Culture of Liujiang County

Singing Caijiao

Originally known as Singing Caicha and Singing Tune, it was popular in the south of central Gui at the end of the Qing Dynasty, and is one of the popular folk dramas for the people of Liujiang County. The singing is simple, natural, lively and fluent, often with the refrain "river hi yi, yi river got hi, river hi yi river got hi" and the epilogue "that river got hi hi". During the performance, the movement is more relaxed and active, and the rhythm is bright and fast. The traditional programs often performed in the county are "Shi Chong seeks his wife", "Foolish son sells yarn", "Yunnan chases his husband", "Store room for wife" and so on. During the years of the Republic of China, there was a colorful tune masters came to pass on the art. After the liberation, through the county cultural department's reform, integration, and constantly improve the singing and lyrics, add new content, color tune is more popular among the masses. 50's to 60's, the repertoire is often performed in the "A three play master", "Wang San playing the bird", "Wang Er Annunciation", "Dragon Lady and Han Peng", "mending pots", "playing the gongs", etc.; after the 70's the performance of the play is the "across the river to see the relatives" and the self-editing of the "kiss" and "ask the road". The play was performed after the 70's, such as "Looking at the Relatives Across the River" and the self-written "Ask the Way".

Shigong Dance

It is a song and dance performed by Taoist masters when they go on a trip, play fasting or do a dojo for the dead. Zhuang Shi Gong Dance in the "through the needle dance" also known as "wearing flowers dance", jumping generally 7, 8 people, wearing a Taoist uniform, while reading, singing, jumping, while playing gongs, drums, cymbals, bells, wooden fish, bamboo boards, etc., with pipes, flutes, sheng, xiao, very beautiful. When jumping, they walk in a figure 8 shape and shuttle each other, which is similar to threading a needle, so they are called "Threading a Needle Dance", and they are also called "Threading a Flower Dance" because of the shape of the flowers. Shihgong Dance in *** there are 36 kinds of characters in the program, such as Zhang Tianshi, Lei Gong, landlord, Luban, the white horse girl, Sanyuan, etc., they each have a unique face, each has a set of words and dance movements. The performance time is mostly at night.

Car and Horse Lantern Dance

Popularized in the Hakka area of Jinde, it is a song and dance composed of two horses, two carts and various animal lanterns. Horses made of bamboo gimlets, gauze paste, no feet, the body of the hole in the performance, the actor stood in the hole in the body of the horse, rope tied to the body of the horse, hanging shoulders; horse under the body of colored silk or fabric surrounded the actor seems to ride on the back of the horse, performing horse walking, jumping, running a variety of actions; carts are also made of bamboo gimlets, paper mounted on the flower, surrounded by fabric, both sides of the painted wheels. Actresses stand in the middle of the cart with a rope to hang the cart on the shoulders, head tied flowers, hand shaking sweat scarf, flower fan, pretending to be sitting in the cart; male actors wearing straw hats, waist scarves, playing tied legs, wearing grass shoes, performing a variety of cart movements, such as up and down the slope, over the mountain passes, stuck in mud pits, touching the rocks, etc., its tunes have as many as 16 kinds of, such as the "December Tune," the "Five Nights Tune," and so on, with lyrics singing about labor and love, and singing about farm life, with the Hakka family life, with the Hakka family, with the Hakka family. It is sung in Hakka language with beautiful tunes and witty lyrics.

Car and Horse Lantern Dance

It is evolved from the Hakka "Flower Lantern Dance" which has been passed down for more than 300 years. 1951, Liu Yaxiao (a blind man), a folk artist from Silien Village, Jinde Township, began to change the "Flower Lantern Dance" to "Car and Horse Lantern Dance". 1955, the county cultural center modified and organized the original lyrics and dance movements. 1956, the program took part in the National Folk Cultural and Art Performance of Guisi Zhuang Autonomous Prefecture, which was held at the National Folk Cultural and Art Performance of Guisi Zhuang Autonomous Prefecture. In 1956, this program took part in the Guixi Zhuang Autonomous Prefecture Ethnic and Folk Literary and Artistic Performance, and won the excellent program award.

Songs

Pre-liberation in the wear mountain, Riyong, Tu Bo and other townships in some places, every Spring Festival, the lunar calendar, March 3 or August 15, the local people will be organized on their own initiative, invited the good mountain singers and young men and women who love to sing, concentrated in the song on the song dike singing (there is a name to automatically rushed to the song), song dike mainly to the main song. There are also individual singers and group chorus. The content is mainly love, but also sing life, production and labor, current events, history and astronomy and geography.

Literary training

According to the Party Committee of Guangxi District, the District Federation of Literature and Culture related documents, the Liuzhou Municipal Party Committee Propaganda Department, the Municipal Federation of Literature and Culture issued the "Liuzhou City, on the development of thousands of villages and ten thousand households of literature and art benefiting the people project," the requirements of the "Thousands of Villages and Ten Thousand Households of Literature and Art Benefiting the people project", to promote the village of literature and art and party building demonstration village *** build the same activities, promote public performances, art training, and professional guidance, the implementation of the declaration of the village of literature and art, literature and art households, literature and art counselor selected cultivation work, by the municipal party Committee Propaganda Department of Liuzhou City, Guilin City, and the city of Laibin City, the Municipal Federation of Literature decided to in 2014 on November 18 - 21, in Luzhai County County, the county of Luzhai County. -21 in Luzhai County County Party School held a literary tutoring class, participating in the students from three cities **** 72 students. Liujiang County sent Huang Huagu, Zhong Jianjun, Wei Ye, Wei Jinlan and other comrades to participate in training and learning.

"Liujiang people" skull fossil

1958 in Tongtianyan found "Liujiang people" skull fossil, by China's paleoanthropologist Wu Rukang test, the site of the fossilized skull named "! Liujiang Man", for the South China region living in the late Paleolithic new man (Homo sapiens), physical characteristics have been basically the same as modern man. It lived in the late Pleistocene period more than 40,000 years ago, and is the earliest representative of modern man found in China and even in the whole of East Asia. Now hidden in the Chinese Academy of Sciences in Beijing, the replica stored Liujiang County Cultural Relics Administration, February 26, 1963, the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region People's Committee announced for the autonomous region of key cultural relics protection units.

Bronze drum

In 1981, Baipeng Commune, Zhenxi brigade farmers in the ridge slope plowing found. The bronze drum cast in bronze, 56 cm high, drum diameter 81.5 cm, drum circumference with 4 frogs, the center of the sun pattern for 12 awns, awns between the double plume-shaped pattern. Drum body decoration complex and exquisite. The bronze drum belongs to the ancient bronze drum in the cold water rushing style. After identification, the production age for the Eastern Han Dynasty. Now hidden in the county cultural relics administration.

Han dynasty talc mask

1983 Riyong Xinan tomb unearthed, nearly square, side length of 24 centimeters, white as jade, for the fine art of carving - product, carving techniques. Character head elephant modeling lifelike. Has a high artistic value, for the Eastern Han Dynasty items, now hidden in the county cultural relics administration.

Giant panda - saber-toothed elephant fauna fossils

found in the emerging farms, respectively, Tongtian rock, Tubo Gan before the rock and the hundred peng Ganlong Rock, the study of ancient vertebrates and ancient human beings have a certain role. It is now hidden in the county cultural relics management center.

Ancient money

In March 1980, two doctors in Sandu Commune found an ancient copper money buried, there are Jin, Tang, Song, Yuan, Ming five dynasties of copper money **** 44 kinds. The earliest is the Eastern Jin Dynasty "Xiankang Tongbao", the latest is the Ming Dynasty "Yongle Tongbao". Now hidden in the county cultural relics management center.

Taiping tianguo copper cannon

1958 in into the virtue of the Commune Huangling brigade found, the body of the cannon above the engraved "Taiping tianguo ding already seven years in October on the auspicious day of the establishment" and other words. It is now stored in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region Museum.