Culture of Xinzhou District

Yao Jinna Folk Song

In the 1950s, Yao Jinna starred and sang "Shangrao Tea Lantern Dance" in the Jiangxi Provincial Folk Art Show, won the excellent program award, individuals were awarded the medal of outstanding performers. 70s, and then adapted the "Tea Lantern Dance" to participate in the province's folk songs and folk dance performances and won awards.

60s, she participated in the first music week in jiangxi province won the first prize, sang the "open mouth sing **** production party", "good grain and cotton sold to the country", was made into a record in the national distribution.

In May 1991, the city of Shangrao jointly hosted a special concert for its amateur singers hosted a special concert is the first case in the province. 2000 China Radio International broadcast a special program introducing Yao Jinna, her songs to more than 100 countries and regions.

In 1989, Yao was listed in the "Jiangxi Provincial Mass Culture". 1991, she was honored as "Jiangxi Provincial Folk Song Singer". 1992, she was listed in the "Dictionary of Contemporary Chinese Literary Artists". 1995, she was listed in the "Lovely Hometown--Shangrao City", and the same year, she was listed in the "Lovely Hometown--Shangrao City". In 1995, he was listed in the "Lovely Hometown - Shangrao City", and in December of the same year, he was listed in the "Shangrao Contemporary Celebrities". 2004, he was selected as the "Folk Artist" of Jiangxi Province.

On the third night of the first month of 2002, CCTV One broadcasted the Shangrao folk song "Our Country is Full of Happiness" in the "News Broadcast". On the second day, CCTV sets 2 and 8 and Beijing TV broadcast its singing of "Fang Zhimin".

Yao Jinna's main masterpieces include: "Open your mouth and sing about the **** Producer's Party", "Hoo Niu Tune", "Picking Vegetables", "Shangrao Dragon Boat Tune", "Shangrao Fishing Drums", "Good Grain and Good Cotton Sold to the State", "Tea Lights", and "Fang Zhimin", among others.

Craft of summer cloth production

Xinzhou District, summer cloth production to Shaxi Town as the center, the surrounding radiation Guangfeng, Lead Mountain and other places, is an important summer cloth production in Jiangxi Province and even the country's important summer cloth production and distribution, the total amount of summer cloth production accounts for about 1/3 of the country's total production.

Summer cloth production has a long history. Local and neighboring villagers in the summer cloth production, has been using the continuation of thousands of years of handmade. According to historical records, during the Eastern Jin Dynasty, most Han Chinese migrated from the Yellow River basin in the northwest to the Yangtze River basin in the southeast. The area around the right side of the Yangtze River was characterized by thousands of miles of fertile fields and overgrown grasses, where mosquitoes and moths reproduced in abundance, and by day they flew in swarms and danced all over the sky, penetrating into the homes and rooms of the people and pouncing on their eyes and noses; and by night they disturbed people's dreams and made it difficult for them to fall asleep. According to legend, there was a man named Lin Siyuan, invented a method of mosquito repellent and insect avoidance, to take the long leaves of weeds, woven into curtains, hanging on the bed, so that the mosquitoes and insects can not fly, but the brittle quality of weeds, woven curtains are not durable. One day, Lin Siyuan found a kind of strong toughness in the grass branches (ramie), it will be peeled off the skin, with its woven into a curtain, the effect is very good.

In the early years of the Ming Dynasty, Zhu Yuanzhang, the first emperor of the Ming Dynasty, ordered: "Where the farmer's field of five acres to ten acres, planting mulberry, hemp, cottonwood, half an acre each, more than ten acres of people times. The Secretary personally supervised and advised, and penalized those whose inertia was not as good as the order." ("Ming Taizu Shilu") do not plant the annual penalty to pay a hemp cloth.

Shaxi and other places in the summer cloth production technology tradition originated in the Qing Dynasty, and the development of ancient costumes have a close link, has left a lot of monuments and legends in Japan, Korea and other places.

After the founding of New China, the production of summer cloth was restored. However, later on, the agriculture was based on grain, ramie production was reduced, and the supply of raw materials for summer cloth was insufficient, resulting in the reduction of the production of farmers.

The technique of production of summer cloth is an outstanding representative of traditional handmade cloth. The production process is based on the quality of Ramie, and depending on the quality of the Ramie raw material, different varieties and qualities of fabrics are produced. The entire production process is divided into raw material planting, raw material making, yarn making, warp yarn making, and fabric weaving. The finished summer cloth should reach the standard of fine and soft yarn, suitable warp and weft, flat side shrinkage, even weaving, clear color, no wrinkle, no deformation, and no defects on the cloth surface. Xinzhou dialect is Wu language - Shangli piece - Xinzhou dialect, which can also be commonly called Shangrao dialect. Its main features are the complete preservation of the Middle Chinese turbid consonants; the abundance of unitary tones and fewer complex vowels; and the neat eight tones. It also retains the flat and oblique rhythms in the turbid and flat tones, and the differentiation of the sharp group tones, as well as a large number of ancient Chinese words and phrases.

But due to historical reasons, Xinzhou District is located in, regional convergence, many immigrants, and several villages around the region, such as: Longtan, Democracy, Guo Men, Zhou Tian, Tashui, etc. Some people still speak Min (Hokkien), in addition to the continuation of the increase in the Gan immigrants Gan (Jiangxi Province) is also increasingly apparent in the Xinzhou area, as well as the area of the railroad in the village of more than 10,000 inhabitants of the city population of 0.025%, most of them from the Zhejiang immigrants, who are from Zhejiang, the majority of which is the city of the city of the city. Most of them are immigrants from Zhejiang Province, and they speak what the people of Xinzhou commonly call "Railway accent" (Northern Wu dialect), which is different from the Southern Wu dialect of Xinzhou. Etiquette

Feasts and teas are held in honor of the guest. The elderly or those with social prestige are first invited to sit at the head of the table. Toast the guests first. The guests are invited to eat the food first. When you leave a banquet, you must wait for the chief guest to get up first. The chopsticks of those who have eaten their fill first are placed on the surface of the bowl, and then placed on the table when all the people get up and are ready to leave the table.

When a man or a woman marries, she notifies her grandfather or maternal uncle in advance. When guests are invited to a banquet, the grandfather or maternal uncle will be the chief guest. When a parent dies, one must first report the death to the maternal grandfather or maternal uncle.

In the event of an accidental disaster or the construction of a new house for a close friend or neighbor, they take the initiative to visit, offer condolences, and provide material and labor support.

Gifts

Family and friends of the wedding, building, house, housewarming, birthday and the birth of children and other celebrations, are sent to celebrate; in the case of funerals and other unfortunate things, but also to send a gift of condolences.

Father-in-law's birthday, daughter and son-in-law to send red candles, firecrackers, congratulatory couplets, birthday noodles, birthday cake and clothing and other gifts to celebrate life, which is 60 years old or older birthday to send heavy gifts. Nephews married, nieces married, grandmother's or maternal uncle's family to send worship clothes, on the sedan chair jacket and other gifts to congratulate.

Duanwu, Mid-Autumn Festival, Spring Festival three major festivals, the younger generation often send gifts to the elders of friends and relatives. Gifts are relatively simple, generally 2 pounds of pork, and then depending on the different festivals, respectively, with dumplings, moon cakes, rice cakes and other seasonal food.

Parents died, married daughters to send "three animals" (chicken, fish, meat), silk quilts and joss paper and other offerings. Another to carry the casket "General" equipped with two snacks, commonly known as tofu wine, one in the coffin on the way to eat, one in the burial sent to the cemetery to eat; and give the "General" a certain number of kangtou cloth, straw shoe money, usually 30 feet of white cloth, straw shoes 8 pairs (after liberation, generally changed to towels, rubber, and other accessories). After liberation, they usually gave towels and rubber shoes instead.) Other relatives, friends and neighbors send funeral gifts, usually 1 tie incense, 1 knife paper, 1 pair of white candles. For the funeral, the funeral home is usually sent to 5 feet of white cloth (children 2 feet), commonly known as turban cloth.