What are the traditional cultural elements and characteristics of Guang 'an?

Everyone is curious about the local traditional culture and the traditional cultural characteristics of each province. After a long history and years, the province has been developing and inheriting, and there are many rich folk cultural interactions, forming familiar local cultural characteristics. I sorted out the relevant contents, hoping to help you.

1. What are the traditional cultural elements in Guang 'an?

During the Tang and Song Dynasties, it was popular to slip up. Every March, competitions are held in this area. Young men carry their beautiful younger sisters (unmarried women) to Huaying Mountain to worship Buddha. Since the establishment of Guang 'an District, Huaying City has held many "Folk Fun Sports Competitions with Slider Holding Sister". Every time, dozens of girls and sliders take part in the competition, which is quite spectacular, with tens of thousands of visitors, which is extremely wonderful.

Yuechi County Lantern Festival

Lantern Opera is a local opera that spreads in the vast rural areas around Jialing River and Qujiang River. Beginning in Qin and Han Dynasties, it reflects folk life and shows local customs, and is deeply loved by the people. Because the evening performance is illuminated by oil lamps, it is named Lantern Show.

In the 1 1 century BC, Ba people living in Zhonglishan, Wu Luo County, Hubei Province moved west to East Sichuan, established a tribal alliance with geography as the link, gained the position of commander-in-chief among tribes, and established the Ba country with Jiangzhou (Chongqing) as its capital. A semi-Yi people of Ba people expanded upstream along Jialing River and Qujiang River. On both sides of the endless river, hardworking and brave banyan people lived by the water, lived a primitive life of fishing, hunting and farming, and first developed this hot land of Guang 'an.

Banyi Man has seven surnames: Luo, Pu, Zan, E, Du, Gong. Because of their geographical advantages, Jialing River and Qujiang River have gradually become the most powerful branch of Ba people. "Huayang National Records" records: "Dangqu was built for the country, and now there is a city", and Guang 'an District is still called "the city". Ban Yiman is brave and good at fighting. In the harsh natural environment, he created "Ba Ge" and "Ba Yu Dance" which represented their personality and folk customs. Zhou Wuwang rose up and joined forces with Ba Zhi in Mu Ye, Henan Province to fight against Shang Zhouwang. Holding a wooden shield to protect himself, Ban Yiman took Kyle Polo as his military music, took the lead and fought bravely, defeating Shang Zhouwang, which led to his "former disciples' defection and bloodshed". In the Han Dynasty, Ban Yiman was renamed "Yiman".

Half of the wars left us a valuable cultural heritage. Their songs and dances were rough and primitive, pure and simple, magnificent and infectious. The "starling" and "Bayu Dance" in the Han Dynasty are not only used for festivals, weddings and funerals, but also for wars. Liu bang pacified Guanzhong. He was a "forward of the Han army, struggling and good at dancing." The emperor said,' This song of the King of Wu is also the song of Zhou' ". The "Bayu Dance" and "Yuntong Dance" in Guang 'an District, Quxian County and Huaying City still retain the legacy of their predecessors.

During the nearly 2000 years from the Zhou Dynasty to the early Qing Dynasty, our ancestors infiltrated and influenced each other in the integration with various ethnic groups, creating a long history and splendid culture. After Qin destroyed Ba, ten thousand people moved to Shu from Qin to Long, bringing with them the advanced Chinese culture in the Central Plains. In the early Ming Dynasty, Hubei and Hunan immigrated to Sichuan in large numbers. In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, people from Hunan, Hubei, Guangdong, Jiangxi, Fujian and other places flooded into Sichuan (known as "Huguang filling Sichuan" in history), bringing advanced culture, agriculture and handicraft technology, greatly changing the ethnic structure of Guang 'an and promoting social, economic and cultural development.

The rock tombs of the Han Dynasty in Tangwan Mountain, Linshui County, and the brick kilns of the Han Dynasty in Kuanjiaba, Wusheng County are not only large in scale, but also high in architectural art, which provide valuable materials for studying the culture of the Han Dynasty.

The folk silk and hemp fabric in Han Dynasty was called Babu, which was handed down from generation to generation with exquisite craftsmanship. In the Tang Dynasty, sericulture in central Sichuan developed rapidly, and Yuechi County, Guang 'an County and Wusheng County (district) were important sericulture producing areas in central Sichuan. According to textual research, Buddhism was introduced into Guang 'an City in the Tang Dynasty, and Huaying Mountain gradually became a famous Buddhist holy land in China, and influenced the counties (districts) around Huaying Mountain with the reputation of "Emei in East Sichuan". It has successively built Thousand Buddha Cliff, Giant Buddha Temple, Huangling Temple, Enbukuji, Jiangling Temple in Vu Thang, Kannonji, Dongshan Temple, Longnv Temple, Guangming Temple in Yuechi County and Guang 'an. These buildings, especially Huaying Mountain Temple, embody the folk crafts of Guang 'an. There are three-foot-long iron tiles, four-foot-long iron statues, a bronze tripod weighing more than 70 kilograms, and a thousand monk pots that are "ten cubits wide and five feet deep and can hold thirty buckets of water".

More than 100 stone carvings in Guang 'an are another symbol of Guang 'an's profound cultural connotation. The famous Zhen Jing Yan Shu, Haitao Monument, Duluo Monument, Dukou Mo Ling Stone Carving, Liubeichi Stone Carving, Xiangfengshan Stone Carving and Lanting Xuji Stone Carving not only have bold brushwork and excellent carving, but also reflect the historical process of Guang 'an in all aspects.

Pottery such as Tang Dynasty pottery bowls, ear jars and Qing Dynasty pottery lanterns found in cultural relics archaeology, as well as celadon printing Gao Zubei, celadon bowls, celadon plates, celadon Gao Zuwan, black porcelain Gao Zubei, celadon bowls in Yuan Dynasty and flower bowls in Ming Dynasty are rare treasures in the world, showing the unique craftsmanship of Guang 'an people.

Guang 'an has beautiful mountains and rivers and outstanding people. Throughout the ages, it has attracted a large number of literati to visit Guang 'an, leaving a well-known masterpiece. Tang Dynasty poets Yuan Zhen and Li Bai, Song Dynasty poets Lu You and Fan Chengda, and Ming Dynasty emperor Wen Jian all left ink marks in Guang 'an.

Li Bai, a poet in the Tang Dynasty, went to Nanyang Temple in Guang 'an (now Pingxiang) and left a poem:

Cherish this sunset and love this cold pool.

Xihui chasing water, rocks wandering.

Looking at the bright moon with empty songs, the songs are long and loose.

Yuan Zhen, a great poet of Li Bai's contemporaries, looked at the rolling Qujiang River and once recited a poem "Sealing Water" (sealing water is Qujiang), which is a must:

Qujiang is in a steep canyon, and the ship arrived at the famous beach late.

When the paddle shakes the dream, Batumi gives directions, smiles and sings poems.

I stayed in the belly of Mai Huangshan, and the flowers on my back were white water.

Don't hate looking for pity, this trip is a one-person trip.

With the development, Guang 'an's modern culture is more prosperous, with all kinds of mass and entertaining literature and art, and its artistic level has been improved. Such as lion dance, dragon dance, car lights, puppets, acrobatics, dry boats, floats, stilts, storytelling, flower drums, money boards, voiceless sounds, lotus leaves, Sichuan dialect, Allegro, cross talk and humorous dramas, are deeply loved by the masses.

Second, the characteristics and customs of traditional culture in Guang 'an.

Guang 'an Year is sung with nursery rhymes.

"Boy, boy, don't be greedy, after Laba is the year; Laba porridge, drink for a few days, pull twenty-three; Twenty-three, honeydew melon is sticky; Twenty-four, sweeping the house; Twenty-five, paste the window; Twenty-six, braised pork; Twenty-seven, slaughter the rooster; Twenty-eight, flour hair; Twenty-nine, steamed bread; Stay up for thirty nights; On new year's day, the street is twisted.

All kinds of preparations for the Spring Festival in nursery rhymes, together with the amusement celebrations that lasted until the 15th after the Spring Festival, such as ringing bells, burning incense, worshiping gods, visiting thatched cottages every day, playing lions, dancing dragon lanterns, watching lanterns on the Lantern Festival, and the "cheeky year" of Guang 'an people who like to play, constitute a happy and fulfilling Guang 'an year.

Reunion and human touch are the strongest flavors of China people.

People in Guang 'an have been preparing for it for a long time, even earlier than "Laba" sung in nursery rhymes.

In Guang 'an in the past, after beginning of winter every year, every household killed pigs, pickled sausages and bacon. Not only are fat pigs whining everywhere in the countryside, but big white fat pigs are also common in the city.

Zheng, a scholar in Guang 'an, recorded in Old Things in Guang 'an that in the past, pig butchers had many ghosts. He pressed the pig's head tightly with his hand, as if he couldn't get away. Watching the little doll often handed him a pig knife. At this time, he will whisper in a low voice: "Uncle Pig, I didn't want to kill you, but the man who handed the knife asked me to kill you. "

After killing pigs in 2008, people hung the string of fresh meat from the beam above the kitchen door of the wood-burning stove, and smoked it day by day with the flame and wood smoke sticking out from the kitchen door every time a fire was made to cook, until the color was golden and the smell was very fragrant. The flame licked the meat and made people lick their mouths.

In the middle of the twelfth lunar month, families began to grind glutinous rice balls again, preparing to eat brown sugar glutinous rice balls symbolizing sweetness and roundness on the first day of the lunar new year.

Reunion is exactly what people pray for with so many preparations, just like the indispensable reunion dinner on New Year's Eve. There are four themes in 2008: reunion, auspiciousness, prosperity and joy. The first place is reunion. Emotionally, China people always live in a group life, and they yearn for human affection, harmony and human touch most, which is also the strongest flavor of China people.