1, Huxiang culture: refers to a historical and cultural form with distinctive characteristics, relative stability and inheritance. Of course, it also refers to the cultural heritage precipitated by thousands of years of history in Hunan. Different places and different folk customs have formed different cultures, which is worth exploring.
2. Dialect culture: Hunan dialect refers to the dialects in Hunan, among which Chinese dialects include Xiang dialect, Southwest Mandarin, Gan dialect, Hakka dialect, and some unidentified dialects. The minority languages in Hunan mainly include Miao Xiangxi sub-dialect, Longshan dialect, Baojing dialect, Tujia Mengzi dialect, Dong language, Myanmar language and Zhuang language.
3. Festival culture: Hunan is a multi-ethnic province, and residents of 56 ethnic groups live in China. Hunan ethnic minorities are mainly distributed in the remote areas of western Hunan, southern Hunan and eastern Hunan, and each ethnic minority has its own national language, customs and religious beliefs.
4. Marriage culture: Hunan is a multi-ethnic province, with 5 1 ethnic groups such as Han, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Dong, Bai and Hui. Among them, nine ethnic groups live in the world, including Han, Miao, Tujia, Dong, Yao, Hui, Zhuang and Bai. Most of the ethnic minorities living in the world live in western Hunan, southern Hunan and eastern Hunan.
Tujia wedding is very unique. When a girl gets married, she should sing "Weeping Wedding Song"; when sending her parents, she should sing "Sedan Chair Song"; when the newlyweds enter the bridal chamber, they should sing "Congratulations Song" and "Worship Song".
5. Food culture: Hunan cuisine is a local dish with a long history in China. It is one of the eight major cuisines of Han nationality's food culture. Hunan cuisine has a long history. As early as the Han dynasty, a kind of cuisine has been formed, and its cooking skills have reached a fairly high level.
Hunan is located in the south-central part of China, with warm climate, abundant rainfall and superior natural conditions. Xiangxi is mountainous and rich in bamboo shoots, mushrooms and delicacies; Southeast Hunan is hilly and basin, with developed domestic animal husbandry and by-fishery; Xiangbei is a famous Dongting Lake plain, and it is known as "Land of Fish and Rice".
6. Hunan taboo: Hunan people are famous for their enthusiasm and generosity. At the beginning of the new century, the famous singer Song Zu Ying made Hunan Xiangmeizi "famous all over the country" with a song "Spicy Girl".
Behind the "spicy" of "not afraid of spicy, spicy" is the tenderness of Xiangmeizi who lives by the water. Facing the adversity of life, Hunan people uphold the creed of "hard-working, not afraid of death, not arrogant and not impetuous". It is precisely because of this spiritual encouragement that Hunan is now a rising province in central China.
7. Hunan traditional architecture: Xiangxi is located in the northwest of Hunan Province, at the junction of Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan and Guizhou provinces, and is the land of ancient barbarians. The unique lifestyle combines the building materials in mountainous areas, the new natural environment and the background of social and economic development, creating a unique architectural art. Such as hall, fire pit, door leaf, window lattice, stigma, ceiling, etc. , collectively known as Xiangxi folk houses or folk culture.
8. xiang opera, Hunan: xiang opera originated from Yiyang Opera in the Ming Dynasty, and later absorbed Kunqu Opera and Pihuang Opera, forming a multi-voice opera with high tune, low brand, Kunqu Opera and random play. The repertoire is mainly high-pitched and casual, skillfully combining folk art and local language, and rich in Hunan folk local characteristics, such as Pipa, White Rabbit and Yue Bai.
9. Hunan Qi Opera: Qi Opera is one of the local operas of the Han nationality in Hunan. Also known as "Qiyang Team", it was called "Qiyang Opera" in the early years of the Republic of China. Because it was formed in Qiyang, it was named "Qiyang Opera".
The distribution area is relatively wide. In addition to Hengyang, Lingling, Huaihua, Shaoyang, Chenzhou and other places in Hunan, there are also many Qi drama clubs performing in other provinces, which once formed the heyday of "Qiyang disciples all over the world". Want to know more about Qi Opera?
10, Tantou New Year Picture: Tantou New Year Picture is one of the Han folk handicrafts in Tantou Town, Longhui (now Shaoyang City), Baoqing, Hunan Province. It is a unique painting school of Han nationality in China, and it is also an art form loved by rural people in China. At the peak, there are more than 60 kinds. So what are the artistic features of the beach New Year pictures?
1 1. Silkworm lantern dance: Long drum dance can be divided into "solo dance", "couple dance" and "group dance". It has 72 sets of performances, and each set is divided into several animal details such as "getting up" and "moving the hall". Its action characteristics are rough, brave, unrestrained, strong, vigorous, tenacious and free and easy.
Whether it is jumping, jumping, squatting, falling or spinning, flapping, jumping and lifting, it shows the warm, strong and brave personality characteristics of the Yao people.
12. Bamboo carving in Baoqing: Bamboo carving in Baoqing is a folk craft based on practical bamboo craft, which integrates ornamental and practicality.
Baoqing belongs to a semi-hilly landform with high west and low east, and is rich in bamboo. Since ancient times, the bamboo industry is very developed, and it is one of the main cradles of bamboo culture in China.
Baoqing bamboo carving is a wonderful flower of folk art, which survived tenaciously despite being severely damaged in wars of past dynasties and 1960s.
13. Taoist culture in Hunan: Taoism in Hunan began in the Jin Dynasty and the Southern and Northern Dynasties (AD 265-58 1). During the reign of Taixing in Jin Dynasty, the waitress Jiuwei went to Nanyue in our province to devote herself to monasticism 16 years, and became the earliest Taoist communicator in Hunan. Based on this calculation, Taoism in Hunan has a history of 1700 years.
14, Tujia waving dance: The waving dance is an ancient traditional dance of Tujia people, which is mainly spread in the Youshui River and Wujiang River basins at the junction of Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and Guizhou, represented by Laifeng in Xiushan County, Chongqing, Tujia Autonomous County along the river in Guizhou and Enshi Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei.
Longshan and Yongshun in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture, Hunan Province are the main heritage sites, with four sections of * * * *. Now Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has a new version of waving dance, which is easier to learn and inherit.
15, Xinhua Folk Song: Xinhua Folk Song is a kind of folk song mainly spread in Xinhua County, Loudi City, Hunan Province. Xinhua folk songs have a wide range of contents, ancient modes, unique styles, simple phonology, changeable structure, distinctive musical features, rich and diverse forms of expression, long sentence patterns, more slang dialects and strong rap atmosphere.
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