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Introduction of Liuzhou

Liuzhou City, abbreviated as "Liu", is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, a provincial sub-center city, and an important center city in the central part of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region as approved by the State Council.
Liuzhou is a large city of type II and a third-tier city located in the northern part of the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region.

Liuzhou belonged to the land of Baiyue in ancient times. After the unification of Lingnan by Qin Shi Huang, it belonged to Guilin County. In the sixth year of Yuan Ding of the Western Han Dynasty (111 years ago), Tanzhong County was set up, which was the beginning of the establishment of Liuzhou. Liuzhou is a national important comprehensive transportation hub, known as "Guizhong commercial port", in the key node connecting Guangdong, Hong Kong and Macao Bay Area and Southwest China, Liuzhou Bailian Airport navigates to major domestic cities.

Liuzhou is a national historical and cultural city, with a history of more than 2,100 years, the jurisdiction of the Bailian Cave ruins, Liujiang people ruins and other prehistoric culture, multi-ethnic culture, "Zhuang song, Yao dance, Miao Festival, Dong building" is called "four best".

Liuzhou is a modern and livable garden city, which has been honored with the National Garden City, National Forest City, and the United Nations Habitat Award, and the "Bauhinia City" has become the new name card of the city.

Liuzhou's Folk Culture:

Liuzhou has a strong flavor of local and ethnic culture. Liuzhou is a city inhabited by Zhuang, Han, Yao and other ethnic groups, and has been a meeting point for economic and cultural exchanges and integration of Han and Lingnan indigenous peoples for thousands of years, with a strong deposition of traditional ethnic culture. The total area is 26,811 square kilometers.

There are 18 ethnic groups living in the city, including Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Dong and Mulao, with a total population of 3,139,600 people, of which the population of Zhuang, Yao, Miao and Dong ethnic minorities accounts for 68.41%. Songs of the Zhuang, dances of the Yao, festivals of the Miao and buildings of the Dong demonstrate the colorful cultural life of the ethnic minorities.

Liuzhou people are good at expressing their life and labor and expressing their thoughts and feelings with songs. Young men and women in love with love songs, wedding songs with crying marriage, funeral songs with crying funeral, each other Pan Kao competition intelligence with Pan songs, feast guests with wine songs and festival songs. March 3 is the traditional festival of the Zhuang people, the song is a major activity of the March 3, so it is also known as the "song Wei" is also known as the "Song Festival".

Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Liuzhou City