Customs and taboos in Shaoyang
On the morning of the first day of the first lunar month, you must eat fried glutinous rice cakes to pay New Year greetings to neighbors. On the second day of the first lunar month, the daughter gets married and goes back to her parents’ home to pay New Year greetings. .
Boiled eggs with shepherd’s purse on March 3rd.
During the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, the son-in-law sends rice dumplings to Yue’s house, making rice dumplings with mugwort and boiling mugwort for bathing. Shaodong also calls the fifth day of May the Little Dragon Boat Festival and the fifteenth day of the fifth month the Big Dragon Boat Festival. There is also a custom of making rice dumplings, but it is not as popular as the Little Dragon Boat Festival.
It is a new custom to harvest early rice in June, but it is now rare.
On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, a beggar child worships a small bridge in the countryside as his mother, and is called the bridge mother. It is said that children can thrive in this way. The Hungry Ghost Festival begins around the tenth day of July. Setting off firecrackers and burning paper money to welcome the deceased ancestors is called welcoming old guests. Setting off firecrackers and burning paper money on the 14th day of July to send them away is called seeing off old guests. During this period, paper is burned every day and glutinous rice cakes are made with overcooked mung beans as fillings and wrapped in tung leaves, which is called tung leaf cake.
Mid-Autumn Festival on August 15th.
The Double Ninth Festival, the ninth day of September, is just about respecting the elderly.
December 24th is called the Little Year, and every family cleans up and celebrates it grandly. After the Little New Year, people begin to pound glutinous rice cakes and kill New Year pigs. According to popular legend, those who die after the Little New Year are harvested by the King of Hell by mistake for the New Year Pig. Therefore, the bereaved family will not announce the funeral until after the fifth year of the New Year. The whole family gets together on New Year's Eve. In the countryside, the reunion usually takes place at noon.
In addition, Shaoyang’s customary banquet is held at noon.
Shaoyang’s culture and art
Hunan Qi Opera
The most widely circulated local drama in Shaoyang is Qi Opera. Qi Opera is one of the major local dramas in Hunan. It is also called Qiyang Troupe. It was called "Qiyang Opera" in the early years of the Republic of China and "Chunan Opera" in the late Qing Dynasty. It got its name because it was formed in Qiyang. Qi Opera is widely popular in Qiyang, Hengyang, Shaoyang, Yongzhou, Chenzhou, Huaihua and other regions in Hunan Province, as well as in Quanzhou, Guilin, Pingle, Liuzhou, southern Jiangxi, northern Guangdong, and western Fujian in the Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Qi Opera has three types of tunes: Gaoqiang, Kunqiang and Tanqiang. During the development process, it gradually formed two major schools, Yonghe and Baohe. Their stage language all uses Qiyang dialect.
Shaoyang Flower Drum Opera
Shaoyang Flower Drum Opera was formerly known as "Huagu". Hunan folk drama originated in Shaoyang County in the old days. It was called Shaoyang Flower Drum Opera in the 1950s. It is mainly popular in Shaoyang City and Shaodong, Xinshao, Shaoyang, Longhui, Dongkou, Xinhua and other counties and cities. It uses Baohe style opera of Qi Opera combined with Shaoyang local language as the stage language. In the 1950s, it was named "Shaoyang Flower Drum Opera". The music of Shaoyang Flower Drum Opera originated from local folk songs and ditties. During its development, it was influenced by Qi Opera music, religious music and rap music. The performance style is humorous, lively, bright and clear.
Baoqing Bamboo Carving
Baoqing Bamboo Carving is a folk craft that combines appreciation and practicality, emerging from practical bamboo crafts. On May 20, 2006, this heritage was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists.
Tantou New Year Pictures
Tantou New Year Pictures are the only handmade woodblock watermarked New Year pictures in Hunan Province. They are produced in Longhui Tantou Town, Shaoyang. Longhuitantou New Year paintings were formed in the Li Shimin era of the Tang Dynasty and have a history of more than 1,300 years. Gao Lamei, the last generation successor, created 29 versions of New Year pictures, including one version of "Mouse Marriage". Mr. Lu Xun specifically described the beach New Year painting "Mouse Marriage" in "Morning Blossoms Plucked at Dusk" and regarded the painting as a treasure. This painting is also collected by the British Museum. In 2002, Tantou New Year paintings were included in the first batch of projects of China’s folk cultural heritage rescue project. In June 2006, the Tantou New Year paintings were listed as the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage items.
Shaoyang’s tourist attractions
Xinshao Baishui Cave Baishui Cave Scenic Area is located in Xinshao County, central Hunan, and the core scenic spot is in Baishui Village, Yantang Town. There are more than 480 scenic spots in the scenic area, 30 first-class scenic spots, and 8 provincial and municipal key protected cultural relics. Natural landscapes include "high gorges and flat lakes", "flowing springs and waterfalls", "underground caves", "a line of sky", "dongtianmen", "white dragon cave", etc. The cultural landscape includes temples, ancestral halls, archways, ancient tombs, former residences of celebrities, etc. Among them, the relatively well-preserved ancient battlefield sites of the Taiping Heavenly Kingdom, the Anti-Japanese War sites, and the former residences of celebrities such as Li Chendian, Liu Cecheng, Liao Yaoxiang, Li Wen, and Li Gongwang.
Xinshao Baishui Cave
Chengbu Nanshan Ranch is located 80 kilometers southwest of Chengbu County. The scenic spot is located in the southern section of the Xuefeng Mountains, stretching for more than 40 kilometers. It is known as the Eight Ten miles away from Danan Mountain. She is uniquely endowed with an average altitude of 1,760 meters, 48 ??pings and 48 streams.
Chengbu Nanshan
Longhui Huayao Chongmutang Village is located in Huxingshan Yao Township. There are acres of ancient woods with thousands of years of history in the village and hundreds of Yao residential wooden buildings. The oldest one is the house of the second generation ancestor of the Shen family who moved here. It has four doors and three rooms, each with only three columns on the ground. It covers an area of ??about 100 square meters. It has been well preserved after more than 200 years of wind and rain. There are dozens of scenic spots such as groups of ancient trees, seals of generals, fox fairies welcoming guests, golden turtles laying eggs, bandits' nests, wooden fish stones, and sky-eye stones.
Longhui Huayao
Suining Huangsang Huangsang Nature Reserve is located in the southwest of Suining County, with a length of 25 kilometers from north to south, a maximum width of 19.5 kilometers from east to west, and a forest area of ??255,000 acres. , including 235,000 acres of primary secondary forest. In Huangsang Scenic Area, you can visit the Main Gate Reservoir, Quyou Valley, Liu'edong Waterfall, Jiuxichong, Yuanyang Island, Shangbao Ancient Country, Hemlock Forest, Niupotou, etc. Aluminum medicinal materials include Ganoderma lucidum, Gastrodia elata, Codonopsis pilosula, Rock fungus, etc. There are more than ten kinds of animals that belong to the first and second categories of national protection. There is the South China tiger, known as the "King of Beasts", which can produce musk that is more valuable than gold; there are the "Eagle-billed Turtle", and rare rare birds such as the Golden Pheasant.
Wugang Yunshan Yunshan, a famous mountain in southwestern Hunan, belongs to the remnants of Xuefeng Mountain. Located 5 kilometers south of Wugang City, stretching for dozens of miles from east to west, it is adjacent to the boundaries of Wugang, Xinning and Chengbu counties. The highest peak is 1372.5 meters above sea level, and the annual average temperature is 15°C. With its rich natural resources and rich historical civilization, Yunshan was listed as a national nature reserve in 1982. In September 1992, it was approved by the former Ministry of Forestry to establish a national forest park.
The scenic area has more than 500 important scenic spots that have been discovered and named, including three major caves and a virgin forest, with a total area of ??108 square kilometers. It is a typical Danxia landform. It is a world natural heritage, a national geological park, and a national AAAAA-level scenic spot. .
The former residence of Wei Yuan in Longhui The former residence of Wei Yuan is located on the sandbank in Xuetangwan Village, Simenqian Town, Longhui County. It is a wooden quadrangle with two main and two horizontal sides. There is a wooden trough door in front of the courtyard and it is surrounded by dry-battered earth walls to form an independent courtyard. It was built around the early Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty. The two main houses and the left wing are both bungalows, with single eaves hanging from the top of the mountain and covered with small green tiles. The main room is five rooms wide and two rooms deep; the left wing is five rooms wide and two rooms deep. The right wing is a two-story building with seven rooms in width and four rooms in depth. The five rooms on the ground floor are all barns, with stairwells at both ends; the second floor is a reading building, the three rooms in the middle are lecture halls, and the two ends are study rooms.
Guide to Shaoyang Tourist Attractions
Chengbu Nanshan
Nanshan, located in the southwest of Chengbu Miao Autonomous County, stretches for more than 80 miles and is known as the Eighty Mile Nanshan. She is uniquely endowed with an average altitude of 1,760 meters, like a piece of green emerald, inlaid on the high mountains on the border of Hunan and Guangxi. There are 48 pings and 48 streams on the pings. The pings are covered with lush grass and clear streams. It has the vastness and majesty of the northern grasslands and the graceful and magical mountains and rivers of the south of the Yangtze River. The 230,000 acres of concentrated and contiguous grassy mountains and grass slopes are known as the "Hulun Buir of the South" and have the largest modern mountain pasture in the South. The annual average temperature in Nanshan is 11°C, and the highest temperature in summer and autumn is only 28°C. It is a scorching summer, but the earth is not hot; there are nine cold winters, and there is no permanent cold. The air is fresh and the soil, atmosphere and water are free from any pollution and public hazards.
Liuguang Lake Scenic Area in Shaodong County
Liuguang Lake was formed by newly built water conservancy. The lake is wide, with clear water, crisscrossed lakes, winding shorelines, rippling blue waves, birds flying and fish leaping, covering an area of ??195 hectares. There is a bridge, three islands, nine wells and eighteen bays inside. The "first bridge" is Duxian Bridge, which is made of strange rocks.
Langshan Scenic Area
Langshan Scenic Area is located in Xinning County, Hunan Province, including Tianyi Lane, Pepper Peak, Fuyi River, Bajiao Village, Zixia Cave, Tianshengqiao Liu Large scenic area, 18 scenic areas, more than 500 important scenic spots have been discovered and named, including three major caves and a virgin forest, with a total area of ??108 square kilometers. It is a typical Danxia landform and is a rare environmentally friendly landscape natural scenic area. . It was approved as a national key scenic spot by the State Council in May 2002, a national geological park by the Ministry of Land and Resources in October 2001, and a national rock climbing training base by the State Sports General Administration in 2000. The name of Langshan Mountain comes from ancient legends. According to legend, Emperor Shun passed by Langshan Mountain during his tour of the south. Seeing the strange scenery here, he gave it the word "Wang".
Huangsang Nature Reserve
Huangsang Nature Reserve is located in the southwest of Suining County, with a length of 25 kilometers from north to south and a maximum width of 19.5 kilometers from east to west. It has a forest area of ??255,000 acres, including primitive There are 235,000 acres of secondary forest. Precious trees, flowers, herbs, and animals, which can be called rare treasures, grow vigorously here. It is a true natural kingdom. Bamboo, the emerald green color, reflects the high-spirited microcomputer, and the empty belly shows the humility of integrity. The ancients said: "Jade can be broken but its whiteness cannot be changed; bamboo can be burned without destroying its integrity." May the bamboo of life remain green forever. Since ancient times, bamboo, pine, and plum have been known as the "Three Friends of the Year". They have been the objects of painters' splashes of ink and the subjects of literati's praises. The stems and leaves of bamboo are beautiful in shape, and the underground bamboo whip is even more interesting.
Jiulong Mountain
Jiulong Mountain is 1,142 meters above sea level. It is located in Yankou Township, northeast of the county, 45 kilometers from the county to the south and 55 kilometers from the ancient city of Baoqing to the east. There is an ancient stone carving in Jiulong Mountain that reads "No Wuling". It shows that its scenery is no less beautiful than Wulingyuan. Here there are lush bamboo trees and boulders. On the east side of the mountain, there is a stone with a lion's head. Viewed from the side, it looks like Gorky looking up at the sky and sighing; viewed from the front, it looks like a lion roaring across the mountains and rivers; viewed from the back, it looks like a camel striding with its head held high, galloping across the desert. Along the mountain, there are swallows on the rocks. The nests are built high and look like milk swallows flying horizontally. On the mountainside, Huangguo Waterfall and Sanzhong Waterfall are powerful and shrouded in white mist. 'The "Heavenly Book with Words" that cannot be understood after hundreds of readings hangs high on the stone wall, and the writing is powerful; the ancient ginkgo trees are connected with each other, lush and green, reaching into the sky. These scenic spots are well-proportioned and distributed on a complete tourist circuit, making tourists dizzy. Along the Golden Cave on the mountain, in a narrow passage shaded by trees, there is a dragon-head stone, an independent mountain top, puffing out clouds and mist, the Jiulongshan Reservoir shaped like a bisnail, embedded in the Qifeng Canyon, and the Jiulong Ancient Temple with the faint sound of Sanskrit. It gives people a sense of pure state of enjoyment; rush to the top of the mountain in the early morning, stand on a huge rock called the Sun Observation Platform, and watch a red sun break through the fog and rise into the sky from a distance. You are all amazed by the magnificence of nature. cheer.
Gaozhou Hot Spring
Gaozhou Hot Spring is located in Hot Spring Village, Jinshiqiao Town, 63 kilometers south of the county seat. The hot spring was first excavated in the Han Dynasty and is famous in Sichuan, Guizhou and Jiangnan areas. According to legend, Emperor Qianlong made a special trip here to swim and bathe during his southern tour. The hot spring gushes out from the natural granite stone, with a daily flow of 242 tons, and a water temperature of 48.5 degrees Celsius. The water contains more than 20 trace elements essential to the human body, including metasilicic acid, and the radon content reaches 1975.8 Bq/L. It is an international medical mineral spring. It is 26.7 times the basic water standard, which is rare in the world; the metasilicic acid content reaches 132mg/liter, which is 3.5 times higher than the international medical mineral water naming standard, ranking first in the country.