As of the end of 2017, Shaanxi Province has 10 prefecture-level cities and 5 county-level cities under its jurisdiction.
Xi'an City is the capital city of a sub-provincial province, with 11 municipal districts and 2 counties under its jurisdiction, namely:Xincheng District, Beilin District, Lianhu District, Yanta District, Weiyang District, Baqiao District, Yanliang District, Lintong District, Chang'an District, Gao'ling District, Shaoxiangyi District, Zhouzhi County, and Lantian County.
Baoji City has three municipal districts and nine counties: Weibin District, Jintai District, Chencang District, Fengxiang County, Qishan County, Fufeng County, Meixian County, Longxian County, Qianyang County, Linyou County, Fengxian County and Taibai County.
Hamyang City has three municipal districts, two county-level cities and nine counties, namely: Qindu District, Yangling District, Weicheng District, Xingping City, Sanyuan County, Jingyang County, Qianxian County, Liquan County, Yongshou County, Binzhou City, Changwu County, Xunyi County, Chunhua County, Wugong County.
Tongchuan City has three municipal districts and one county, namely: Wangyi District, Yintai District, Yaozhou District and Yijun County.
Weinan City has 2 municipalities and 7 counties under its jurisdiction, with 2 provincial municipalities under its administration, namely: Linwei District, Huazhou District, Tongguan County, Dali County, Heyang County, Chengcheng County, Pucheng County, Baishui County, Fuping County, Hancheng City and Huayin City.
Yan'an City has 2 municipal districts and 11 counties, namely: Baota District, Ansai District, Yanchang County, Yanchuan County, Zichang County, Zhidan County, Wuqi County, Ganquan County, Fu County, Luochuan County, Yichuan County, Huanglong County and Huangling County.
Yulin City has two municipal districts, one county-level city and nine counties, namely: Yuyang District, Hengshan District, Shenmu City, Fugu County, Jingbian County, Dingbian County, Suide County, Mili County, Jia County, Wubao County, Qingjian County and Zizhou County.
Hanzhong City has two municipal districts and nine counties, namely: Hantai District, Nanzheng District, Chenggu County, Yang County, Xixiang County, Mian County, Ningqiang County, Linyang County, Zhenba County, Liuba County and Foping County.
Ankang City, under the jurisdiction of 1 municipal districts, 9 counties, respectively: Hambin District, Hanyin County, Shiquan County, Ningxia County, Ziyang County, Langao County, Pingli County, Zhenping County, Xunyang County, Baihe County.
Shangluo City has one municipal district and six counties, namely: Shangzhou District, Luonan County, Danfeng County, Shannan County, Shanyang County, Zhen'an County and Zhashui County.
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Shanxi's folk culture is rich and unique, which is manifested in the long-established dialect, the ingenious paper-cutting, the exquisite clay sculpture, and the joyful and exuberant waist drum, Folk songs are either soft or strong, shadow plays are profound, and social fires are unique. Shaanxi is one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture, and its rich historical heritage has given birth to a colorful, magnificent and peculiar folk culture.
Dialect? Shaanxi dialect refers to the dialects under the jurisdiction of Shaanxi Province. Influenced by geography, history, politics and migration, the dialects of Shaanxi vary greatly from speech to words. In terms of the overall sense of speech, Shaanxi dialects are divided into three parts: Guanzhong, northern Shaanxi, and southern Shaanxi.
South of the Qinling Mountains, except for Luo Nan, Shang Zhou and Dan Feng, is the southern Shaanxi dialect area; north of Yan Yan, Gan Quan and Yan An, except for Ding Bian, is the northern Shaanxi dialect area; and the area outside the southern and northern Shaanxi dialect areas is the Guanzhong dialect area.
The Guanzhong dialect is divided into the Xifu dialect (Baoji, western Xianyang) and the Dongfu dialect (Xi'an, most of Xianyang, Weinan, Tongchuan), which is the oldest language in China.
The northern Shaanxi dialect belongs to the Northwest Mandarin and Jin dialects, which are strongly influenced by Shanxi, and are also mixed with some Mongolian, and have retained the incoming sounds to this day. The southern Shaanxi dialect belongs to the Bashu dialect (Southwest Mandarin), and there are a small number of Chinese dialects, Jianghuai dialect, Chu dialect, Gan dialect, and Xiang dialect.
Paper cutting? Paper-cutting, commonly known as window flowers, is a kind of folk arts and crafts of pasting various colors of paper on outlined rough lines of paper paintings for cutting and engraving, and it has a far-reaching and extensive mass base in Shaanxi folklore. "Wall Flowers", "Door Charms", "Lantern Flowers", "Happiness Flowers", "Flowers around the Bed", "Door Curtain Flowers", and "Door Curtain Flowers". "
Wall Flowers, Door Charms, Lantern Flowers, Happiness Flowers, Kang Wrap Flowers, and Door Curtain Flowers are also an important part of paper-cutting in Shaanxi.
Shanxi folk festivals, weddings and celebrations, the full moon and birthdays, welcome the gods race society to catch the temple fair and other celebrations in the door, the windows full of paper cuts on the custom.
Being influenced by regional cultural differences, Shaanxi paper-cutting regional style is rich. Northern Shaanxi paper cutting thick, innocent, powerful, bold and unrestrained, mainly monochrome paper cutting. Guanzhong paper cutting is slightly rough, refined but not complicated, skillful and beautiful. Southern Shaanxi popular plant motifs, sparse and dense and realistic, decorative interest.
Shanxi paper-cutting enjoys a high reputation in the country, has been named by the Ministry of Culture as the "hometown of paper-cutting": Ansai, Fu County, Luochuan, Xunyi, Dingbian, Jingbian six counties. A hundred birds towards the phoenix", "the mouse married daughter", "Wang Xiang lying on the ice", "two dragons playing with pearls" and other paper-cutting works famous in China and abroad. Kushulan is one of the outstanding representatives of Chinese folk paper-cutting art, known as the "flower cutter".
Clay sculpture? Clay sculpture, i.e., a kind of folk handicraft made of clay into a variety of images. In the folk commonly known as "color sculpture" "mud play", originated in Fengxiang County, Baoji City. Shaanxi mud sculpture is mainly distributed in Fengxiang six camps, Qianxian, Pucheng, Xi'an Yu Huazhai, Di Zhai, Shangluo and other places, after the 1980s, in addition to the six camps of Fengxiang mud sculpture, other mud sculpture have been lost.
Fengxiang mud sculpture, also known as "Fengxiang painted mud sculpture", "Fengxiang color sculpture", "Fengxiang mud puppet", mainly distributed in Fengxiang Chengguan Town, six camps in the village and the surrounding areas. Fengxiang clay sculpture has three major types, one is clay toys, animal modeling is given priority to, more plastic twelve zodiac image; two is hanging piece, there are face, tiger head, bull head, lion head, unicorn send son, eight immortals across the sea, etc.;
Three is the standing person, mainly shaping folklore and historical stories of the characters. Fengxiang clay **** more than 170 varieties of color, from half a man tall giant squatting tiger, tiger hanging face, as small as a square inch of the small rabbit, small lion, in the country's many folk clay sculpture is unique.
Fengxiang painted clay figurines of the Chinese zodiac horse, sheep, pigs were identified by the State Postal Administration, Stamp Design Division in 2002, 2003, 2007 Zodiac stamps. Waist Drums? Waist drums are a form of folk dance widely circulated throughout northern Shaanxi Province, especially in Ansai County in the Yan'an area, Yulin area, Hengshan, Mili, Yulin and other places are most prevalent, is one of the Shaanxi folk dance with a greater impact.
Ansei Waist Drum is a representative kind of waist drum in northern Shaanxi. Ansai Waist Drums are mostly performed collectively, with dozens of drummers and up to a hundred or thousands of drummers. The performance form can be roughly divided into "road drum" and "site drum". Ansai waist drums in major festivals, celebrations, temple fairs, performances, the annual Spring Festival to the Lantern Festival, is the focus of activity time.
In 2006, "Ansai Waist Drums" was selected as one of the first national intangible cultural heritage list. Folk Songs Shaanxi folk songs are divided into northern Shaanxi folk songs, southern Shaanxi folk songs and Guanzhong folk songs according to their regional and artistic characteristics.
There are many kinds of folk songs in northern Shaanxi, commonly known locally as "mountain songs" or "sour songs", including Xintianyou, ditties, wine songs, rice-planting songs, labor horns, Yulin songs, and Shaanbei suites of more than 20 kinds of songs, of which Xintianyou is the most distinctive and the most widely circulated.
Southern Shaanxi folk songs are rich in content and diverse forms. Ziyang folk song is the most representative of the southern Shaanxi folk song, Ziyang folk song representative repertoire are "Lang in the opposite door singing songs", "Nanshan bamboo" and so on. Zhenba folk song is an important part of the southern Shaanxi folk songs, representative works are "pulling the stone horn" "Bashan wine song" and so on.
Guanzhong folk songs have boatmen's horns, tamping horns, carrying horns, box husband's song and other types of songs. The most influential are ditties, Guanzhong ditties are divided into "general ditties", "silk string ditties", "social fire ditties", "custom ditties", "children's songs" and "children's songs". "Children's Songs" and so on. Ziyang folk songs, Shaanxi folk songs, Zhenba folk songs have been included in the national intangible cultural heritage list.
Shadow play, Shaanxi shadow play originated before the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "shadow play" "shadow play", circulated in the folk, retaining traces of the history of folk storytelling, is the predecessor of the modern Shaanxi operas. Its singing dozens of kinds, to the old cavity, bowl cavity, Gong cavity, string plate cavity, the Qin cavity of the five keys more common, supplemented by the northern Shaanxi, southern Shaanxi and Guanzhong a variety of Taoist feelings.
The traditional repertoire of the shadow play includes "Touring the West Lake", "Nezha's Follies in the Sea", "The Ancient City Meeting", and "Recruitment of Relatives". Shaanxi shadow plays not only have a wide variety of singing voices and high performance techniques, but also the sculpting skills of the shadow people have reached a high level.
Huaxian County is the birthplace of shadow, Huaxian shadow is not only the oldest art in China and even in the world, but also recognized by the domestic and foreign shadow circles as the master of all Chinese local shadow and even the world's shadow art. The international official name of Chinese shadow play is "Hua Opera", which means the shadow play of Huaxian County, and in 2006, "Huaxian Shadow Play" was included in the list of the first batch of intangible cultural heritage of the country.
She Huo? The "social fire" is an extensive, traditional and spectacular mass entertainment activity in Shaanxi, originating from the ancient worship of land and fire. Social fire originated in the Zhou Dynasty, "Nuo ceremony", after the Song Dynasty gradually transferred to the folk, and into a variety of theater.
Social fire in Shaanxi, including drums, core, stilts, bamboo horses, dry boat, rice-planting songs, dragon dance, lion dance, lanterns and so on. Northern Shaanxi Jiaxian, Luochuan, Yulin and other places called social fire for "playing social fire" "Nuozi", southern Shaanxi Shangnan, Luonan, Shangxian and other places called social fire "lanterns will be", Guanzhong play social fire is is known as "play social fire" "play lion" "play dragon lantern" "play bamboo horse" and so on.
Modern Shaanxi folk fire activities are usually performed in the first month of the year, festivals or temple fairs. Guanzhong is the most active area for social fire activities in Shaanxi, and Baoji, Shaanxi is known as the "hometown of Chinese social fire". The well-known social fires popular in the Xishan area of Baoji include "Bedwetting Fetus", "Heavenly Officials Provide Blessings", "Black Sanxiao Moves the Soldiers", "Lighting the Red Lanterns", "Widow Serves as Farmer", "Liu Xiucai", and so on.
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