What are the cultural characteristics of Mianyang?

Culture is a unique phenomenon of human society, which is always present and ubiquitous; culture is also a kind of people's literacy, through the experience of social life, participation, and cultivate their own cultural heritage. The cultural connotation of Mianyang is integrated with the culture of Ba Shu, with a very deep heritage and local characteristics, this paper tries to explore the culture of Mianyang through part of the cultural heritage or cultural communication.

Mianyang City is located in the northwestern part of the edge of the Chengdu Plain, and its specific geographic situation can be summarized in one sentence: "Three rivers lapel, a water in the middle of the flow" a one-Fulong River, Anchang River, Hibiscus Creek, three rivers form the "yagi" shape, encircling the entire city. This kind of water resources is what makes the city so beautiful. This kind of water resources is Mianyang has the best conditions for sustainable development.

The city has been named after water for more than 2,000 years. The water culture generated by the water is a major feature in Mianyang. The famous Tie Niu Street is famous for the iron ox on the water side of the town, the end of the street was built in Xianfeng seven years of the "General Yang Si Temple," the title if you think "Yo mouth", then call it "Si Wang Miao "The temple is a temple of King Surabaya. In fact, it is dedicated to Yang Jian, who is the "Erlang God" with great powers; even Jiangyou County named the local town "Erlangmiao", which is enough to show that the pre-liberation people of Mianyang pinned all their hopes on Erlang God.

(Landscape garden city of Mianyang)

When people's eyes focus on the Sanxingdui ruins in Guanghan, Mianyang City, Fucheng District, is located in the new soap town of the "side of the mountain ruins" smiling, this site has been 4800 years ago, the slope-type settlement site, found in the construction of the Baocheng Railway, in the side of the mountain! Halfway up the mountain, a train rumbled through the area, and below the mountain is the Anchang River.

In 1989, the Archaeological Research Institute of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences and the Mianyang Museum **** with the archaeological excavation of the site. The excavation report said: the site's cultural accumulation layer is clear, the remains are abundant, and thousands of specimens of pottery, stone tools, bone tools and fire-burnt soil have been unearthed.

Do not take this site lightly, it is the birthplace of civilization in Mianyang, enough to be comparable to the site of Maoxian under the Guanzi, Xinjin Baodun cultural sites, than the Sanxingdui site but also a few hundred years earlier or even thousands of years. Its significance lies in the study of the origin of civilization and the face of primitive culture in the Sichuan Basin, which is of great significance.

In November 1989, Mianyang Hejiashan Eastern Han Dynasty cliff tomb unearthed a money tree, tall trunk cast with five human figures, a single statue of 6.5 centimeters, the right hand vertical palm, palm outward, cross-legged seated. This is a cross-legged seat of the early Buddha, for the Buddha undoubtedly. The so-called money tree is incorrectly called, it should be a comprehensive modeling of the various sacred trees described in the Classic of Mountains and Seas.

Buddhism was introduced to China during the Western Han Dynasty, as evidenced by the money tree pictured above. The mature period would have been during the Wei, Jin and North-South Dynasties, as evidenced by the 42 niches of Buddhist and Taoist statues and six inscriptions on the Mianyang Pingyang Fujun Que.

Sui-Tang was the heyday of the development of Buddhism in Mianyang, and Buddhism Tiantai Sect, Huayan Sect, Pure Land Sect, Dharma Sect and Zen Sect became the mainstream of local Buddhism. Such as the Bishui Temple built during the Tang Zhenguan period (627 649), the temple has 18 niches of Buddhist rock carvings and statues from the Tang Dynasty, and thirty-two items of the Diamond Sutra, which was announced by the People's Government of Sichuan Province as a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit in 1991.

Qin culture refers to a regional culture during the Spring and Autumn and Warring States periods. The scope is roughly the border area of Shaanxi and Gansu. It crossed the long river of history in the form of a road and turned into the Chinese culture, which had a great influence on the culture of Ba Shu, especially the culture of Mianyang area.

The four pictures above are: the ancient stagecoach road in Mianyang City, which is also the main road for Sichuan people to go north to the Central Plains. The second picture is the Qiqu Mountain section of the Jinniu Road. The third and fourth figure is the Songlong Trestle Road, which is the ancient trestle road from the ancient Longzhou (Pingwu) to the ancient Songzhou (Songpan).

After Qin annexed Ba Shu from the north of Minjiang River to the south, a large influx of Qin culture, as a result of immigration of 100,000 Qin people into Shu, including Mianzhou, including the rich in the Ba Shu area, their dress, marriage, funeral, the use of three sacrifices at the time of sacrifice, and other customs on the Mianzhou cultural customs to varying degrees of influence.

The construction of the city wall also began at this time, and now the stone city wall in Tongchuan Town, Santai County, Mianyang City, has become one of the best-protected stone city walls in China.

In 2013, the State Council announced as a national key cultural relics protection unit.

By learning about the cliff statues in Mianyang City, it is clear that their style was heavily influenced by the culture of the Central Plains, especially the art of Dunhuang.

The above two pictures are Wolong Mountain Thousand Buddha Rock Cliff Statue, which was carved in the Tang Zhenguan eight years, the size of 5.5x3.2 meters on the four sides of the boulder, an area of 64.5 square meters, for a Buddha, two Bodhisattvas, two disciples, two Rexes modeling.

Bishui Temple cliff statue, it is located in Mianyang City District Bishui Temple Guanyin Hall within the cliff, excavated in the Tang ZhenGuan years (627 649), there are 25 niches of the cliff statue and Pop Pop Vajra Prajna Paramita Sutra one side of the statue of the object of the Amitabha Buddha and fifty-two bodhisattvas, elegant temperament, modeling accuracy. For the western three saints and other traditional subjects,

In 2013, the State Council announced as a national key cultural relics protection units.

During the pre-Qin period, the people of Mianzhou choose water to live, the ancestors are convinced that the soul does not perish, after the death of a person in a boat across the water can be Tianpeng Que's Mount Bun by the God of the sky to take away the soul, so the prevalence of the boat coffins, which to some extent reflects the Mianzhou ancestors at that time to the belief that the boat as a home.

After the Qin culture entered Mianzhou, the local funeral customs changed, and earth burial became the mainstream form of burial. Funeral etiquette culture followed; Mianzhou Han tradition, the death of a person to be split up to report the funeral, the first to notify important relatives and friends, *** with the discussion of how to deal with the aftermath of the deceased.

Then go to invite Taoist priests and Mr. Yin Yang, responsible for the rituals to transcend the deceased's soul. Mr. Yin Yang is responsible for reading the feng shui of the graveyard, choosing the grave and placing the location.

At the same time, the family will also scrub the body of the deceased, wear life jacket, the male deceased wear nine pieces, women wear seven pieces. Then lie flat on the board, face with a piece of straw paper, feet with twine bolted, feet placed a long light. Incense and candles are lit on either side of the lamp, and the Taoist priest does the rest.

The well-preserved tombs in Mianyang City. Figure 1 is the tomb of Mr. and Mrs. Yan Yongcai in Shuangpan Township, Zitong County, Qing Dynasty. Mr. and Mrs. Yan Yongcai's tomb.

Picture two is Santai County Longshu Township Qing. The second picture is the tomb of Mr. and Mrs. Lin Shikun in Longshu Township, Santai County.

Figure 3 is the tomb of Mr. and Mrs. Lin Shikun in Longshu Township, Yanting County, Qing Dynasty. Yanting County, two rivers in the town of Tang Dezhong tomb.

Pre-liberation snacks in Mianyang County held up half of the sky of food culture, such as Xi Liangfan, Zhong Liangfan, Missy barbarians beef, sheep Shaoxing white meat, two yellow buns, Wang Tangyuan ......

The diet of the people was first introduced to the "cauldron rice", under the rice boiled to seven or eight minutes cooked. The next rice cooked into seven or eight minutes cooked when the leakage of rice soup, poured into the rice cauldron steamed, on the aroma of cooked rice, if there is a two cuts of meat made of bacon cut into slices to eat, it is full of mouth drilling incense.

If you want to eat stuffed pots of rice, then add some red pota. Tender carrots, bacon balls, simmering cooked, potpourri crispy, rice mixed full of flavor.

During the Spring Festival, people began to turn the field, rowing sugar cane, earth musket to beat the turtledove in the bamboo cage, when the shade of the field will emerge from the field side of the purple buds, used for cool office, the aroma of the brain, Mr. Zhang Daqian is particularly good for this dish.

Chinese New Year customs, until now to kill the New Year's pig, New Year's Eve reunion dinner is a must for the whole family to get together, in addition to sacrifices to the ancestors, the dinner table must have a rooster and fresh fish, roosters to take its "leftover" (kidneys), fresh fish to take its "Yu" (fish).

Leapfrog Road is a nationally renowned electronic industry a road, our country in the "First Five", "Second Five" and the third line of the construction period in this place has given birth to Changhong, Jiuzhou, Huafeng, Fulingjiang and other electronic enterprises.

They have a pivotal role in the development of China's electronics industry in the history of the brick wall along the street, "Sichuan is very promising", "Revolutionary Committee," and other slogans of the red brick building is very strong and obvious sense of the times. Mianyang is a classic representative of the history of the construction of the three lines of history and urban memory.

Conclusion

Mianyang City, of course, the cultural characteristics of far more than these contents, which cultural items in the opera, painting, calligraphy, cultural creations, leisure content because of the limitations of space, can not be narrated, it is really too bad, only the netizens to add in the message area ......

Mianyang is an ancient city, is also the only city in China to be the only one of its kind. Mianyang is an ancient city and China's only national science city. Mianyang is a city where tradition and modernity intersect, and a place where Sichuan and Mandarin are intertwined. Mianyang has the Han Dynasty Pingyang Fujun Que, which represents the oldest stone carving art in China, as well as wind tunnels that lead the world in first-class science and technology, the former residence of Li Bai in ancient times, and the national famous mass-production college entrance examination base today. What are the cultural characteristics of Mianyang? As a Mianyang born in Shandong, 30 years away from Sichuan, I also want to know the cultural characteristics of Mianyang.