Enshi traditional culture

Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei Province is located in the southwest of Hubei Province, bordering Jingchu in the east, Sichuan and Chongqing in the west, Hunan and Guangdong in the south and the Three Gorges in the north. There are more than 3.9 million people of all ethnic groups living here, mainly Tujia and Miao, with rich historical and cultural accumulation. With the deepening of people's role, position and understanding of traditional culture, developing historical culture and promoting local economic and social development have become the focus of Enshi cultural construction.

Stone culture is a regional culture formed, integrated and evolved with the passage of time and social changes, which combines Han culture, Tujia culture and Miao culture. It is constantly trying to adapt to and integrate into the external mainstream society, constantly absorbing and integrating foreign cultures and promoting its own development.

Enshi has distinctive cultural characteristics.

The tradition of Enshi culture is mainly reflected in its material culture. Enshi's current level of productivity development is like a vertical profile of human production development. Hold the plow in one hand and use the mobile phone in the other; Traditional agriculture, modern industry and modern service industry coexist and begin to change from agriculture to industry and tertiary industry.

The nationality of Enshi culture is mainly reflected in Enshi as a minority area, which has been recognized since ancient times. The detention system in the Tang and Song Dynasties, the chieftain system that lasted for hundreds of years from the Yuan Dynasty to the middle of the Qing Dynasty, the land reform in the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and today's Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture fully illustrate this point.

The openness of Enshi culture is mainly reflected in the use of Chinese language, national unity and religious coexistence. Enshi is surrounded by Han and other ethnic minorities. In order to survive, produce and live, communication changed from objective passivity to subjective requirement a long time ago. Since the end of Yuan Dynasty, the ancestors of Enshi consciously used Chinese language, which made the development of Enshi culture on a convenient road. In terms of ethnic relations, there are many families of three or four ethnic groups (Han, Tujia, Miao and Bai) in Enshi, but they all live in harmony. In terms of religious belief, Enshi people combine the present with foreign countries. While worshipping ancestors, local tyrants and ghosts and gods, Buddhism, Taoism, Catholicism and Christianity coexist.

The uniqueness of Enshi culture is mainly reflected in folk customs. Enshi is located in the mountains and rivers, and the traffic is inconvenient, which makes Enshi culture influenced by foreign cultures, but it still forms its own unique and colorful folk customs and has been passed down to this day. In terms of weddings, funerals and funerals, there are "daughters' parties" with joy and sorrow, and red events and white events are treated as happy events, which is unique. Weeping marriage, the long time, the exquisite lyrics and the beautiful tunes are very rare in other regions and ethnic groups. Accompanying the tenth sister and the tenth brother complement each other, forming a color of coexistence of joy and sorrow in marriage. The long-standing "disturbing songs" and "jumping for mourning" show Enshi people's extremely detached view of life and death. In terms of food, clothing, housing and transportation, it is full of local flavor and quaint style: wearing "Xilankapu", eating "oil tea soup" and "dregs", living in a diaojiao building and bumping against a pestle.

The role of Enshi culture in promoting local economic and social development

In today's world, economic integration and cultural diversity are becoming the goals of sustainable and high-quality development of human society. The role of culture has been paid more and more attention. Therefore, it is of great significance to study Enshi culture deeply and give full play to its role in building a big state of national culture and promoting local economic and social development.

The humanistic spirit of "hard work, self-improvement, respect for great innovation, openness, tolerance, loyalty and sincerity" is an inexhaustible spiritual motive force for the people of all ethnic groups in Enshi to work hard, expand opening up and promote development.

The ethnic policy of the party and the state is the biggest external support for accelerating the economic and social development of Enshi Prefecture. Since the founding of Enshi, under the theme of "* * * United struggle, * * prosperity and development", Enshi has received strong policy support from the party and the state, which has greatly promoted the economic and social development of Enshi. At present, we must seize the opportunity, implement the spirit of the central and provincial ethnic work conferences, intensify efforts to strive for and implement ethnic policies, and win greater support for accelerating the economic and social development of our state.

Enshi culture is an important resource support for developing cultural products and cultural industries with distinctive Enshi characteristics. Our long history has accumulated rich and colorful historical and cultural resources; The diversity of climate, topography, landform and biology has created charming natural scenery; The combination of humanity and nature constitutes a rare cultural resource in today's era.

Judging from the successful experience of cultural industry development in ethnic minority areas, it is the same starting point to excavate, develop and utilize cultural customs and national cultural resources that have not been forgotten or abandoned by other ethnic groups and regions. The well-preserved and unique folk customs in our state are rare resources for developing cultural industries. In recent years, our state has actively carried out activities such as publishing a series of books on ethnic studies, visiting masters of folk arts, and implementing national culture rescue projects, which have made useful explorations for the development and utilization of Enshi culture. We should further identify the advantages, sort out the cultural resources available for industrial development, and maximize its huge economic value.

Excavation of Enshi cultural resources

Establish a cultural application strategy suitable for local economic and social development. That is to discover, explore and develop Enshi cultural resources, find its bright spots, form a benign interaction between culture and economy, and make it produce social and economic benefits. Its connotation is mainly reflected in three aspects: first, through developing education and popularizing cultural and scientific knowledge, the cultural quality of people of all ethnic groups is improved, excellent traditional culture is protected and cultural diversity is maintained; The second is to develop traditional cultural resources, such as developing tourism and cultural industries by using ethnic customs, and improving the commercialization of ethnic costumes, ethnic handicrafts and ethnic diets; Third, make use of the social benefit function of traditional culture to enhance the awareness and ability of people of all ethnic groups to work hard, be open and inclusive, and protect the natural and human environment, so as to promote the harmonious development of Enshi.

Pay attention to the benign interaction between culture and economy, and develop and form cultural productivity. The benign interaction between culture and economy is the only way for all ethnic groups to modernize. If Enshi culture wants to develop continuously, it must optimize, protect, develop and innovate traditional cultural resources according to the needs of social development and market, according to the concepts of traditional culture and fashion consumption, and strive to turn the "talking head" of cultural resources into "seeing head" and "bright spot" into "selling point", thus forming cultural productivity and cultural industry.

Develop cultural tourism industry with folk customs as the main body, help people in poor areas get rid of poverty and become rich, and accelerate the pace of building a new socialist countryside. Let the factors of national culture and traditional culture in regional culture produce practical value through application, and get inheritance and development. Historically, the level of economic and social development in our state is relatively backward. One of the important reasons for its backwardness is inconvenient transportation, poor information and weak infrastructure, but it is precisely because of this that we have retained our unique regional culture and folk customs. For example, Misha Lake in laifeng county, Xiaomaopoying in Xuan 'en County, Pengjiazhai and Guanba in Xianfeng County are important resources for development in these places. Cultural industry has the characteristics of long industrial chain, wide radiation, strong mass participation, fast investment and short payback period, which determines that it can effectively help poor people get rid of poverty and become rich. Therefore, we should seize the opportunity that our state's infrastructure has been fundamentally improved and the provincial party committee and government regard the development of tourism as a strategic fulcrum to support the development of Enshi, and actively develop folk craft projects such as weaving and embroidery with regional and traditional characteristics; Folk arts and performances such as swing dance and bench dragon; Folk tourism projects such as ancient village tour, eco-tour and farmhouse music have cultivated famous cultural villages, famous products and celebrities, and created a number of examples of relying on the development of cultural industries to get rid of poverty and become rich and build new countryside.