What are the humanistic characteristics of Liupanshui?

The cultural characteristics of Liupanshui include:

Zhexi Nuo Opera

From the third day of the first lunar month to the third day of the third lunar month, Yi compatriots from Liuzhi Zhexi Township perform in the village Nuo opera is used to sacrifice gods and drive away ghosts. Nuo masks, which integrate gods, ghosts and humans, have vivid appearances and outstanding characters. Every time there is a performance, the audience is enthusiastic and lively.

Caihua Cave

Every year from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, thousands of Miao compatriots in Huashiban Village and neighboring villages and counties gather in front of a cave on the east side of the village, singing love songs and playing The Lusheng and Zhixiao were played and songs were played, and the crowds of people surged. Many young men and women fall in love and seek partners in this way, hence the name "Caihua Cave".

Flower Jumping Festival

The most festive traditional festival of the local Miao (small flower seedlings) compatriots - "Tiaohuapo" is held every year on the 15th day of the second lunar month in Sankoutang, Nankai Township, Shuicheng County ". Thousands of Miao compatriots will gather here, dressed in costumes, singing and dancing to celebrate their festival. This is one of the largest ethnic festivals in Guizhou Province.

Torch Festival of Yi Nationality: The 24th day of the 6th lunar month in Haiping, Yushe Township. Every year on the 24th day of the 6th lunar month, a grand "Torch Festival" of the Yi people is held. All activities are held next to the bonfire and under the moonlight, so it is also called "bathing in the moon".

In the high mountains at the junction of Liuzhi Special Zone and Zhijin County, there lives a peculiar branch of the Miao ethnic group - the Changjiao Miao ethnic group. They live in seclusion in the mountains at an altitude of about 2,000 meters all year round, living a mysterious and ancient tribal life with little contact with the outside world. As of 2014, they still quite completely preserved and continued a Miao cultural tradition symbolized by long-horned headdresses. . What is unique about it is that women wear a large wooden comb shaped like long horns on the top of their heads. The two horns are higher than the sides of the head, and there are 3-4 kilograms of hair wrapped around the horns.

Liupanshui’s food culture has the characteristics of strong regionalism, diverse categories, rich cultural connotations, flexible cooking techniques, unique food production, regional style, historical inheritance and diversification. The main famous snacks include: Shuicheng hot pot, Shuicheng mutton powder, steamed steamed cake, Langdai sauce, lotus leaf glutinous rice chicken, etc.

The ethnic folk songs in the city have beautiful lyrical tunes and simple emotions. There are passionate, sincere, subtle and delicate folk love songs, such as: Gelao folk songs, Yi folk songs, Miao folk songs, Buyi folk songs, Shui folk songs, Han folk songs, etc.; there are drinking and sitting songs that accompany weddings and funerals that describe folk customs; there are ancient folk songs that narrate legends and history. Songs and light-hearted folk tunes, etc. There are also some folk songs in the couplet style, such as "Baoyu's Crying Song" and "Butterfly Lovers", which have shown the prototype of dramatic tunes.

Among the various ethnic groups in Liupanshui, folk instrumental music mainly includes reed flute, suona, big flute, straight flute, three-eye flute, four-eye flute, Yueqin, Tongtong (erhu), Daoqin, mouth string, and wooden flute , Konoha, conch, modified harmonica and other wind and plucked instruments, as well as brass drums, bass drums, flower drums, leather drums, cymbals, cymbals, gongs, gongs, horse gongs, bag gongs, clangs, pans, bells, wooden fish, Shi Dao and other percussion and swing instruments. Various instrumental music have different combinations of scores and are played on different occasions. The more distinctive and popular ones include reed music, suona scores, flute tunes, bronze drum scores, etc.

Liupanshui folk dances are widely distributed and come in many varieties with different styles. In terms of the role and purpose of dance, most of them are life dances, which are dance activities performed by various ethnic groups for their daily needs. They usually include custom dances, religious sacrificial dances, social dances, self-entertainment dances, sports dances, etc.

The more representative ones include the Miao people’s Lusheng dance, the Yi people’s Suona flower drum dance and torch dance, the Buyi people’s copper drum dance, Sham dance and rice transplanting dance, etc., as well as the drinking dances that are common among the living ethnic groups. , pan song dance, wine ceremony dance, bench dance, etc., as well as Han money stick dance, fire dragon dance, lion dance, land boat rowing, lantern dance, elephant dance, etc.

It is a ceremonial dance form. The more representative ones include the Miao people's Lusheng sacrificial dance, the Yi people's suona flower drum dance, foot dance, seahorse dance, Bimo dance, bench dragon dance, the Gelao people's sacrificial dance, the Han people's leather drum dance, transition dance, sword dance and so on. Various local (Nuo) opera dances, Nuo noodle dances, divine dances, Mila dances, Duan Gong dances, Taoist dances, and Shi Niang dances are performed by the Qingtan Shrine Wu Nuo troupe.

The folk dramas and folk arts spread in Liupanshui are mainly divided into two categories. One type is the unique form that has been spread for a long time in the local area, such as the local opera in Liuzhi Special Zone, the Nuo opera (Duangong Opera) in Shuicheng County and Panxian County, the pange rap performance popular among the Yi people in Shuicheng County, and the local opera in the whole city. Popular lanterns, etc. The other type is the repertoire types introduced from other places, such as the earlier introduction of Wenqin sitting singing, Taoist singing, Taoist drum playing, etc., which have a long history in Liupanshui.