Huizhou history and culture

Huizhou culture is the sum total of material wealth and spiritual wealth created by Huizhou people in the long-term social practice in history. It has profound connotation and outstanding creation in the aspects of artifact culture, system culture and spiritual culture. Huizhou culture is a wonderful flower in the garden of Chinese excellent traditional culture.

Culture is a historical phenomenon. Huizhou culture is the same. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Western Jin Dynasty, the late Tang Dynasty and the Northern Song Dynasty, the four northern strong ethnic groups moved southward, bringing advanced production technology and Central Plains culture, which gradually made this land a famous area in China. It can be said that Huizhou culture is an inclusive fusion of Central Plains culture. Since the Southern Song Dynasty, it has become "Southeast Zou Lu" and "Land of Rites and Righteousness". If the all-round rise of Huizhou culture began at the end of the Northern Song Dynasty and reached its peak in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, then as a distinctive regional culture, it has been coquettish all over the country for about 800 years.

Huizhou culture is rich in connotation, and has formed unique schools and styles at all levels and in all fields. For example, Xin 'an Neo-Confucianism, Hui School's Pu Xue, Xin 'an Medicine, Xin 'an Painting School, Hui School's Prints, Hui School's Seal Carving, Hui Opera, Hui Merchants, Hui School's Architecture, Hui School's "Four Carvings", Hui Cuisine, Hui School's Tea Ceremony, Hui School Dialect, and so on. In other areas of culture, although there are no schools, there are countless famous scholars and outstanding figures, such as the stars in the autumn sky.

In 1930s, scholars at home and abroad began to pay attention to the study of Huizhou. Since 1980s, the concept of Huizhou Studies, which focuses on Huizhou's historical and cultural studies, has been widely spread, and the research has developed in a scientific direction. The former Huizhou area, many cities in China, and the United States, Japan, South Korea, Singapore and other countries have set up specialized research organizations or institutions. After the 1990s, the study of Huizhou culture entered a new stage, and Huizhou studies were regarded as one of the three major local studies in China alongside Dunhuang studies and Tibetan studies.