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Yongchang county social undertakings

Jiezi dance

Yongchang street dance: commonly known as street beating, also known as overlord whip. Festival dances are performed by four to dozens of people. The sacrificial vessel is made of a wooden stick with a length of 80 cm, painted with colors and a string of ancient copper coins in the middle of the hole. When dancing, it makes a sound. There are sets of flowers such as "String Flowers", "Tiger Holding the Head" and "Playing Four Doors", which are unpredictable and accompanied by drums. It is said that it evolved from the "fish scale array" of the ancients and has a history of more than 2,000 years.

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Reading club is an ancient folk literature form in Yongchang. It evolved from Buddhism "Bianwen" and belongs to singing literature. Style is mixed with rhyme, prose is used when speaking, and verse is used when singing. Since the rise of the Song Dynasty, it has a history of thousands of years.

Shehuo

Social fire is widely circulated among the people. The Taiping Drum is in the Qinghe River in Yongchang, the streets and hemp seeds are in the Xihe River, and there are dragon lanterns and small tunes in the suburbs. Among all kinds of social fires, lion dancing, roller boating, dragon dancing, bear dancing and sitting singing are all strung together. Diet: Yongchang people eat three meals a day, mainly pasta, followed by yellow rice and millet. Sometimes I also eat "noodle soup", "noodle stirring" and "Zhen Zi thick rice".

Marriage: The Han nationality in Yongchang has always been monogamous, but there are also concubines. Since the Ming and Qing Dynasties, the marriage custom of "Zhu Li" in the Song Dynasty was basically followed, and there was no big change until the Republic of China. Men and women are about 15 years old and begin to discuss marriage and engagement. They can get married at 17 and 18. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), a new marriage system was implemented.

Temple Fair: There are many traditional temple fairs in Yongchang, more than 30 times a year. Larger, such as the Chenghuang Temple Fair on January 16th and the Tongshan Temple Fair on May 13th; March "Qingming" Town God's Fair; Dongyue Temple Fair on March 28th of the lunar calendar; Tongmushan Temple Fair in early April of the lunar calendar; On the eighth day of the fourth lunar month, the bathing Buddha meeting at Jinchuan Temple in Beihai; North Wudang Mountain Temple Fair on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month. Only the "April 8th" Beihai Temple Fair is left. The specialties of Yongchang County are: rainbow trout, Nostoc flagelliforme, mushrooms, beets, ephedra, carrots, beer barley, longevity noodles (grey noodles), ginseng, sheep mats and so on.