What are the cultural characteristics of Guizhou?

Guizhou is the birthplace of ancient humans in China and one of the cradles of ancient civilization in China. Its main cultural characteristics are embodied in diet culture, paper-cut culture, life culture, clothing culture and national culture.

1, food culture

A major feature of Guizhou cuisine is acidity. In Guizhou, there is a folk song "If you don't eat sour for three days, you will go to war". Pickled sauerkraut is available in every family to stimulate appetite and digestion. The main raw materials of pickled sauerkraut are radish, cabbage and cabbage. The production of sour soup is divided into vegetable acid, fish acid, meat acid and rice acid. , is completely bio-fermented.

2. Paper-cut culture

Miao folk paper-cutting forms are flexible and diverse, each with its own characteristics. For example, "central composition", the artist mainly expresses the theme in the center of the picture, pays attention to the corresponding symmetry and coordination around it, and decorates it with different flowers, trees and insects. This is different from the "incomplete symmetry" style, which takes the central axis as the coordinate and the number is evenly distributed, which makes the picture have a sense of stability, layering and rhythm, and breaks through the monotonous and rigid composition form that only emphasizes unity but not change.

3. Life culture

Most ethnic minorities in Guizhou live by mountains and rivers. They use local materials to build houses. For example, the Chinese fir houses and diaojiao buildings in southeastern Guizhou are basically wooden structures, also called "dry-fence" houses. It is characterized by building a building with wooden stakes, where people live above, livestock and poultry are raised below and farm tools are placed.

4. Clothing culture

There are at least 100 kinds of ethnic costumes in Guizhou, which are not only rich in styles, exquisite in craftsmanship, but also profound in connotation. It embodies the aesthetic concepts of all ethnic groups and embodies the wisdom of the vast number of ethnic minorities. There are some similarities in Guizhou minority costumes: they like Shang Qing and emphasize elegance, while women wear skirts and like silver ornaments. Men's wear is mainly double-breasted clothes, wide-leg pants and Baotou handkerchiefs.

5. National culture

In this multi-ethnic land of Guizhou, there are many professional art performance groups. Guizhou opera is a hometown opera in Guizhou, which is deeply loved by the people of the whole province. Guizhou operas "The Beauty of Qin Niang", "Luxury Lady" and large-scale musical "Manluohua" have been made into opera films. More than 4,000 amateur art performance groups are active in all parts of Guizhou Province. Most of their programs and plays are written and performed by themselves, which have strong national characteristics and are warmly supported by people of all ethnic groups and welcomed by foreign friends.

Baidu Encyclopedia-Guizhou Local Culture