Mingshui County is located in the southwest of Heilongjiang Province, the earliest inhabitants are Manchu and Mongolian, these two ethnic groups are the people on horseback, when the water by water and migrate on horseback, the winter in the Northeast up to 4-5 months. Survival of the harsh environment so that the Northeast people earlier know the power of unity, so for thousands of years also developed the Northeast people hospitable personality. The white snow, crystal shaving ice, raised this side of the black soil and a group of simple Northeast people.
Mingshui has a typical northeastern culture typical features, the northeast three strange, twisting rice-planting songs, big bowl of wine, large pieces of meat, eat sauerkraut cultural forms still have a vivid vitality. Mingshui people love to eat a large amount of food, heavy flavor, relatively salty stew, pig killing vegetables, chicken stewed mushrooms and pork stewed vermicelli, etc., but also eat raw vegetables dipped in soy sauce. Staple foods such as rice and noodles are preferred, as well as dumplings, buns, pies and all kinds of stuffed foods with fillings.
As of 2010, there are three major leisure squares in the county, namely, Nine Dragons Square, Education Square and People's Park, and in the rural areas, there are 8 new township integrated cultural stations, 20 leisure squares, 21 "six-in-one" village-level activity venues, 63 rural bookstores and 20 rural fitness venues, which greatly enriches the amateur cultural and sports life of urban and rural residents. This has greatly enriched the amateur cultural and sports life of urban and rural residents. The main leisure activities are rice-planting songs, performances and Northeastern sketches. Er Ren Suo focuses on the essence of folk songs, folk dances and oral literature in the Northeast, and is a folk art with a strong local color, with a history of development of more than 300 years so far. Singing "Er Ren Suo" is almost an innate instinct of the northeastern people, and it is a culture passed down from generation to generation of the northeastern people, and has long been loved by the northeastern people, especially the farmers. The main works are "Wang Er Sister Thinking of Her Husband", "Back to the Cup", "The Story of the West Wing" and "Piggyback Daughter-in-Law", and so on.