Folk traditional arts and culture: ground flower drums, mussel dance, colorful lotus boat, playing the flower boat, fishing drums, drums, three stick drums, say drums, funeral drums, playing the land, Nuo wish, lotus farce, and so on.
Literary creation: the late Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the county writers, poets, scholars works, poetry, prose for the bulk of literary theory. After the founding of New China, the new poetry, novels, prose, opera, folklore as the main body of literary theory has developed over the previous. Among them, folk literature and children's literature filled the historical gap. The works of each period have their own strengths, their contents or write mountains and rivers, or remembering people and narratives in order to express their aspirations, or the history of the present in order to reason, each with its own charm, each leading the trend.
County writers, scholars engaged in professional or amateur literary creation, the late Qing Dynasty, Peng Qingdao, Gao Wuting, Liu Dingfan, Rao Mingcheng, Ri Songji, Yi Peishen, Yi Shunding, Yi Shunyu, Chen Huifu and so on. There are works of special collections. Republic of China period, Yi Jun left a lot of good works, Yi Yu (female), Zeng Yi, Huang Xueyi (female), Zou Yunzhen, Yang Guojing, etc. also have monographs or monographs published. Intangible cultural heritage: the folk story of Yang Missy in Hanshou has been included in the provincial intangible cultural heritage list; 2 items of Hanshou shadow puppetry and dragon boat craft have been included in the municipal intangible cultural heritage list; 11 items of Hanshou shadow puppetry, Hanshou bamboo horse opera, Hanshou fisherman's drums, Hanshou three-stick drums, Hanshou ramming song, Zheng Wanggonggong trip, Hanshou cormorant hugging, Hanshou Yangshi temple, Hanshou flower drums, Hanshou lion dance, and Hanshou mountain song have been included in the county-level intangible cultural heritage list. included in the county-level intangible cultural heritage list.
Cultural relics and monuments: Jingzhao Temple site, Yang Missy's tomb, Huangchengzhai site, Zhenlongge site, Nanchan Temple Pagoda, wash the ink pool inscriptions, also the garden of stone carvings, statues and stone carvings, the former site of the establishment of the Hanshou County Committee of the Chinese ****, and the cemetery of the fallen anti-Japanese generals. Through the third national cultural relics census carried out in 2007, there are 8 first-class cultural relics, 31 second-class cultural relics, 168 third-class cultural relics; 2 provincial-level key cultural relics protection units, 18 municipal-level key cultural relics protection units, 120 county-level key cultural relics protection units. Especially the former residence of Shuai Mengqi, through the arduous efforts in recent years, has been fully restored and formed a certain scale, has become an important cultural heritage resources and red tourist attractions in Hanshou County. Hanshou is a strong sports county with a certain mass base, and the mass sports activities are flourishing, with the title of "National Advanced Mass Sports County". There are mainly recreational exercises, ground ball, gate ball, recreational boxing, fitness rice-planting songs, waist drums, taijiquan, square dance and other popular programs. Traditional dragon boat racing is a long history, in 2006 by the Hunan Provincial Dragon Boat Association awarded the title of "Hunan Province traditional dragon boat hometown", in 2007, 2009 for two consecutive sessions of the National Traditional Dragon Boat Competition Championships, in 2011 won the Fifth Farmer's Games in Hunan Province, the standard Dragon Boat Race two championships. 2012, 2014 for two consecutive sessions of the successful organization of the National Autocross Scramble.
Youth sports relying on the advantages of the waters to open rowing, kayaking, rowing sports programs, ranked first in the province at the county level, is the key county of Hunan Province sports reserve talent. Wrestling, judo, taekwondo, weightlifting, track and field, soccer and other projects in the city ranked first. 2003 to the present, Hanshou athletes*** won 11 gold medals in national competitions. Residents of the county eat rice as their staple food, as well as sweet potatoes and beans. Farmers eat three meals a day when they are busy, and two meals a day when they are idle, all of which are based on rice. Farmers in hilly areas sometimes mix some dried sweet potatoes or fresh sweet potatoes in the rice, farmers in the lake area mixed with broad beans, peas. When the desert storm month, eat thin porridge or vegetables mixed with rice. Young and old, have spicy habits, love to eat Zan pepper, fried chili, chili sauce, white pepper. There are pickled altar dishes, pickled bacon and preserved fish habit. Urban and rural residents like to eat glutinous rice dumplings, spring love to eat artemisinin poi, March 3 with land jasmine boiled eggs, Dragon Boat Festival package dumplings, Mid-Autumn Festival to do patties, New Year's Eve to do sweet wine dumplings, like to use the eggs, ginger salt tea, tea hospitality guests. The county is rich in aquatic products, the county people love to eat tsan chili paste fish, eel under the noodles.
Feasts
Republican period of the late Qing Dynasty, the rich more than "sea cucumber seat", "shark fins seat"; ordinary people to chicken, fish, meat feast, the main tea for fried rice noodles, red meat, cassoulet fish, bamboo shoots fried with dried beans and so on. VIP guests at the door, more than kill the chicken to prepare wine to treat, chicken head to the host guest, chicken legs to let the children, the host persuade the dishes to toast. Alcoholics on the table good guessing. Rural areas with a square table, 8 people per seat, the honored one in the upper seat. In cities and towns, there are more round tables, not divided into upper and lower seats, and the main guest and the accompanying guests are free to sit down. After the founding of new China, celebratory feasts, dishes are more elaborate, both urban and rural, dishes are more than 10. 80's, a wide variety of dishes, there are sauced turtle, red around the pheasant, silverfish soup, blackfish fried slices of specialties on the table. Advise the dishes to toast as before.
Marriage
One day before the wedding, the man gave the woman a gift, called "over the gift". The general family ten fish and ten meat, the better side of the pig with the head, and fish, wine and folding makeup gold, etc., the rich with a double pig and double sheep and other gifts. Both male and female families have set up banquets to entertain friends and relatives who come to congratulate, generally three days of wine, the first day called "night feast", the second day called "wine", the third day called "withdrawal". Women's home wine than the male family first day. On the wedding day, the man sends a sedan chair, a palanquin and a band to meet the bride at her home. The bride is sent to the man's home by a number of close relatives, called "sending the bride". To the man's home, the first into the bridal chamber, the groom, the bride grabbed each other bed hall, and eat "peace tea", in the evening, presided over by the ceremony, the line "temple to see the ceremony", a worship of heaven and earth, the second worship ancestors, the third worship of parents. At night, friends and relatives crowded into the cave to play, called "back to the door". The first month of marriage (or forty days), men and women are not separated, called "not leave the room".
Funeral
Sending off the dead. When a person is about to die, the children kneel down and burn paper money to see him off. To the deceased wipe the body, change the life jacket, life cap, life shoes, life jacket shall be odd, three, five, seven layers. Then, move the body to the left side of the hall on the mat, covered with "children and grandchildren quilt". Immediately, the Taoist priests entered the scene, read "open road scripture", the rich and powerful people invited the ceremony to do the "hall sacrifice"; condolences. After hearing the news, to go to the condolences, en set off firecrackers, standing in front of the corpse in silence, bowing and kowtowing. At this time, the drums and music, the filial son kneeling beside the body to return the salute, in order to express gratitude; into the coffin: also known as "into the material". Place the coffin on the left side of the hall, the coffin put gypsum, charcoal ash and other moisture-absorbing materials, the coffin surrounded by yellow or white paper paste, to be the main friends and relatives to all look forward to the remains of the body by four people into the coffin, and then, in order to cover the friends and relatives sent by the "longevity quilt". The head, feet, and elbows are all tightly fixed with gray bags, and then the coffin lid is closed, the coffin pins are nailed on, and the silk or leather paper is coated with raw lacquer or lacquer blending to plug the seam marks. The hall set up a spiritual seat, the Taoist teacher guide filial piety friends and relatives to worship, bier generally 2-3 days. Burial: also called funeral. Funeral ceremony, the filial son wearing mourning clothes, waist tie grass rope, wearing straw shoes, filial stick, kneeling in front of the casket to lead the way, the relatives escorted to the cemetery burial;
An spirit: after the funeral, the filial son of holding the spirit of the funeral route along the home to set up a spiritual hall, for the spirit of the card.
Celebration
Birth. When a woman gives birth to her first child, her husband prepares a goose, a jar of wine, and several red eggs, and goes to his family's house to announce the birth. When a man is born, the goose is placed above the hall; when a woman is born, the wine is placed above it. Yue's family immediately will be happy wine and red eggs sent to friends and relatives, and will be prepared baby clothes, things, chickens, eggs, rice, etc., along with the goose to the son-in-law to bring back, so-called "send hair porridge rice". On the third day of the baby's birth, the baby was bathed with mugwort leaf water, called "wash three Chao". The tenth day, friends and relatives to the baby's home to send porridge to celebrate, called "playing ten Chao". One month after delivery (Lake District) or one and a half months (mountainous areas), the mother with the baby back to her mother's home "out of the nest", "go full moon". This valley has not changed.
Longevity
Men and women aged 50 or 60 years old, starting at the age of "ten" by their children's friends and relatives to prepare clothing, shoes and hats, life screen, life plaque for their birthday wishes. Men wishing false women wishing real. When wishing a birthday banquet and wine. 50-70 years, this custom is gradually abolished. 80's wishing a life style prevails, birthday gift in addition to gifts to send clothing, and send a record player, TV, jewelry and other things. 80's urban and rural areas to do the 36th birthday of the wind. In addition to moving to a new home, store openings, children's schooling, enlistment, more feasts and joy, friends and relatives to send gifts to congratulate, has become a custom. Spring Festival. Commonly known as the New Year. From the twenty-fourth day of the waxing moon to the fifteenth day of the first month of the festival; Lantern Festival: the fifteenth day of the first month of the Lantern Festival, also known as the festival of the first yuan. At night, every house is brightly lit, there are "thirty nights of fire, fifteen nights of light" said. Towns and cities often organize lantern festivals. Qingming Festival: In the late Qing Dynasty and Republic of China, people gathered to offer sacrifices to their ancestors by going to their graves, erecting monuments, and hanging paper money and flowers to honor their ancestors. Dragon Boat Festival: The fifth day of the fifth month of May is the Little Dragon Boat Festival, and the fifteenth day is the Big Dragon Boat Festival. Household door frame hanging wormwood, calamus, eat salt eggs, zongzi, drink xionghuang wine, to zongzi, mung bean cake, folding paper fans and other things to friends and relatives. Dragon boat races along the river. After the founding of new China, customs as before. Mid-Autumn Festival: August 15th Mid-Autumn Festival. On this day, the family will get together for a meal and eat mochi. At night, mooncakes and candies are eaten while enjoying the moon. Before and after the festival, mooncakes and mochi are given to friends and relatives. After the founding of New China, this custom is very strong. Chrysanthemum Festival: The Chrysanthemum Festival is celebrated on the ninth day of the ninth month of September. On this day, it is customary to climb up to a high altitude and go on a picnic, which is called "Chrysanthemum Festival". The countryside like to brew wine on this day, called "Chrysanthemum wine". 80's, this day is designated as the festival of the elderly.