Culture of Yijun County

Yijun County is located in the Loess Plateau of the Yellow River Basin, the birthplace of the Chinese nation. As early as about 6,000 to 7,000 years ago, the ancestors flourished here, creating a splendid culture of mankind. After the establishment of new China, by archaeological discovery of various types of Neolithic sites throughout the county, throughout the dynasties, there are many precious relics. However, in successive feudal dynasties and the Kuomintang under the destruction of the working people to create a variety of folk culture and art, some endangered extinction, some people died of art death, leaving only relics and relics.

After the liberation of Yijun County in 1948, the people's government put the inheritance of the traditional culture of the motherland and the development of Yijun culture on the agenda. Cultural institutions at all levels were set up one after another, rural mass cultural organizations were gradually formed, and all kinds of traditional culture and art in both urban and rural areas were constantly excavated and revived, and a socialist cultural and artistic team of professionals and amateurs was gradually established.

Mass cultural and artistic activities are carried out widely and actively. The forms of activities are colorful and varied. "During the Cultural Revolution, because of the influence of the "leftist" errors, especially the destruction by the counter-revolutionary groups of Lin Biao and Jiang Qing, all kinds of cultural organizations were seriously destroyed. The costume drama, literary works and folk art favored by the masses were stigmatized as the "Four Olds" and banned. after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Central Committee of the People's Republic of China in December 1978, a corrective action was carried out, and cultural undertakings were given a new lease of life, with the restoration of cultural institutions and an increase in the number of personnel; the contents of literature and art were constantly innovated and diversified, and the literary and art teams were constantly expanded. Constantly expanding. Especially Yijun peasant painting, but also the rise of a new army, to participate in the creation of the painting of the native farmers amounted to more than 100 people. Many works of peasant painting participated in national, provincial and municipal exhibitions, and some of them were sent to foreign countries for exhibition and praised. 1988, the state awarded Yijun County the honorable title of "China's Modern Folk Painting and Drawing Township".

Yijun County near the Mausoleum of the Yellow Emperor, many cultural relics and monuments. By 1987, the county cultural relics census and archaeological findings, *** there are various types of cultural relics sites 189, 572 pieces of unearthed artifacts. Especially prominent are the grottoes and cliff statues, "Fudi Reservoir Grottoes", "Chessboard Gully Gate Statue Niche", "Qinjiahe Cliff Statue" and so on, have caused the relevant departments and experts Attention.