The origin of Chaoshan

Chaoshan culture is another name of Chaozhou culture, and the orthodox view should be "Chaozhou culture", because in the thousand-year history, Shantou, Chaozhou and Jieyang were all under the jurisdiction of Chaozhou government, and culture was formed in this historical interval, which is also the understanding of hipsters at home and abroad.

The concept of Chaoshan culture has only become popular in recent years.

Specifically, it is the culture of chaozhou people.

There are many ethnic groups in China, such as Chaozhou dialect, Hakka dialect, Zhao Guang dialect and Minnan dialect.

Chaozhou people's families are well-known, and the most notable feature is Chaoshan dialect.

Therefore, Chaoshan culture is the culture of Chaoshan people who speak Chaozhou dialect, and it is a group culture created, inherited and developed by about100000 Chaoshan people at home and about100000 Chaoshan people abroad.

Chaoshan culture is an integral part of China culture.

The splendid China culture has a long history and rich contents, and enjoys a high reputation among the world's diverse cultures.

Chinese culture includes cultures of various nationalities, ethnic groups, regions and various themes, and Chaoshan culture is an integral part of it.

Studying the rich connotation and characteristics of Chaoshan culture and carrying forward the fine tradition of Chaoshan culture is of great significance and role in enriching the connotation of Chinese culture.

Second, Chaoshan culture has a long history. Chaoshan culture is a culture produced and developed by the integration of ancient Chaozhou local culture, Central Plains culture and overseas culture.

The Chaoshan area has long been inhabited by aborigines, including Liao, Li, She and other Yue aborigines. These aborigines all have culture. During the formation of Chaoshan culture, they absorbed the excellent elements of these aborigines, such as the euphemistic "Snake Fight Song" in the Chaozhou opera Su six niang, which originated from the folk songs of She nationality.

Most of the existing residents in Chaoshan area moved in from the Central Plains, and a large number of immigrants from the Central Plains also brought Central Plains culture.

Chaozhou culture has absorbed many excellent elements of Central Plains culture in the long-term formation and development process, such as Confucian culture and many contents of Central Plains language, literature, drama and music.

Due to various reasons, from the Tang and Song Dynasties to the Ming and Qing Dynasties, especially after the opening of Shantou, Chaoshan people emigrated overseas. At the same time, due to the economic and trade development between Chaoshan and overseas places and the increase of exchanges between China and foreign countries, overseas cultures (including western culture and Southeast Asian culture) have also been introduced into Chaoshan, and Chaoshan culture has also absorbed excellent elements from overseas cultures.

For example, Shantou's arcade architectural culture was established by absorbing western architectural art.

From this point of view, Chaoshan culture has the characteristics of all rivers flowing into the sea, which is formed by absorbing the excellent parts of ancient Chaozhou local culture, Central Plains culture and overseas culture and continuously integrating and developing.

Chaoshan culture is widely spread.

Almost everywhere in the world, where there are hipsters, there are communities where hipsters live, and where there are hipsters, there is the spread of hipster culture.

Chaoshan culture is the most important root of Chaoshan people, which closely links the love of the hipsters all over the world.

Third, Chaoshan culture is rich in content. Chaoshan culture is very rich, including at least the following 16 aspects:

(1) Chaoshan dialect.

Chaoshan dialect is very distinctive, each word has eight tones, and proverbs are vivid and rich (such as ten mouths and nine warehouses, ten supplements and nine shortages, a good-hearted party, a bad dog, a short line in mid-July, from Siam to pig bad, etc. ).

(2) Chaoshan folk literature.

There are many Chaoshan ballads, Chaozhou ballads and Chaoshan folk stories (such as "There is a goose at the top of the sky, …" and "Scissors, …").

(3) Chaozhou opera.

Chaozhou Opera, which originated from Wenzhou Southern Opera, developed creatively on the basis of absorbing other drama arts, Chaozhou folk music and dance arts.

Some plays are transplanted from other plays; There are also works with Chaoshan local themes as the main theme, such as Chen Sanwu Niang, Su six niang and Ci Langzhou.

(4) Chaozhou music.

It has highly classical and elegant tunes, beautiful and colorful melodies, unique folk joy and distinctive features of mass entertainment.

Its contents include string poetry music, fine music, big gongs and drums music, Chaoyang flute music, temple fair music and so on.

(5) Chaoshan arts and crafts.

Including wood carving, stone carving, art ceramics, etc.

Among them, the stone carvings of Xigong Temple in Jinsha Township, Chaoan County are the treasures of Chaoshan stone carvings.

(6) Chaoshan folk art.

Including song and dance, dragon and phoenix dance, double goose dance, paper shadow play (Chaozhou puppet show) and so on.

(7) Chaoshan dwellings.

Including four-point gold, Shang Lugen, Hummer trailer and other residential buildings, as well as Chenghai Chen Cifu's former residence and other Chinese and Western wall-like buildings.

(8) Chaoshan folk customs.

Including Chaoshan festival customs, wedding customs, funeral customs, worship of gods, etiquette customs, as well as eating seven kinds of soup, going out of the garden, walking on the colorful bridge and other folk customs.

(9) Chaoshan celebrities.

Chaoshan area has the reputation of "Zou Lu on the seashore", and has always attached importance to cultural and educational undertakings, with outstanding people and talented people.

To sum up, it is "four more", that is, there are many sages, many overseas Chinese, many wealthy businessmen and many cultural, scientific and technological celebrities.

(10) Chaoshan agronomy.

Chaoshan area is sparsely populated, rural people intensively cultivate embroidery and other fields, and the planting technology is widely known and the agricultural level is high.

(1 1) Chaoshan commercial culture.

After the decline of famous merchants in the history of China, merchants such as Shanxi merchants and Huizhou merchants rose.

In today's world, tide merchants are very strong.

The main feature of Chaozhou businessmen is that they operate in a way of combining business with business, commercial capital and industrial capital, and their business areas are all over the world.

Chaozhou businessmen have many successful business strategies and formed a unique business culture.

(12) Chaoshan food culture.

Including Chaozhou cuisine and congou tea.

Chaozhou cuisine has the characteristics of attaching importance to seafood, being light and delicious, with seasonings and snacks.

Kung Fu tea is the pinnacle of tea culture, and the Daoism of Kung Fu tea can be summarized in five words: harmony (peaceful atmosphere), love (expression of love), refinement (exquisite tea set, exquisite punching), purity (noble character) and thinking (enlightening wisdom and thinking) * * *.

(13) Chaoshan religious culture.

Many hipsters at home and abroad believe in Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and Christianity, forming Chaoshan religious culture.

(14) Chaozhou overseas Chinese culture.

Professor Tsung i Jao, a famous international sinologist, believes that the identity of overseas Chinese in Chaozhou can be compared with Huizhou contract.

The main feature of overseas Chinese commentary is "combination of line and letter".

Overseas Chinese comments are one of the important cultural relics in the study of overseas Chinese history, postal history, financial history, traffic history and economic and trade history. It permeates the deep affection and homesickness of overseas Chinese and has rich cultural connotations.

(15) Chaoshan charity culture.

Many charity halls have been established in chaozhou people at home and abroad, and many philanthropists and philanthropists have done many good deeds, which fully embodies the noble virtues of chaozhou people's kindness, helping others and selfless dedication.

(16) Chaoshan tourism culture.

Nowadays, all parts of Chaoshan attach importance to enriching the cultural connotation of tourism in order to improve the taste of tourism.

Fourth, Chaoshan culture is distinctive. Generally speaking, Chaoshan culture has the characteristics of folk, compatibility, delicacy and pioneering.

1, folk songs.

Such as Chaozhou opera, Chaozhou music, Chaoshan folk customs, Chaoshan folk literature, etc., are rooted in the influx of people at home and abroad and are deeply welcomed by the influx of people at home and abroad.

Chaozhou cuisine and Kung Fu tea are both loved by hipsters at home and abroad, and are very popular in daily diet.

2. Compatibility.

Chaoshan culture not only inherits and carries forward the fine tradition of Central Plains culture, but also absorbs the excellent elements of ancient Chaozhou local culture and some excellent elements of overseas culture, and integrates with each other to form a unique group culture with the spirit of letting all rivers flow.

3. fineness.

Such as Chaozhou woodcarving, stone carving and artistic ceramics, are all very beautiful.

Chaoshan Agricultural College has the style of meticulous embroidery by Chaoshan women.

There are 108 heroes in Chaoyang Song and Dance. They all have unique faces, costumes and personalities, which are very exquisite.

4. pioneering.

Chaozhou Opera, for example, originated from Wenzhou Southern Opera, but absorbed many excellent elements such as classical drama, Chaoshan folk music and dance, and became a distinctive drama.

Chaozhou music not only retains the essence of Chinese classical music, but also absorbs the excellent elements of folk music, creating and becoming popular music among the people.

The pioneering spirit of Chaoshan cultural and technological celebrities and famous tide merchants is particularly remarkable, thus creating extremely brilliant achievements.