local characteristics, such as catching ducks and pigs. Dragon boat races are usually held in the Dragon Boat Pool in Jimei. If you happen to go to Xiamen on the Dragon Boat Festival, you might as well go there. Duck catching is a folk sports competition that tests physical strength, perseverance and skills. The arena is located on the water. Participants have to walk through a log covered with lubricating oil, open a wooden box containing ducks, and then jump into the water to catch the fallen ducks. The scene is hot, the atmosphere is warm, and there is a strong Minnan style.
4. Chinese Valentine's Day
Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Guide: In Fujian and Tanabata, let the Weaver Girl enjoy and taste the fruit, and let her wish the fruit harvest in the coming year. The offerings include tea, wine, fresh fruit, five kernels (longan, red dates, hazelnuts, peanuts, melon seeds), flowers, female cosmetics pollen and so on. Generally, after fasting and bathing, everyone takes turns to burn incense and worship God and pray silently.
5. Mid-Autumn Festival
Time: July 14th of the lunar calendar.
Introduction: The Mid-Autumn Festival is also called Ghost Festival, and the Hakka Mid-Autumn Festival is on the 14th day of the seventh lunar month. Changting is commonly known as "July Festival" or "July 30th". Thirteen people eat meat and fifteen people are vegetarian. There are old customs such as "becoming attached", "receiving Taigong Taipo", "burning steamed buns" and "burning Ye Xiang", as well as the primitive custom of climbing the knife ladder in Tingcheng. The superstition of Mid-Autumn Festival is strong, but the old customs are gradually weakening today.
6. Liancheng "photographed the past"
Time: 14th day of the first lunar month.
Venue: Liancheng, Longyan
Introduction: Liancheng county is a folk entertainment activity that prays for good weather, prosperity and security. Children dressed in traditional China operas stood on sedan chairs, carried by 22 young adults. At about 10: 00 a.m. on the 14th day of the first month, surrounded by Bodhisattva palanquin, Wanminbao umbrella, bunting and Fan Shi drum band, they sang all the way, surrounded by tens of thousands of villagers and tourists, and started a competition until the leading "Tiangong" shed was out of touch with the "old Chinese" in the second shed. The second time was on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the "ancient things" lined up in the village stream. The drum band splashed water on each other, then three shots were fired, and the "ancient things" shed swarmed in and walked against the water path. They ignore cold and water, and rocks and moss are slippery. They fell down and got up again, marched forward and fought fiercely until they reached the finish line. People enjoy themselves in fighting and keep fit, which is a unique folk sports and entertainment activity during the Spring Festival.
7. aojiu street
Time: the 29th day of the first lunar month.
Venue: Fuzhou Shiyi
Introduction: Aojiu Festival is also called Filial Piety Festival and Sending the Poor Festival. On the day of the festival, every household cooks nine porridge with glutinous rice and brown sugar, and puts red dates, peanuts, cowpeas, sesame seeds and water chestnut in it to sacrifice their ancestors as breakfast for the whole family. All married daughters should send Niu Jiuzhou back to their parents to honor their parents, that is, to wish them a safe ninth five-year plan. The origin of this festival is said to be that the mother of ancient Manglietia was fierce and was sent to hell to suffer after her death. When Manglietia Manglietia grew up, every day, the food she gave her mother was eaten by kids. Later, he cooked a bowl of black porridge with black rice, and the kids were too scared to eat it. His mother finally ate the porridge sent by her son and was no longer hungry. Later, people named this day filial piety day.
8. Wuyishan Chai Touhui
Time: the sixth day of the second lunar month.
Venue: Wuyishan City, Nanping City
Introduction: Chai Tou Fair is a sales meeting with bamboo poles, wooden sticks, farm tools and daily necessities, and it is one of the larger folk activities in Fujian Province. Originated from the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom Movement, the county government did not allow farmers to bring weapons and iron when they entered the city, but only allowed bamboo poles and sticks. In order to oppose slavery and oppression and resist exorbitant taxes, local farmers, under the leadership of Chen, organized an uprising on the sixth day of the second lunar month. People rushed into the county government with sticks, poles and bamboo forks and ended in victory. Later, in order to commemorate this victory, it is scheduled to be held on the sixth day of the second lunar month every year.
9. Candlelight party
Time: February 21st of the lunar calendar.
Venue: Wuyishan City, Nanping City
Introduction: February 2 1 day of the lunar calendar is a well-known candle party for traditional folk activities in Wuyishan City, Fujian Province. Candle party, urban crowd, bucket locusts, rice, tables and chairs, kitchen cabinets, hoes, rakes, bamboo weaving, etc. It is sold on both sides of the street, and there is also a cattle market in the suburbs. Business, supply and marketing, second light and other departments also lost no time to promote various daily necessities and means of production. Its scale and influence are the highest in northern Fujian, and it is very popular among Wuyishan people. However, the Candle Festival before changing customs originated in the Tang Dynasty, originally to mourn the sacrifice of the old Buddha, the frozen monk. After investigation, there was indeed a monk who detained Bing in history, from which the Candle Party came.
10, Mazu Festival
Time: March 23rd of the lunar calendar and September 9th of the lunar calendar.
Venue: Meizhou Island, Meizhou Town, Xiuyu District, Putian City
Introduction: Mazu was born in 960 AD. It is said that Mazu often shows the spirit of protecting ships and saving sunken ships. March 23rd and September 9th of the lunar calendar are the birth and death dates of Mazu, regarded as the sea god. Every two days, tens of thousands of Taiwan Province compatriots and local people come to visit Mazu. During the festival, there are Mazu worship, Mazu cultural discussion, handicraft exhibition and sales activities, and you can also watch distinctive folk songs and dances and taste Fujian cuisine.
1 1, Uburi
Time: the eighth day of the fourth lunar month
Venue: She nationality gathering place
Introduction: She people commemorate the festival when their national heroes defeated the reactionary ruling class. On the third day of March every year, we go out for an outing, collect black barnyard grass leaves and steam black rice, which has developed into a custom from generation to generation. Nowadays, in order to commemorate the national hero Lei Wanxing, she people all over the country steam black rice for a family reunion every March 3 and give it to relatives and friends. Hold dances, sing in groups and celebrate festivals. Especially in the past ten years, the celebration of this ancient festival has become more enthusiastic and colorful.
12, do summer
Time: the first day of summer
Location: Fuzhou
Introduction: Because it is warm and cold in early spring, it is easy to get sick. In ancient times, in order to remind people, a "festival" ceremony was held on the first day of summer, which was called "making summer". Doing summer activities, such as picking plums and eating bamboo shoots, is different from ancient times to the present, with the aim of eliminating diseases and disasters. Nowadays, it is popular to make fixed-edge paste, fry "pancakes" and make "bowl cakes". Pancakes are made with bean sprouts and rice paste in a special pot; Bowl cakes are made by adding fermented materials into rice slurry in a small bowl. Lin Zutao's poem in Qing Dynasty: "Spring flowers turn green and cloudy, catering to the wonderful cooking of dishes." If you make a flower cake, it will bloom, and you will be rewarded by your neighbors first. "Flower cake is a bowl cake, and this custom has been changed to eating fixed-edge paste.
13, Zhang Hu Snake Festival
Time: the seventh day of the seventh lunar month.
Venue: Zhang Hu Town, Nanping City
Introduction: On the seventh day of July, most places celebrate the traditional Chinese Valentine's Day, but in Nanping, the folk customs are quite different. For example, villagers in Zhang Hu Town celebrate the traditional Snake Festival. The local villagers in Zhang Hu invited the python and the snake god Lian Gong out of the "Snake King Temple" for a parade, in order to pray for good weather, good harvests and family safety. The villagers each took a snake and walked behind them in the middle of the street line. The scene was spectacular and attracted many spectators to stop and enjoy it. Many foreign tourists arrived in Zhang Hu town early in the morning with their families to celebrate this annual event with the villagers.
14, Purdue Festival
Time: the fifteenth day of the seventh lunar month.
Location: South Fujian coastal area
Introduction: Purdue Festival is an ancient traditional folk custom and folk religious cultural activity. In primitive society, people believed that the ghosts of other clans and people of their own clans who died abnormally would become curses and harm the world, so they worshipped ghosts. In slave society, ghost superstition is quite popular. In Zuo Zhuan, Guoyu and other ancient documents, there are stories of ghosts repaying kindness and revenge, and the worship of ghosts and gods still has great influence among the people. In the folk custom of worship of ghosts and gods in southern Fujian, a typical one is "Purdue" which sacrifices to the dead.
15, Mid-Autumn Festival cake making
Time: August 15th of the lunar calendar.
Venue: Xiamen
Introduction: Xiamen people pay special attention to Mid-Autumn Festival. In addition to enjoying the moon and eating moon cakes all over the country, there is also a local folk activity to win the championship by making cakes. When Zheng Chenggong was stationed in Xiamen, the soldiers began to miss their families around the Mid-Autumn Festival. In order to inspire the soldiers' fighting spirit, Xu Hongbu skillfully set up the "Mid-Autumn Festival Pancake Champion", using six dice and a bowl to let the soldiers roll the dice in turn. According to the number of dice and red beans, you can get the first place, the second place, the flower exploration, the scholar, the juren and the scholar. All six dice are 4, which can cover all the moon cakes on the table. All six dice except four are numbers. Turn off the lights and grab moon cakes. This custom is popular among Xiamen people, and every family will hold this fun-filled activity on the evening of Mid-Autumn Festival. Around the Mid-Autumn Festival, cake shops in Xiamen produced a large number of social cakes, including pies, Cantonese cakes, biscuits or a combination of the three.
16, Xiamen International Marathon
Time: the afternoon of the first Saturday in June+10, 5438.
Venue: Xiamen
Introduction: Xiamen International Marathon, sponsored by China Athletics Association and Xiamen Municipal People's Government, is the only spring international marathon in China and the only coastal scenic track marathon in China. Together with the Beijing International Marathon, it constitutes two major marathon events in China.
17, Putian International South Shaolin Wushu Cultural Tourism Festival
Time: every February
Venue: Putian City
Introduction: Putian South Shaolin Temple is a holy place of Wulin. In order to promote Wushu culture and build a tourism brand, the first Fujian Putian International Southern Shaolin Wushu Culture Tourism Festival was held in February, 20001year. Festival activities include the opening ceremony, cultural performances, calligraphy and painting exhibitions, South Shaolin Wushu Challenge, "Shaolin Shen Gong" Wushu Invitational Tournament, South and north shaolin Wushu performances, South Shaolin Wushu Seminar, "Shaolin Flame" Lantern Festival for 10,000 people, group gymnastics and fitness performances for 1,000 people, retrospective exhibition of Shaolin movies, investment attraction, visit and inspection.
18, Phoenix Flower Tourism Festival
Time: It is held once every two years (May-June), alternating with the Marine Culture and Tourism Festival.
Venue: Xiamen
Introduction: The festival is named after the phoenix tree in Xiamen, which shows Xiamen's rich cultural resources and unique local folk customs, and is full of strong local cultural characteristics and youthful vitality. During the festival, there will be a grand opening ceremony, Phoenix Flower Poetry Festival, beach party, exotic fashion show, sea walk and other activities.
19, marine cultural tourism festival
Time: It is held every two years (65438+ 10), alternating with Phoenix Flower Tourism Festival.
Venue: Xiamen
Introduction: During the festival, more than 40 series and programs of 10 will be exhibited, mainly focusing on aquatic and beach projects, such as "Seafood Food", "Warm Ludao", "Passion Drifting", "Orienteering" and "Canoeing Competition".
20. Shaxian Snack Culture Festival
Time: 65438+ February 8th every year.
Venue: Shaxian County, Sanming City
Introduction: Shaxian Snack Festival is a happy day for Shaxian people, with the annual Gregorian calendar of 65438+February 8. Shaxian people are called Shaxian 128 for short. Shaxian snack has a long history and a good reputation, and its snack atmosphere is also very attractive. In Shaxian, every household can make several snacks, and food stalls can be seen everywhere in the streets and lanes. On the day of Snack Festival, Shaxian people welcomed guests from all directions and displayed the snack culture with a thousand years' accumulation. At that time, everyone will have a day off and go to the streets to eat and drink in droves.