Folk Culture of Baihe County

Since ancient times, the people of Baihe have been making up their own songs with percussion instruments during labor, celebrations or funerals, and three kinds of mountain songs, songs and dances, and bugles were formed in the late Qing Dynasty, along with a set of percussion music.

Small tunes

There are several tunes such as yin and yang gongs and drums, eight branches, nail tanks, camel tunes, toad tunes, fairy tunes, wind sweeping the snow, and drum words. Its representative works include "Ten Love Sisters", "Pan Tou Song", "Thousand Cups of Wine", "Ten Pairs of Flowers", "Nailed Cylinder", "Haunted Five Nights", "Ten Fans", and so on, with more than 200 songs. The content of these ditties is based on historical stories, and the singers can change the lyrics to each other or improvise the lyrics to fit the scene.

Songs and dances

Only in the past, "stilt walking" and "snipe and clam dance" were sung and accompanied. Singing filial piety songs "night" is also a form of folk music in Baihe city and township. A set of percussion instruments, singers are not limited to how many, most singers sing the traditional "twenty-four filial piety" songs, "Meng Jiangnu Weeping at the Great Wall", "Yang Jiagong", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", "Liang Zhu Hate" or word games and other recreational lyrics. The singing and percussion scores are stereotypically unchanged.

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There are many people working together on land using the "eight boards of horn", there are Yanshi end of the plate used by the empty horn. 70 years later, the county sailing most of the change to motorized boats, the use of the horn on the water to reduce the rate of the 80's railroads, road transport rapid development, Hanjiang River shipping has basically stagnated, and has heard the sound of the horn. Can't hear the sound of the horn. The boatman who can yell the water bugle has mostly gone to the past, and there are few heirs in the 90s. The good, the county cultural center made the wind, August 1981 issue of the "White River folk song" will be included. Carving

White River carving woodcut, stone carving two kinds. Wood carving flourished in the Ming and Qing dynasties, when the urban and rural rich courtyard buildings on the columns, railings, window panes, wind door, ornaments, and tables, chairs, beds, stools and other furniture, most of the carving with flowers, birds, insects and fish, decorative patterns. Some ancestral halls and temples have large pillars with dragons and large and small Buddha statues carved and painted on wood. Stone carvings are found in the Ming and Qing Dynasties in the building column bases, door and window decorative parts and tombstones. Pillar bases pay attention to modeling, the County Temple, the City God Temple in the year the pillar base of more than 20 pairs of different types. To date, the remaining urban and rural courtyard buildings, temples, you can still see the Ming and Qing dynasties, exquisite stone lions, stone drums, stone door-ledge, stone door square, stone column bases, stone window lattices and tombstones. In addition to the patterns of stone carvings, flowers and animals, some of them are also carved with a whole group of historical allusions, such as the Eight Immortals crossing the sea, the unicorn sends his son, the three kooks, the fishermen and woodcutters, and so on. Some of the stone lion mouth with beads, beads can be turned, beads within the beads can also be turned and can not be taken out.

Embroidery

Before the 1950s, women in urban and rural areas in the county mostly embroidered as a must-have skill. At that time, children wore clothes, shoes and hats without embroidery. Before the middle of the Republic of China, the edge of women's clothes, pillow stalls, tent curtains, door curtains, wallets are also embroidered. Patterns, flowers are exquisite, the Republic of late hand-embroidery is declining.

Paper-cutting and paper-tying

A few dexterous women made embroidery before or painted their own flowers and plumes on paper, or used "foreign ink" (made of wax and pine smoke) to top up their "patterns" and then cut them out and pasted them onto the "patterns". Patterns" are then cut out, and the paper cutouts are pasted onto the satin for embroidery and embroidered according to the pattern. The most common paper-cutting is the deformed pattern of the character "喜寿" cut for marriage and birthday celebration. From ancient times to the present day, paper mache has been used in kites, lanterns, dragon lanterns, lotus boats, and dragon and phoenix coffin covers used in funerals. Those who can do it are mostly skilled craftsmen. Baihe County, Xiuping Mountain paleontological fossil site

In Baihe one to the backyard of the county government offices, along the slope of Xiuping Mountain lot found stone axes, stone chisels, bone cones. Unearthed fossilized bones of saber-toothed elephant, deer, wild boar, hamster, arrow pig and other animals. The fossils have traces of chopping and scraping. The deep petrification is similar to green jade.

Niujiawan Han, Three Kingdoms, North and South Dynasties site

Located in the county 10 kilometers west of the second terrace on the south bank of the Han River, east-west length of 200 meters, north-south width of more than 100 meters. Unearthed are gray plain-faced large plate tiles, tube tiles, plate tiles 40 centimeters long, 25 centimeters wide, 2.5 centimeters thick. There are also plain ceramic jars, pots, urns, etc., and there are "the first year of the first year", "Yuan Xi two years" chronological brick. In the vicinity of the site, there is also a cluster of tombs from the North and South Dynasties, which were mostly destroyed for cultivation after 70 years.

Yue'er Tan Qin, Han, Three Kingdoms, the North and South Dynasties site

Located in Yue'er Tan Street, east-west length of 180 meters, north-south width of 100 meters, extending up to the Kirin Gully, unearthed a large number of thin-walled gray plain ceramics, geometric patterns, leaf vein pattern of the long strip of bricks and the "Taikang", "Tianjian ", "Tianjian", "Xiping", "Heping", "Zhengshi", "Hongjia" Chronicle bricks. Nearby are brick coupon tombs (commonly known as the Senkou), unearthed flat-bottomed, round-bellied gray ceramic jars, shell money, half a taels, five baht, copper arrowheads, crossbow machines and so on.

Safflower County North and South Dynasty Site

Located in Cangshang Township, Lengshui River and Peijia River confluence on the east side of the first level of terraces, east-west length of 300 meters, north-south width of 100 meters, high in the south and north, the terrain is open and flat, the soil layer is thicker. Unearthed with fine rope pattern red ceramic piece, round belly thin wall plain gray ceramic pot, geometric pattern, wave pattern, leaf vein pattern, treasure phase pattern long brick, and brick coupon tomb, "safflower county" name of the old county record is not contained. Legend has it that the white river county town was originally built here, because of the location of the county officials think soil light and abandoned. During the Daoguang years, someone with the ancient brick "safflower" two words fabricated as "safflower County". Blackmail for a long time, into the name of the place. According to the factual investigation, it is suspected to be an ancient village and town site. The site of the west side of the Lengshui River, the north of the river terrace also has a large number of brick tombs, tombs with ceramic pigs, ceramic dogs, gray plain thin-walled ceramic jars and other funerary objects.

Maoping Site

Located on the gentle slope north of Maoping Street, stone axes, stone chisels, stone shovels, stone knives, pottery have been found in this section, and there are corded bricks and plain bricks in the shallow subsurface, which is now cultivated.

Zhangjiazhuang Neolithic Site

Located 250 meters southeast of Guanyintanxia in Lengshui Township, the site covers an area of about 8,500 square meters, with a cultural accumulation layer of 0.70-0.90 meters thick, about 5,000 years old. There are brown rope pattern sandwiched ceramic pots, basins, urns and clay red pottery bowl, stone tools include stone axe, stone knife. 70 years after the destruction of serious.

Daping Neolithic Site

Located 100 meters southwest of Daping Street, the site covers an area of about 600 square meters, with a cultural accumulation layer of 0.70 meters thick, about 4,000 years old. There are red sandwiched ceramic jars and pots unearthed, and individual objects are painted with orchid patterns. Slightly damaged.