Hunan has the following customs:
1. Hunan culture: it refers to a historical and cultural form with distinctive features, relative stability and inheritance relationship. Of course, it also refers to the cultural heritage of Hunan precipitated by thousands of years of history. Different places, different folk customs and local customs, it formed a different culture, it is worth exploring.
2, dialect culture: Hunan dialect refers to the dialects in Hunan, including the Chinese dialects of Hunan, Southwest Mandarin, Gan, Hakka, in addition, there are also Xiangnan dialect, Xiangxiang dialect, which has not yet been determined to belong to some of the dialects. Minority languages in Hunan include the Xiangxi sub-dialect of Miao, the Tujia dialects of Longshan, Baojing, and Mengzi, the Dong, Mian, and Zhuang.
3, festival culture:Hunan is a multi-ethnic province, the country's 56 ethnic groups, have residents living in the territory. Hunan's ethnic minorities are mainly located in the remote areas of western Hunan, southern Hunan and eastern Hunan. Each ethnic minority has its own national language, customs and religious beliefs.
4, marriage culture: Hunan is a multi-ethnic province, there are 51 ethnic groups such as Han, Tujia, Miao, Yao, Dong, Bai, Hui and so on. Among them, there are 9 ethnic groups, including Han, Miao, Tujia, Dong, Yao, Hui, Zhuang, Bai, etc. Most of the world's ethnic minorities live in western Hunan, southern Hunan and eastern Hunan mountains.
Tujia wedding is unique, the girl in the wedding to sing "crying marriage song", send the girl and her mother sing "sedan chair song", the newlyweds into the cave, the singer sings "congratulations on the song! "The song is a song of congratulations for the newlyweds and a song of worship for the guests.
5, food culture: Hunan cuisine, a regional dish with a long history in China. It is one of the eight major cuisines of Han Chinese food culture. Hunan cuisine has a long history, as early as the Han Dynasty has formed a cuisine, cooking skills have been quite high level.
Hunan is located in the south-central region of China, with a warm climate, abundant rainfall and favorable natural conditions. Western Hunan is mountainous, producing bamboo shoots, mushrooms and mountain delicacies; Southeast Hunan is hilly and basin, with well-developed domestic animal husbandry and fishery; North Hunan is the famous Dongting Lake Plain, known as "the land of fish and rice".
6, Hunan taboos: Hunan people's character is known for its enthusiasm and boldness, the beginning of the new century, the famous singer Song Zuying with a song "Hot Sisters" Hunan Hunan Xiangmeizi "renowned throughout the country.
Behind the "spiciness" of "not afraid of spiciness, not afraid of spiciness" lies the tenderness of Hunan women who live by the water. In the face of life's adversity, Hunan people uphold the credo is "eat bitter, tolerate boredom, not afraid of death, dominate the barbarians", it is because of such a spirit of incentive, there is a Hunan now the prosperity of the Central Rising Province.
7, Hunan traditional architecture: Xiangxi is located in northwestern Hunan Province, is located in Hunan, Hubei, Sichuan, Guizhou four provinces border area, is the ancient barbarian land. The unique way of life, combined with the mountainous areas of the building materials, the new natural environment and the economic development of society in the context of the creation of a unique architectural art. Such as halls, fire pits, doors, windows, columns, ceilings, etc., collectively known as Xiangxi folk houses or folk culture.
8. Hunan Xiang Opera: Hunan Opera originated from the Yiyang cavity in the Ming Dynasty, and later absorbed the Kun cavity, Pihuang and other voices, forming a multi-voice theater including high-cavity, low-cavity, Kun cavity, and chaotic bomb. The repertoire is mainly based on high-cavity and chaotic bombardment, which is skillfully combined with folk art and local language, and is rich in Hunan's folk and local characteristics, such as the Pipa Tale, the White Rabbit Tale, and the Moon Worshipping Tale.
9, Hunan Qi Opera: Qi Opera is one of the Han local theater in Hunan Province. It is also known as "Qiyang Banzi", the early Republic of China called "Qiyang play", because the formation of Qiyang and named "Qiyu".
Circulation area is relatively wide, in addition to Hunan's Hengyang, Zuoling, Huaihua, Shaoyang, Chenzhou and other areas with Qiyang opera performances in addition to a number of Qiyang Opera classes to perform in the provinces, once formed a "Qiyang disciples all over the world" of the heyday of the situation. Want to know more about Qi opera?
10, Tantou New Year's paintings: Tantou New Year's paintings are one of the Han folk crafts in Tantou Town, Longhui, Baoqing (now Shaoyang City), Hunan Province. It is a painting genre unique to the Chinese Han people and a popular art form among the rural Chinese people. There are more than 60 kinds of paintings in the most flourishing period. So what are the artistic characteristics of Tantou New Year paintings?
11, Silkworm Dance: long encouragement long encouragement is divided into "single dance", "double dance", "group dance" and other types. It has 72 sets of performance programs, and each set is divided into "starting hall", "moving hall" and a number of animal details. Its movements are characterized by roughness, bravery, exuberance, strength, virility, pugnacity and spontaneity.
Whether it is jumping, leaping, squatting, thwarting or rotating, flopping, bouncing, yangteng and other dynamics, all of them show the passionate, strong and brave character traits of the Yao people.
12, Baoqing bamboo carving: Baoqing bamboo carving from the practical bamboo craft out of a set of ornamental, practical in one of the folk craft.
Baoqing belongs to the west high east low semi-mountainous and semi-hilly terrain, abound in bamboo, since ancient times, bamboo production industry is very developed, is one of the main birthplace of bamboo culture in China.
Baoqing bamboo carving of this folk art, although in the war and the 1960s repeatedly suffered serious damage, but still tenacious survival.
13, Hunan Taoist culture: Hunan Taoism began in the period of the two Jin Dynasty and the North and South Dynasties (265-581 AD). Jin Taixing years, female official priest Wei Huacun to the province of Nanyue 16 years of meditation, preaching on the Qing scriptures, become the earliest spreader of Taoism in Hunan. From this, Hunan Taoism has a history of more than 1,700 years.
14, the Tujia hand dance: the hand dance is an ancient traditional dance of the Tujia people, mainly circulated in the junction of Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and Qian Youshui River and the Wujiang River Basin to Chongqing Xiushan County, Youyang County, Guizhou Yanhe Tujia Autonomous County, Hubei Enshi Autonomous Prefecture, Laifeng.
Longshan and Yongshun in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture of Hunan Province are the main places of inheritance, and *** there are four sections. Now Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has an adapted new version of the Pendulum Hand Dance, which is easier to learn and pass on.
15, Xinhua Mountain Song: Xinhua Mountain Song, is mainly circulated in Hunan Province, Loudi City, Xinhua County folk songs. Xinhua mountain song, its content is extensive, the tune is ancient, unique style, simple rhyme, structure, distinctive musical features, rich and diverse forms of expression, sentence length, slang dialect liner notes more, rap flavor is very strong.
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