What are the traditional cultures and customs in Anhui?

Anhui was established as a province in the 6th year of Qing Emperor Kangxi (A.D. 1667), and its initials were Anhui. Anhui is called "Anhui" because it has an ancient Anhui country and its mountains and rivers. Anhui Province is an important birthplace of prehistoric civilization in China. Renzidong, Fanchang County discovered the site of human activities about 2.5 million years ago. The Paleolithic site of "Hexian Ape Man" excavated in Longtan Cave of Hexian County, 300,000-400,000 years ago, shows that human beings lived and multiplied in this land of Anhui in ancient times. Haozhou was once the ministry of Tang Cheng in Shang Dynasty, and Gu Shouchun (now Shouxian) was the capital of Chu during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period.

Hometown of Laozi and Zhuangzi: Anhui Province is one of the earliest developed areas in China. Its long history has produced schools of thought that have a great influence on the traditional mainstream culture of China, and it still affects the culture of China and even the world.

Taoist theory. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Laozi (now Guoyang County, Anhui Province) and Zhuangzi (now Mengcheng County, Anhui Province) founded Taoism. Laozi's main work is Tao Te Ching, and Zhuangzi's main work is Zhuangzi. Its main philosophical thought is: taking Tao as the origin of the world and the law of the movement and change of all things, and explaining the production of all things in the temple by the interaction of yin and yang.

Astronomical calendar Liu An, the grandson of Emperor Gaozu Liu Bang, was made King of Huainan. Philosopher of the Western Han Dynasty, whose main works are Huai Nan Zi. He explained the changes of the four seasons with the theory of "Tao" and "Yin and Yang" of Taoism, and founded the calendar of 24 solar terms, which still guides the agricultural cultivation in China. Liu An practiced juggling in Bagong Mountain, Shouxian County, and developed a China delicacy-tofu, which has now become a worldwide food culture.

Neo-Confucianism. Zhu was born in Wuyuan, Huizhou, Anhui (now Wuyuan, Jiangxi). A thinker, a master of Neo-Confucianism and a famous educator in the Southern Song Dynasty, his main works are A Brief Outline of Zi Tongzhi. Zhu expounded Neo-Confucianism by dividing human nature into "nature of heaven and earth" and "nature of temperament", perfected the "two-way" Neo-Confucianism and further developed Confucius' Confucianism.

Anhui literature has made great contributions to China culture. Jian 'an Literature, founded by Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi at the end of the Eastern Han Dynasty, formed Jian 'an School with its realistic technique and fresh style, which had a far-reaching influence on later five-character poems and seven-character poems. Fang Bao, Liu Dahuai, Yao Nai and others from Tongcheng in the early Qing Dynasty advocated that prose should flourish Confucianism, advocated the tradition of ancient prose in Tang and Song Dynasties, and formed Tongcheng School, which had a great influence on the literary world in Qing Dynasty.

Huangmei's hometown: Anhui is the hometown of traditional Chinese opera, which preserves "Nuo Opera" and the ancient "Mulian Opera" known as "the living fossil of traditional Chinese opera". Anhui Opera, which originated in Anhui, is one of the forerunners of Beijing Opera. Huangmei Opera has become a major national opera. Anhui folk dances are rich and colorful, among which the ancient painting lanterns popular along the Huaihe River are the most famous, and they are known as "Oriental Ballet". Huangmei opera was originally a tea-picking minor popular in the mountainous area at the junction of Anhui and Hubei. It was performed by artists Yan Fengying and Wang Shaofang, such as "Fairy Descending from Earth" and "Woman Attached to a Horse", which had a wide influence throughout the country in 1950s and 1960s. After re-creation by a new generation of artists in 1980s and 1990s and extensive visits in Europe, America and Southeast Asia, Huangmei Opera has become a popular drama at home and abroad.

Celebrity Gathering: Anhui has been outstanding since ancient times, and this land has nurtured a large number of people who occupy an important position in the history of China. In terms of science and technology, there are mainly the Eastern Han Dynasty medical scientist Warren, the founder of the Western Han Dynasty astronomical calendar, China Ming Dynasty mathematician and abacus master Cheng Dawei, American modern physicist Yang Zhenning, nuclear physicist Deng Jiaxian and so on. In terms of culture, there are mainly Taoist founders Laozi and Zhuangzi; Cao Cao, Cao Pi and Cao Zhi are the representatives of Jian 'an literature at the end of Han Dynasty. The representatives of Xin 'an Painting School in the early Qing Dynasty, Jian Jiang, Cha Shibiao, Wang Zhirui and Sun Yi; The representative figures of Tongcheng prose in Qing Dynasty are Fang Bao, Liu Dahuai and Yao Nai. Novelist in Qing Dynasty, author of Scholars; Cheng Changgeng, a dramatist and leader of Anhui Opera in Qing Dynasty: Harmony and Modernity. Economically, there are mainly Wang Maoyin, the only economist in China, and Marx mentioned in Das Kapital in Qing Dynasty. Politically and militarily, there are mainly Guan Zhong, a politician and economist in the Spring and Autumn Period, Cao Cao and Zhou Yu in the Three Kingdoms Period, Bao Zheng, an honest official who enforced the law like a mountain and was an honest official in the Northern Song Dynasty, who was praised by the people as "Bao Qingtian", Zhu Yuanzhang, the founding emperor of the Ming Dynasty, Liu Mingchuan, the first governor of Taiwan Province in the Qing Dynasty, Li Hongzhang, the founder of the modern Westernization Movement in China, Chen Duxiu, one of the founders of the Chinese production party and the new culture movement, and so on.

Elbow songs, dry boats, stilts, rice paper, sand soup, Huangmei opera, Fengyang drum.