Laoshan City is a county-level city under the jurisdiction of Shandong Province, administered by Weihai City. It is located in the hinterland where the cities of Qingdao, Weihai and Yantai converge.
Laoshan City is bordered by the Yellow Sea in the south, and is separated from South Korea and Japan by the sea. Between latitude 36°41′-37°08′ north, longitude 121°11′-121°51′ east, east-west horizontal width of 60 kilometers, north-south length of 48 kilometers, with a total area of 1,665 square kilometers, the coastline length of 199.27 kilometers . As of October 2022, Lushan City has 1 street and 14 towns under its jurisdiction. As of the end of 2021, the total household population of Lushan City was 531,804,000 people.
Laoshan City, named after Da Lushan Mountain, is the hometown of longevity along the coast of China, and has been awarded the title of "Hometown of Longevity in Shandong Province". There are 3 provincial key cultural relics protection units in Lushan, and 13 key cultural relics protection units at city and county levels. It is the place where the writer Feng Deying's novels "Bitter Vegetable Flower", "Spring Flower" and "Mountain Chrysanthemum" take place, and it is also the place where the national vanguard "Ten Warriors of Mashishan" heroes take place.
Folklore of Lushan City:
1, rice-planting songs
Lushan traditional rice-planting song team, mainly composed of three parts, in front of the part of the deacon, responsible for leading the dance; in the middle of the dance team, including men's waist drums and women's colorful fan group; behind the part of the free dance, with a duo dance, a single dance, or running dry boat, There are double dances, single dances, or dances such as running a dry boat, playing dragon lanterns, riding a black donkey, stepping on stilts, dancing with lions, and fetching scriptures by the Tang Monk and his disciples. The accompaniment is mainly percussion, with bamboo, pipe, string and other instruments, with bold atmosphere and compact rhythm.
2, paper-cutting
Lushan paper-cutting is divided into two major schools, the Dagushan area of paper-cutting rough and bold, seeking God-like not shape-like; Wuji area of paper-cutting delicate, the pursuit of shape and God are ready. From the category, there are wedding, birthday, festival and celebration; from the use of points, there are drawings to stay in the class, apparatus decoration class, window decoration class and Yang shed beautification class. People use paper-cutting to express their feelings and hopes, paper-cutting has enriched people's spiritual life, and has become a wonder of folk art.
3, Niulang stick
Niulang stick originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, for the Qixia anti-Qing uprising leader Yu Qi created, more than three hundred years of history. Niu Lang Baton is a bright pearl in the treasure house of Chinese martial arts, set knife, gun, sword, halberd, whip and other techniques in one, set of tight moves, strong and powerful, rhythmic, coherent, flexible, fast, strange, skillful victory.
It advocates the use of the mind to lead the qi, the qi to develop force, and the use of static braking, is a set of cultivation of nature and nourishment of the spirit, and the skill to strengthen the body of the efficient internal martial arts stick method. Mr. Xiao Mingkui, the thirteenth generation master, has offered the Niu Lang Baton, which has been kept secret for more than 300 years, to the world, and openly teaches and promotes it to the society, which is not only practiced by many students in China, but also by teaching organizations in the United States, Japan, Holland, Argentina, Italy and other countries.