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Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

Follow the teacher to learn the Fuzhou dialect related to the "Spring Festival"

In fact, many of the names of Fuzhou cuisine are closely related to Fuzhou dialect. Many older grandparents speak fluent Fuzhou dialect, and now young people's Fuzhou dialect is a little worse. So how to inherit the provincial intangible cultural heritage Fuzhou dialect? How should we make it easier for children to accept Fuzhou dialect?

A little secret in the ancient house of Fuzhou

Speaking of Fuzhou, we can't help but mention our "Fuzhou Ancient House", especially the 5A scenic spot Sanfang Seven Alleys. Do you know when the triple door of the ancient house will open? Why are the steps of the patio high and low? Come and hear what folklore experts have to say!

Paste Spring Lian Tuonian painting Ink fragrance fluttering banyan city

Chinese New Year's Eve pasting the Spring Festival is an important custom of the New Year. Tearing apart the old Spring League means breaking the old and bad luck, and has the meaning of getting rid of the old and welcoming the new. When people post New Year reds (Spring Festival, Fuzi, etc.) on their doorstep, it means that the Spring Festival has officially begun. But do you really post spring leagues?

Send flower lanterns during the Chinese New Year

Sending lights means "Tim Ting"

It is said that the lantern is a traditional folk handicraft that embellishes the Spring Festival, which is found all over the country, and the lanterns in Fuzhou have been very famous since ancient times. Let's get to know a representative inheritor of the "intangible cultural heritage" of the Fujian provincial Fuzhou Nanhou Street lantern making process - Zheng Xianglin.

Coming to Teacher Zheng's home is like walking into a small traditional lantern exhibition. A lamp is hung high, with different colors and shapes, full of a strong festive atmosphere.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

As an authentic old Fuzhou native, Teacher Zheng fu introduced that in Fuzhou, because of the harmony between "lamp" and "Ding", sending lamps also means "Tim Ding". Of course, if you have a good omen, you have to send it right!

Zheng Xianglin

The inheritor of the production of lanterns in Fujian's provincial "intangible cultural heritage" project

When a girl gets married, the first year the mother's family sends lamps to the husband's family, to send 3 lamps, "3" is an auspicious number in Fuzhou, and the harmonic sound "sheng". One is Guanyin sending a son, hoping that she can get a noble son early, one is a champion riding a horse, and there is a heavenly gift of Qilin, tianqi Qilin is a military officer, and the champion is a civilian official, hoping that after the child is born, he can be both literate and martial.

Sending orange lamps is exquisite

Fuzhou dialect "orange" harmonic pronunciation with "urgent"

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

In addition to paying attention to the numbers, the category style of the lamp is also exquisite, such as this big red lantern-shaped flower lamp, which is called "orange lamp" in Fuzhou. Sending it is very elaborate.

If the first year of the child has not been born, the elders began to be a little anxious, began to send orange lamps, Fuzhou dialect harmonic "urgent", very anxious meaning, want to hold grandchildren.

Sending the lamp to introduce here, do you also think that it can be regarded as a busy family's "Tim Ding" event. Not yet, it is said that the blessings are born of noble sons, and many children are blessed, and the more blessings sent out, the better.

Do as you please

Flower lanterns come in a variety of shapes

Zheng Xianglin, a teacher from a family of flower lanterns, has followed his ancestors to learn to make traditional flower lanterns in Fuzhou since he was eight or nine years old, and he has insisted on this craft for more than 60 years. In his view, although the skill needs to be improved over time, the style of the flower lantern can be imagined at any time to create a variety of flower lanterns, which is also the joy of this craft.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

Luoyuan Yangping Village: A museum of ancient architecture in the Ming and Qing dynasties

If you want to travel around Fuzhou in the New Year, Luoyuan Yangping Village is a good choice, what is special about it?

Luoyuan's Yangping Village is an ancient village with a history of more than 400 years, and now preserves 16 ancient buildings of the Ming and Qing dynasties, each of which has carved beams and columns, looped cloisters, flying cornices, green bricks and black tiles, all of which make people sigh as a rare cultural landscape. In the opposite house there is also a very well-preserved ancient Lady Attic.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?
Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

Since ancient times, the local people have attached great importance to education, "cultivating and reading heirlooms" is their ancestral training, during the Ming and Qing dynasties, the village has produced people, show talent of more than 40 people, when "Wen Kui", "Wu Kui", "Xuan Kui" and other 12 meritorious plaques are still well preserved.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?
Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

Ancestral training of Yangping Village

Now the learning atmosphere of Yangping Village is also very strong, often there are primary school students to Yangping Village for study activities, the village also has a National School, children in which to recite the classics of Traditional Chinese Studies, feel the traditional culture.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

Villagers spontaneously donated money to protect and repair the ancient house

Don't look at Yangping Village is so clean and tidy now, in fact, a few years ago, it was a village that relied on mining for the stone plate business, when the mountain and rock extraction caused the vegetation to be destroyed, and the environment was polluted by the garbage.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?
Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

In 2016, the mine was shut down by the government, and Yangping Village slowly became the beautiful countryside it has today.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

Yangping Village also plans to develop in the direction of sightseeing and culture in the future, and the villagers spontaneously repair the ancient houses, encountering old houses that need to be repaired, and repairing the old as old, to preserve the original appearance of the houses to the greatest extent.

Sticking Spring Festival, sending flower lanterns, New Year's greeting gestures... Are you doing the "little fuss" in these customs right?

From eating "stone rice" to making "green money", the villagers' environmental awareness and the concept of protecting ancient houses have played a crucial role. In recent years, with the strong support of the township government, the village villagers have also raised more than 8 million yuan for the protection of the ancient house. Villagers also hope that more villagers and young people can return to their hometowns to jointly build a beautiful hometown and make their hometown develop better and better.

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