The fifteenth day of the first lunar month
is the Shangyuan Festival
Because the festival activities are mainly at the full moon night
is also the first full moon night of the year
is commonly known as Lantern Festival
on the sky
on the sky
The bright moon hangs high on the ground
From the ninth day of the first lunar month
Every household, streets and alleys starts a new round of lights and decorations
It is called "Lantern Festival"
is an important part of the Lantern Festival customs in Quanzhou
It is an important part of the Lantern Festival customs in Quanzhou
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Since ancient times, "The world is full of lanterns, and the prosperity of candles is not beyond Fujian"
Quanzhou's "Lantern Festival"
Since the beginning of the founding of the Tang Dynasty, it has been passed down for more than a thousand years
The so-called "Ten miles are different sounds, hundreds of miles are different customs"
The Lantern Festival is coming
The Lantern Festival in various parts of Quanzhou has unique characteristics
It is a traditional festival for the whole people to "heat"
Mobile Lantern Festival in Quanzhou
0 Quanzhou Ancient City's "Xiaobai" has you ever sat there? It is just a white electric car that shuttles through the streets and alleys of the ancient city. Since they have them, it has become much more convenient for citizens and tourists to travel in the ancient city.
Recently, the "newbies" hung traditional lanterns in Quanzhou and drove in the ancient city of Quanzhou.
Boneless needle lanterns, palace lanterns, silk lanterns... These lanterns that were fixedly hung in the city at the Lantern Festival in the past will follow Xiaobai this time. They will pass through the world heritage sites in the ancient city, which not only brings visual enjoyment to passengers riding on the novice and tourists passing by routes, but also adds a strong New Year atmosphere to the festive ancient city.
Lanterns on Zhongshan Road
Lanterns on Zhongshan Road are still diverse in style and have their own characteristics. Some lanterns have novel shapes, while others use new materials, which are artistic, ornamental and innovative.
The pedestrians are all embracing the lanterns, and young people can also make good wishes for the New Year.
Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum Lantern District
Quanzhou Intangible Cultural Heritage Exhibition Hall (hereinafter referred to as the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Museum") is located in the Overseas Chinese Township Stadium in the city. The overall scale is about 8,500 square meters. The exhibition hall consists of five floors, and the second, third and fourth floors are permanent exhibition areas.
The lantern area on the second floor of the exhibition hall contains many precious lanterns. Come here to feast your eyes~
"Quanzhou lanterns are divided into four categories according to their shape:
Stand lamps, water lamps, hanging lamps, and lanterns"
Nan Fengzhou Lantern Festival
According to legend, during the reign of Emperor Xizong of Tang Dynasty more than 1,000 years ago, Fu Shi led his troops to Fujian and stationed in Wurong (now Taoyuan). Fu Shi set up the Tang Dynasty Palace in Taoyuan. On the Lantern Festival, the Lantern Festival was based on the Chang'an lamp building ceremony, which was decorated with peace and joy with the people. This was the first time that the lights in Taoyuan were lit, and then spread throughout southern Fujian. Fengzhou also became the first place where Quanzhou started to be lanterns at Lantern Festival.
In addition to lighting the lanterns on the Fu Clan Ancestral Hall, the Lantern Festival at the Huang Clan Family Temple in Yanshan has also been around for a long time, and has been passed down for more than 600 years. The custom of drilling the lantern feet and breaking the branches is very interesting.
Because the lamp is homophonic with Ding, the newlyweds wandered under the lanterns, which meant that there were more children in the coming year. Once they came, they not only admired the lanterns, but also got into the lanterns, which made them auspicious. On the left and right of the ancestor statue of Huang's family, there are two large vases, and each of them has a large bunch of red flowers or flowers sticking with peach branches covered with paper. The newlyweds prayed in front of the ancestor's husband that if they ask for white flowers, it means that they will give birth to a boy in the next year and if they ask for red flowers, they will give birth to a daughter. For hundreds of years, customs have never stopped.
Jinjiang Dongshi Shuangshu Palace Lantern
Fujian Taitung Stone Lantern Custom "Shu Palace Lantern" is a common folk custom in Fujian and Taiwan. It is attached to the Jiaying Temple in Dongshi Town. It has a strong folk and fixed seasonal nature.
Image source: Quanzhou Image
Starting from the thirteenth day of the first lunar month every year, the groom who got married last year hangs the palace lantern (commonly known as "sealing lamp") of the bride's dowry to Jiaying Temple to participate in the event, and a "public" made a big red hydrangea lantern in the middle of the hall.
Image source: Quanzhou Image
Lasts for 3 nights, men, women, young and old gather in the temple to appreciate colorful palace lanterns, or guess riddles or listen to the southern sound, and count the number of palace lanterns hanging to see how many more this year has been added compared to last year.At midnight on the Lantern Festival, all the grooms gathered together on the "Three Gong Palaces". After the in charge reported that the number of palace lanterns in Taiwan and the local area celebrated the prosperity of the people on both sides of the Taiwan Strait, the highlight of the palace lantern counting activity began: the grooms threw water cups in front of the "Three Gong Master" seat, and the person who threw the most cups set off firecrackers and used big red armor to blow the big red hydrangea lanterns to welcome home.
Image source: Quanzhou Image
Then, others also welcomed their respective palace lanterns home and hung them in their new house, praying for the "Three Masters" to bless the happy marriage and have a noble son as soon as possible.
Nan Yingdu Pulling Lights
Every year on the ninth day of the first lunar month, Nan'an Yingdu Town holds a lantern pulling event. Teams from different villages connect tens of thousands of meters long to pulling lights, gather in front of Zhaohui Temple, and move forward slowly.
Picture source: Hong BinghuanPhotography
Every time this traditional activity, nearly 10,000 villagers participated in the lantern pulling activity, and the villagers watching the lanterns even squeezed the road into pieces. Various performances with southern Fujian characteristics such as waist drums, electric music teams, dragon dances, lion dances, Quanzhou Dashaman, Da drums, and Nanyin are interspersed with the noise of gongs and drums, coupled with the sound of firecrackers, made the entire town boil.
Photo source: Hong Binghuan Photography
0,000-meter-long sea of lanterns, as the crowd slowly moves forward, the lanterns swaying back and forth, swaying in a graceful posture. In the lamp array, there are both old men and women in their seventies and eighties, as well as children in their two or three years old, and more are young men and girls in festive costumes. They hold thick ropes in their hands, lift up lanterns, and move forward slowly. The lamp array is like a "long dragon" in Yingdu Town. Wherever the lamp dragon goes, every household ignites bonfires in front of the door, setting off fireworks and firecrackers. The words on the lanterns such as "addition", "making money", and "strengthening" on the lanterns also shine on people's faces in the red light.
Picture source: Hong Binghuan Photography
quan Hang Zhangjiao bench lamp
Tuling Zhangjiao Village holds a tour every night on the fifteenth day of the first lunar month. Dragon lantern activity, and it is a relatively rare bench fire dragon lantern. This is a unique custom of dragon lanterns to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Quangang District.
Picture source: Zhiyuanxingtianxia
One lantern is tied to a wooden board, each piece is about 5 meters long. According to the number of males in each household, 8 rows or 10 rows, villagers only need to carry wooden boards at both ends. In the evening, the bench fire dragon lanterns are lit, with a total length of about 400 meters, wandering in the village alleys, and the scene is very spectacular.
Picture source: Zhiyuanxingtianxia
As the night comes, the sky is dark, and the bench fire dragon lantern looks like a A fire dragon is swimming, very beautiful, and you can't see it. When you are visiting the lights, everyone always burns a few paper lanterns intentionally or unintentionally, which the locals call "out the lights". A few new lanterns will be added next year. "In Minnan dialect" means "indian".
The camphor foot bench lamp usually lasts for 2 hours from 5:30 pm to 7:30 pm, and the carnival lasts for 2 hours. With the village office building as the boundary, Shangcun and Xiacun respectively travel with lanterns in the countryside, and the itinerary of the dragon is about 4 kilometers each. After the Buddha statue parade, villagers will watch the "jumping the fire" of the two Buddhas in front of Shuangzhong Temple.
In addition, the Quangang camphor foot bench lamp is also exhibited in the 101 cultural space of West Street. Interested friends can go and visit on their own.
Quangang Jiulin Tour Huilong Lantern
The history of Huilong Lantern can be traced back to the Song Dynasty and is a unique folk custom of Nanzhuang Natural Village in Jiulin Village.
Picture source: Fujianjieshan
Every year, villagers will hold a lamp stand made of wooden boards. The thirteen "corner heads" of the whole village will form a "lantern dragon", forming a total of 13 lantern dragons. The lamp dragon set off from Huilong Palace in the village, rings the gong to open the way, and walks around the village by five or six villages. After three or four hours of parade, the team finally returns to Huilong Palace. After the tour of the lamp, each household will carry the lamp stand back to the house for a week, sending people to make money and good weather. Then the family kept the lamps properly for the next year.
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Quanzhou City 2022 Spring Festival Lantern Festival activities summary table
Take Lantern Festival as the guide, explore the beauty of the world heritage of Quanzhou, use festival customs to explore the humanistic connotation of the ancient city, and feel the charm of the cultural heritage of the "living ancient city".
Source: Quanzhou Municipal Bureau of Culture and Tourism, Quanzhou Cultural and Tourism
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