Pinghu city characteristic culture

Pinghu city's characteristic culture includes Pinghu pipa playing skills, Pinghu marriage customs, Pinghu Du Jing weaving skills, Pinghu cymbals and steel fork dancing.

1, Pinghu school pipa playing skills: Pinghu school is the representative, Li family is a pipa family, playing the piano for five generations. Li Fangyuan's father often makes friends with the piano and visits famous artists all over the world. Under the influence of his family, he called himself "Pipa God", which was not only superb in skill, but also published in the twenty-first year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty, and was later called "Li".

2. Pinghu marriage custom: Pinghu marriage custom is mainly represented by "grass bridge begging for a wife". In the past, people in Pinghu used to get married. Those with good conditions used sedan chairs and those with poor conditions used boats. After the founding of New China, people used boats to carry brides and dowries.

3, Pinghu Dujing cloth production skills: Pinghu Dujing cloth production skills Pinghu cotton production has a long history, and the "Yuebu" made in the Eastern Han Dynasty was favored by Emperor Guangwu and became a tribute.

4. Pinghu cymbals: cymbals are a unique folk art form in the Wu dialect area in the south of the Yangtze River. The singer beat the cymbals with bamboo chopsticks to grasp the beat. The tune is simple, with a chanting style and a slight drawl at the end of the sentence. The performance is talked and sung, and the lyrics are basically seven sentences, which are easy to understand.

5. Steel fork dance: Steel fork dance was born out of ancient pre-war martial arts practice, and then gradually evolved into a sacrificial dance, and now it has become an entertainment activity. During the period of Qin Long in Ming Dynasty, Begonia in Zhapu, Pinghu had the custom of dancing steel forks.