First of all, briefly introduce the girls in Beipu.

Liaopu Girl is one of the three major fishing girls in China and the name of Liaopu Village in Quanzhou, Fujian. Legend has it that they are descendants of ancient Arabs and still have the custom of wearing hairpin flowers on their heads.

The custom of women in Liaopu is one of the intangible cultural heritages of the country. Liaopu retains many traditional customs in southern Fujian, including unique wedding customs, Chinese New Year customs, festive customs and sacrificial ceremonies, among which the wedding customs of "getting married in the middle of the night" and the sacrificial ceremony of "Mazu patrolling incense" are the most prominent.

Early girls in Beipu grew their hair long at an early age. When they were eleven or twelve years old, they put it on the back of the head, tied it with red rope and combed it into a bun, then tied it with a "bone bun", strung it into a garland with buds or buds, ranging from one or two rings to four or five rings, and then wrapped it around the back of the head with the bun as the center.

Then around the center of the bun, symmetrically insert a few bright red and pink hairpin flowers, silk flower or flowers, and then insert two-legged hairpins or combs made of gold or silver. The whole head is like a small flower bed full of spring, beautiful and fragrant.

Second, Liaopu village

Jipu Village, Fengze District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, has a history of thousands of years. During the Song and Yuan Dynasties, Yong Er Port, known as the largest port in the East, was located here, and numerous ocean-going merchant ships set out from here.

Beipu people "eat the sea by the sea, and the sea is a field", and their husbands go fishing or ocean-going trade for days or months. In winter and summer, at low tide, women in Beipu carry fish baskets, roll up their trouser legs and walk barefoot among "oyster plants" to raise oysters and grow sea otters. Over time, Jiupu women have shown the elegance of Minnan women who are hardworking, enterprising, filial to the elderly and virtuous.