Social undertakings in shitai county

By the end of 2008, there were 6 1 primary and secondary schools and 6,404 vocational middle schools, including 9 ordinary middle schools with 6,872 students, an increase of 60 students over the previous year. Vocational middle schools 1 institute, with students 1396, an increase of 159 over the previous year; There are 30 primary schools in urban and rural areas, with 646 students1person, a decrease of 657 students over the previous year; There are 20 kindergartens with 1628 students, an increase of 299 students over the previous year; Special education schools 1 school, with 47 students, 33 fewer than the previous year. Compulsory education has developed steadily, with the primary school enrollment rate of 100%, the junior middle school-age population enrollment rate of 97. 19%, and the senior high school gross enrollment rate of 59.96%. The educational environment and facilities have been gradually improved. The per capita construction area of primary schools is 10.7 square meters, and that of ordinary middle schools is 9.2 square meters. With the continuous improvement of the teaching staff, the qualified rate of senior high school full-time teachers is 92.3 1%, junior high school full-time teachers are 99.07%, and primary school full-time teachers are 65,438+000%.

At the end of 20 12, shitai county association for science and technology had 38 group members (affiliated societies, associations and research institutes), 8 township popular science associations, 79 members and 28 agricultural technology associations, with 1550 members. Held 15 lectures on popular science, with 3300 lecture audiences, held 3 exhibitions on popular science, with exhibition audiences 1400, distributed 3000 copies of popular science propaganda materials, conducted scientific and technological consultation 10, held 8 practical technical trainings, trained 640 trainees and promoted 4 new technologies and varieties. Coverage rate of science and technology going to the countryside and science and education entering the community 100%.

There are 63 primary and secondary schools, kindergartens and vocational middle schools in the county, with students 13723, a decrease of 1323 over the previous year, including 7 ordinary middle schools with 5443 students, a decrease of 486 over the previous year; Vocational middle schools 1 institute, with students 17 18, an increase of 350 over the previous year; There are 30 primary schools in urban and rural areas, with 4906 students, a decrease of 648 over the previous year; There are 24 kindergartens with 1656 students, a decrease from the previous year 173 students; Special education school 1 school, with 0 students. Compulsory education has developed steadily, with the enrollment rate of primary schools reaching 99.83% and the enrollment rate of primary school graduates reaching 93.48%. The enrollment rate of junior high school graduates is 1 18.56%. The educational environment and facilities have been gradually improved. The per capita building area of primary schools is14.3m2, and that of ordinary middle schools is 3 1. 1 m2. The qualified rate of senior high school full-time teachers is 9 1.84%, junior high school full-time teachers are 99.06%, and primary school full-time teachers are 100%. In 20 12, there were 7 social welfare adoption units 17 in shitai county, with a building area of 19098 square meters, beds103/piece and 803 hospital staff. The total number of people receiving pensions and subsidies is 688. Urban residents 1990, rural residents 6645.

The county participated in 6,343 basic old-age insurance for urban workers, 3,800 unemployment insurance, 9,503 urban basic medical insurance, 6,605 industrial injury insurance and 6,000 maternity insurance. 67,800 people participated in rural social endowment insurance. The registered unemployment rate of employees in the county is 3.7%. Diet: The staple food is rice and flour. On holidays, we eat noodles, glutinous rice cakes and jiaozi. Dishes have a heavy taste, like hot and sour, and often use pepper as seasoning. In winter, every family pickled vegetables, bacon, dried vegetables and made tofu milk. Like to eat casserole stew, commonly known as "eat stove pot." Residents are used to drinking green tea.

Residential buildings: The residential buildings are mainly brick and wood structures. This building is very particular about the orientation of the building foundation. In the past, when building a house, Mr. Geography was asked to orient the door with a compass. If the door is unlucky because of the terrain, move one side of the door inward until it faces the "auspicious" direction. This custom is still popular in rural areas, and people pay more attention to sitting in a position facing south. Building a house and erecting a beam is regarded as a major event by the people, so it is necessary to choose an auspicious day, friends and relatives should give gifts to congratulate them, and the main house will host a banquet to entertain guests.

Etiquette: People are polite. According to the county records, all "crowns, weddings, funerals and sacrifices" should be given gifts, and the names are complicated. Nowadays, in addition to items, gifts are often given with red envelopes. In addition, the etiquette and customs of folk weddings and funerals (commonly known as "weddings and funerals") are still complicated.

Wedding greetings: relatives and friends send greetings, cigarettes, wine, money and cakes to the man's home; Sending clothes, quilts, pillows and toiletries to the woman's home is called "persuading marriage".

Funeral: relatives and friends send incense foil, food, elegiac couplets, etc. And the children's in-laws also send beans and rice. Now most people send cigarettes, wine, quilts and wreaths.

Birthday ceremony: when the elderly celebrate their birthdays (generally 60 years old), relatives and friends will generally send birthday couplets, peaches, noodles, tonics and clothes, birthday cakes, etc.

Moon-closing ceremony: Before the baby is born, relatives and friends will present old hens, eggs, noodles, glutinous rice, dried beans, children's clothes, etc. , which is the so-called "moon ceremony". The lying-in woman eats meals from her husband's relatives in the first half of the month and her parents' relatives in the second half. Today, the ceremony of giving birth is still popular, but the ceremony of pregnant women sharing food has been abolished.

Building ceremony: friends and relatives present HongLing, cigarettes, wine and other congratulations when building a house. When they live in a new house, they send a message of "housewarming", and relatives and friends distribute rice as a gift to show "good wishes". Shitai has a long history of growing tea. According to the literature, among the 26 kinds of famous teas in Song Dynasty, there were two kinds produced in shitai county at that time, namely "Xianzhi" and "Nenrui".

In the 4th year of the Republic of China (19 15), after "Qi Hong" won the gold medal of Panama World Expo, the county became the main producing area of "Qi Hong". By the end of 1986, the tea garden area in the county was 78,500 mu, and the output was 2,355 tons, of which the black tea output accounted for 90% of the total tea output in the county.

Since 1988, the tea production in the county has undergone structural adjustment. Tea production has been changed from single black tea to red green tea, and the proportion of green tea, especially famous tea, has gradually increased. By the end of 2008, the total output of tea in the county was 2,845 tons, including black tea 1.805 tons, green tea 1.040 tons and green tea 590 tons. The total output value is 69.4 million yuan, accounting for 22. 14% of the total agricultural output value.

Starting from 1996, the leading brands of tea in shitai county are divided into three categories: one is "Shitai Xiangya", a well-known brand of green tea in the county; Second, the famous historical tea "Qi Hong"; The third is the brand "Tian Fang" founded by Tian Fang Tea Group Company in 2000. Since its establishment, Tian Fang Tea Group Company has attached great importance to tea brand building, and successfully developed three leading brands, namely "Selenium-enriched Organic Tea", "Wu Liqing" and "Tian Fang Matcha", among which "Wu Liqing" brand green tea was rated as "Anhui Famous Brand Product".

From 2004 to 2008, Shitai Tea Festival, sponsored by Anhui Agriculture Committee and Chizhou Municipal Government and co-organized by shitai county Municipal People's Government, was held in mid-April every year. The Tea Festival focuses on the exhibition and sale of famous organic teas, special agricultural products and tea machines, and carries out the selection of "Top Ten Tea Brokers", "Top Ten Tea Science and Technology Demonstration Users", the selection of famous tea, the Tea Economics Forum, the tea merchants' tea farmers' forum, the tea town's characteristic tourism, the tourism promotion meeting, the Shitai folk products collection exhibition, the Qiupu Painting Academy painting and calligraphy exhibition, the philatelic exhibition, the photography exhibition, and the on-site production performance of famous tea and thousands of products. Most residents in shitai county are Han nationality, and ethnic minorities are Hui, Zhuang and Man. The languages used are all Chinese dialects. There are five dialects of four major dialects in China, namely, two dialects of Xuanwu dialect, one dialect of Huizhou dialect and Gan dialect, and another dialect of Jianghuai Mandarin.

The distribution is roughly as follows: Shitai dialect is spoken by the indigenous people in Qili, DuDu and Languan, which belongs to a small part of Xuanzhou Pianshi (Taiwan) Mausoleum (Yang) of Wu dialect, and is a special branch of Xuanzhou dialect, which is close to Guichi Guankou, Taiping Sanfeng, Qingyang Lingyang and Jingxian Hou 'an dialects, but the residents in Chengguan (Qili area) speak Gan dialect and Jianghuai dialect. The natives of Liudu, Qidu, Qi Jing and Hekou speak Yangguang and Liudu dialects, which belong to a small piece of Tongling and Jingxian in Xuanwu dialect. This dialect belongs to the same category as Jingxian dialect, Guichi eastern dialect and Tongling dialect, and is a typical Xuanzhou dialect. The indigenous people in Zhanda, Dayan and Tianke speak the Hui dialect with respect (virtue) accounting for a large proportion, which belongs to the same category as Anling in Qimen, Meixi in Yixian and Jingde dialect. Residents of Jitan, Lilac, Xiaohe, Shentian and Qili Chengguan speak Gan dialect, which is the northernmost dialect and has many characteristics of Jianghuai Mandarin, and is close to Huaining, Dongzhi, the west and southeast corner of Guichi. Most of the residents here are immigrants from Gan-speaking areas. In addition, some residents in Chengguan and some towns in the west of the county still speak Jianghuai Mandarin. Among the above dialects, Xuanzhou Dialect and Huizhou Dialect are native dialects of shitai county, while Gan Dialect and Jianghuai Mandarin are immigrant dialects.

In the past twenty years, with the entry of a large number of immigrants, great changes have taken place in shitai county dialect, and the sphere of influence of immigrant dialect Gan dialect has been expanded. Another immigrant dialect, Jianghuai Mandarin, has been so crowded that no trace can be found. However, the sphere of influence of Wu Huihui, a dialect originally belonging to Wu Yu, has shrunk dramatically. At present, only the indigenous people in Zhu Zhu still speak dialects, and most of them speak with double accents, which are complicated and impure. Some villages in Wu Yu were covered by Gan dialect, and Wu Huihui from other areas also brought some phonetic features of Gan dialect to varying degrees.

According to the dialect survey data conducted by Wu Yushe in Shitai in 20 1 1, in Shitai, 24% of the population speaks Xuanwu dialect (Tongjing Pian), mainly concentrated in the east of the county, covering 37% of the county. 26% people speak Gan dialect (Huai-Yue dialect), mainly in the west of the county, and the language coverage accounts for 17% of the county. There are 19% people who speak Hui language (Zhan Jing film), mainly concentrated in the south of the county, and the language coverage area accounts for 26% of the county; 17% people said Xuanwu (Shiling film), mainly concentrated in the county and the northern region; There are also 14% people who speak Jianghuai Mandarin, and most of them are immigrants concentrated in the county. The language coverage rate of Xuanwu Shiling and Jianghuai Mandarin accounts for 20% of the county.