Population Ethnicity of Qixian

Resident Population

According to the sixth national census, the resident population of Qixian County is 265310, compared with 253829 at the zero hour of November 1, 2000 of the fifth national census,*** an increase of 11481, an increase of 4.52 %, the average annual growth rate of 0.44%.

Family Household Population There are 81,233 family households in the resident population of Qixian County***, with a family household population of 254,141, and an average of 3.13 persons per family household, which is a decrease of 0.33 persons from 3.46 persons in the Fifth National Population Census in 2000.

Gender Composition Among the resident population of Qixian County, the male population is 138,336, accounting for 52.14%; the female population is 126,974, accounting for 47.86%. The sex ratio of the total population (taking women as 100, the ratio of men to women) dropped from 109.06 in the fifth national census in 2000 to 108.95. Age Composition Among the resident population of Qixian County, there are 48,153 people aged 0-14 years old, accounting for 18.15%; 195,208 people aged 15-64 years old, accounting for 73.58%; and 21,949 people aged 65 years old and above, accounting for 8.27%. The population aged 65 and above was 21,949, accounting for 8.27%. Compared with the Fifth National Population Census in 2000, the proportion of the population aged 0-14 decreased by 5.67 percentage points, the proportion of the population aged 15-64 increased by 4.74 percentage points, and the proportion of the population aged 65 and above increased by 0.94 percentage points.

Population of Various Educational Levels Among the resident population of Qixian County, there are 14,206 people with university (college or above) level; 29,207 with high school (including middle school) level; 139,727 with junior high school level; and 56,938 with elementary school level (the above educational levels include graduates, dropouts and enrolled students in all kinds of schools). (The above education levels include graduates, undergraduates and students of all types of schools).　　Compared with the fifth national census in 2000, the number of people with university education per 100,000 people increased from 1936 to 5354; the number of people with high school education increased from 9515 to 11008; the number of people with junior high school education increased from 46009 to 52552; and the number of people with elementary school education decreased from 27306 to 21461.　　Qixian resident population, illiterate population (15 years old and above illiterate people) for 5868 people, with the fifth national census in 2000, compared with the illiterate population decreased by 8368 people, illiteracy rate from 7.36% down to 2.70%, down 4.66 percentage points. Qixian County is the ancient "Thoroughfare of Sichuan and Shaanxi", and now it is one of the important transportation hubs in Shanxi Province. East and Taigu County neighboring, west and Pingyao County border, south and Wuxiang County junction, north and Qingxu County adjacent, southeast and Yushe County peaks, northwest and Wenshui County across the river.

Qixian's geographic coordinates lie between 112°12'5"-112°39'6" east longitude and 37°4'5"-37°28'6" north latitude. By 2013, Qixian had a total area of 854 square kilometers. The plane contour is a long strip from southeast to northwest. The county town is located in the northwest of the county, 67 kilometers from Taiyuan, the capital of Shanxi Province. The topography of Qixian County slopes gradually from southeast to northwest. It gradually transitions from mountains and hills to plains. Each of the three types of areas accounts for 46.6%, 12.4% and 41% of the total area.

Qixian mountain peaks overlap, gullies and ravines, the surface layer of soil and stone structure, most of the shrub cover, suitable for forest and suitable for animal husbandry. Hilly areas of the surface for the thick layer of loess cover, food abundant forest lush. Pingchuan area flat terrain, fertile soil, water is sufficient for the main grain production area. In 2006, Qixian wheat planting area of 750,000 mu, with a total output of 300,000 tons, autumn grain planting area of 509,000 mu, of which 400,000 acres of corn planting area, with a total output of 180,000 tons, per capita grain output of 595.8 kilograms; chili planting area of 100,000 mu, with a total output of 300,000 tons; cotton planting area of 390,000 acres, with a total output of 15,000 tons of lint; oilseed crops planting area of 210,000 acres, with an output of 52,000 kWh of electricity; peanut planting area of 230,000 mu, with a total output of 80,000 tons. Edible fungi planting scale up to 100,000 bags. Cauliflower 50,000 mu, with an annual output of 50,000 tons.

Qixian County has now built high-quality wheat, garlic, peanuts, cotton, chili peppers, cauliflower, shiitake mushrooms and other production bases, pollution-free agricultural products production base of 300,000 acres. At present, built 11 garlic production professional townships, more than 150 garlic production professional village, 15 pollution-free production demonstration base, planting area of 600,000 acres, production of 800,000 tons, ranking first in the province. Garlic mu output value of more than 4,000 yuan, the total output value of 2.5 billion yuan, mu average net income of more than 2,000 yuan, Qixian farmers per capita income from garlic more than 1,000 yuan, built a freshness cold storage 510, the annual storage capacity of 200,000 tons. Through refrigeration, preservation, processing, annual value-added more than 500 million yuan.

219 new large-scale farms, the development of farming 120 professional village, farming 4488 professional households. Livestock output value of 2.06 billion yuan, accounting for 43% of the total agricultural output value. Qixian agricultural product processing enterprises reached 161, with an annual processing capacity of 1 million tons, annual output value of 1.2 billion yuan, profit tax of 300 million yuan. The main secondary schools in Qixian County are: Qixian Middle School, Qixian Second Middle School, Vocational High School, Dongguan Senior High School, Qixian Third Middle School, Qixian Fifth Middle School, Fengze Middle School, Chengzhao Middle School, Dongguan Junior High School, Qiaojiaobao Middle School, Dongwangqiao Middle School, Xiaoyi Middle School, Guxian Middle School, Xiliuzhi Middle School, Jialing Middle School, Yukou Middle School, and so on, and the secondary schools of Qixian County have the Shanxi Provincial Railway Engineering School.

In 2006, the provincial government arranged Qixian primary and secondary school building renovation funds of 8.18 million yuan (the central financial allocation of 4.09 million yuan, the provincial financial allocation of 1.59 million yuan, the county financial supporting funds of 2.5 million yuan), plans to renovate 27 dangerous building projects, including 22 elementary school, junior high schools 5, plans to renovate a total area of 16,361 square meters (24 new projects totaling 14,194) square meters, 3 repair and renovation projects totaling 2167 square meters). Qixian County, the county's main medical institutions are: Qixian People's Hospital, Qixian Planned Parenthood Maternal and Child Health Service Center, Qixian Hospital of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Qixian County, the second people's hospitals as well as township hospitals.

It was determined by the provincial government in 2007 for the implementation of new rural cooperative medical care pilot counties, counties Qixian County, participating farmers 766,000 people, the number of participating households 199,000, Qixian County, the participation rate of 80.66% of farmers. Farmer financing 7.662 million yuan, the county financial support 4.597 million yuan, the city financial support 3.065 million yuan. Determined the county and township-level new rural cooperative medical care designated medical institutions 27, village-level designated medical institutions 690. Opera culture

Jin opera. Qixian County is the main birthplace of Jin opera. Seven years (1868) founded the upper and lower Pear Garden, is an early Jin opera class society. The Rongsheng class in Zhangzhuang also trained many Jin opera artists.

Qitai Yangge. 1951 Yuji special commission in Qixian set up "Qitai Yangge research and reform society", officially named "Qitai Yangge". Initially, the rice-planting song was mainly used for the Lantern Festival, slightly disguised, with the social fire team singing in the street, so it is also known as "over the street class" or "step on the street".

Painting and calligraphy

Calligraphy. Qixian social strata long in calligraphy, there are Han Dingzhong, Yang Fang, Drainage Benqiao, Qiao Siyuan, Liu Fenxi, Qiao Shangqian, Qiao Youqian, Gao Xihua, Zhao Weiqi, Gao Shubin, Drainage Jinsan, Yan Yongnian, Jia Jia'nai, Fan Shubin's six panels of the screen "Trenchers," which is stored in the Museum of Folklore.

Paper artists, commonly known as "painter". They are mainly engaged in building coloring and painting. The materials used in the paper is mainly mud, bamboo, straw and paper. Characters have a square phase of the head (commonly known as the mouth mouth into the treasure), service figurines (commonly known as the beauty of all), the crane child, the South Pole Immortal Weng, ten, cited, good fortune, the dragon lady, and so on. Buildings are pavilions, pavilions, courtyards, theater, gold and silver mountain.

Social fire culture

Social fire is one of the birthplaces of Jin merchants. Social fire is the people of Qixian a street performance art, specific forms of dragon lanterns, back stick, pout stick, top pole sail, fire meteor, carry carrying boxes, stilts, lion dance, two ghosts wrestling, Zhang urn back Zhang mother-in-law, bamboo horse, cattle fighting tiger, dry boat, Liu three carts, sedan chair, knife dance, stick dance, playing the flower stick, stepping on the street, the moon teasing Liu Cui, pouncing on butterflies, drilling the ghost of the money, the red shoes, such as the future.

House Culture

Qixian residential architecture. Set practical, art in one, to achieve a harmonious unity of the two, was included in the "essence of China's homes" series of films, has been introduced to foreign countries. The whole city **** there are more than 1,000 ancient courtyards, more than 20,000 houses of Ming and Qing architectural styles. Residential masterpiece Qiaojia compound and Dujia compound, known as the "two jewels". Qitai Yangge

Qitai Yangge originated from farmers working in the fields improvised chanting, and then added dance, added storyline, and gradually to the dramatic development and the formation of a bright local opera - Qitai Yangge. Qitai Yangge is a combination of music, dance, singing, reading (dawai), doing (performance), playing (Wu Yangge) in one, and singing is the main comprehensive art. Or a play a song, or a play more songs, beautiful tunes, lively language, the content mainly reflects the Qixian, Taigu County and Jinzhong farmers' labor, love and other rural life, the plot is simple, the lyrics are mostly platitudes, and the dance movements are lively and varied.

Dai's Xingyiquan

Dai's Xingyiquan is one of our domestic martial arts. Dai's Xingyiquan originated in Qixian, Jinzhong City, Shanxi Province, Dai's Xingyiquan is the originator of the existing three famous internal boxing (Taiji, Bagua, Xingyi) Xingyiquan. Inside the heart of the heart in the intention, the intention and gas, gas and force. Outside the hand and foot, elbow and knee, shoulder and crotch (i.e., six). Therefore, people also call Dai's Xingyiquan as Xingyi Liuhe Quan. Dai's Xingyiquan founder's name is Dai Longbang, since childhood hobby of martial arts, after Mr. Cao Jiwu taught the ancient Xingyiquan, Mr. Fu Shan taught the internal heart (small Zhou Tian Gong), combined with a variety of martial arts (Mantis, Bagua, etc.) to create Dai's Xingyiquan. The martial arts community honors him as the founder of Xingyiquan.

City Zhao Town paper cutting

Qixian City Zhao Town of paper-cutting art originated in the period of Emperor Wen of the Han Dynasty, more than 150 years BC, more than 2,000 years, widely used in festivals, marriages and funerals, birthdays and birthdays, rituals and prayers for blessings and other folk activities, the performance of the contents of the wide range of which are mostly auspicious works. Expanded to folklore series, made "Hundred Karma", "Thousands of miles to send cold clothes", "fifty-six nationalities united", "Water Margin one hundred and eight generals" and so on a large number of reflect the spirit of the times of the outstanding works.

The Eight Sound Society

The Eight Sound Society is a folk organization's music group, mainly using suona as the main instrument, mainly used for wedding and funeral ceremonies, and can be divided into coarse music, fine music, two suona plus drum hairpin called "coarse music". The two suona with drums and hairpin is called "coarse music". The small suona is the main music, and the sheng, pipe and hu hu are called "fine music". In 1962, during the Spring Festival cultural performances, the invited blowing arts performed on the stage, headed by the second blind man in the South left class, headed by Li Siyuan in the East six branches of the class, headed by Liu Linbao in the Fenggu class, as well as the south of the city music class.

Small Milled Fragrant Oil

Qixian Small Milled Fragrant Oil is a unique Chinese method of making oil by adding 90-degree water to ground sesame paste so that the non-oil material absorbs and expands, and the oil is squeezed out of it. Sesame oil contains more unsaponifiable substances, generally up to 0.9% to 1.7%, of which the most important substance is sesamolin. Sesamolin can be hydrolyzed to sesamol at high temperature. Sesamol has a special flavor, while the pressed extracted sesame oil due to high temperature hydrolysis of sesamol is not destroyed, can not form sesamol, so basically no flavor. Therefore, the same sesame as raw material pressed oil is called sesame oil, and water instead of oil production is called small milled sesame oil.

Xiaoyi back iron stick

Xiaoyi iron stick, back stick is a traditional folk performance art, it began in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, has a history of more than four hundred years. At the beginning of the Republic of China, Xiaoyi village was divided into six societies with ancient temples, such as "Niangniang Temple" and "Sanguan Temple". Each community has one to three groups of iron rods and more than twenty back rods. Xiaoyi Village, there are six groups of iron rods, each group has a group of iron rods. Each group has a set of iron rods. The number of rods in each group varies, and the total number of rods is more than 40. 2006 was selected as one of the first batch of intangible cultural heritages in Shanxi Province.

Qicheng Mudman

Qicheng Mudman originated in the Qing Dynasty, Qicheng Mudman birthplace is located in Jinzhong City, Qixian County, West Sixth Branch Township, Qicheng Village, Qixian County, Southwest of West Sixth Branch Township, about 4 kilometers away from the county seat. Qicheng mud people to children's toys, but also the carrier of folk customs, in the production of "coarse goods" and "fine goods" points. "Coarse goods" is the production of molds, "fine goods" is based on the method of hand pinch to produce a variety of works, there are characters, birds and animals, exquisite workmanship, especially in the coloring supplemented by egg white, the technology is unique and sophisticated.

Wenquwu Yangge

Qixian Wenquwu Yangge is in the Qitai Yangge to dramatization of the development of derivatives. It is a variety of art that organically combines Qitai Yangge and martial arts. Its main means of performance is martial arts. Most of its repertoire is taken from the Chinese classic "Water Margin" martial arts play, written and acted by the artists themselves, focusing on celebrating the heroes of the ancient Chinese heroes of justice and bravery, and ridding the people of harm.