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Anhui Customs What are the customs of Anhui Province?

1, Fuyang paper-cut. Paper-cutting is widely used in Fuyang, Anhui Province. One is to decorate with red newspaper clippings at festivals, such as window grilles, door stickers, snuff and wedding flowers. And the content is mostly a symbol of good luck and joy, or a metaphor; The other is used as embroidery patterns on children's clothes such as shoes, towels, bibs and stomachs, and the materials are generally flowers, birds, insects and fish. Fuyang paper-cutting is good at combining thick and thin lines and alternating yin and yang engraving techniques, combining the vigorous and vigorous paper-cutting in the north of China with the exquisite and beautiful paper-cutting in the south, forming a local characteristic of combining rigidity with softness, harmonious rhythm, simplicity and beauty. Most of the authors of Fuyang paper-cut are born and raised. They use their works to express the interest of life and beautify the surrounding environment. In festivals, weddings, funerals, birthdays and gifts, people are used to decorating objects with paper-cuts. Women embroider patterns on vamps, hats, pillowcases, handkerchiefs and aprons, and also like to use paper-cutting as paper. Simple aesthetics formed the artist's paper-cut style and the content of his works.

2. Huizhou Temple Fair. Sacrifice to Huizhou Ancestral Temple is an important sacrificial activity of Huizhou clan, which was widely spread in Qimen, Shexian, yi county and Jixi in ancient Huizhou. During the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, a large number of ancestral temples in Huizhou emerged, and the sacrificial activities of ancestral temples became an important part of Huizhou clan activities. Ancestor worship is an important ritual activity of Huizhou clan. In the past, this kind of activity was regarded as feudal superstition and was stopped. It is rarely held in many places in Huizhou and is little known. May disappear in Huizhou. People can only find it in relevant literature, but the Spring Festival activities are relatively complete in Ruokeng Township in Likou, Li Shan and Zhukou in Xixiang, Qimen County, Anhui Province. Especially in Mashan Village, Ruokeng Township, the whole Spring Festival has a warm environment, complicated procedures, complete organization, standardized procedures, grand ceremony and strong clan color. This is of great reference value to the study of Huizhou clan ritual and folk music. Therefore, we take the Spring Festival in Mashan Village as an example to describe the sacrifice of Huizhou clans.

3. Yingzhou Elbow Pavilion. Elbow Pavilion is one of the outstanding folk dances in Yingzhou area. According to the introduction of old artists, it was formed in the middle of the Qing Dynasty, and was reformed and innovated by Mr. Wang Xing, a generation of folk dance master whose ancestral home was Yuanji, Yingzhou, on the basis of the ancient folk dance "Tuoge". "Elbow Pavilion" originated in Yuanji, Yingzhou and Zhuzhai in Funan, and spread in several counties in the south of Fuyang today, and spread to Fengtai, Shouxian, Bengbu and Henan along the Huaihe River. It is an ancient folk dance art and is deeply loved by the masses. The artistic images created by the dance performance of Elbow Pavilion are mostly based on The Journey to the West, Water Margin, Romance of the Three Kingdoms and other historical masterpieces and traditional opera programs. In recent decades, many programs full of modern life and close to people's lives have been added, which are deeply loved by the masses.