The Earth Engine of Benxi History and Culture

Benxi county has a long cultural history. The excavation of Miaohoushan ancient human site witnessed that human ancestors lived and multiplied in this land as early as 200,000-300,000 years ago, creating ancient human civilization. A large number of unearthed cultural relics reflect the unique historical and cultural characteristics of different historical periods. Due to the rich mineral resources in the territory, the mining industry and handicraft workshop industry rose in Ming and Qing Dynasties, which made merchants gather in Benxihu Street, Master Tian, soda plant, Qinghe City, Caohekou and other places. In important fairs, small performances such as tea club, storytelling, drum writing, duet, Hebei Bangzi, Peking Opera and shadow play began to appear. 1887 (13th year of Guangxu in Qing dynasty) Around the Shangyuan Festival (15th day of the first lunar month), folk activities such as playing dragon lanterns, dancing yangko, playing community fire and stepping on the stilts were more active. 1900 (in the 26th year of Guangxu reign of Qing Dynasty), after the establishment of Tongsheng and Dangui tea gardens in Benxi Lake, foreign troupes were invited to perform. 19 10 (the second year of Qing Xuantong) Benxi County Library was put into use. From 19 16 (5 years of the Republic of China) to 1928 (7 years of the Republic of China), there were often different opera performances in the county, among which Cheng, a Peking Opera performer, also led a delegation to perform in the county. After the fall of Northeast China, Japanese invaders occupied Northeast China, enslaved Northeast China, banned art groups from performing, and restricted cultural activities.

After the founding of New China, the Party and the people's government were very concerned about people's cultural life, set up cultural institutions, successively set up cultural centers, libraries, film companies and art troupes, and organized literary and artistic backbones to tour all parts of the county, which made the mass culture, literary creation, news broadcasting, film and television, fine arts, photography, books, archives, cultural relics and compilation of historical records in the county develop by leaps and bounds. Especially after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Communist Party of China, in order to meet the growing cultural needs of the Manchu people, the county party committee and the county government have set up various cultural management institutions, increased the construction of various cultural infrastructures, and formed various cultural professional teams and amateur creative teams. Various cultural activities show diversity and flexibility, which are loved by the people, effectively cooperate with the central work of the party and the government in different historical periods, and play a role in publicizing the masses, uniting the masses, educating the masses, and inspiring and encouraging them to join the cause of reform and socialist modernization.

1906 (in the thirty-second year of Guangxu), the Qing government designated Liaoyang County, Fengcheng County and Yingjing County to set up Benxi County, and a large number of Manchu people moved to live in China. Later, Shandong, Hebei, Yunnan and other places immigrated here one after another. In the long-term production and life, the Han and Manchu lived together, married and merged with each other, and gradually formed some living customs of the Han and Manchu. However, North Korea and the Hui nationality partially retained their own national characteristics and customs. Other ethnic groups are sparsely populated, and their living customs are basically accompanied by Han and Manchu. From the founding of New China to the end of 2000, people of all ethnic groups in Benxi County broke the old and established the new, changed customs and advocated civilization, and accumulated rich experience in work, life and life, forming unique national customs and dialect slang.

The most Manchu customs have "three eccentrics": the window paper is pasted outside, and the girl's daughter-in-law is holding a tobacco pouch to support the child. These customs and habits are the life experience and wisdom accumulated by Manchu people in their long-term coexistence with the natural environment.