Basing the fire
Basing the fire is a traditional Chinese New Year custom in Shuozhou.
In folklore, lighting a fire has the meaning of red-hot and prosperous.
Coal is abundant in Shuozhou, Shanxi, and it is closely related to people's daily life in Shuozhou.
In Shuozhou, archaeology confirms that in ancient times, coal has penetrated into the customs of the ancestors, and one of them is to make a fire in Shuozhou.
Shuozhou area every Spring Festival Eve and Lantern Festival, in front of the courtyard of every house to use large pieces of coal into a tower, the townspeople called it a fire, in order to Figure auspicious, congratulations on the New Year prosperous meaning.
Inside the firewood, outside the cloak of colorful flowers, pasted on the big red strips, written on the "Wang Qi Chong Tian" and other words.
Mule pack sedan chair
"Mule pack sedan chair" sedan chair decoration patterns are festive and auspicious and the meaning of pairs, such as the double phoenix, double butterflies, double bats circling up and down, two and two relative composition, contains a husband and wife, and beautiful, love each other's meaning; there are also a double fish and a rabbit, etc., commonly known as the "slippery fish rush rabbit". "Slippery Fish and Rabbit".
Ranging Opera
Xiaozhou Ranging Opera is a comprehensive folk art form that integrates dance, opera, and martial arts, and was performed in squares and streets in the early days.
Among them, the dance-based Yangge opera is called "Kick Drum Yangge", which is mainly performed at festivals and birthday celebrations, and other folk events; the drama-based Yangge opera is called "Dai Yangge", and the repertoire is based on Taoist stories and folk tales.
Going West
In 2009, CCTV broadcast "Going West", reflecting the hard work and simplicity of Shanxi merchants.
From the Shanxi people to go west of the rough road map, from the central and northern Shanxi, a west, through the kill tiger pass out of the customs, into the Mongolian steppe; a to the east, through Datong, through Zhangjiakou out of the customs into Mongolia.
The folk said "go west" in the "west mouth" is the Shanxi Province, Shuozhou City, Youyu County, kill tiger mouth.
Out of this western mouth, to the former Shanxi people to wrap up the world of business in the naturalization and Suiyuan (collectively known as Guisui), Kulun and Dolun, Uliyasutai and Kobdo and Xinjiang and other areas.
"Kill the Tiger's Nest" is also an important trade route to Chakotu, Mongolia and Russia and other places of business.
The history of the rise and fall of the "Kill Tiger Pass" also reflects the history of the rise and fall of the development of Jin merchants.