Culture and Art in Mizhi County

Mizhi folk songs are an important part of folk songs in northern Shaanxi. I seldom see all kinds of characters before, but men, women and children can sing and love to sing, so I use it directly to express my feelings. Mizhi folk songs include customs, belief in heaven, yangko, rammed songs, coal-stirring songs, wine songs, elegies, children's songs, lullabies and so on.

yangge

Yangge has been circulating in Mizhi for a long time. During the Spring Festival, people who like to be "prosperous" in villages and towns automatically get together to discuss how to hold a community bonfire party. Villages usually bring their own yangko clothes and cosmetics; When the gongs and drums rang, 30 ~ 50 people attended. The yangko team is led by the umbrella head, and its members are dressed in red and green and painted with powder. Western yangko costumes pay attention to wearing hero towels, decorated with paper flowers, pompoms, tunics and skirts, and covered with cloud boots or flower shoes. paper cutting

This is the custom of stick grilles to celebrate China New Year and get married on an auspicious day. The creators are mainly women. They carved artistic images with scissors and colored paper, such as cows, sheep, pigs, chickens, tigers, monkeys, cats, rabbits, dragons, snakes, rats, pomegranates, peonies and lotus flowers. Window grilles are used to stick panes, decorate dowry bags, such as buns and cakes, or decorate rice and noodles.

stone carving

Stone carving technology can be traced back to the Eastern Han Dynasty, and things are represented by line carving and relief. The main carving methods are plane positive engraving and land restoration, followed by positive engraving plus negative line and negative engraving. The knife method is concise and skillful, and the freehand brushwork and realism are integrated.