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Lantern Festival "eat fireworks"? Do you know the customs of Fuqing?
eat yuanxiao

On the night of the 15th day of the first month, every household will cook Yuanxiao jiaozi as a snack, and the whole family will get together to eat jiaozi, praying for peace and happiness and reunion. ? Lantern Festival? Made of glutinous rice, or solid, or stuffed. The stuffing is sesame, bean paste, sugar, peanuts and so on. You can cook, fry, steam and fry when you eat. ? Tangyuan? With what? Reunion? Similar pronunciation means reunion, which symbolizes family reunion, harmony and happiness. People also miss their departed relatives and place their best wishes on their future life.

1. Dragon and lion dance

Dragon dance, both cloth dragon and bench dragon. Fuqing people will use dragon and lion dances to pray for blessings on festive days, so as to achieve good weather and abundant crops. Cloth dragons are mainly made of bamboo and cloth, and the number of dragon knots is odd and auspicious, which is more common in nine knots, eleven knots and thirteen knots. Wolong, also called? Bench dragon? Commonly known as Dragon lantern? . Dancing? Wolong? Commonly known as Coax the lights? . ? Wolong? Legend has it that it has a history of more than 200 years, and it is one of the very traditional entertainment customs in Longgao Peninsula (especially in Gaoshan, Sanshan and Donghan Town).

? Wolong? The dragon body consists of benches and lanterns, and consists of three parts: the dragon head, the dragon body and the dragon tail. When dancing, it tumbles down and comes to life. During 200 1 Lantern Festival, CCTV filmed and broadcast several stories in Sanshan and Gaoshan towns. Wolong? Performance has attracted attention from all walks of life. Dragon dance is also an ornamental competition of Fuqing Lantern Festival. Lions are mighty in appearance and vigorous in action. People believe that lions are auspicious animals, and lion dancing can bring good luck. Therefore, during the Spring Festival or other celebrations, people will dance with firecrackers to celebrate and pray for good luck. Create a social fire

The scale of community fires generally shows the prosperity of village communities. The custom of making social fires once disappeared, but in recent years it began to enter the field of vision of ordinary people, and the content of festivals used for tourism was also enriched, gradually becoming a literary activity for villages to celebrate the achievements of the year. Xincuo folk culture is deeply influenced by Puxian culture, and the custom of social fire is grand and grand. Shake your head and tail? From the tenth day of the first month, the whole village, men, women and children, went out and reached its climax on the fifteenth day of the first month.