Traditional Culture of Zhenghe County

Chenghe County is located in the north of Fujian Province, neighboring with the south of Zhejiang Province. Culture Zhenghe County has a long history of culture, in September 1986, the provincial cultural management committee, the provincial museum census group in Zhenghe census results, the county has 36 sites of the Shang and Zhou Dynasty, and excavated a lot of valuable cultural relics: there are stone adzes of the Shang and Zhou Dynasty, the Spring and Autumn and the Warring States period of the bronze sword and the sealing of ceramic beans, pots, urns, tripods and so on. Since the Tang Dynasty, Buddhism has been widely spread in Zhenghe, and Buddhist cremation was widely practiced among the people until the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, when cremation was gradually replaced by earth burial. There are more than 200 Buddhist temples in the whole county, among which, 33 temples were built in the Tang Dynasty, 33 temples in the Song Dynasty, 29 temples in the Yuan Dynasty, 24 temples in the Ming Dynasty and 40 temples in the Qing Dynasty. Ancient Zhenghe folk cultural activities include lantern fairs, temple fairs and festivals in various forms, and theater activities are one of the important activities. Although there is no local theater, Beijing Opera, Yue Opera, Gan Opera, as well as Tea Lantern Opera and Puppet Show, etc., were all popular in Zhenghe. Siping Opera was retained after flowing into Zhenghe in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and Yangyuan Township still has an amateur troupe of Siping Opera. Drama and movies were introduced in the Republican period. After the establishment of new China, the county's cultural undertakings gradually developed. 1990, the county has a cultural center, library, bookstore, township cultural centers and cultural stations 8, 65 rural clubs, cultural professionals 34 households. There are 9 movie theaters in the county, with a total of 8620 seats, 34 film projection teams in rural areas and factories and mines, and 25 individual projection households. There are 1 radio station and 1 TV station in the county, with 1,280 kilometers of broadcasting lines, 28 TV stations, 10 satellite ground receiving stations, 44 transmitters, 12,000 TV sets and 13,000 broadcasting speakers.　Ancient education in Zhenghe County flourished in the Song Dynasty. During the Xuanhe period, Zhu Song, the county lieutenant, created the Star Creek Academy and Yungan Academy; his son, Zhu Xi, a great scientist, took the opportunity to visit the tomb of Zhenghe and often stayed at Yungan Academy to give lectures, thus it has the reputation of "the township of the sages over the chemical". The county book room, social studies, academy, palace and other education system is perfect, successive generations **** there are 17 jinshi, 52 people. At the end of the Qing Guangxu, the school has been reorganized as a small school. Republic of China in 7 years (1918), the county urban and rural areas have 25 primary school, Jiandong Normal School opened in the county. Republic of 10 years (1921), Zhenghe Junior High School was founded. Republic of 17 years (1928), Peishu girls elementary school was founded. Subsequently, education funding is insufficient, the school stops running, to 1949, the county has only 11 primary and secondary schools, teaching staff 30 people, 263 students. After the establishment of new China, the party and the people's government attach importance to the development of education, to 1978, the county's primary and secondary schools, 448, teaching staff 1767, 33,799 students. 1990, the county has 45 kindergartens, 129 classes, the kindergarten children of 2256 people, enrollment rate of 36.04%, the teaching staff of 183 people; 128 complete elementary school, elementary school, 232, 23,621 students, teaching staff 14,621 people; the elementary school students and staff of 14,621 people, the school staff of 14,621 people. 23,621, with 1,490 teaching staff; 2 complete secondary schools, 7 junior high schools, 7,324 secondary school students, 516 teaching staff; 1 vocational high school, 148 students, 7 teaching staff. Every 10,000 people in the county has 375 students in school, enrollment rate of 99.21%, literacy rate of 96%, the education penetration rate of 98.58%. 1977 to 1990, the county to send college and university freshmen 843 people, junior college freshmen 1,582 people. 1982, college and secondary school correspondence broadcasting and television university, self-study exams, junior colleges and secondary schools and adult secondary school successively opened. 1990, the number of students at the university of electricity In 1990, the number of students in the electric university, 139 people, the number of self-study examination 301 people, the county to implement 9 years of compulsory education.　Zhenghe County in ancient times circulated Chinese medicine, medical prescription passed down from generation to generation. Qing Dynasty, some Chinese medicine practitioners in the county to set up a Chinese medicine store, three in the Guangxu period. During the Republic of China period, there were more than 30 traditional Chinese medicine stores in the county. Republic of China 15 years (1926), Western medicine and Western medicine began to enter the political and. Republic of 27 years, the county health center opened western medicine clinic, until the eve of liberation, Zhenghe western medicine and western medicine are very few. 1949, the county has only a health center, the hospital staff 5, only 1 western physician. After the establishment of new China, the county in 1958, the initial formation of the county, townships, villages, three-tier medical network. In that year, the red star people's commune herbal medicine research station to collect folk herbal medicine single test secret formula more than 300, organized and compiled into a book, praised by the Chinese Academy of Sciences. 1990, the county has a hospital, hospitals, health epidemiological station, maternal and child health care, health education, family planning service center, townships have health centers, villages have health centers. The county had 388 hospital beds and 487 medical personnel. Medical equipment include high power microscope, large X-ray machine, A type B type ultrasound, electrocardiogram, gastroscope and so on. Endemic diseases, infectious disease prevention and treatment is effective, 1951 plague epidemic terminated, 1952 smallpox was eliminated, 1953, cholera was cut off, 1977 blood filariasis was basically eliminated. 1980, diphtheria, leprosy, dysentery and other infectious diseases basically under control.　Zhenghe is a small mountainous county with few historical figures, but it is worth celebrating. Song dynasty students Chen Chao Lao, Ming deputy ambassador Chen Huan, etc., quite worried about the country and the people, willing to live in poverty, for the country for the people to write Chen Yan is not to be missed. Song State Prince Priest, Longtuge straight bachelor Shao Zhirou, a lifetime in charge of teaching national education, teaching the East Palace, but can be clean and temperate, for people to marvel at. Huang Hua, the leader of the Yuan peasant revolt, and the two children of the Ming anti-Japanese army, etc., who sacrificed their lives for the people and were at home in death, were indeed rare talents in the ancient times. *** Party members Yang Zeshi, Chen Guifang and other revolutionary predecessors, for the people to turn over the liberation of the masses, born into the death, bowing and exhaustion, death and after themselves, more glorious.　Zhenghe County is a poverty-stricken area with frequent natural disasters, and since ancient times, there have been social warehouses, voluntary warehouses, orphanages, baby-sitting halls and other relief and charitable organizations. The more famous ones in the Qing Dynasty are Dongping Social Warehouse, City West Orphanage, City East Baby-sitting Hall and so on. After the establishment of new China, the county people's government allocated a large amount of funds and materials, disaster relief and poverty alleviation, the establishment and improvement of a variety of social security organizations and systems. 1990, there are nine townships in the county social welfare foundations, raising funds of 500,000 yuan, used for poverty alleviation and support for the poor, disaster relief and assistance to the disabled, etc.; the county has townships of 8 homes for the elderly, the village of the elderly home 2, the county-run welfare homes, county-run welfare institutions, county-run welfare factories, 6.