The human history of Yangzhou

First, the cultural background of Yangzhou:

1, Maritime Silk Road

Yangzhou enjoys a unique geographical position. Yangzhou in the Tang Dynasty was near the canal, near the Yangtze River and facing the sea. It is a distribution center for North and South materials, a meeting point of the "Silk Road on Land" and the "Silk Road on the Sea", a multicultural melting pot and an international trade center.

2. China Grand Canal (Yangzhou section of Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal)

Yangzhou, the birthplace of the Grand Canal, is the lead city for applying for the World Heritage of the Grand Canal in China, which is connected with 34 cities along the route. After eight years' efforts, the Grand Canal of China was listed in the World Heritage List on June 20 14, becoming the 46th World Heritage Project in China.

Yangzhou has 10 ruins and 6 rivers, which are listed as world heritage sites, and it is the largest and most complete city along the Grand Canal in China.

Second, the marriage customs in Yangzhou:

Engagement: Yangzhou custom calls engagement "tea". Engagement is also called engagement. There are big decisions and small decisions. Xiaoding, also known as "stable marriage", is a form of engagement when men and women are still young. The big decision is a formal engagement. Now free love, as long as both sides agree, the man invites the woman's parents to come to the door to hold a banquet, which is also an engagement.

Marriage: You choose "auspicious day" to get married. In the past, the auspicious day of the zodiac was chosen, but now it is chosen as the day when the lunar calendar meets the double (especially Saturday, not 14), or legal holidays such as May Day, National Day and New Year's Day.

The day before the wedding, the groom's brother and others went to the woman's house to distribute bedding (dowry). When you arrive at your girl's house, eat three teas (sweet tea, green tea and snacks) first, and then make bedding. The toilet and footbath in the bedding are chosen by the groom and brother.

There are five children in the toilet (now changed to spittoon): descendants' eggs (red eggs), red dates, gingko dyed red and green, lotus seeds and peanuts, symbolizing "five children enter the home".

In addition to clothes, there are filial piety shoes for in-laws, new shoes for husband and brother-in-law, handkerchiefs for aunts, and "puppy shoes" for future children.

The bride's uncle or brother carried the bride into the sedan chair. After the Huaqiao Bridge is hoisted, it turns three times in front of the door. The woman throws water on the sedan chair (indicating that the bride should not miss her family) and scatters chopsticks (wishing the bride an early birth). The sedan chair rotates, and the bride's brother or younger brother follows her off. After watching the relatives enter the door, the bride should sit down and eat three mouthfuls of tea after getting off the sedan chair.

Third, local dialects:

Yangzhou dialect is the representative dialect of Jianghuai Mandarin, which has existed for at least three or four hundred years. It used to be the official language of the Ming Dynasty, and there are still many ancient China characters and some lively and interesting spoken languages. Folk arts based on Yangzhou dialect include Yangzhou Qingqu, Yangzhou Pinghua and Yangju. These folk arts have been included in the national intangible cultural heritage.

Extended data:

The population and ethnic composition of Yangzhou;

The first complete population record in Yangzhou was in the second year of the Western Han Dynasty (AD 2). At that time, the population of Guangling Guoling County reached 6.5438+0.4 million, which was reduced to 45,000 in the eighth year of the Southern Song Dynasty (464). From Tang Tianbao to Zhenyuan, the population of Yangzhou reached 470,000, and it dropped to 65,438+10,000 in Song Chongning, leaving only 63,000 in Song Daguan.

From the early Yuan Dynasty to the twenty-seventh year of Yuan Dynasty (1290), there were 8 counties in Daoling, Yangzhou, with a population of 980,000. At the end of Yuan Dynasty, the population of Yangxian County dropped sharply. In the ninth year of Hongwu in Ming Dynasty (1376), there were 570,000 people; in the twenty-sixth year of Hongwu (1393), there were 740,000 people in Yangzhou prefecture 10 county.

The wars in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, such as the "Yangzhou 10th Day", caused the population of Yangzhou to drop again. In the sixth year of Yongzheng (1728), Yangzhou government led seven counties with only 250,000 people.

Since then, the Qing dynasty has implemented a series of policies that are beneficial to population development, resulting in a sharp increase in population. In the thirty-seventh year of Qianlong (1772), the population exceeded 2 million, and in the thirteenth year of Jiaqing (1808), it exceeded 3 million. Later, due to war and famine, the population fell again.

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According to the Main Data of the Sixth National Census of Yangzhou City in 20 10, as of 0: 00 on 20110, the resident population of Yangzhou City was 4,459,760, which was the same as that of the fifth national census in 2000.

Among the permanent residents in the city,1402,969 households have a population of 4,206,652, with an average of 3 persons per household, which is 0. 1 less than that in the fifth national census in 2000. ?

By the end of 20 17, the permanent population of Yangzhou was 4,508,200, and the urbanization rate of the permanent population was 66.05%, which was 1.65 percentage points higher than that at the end of 20 16.

By the end of 20 17, the total registered population in Yangzhou was 4,599,800, a decrease of 1685 1 person compared with the end of 20 16. The registered population of the city is 45,400, with a birth rate of 9.87 ‰; The death toll was 52,800, and the mortality rate was 1 1.48‰. The natural population growth rate is-1.6 1‰. By the end of 20 17, the total registered population of Yangzhou was 2.33 million, an increase of 0.23%.

The Han nationality accounts for more than 99% of the total population.

There are Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Uygur, Miao, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, Korean, Manchu, Dong, Yao, Bai, Tujia, Hani, Dai, Li, She, Kazak, Russian, Oroqen, Gaoshan, Shui, Naxi, Tu, Salar and Tu.

The total population of ethnic minorities is more than 20,000, accounting for 0.6% of the city's total population. Tang Ling Hui Township under Gaoyou is the only ethnic township in Jiangsu Province.

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