The History and Culture of Longde County

The representative of Longde clay sculpture is Yang's colored sculpture. Yang's colored sculpture art originated in the 12th year of Qing Daoguang (1832) and has been passed down for six generations. The clay sculpture works of this family are full of simple local plots, with beautiful and vivid shapes and simple and bright colors, which embodies the concept of combining traditional art with modern art. Yang's colored sculpture is a protection project of Ningxia's intangible cultural heritage.

Festival lanterns (displayed on the Lantern Festival)

The folks in Longde have always had the habit of hanging lanterns on the Lantern Festival, and held five consecutive cultural and art festivals. Before the establishment of 199 1 County Lantern Association, they absorbed the composition characteristics of folk art such as paper-cutting and pattern painting in lantern making, broke the original single lantern pattern, created a series of combined lanterns, and added varieties of figures, utensils and decorations such as lotus, cabbage, eight-hanging hydrangea, monkey rolling noodles, etc.

embroidery

Longde embroidery products include pockets, needles, pen bags, cigarette bags, wallets and so on. These. Huge embroideries, such as Song He Tu and Si Ping, are characterized by fine stitches, vivid images, simple and generous shapes and gorgeous and harmonious color matching. In the 1989 "First National Arts and Crafts Competition", among the 38 winning works, 3 1 piece is embroidery, among which the Chinese work Silk Embroidery, a rural woman's work, won the top ten in China and was collected by China Art Museum and exhibited abroad. Xiuying, a 70-year-old women's party, and Feng, a Hui woman, won the third prize of "950,000 Bo Cup Art Town Exhibition Competition" in China.

paper cutting

Longde paper-cuts, mostly from the hands of peasant women. Longde's paper-cutting art has formed a unique style with Hui nationality as the main body and Han nationality color through the innovation of artists from generation to generation. Among many paper-cut patterns, there are not only works that reflect regional folk customs, production and life, but also works of birds and animals such as flowers, birds, insects and fish, as well as works of ancient and modern figures. Its exquisite and colorful carving, vivid and changeable form, novel theme and strong local flavor. Rural woman Jin's paper-cut "Zhuang Family" won the prize in the first national paper-cut competition; Hu, a Hui woman, participated in the China Competition many times and performed live on CCTV. On the basis of inheriting the traditional patterns, Zhang Wei, a paper-cut artist, constantly innovated and created outstanding works with the flavor of the times, such as Interview, Respecting the Old and Caring for the Young, Hui People's Market, Solar Stove, Happy Family and Chairman Mao's Six Dishes, which were published in Ningxia Popular Literature and Art successively. In the first paper-cut exhibition in Ningxia, 46 works of Longde participated in the exhibition, and 1 18 paper-cut works participated in the Northwest Folk Art Festival held in Lanzhou. County Cultural Center published "Longde Paper-cut".

Gao Tai Mache fire

Gao Tai Jockey Club in Longde holds the activities of offering sacrifices to the gods on the ninth day of the first month of each year, including stilts, carts, donkeys, floats, yangko teams, floats, waist drum teams, etc., involving performance, modeling, language, painting, handicrafts and other artistic types. The content of Gao Tai Mashehuo performance is costume drama, and the performers usually play the most wonderful roles in the drama.