What are the folk cultures in Xinzhou, Wuhan

Xinzhou is a suburb of Wuhan, bordering the middle reaches of the Yangtze River to the south, resting on the Dabie Mountains to the north, leaning on Wuhan to the west, and connecting Huangzhou and Ezhou to the east. With a total area of 1479 square kilometers and a population of 900,000 people. Xinzhou County has a mild climate, fertile land, ponds and lakes and forks scattered, the county has a beautiful landscape, rich in tourism resources.

Xinzhou was once the ancient city of the Zhuyucheng, the old street is located in the southern end of the Dabie Mountains and the plains of the junction, ancient Edong transportation and trade town, the jurisdiction of the landscape resources, history and culture.

Eight hundred years of "incense" passed on: the flower festival development of folk culture

Old Street flower will, at the latest, originated in the Southern Song Dynasty during the Chunxi years of the Qingfu Temple Temple, because the 15th of the second month of the lunar calendar every year is rumored to be the birthday of the hundred flowers and the name, so far, there have been more than eight hundred years of history. Shixing, to the temple as the venue for activities, with a strong religious color. The temple is also known as the temple of five three Gong, Song time incense flourished, well-known near and far, and then gradually destroyed and declined. To the Ming Wanli years, Buddhism in the old street again, the neighborhood 53 surnames and joint efforts to rebuild the temple. Burning incense to seek Buddha also increased, a moment of believers gathered, since the temple fair, and the content is different, in various forms.

Every year, the morning of the Flower Morning, eat far from the people of the Lantern Festival, full of struggling to gather inside and outside the temple. After bathing and fasting of the good men and women, are to the temple to worship; general hustle and bustle of the people in the temple near the play and sightseeing. The temple to the holy emperor in front of the temple, there is an iron tree. 2 meters high, iron branches and iron leaves staggered, every three leaves between the oil lamps a point. In the evening, the fair people scramble to go to the iron tree lights, instantly, the fire tree, subtle. At the time of the Ming and Qing dynasties, neighboring counties of Huanggang Dazaki Mountain, Quan Huashan, Jia Miao, Iron Metallurgy and other places farmers also came to catch the meeting, come along with some bamboo and wood utensils for sale. Wuhan, Huangpi and Anhui Province, Su Song, Taihu people also heard the flood, they brought along copper and iron. During the Republic of China, Jiangsu's silk, Hunan's Hunan embroidery, Anhui and Henan's fungus, mushrooms ...... are coming to the old street to catch up with the meeting, so that the whole flower will be full of material exchanges of color. Duration is also according to the need, from February 15 one day to three days from fourteen to sixteen. As a result of increased material exchanges, mass cultural activities and other new content, the old street flower will be its new charm, attracting tourists from all directions, eight businessmen. During the temple fair, tourists, merchants such as clouds. Mountain products, a wide range of native products, the site is also inside and outside the temple to the open river bank. The field also set up a stage to sing and cheer, measuring the word stalls, tea stalls, snack stalls are all available. Tourists and merchants all take what they need, come and return with pleasure.

Paiko Gongs and Drums

By the ancient interpretation of the drum and music development. Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty (Xuanzong Li Longji) introduced folk music into the court, composed poems and songs according to the court, and wrote the music on the wooden board for comparison when playing, so it was called "gongs and drums of the boards and drums". Later, Emperor Ming of Tang Dynasty named the composer as "Lao Lang" and stipulated March 18 of the lunar calendar as the anniversary of "Lao Lang". Since then, the gongs and drums have been handed down from the court to the people, and are mostly used in ceremonies such as weddings, funerals, birthday celebrations and festivals. The Paiko gongs and drums consist of a large gong, a large drum, a large cymbal, a small gong, a horse gong and two suona, and are played by seven people. Later, the gongs, drums and cymbals were changed to Jing gongs, small drums and cymbals, with the addition of trumpets, cushion cymbals and bells, and played by 10 people. The performance is accompanied by singing, and the voice is rhythmic, strict, and pleasant to the ear. Xinzhou District now has more than 200 sets of gongs and drums, nearly 2,000 artists, the establishment of the "Gongs and Drums" Association and "Gongs and Drums Team" throughout the region.

Xinzhou's brand of gongs and drums to the entire territory of the Lianshui River as the boundary, the formation of different styles of east and west of the two schools. Lift the water to the east of the East Luzi brand gongs and drums, tone deep and thick, the rhythm of the soothing natural; to the west of the West Luzi folk blowing, delicate and elegant, clean and elegant, fast-paced, lively and vivid.

To Sister called the mother exclusive custom Kongbu Town, Shuanghe Village, Chen Zidun Chen Youliang had built a fortress in this garrison and got its name. Later, the Zhang surname moved to this place to gather and live, the village name is still called Chen Zidun, but no family surnamed Chen. The village **** seven large houses, more than 300 households, including two houses more than 50 households, there is a strange and irrational custom, is to "sister" to address "mother". This kind of custom, it is said, can not be found in the field, can be said to be unique.

Qing Shunzhi years, Zhang's second house of a man called Zhang Zhidu, in Jiangxi as an official, and a Manchu yellow flag of the Daotai close interaction. The Daotai had lived in Jiangxi for a long time, and was very old and respected. They are in the official exchanges, drinking and poetry, mountain and water, and even brother and brother, and became friends. Dao Tai has a daughter with a very square, to be guarded boudoir, see Zhang Wencai outstanding character, then born of adoration. And Zhang see its flowers and moonlight, but also the heart of the gods, some intention.

One day, the lady even asked Zhang to meet in private, to Zhang to propose marriage. Zhang that pleaded "three taboos": stop wife remarried, ashamed of chaff; uncle and nephew incest, fear of being spurned by the world; three, the Manchurian-Chinese are not allowed to intermarry, the pass is a violation of the national law, a matter of life and death. Unexpectedly, Miss driven by love, obsessive, to the point of placing reputation and life and death outside, with Zhang eloped back to the old. After the marriage, the situation is extremely embarrassing, as Mrs. Well, does not meet the name, when the maid Well, unreasonable. The people above and below had to call it a sister to confuse the public.

And then said that the lost daughter of the platform, after detecting the whereabouts of the strict orders of the family day and night to catch up. On this day, Zhang Zhidu's boat entered Rising Duo Lake and was surrounded by soldiers. Zhang Zhidu thought that it was hard to escape from this disaster, so he invited the lady to discuss the plan. The young lady knew that a big trouble was coming and said decisively, "I am the cause of the trouble, only if you give me up, you will be able to get away." When Zhidu had a hard time deciding, the lady grabbed the bow of the boat, tied the iron anchor to her body, and turned back to Zhidu, saying, "I was born a member of the Zhang family, and I will die a ghost of the Zhang family. I only ask the Zhang family to call my mother as a sister, that is, to my sincere remembrance; and will have a prosperous offspring, or else ......" said jumped into the lake.

In a short while, the chase boat came, search in vain, had to leave unhappy. Zhang Zhidu ordered people to salvage the body of the lady, brought back to Chendun buried in the south of the village, and asked the descendants of the mother called "sister".

Zhang Sister, two houses of the clan, also y touched by the young lady's courageous behavior, from now on, they are called "mother" to sister, "mother" called sister, said that the piece of land for the sister's grave for the burial of her. Every year, they must first go to the sister's grave to offer sacrifices. This custom has been passed down to this day.

Kongbu have a scolding river

scolding river, sounds vulgar people not elegant, said the ridiculous, but there is this custom, and along nearly three centuries, become a side of the folklore of Xinzhou, heard nothing but hilarious.

Legend has it that during the Kangxi period of the Qing dynasty in the winter, Liu Li village of a girl married to Tao Sheng six villages, because of the freezing cold, the small wooden bridge is narrow and slippery, the sedan chairmen had to carry the sedan chair wading across the river to the center of the river, accidentally fell into a deep puddle. A moment, the sedan chair morning filled with water. Sedan chairmen are drenched, frozen shivering, numb hands and feet, unable to lift the increasingly heavy sedan chair, had no choice but to abandon the sedan chair on the bank to go home. Locked in the sedan chair of the bride cried and cried, frozen to death in the sedan chair. Men and women's families to collect the body of the aftermath of the problem of disputes, each other, resulting in people and the sedan chair in the river stranded for several days. Villagers are angry at the two families, the scourge of the souls of the wrongdoers, will meet up with the bride's body and the sedan chair buried together in the river in the beach. Unexpectedly in the middle of the night, someone heard the river came from the woman's mournful cries. The sorcerer that took the opportunity to move around, death said to be free of disaster, the residents on both sides of the river must be cursed for a day. Otherwise, which year is not scolded, which year the river will be drowned; which family is not involved, the ghosts will come to the door. So rumors spread, many people will believe. Coincidentally, the second year Xia sky rain, the river rose, the rapids back, a ferry was sunk by the turbulent waves, drowning two people on the spot.

The rumor seems to be confirmed by this incident, so the more the more God, the residents on both sides of the river to avoid disaster, after calculations, invited the sorcerer to pinch Zhang count, identified the first month of every year 15 for the "swearing day", each other to scold, the best results. Since then, the agreement has become customary, the continuation of successive generations. "Cursing River" has become so "cursing" out. After the liberation of this custom dissipated.

Xinzhou eighty-eight lines

Eighty-eight lines, is popular in the Edong area of a self-indulgent square art, sung during the Lantern Festival, it is also known as the Lantern Opera or Lantern tune. Eighty-eight lines about the goblet in the Qing Dynasty Qianlong, Jiaqing years, prevalent in the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom period, to the present has more than two hundred years of history.

Eighty-eight rows of many industries, there is a performance of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fisheries, there is a reflection of handicraft labor, there is a performance of business activities, there are promoting myths. Because of the complexity and diversity of the industry, so the name of the eighty-eight lines. Eighty-eight lines of rich repertoire, the ideological content of healthy tunes melodious, fast-paced; performance of simple and natural, funny and humorous.

At the end of the Qing Dynasty, eighty-eight rows once fell. In addition to Xinzhou, other counties in East Hubei are basically extinct.

The eighty-eight lines of Xinzhou, most of the distribution of the Yangcangbu, Kongbu, Wangji, Zhangdian and other towns west of the Lvshui River. Lift the east, but not common, only Gu Gang Bashan village still exists. Its repertoire is divided into canyon categories, one is the unilateral play, i.e., one-legged play; one is a small play, i.e., folded play. There are more than 200 one-sided plays, the common ones are Selling Flowers, Selling Tea, Picking Tea, Pushing Cart, Ten Plums, Playing Lotus, Picking Tooth Worms, etc. There are more than 150 small plays, such as Picking Teeth, Picking Teeth, Picking Teeth, Picking Teeth, Picking Teeth, Picking Teeth, and so on. There are more than 150 small operas, such as Mending Bowls, Little Cowherd, Selling Cotton Yarn, Beating Bean Curd, Playing Flower Drums, Playing Haba, Eighteen Tugs of War, and Husband and Wife Watching Lanterns. Most of the small opera repertoires mentioned above have been absorbed by the Chuchengworm, Huangmei Opera, and Dongluzi Flower Drums.

Folk one of the best stilt pavilion</FONT></FONT>

Stilts are a traditional folk art and culture that the Chinese people are happy to see. However, to say that the stilts pavilion, that few people know. Pavilion on stilts, also known as stilts ingots, because of the static as Pavilion, and moving as ingots, so two both. Stilts Pavilion is a traditional folk art in the village of Kongbu Dewei, said to be "Jiangxi old table" over the use of more than 400 years of history, passed down from generation to generation, for the party's stunts. Whenever the agricultural leisure or the Chinese New Year festivals, dike village men, women and children gathered in the rice paddies, banging gongs and drums, firecrackers, performing stilts Tingzi, self-entertainment.

Its performance by five adults each foot on one-meter-high wooden stilts, waist hanging one meter square of red and green silk cloth tied into the color of the surroundings, shoulders carrying a "mountain" or "out of" the word-shaped iron frame, the frame is divided into three or five children born between 100 days and three years old. The children, who were born between 100 days and three years old, were seated on the racks in groups of three or five. Villagers compete to send their own young children to the pavilion, which is a kind of celebration and good luck. The children are dressed in new clothes, smeared with red cheeks, and wearing colorful balls on their heads, just like flowers blooming on the branches of the ironwood tree. With the rhythm of gongs and drums "dong chong, dong dong chong", people on stilts dancing, sometimes like a phoenix spreading its wings, sometimes like a peacock open screen, a thrilling action, the audience's heart pulling up and down. At the same time, the young children on the back of the frame, thrilling action, the audience's heart to jump up and down. At the same time, the back of the frame on the young children, the big hands together, for New Year's greetings or congratulations on the state of non-stop rolling forward, as the spindle rotating general, so that people are dazzled; the small do not win the action, listen to the natural, some of them show a smile, as if in return to the audience, some babbling, as if the bird noise branches, some are calmly, seems to be on the joy of the crowd does not care about it. The children's various childish behavior, more amusing to the audience to laugh.

A returned overseas Chinese watched their performances, exclaimed: "Kongbu stilt pavilion, the world stilts do not need to see!"

The Temple of Confucius explore micro

Out of Xinzhou City East Gate, along the highway to the old street town through the Sihezhuang, southbound five kilometers, to the Confucius River Street. Behind the street there is a mountain, the name of Confucius Hill. Between the waist of the mountain there is a large overlapping ancient buildings, which is known far and near the Confucius Temple.

Legend has it that at the end of the Spring and Autumn Period, Confucius led a group of disciples, such as Zilu, traveling around the world, riding in a carriage, from Chen Cai came to Chu between, Tu through the old street, traveling to the south of the street is not far away, and ran into a group of children on the road to build a stone for the city, blocking the way of the car. Confucius told the children to move the stones away, and one of them, a seven-year-old kid named Xiang Zu, replied to Confucius, "Is it the city that gives way to the car or the car that gives way to the city?" The question left Confucius speechless, so he had to go around. As the car turned too sharply, it twisted the axle off and the car could not move. Confucius ordered Zi Lu to go to a nearby village to borrow an axe to repair the car. Zi Lu walked into the village and met a middle-aged woman who said, "Sister-in-law, I need to borrow something!" Without asking, the woman took out an axe and gave it to him. Zi Lu asked strangely, "How do you know I need to borrow an axe?" The village woman replied, "East is the east A and B wood, west is the west Geng and Xin gold, the handle of the axe is made of wood, and the axe is made of iron." Zi Lu listened and praised, "This place is talented!" Later people called the Confucius detour place back to the car port, and the bad car place called lying car disk.

After the car was repaired, Confucius and his entourage continued their journey. A few miles away, they came across a river with a strong current and did not know where to cross. Confucius asked Zi Lu to go and ask for help. Zi Lu asked two old men who were doing farm work to find out the crossing point. When the boat reached the center of the river, a gust of wind overturned the cart, and all the books in the cart fell into the water and got wet. Confucius hurriedly ordered his attendants to carry the books to the north mountain to dry in the sun, and tilted, the sky long sigh. Later, people built a temple here called Confucius Temple; in the place where Confucius crossed the river to build a bridge, the name of the Kong sigh bridge; the place where Zi Lu asked for help, called Zi Lu asked for help; the place where the two old men worked, a place called Changchuanchong, a place called Jie Drow Fan; the place where the sunshine of the book is called the sunshine of the book mountain; the stone where Confucius sat down and rested is called the sitting stone. Called this more than 20 miles long river for Confucius River.

Cultural relics and scenery

There are 7 cultural relics protection units above the municipal level in the district. Among them, the ancient building of Qijin Academy is a provincial-level cultural relics protection unit. Municipal-level cultural relics protection units are the ruins of Zhushan, Phoenix Pool (Erdun) site, Xu Yuanquan Public Hall, Jigang ancient tomb group, Dadun (Tuan Dun) site, Fengchenzhai site.

The main tourist attractions are the eastern Daoguan River Scenic and Tourist Area. The scenic area consists of 72 beautiful peaks and an artificial lake with vast waters. There are more than 20 tourist attractions, such as the Repayment of Enlightenment Zen Temple, the World Jade and Jade Stone Expo Hall, the Tang Dynasty Zixia Temple, the Baoanzhai Forest Park, the Strange Stone Cow, which was inscribed by Emperor Qianlong, and the Open-air Giant Buddha. The Ten Thousand Buddha Pagoda and Wuhan Film City are under construction. Scenic area and General Mountain National Forest Park, rising lake ecological wonders of three-dimensional forestry line through the pearl. There are villas, resorts, hotels, restaurants and other tourist service facilities in the area. From Wuhan eastbound 70 kilometers along the Han Shi highway through the邾 city street can be directly to the scenic area.

The main landmarks are the People's Square, Telecom Office Building, and the River Style Avenue along the Zhuancheng Street.

Famous and special products

The main industrial famous and special products are Rex brand trucks, Flywheel brand vise, Jinniu brand plate vulcanizing machine, Jintao brand vegetable oil leaching equipment, Jintao brand vacuum dryer, Jinjian brand active yeast, a combination of series of rice machines, cylinder mattresses, Nuwaishi brand cement, and Longwang brand potassium sulphate compound fertilizer, etc. The main agricultural famous and special products are Wangjie, Telecom office building, and the river avenue along Han Shi Highway. Agricultural specialty products are Wangji chicken soup, Li set of scallions, Xu Gu mushrooms, yellow catfish, as well as Qiu's kimchi, Zhangdian fish noodles, Longwang white lotus, up Lake Mandarin fish, high-quality oilseed rape, Dongshan famous sunshine smoke, lead-free pine eggs, Xinchong, lotus root double excellent, cat chicken soup, Chenglouzhai tip, Zhangdian whacked fish.