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Putian folk customs: Getting older

The folk customs of puxian are basically the same as those of many places in China. At the age of years, every household has a set of customs, such as "dust scanning" (commonly known as "scanning inspection" in puxian), "cooking rice cakes", Offering Sacrifices to Gods, "furnace", "New Year", and "Lantern Festival.

However, in the puxian region, "the Customs are still good and there are things left by Qilu in the Eastern Zhou Dynasty ". In history, the puxian region is one of the gathering places and spread areas of "Yi Guan Nandu, if there are eight villagers in Fujian. Therefore, it has become a colorful traditional customs for thousands of years in puxian. So far, the people in puxian still have unique customs. For example, if they don't change their knives for thirty years, they are worried that they will not be able to get angry. On the morning of June, they will not be able to sweep the floor and worry that they will go away from God of Wealth, worried about unlucky, and agreed to be vulgar. Puxian also has a special customs: "Lunar January 4 is a year old ". On the day of June 1, every year, Putian's private households were once again, commonly known as "Four years old ".

When Zhao Puchu, president of the Chinese Buddhist Association during the Spring Festival in Putian, visited his Buddhist work in Putian in 1981, he said happily: "This is the most unique local traditional customs I have ever seen ". In the fourth day of Putian, the "Big age" customs have a tragic historical record:

During the 1562 s of the Ming Dynasty in jiajing (), the hacker attacked Fujian, occupied Ningde hengyu, Fuqing niutian, Putian lindun and other places, and established a base to kill and snatch. Xinghua Fucheng (today Putian City) was attacked in the middle of lunar November 29 and occupied for two months. Xinghua City was burned down, killing more than 30 thousand people. At that time, the men, women, and children of Putian fought up and were cut off by the hacker, or burned and pinned to death. They were shocked at home and abroad. In lunar January 25 of the following year, because the dead in the city were stinking, the zombie had to temporarily retreat to the sea until the anti-DDoS hero Qi Jiguang soldiers arrived, Xinghua City was able to recover. At this time, ordinary people who fled the mountainous area returned to their homes in lunar February 2. On the one hand, we bury the bodies of friends and friends, and on the other hand, we clean up our broken homes. At this time, the new year's day has passed, and people had to re-become a New Year on lunar February 2 after visiting each other on August 1.

Later, in order to commemorate the miserable day of Putian, Putian people, like in the past, were "old" On the evening of August, and it took too long. As a result, Putian people agreed to change "Do year" to "do Year" in lunar February 4 to "do Year" in lunar January 4, because agricultural affairs were busy in lunar February, if you do not "do" in lunar February 2 and change the evening of the 30th to "do", on the evening of lunar January 4, it is called "Grow Up ". At the same time, the Lunar February 2 date is set to lunar January 2, which is an ominous day to visit relatives and friends for casualties, commonly known as the death day. So far, Putian people do not visit each other on this day or visit relatives and friends.

Because of this history, the customs of Spring Festival couplets are also popular in Putian. In the past, every family member on the fall day of Putian in lunar January 2 had a white couplet, but in the fourth day of the year, they had to stick the red spring couplet as usual. In the conflict between their loved ones and the Jiqing festival, people chose a way to fold their grief, that is, they covered the red spring couplets on the newly posted white couplets, revealing the white couplets (about 10 cm) to show their grief. Since then, during the Spring Festival in Putian, the white Spring Festival couplets have become popular.

According to another legend in Putian, Zhu jianyi, a man of Putian from the Ming Dynasty, received the fuhua city from the Yijun army in June 1648, a five-year old Qing Shunzhi (March. The Qing soldiers repeatedly attacked the city, causing many deaths and injuries to the people, causing funeral at home. By the end of the year, Qing Zheng forced the family to stick red links. The residents of the city cleverly stick the red union, leaving a section of the original white union, to show their nostalgia for the lost loved ones and the motherland of the Ming Dynasty.

It is the same as that of Xianyou County in Putian City, which is different from that in Putian City (former Putian County. Putian was "big" in lunar January 4, but Xianyou County was "big" in lunar January 5 ". This is because that year, after the attackers attacked Putian City, they entered Xianyou County in large scale in the winter of the following year and went everywhere. People in Xianyou city escaped from the crowd and were displaced. They were unable to reunite for the New Year. Only when Qi Jiguang's troops arrived and the kubernetes collapsed would the people be able to reunite. in 1564, xianyou folk customs set lunar January 5, Wu otaku Wu tingzhu (Xinghua government supervision army) died in the fight, villagers to commemorate him, set lunar January 5 as a day of mourning, therefore, Wu otaku has a habit of not "getting older" in lunar January 5. The customs of the puxian region in lunar January 4 and the first five days of the year have been the same as those of so far.