Xi County is located in the southeastern part of Henan Province, at the northern foot of the Dabie Mountains, and is known as the "Breathless Border". It belongs to Xinyang City. It has an area of 1,835 square kilometers and a population of 1.01 million. The average annual temperature is 15.2°C, the annual precipitation is 946 millimeters, and the frost-free period is 222 days. The county has formed an industrial production system led by agricultural and sideline products processing, building materials, etc.; local specialties include fragrant rice pills and honey. Chinese herbal medicine half-summer is famous at home and abroad, and has the name of "rest half-summer". Tourist attractions are the Neolithic "Qinlou Ruins", the Zhou Dynasty "Qinglong Temple" and so on.
Xi County has a long history of outstanding people. Since 1122 B.C., King Wu of Zhou divided the land, Yu Da built the rest of the country so far, has been counted more than 3,000 years. Mrs. interest patriotic love for the people "three years without speaking", by the people's respect; 538 BC Lai Zi country for the Chu destroyed, but the people do not surrender, "Lai, Luo, Fu with the same clan"; new interest candidate Ma Aid, the border to pacify the rebels and the people, "horse grams wrapped in corpses! "and still inspire future generations;" "Qin Lou site", the Neolithic cultural heritage is still there; "Shen interest of the division", the people suffer and stand hard work, the indomitable spirit of struggle still exists. Although the history of the many clouds, but the word "interest" remains unchanged.
Xi County attractions, such as the stars. Was Su Dongpo known as "the first peak in the southeast" Pu Gongshan across the Huai and the county. Standing on the peak, can read the south Chu Tian, north view of the Central Plains. Liu Deng's army went south, the general tested the water, rumored to be a beautiful story, in the history of the Chinese revolution, leaving a deep footprint. "Pu mountain arch cui", "ancient interest with smoke", "Xingguo search for the ghost", "vertical axe spring plowing", "Zhaihe evening ferry", "Gebei night rain", "Guangfeng dipped in blue", "Huai Ru exchange" and other eight major landscapes, to the The county has become a magnificent picture scroll.
Xi County is a place of great wealth and talent; it has four distinct seasons, spring, summer, fall and winter. Xixian produced wheat, rice, the folk over the generations have been "money hard to buy Xixian slope, half rice half bun" proverb. Rape, peanuts, sesame high yield, good quality, is one of the top 20 counties in Henan Province oil production. Fragrant rice pills is the tribute rice, known as "a piece of fragrant rice full of slopes, a handful of fragrant rice full of pots," the reputation; interest in the lime has long occupied the market in the three provinces of Henan, Hubei and Anhui; red flax production ranked first in the national county; interest in the Hong Kong and Macao market for a long time to enjoy the reputation of hogs; interest in the half-summers are one of the key national exports of traditional Chinese medicine. Pengdian watermelon, white store cabbage, garlic, Guandian grapes are valuable specialties in southern Henan.
Xi County is a treasure, famous at home and abroad. Xixian rapid industrial development, with a total area of 6 square kilometers of private science and technology park. Fertilizer, paper, textile, cement, brewing, feed, lime and other nearly 100 industrial and mining enterprises compete for glory. Jinlun Paper Group is the largest commercial pulp producer in Henan Province, Jinwang Chemical Group ranks the top 20 small nitrogen fertilizer enterprises in the country, Xiangmigong Wine and Qianzhen Wine Series won the Gold Medal of the World Famous Wine Selection Meeting in Paris, the National "Ziwei Cup" Award and the Henan Province "Yellow River Cup" Award, and Jinpu Building Materials Group is the largest chemical fertilizer producer in Henan Province. The Golden Pu Building Materials Group is one of the top 100 cement enterprises in the province, and the cotton yarn produced by Golden Leaf Textile Group sells well all over the country.
Ancient Xizhou has a new look, and the land of Xixian County is full of sunshine. Xi County is located in the north and south of the land and the Huaihe River east and west of the main waterway transportation, businessmen and tourists over the ages will be here, there have been built in Hubei, Shanxi, Jiangxi three business halls. Xixian convenient transportation, 106 National Highway through the territory, A deep highway north and south through the territory of 50 kilometers, Ningxi Railway across the east and west of the territory, 30 kilometers south of the Xin Ye high-speed, west of the Beijing-Zhuhai high-speed 40 kilometers, the county to achieve the village through the oil road. Electricity, communication, postal network covers the whole territory, village telephone, township through closed-circuit television. Science, education, culture, health and other social programs are developing rapidly, and the infrastructure is very complete.
Natural environment
Xi County is located in the southeast of Henan Province, northeast of Xinyang City, located in the northern foothills of the Dabie Mountains, the southern edge of the Huanghuaihai Plain, the existing land area of 1895 square kilometers. It is 74 kilometers from Xinyang City in the west and 307 kilometers from Zhengzhou City in the north. The terrain is dominated by low plains and gentle hills, slightly inclined from northwest to southeast, with an average elevation of 47 meters. The Huaihe River runs through the whole territory, with a flow length of 75.5 kilometers. To the north of the Huai River is a plain, accounting for 88.6% of the county's total area; to the south of the Huai River are gentle hills and ridges, accounting for 11.4% of the county's total area. The climate is subtropical to warm-temperate transition-shaped climate, with an average annual temperature of 15.2 degrees, an average annual rainfall of 946 millimeters, and an annual frost-free period of about 200 days.
History
Hexian County has a long history, Xia, Shang period is Yuzhou, King Wu of Zhou, Feng Wenwang 37 son of Yu Da for the rest of the marquis, began to build the rest of the marquis state, 682 BC, Chu destroyed the rest of the state set up the county, and since then more than 2,000 years of history, there has been the establishment of a new rest of the county, rest of the marquis state, the East Yuzhou, the rest of the state, the number of points until the Ming Hongwu years of setting up the county to the present.
Population By the end of 2003, the county's total population was 914,000, of which 780,000 were non-agricultural, accounting for 85.3% of the total population. There are now 6 townships, 14 townships, 1 administrative district, 336 administrative villages and 9 neighborhood committees under the jurisdiction of the county.
Economic Situation
In 2003, the county's GDP amounted to 2.595 billion yuan, and its fiscal revenue amounted to 114.16 million yuan. The balance of urban and rural residents' savings deposits reached 2.34 billion yuan. The investment in fixed assets of the whole society completed 1.12 billion yuan. The per capita income of urban residents and workers was 4,626 yuan, and the per capita cash income of farmers was 1,693 yuan.
Industrial Economy
Xixi County has been developing rapidly in industry, and has an industrial park with a total control area of 6 square kilometers. The county's key industrial enterprises have total assets of 1.035 billion yuan. Has formed to agricultural and sideline products processing, building materials, papermaking, chemical industry, hemp spinning, feed, brewing seven industries as the leader, with fertilizer, pulp, cotton yarn, motor, lime, micronized powder, fragrant rice Tribute to wine, feed 9 products as the fist of the industrial production system. The products are gradually entering the international market. Jinlun Paper Group is the largest commercial pulp producer in Henan Province, and Jinwang Chemical Group ranks among the top 20 small nitrogen fertilizer enterprises in China. Xiangmi Tribute Wine and Qianzhen Wine series won the Gold Medal of the World Famous Wine Selection in Paris, the National "Ziwei Cup" Award and the "Yellow River Cup" Award of Henan Province. Jinpu Building Materials Group is one of the top 100 cement enterprises in the province, and the cotton yarn produced by Jinda Textile Group sells well all over the country. The comprehensive index of industrial economy ranks first in the city.
Agricultural Economy
The county has 1.91 million mu of arable land, per capita arable land area of about 2 mu. The total grain output has reached 450 million kilograms, which is the commodity grain base of Henan Province and the agricultural development county of Huanghuai River Plain, and has been awarded as "National Advanced Grain Production County". Crops include wheat, rice, soybeans, peanuts, corn, etc., while cash crops mainly include red hemp, cotton, rape, sesame, etc. Livestock farming plays an important role in agricultural production. Livestock in the agricultural production of a larger proportion of the main production of beef cattle, lean pigs, goats, sheep, poultry, etc., the total annual output of meat 43,000 tons. The county's forest network covers an area of 1.26 million mu, and it is one of the "Top Ten Counties" in Henan Province and one of the "Top One Hundred Counties" in the country for afforestation and greening of the plains. The total income of agricultural economy is 1.932 billion yuan.
Commercial Investment
There are 3,878 commercial outlets of various types, employing 11,977 people, realizing retail sales of consumer goods of 1.095 billion yuan, and completing the tertiary value-added of 680 million yuan in 2003, attracting a total investment of 340 million yuan, including 120 million yuan of foreign capital. There are 17,937 registered non-public enterprises, with fixed assets of 695 million yuan, output value of 5.57 billion yuan and profit tax of 550 million yuan.
Infrastructure
Convenient transportation within the territory of the road network crisscrossing the 106 National Highway, Ningxi Railway and the construction of the A deep highway through the territory, the village through the oil road project is being implemented, is now an average of 42 kilometers of highway per 100 square kilometers. County program-controlled telephone installed more than 53,000 doors, all villages all realize telephone program-controlled. Mobile users have reached 15,000 households. The pace of urban construction continues to accelerate. Completion of the old city renovation of 180,000 square meters, the new urban area of 125,000 square meters, urban and rural living conditions have generally improved, urban per capita housing 16.7 square meters, rural per capita housing 14.5 square meters, urban landscaping area of 250,000 square meters, accounting for 28% of the urban area. Power supply is sufficient, is the only county in the city with two 110 kV substations.
Science, education, culture and health
There are 10,906 professional and technical personnel of various types. Among them, 390 people with senior titles, 2,474 people with intermediate titles, and 8,042 people with junior titles. By the end of 2003, *** the establishment of five private scientific research and development institutions, the implementation of 56 scientific and technological projects, the development of science and technology, 18 new products, apply for patents, 26, with 48 achievements awarded by the state, provinces and municipalities, and scientific and technological progress contribution rate of 38%. There are more modern library and cultural facilities, closed-circuit television has been able to cover all the villages in the county, with a county TV station and a radio station each. There are 8 literary and art associations with more than 300 members. Various kinds of works have been published in national, provincial and municipal newspapers and magazines and won awards. The county has 401 schools at all levels, with 195,000 students, the enrollment rate of elementary school reaches 100%, the enrollment rate of junior high school reaches 99.7%, and the consolidation rate of "two bases" reaches 100% in elementary school and 97.5% in junior high school. The county has 29 various types of medical institutions, 2,310 professional health technicians, an average of 25.3 doctors per 10,000 people, per 10,000 people have 4.1 beds. Medical equipment is advanced.
Famous specialties
Xi County is rich in products and has many famous specialties. There are mainly fragrant rice pills, rest half-summer, rest lime, pigs, yellow cattle, red hemp, etc., mineral resources in limestone, yellow sand reserves are rich. Red hemp to pull strong, long fiber, color white, soft texture, moisture absorption is well known, large planting area, production ranked first in the national county list, pig color and taste good, tender meat, high lean meat rate, in Hong Kong and Macao market for a long time enjoys a good reputation. Xixian fragrant rice pills round as pearls, bright color, fragrance, best-selling at home and abroad. Fragrant Rice Tribute Wine has won the Gold Medal of the World Famous Wine Selection in Paris, the National "Ziwei Cup" Prize and the "Yellow River Cup" Prize of Henan Province, and is one of the top ten famous wines in Henan Province. Xixian Lime is famous for its Xi ash, which has long occupied the market of Henan, Hubei and Anhui provinces. Xixian half-summer to a large, good color, powder, weight, efficacy and other characteristics, famous at home and abroad, is one of the key national exports of traditional Chinese medicine.
Humanities
Pugong Mountain is located on the south bank of Huaihe River, which is regarded as "the first peak in the southeast" by Su Dongpo, a poet of Song Dynasty. There are dozens of provincial, local and county cultural relics protection units in the territory, such as the ruins of the old city of Xi Zhou, the ruins of Qin Lou and the ruins of the old city of Lai Zhou. Ancient interest in the state Yamen bawl was built in the Yuan Dynasty Yuanzhen yuan (1295), 9 meters high, an area of 414.5 square meters, the whole building of three pillars, corridors on all four sides, green, green, tiles reflecting the stone, spectacular.
Entering the twenty-first century, the opening of the Xixi County, everywhere vibrant, economic and social development by leaps and bounds. Xixian county party committee, the county government is united and lead the county million people strive to build a harmonious Xixian. Under the guidance of the scientific concept of development, a large number of reserves on the economic and social development of Xixian County, a very strategic project.
XiXian dialect, festivals, rituals
XiXian is located in the southern edge of the Huanghuai Basin, the dialect is the northern dialect, while part of the Wu and Chu dialects into the components. In general, the Xixian dialect is one of the Jianghuai sub-dialects of the northern dialects. With the continuous progress of the society and external communication, Putonghua is gradually popularized, and it is widely used in the process of official business, commerce and performance.
I. Xixian dialect, examples of special vocabulary are as follows:
1. Name
Po'er The place where one sits (mostly chairs and stools). Jiuwotou: a self-deprecating old man with no children
Lu Dazi The way out of the water house. The first is a small, but very small, and it's not a big deal. Worms: earthworms. Object:Thing
Slope cowpea Cowpea. Dream child:retarded person. Widow:A bachelor. Yiexiong (去球)勒:人或事情不行了
砍干子宝 A form of - (usually divided into pairs and dry)
Hobo 衣服口袋. The two cakes: glasses. Xumi: good-looking Sweet pole: sugar cane.
Dung Yuanzi: shallow bamboo basket for picking up dung Toothdog: male dog Shimoji: foundation building Chicken son-in-law's eyes: poor night vision.
2. Personality, title
Da : father . Old Godfather:Father-in-law Old Godmother:Mother-in-law .
Dada : Great-uncle .
Hua Niang : Little Auntie.
3. Daily Life
KeRi Eat (also called "DoFunLeHaiFunLe" in some places)
ShouLi persuade people to eat vegetables; Chopsticks to hold vegetables.
Not very good Generalized (also called: not very good)
Holland egg A whole raw egg boiled in its shell (loose).
Black rice, supper, pea butter: flat, fried peas served with noodles.
Hand Dunk A kind of offering for burying a dead person held in the hands of one's own daughter and made with chopsticks on top of rice in a dunking bottle
Filial Tent A kind of offering for burying a dead person held by one's juniors and made with white cloth and bamboo poles
Filial Handkerchief A piece of white cloth given to every relative and friend of a dead person for burying a dead person
Daggershead A kind of offering for burying a dead person on the evening of the 30th night of the New Year or the 10th night of the 1st month of the lunar calendar.
Well, yes (affirmative answer)
Send the lamp on the night of the New Year's Eve or the night of the first month of October, go to the rent grave and burn paper and incense, offer the head of the knife, and set off firecrackers to commemorate the rent ancestors
Shouting the color A kind of bridegroom's head when men and women get married
Set off the cannon 1 set off the firecrackers, 2 refer to the mines to press to set off the 0 to blow up stones, 3 the tires, 4 play mahjong to point the cannon, 5 the men and women-
Hey, bite the flow of crooked: a kind of Verbal (a move table surprise)
Give you not to put beans ah son: (insulting) table cursing the meaning
Ri his sister: a verbal cow hanging two: refers to someone very cow
ram: with a thick stick to beat. Kuo: to hit with a thin stick. rou: to hit with the back of the hand.
Baixing: Don't be too happy
Runner: A woman who is looking for a man.
Sack, dirty, poorly lived.
Chattering
Discrediting what someone says (not correct or reasonable and not different from oneself)
What do you do
You're really slack A lot of meanings, there are different meanings in different contexts, for example, to say that what you do is very personalized can be said that you're really slack, and if you say something very humorous we can say that you're really slack, for example, to say that someone is very bad, we can say that you're really slack, and to say that someone is very bad, we can say that you're really slack, and to say that someone is very bad. For example, if you say someone is very bad, we can say: he is the most slack! This word is very versatile and can mean different things when said in different tones!
Gun egg (bump egg) This meaning also has a lot, for example, a few townships south of the Huaihe River, the meaning is usually that someone is very humorous to say something very interesting, very few cases to say that other people are very bad, but in the vast north of the Huaihe River, their side of the meaning is that someone is very bad, and very 0! (There is a deliberate attempt to find a fork in the road to stir up trouble)
Making a bird [diao} ah (Huainan called: make touching wake up) Ask an acquaintance what he is doing
Alas, yo'er come (some called: Missy sea) usually expressed surprise, verbally. Go to hell: forget it.
5, the new era of popular language
Face of the (Hong Kong and Tian) motorized tricycle passenger load cattle: fashionable avant-garde.
Preparatory meetings, pre-wedding drinks and meals, greasing the skids: extra favors.
Karaoke Singing on a VCD stereo Brainstorming: acting or talking out of turn.
Plugging: Giving money or goods to someone who has the power to make things go smoothly.
Two, the festival
The Spring Festival, the festival for the first day of the first month of the lunar calendar, also known as New Year's Day. Modern people pay their respects to their elders during the Spring Festival.
Shangyuan Festival, the festival for the first month of the lunar calendar on the 15th, also known as the Lantern Festival. Xixian people since ancient times this special attention, so there is a "fifteen big like the year" said. People used to eat "lunch" before dark. Eat festival meal marks the festival, so there is "early fifteen, late under the year" custom. The social crowd to celebrate the Lantern Festival is held from the night of the day, the form of hanging lanterns in front of the door; large market towns, fireworks, light shows, play dragon and lion dance, remote villages, children with lanterns get together to play, etc., before and after the three days, often play until late at night before and after the dispersal. Now on the sixteenth day of the first month, take the girl back to her mother's home is quite popular.
Ching Ming Festival, the festival in the early March of the lunar calendar, around April 5 on the Gregorian calendar, is the day of sweeping the ancestors, but also the spring farming season, the rice area began to [soak rice seeds. The custom of inserting a few tender willow branches at the entrance of each household, with willow leaves on the head.
Duanwu Festival, Festival of the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, also known as the Dragon Boat Festival. The significance of celebrating the Duanwu Festival is to honor Qu Yuan. It means that every family with glutinous rice, bamboo pants leaves wrapped triangular rows of zongzi, door inserted moxa, lighting calamus to drive away poisonous insects, drink - wine.
Kiln Festival, Festival in the seventh month of the lunar calendar. Legend has it that the date of the meeting of the cowherd and the weaving maiden, is the night of the girls look at the cowherd and the weaving maiden star, secretly wishing and praying, hoping to match the ideal partner. Young boys and girls, so day and night mouth biting the root of the loofah, can hear Cowherd and the Weaving Maiden speak, is nonsense.
Mid-Autumn Festival, the festival on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the 15th day of the eighth month for the three fall just half, the golden wind recommended cool, ripe fruits and melons, Dan Gui fragrance, autumn harvest to the warehouse, the silver toad full of light, a good opportunity to enjoy the moon. This festival is a good opportunity to enjoy the moon. It is a traditional custom to celebrate the fruits of a year's hard work with a good festival. On this day and night, families reunite, eat moon cakes, fresh fruits, burnt buns, enjoy the bright moon, drink good wine, and take advantage of the moonlight to the field "touch the autumn".
The Chongyang Festival, the festival on the ninth day of the ninth month of the lunar calendar, the ancient forms of this festival are to climb the cornelian cherry, brewing chrysanthemum wine, making cakes to honor the teacher, the reverse female repentance, and so on.
La Ba Festival, the festival in the lunar calendar on December 8, families do "La Ba congee" (glutinous rice, jujubes, lotus seeds, beans, sugar and other boiled and made) to eat. Laha is also a good day to get married.
Small year, the festival in the lunar calendar on December 23, the small year is mainly for the sacrifice of the God of the stove, for its farewell. According to folk customary beliefs, the stove God is the heaven sent to each household to preside over the small God, once a year in the night of the New Year to return to heaven, to report to the Jade Yellow Emperor folk situation, and receive the second year of the will, on the night of the New Year to return to the home. Each family kills the old rooster on the day of enlightenment, gives the god of the stove as a horse, replaces the new stove calendar, burns the old calendar, meaning to welcome the wonderful new year, makes rice candy, sets out food and wine, so that the god of the stove, "the sky to say good things, and down to the ground to keep the peace". When it gets dark, incense is burned and firecrackers are fired to send the Zaoshen to heaven. Send away the god of the stove, the family into the table, celebrate the New Year. To the New Year's night, it is necessary to burn incense and firecrackers to meet the God of the stove a move, this custom people attach great importance to this.
Da Nian, the year in the lunar calendar December 30 (or 29), also known as New Year's Eve. The New Year's Eve is the grandest festival of the year. Into the waxing moon began to prepare for the New Year's food and clothing, so-called "do New Year's goods", will be cleaned up indoors and outdoors, implying that there is "in addition to the old year," the meaning of. Towns and cities have a full range of goods in stores, stacking stalls and shelves for customers to choose, farmers will be agricultural and sideline, local specialties to the market sales, and then buy back the required New Year's goods, presenting the prosperity of the purchase and sale of the New Year's Day, so that the New Year's atmosphere is even more intense. Near the New Year, on the twenty-seventh, eight days, began to fry fish, meat and chicken in oil, known as "over oil". On the morning of the third day of the New Year (or the twenty-ninth day), they began to change the talismans, paste the door god (spring couplets), and replace the center hall and the god's ancestral tablets. There are also poor families in the twenty-eighth on the door on the God, so there are "twenty-eight, stick flowers" folk proverb. Early posting of the meaning of the door god is to refuse to pay the bill to the door, folklore, "the door god posted on the door to pay the bill does not enter the door" of the precepts. On the night of New Year's Eve, set up incense case list pig head (or large knife meat), wine, food, fruit, incense burning paper firecrackers, the family to generation, the age of the size of the kneeling cushion kowtow. Then, the family ate a New Year's Eve reunion dinner, New Year's Eve dinner is as much as possible, in order to sumptuous as well. After the meal removed, the parents sit in the middle of the house above, the younger generation in turn kowtow to the old man "resignation", the old man rewarded "New Year's money". New Year's Eve night sleepless night, known as the "old age" (or known as guarding the coat). After five incense burners, parents to the house in front of the door, burning paper, incense and firecrackers, for "receiving the New Year" (welcome the God of Wealth). After the establishment of the Chinese people's **** and the country, the traditional lunar holidays, from the original feudal superstitions as the main content of the form, and gradually transformed into a family reunion, eat a sumptuous feast, friends and relatives to visit each other, set up a banquet, to show that the festival celebrations, but there are many older people, there are still worship activities, more than held in public. In addition to the traditional holidays in the lunar calendar, the new holidays named after the Gregorian calendar, and gradually for people to pay attention to. January 1 for New Year's Day, March 8 for Women's Day, March 12 for Arbor Day, May 1 for International Labor Day, May 4 for Youth Day, June 1 for Children's Day, July 1 for the anniversary of China 0, August 1 for the founding of the People's Liberation Army, September 10 for Teachers' Day, October 1 for the People's Republic of China, when the government or the unit to organize collective celebrations. .
Three, etiquette
New Year's gift, since ancient times, in the Spring Festival at the time of leisure, each other, visit friends and relatives, honor the long long division, known as "New Year's". From the first day of the first month to the sixteenth, the New Year's Eve was prevalent, the first to the fifth for the peak of the New Year's Eve, sixteen years after the New Year's Eve, called "late New Year's Eve", out of the first month of each other no longer called the New Year's Eve. To the main relatives to pay New Year's visit in the order of: "the first uncle (uncle), the second uncle, the third and fourth father-in-law", that is, the first, the second to the clan and the maternal family elders to pay tribute to the New Year, after the fourth, the secondary relatives, friends began to pay tribute to each other. Worship, most of them have to bring a few packages of cakes, brown sugar and other gifts. The new son-in-law to the father-in-law, mother-in-law to pay the first New Year's Day, to bring a relatively rich gift (returned in the original envelope), where to pay a guest to the home, the host should be prepared for a sumptuous reception, when leaving, the host will only accept a part of the gift, the rest to stay as a "pressure basket bottom", the host and the new son-in-law and the children to pay the guest string of money. Between peers or friends first for the young to the elderly home to pay New Year's Eve, the person must be worshipped back, otherwise it is impolite. The younger generation to pay homage to the "kowtow", the same generation to pay homage to the "bow", modern homage to the New Year are changed to shake hands and greetings.
The Spring Festival elders to the younger generation, especially children to the string of money, also known as New Year's money. Since the reform and opening up, with the vast majority of people's standard of living improved many people give children on New Year's Eve to feed the gold, less than a few hundred dollars, more than a thousand dollars. And compare each other, such phenomenon is wasteful, but also uncivilized, easy to affect the growth of children.
Wedding etiquette, since the reform and opening up, Xixi County, the basic form of the new style of marriage etiquette, the marriage of the two sides need to hold ID cards to the civil affairs department for marriage registration procedures, to receive a marriage certificate to take effect, the wedding has a wedding officiating, witnesses, witnesses speech, the newlyweds to the attending comrades bow, the couples bow to each other, introduce their own love, please comrades to eat the candy to the guests to toast, and that the mutual respect and love in the future. Another form of marriage tourism, that is, after the newlyweds receive a marriage certificate, or organized by the public collectively, or let them move freely, to the big cities or famous mountain and water resorts to spend the wedding holiday, known as the "honeymoon". But in the countryside, there are still matchmakers, parents are strong when the old custom of engagement, parents are often women for the noble, to the suitors for a lot of money, the other side of the daughter-in-law to the door, is already penniless, high debt. Some of the family difficulties, looking forward to the daughter-in-law eager, by ingenious, came up with a bride for a trick, bride for a bride is a child of the two families, and the age of the bride, can reduce the bride price, but often due to feelings of bad and cause adverse consequences.
The birth of the gift of celebration, the generations of boys known as big happiness, birth of women to become a small happiness. Whether it is a big or small happiness, friends and relatives to send gifts to congratulate, the host to gift banquet reception. The main gifts are oil sticks, deep-fried noodle cakes, eggs, hens, brown sugar and children's clothes, but now they are mostly money. Women's maternity leave usually lasts for one month, so it is called "sitting on the moon", and after one month, it is called "full moon". Women in the menstrual period, taboo into other people's homes, more forbidden to enter the door of his house, the wrongdoers have to make amends and apologies, and a place to burn paper and incense firecrackers, known as the "sacrifice house", women give birth to children taboo in the mother's home (with the exception of those who joined the family)
Build a house house housewarming gift, build a house for a major event in life. After several years of savings and material preparation, choose the right foundation, design a good-looking affordable style, build a house to build a house are hoping to be durable and strong, living in a safe and comfortable, to avoid accidents in the construction and living, in order to seek good luck, so in the beams or the top, paste the couplets (with red paper or red silk, written on the "Jiang Taigong here, all things forbidden" or "lucky stars shine brightly"). "Auspicious Star" and other words), sprinkle rain (or point red steamed buns), zoom in on the whip, both to express celebration, but also means good luck. And build a house must be set up to drink stove, to be residential stove completed, moved into a new home, friends and relatives more meat and wine to congratulate the housewarming, commonly known as "prairie pot bottom", is now more for the delivery of money. There are some of the elegant and elegant people, decorating the level, then set up funds to engrave a plaque to give, the plaque is wooden, red low gold characters, the book "Ruiying Huatang" and other words, for the new house more colorful.
Entering the 1990s, some of the workers, back to the village to build a new home, but due to the long years away, built that is left, the formation of empty homes, the formation of waste.
Opening a business, getting a college or university, enlisting in the army, getting promoted, getting promoted, and being sent abroad, friends and relatives have been giving gifts or money to the family to congratulate them. People more in the celebration, to sound the whip to show the public, set up a banquet. This kind of gift giving, mutual comparison, gifts are getting heavier and heavier, has caused an important burden of daily expenditure expenditure. Some people have gone into debt.
Funeral rites, since the reform and opening up, Xixi County, all urban cremation, rural areas and national policy allows (for example, because of religious beliefs of different people) is still mainly burial. The family has a funeral, first of all, please hold things, Xixian commonly known as holding things guest, **** business burial matters. Usually, the funeral is suspended for three days (there are also 4-7 days), family and friends to come to the funeral. After cremation, the urn is buried in the grave. Afterwards a funeral banquet is held to give thanks.
December 2020, 2020 China's top ten food safety counties list was released, Xixian County ranked 1st.
In March 2019, Xixian County was on the list of 2018 National Basic Balanced Counties (Cities and Districts) for Compulsory Education Development.
In March 2019, Xixi County was included in the list of counties in the first batch of revolutionary cultural relics protection and utilization area (EYA area).
In January 2019, the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development recognized Xixian County as the third batch of demonstration counties (cities and districts) in the country to take the lead in basically realizing the mechanization of the whole process of major crop production.
In 2004, Xixian was ranked 74th among the top 100 counties in the country for grain production.