Taiwanese customs and habits
Taiwanese life customs
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According to the definition of Taiwan's "Cultural Assets Protection Act", folk customs refer to clothing, food, housing, transportation, ancestor worship, beliefs, festivals, entertainment and other customs and habits related to residents' lives. The living customs in Taiwan are basically the same as those in mainland China, especially in the southern region, and retain more ancient Fujian and Guangdong customs. Taiwan’s traditional folk festivals are very similar to those in mainland China. The most important festivals include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Qingming Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine's Day, Mid-Autumn Festival, Double Ninth Festival, Winter Solstice, Stove-giving Festival, New Year's Eve, etc. The forms of celebrating festivals are also similar to those in mainland China, such as visiting relatives and friends during the Spring Festival; eating Yuanxiao, racing lanterns, and guessing lantern riddles on the Lantern Festival; eating rice dumplings and racing dragon boats on the Dragon Boat Festival; appreciating the moon and eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival; climbing and hiking on the Double Ninth Festival; New Year's Eve family reunion, etc. Among them, the most famous sights in Taiwanese folklore are the "Bee Cannon" in Yanyan Town, Tainan, the "Sky Cannon" in Shifen Village, Pingxi, and the "Begging Turtle" in Penghu.
Tainan Yanyan Town is most famous for setting off "beecrackers" during the Lantern Festival, which are firecrackers made of tens of thousands of cannons. The cores of each cannon are connected together and ignited with one shot. , thousands of cannons fired continuously, sparks shot out, the sound and light were deafening, and it was a spectacular sight. "Bee Cannon" has become a tourist attraction program in Taiwan.
To release sky lanterns, you light a fire at the bottom of a paper lamp-shaped sphere, and use the principle of hot air to rise to send it up into the night sky. Because of its shape like a Kongming hat, it is also called "Kongming Lantern". According to legend, it has a history of more than 200 years in Taiwan. An important function in its early days was to send signals of safety to each other, and now it has become an entertainment and blessing activity.
The "turtle begging" custom of Penghu Yuanxiao Festival is interesting and mysterious. Every year when the Lantern Festival comes, various "turtles" are placed on the altar tables in temples in Penghu, including "turtles" made of sugar and glutinous rice flour to "pray for peace"; There are "noodle turtles" which means "longevity"; there are "chicken cake turtles" made of flour, eggs and other raw materials; there are "golden turtles" made of gold, etc. People came to worship one after another, and "begged the turtle", that is, after obtaining the tacit approval of the gods through praying for longevity, the "begging turtles" reported the accounts to the temple deacon, put incense, and asked for the "turtle" they begged for, in order to obtain the blessings of the gods. Blessings and blessings.
Taiwan’s wedding and funeral customs are similar to those on the mainland. Today, Taiwan, especially in rural areas, still maintains many traditional customs. It is still popular in Taiwan not to marry with the same surname, and there are three surnames: "Zhou, Su, Lian", "Chen, Hu, Yao", "Xu, She, Tu", as well as "Xiao, Ye", "Xu, Ke", etc. The two surnames are considered to belong to the same ancestor, and they do not intermarry with each other. Although wedding ceremonies have changed and the methods are gradually diversified, traditional Chinese weddings are still valued. Folk funeral customs are complicated and full of superstitions. There are a set of traditional practices from deathbed, mourning, encoffining, mourning to funeral and burial. To this day, burial is still popular among Taiwanese people, and Feng Shui is important when choosing a cemetery. There is also a custom of "picking up bones" among Taiwanese people, which is commonly known as "picking up Feng Shui" and also called "secondary burial". That is, the first funeral is relatively simple and no formal tombstone is erected. An auspicious day will be chosen after five to seven years. The tomb was opened, the remains were collected, and the body was reburied officially. On the southwest coast of Taiwan, "bone picking" is a specialized industry. Therefore, there is a saying in Taiwan that "nine burials and nine relocations, ten burials for ten thousand years" mean that the more reburials there are, the better. However, nowadays, the modern "float dance" is more popular for weddings and funerals in Taiwan.
Taiwan also has many unique local festivals. The more grand ones include the sacrifice of "Qingshui Patriarch" on the sixth day of the first lunar month (the main temple is in Qingshui Rock, Wanhua, Taipei. On this day, Taiwan has a grand and grand celebration ceremony, which used to be performed continuously for 20 days). Around March 23, it is a grand ceremony. The "Mazu Festival" and the "Ulan Festival" in the whole month of July (each place takes turns to do the Purdue Festival).
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Taiwan Cultural Event
When you first arrive in Taiwan, you will be amazed by everything you see in front of you, because of its rich and diverse history. The background has created the colorful Taiwanese culture.
Taiwan's development process included aborigines, early mainland China's southern Fujian, Hakka immigrants, Dutch, Spanish, Japanese and recent immigrants from mainland China. The people here attach great importance to the preservation of traditional culture and gradually develop new ones. Culture, at the same time, in Taiwan you can see aboriginal, local and Chinese culture, and you can also appreciate the historical monuments left by the Netherlands and Japan.
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Taiwan is a country where traditional Chinese culture and The center of art, in addition to the National Palace Museum's complete preservation of Chinese cultural relics from past dynasties, can also be glimpsed from the following aspects:
Temple and architecture
Taiwan's traditional architecture is the representative of folk art The collection is particularly exquisitely decorated. Paintings, calligraphy, wood carvings, stone carvings, clay sculptures, ceramics, cut-and-paste, etc. are all elements that make up the architecture. From them, you can gain a profound insight into the rich connotation of Taiwanese culture. In addition, in addition to the traditional Chinese architecture inherited by the early Hokkien and Hakka immigrants from mainland China that can be seen in Taiwan (such as the Banqiao Lin Family Garden), Chinese temple buildings can also be seen everywhere, including Longshan Temple, Tianhou Temple in Lukang, and Beigang Chaotian Temple and others are the most famous temples in Taiwan with a long history and have high artistic value.
Folk Culture and Art
Taiwan’s important annual festivals include the Spring Festival, Lantern Festival, Dragon Boat Festival, Chinese Valentine’s Day, Ghost Festival, etc.; while Songbailing Xuantian God Festival, Dajia Mazu pilgrimage, Beigang Mazu patrol, Taipei City God Welcome, Donggang Wangchuan Festival, Erjie Wanggong Festival and Aboriginal Festival... are also important local folk activities in Taiwan. In addition, in addition to inheriting traditional Chinese opera art, Taiwan has also developed Taiwanese unique Gezi Opera and Puppet Opera. Gezi Opera is a performing art that combines Taiwanese local opera tunes and music; Puppet Opera has recently integrated sound and light. Special effects, widely loved by young people.
Taiwanese film and performance groups have gradually emerged on the international stage in recent years, once again demonstrating the inheritance and innovation of Chinese traditions and Taiwanese local culture.
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Harvest Festival, Ancestor Spirit Festival , hunting sacrifices, totems, snake patterns...the mysterious cultural colors of Taiwan's aboriginal people have added different vitality to Taiwanese culture. The aboriginal people in Taiwan belong to the Austronesian language family, which is the northernmost part of the Austronesian language family. They are ethnically Malay. Taiwan's aborigines currently mostly live in mountainous areas and are divided into ten tribes: Saisiyat, Atayal, Amis, Bunun, Beinan, Rukai, Paiwan, Yami, Cao and Thao, each with their own language, customs and tribal structure, but are currently facing problems of assimilation and cultural preservation. Among them, the Yamei people of Orchid Island, an outer island of Taiwan, were the last to come into contact with the Han people due to their geographical isolation, and thus have preserved the most complete aboriginal culture.
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You can find many places in Taiwan In the corner, you can see the shadow of the colonial past. Hongmao City in Tamsui is the site of the Dutch and Portuguese occupation of Taiwan; the bustling Dihua Street in Taipei, Daxi in Taoyuan, and Xinhua in Tainan can be seen in the Baroque buildings left over from the Japanese occupation era, which are now in Taipei. Many important buildings during the Japanese occupation, such as the Presidential Palace, the Executive Yuan, the old National Taiwan University Hospital in Taipei's West District, etc., have been equipped with night lighting to show their classical elegance. They have become decorations that embellish the night sky in Taipei, making Taiwan less tragic in its history. , with a romantic touch of art and humanities.
This is Taiwan, a cultural feast. Romance, legend, solemnity, fun...you can find it all here.
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