What are the folk cultures of Shanxi?

1. Dialects

Jin is spoken in most parts of Shanxi, while the Central Plains Official Language is spoken in most parts of southern Jin, and the Jilu Official Language is spoken in Guangling County.

Jin is the only non-official dialect spoken in northern China, with a population of about 63.05 million speakers. Most Jin dialects have five tones, with six, seven or four tones in some areas, and have a complex succession of prosodic variants.

2. Shanxi Drums and Drums

Shanxi drums and drums are known as "China's first drums" because of their rugged, swarthy, majestic and natural regional characteristics, which express the pure, straightforward, impassioned and heroic feelings of the children of the Yellow River. In Shanxi, there are dozens of drums and gongs, such as the Shanxi Wei Feng Gongs and Drums, Yellow River Gongs and Drums, Taiyuan Gongs and Drums, and Flower Knock Knock.

3. Guangling Paper Cutting

Guangling Paper Cutting is one of the three major genres of traditional Chinese folk paper cutting, which is unique for its vivid composition, evocative expression, delicate knife skills, exquisite materials and coloring, and fine packaging production process, and is known as "one of the best Chinese folk art", and occupies an important position in Chinese paper cutting. It occupies an important position in Chinese paper-cutting.

4, the temple fair

Shanxi people through the temple fair on the trade transactions, the excess agricultural products will be sold, in exchange for their own can not produce items such as farm equipment and so on, but also to participate in the gongs and drums, rice-planting songs, car and boat sedan chair, stilts, lanterns, and other kinds of folk arts and cultural performances. Shanxi folk ancient temples on behalf of: Taiyuan Zoo Temple; Jinzi ancient temple; Xiangning County, the eighth of April "oil cake will be"; Hongdong Guangsheng March 18 ancient temples; Ruicheng County, March 3 ancient temples.

5, kangwai painting

The form of kangwai painting is composed of a set of fixed programs. The two groups of sidewalks above and below are arranged according to certain specifications to form the main frame, and the center is arranged with various painting spaces at equal distances. It has the decorative form of complete symmetry and the expressive connotation of simplicity and complexity. The part on the kang is the main part, and the potting table painting, stove painting, and wall painting are the extended parts.