Folk Culture in Ulsan County

The Beijing Times reported on January 19, 2011 that the ancient name of Weixian County, known as Weizhou, has been recorded since the Northern Zhou Dynasty. 6,000 years of cultural precipitation, 800 ancient castles, temples, playhouses, and ancient dwellings have made this area a well-known cultural city in the western part of Beijing. In addition to the rustic architecture, Weixian also has those who have been through the vicissitudes of life but still glittering folk wisdom from the development of the window flower Weixian paper-cutting art; that more than the fireworks and brilliant hit the tree flowers, is only in the Weixian can see the humanities of the landscape; and that the festive and lively folklore fire It can be said that the Weixian County is the flavor of the New Year one of the most intense place.

Weixian paper-cutting: art treasures show color

According to historical records, Weixian paper-cutting began in the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty. The people of Weixian generally called paper-cutting "window flowers". To window flowers, "Tianpi Liang" can be said to be the earliest form of window flowers, that is, in the mica sheet drawing coloring for decoration. In the early days, local embroidery for shoes, purses, and pillows was also popular.

After more than 150 years of development, paper-cutting in Weixian County has developed from a traditional folk art into a cultural industry, and the form of paper-cutting in Weixian County does not only exist in the form of window flowers and small paper-cutting Liangzi. From the early years of street hawking, to now become a taste and appreciation.

August 2, 2010, China's first paper-cutting street in Weixian County, the "hometown of China's paper-cutting art" to set up a building, focusing on displaying the art of paper-cutting in Weixian County, Weixian County paper-cutting of the history of the legacy of the condensed in here. The entire street decoration highlights the flavor of the art of paper-cutting, the street on both sides of the green brick buildings ancient, large-scale theatrical face painting of paper-cutting kind of decorative drawings on the wall, eye-catching and solemn.

Nuanquan town: old town history far

Nuanquan town has a long history, deep cultural heritage, numerous monuments, is the only one in Hebei Province, "China's Famous Historical and Cultural Town". Historically, convenient transportation, commerce, handicrafts developed, is located in Weixian to Shanxi all over the main traffic artery, so by the ancient Jin culture has a deeper influence, and gradually formed with Nuanquan characteristics of the traditional folk culture. The reason why the ancient town has the warm name of "Nuanquan" is that there is a spring in the center of the town with a constant temperature of 16℃ all year round. The source of the spring has a stone pool, the pool of the east and west corners of a stone hole, locally known as the "Dragon's mouth".

In the noisy city, we gradually forget the ancient town in the past there have been exchanges and changes in the wind and clouds, only that the old house courtyard also continued to civilian curls of smoke. Many of the old town has been in the world on this colorful stage exposed, but there will always be a lot left for you to surprise discovery, perhaps this small village, warm water from the town flow through, and the sound of reading

Nuanquan since the Yuan Dynasty town, Ming and Qing Dynasties developed into a "three fortresses, six alleys, eighteen manor," the three fortresses refers to the, the first in China, the West Fort, the small and medium-sized Fort and the Middle Fort. Fort West Fort, small and medium-sized Fort and Beiguan Fort. The small and medium-sized fort is adjacent to the West Old Fort and occupies an important position among the three forts, and the small and medium-sized fort was built in the Ming Dynasty. The Guanyin Temple at the entrance of the fort and the first Guanyin Liu in western Beijing are the first highlights of the fort, and next to the Fengyuan Pond is the Nuanquan Academy, which was built in the Yuan Dynasty.

Festival Fireworks: Fire Trees and Silver Flowers All Night Long

"Playing Tree Flowers" is one of the ancient festival fireworks in Nuanquan Town, which has a history of more than 300 years, and it has become a dangerous game only brave men dare to play. The game of "playing tree flowers" has become a dangerous game that only brave men dare to play. Playing tree flower, the skill is a masterpiece, popular in Nuanquan, the county around, is one of the traditional folklore fire program, because the iron splashed on the fort wall splashed open, like a fire tree and the name of the silver flower. Nuanquan town had 3 casting industry stalls, people in order to celebrate the harvest and pray for the next year's wind and rain, voluntary donations of scrap iron, coal and grain silos, vegetables, etc., every year, the Lantern Festival for three days to play the tree flowers. Performances will first be hundreds of kilograms of pig iron with an iron furnace into iron juice, performers with a special spoon will be iron juice splashed on the hard cold brick wall of the Fort. More than a thousand degrees Celsius of iron juice exploded after the explosion of ten thousand sparks, like a leafy canopy and called the "tree flower". The "tree flower" is a thousand different forms, ten thousand flowers running.

In addition to playing tree flowers, Nuanquan Town, there are a lot of folk activities with ancient characteristics, small and medium-sized Fort "live donkey", the West Fort "cattle doohoo", the North Guanbao "stilts "

Weixian County's long and deep history and culture has created a colorful and rich folklore activities here.

2011 Folklore New Year

(I) Writing Spring Festival Couplets

Time: Lunar New Year's Eve (January 27)

Location: Civic Plaza in the county town

(II) Paper-cutting Ryozi Display and Sale

Time: Lunar New Year's Eve Lunar New Year's Eve (January 26) February 1

Location: First Street, Nanguan Roundabout

The first street of paper-cutting.

(D) fireworks

1. County Lantern Festival fireworks

Lighting holiday salute, traditional fireworks

Location: Civic Square

Time: 19:30 on the evening of the first month of the sixteenth

2. Nuanquan Township, folk lanterns and tree flower party

Time: 19:00

Lanterns: Feb. 5 to 7 (the third to fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), February 16 to February 18 (the fourteenth to sixteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar)

Tree Flower Party:

February 5 to 7 (the third to fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar), February 12 (the tenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar)

February 15 to 17, 2011 (the thirteenth to fifteenth day of the first month of the lunar calendar)

3. Songjiazhuang Township to worship the lantern mountain party

Extremely folk characteristics of the lantern culture

Location: Songjiazhuang Township, Suzhuang Village

February 16 (Lunar New Year's Day fourteen)

February 18 (Lunar New Year's Day sixteen)

(E) Weixian Spring Festival Folklore Photography Competition

Chinese Folklore Photography Association, the County Tourism Bureau *** co-sponsored the "Uixian Spring Folk Photography Competition"

(6) Lantern Show

Time: February 14 (the twelfth day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar) to March 11 (the seventh day of the second month of the Lunar Calendar)

Venue: Citizen Square in the county town

(7) pointing the pole to sacrifice the god of hail

Time: March 11, 2011 (the seventh day of the second month of the lunar calendar)

Place: Daiwangcheng Township