The Cultural Accumulation of Sidu Town

During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the education of the four capitals was developed. Guan Tingya's scholar Zhou Shaotang opened a school in Chen Jiawan and trained four students, including many juren and scholars. Among them, he not only revisited Pan Gong, but also was a poet in northern Guizhou. His poems were really included in Boya by coastal scholars in the southwest. Students from Kimura Bay and Songba in Qing Dynasty took the examination of Jinshi. Zhong Zhong, the son of Zhong Ying in Kimura Bay, was a scholar in Daoguang's 20-year examination. He served as the cabinet secretary and was later appointed as the magistrate of Gaotai County, Sichuan Province. Zhong's younger brother also won the title in Daoguang twenty-six years. In the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China, villagers paid more attention to cultural education. Schools have been set up in Magou, Shuangxian, Guanba, Songba and Buzheng, and the sound of reading can be seen everywhere.

In the seventh year of Xianfeng in Qing Dynasty (1857), the peasant uprising army "Bai Haojun" was active in Sidu for 10 years. In the meantime, he fought with local armed forces in Dingjiaao. Shi Dakai, the wing king of Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, crossed Sidu on August 15th in the first year of Tongzhi (1862), and Feng, a native of Shanshan Dam, left Sidu with Taiping Army and became the vanguard of Shi Dakai Army. After the defeat of the Dadu River, Feng lived in Tibet for 10 years. Back in Sidu, I brought back Tibetan native products such as orangutan blood and saffron, and brought back a broadsword that Shi Dakai gave him to Songba. A few years later, he and his younger brother went to Tibet to sell the local products of Sidu. He was the first person to communicate the cultural and commercial exchanges between the four capitals and Tibet.

Zunyi was once under the jurisdiction of Sichuan and close to Chongqing, so Bashu culture had a great influence on the four capitals. In addition, a considerable part of the population of Sidu are immigrants from Sichuan, and everything from living customs to farming and studying is similar to that of Sichuan. For example, the Tantan Opera in our town (also called Qingtan), strictly speaking, has elements of learning from Sichuan Opera in terms of singing and costumes. Shuangxian Zhang Jiatan Troupe and Buzhengba Yangjiatan Troupe are the representatives of Sidutan Opera. On August 2 1 2000, experts in classical opera from Waseda University in Japan came to Sidu Shuangxian to inspect the altar opera. Artist Liang performed live stunts such as barefoot stepping on red-hot iron and swallowing incense.

In 2005, our town took the lead in setting up the first Federation of Literary and Art Circles in Huichuan District, and many famous writers, poets and calligraphers from provinces and cities attended the meeting to congratulate. At present, Sidu Town has not only members of the Municipal Writers Association, the Municipal Historical and Cultural Research Association and the Long March Cultural Research Association, but also three members of the Guizhou Writers Association. In addition, Miao culture (including Lusheng songs and dances, costumes, customs, festivals, etc. ) is a bright spot of the four capitals culture, which is worth carrying forward.