Xunpu girl is one of the three major fishermen's girls in Fujian, with the same name as Huian girl and Meizhou girl. Preserve the unique traditional folk culture. Women in Xunpu are industrious and beautiful, and still retain the custom of walking marriage in matriarchal society.
Xunpu Village, Donghai Town, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, is home to Xunpu women. They are decorated with beautiful headdresses all year round and live in unique houses (houses built with oyster shells), which are the treasure house of traditional folk culture.
Clothing characteristics
Xunpu women's clothing is unique and unique. They are dressed in brown clothes and black trousers, with their hair tied behind their heads, tied into a bun, strung flowers into a wreath, commonly known as "hairpin wreath", winding the hairpin around the bun with an ivory chopstick in the middle. They went to Quanzhou to sell seafood along the street.
As a folk custom, the flower hairpin head appeared as early as the Han Dynasty. The female figurines unearthed from Yangzi Han Tomb in Chengdu, Sichuan Province, have a huge chrysanthemum in the middle of the bun, and several small flowers are attached to both sides of the chrysanthemum. After the Han Dynasty, the custom of hairpin flowers lasted for a long time among women, and most of them were seasonal flowers.
In addition to women's hairpin flowers, the phenomenon of men's hairpin flowers existed in the Tang Dynasty, and it became more and more common in the Song Dynasty, and it also became some ceremonial festivals. "History of Song Dynasty Yu Fu Zhi" contains: "Zhongxing, suburban worship, return to the funeral hall after the ceremony, the courtiers and retinue merge, and the same is true for the public thank day." It can be seen that officials and attendants attending important ceremonies at that time had to wear flowers. In the folk wedding ceremony, according to the wedding custom in Song Dynasty, the groom can "wear one or two flowers, which is better than one or two." Victory means the victory of flowers, an ancient jewel.
The banquet of the imperial court in the Song Dynasty, "tasting the Spring and Autumn Period, worshiping in the suburbs, and the gift of the native land, is a feast when you are lucky, and it is called a Song banquet when you enter from the official." The emperor will present flowers to the ministers, and the ambassadors will insert them. A casual dinner between friends can also be spent. In case of national disaster, plague, death and other years. , can't spend.
Praise is not only aesthetic, but also symbolic to avoid evil. Jasmine can exorcise ghosts, and wearing chrysanthemums can prolong life.
Zanhua is the heritage of ancient women's decoration in China. In the lyrics of Quanzhou Gaojia Opera Peach Blossom Crossing, there is a wreath around April with a hairpin at each end. Many women in Luoyang, Hui 'an, Fengzhou, Luojiang, Shuangyang and other places in Quanzhou still maintain the custom of "hairpin flowers around".
Professor Li Yiyuan has an incisive exposition on women's clothing, and he interprets it with anthropological ethnic relations. He said: when I say structural relationship here, I mean the structural relationship between ethnic groups. Ethnic relations often form a so-called structural contrast by emphasizing cultural characteristics. In the sense of structural contrast of Hui 'an nationality, it shows the contrast between Huidong people and worshipping fighters. They have their own traditions, both cooperation and opposition. Wulin people somewhat look down on Huidong people.
Huidong people are somewhat different from those who worship martial arts. This antagonistic relationship may be the reason why Huidong people keep their original characteristics. This is what I learned from my early experience. Living in Quanzhou city, you will definitely meet people who come to town from Jinjiang area in the morning. We call her "Aunt Xunpu" in Minnan dialect. Most of these "Xunpu aunts" have special costumes and big hats, which are quite characteristic of Huidong women. If they don't wear strange clothes, we think she is a liar.
The oysters she cooked are not delicious, and we will think that she is different from us. The oysters she cooked are delicious. This concept of national identity is the most obvious manifestation of the structure of ethnic relations. In other words, this is a way to distinguish different groups through the differences in clothing. Different clothing is a kind of "trademark" that discriminates against the trading relationship between ethnic groups, a kind of discrimination in ethnic communication and an identity within ethnic groups.