Minnan folk custom

Every village has its own "Purdue" day from the first day of the seventh lunar month to the 30th of July. The villagers in the town are excited to celebrate this festival, no less than the Spring Festival. Generally, people should prepare chicken, duck, fish and other foods and drinks in advance, put them on the altar, hold ancestor worship ceremonies, and then entertain relatives and friends for dinner.

2. Dowry

There are many kinds of dowry in Minnan marriage, including food, clothes, daily necessities and offerings to ancestors and gods. These dowries have special meanings. In dowry gifts, the most important etiquette is "pig's feet in front of sedan chair", and the front and rear legs should weigh ten to twenty kilograms to show the weight of the gift.

During the Ming and Qing Dynasties, people from Quanzhou and Zhangzhou immigrated to Taiwan Province Province in large numbers, bringing a lot of Minnan local music with strong local characteristics. With the spread of immigrants, local tunes have been formed, such as Taipei tune, Tainan tune, Changhua tune, Hengchun tune and Yilan tune. Nevertheless, these folk songs still have the local flavor of southern Fujian, and scholars in Taiwan Province Province collectively call them Fulao folk songs.

Fu Lao folk songs have been enriched and developed in various places. For example, after the rich old folk songs entered Hengchun, influenced by Hakka, they created folk songs such as Missing, Four Seasons Spring, Three Disappointments, and Oxtail Swing. After entering Taipei, he created Taipei Tune, Fat Feet Tune and Longjia Cry Tune.

In addition, after some ancient Minnan folk songs spread to Taiwan Province Province, after several generations of processing, they formed quite perfect tunes. The Minnan folk songs in Taiwan Province Province are characterized by progressive melodies, exquisite and beautiful, simple and fluent, catchy, cordial and touching. The singing content of Minnan folk songs covers a wide range, including nursery rhymes, love songs, narrative songs, sacrificial songs and labor songs.