The History and Culture of Jingyuan County

Jingyuan is a place developed by immigrants, and people's living customs have experienced a process of continuous integration and evolution. In order to adapt to the new living environment, people who moved here took convenience in traveling, shelter from the wind and cold, and proximity to water sources as the main considerations in choosing their places of residence, and gradually formed different types of population settlements, which can be seen from the naming of many small places in China. People always choose cities, castles, bays, beaches, water, wells, springs, beams, caves, tablelands, ditches, piers, shops, rivers, plains and temples as gathering places, such as ancient cities, Peijiabao, Dongwan, Mitan, Dayingshui, Liujiajing, Red Liu Quan, Shaliang and Cao Xian. In these gathering places, some are based on blood relationship, some are military camps of past dynasties, and some are named after topography. In addition, because it used to be a border area, everyone lived in one place, which is also directly related to resisting foreign invasion. Living forms include castles, buildings, earth houses, high houses, earth caves, hoop kilns, shed roads, sleeping bunks and so on.

prescribe a diet

In Jingyuan countryside, people keep the habit of eating three meals a day. They work for more than two hours in the morning and have breakfast around nine o'clock. Generally speaking, yellow rice or white rice is the most important thing in a day. Lunch is one o'clock in the afternoon, steamed bread in cold season, bean jelly and cold noodles in warm season. Dinner at sunset is mostly cooked pasta. Urban residents have three meals a day, and breakfast is in the morning, which is generally small. They cook rice and stir-fry at noon and mainly make pasta at night.

Dress

Before 1950s, because of the gap between the rich and the poor, people's clothes were very different. People with extremely poor living conditions have clothes to wear in summer, cold protection in winter, and oil pollution to patch up. Ordinary people mainly wear big waist trousers and short coats in spring and autumn, sweaters and shorts in summer, mostly homemade coarse cloth, long-breasted cotton-padded clothes in winter, commonly known as "wrapping their stomachs", and sheepskin coats in cold weather. Wear a melon hat or towel in summer and a felt hat and cotton hat in winter. Rich people mainly wear silk and satin, wearing robes, jackets and lined coats in spring and autumn, and fur coats in winter. Wear a gray velvet hat in summer and a black velveteen hat in winter. Some college students and staff members are dressed in Chinese tunic suits. Men wear homemade round flat shoes, and young women wear embroidered shoes.

Funeral custom

Funeral ceremonies and customs are complex and lasting. The folk funeral customs in Jingyuan can be divided into several procedures, such as dying, guarding the shop, mourning, Dai Xiao, the third, family sacrifice and so on.