泉州
QuanzhouTravel Budget Guide
Tier 2·IATA: JJN
When to visit
Jan
Feb
Mar
Apr
May
Jun
Jul
Aug
Sep
Oct
Nov
Dec
Super-peak (national holiday)PeakShoulderOff-season
Holiday surges
- extremeSpring Festival· Lunar Jan 1–7 (late Jan / mid-Feb)
- highQingming (Tomb-Sweeping)· Apr 4–6
- extremeLabor Day· May 1–5
- highDragon Boat Festival· Lunar May 5 (~Jun)
- highMid-Autumn Festival· Lunar Aug 15 (~Sep/Oct)
- extremeNational Day Golden Week· Oct 1–7
Taxi flag-drop:¥8starting fare
Attractions
Hotels
Budget
$22.91 (CN¥155)
/night
Standard
$30.15 (CN¥204)
/night
Comfort
$62.52 (CN¥423)
/night
Tiers are grouped by hotel star rating — Budget ≈ 2★, Standard ≈ 3★, Comfort ≈ 4★ and up. Figures are citywide average nightly rates, so an individual hotel may sit above or below its tier.
Food
Budget meal
$3.06 (CN¥21)
/meal
Mid-range
$10.11 (CN¥68)
/meal
High-end
$35.92 (CN¥243)
/meal
Culture & Heritage
Time-Honored Brands (2)
MOFCOM-certified · cultural background, not a business endorsementYuanhetangBatch 1
Est. 1916
A Quanzhou preserved-fruit house founded in 1916, famous across southern Fujian and the overseas-Chinese diaspora for its candied fruits.
Laofanzhi Wanying ShenquBatch 1
Est. 1733
A Quanzhou herbal-medicine house dating to the Yongzheng era, known for its fermented Wanying Shenqu remedy for digestion and summer ailments.
Famous Snacks (7)
Misua Soup (Mianxian Hu)Famous Snacks
A defining Quanzhou breakfast: fine wheat vermicelli simmered into a silky broth and topped to taste.
Ginger Duck (Jiangmu Ya)Famous Snacks
A southern-Fujian tonic dish of muscovy duck slow-braised with aged ginger and rice wine.
Tusun Dong (Sea-worm Jelly)Famous Snacks
A southern-Fujian cold delicacy: a clear jelly set from the collagen of coastal sea worms.
Runbing (Fresh Spring Roll)Famous Snacks
Paper-thin wheat wrappers rolled around an assortment of fillings, a Quanzhou festival and family-table staple.
Shao Rouzong (Quanzhou Meat Rice Dumpling)Famous Snacks
A Quanzhou speciality of glutinous rice packed with pork belly, mushroom, dried shrimp and egg, eaten piping hot.
Shihua Gao (Seaweed Jelly)Famous Snacks
A cooling jelly boiled from agar seaweed, firm and slippery, the base of southern-Fujian summer desserts.
Siguo Tang (Four-fruit Sweet Soup)Famous Snacks
A southern-Fujian cooling sweet soup over honey or sugar water with a pick-your-own mix of jelly, taro balls and beans.
Intangible Cultural Heritage (11)
Xunpu Women's CustomsNational ICH · Batch 2
The traditional customs of the women of Quanzhou's Xunpu fishing village, most striking for the 'zanhuawei' floral headdress, listed nationally in 2008.
NanyinNational ICH · Batch 1
Quanzhou's ancient string-and-wind musical tradition, called a 'living fossil' of Chinese music, inscribed on UNESCO's Representative List in 2009.
Quanzhou Marionette TheatreNational ICH · Batch 1
Quanzhou's thousand-year marionette art with intricate technique; the related Fujian puppetry training programme was inscribed on UNESCO's Register of Good Safeguarding Practices in 2012.
Watertight-bulkhead Fuchuan Building TechniqueNational ICH · Batch 2
Quanzhou's traditional shipbuilding craft using watertight bulkheads for safety, inscribed on UNESCO's Urgent Safeguarding List in 2010.
Liyuan OperaNational ICH · Batch 1
An ancient opera preserving the legacy of Song-Yuan southern drama, archaic in role types and staging, seen as a 'living fossil' of nanxi.
Gaojia OperaNational ICH · Batch 1
A southern-Fujian local opera grown from folk costumed processions, celebrated for its lively comic clown roles.
Dacheng OperaNational ICH · Batch 2
A rare southern-Fujian opera born from religious rites, blending acrobatics into drama, listed nationally in 2008.
Quanzhou Chest-slapping DanceNational ICH · Batch 1
An ancient Minnan folk dance in which bare-chested dancers slap their bodies to a brisk rhythm, seen as a relic of Minyue culture.
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