Xinzhou district culture

In 1950s, Shangrao Camellia Lantern Dance starring Yao Jinna participated in Jiangxi folk art exhibition, and won excellent program award and excellent actor medal. In 1970s, he adapted "Camellia Lantern Dance" to participate in the provincial folk dance and won the prize.

In the 1960s, she won the first prize in the first Music Week in Jiangxi Province, and her songs "Singing the Party with Open Mouth" and "Selling Good Grain and Cotton to the Country" were recorded and distributed nationwide.

1991May Shangrao jointly held a special concert for it, which was the first concert for amateur singers in the province. In 2000, China Radio International broadcast a special program about Yao Jinna, and her songs were spread to more than 100 countries and regions.

1989 was included in the grand view of popular culture in Jiangxi province. 199 1 won the title of "Jiangxi folk singer". 1992 was included in China Dictionary of Contemporary Writers and Artists. 1995 was selected as "Lovely Hometown-Shangrao City", and in the same year 12 was selected as "Shangrao Contemporary Who's Who". In 2004, he was selected as a "folk artist" in Jiangxi Province.

On the evening of the third day of the first month of 2002, CCTV 1 broadcasted its Shangrao folk song "Many Happy Events in China" in News Network. The next day, CCTV 2, CCTV 8, and Beijing TV broadcasted their Fang Zhimin.

Yao Jinna's main representative works are: Singing the Party with Mouth, Tigress Tune, Picking Vegetables, Shangrao Dragon Boat Tune, Shangrao Fishing Drum, Good Grain and Cotton Selling the Country, Tea Lamp, Fang Zhimin and so on.

Manufacturing technology of summer cloth

Shaxi town is the production center of Xiabu in Xinzhou District, radiating Guangfeng and lead mountain areas. It is an important distribution center of summer cloth production in Jiangxi province and even the whole country, and the total output of summer cloth accounts for about 1/3 of the total output of the whole country.

Xiabu production has a long history. Local and surrounding villagers have been using handmade cloth for thousands of years to produce summer cloth. According to historical records, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Han people mostly migrated from the northwest Yellow River basin to the southeast Yangtze River basin. In Jiangyou area, there are thousands of miles of fertile fields, overgrown with weeds, mosquitoes and moths. Very prosperous. During the day, they fly around in droves, flying all over the sky, wearing people's rooms and flapping their eyes and noses; Night disturbs people's dreams and makes it difficult to sleep. It is said that at that time, a man named Lin Siyuan invented a method to repel mosquitoes and insects. He used long-leaf weeds to weave curtains to hang on the bed, so that mosquitoes and the like could not fly, but the weeds were fragile and the curtains were not durable. One day, Lin Siyuan found a tough branch (ramie) in the grass, peeled it off and woven it into curtains, which had a good effect.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the founder of the Ming Dynasty, ordered: "Those who have five to ten acres of farmers' fields will plant mulberry, hemp and kapok for half an acre, and those who have more than ten acres will double. If a supervisor comes in person, it is better to punish those who are lazy. " ("A Record of Ming Taizu") If you don't plant it, you will be fined a hemp horse every year.

Shaxi and other places have a tradition of making summer cloth, which originated in the Qing Dynasty and is closely related to the development of ancient costumes, leaving many historical sites and legends in Japan and South Korea.

After the founding of New China, the production of summer cloth was resumed. But later, agriculture was dominated by grain, the output of ramie decreased, and the supply of raw materials for summer cloth was insufficient, which led to the decrease of farmers.

The production technology of summer cloth is an outstanding representative of traditional handmade cloth. Summer cloth is made of ramie, and different varieties and qualities of summer cloth are made according to the quality and quality of ramie raw materials. The whole production process is divided into raw material planting, raw material production, yarn performance, warp yarn, weaving and other processes. The finished product of summer cloth should meet the standards of excellent yarn quality, warp and weft Xian Yi, flat edge shrinkage, uniform weaving, fine color, no wrinkle, no deformation and no defects on the cloth surface. Xinzhou dialect is Wu dialect-Shanglipian-Xinzhou dialect, which can also be called Shangrao dialect. Its main feature is that it completely retains the voiced initials of the Middle Ages; Monovowels are abundant and complex vowels are few; And a neat octave. In voiced flat tones, flat tones and sharp group sounds are well distinguished, and more ancient Chinese words are preserved.

However, due to historical reasons, Xinzhou District is located at the intersection of regions and there are many immigrants. Some people in Longtan, Zhu Min, Guomen, Zhoutian, Tashui and other villages can also speak Min dialect. In addition, there are more and more immigrants from Jiangxi, and Jiangxi dialect is becoming more and more obvious in Xinzhou District. There are 65,440 railway villages within the jurisdiction, accounting for about 0.025% of the urban population. politeness

Banquet tea party, respect the guests and let them sit down. Ask the elderly or people with social prestige to be the chief. Give a toast to the guests first. Guests are cordially invited to serve chopsticks first. Leave the meeting until the guest of honor gets up first. The chopsticks of the person who eats first are put on the bowl surface, and then put on the table when everyone gets up and is ready to leave.

When a man and a woman get married, they should inform their grandfather or mother-in-law in advance. When entertaining guests, my grandfather or mother-in-law will be the chief. When your parents die, you should first report the funeral to your grandfather or mother's uncle.

When close relatives, friends and neighbors encounter sudden disasters or build new houses, they take the initiative to visit and sympathize with them and give them material and labor support.

Give sb. a present

Friends and relatives give gifts to celebrate marriage, building houses, housewarming, birthdays and having children. In case of funeral and other unfortunate things, gifts are also given to express condolences.

On the birthday of her parents-in-law, her daughter and son-in-law gave red candles, firecrackers, greetings, birthday noodles, birthday cakes, clothes and other gifts, among which a heavy gift was given to her birthday over 60 years old. When a niece marries a wife, her grandmother's family or uncle's family sends rich gifts such as wedding clothes and sedan chair coats to show her congratulations.

During Dragon Boat Festival, Mid-Autumn Festival and Spring Festival, the younger generation often gives gifts to their elders and relatives. Gifts are relatively simple, generally 2 kg of pork, and seasonal foods such as zongzi, moon cakes and rice cakes are added according to different festivals.

After the death of parents, the married daughter gave "three sacrifices" (chicken, fish and meat), silk quilts and fragrant paper. In addition, two kinds of snacks were prepared for the "general" who carried the coffin, commonly known as tofu wine, one was eaten on the way to carry the coffin, and the other was sent to the cemetery when buried; And give the "general" a certain amount of cloth and sandals, usually 30 feet of white cloth and 8 pairs of sandals (towels and rubber shoes are usually distributed after liberation). Other relatives and neighbors send funerals, usually 1 incense, 1 paper cutter, 1 white candle. At funerals, bereaved people usually give 5 feet of white cloth (2 feet for children), commonly known as headscarf cloth.