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Please help me find some information about the culture of Chaoshan
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Introduction to the culture of Chaoshan
The culture of Chaoshan has a long history, rich in content, and distinctive in style, and the people who live in the Chaoshan land have been y nurtured by it. Every Teochew, whether in thought, language, or action, shows the characteristics of the local culture and its influence everywhere and at all times. Therefore, it is inevitable and obvious that with their own migration, the Teochew people abroad will spread the local culture. When the Teochew people go abroad, the first thing they bring out is the language and culture. The spread of Teochew is the most far-reaching. Wherever there is sea water, there are Chaoshan people, and wherever there are Chaoshan people, there is no doubt that Chaoshan dialect exists and passes through. As long as there are overseas Chaozhou people, they are closely connected with their ancestral home, as one of the characteristics of the Chaozhou people, the Chaoshan dialect will spread, this is no doubt.
The deep manifestation of Chaoshan culture is the cultural mentality of the Teochew people, i.e., the way of thinking of the Teochew people, the concept of the human body and the code of conduct. This is prominently manifested in the spirit of the Chaozhou businessmen who are well known in the world for their good management. Another manifestation of the cultural mentality of the Teochew people is the high degree of cohesion noticed by many outsiders. The establishment and development of overseas Chiu Chow associations is the focus of the high degree of cohesion of the Chiu Chow people.
Overseas Chao created, to *** with the cultural mentality as the spiritual core, to kinship, geomantic, karma, the material edge as the link to the establishment of the organization of the hometown associations, clansmen associations, guilds, guilds and other social organizations have played a very important role. The International Chiu Chow Association Annual Meeting, which is held every two years on a rotating basis, is so far the only one in the world to gather together in the fellowship year, and the leaders of the Chiu Chow Association from the countries where the overseas Chinese reside in the world gather together, and the cohesion it shows can be said to be the flag of the Chiu Chow people in spreading the culture of the ancestral home.
The most visible and audible cultural dissemination is the Teochew Opera and Teochew music. Teochew opera was spread to Southeast Asian countries about a hundred years ago along with the footprints of the Teochew people. Domestic Teochew operas have been learning from overseas, making the Teochew opera stage full of vitality. Teochew music by overseas Teochew people spread abroad, also as extensive as the Teochew opera, and because of its many musical instruments resulting in a special tone and melody, playing a melodious and pleasant, rhythmic, especially gongs, drums, and other percussion instruments, more loved by all parties.
The characteristic Teochew tea and Kung Fu tea are also popular with the Teochew people who go abroad, especially in the Nanyang area. Chiu Chow cuisine rich recipes and extremely elaborate cooking methods, popular with people everywhere. The fine selection of ingredients and the delicious production of Chaozhou cuisine have long been popular all over the world. The elegance and charm of Kung Fu Tea, the tea leaves, the teapot, the teacups, the tea brewing techniques, the pots of boiling water, the stove, the coals, etc., have all been passed on overseas. Those who enjoy this way, almost every day in the morning, afternoon and evening to drink a few cups of tea, there is not after not addictive trend. The Teochew songbook has also been passed on overseas. It is mainly brought out by the women who go abroad among the Teochew people, and it is also sung among the overseas Chinese women. The recitation of the songbook is more attractive than storytelling, which has both dramatic content, and if it is read well, the tone of voice is moving, and it is more fascinating. Therefore, it has also become a part of the cultural outreach of the ancestral home.
In addition, the Chao people run schools, newspapers, bookstores, theaters, as well as music, sports and other arts groups, resulting in the promotion of culture, more extensive exchanges, and its impact on the culture of the host country, it is subtle, invisible. Overseas Chaozhou people out of a strong sense of native land, many people consciously maintain the dietary habits of their hometowns, require their children to speak Chaozhou language at home; the clan associations build ancestral shrines for the ancestors, some families also enshrine the gods, Buddha, Bodhisattvas, festivals and so on, the festival of the hometown customs, which is also a kind of cultural dissemination of the physical force.
The influence of the culture of Chaoshan on the overseas countries of the Chiu Chow people, especially in Southeast Asia, can also be seen from the vocabulary of the people, food, customs, architectural design, art favorite.
Chaoyang Singing and Dancing
Chaoyang Singing and Dancing is a square folk dance. Dating back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty, it has a history of more than 400 years. The original dancers 108 people, the performance of Liang Shan Po heroes make-up to fight the story of Da Mingfu.
Ying song and dance is divided into the front and back shed, the front shed 36 people, each holding a long about 1 feet 4 inches, 4 cm in diameter colorful wooden stick, with the drums and gongs, conch horn and yells, two stick hit flip, walk and dance. The 72 people in the back of the shed, dressed as various types of jugglers, beat the gongs and drums to accompany the singing, and some of them also dress up as Tu opera, or add into the martial arts performance. Its queue changes in the long snake, double dragon out to sea, four tigers and drive, pink butterfly flowers, peacock screen *** 18 sets; stick method has a left knock, right knock, on the knock, knock, knock, crotch knock, behind the back of the knock, etc.; face has a literary face, martial arts face of the points; the rhythm of the fast board, in the board, the difference between the slow board. Chao Yang Ying song and dance melting theater, dance, martial arts in a furnace, the performance of a unique charm, it is strong, majestic, bold, unrestrained dance, constitute a majestic, mighty, strong, bold momentum, giving people the power and beauty of the shock!
Chao Yang Ying song and dance this both national characteristics, but also the flavor of the times of the folk dance art flower has a distinctive local color, rich flavor of life, mellow flavor of the soil, famous at home and abroad.
About Ancestral Halls in Chaoshan
Ancestral halls are places where people worship their ancestors or ancestors. The Chaoshan people have always attached great importance to the construction of ancestral halls, which is a kind of filial piety that "embraces the ancestor's virtue", "cautions the end of the life and pursues the distant future", and "remembers the source of the water" and "repays the original" for the future generations. It is also a manifestation of filial piety for future generations to "think of the source of water" and "repay the original".
Ancestral halls have a variety of uses. In addition to being used for "revering the ancestors", the grandchildren of each house usually use these wide ancestral halls for activities such as marriage, funeral, longevity, and joyful events. In addition, the clan members sometimes use the ancestral hall as a meeting place to discuss important matters of the clan.
The basic structure of the ancestral hall in Chaoshan has two halls and two courtyards of two types and three halls and two courtyards of three types. Its architecture systematically use wood carving, stone carving, embedded ceramics of the three major Chaoshan architectural crafts, decorative luxury, opulent, majestic, has a certain appreciation value. Chaoshan Ancestral Hall also has certain historical and cultural value. For example, in Xishe Township, Puning City, there is a tablet in Yongshidang built in the Republic of China, from which we can understand the origin and lineage of the ancestor, which is of great help to the study of the history of the cluster. Chenghai City, Chenghai Houxi Township, Fangzhuang Hall, the main entrance to the Hall has an ancestral tomb, this phenomenon is extremely rare in Chaoshan.
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