The history and culture of Quangang District

Quangang is surrounded by mountains and seas, with smooth land and water since ancient times, and is in the transitional zone between Minnan language family and Puxian language family. The particularity of dialect and geography has caused the diversity and uniqueness of its folk art, which has become the nest of fascination and banter for Chinese and foreign artists. The local folk operas include xiang opera, Gaojia Opera, Puxian Opera, Puppet Opera, Nanyin Opera and Beiguan Opera. At the same time, Quangang people can flexibly use these operas to perform various large and medium-sized performances according to local conditions. Xiangjiang River is the abbreviation of Fujian Jiulong River when it flows through Zhangzhou. Xiang opera, as its name implies, is a local opera popular in Xiangjiang River area of Zhangzhou. Its footprints spread all over southern Fujian, Taiwan Province Province and other areas and overseas Chinese communities in Southeast Asia. Xiang opera is a relatively young opera among the major local operas in Fujian. Its predecessor is Taiwan Province Gezi Opera, which is a new type of opera formed by integrating and absorbing various folk art forms such as Jin songs, car drums and Zhangzhou tea picking, and later introduced to Siping Opera, Bai Zixi and Peking Opera in Taiwan Province Province. Therefore, xiang opera in southern Fujian and Taiwanese opera in Taiwan Province Province have the same roots.

Xiang opera in Quangang takes Zhangzhou dialect as its opera cavity, and traditional xiang opera Qupai and percussion music mainly take Beijing-style gongs and drums, with a basic outline similar to that of Taiwan Province Gezi Opera. Xiang opera was introduced into Huang Qian area the night before liberation, and was quickly accepted by Quangang people. The performance stopped in 1960s, and 1978 rose again, reaching its peak in 1980s and 1990s. Seven-star lanterns are auspicious lanterns in the folk customs of Yuanxiao in Fengwei and Huang Qian mountain villages. People think that this kind of lantern can protect your son's early birth. It is a gorgeous hexagonal lampshade, hanging from the top of a bamboo pole more than ten feet high, with a paper lantern tied to each corner, commonly known as the chief lantern, and some still paste a paper crane with its head held high at the top of the lampshade. Different villages have different rituals and customs to worship the Seven-Star Lantern. For example, after Zhang Cun, the seven-star lamp was supplied at home until Wednesday, and then the chief lamp was given to the married uneducated people, and the rest were incinerated; In the area around the dam head, there is a newly posted seven-star lantern dedicated to 15 to thank the gods; At the peak, the seven-star lanterns are arranged in a bamboo pole, hung in front of the door for three days to worship, and then incinerated.

Some villages on the mountainside will also hold a seven-star lantern festival. At the beginning of the Lantern Festival in China, after the salute sounded three times, the lantern bearers held seven-star lanterns and danced towards many lantern snatchers in the square. When six chief lanterns, such as the lantern snatcher, passed overhead, they jumped up to grab the lanterns, colliding with each other for a while and shouting happily for a while. The winner of the chief lantern smiled and took them home for sacrifice. The folk activity of grabbing the seven-star lantern has gradually disappeared since the Cultural Revolution, but since the 1980s, some folk artists have absorbed its cultural connotation and created folk songs and dances according to the unique scene of this folk activity. The old artist's song and dance "Seven Stars" is a dance music. The famous tune "Gui Zi Tu" of Nanyin and Beiguan is selected as the dance music, accompanied by suona and percussion music, which makes the whole dance present a jubilant atmosphere, especially the roles of ugly men, ugly women, old people, girls and children in the dance, showing lively, nervous, funny and elegant scenes with different dances. 1986 "Seven Stars Lamp" was processed and rehearsed by Huian Gaojia Troupe and participated in the national folk music and dance competition, and won the first prize for creation, performance and director.

Artists also used the seven-star lamp to drill into a seven-star lamp street show and participated in some large-scale street singing and dancing activities in the urban area. The girls who took part in the street parade wore red traditional costumes, holding a red gauze lamp in their hands, and wearing golden round props on their heads, which were decorated with six small paper lamps. Entering the Tuling Furnace in Quangang, you can see an abrupt mushroom-shaped stone, which is famous at home and abroad and is called "Jade-mending Day". Quangang people say that "jade is in the sky", which embodies the spirit of Quangang people and symbolizes their hard work and momentum.

Quangang District, Quanzhou City, Fujian Province is a bright pearl embedded in the layout of the economic zone on the west side of the Taiwan Strait. There is not only a national large-scale petrochemical base, but also a salt field with a history of more than 200 years-hillside salt field.

Shanpo Salt Field is located in the south bank of Meizhou Bay, Fujian Province, with an existing production area of 90,000 mu, an annual output value of 27 million yuan and an annual tax payment of 6.5 million yuan. It is one of the designated salt production enterprises in China 107 and the largest salt (carrier salt) production and export base in Fujian Province. Dongyue Temple is located opposite Guifeng Primary School in Chengfeng Village, Fengwei Town, Quangang District, Quanzhou City. Shag in the north and Huang Feng in the south, it has been a coastal defense fortress since ancient times. In the 20th year of Hongwu in the Ming Dynasty (A.D. 1387), in order to prevent the invasion of Japanese invaders, the city wall, namely Fengwei City, was built, with the top of the old city in the east of the city high, and the beacon tower of Yandun was built. Dongyue Temple was built just outside the south gate, facing south, covering an area of 668 square meters.

Located at the eastern end of Shage Village, Nanpu Town, Quangang District, Quanzhou City, with Meizhou Bay in the north. It was built in the Yuan Dynasty (1314-1368) to worship the sea god Tian Fei. It was built in the fifth year of Guangxu in Qing Dynasty (1879), facing south, with a width of18m from east to west and a depth of 22m from north to south, covering an area of more than 500 square meters. Erjin consists of a mountain gate, a worship pavilion, two corridors and a main hall. The main hall is five rooms wide and three rooms deep, with double eaves resting on the top of the mountain, and there is a big wooden plaque of "Tianhai Hou Yuan" erected by Hu Wen, a magistrate of Hui 'an County in the 47th year of Qing Qianlong (1782). Baiting is a double eaves and octagonal caisson structure at the top of Xieshan Mountain. There are five pairs of diabase and granite carved stone pillars in the palace, all of which are fine works of Hui 'an stone carving art in Qing Dynasty.