1, Spring Festival:
On this day, Minnan people generally don't cook new rice for breakfast, but eat "leftovers" on New Year's Eve to get lucky and pray for "more than enough" in the coming year. People in Zhangzhou eat "sweet noodles", commonly known as "longevity noodles", which symbolizes longevity. After getting up on the first day of junior high school, the younger generation should pay New Year greetings to the elders, and the elders should reward the younger generation with "red envelopes", that is, "lucky money".
2. Lantern Festival:
On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, it is called Shangyuan Festival in history, also called Lantern Festival. On this day, Minnan people eat "Yuanxiao". At night, there are all kinds of lanterns hanging on Gongfu Street, including chicken lanterns, duck lanterns, goose lanterns, fish lanterns, pumpkin lanterns, gourd lanterns and other fixed lanterns, as well as wind lanterns, horse racing lanterns, Yunlong lanterns, monkey lanterns, snail lanterns and other rotatable lanterns. At the same time, fireworks and dragon and lion dances were also set off.
3. Qingming:
During their stay in Tomb-Sweeping Day, Minnan people will eat spring cakes, make Qingming fruits, hold wine and tea or buy cakes to sweep the curtains of their ancestors. When sweeping the grave, you should sprinkle long strips of paper foil in the cemetery, weed and plant trees in the cemetery, and cultivate soil in the grave to express your memory of your deceased relatives. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), schools, institutions and organizations organized grave-sweeping, wreath-laying and pine tree planting activities in Tomb-Sweeping Day.
4. Dragon Boat Festival:
It is said that this festival commemorates Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet in China in the 4th century BC. The Dragon Boat Festival in southern Fujian is called "May Festival". On this day, every household in rural areas will insert calamus and wormwood beside the lintel, burn realgar wine or drink realgar wine, and children will wear sachets on their chests to ward off evil spirits and get rid of diseases. At noon, people will eat noodles and taste alkaline jiaozi, jiaozi with meat or jiaozi with beans.
5. Semiannual festivals in June:
On June 15th of the lunar calendar, rural areas in southern Fujian eat "half-year yuan". This round pill is only half the size of the "Winter Solstice Japanese Yen", and it is dyed scarlet without soup. On this day, every household will add rich dishes and have a "small stove" for half a year.
Some housewives fold round pills into hills on butterflies and put a dried longan with a shell on the top. This "longan" reposes the owner's desire for "wealth" and "reunion".
Zhangzhou culture:
Zhangzhou is not only known as "Zou Lu on the seashore", but also as "land of plenty", and it is one of the birthplaces of Minnan culture. Zhangzhou is a famous historical and cultural city. It has the largest plain in Fujian, where ancestors lived as early as 10 thousand years ago.
Brocade, bamboo horse play, car encouragement and exquisite paper-cutting art are the essence of folk crafts in Zhangzhou culture, and are also known as the cradle of China women's volleyball team winning the world championship.