A Study On The Culture Of QuanZhou Port City

QuanZhou port city's culture belongs to the marine humane kind. From the formation and historical changes of QuanZhou city, its relocation and extension always had a purpose of more convenient marine transportation. It was in the process of gradual relocation extension that QuanZhou port city created a brilliant civilization of oversea transportation. The wealth that oversea transportation brought promoted the QuanZhou's extension and further marine harmony. And the QuanZhou port city formed. Accompanying the wealth that marine transportation brought, marine religious culture of QuanZhou businessmen went prosperous. QuanZhou marine religious culture was embodied by the local beliefs of TongYuan, MaZu and WangYe. Businessmen and residents, government officials and soldiers formed the main parts of QuanZhou social structure. And the above three classes' interactions became the inner causes of QuanZhou' social development. Besides, abundant sea food, interesting diet tales and special methods of hunting and eating also were an indispensable part of QuanZhou marine culture. It was reasonable that the marine culture QuanZhou port city was changing all the time. In the different periods of traditional society, we could find the changes and hereditary from scholars, poems and writings of that time. In the process of changes and hereditary, the culture of QuanZhou port city still is a marine kind all the time in people's images.