As of 2009, Ximeng County contains dozens of species of beasts such as sloth monkeys, green monkeys, yellow monkeys, tigers, bears and leopards, and nearly a hundred species of birds, dozens of snakes and aquatic animals.
As of 2009, Ximen County contains 1 species of mosses, 16 species of ferns, 2 species of gymnosperms and 380 species of angiosperms. In 2013, the sowing area of grain and bean crops was 238,000 mu, realizing a total grain output of 41 million kilograms, an increase of 2.2% over 2012. Autumn and winter agricultural development of 73,000 acres, an increase of 24.8% over 2012, completed 100 acres of special permaculture vegetable base and 100 acres of standardized freshwater fish farming project construction. Ximeng County stocked 55,167 hogs, an increase of 11.6% over 2012; 45,992 hogs were slaughtered, an increase of 5.5% over 2012. The stock of large livestock was 17,548 heads, down 4.2%; 5,584 heads were slaughtered, up 9.7% from 2012. Poultry egg production was 311 tons, an increase of 91.3% over 2012; total meat production was 3,947 tons, an increase of 6% over 2012. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in Ximen County (current price) was 445.55 million yuan, an increase of 7.4% from 2012.
In 2013, the formation of winter melon pig breeding association 4, the introduction of winter melon pig processing enterprises 1, complete the standardization of pig farms (district) construction projects 3. Ximeng rice buckwheat planting area of 27,000 acres, production of 1,552,000 kilograms, an increase of 4.6% over 2012. Ximeng County rubber area of 240,000 acres, 84,000 acres of cutting, production of 7.3 million kilograms. Constructed 4 standard tea primaries, realizing tea production of 2,373 tons. Cumulative planting of coffee 15,000 mu, yielding 450 tons. Newly planted sugarcane of 10,100 mu, cumulative planting of walnut of 12,700 mu, afforestation of 34,900 mu. As of 2007, Ximen County **** has 71 schools at all levels, with 453 teaching classes and 15,411 primary and secondary school students and young children in school, including: 1 complete middle school, 6 junior high schools (new middle school), 4,139 students in junior high school and 518 students in senior high school; 1 vocational high school, 823 students in junior high school and 162 students in senior high school; 58 primary schools (including 1 junior high school); 1 elementary school (including 1 junior high school) and 1 elementary school (including 1 junior high school). 162 students; 58 elementary school (37 complete elementary school, 10 elementary school, and 11 one-teacher-one-school sites), with 319 teaching classes and 9,252 students; 4 kindergartens (2 kindergartens run by the education department and 2 private kindergartens), with 517 young children in the parks and pre-school classes; and 1 teachers' further education school, which is in charge of the continuing education and short-term training of teachers. In Ximen County, the gross enrollment rate of junior high school-age youths is 93.57%, the dropout rate is 2.68%, and the three-year completion rate of junior high school is 73.4%; the enrollment rate of primary school-age children is 99.49%, the dropout rate is 0.9%, and the six-year completion rate of elementary school is 98.55%; and the enrollment rate of children between the ages of 3 and 6 in kindergartens (classes) is 26%.
Ximen County has 1,252 teaching staff, of which 1,015 are full-time teachers, 100 are substitute teachers and temporary workers, 99 are laborers, and 38 are others.
Ximen County primary and secondary schools, kindergartens *** there are 114,271 square meters of school buildings, the average per capita school building 7.41 square meters; there are 21,516 square meters of dangerous buildings, the rate of dangerous buildings 18.83%. In the first half of 2010 Ximeng County to complete the Ximeng County 9 designated medical institutions of the new rural cooperative software upgrades, the national bond project county people's hospital inpatient building construction project, on May 12 through the county level acceptance, Ximeng County **** there are 91,320 people access to the new rural cooperative medical compensation, **** expenditure fund of 3.4996 million yuan, accounting for the current year's fund-raising (9,881,400 yuan) of the 35.42%; accounted for the 31.96% of the funds available for the year (10,952,500 yuan).
In the first half of 2010, Ximeng County's new rural cooperative medical care hospitalization compensation (including hospitalization for normal delivery) was 2,153, with a total hospitalization cost of 3,862,200 yuan, and the hospitalization compensation cost was 2,415,300 yuan (accounting for 69.02% of the fund's total expenditure), and the sub-average hospitalization exemption and waiver cost was 1,121.83 yuan per person, of which 212 were exempted from hospitalization for normal delivery, and the total cost of hospitalization for normal delivery was 1,525,000 yuan. The average hospitalization remission cost was RMB 1,121.83 per person, of which: 212 hospitalized normal delivery remissions, total hospitalized normal delivery cost of RMB 153,200 yuan, and normal delivery remission of RMB 84,800 yuan (accounting for 2.42% of the total fund expenditure). Outpatient remission for 89,167 person-times, the total cost of outpatient remission is 2,664,500 yuan, the cost of outpatient remission is 1,084,200 yuan (accounting for 30.98% of the total expenditure of the fund), and the average cost of outpatient remission is 12.16 yuan per person-times. In 2013, the whole township advancement project of Yue Song Township passed the municipal acceptance, and the provincial key village project of 70 villagers' groups in 8 villages was implemented, with a completed investment of 10.5 million yuan. Completed the construction of poverty alleviation housing and relocation of 370 households. Implemented 8 financial poverty alleviation award funds to promote the whole village project, completed the investment of 8.9237 million yuan. Completing the construction tasks of industrial projects and whole-village promotion projects supported by Shanghai's counterparts, and completing the investment of 8.79 million yuan. Issued 30 million yuan of subsidized loans for poverty alleviation, with an interest rate of 1.5 million yuan.
In 2013, Ximeng County newly employed 328 people in urban areas and re-employed 50 people, maintained the dynamic zero-employment families, and controlled the urban registered unemployment rate within 4.5%. Payment of pension 13.9 million yuan, in 2013, the issuance of a variety of aid relief of 81.023 million yuan. Fofang New Rice Festival
The Fofang New Rice Festival is held on the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar every year. Before this day, all village households eat new rice, they have to keep a bowl of new rice, collected by the village headman gathered, sent to the Ximeng Buddha room. August 15 this day, the Buddha room sound cannon three times, worship moon Buddha chanting all night.
Sacrificing Dashima
On March 15 every year, Lahu men, women and children dressed in costumes, beating gongs and drums, carrying offerings and blowing the reed-sheng to the Dabama opportunity to worship Dashima.
Annually on the 15th day of the Lunar New Year, it is the Festival of the Buddha's Room Open Seal, and the Great Seal of the Buddha is usually treasured by the Buddha, and no one is allowed to see it. On the day of the Open Seal Festival, Buddha took out the Great Seal and placed it on the shrine for everyone to see. Participate in the activities of the Festival of the Buddha, religious, ethnic groups celebrating song and dance, unified rest day.
Fine Buddha
Every year on the ninth day of the first month of the Buddha's room fine Buddha Festival. On this day, people from all villages come from all directions to Ximeng Buddha Room Fine Buddha, all who come must bring a gift as an offering to worship God and Buddha. After the sacrifice, in the Buddha room compound square dancing entertainment Buddha. The event lasts for three days, and only on the third day do they go home.
Guan Yin Festival
The 15th day of the first month of the Lunar Calendar is the Guan Yin Festival of the Ximeng Fofang. On this day, all villages and hamlets take a break from singing, dancing and entertainment for one day to celebrate the Kwan Yin Festival. On the next day, the villages will concentrate on worshipping Buddha at Ximeng Buddha House. After the worship, Buddha will put away the seal of Buddha, and then some cereal seeds and glutinous rice poop will be given to the worshippers, and the Buddha House will finance the killing of pigs, grinding of bean curd, and cooking to entertain the worshippers for a meal, which will bring an end to the Guanyin Festival. Lahu--Haba Festival
Haba is the moon festival in Laku, also known as the Moon Festival. Every year on the night of August 15, Lahu cottage can be heard everywhere shouting: the moon is coming out --, the moon is coming out --. At this time, a round moon in the people's thousands of calls slowly climbed to the top of the mountain. People with new rice, dry bar, tobacco, fresh fruits, sugar cane and other offerings crowded to the Buddha room for collective moon worship activities. Inside the Buddha's room, Pamuhachi (the Buddha's master) hangs a white cloth as big as a kangba with a picture of the moon on it, and sets up a large offering table and an incense and candle table underneath it. People who worship the moon will offer offerings on the table, light joss sticks and candles, burn paper money, kneel and bow to the moon figure, and listen to the Buddha's chanting and praying.
Lahu
After the collective moon rituals are over, the moon rituals of each family begin. People will pick up the tablets filled with offerings to the high hillock outside their houses, kneel to the moon three times under the leadership of the old man, and sprinkle new rice and copper pot wine into the sky. People gather around the tablets, play the lusheng, and dance the pendulum to celebrate the joy of the harvest. Young people often play until the east from the moon before reluctantly bid farewell to the moon. Before leaving, one person to take a pear, symbolizing and harvest happiness will never be separated.
The Moon Festival comes from a beautiful legend. According to legend, the Lahu people just entered the farming period, planted the early grain heavy golden piece, see the harvest in sight, did not expect all the night was eaten up by wild animals. People were sad and wept. The next year, some people will hang the ears of grain outside the house, loudly calling the moon god out to bless, the moon is really bright as day, the beasts no longer dare to come out. Later, on the 15th of August every year, the Laku people would hold a moon festival, and the festival has been passed down.
Sigangli
Sigangli" is an ancient legend passed down in Wa folklore, "Sigang" means "cliff cave", "Li" means "come out", and "Sigangli" means "from the cave". "Sigangli" is the meaning of cliff cave, "Li" is to come out, "Sigangli" is to come out from the cliff cave, the geographical location in Ximeng County Yue Sung Township, opposite to the South Sik River, near the Burmese Rock City, the name of Bagdai, "Gangli" is the outline of the history of the legend is that, in the time of the far bitter, the people were imprisoned in the confined cliff caves in the mountains could not come out, and the almighty god Mo Wei appointed the small Laiquiao to chisel the caves, "Sigangli" is a legend of the Wa folklore. The The mouse to draw away the tiger guarding the cave mouth to bite people, the spider bets against the big tree that does not let people out of the cave, human beings can get out of the cave. To live and work in peace and recuperate everywhere ...... This is the general meaning of Sigangli. To speak in detail, it is a lot of very long. In a nutshell, the legend of Sigangli is the source of human history. In the past, the Wa tribe had to go to Bagdai every year to plagiarize oxen at the Sigangli to offer sacrifices. The Wa people used to go to Bagdad every year to sacrifice oxen to honor the memory of Sigangli.
Vine Bridge
The Vine Bridge is a bridge built by the Wa and Lahu in Ximeng over the river and river passages, which used to be built by using sturdy and thick vines as indexes, bamboo and wooden branches as fences, and a few pieces of wood in the middle to connect with each other. Ximeng Nankang River, Xigu River, Nansi River, Nanka River have this type of bridge.
The Wooden Drum Room
The Wa language calls the wooden drum "Kro", which is the god of the Wa tribe. The wooden drum is a unique drum species among the 56 ethnic groups in China, and it is a typical female fertility cult in matrilineal clan society, and it is the protection god of the Wa cottage. Whenever there are religious festivals such as the Wooden Drum Festival, the New Fire Festival, the New Water Festival, and the New Rice Festival, Wa villages have the custom of beating up the wooden drums, singing and dancing for entertainment. It is regarded as the supreme heavenly artifact in the primitive nature worship of Wa, the incarnation of the almighty god Mo Wei, and the protector god of Wa cottages. The role of the wooden drum: one is used for sacrifices, praying for the wooden drum to bless the peace of the cottage, a good harvest, and the prosperity of people and animals; the second is used for alarms, and when the cottage has a fire or foreign invasion and other emergencies, the wooden drum is sounded to alarm the people and summon them to respond to emergencies and to protect the interests of the cottage; and the third is used for songs and dances for recreation. Each village has at least one wooden drum room, some Guiguan a clan name on a wooden drum room. Therefore, some of the phenomenon of a village has more than one wooden drum room.
In the past, the Wa hunter's head sacrificed wooden drums, and beside the wooden drum room, there was a head stake with a lot of heads, but after 1958, the state banned the hunter's head sacrificing wooden drums, and replaced it with animal and beast heads.
Wa Residence
The Wa Residence is a bamboo and wood structure with a grass roof and a "pole and rail" type of building, with people living upstairs and piling up firewood or raising animals and birds downstairs. The Wa dwellings are decorated differently depending on the region or branch they live in.