Xinfeng county resources

After the founding of New China, the county cultural department conducted two cultural relics surveys in 1958 and 1964, and both achieved certain results. Since the reform and opening up, 1984 has conducted the second national cultural relics survey, and in 20001organized a large-scale cultural relics survey in Shaoguan city. Among them, the cultural relics survey of 1984 was more vigorous and fruitful because of the active participation of the masses. During this census, more than 30 sites of ancient human activities such as Zhixia, Shang and Zhou in the Neolithic Age were found in various towns and villages in the county, as well as a number of historical sites of Han, Tang, Song, Ming and Qing dynasties, and more than 30 pieces of paleontological fossils, Shi Mao, Shi Mao, stone axes, stone rings, imitation pottery pieces and imitation pottery wheels were unearthed. Pottery tools, bronzes, ancient coins from Warring States to Song Dynasty, dictionaries of ancient books in Ming and Qing Dynasties, among which bronze swords are still on display in Guangzhou Museum. At the same time, a number of modern revolutionary historical sites were discovered and confirmed. In the cultural relics survey of 1984 and 200 1, the following historical sites were mainly found and confirmed:

Xilianshan Temple: Located in Xilianshan, Dongxue Village, Huang Qi Town, more than 20 kilometers away from the county seat.

Eighteen wells on the ninth floor: located in Tanshi Village, Matou Town, the whole house covers an area of more than 70 mu.

Joining the army: Located in the northeast of the west of the city, it was built in the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty (about 1755), with a courtyard layout of three courtyards facing south and surrounded by masonry. It was built by Chen's grandfather in Chengxi Village. It is said that Chen Dengfu once joined the army to protect Emperor Qianlong, and the emperor rewarded him for building this house, so he was called to join the army. Streets and alleys in the courtyard are staggered and orderly, facing the bluestone gate, with three characters of "Join the Army" engraved in marble on the eyebrow of the gate, and square stone pillars on both sides of the gate, which are engraved with couplets of "Annual Rise, Monthly Rise, Sunrise, Sunrise" and "Long Live the Old Man". The original building covers an area of nearly 100 mu, with Hechi green trees in front and on both sides, and the back garden as the backing. It used to be a magnificent and luxurious garden-style mansion, but after years of wind and rain, most of the buildings in the house have been ruined, and only the external walls are still well preserved. Xinfeng County is rich in folk arts, including folk songs, bamboo songs, nursery rhymes, proverbs and legends, as well as phoenix dances, dragon dances, lion dances, spring bull dances, paper horse dances and Taoist dances. These folk arts have been circulated for many years and are deeply loved by people. They are not only expressions of people's self-entertainment, but also cultural activities of folk festivals. After the founding of New China, folk art was protected. However, during the "Cultural Revolution", folk art was regarded as promoting the "four olds" and gradually disappeared, resulting in no successors and being on the verge of extinction.

After the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee, the county cultural department took the revitalization of folk art as a major event to promote traditional culture, and actively took measures to organize township cultural stations and folk people to vigorously carry out the rescue and protection of folk art. By visiting folk artists and learning from their teachers, folk song and dance art that had disappeared for many years returned to the stage, including paper horse dance in Huang Qi town, spring bull dance in Matou town, carp dance in huilong town, phoenix dance in Meikeng town, dragon dance in Daxi town, and so on. Through organizing and public solicitation, the folk songs, children's songs, proverbs and legends circulated orally by the people were sorted out, and Xinfeng Folk Literature Collection was published in 1990, which included more than 100 folk songs and 100 children's songs, so that the folk art circulated orally could be preserved in words and left precious for future generations.

While revitalizing folk art, the county cultural department also actively carries out folk art research. During 1998, the National Ninth Five-Year Plan key project was launched, and Xinfeng County's "Dancing Phoenix" and "Daogong Dance" were included, and Huang was hired as a special researcher. No matter the year of flower, he visited dozens of old folk artists, collected a lot of original materials, and made a serious textual research on the historical origin and style characteristics of dancing phoenix and Daogong. The research manuscript written by him describes in detail the evolution track, performance form, music accompaniment, costume props, customs and festivals, beliefs and etiquette of Xinfeng Dance and Daogong Dance, which has distinctive local characteristics and was included in China Dance Guangdong Volume, filling the gap in the historical materials of Xinfeng culture in China.