Loudi culture

The ethnic status of Loudi City, Hunan Province is dominated by the Han nationality. The ethnic minorities in Loudi City are Miao, Tujia, Dong, Mongolian, Hui, Tibetan, Uygur, Yi, Zhuang, Buyi, North Korea, Man, Yao, Bai, Hani, Li, Yi, Wa, Gaoshan, Naxi, Tu and Bulang.

Miao nationality is rich in ancient civilization and pays attention to etiquette. The 20-year-old festival is unique and distinctive. Miao traditional festivals are divided into: 1. Farming festival; 2. Material exchange festival; 3. Festivals for men and women to socialize, fall in love and choose their spouses; 4. Sacrificial festivals; 5. Commemorate and celebrate festivals. In chronological order, a year is divided into twelve months, and each month has more than one festival. 1-15th (from the first child day to the second cloudy day) of the lunar month, in which1day is the day of the year, and the Miao people do not go out (far away); The 1 ugly day is the annual festival of the earth. During the period from 1 ugly day to the second ugly day (2- 14), people visited relatives and friends, congratulated each other on the New Year, sang duets, played with dragon lanterns and played with lions. The second day of the second lunar month (15) is the last year (burning dragon lanterns). The first ugly day of the partial moon (bull moon or ugly moon) is the friendship day, also known as the dragon head festival. Miao people sacrifice to the land gods and collect dragons safely.

The first day of June+10 (Tiger Moon or silver moon) in 5438 was a festival for material exchange and social interaction between men and women (known as the Third Street Festival in March in Chinese). The first Sunday in February (Rabbit Month or Uzuki) is the Ox King's Day (called April 8th in Chinese), when men and women get together for cherry, which is the Buddha's birthday. The first and second days of March (Dragon Moon or Chen Yue) are the Dragon Boat Festival and the Dragon Boat Festival respectively, in which the Dragon Boat Festival was later named Qu Yuan, a great patriotic poet of Miao nationality, also known as Qu Yuan Festival and Songshi Festival. April 1 day (Snake Moon or Mitsuki) is the Dragon Festival (called June 6th and June field in Chinese), and it is also a new barley festival. The 1 sub-day in May (horse month or noon month) is a small festival. The second day of June is the Duck Festival, and the second day is the Mid-Autumn Festival. July 1 Shenri (Monkey Moon or Shenyue) is the wine festival (harvesting glutinous rice to make sweet wine and rice wine). August (chicken moon or full moon) is a festival of sacrifice (mainly for ancestor worship, eating pigs, jumping incense, mourning, Anlong and other activities). ). September (dog month or full moon) hunting festival, choose a day to worship the three gods of Meishan and start hunting. 10 (Year of the Pig or Haiyue) is the festival of eating pigs and soaking pigs (killing pigs in that year), the festival of kitchen gods (offering sacrifices to kitchen gods) and New Year's Eve (called October Miao Spring Festival in Chinese).

Cultural department

With the great attention and support of the Party Committee and government, Loudi cultural industry relies on local resources, taps its own potential, stands on its development potential, and highlights one county and one color. After several years of preparation, Loudi cultural industry achieved a total income of 789 million yuan in 2008, showing a good momentum of vigorous development.

In 2006, Shuangfeng county put forward the strategy of "revitalizing the county with culture" for the first time. In 2008, the Measures for the Administration of Shuangfeng County Cultural Development Fund was formulated. The government invested 65.438 billion yuan to support cultural activities, including painting and calligraphy. Shuangfeng County issued the "Resolution on Further Implementing the Strategy of Revitalizing the County through Culture", clearly proposing to accelerate the development of characteristic cultural industries such as calligraphy and painting. Calligraphy and painting collection has gone through the process of leaders' care, government's attention and policy formation in the Shuangfeng culture with a broad mass base, gradually forming a cultural industry and embarking on the road of scientific development in line with modern economy.

In rural areas in central Hunan, there are more than 60 folk troupes, large and small. Qiaotouhe Town was named as the hometown of ancient painting and drama by the Ministry of Culture, and 12 ancient painting troupes performed in the surrounding countryside all the year round. Shuangfeng Hongshantang Hu Puppet Troupe performs more than 400 performances in nearby counties and cities every year.

Loudi is rich in human resources. The scenic belt of Zeng Guofan's former residence, 80,000 mu of Qin terraces in Ziquejie, a first-class scenic spot, the natural scenery of Longshan Meijiang, a famous historical and cultural town, and the top three ancient villages are expected to enter the top three demonstration villages (Yuping Hongqi residential area), the former site of study tour, Li Jukui's former residence and Cai Hesen, Chengdu, Chen Tianhua and famous villages. Hua Ting, a Qin native of Ziquejie, is located in Shuiche Town, Xinhua County. The town pays attention to the construction of cultural infrastructure and invites cultural industry projects by market operation. In 2007, Shuiche Town introduced foreign capital of 4 million yuan to build the Ziquejie Folk Culture Performance Center, and set up an art troupe and a Ziquejie Folk Culture Performance Team to perform unique folk culture such as Xinhua folk songs and Meishan martial arts for tourists. With the success of "Yang's Ancestral Hall" in Shangxi Village and "Louxia Village" in this town in applying for provincial cultural protection units, the perfect combination of cultural construction and tourism has been promoted. In 2008, the income of cultural industry exceeded 5 million yuan, which became a new economic growth point of Shuiche Town.

Facing the opportunities and challenges under special circumstances, Loudi people who dare to be the first and be pragmatic and enterprising strive to exceed 654.38 billion yuan in the added value of cultural industry in 2065.438+00, accounting for about 3% of GDP.