During the Ninth Festival, Lin Ying (middle), secretary and vice president of Fuzhou Min Theater, and theater volunteers delivered porridge to the elderly. Photo courtesy of Fuzhou Min Theater
Fuzhou, March 1 (China News Network) -- On the 1st, the 29th day of the first lunar month of the Year of the Tiger, it is a unique folk traditional festival in Fuzhou -- the "Nine Festivals of Filial Piety," also known as the "Festival of Filial Piety." The series of activities of the "Nine Festivals of Filial Piety" with the theme of "Respecting the Elderly and Filial Piety" were held in Fuzhou communities and schools in the "Blessed State."
In the traditional customs of the Fuzhou people, in the early morning of the Ninth Festival, every household uses glutinous rice and brown sugar, plus peanuts, red dates, water chestnuts, sesame seeds, guiyuan, white fruits and other raw materials, to cook into sweet porridge, called "Aojiu Porridge", which is used to worship ancestors or give gifts to relatives and friends. The daughter who has been married must also send a bowl of "nine porridge", and some must also add noodles, eggs, pig's trotters, etc., and send them back to their mother's home to honor their parents.
Lin Ying walked into the kindergarten to sow the seeds of "filial piety" and popularize traditional culture. Photo courtesy of Fuzhou Min Theater
On the same day, a special activity of respecting the elderly was held in the Changpu Community of Linjiang Street, Taijiang District, Fuzhou City. Volunteers from community organizations came to the door to deliver taiping noodles and porridge to the elderly.
Volunteers from Fuzhou Min Theater cooked porridge and shared porridge for the people, sending warm hearts and care. The outstanding actors of the theater bring the newly created wonderful Fujian opera small plays, enter the community, send them to the people, let the elderly take their children to see the play, let the students watch the play at the doorstep of the home, and infiltrate the excellent traditional culture into the soil of the "community".
Fuzhou Min Theater actors Yang Shuai (right) and Xie Wanping (left) performed classic Min opera folding plays for the masses. Photo courtesy of Fuzhou Min Theater
During the Ninth Festival, the Fuzhou Minju Opera Art Heritage and Development Center carried out a series of activities in various forms, successively carrying out a series of wonderful activities such as "Passing on the Spirit of Filial Piety and Promoting The Culture of Mindu" in Fuzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall, Fengyi Community Zhenhua Jiawen Kindergarten, Xinping Square in Cangshan District, Changpu Community and other places, the 2022 Aojiu Forum, "Filial Piety Starts from Me, Singing The Sound of The Countryside", "The Blessed 'Porridge' Spreads the Filial Piety, the Warmth of rongcheng And the New Wind" and so on.
Lin Ying, secretary and vice president of fuzhou Min Theater, said that these traditional festivals, including the Nine Festivals, have stories and connotations, and are full of the good wishes of the people. As a national intangible cultural heritage project, Fujian opera is also an integral part of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation, "in the traditional festival, the majority of audiences can enjoy Fujian opera, which is a cultural way of life of Fuzhou people and the embodiment of cultural self-confidence." ”
Fujian opera, also known as Fuzhou opera, originated in the late Ming Dynasty, has a history of more than 400 years, is the only existing opera drama sung and recited in the Fuzhou dialect, and was listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in 2006. (End)