Local Folk Customs in Jingdezhen

Debao county has simple people's feelings. Zhuang and Yao in this county have different customs.

Rice cultivation customs include ploughing, sowing, offering sacrifices to young crops, washing and cutting tools, etc. In the old society, in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the city gates were closed and pedestrians were not allowed to enter. Every family cooks sausages and drinks wine in the fields for a day.

Dietary customs include beating blood, scalding meat in a laundry list, blood sausage, sour meat, sour fish, dried vegetables, bamboo sticks, tofu balls, wheat, rice, pumpkin sweet wine, pumpkin chicken, golden pot rice, horse fried cold rice, vegetable bags, pearl crisp, glutinous rice fried liver, sweet potato kiln, peanut kiln and so on.

There are also some wedding customs, such as answering songs to get married, getting engaged, getting married, and organizing weddings. There are also some customs, such as dividing surnames, sending seeds, crying and marrying, saying goodbye to parents, thanking the bride, and recognizing the new in the three dynasties.

Fertility customs include calming the nerves, begging for flowers, having children, full moon, one hundred days, selling flowers, hanging flowers and so on.

Festivals celebrate festivals with different customs, such as New Year's Eve, Lantern Festival, Land Fair, Tomb Sweeping, Dragon Boat Festival, Cattle Soul, Mid-Autumn Festival, First Frost and Farewell to the Kitchen King. Cattle Soul Festival is held in May of the lunar calendar every year. On this day, every household in rural areas dyed five-color glutinous rice, sacrificed pigs to cattle, and entertained cattle with chicken and duck meat. The children took chicken and colored rice for a picnic. Commonly known as "the soul of cattle", the festival to send the Kitchen God is on the 23rd of the twelfth lunar month. Each family burns incense and lights candles, and sends sacrifices such as wine and meat to the kitchen god. From the next day to New Year's Eve, residents are forbidden to repair their houses and clean the courtyard first.

Social customs include: making friends, friendship and recognizing parents. Folk song duet customs are mostly in Gewei Festival. There are 29 festivals for children, teenagers and the elderly in the county, which is one of the counties with the most songs in Guangxi. From the 27th day of the first month to the 26th day of April, battle songs, love songs, duets and free duets are held at intervals in various places.

Cultural activities

Cultural and artistic activities in Debao County have been quite active, and folk operas are even more colorful. The local operas and songs and dances circulating in this county mainly include Zhuang opera, puppet show, lunlun, shrimp fishing dance and folk songs, among which Zhuang opera and folk songs are particularly popular with the masses. Debao Zhuang Opera belongs to Lu Nan Zhuang Opera, commonly known as "Ya Hai Opera" or "Ma Ai Opera". With strong ethnic customs and local characteristics, it is deeply loved by the masses. The commonly used tunes of modern Zhuang drama include Ma Ai Diao, Ping Diao, Sigh Diao, Hi Diao, Cry Diao, Flower Picking, High Tone and so on. , accompanied by Ma Guhu (the main musical instrument), brutalized and high-pitched. When playing, the colors are harmonious, deep and melodious, melodious and full of national feelings. Debao folk songs are called "poetry" or "singing". In Zhuangjiayaozhai, when men and women get married, work and produce, celebrate festivals and fall in love, people often use folk songs to express happiness, joy and love. Zhuang folk songs are divided into South Road folk songs and North Road folk songs. The folk songs of Nanbei Road are all based on seven characters, with even tones and rhymes. South Road folk songs are composed of four sentences, sung by two people, and have two parts: high and low. The folk songs sung are high-pitched and passionate, elegant and beautiful. North Road folk songs are composed of eight or ten sentences, usually sung in groups of three to seven people, with high and low voices. The songs are majestic, stable, melodious, gripping and fascinating. Folk songs have always taken the form of self-singing, duet and chorus, expressing feelings through folk songs, praising good people and good deeds, attacking current disadvantages and exposing bad people and evil things. In recent years, folk song competitions have been held in counties, townships and villages during song concerts, Spring Festival or other major festivals in various towns and villages, attracting thousands of listeners and being well received by the masses.

mass sports

Debao County is a traditional county advocating sports. Popular mass sports activities in rural areas are mainly basketball, top, cockscomb and lion dance, especially basketball. During the period of the Republic of China, Debao County (then Tianbao County) teamed up to participate in the six-district basketball match in Guangxi and won the first place. After liberation, urban and rural basketball activities in Debao County became more active. Basketball courts are built in the central primary school and in larger natural villages, which have men's and women's basketball teams. In leisure time, villages visit each other. Every major festival, all towns and villages will hold basketball games. In addition, primary and secondary schools in the county also hold a "budding cup" basketball match for primary and secondary school students every year. In the past two years, the rural people in this county have used the traditional Ge Wei Festival to hold basketball games, which is unprecedented. All towns and villages in the county 18 have their own traditional Gewei Festival, and the time distribution of Gewei Festival in each town is different. During the Song Wei Festival, nearby towns and villages will send their own basketball teams and folk songs teams to join in, and more than 10 teams will participate in each game. There is a popular saying in the countryside to describe the grand occasion of Debao basketball, "whistle never stops, game never stops, friendship never stops". Most of the funds for Ge Weijie's basketball match are raised by the masses themselves, and there are also subsidies from towns and departments. Generally, it lasts for 3-5 days, and the audience ranges from 1 10,000 to 50,000. From June 5 to 10, 2003, Debao County organized a delegation to participate in the city's "ten thousand people" cultural and sports activities and won the first prize in the men's basketball competition, which was praised by the city leaders. Autonomous Region Sports Bureau and Guangxi Sports Lottery Center also fully affirmed the development of rural basketball in Debao County, and decided to hold a county-wide rural basketball league tournament in Debao every year from 2004. This year's "China Sports Lottery Cup" rural village-level basketball league in Debao County is the largest rural village-level basketball league in Debao so far.

Scenic spots/tourist attractions

There are many scenic spots here, such as green hills, green waters, majestic sky and the echoes of spring, as well as the newly-built scenic spots such as Liu Yin Bridge, Huilan West Lake, Xiangshui Waterfall, Tiger Cave and Jixingqi Cave, and Baiyue Slope, which represents Baiyue people, attracting many poets and writers.

Yunshan Yunshan Zhuang language is called "Zhushan", which means jewelry. It and Xishan, which is located 3 kilometers west of the county seat, are sister mountains. According to legend, two sisters came from Yunnan to enjoy the scenery. My sister came to Xiaoxihu and saw the charming scenery there, so she stayed to see it. It has become today's Xishan, one of the ten scenic spots in Debao, and is called "Sunset in Xishan". My sister came to Debao County today. She looked back at her sister and concentrated. Duxiufeng, one of the ten scenic spots in Debao today, is called "Duxiufeng", also known as Zhushan, which is located in the north of the county seat and is a beautiful place of Yunshan. The peak is like a green bamboo shoot, and the word "Yunshan" is engraved on the cliff on the mountainside, with the word "Peiyue" under it, and the handwriting is vigorous. Duxiufeng has exquisite rocks, quiet nature, crevices, ancient banyan trees and lush four seasons. Just south of the foot of the mountain, there is a natural cave called Yuxiuyan. About 100 steps to the left from this cave, there are stone steps that go straight to Ciyun Cave, where Li Zhenren Pavilion and Guanyin Pavilion are built. Twenty steps down the stone steps from Ciyun Cave, there is a pavilion named Xia Ziting on the right, and there is a couplet behind the pavilion: "On the big dipper, poetry is in the misty rain of Qian Shan." In 29 years, the Xia Zi Pavilion was bombed by a Japanese plane, so the pavilion climbed more than 200 steps to the left, and there was a natural cave called Liu Yundong. Suddenly, there was another world in the cave. Outside the cave, next to the cliff, there was a palace pavilion named Zhong Lingting. During the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, Emperor Guan and Zhuge Wuhou were enshrined here. There is a bronze bell of Ming Dynasty and an iron bell of Qing Dynasty hanging in the pavilion. On the right side of Zhong Lingting is the Eight Immortals Palace, which is the largest palace pavilion in Duxiufeng. Standing here, looking at the railing, there are mountains and mountains in the distance, and there are scattered cottages and buildings at the foot, surrounded by water, which makes people indulge in poetry and painting. Walking down from the right side of the Eight Immortals Palace, there is a small natural cave called the Ancient Buddha Cave, which is a place to worship Samsung's longevity. In the Qing Dynasty, there were 8 palaces of various styles, 3 of which were rebuilt 1. There are 33 inscriptions on famous poems in past dynasties, including 1 in Ming dynasty, 30 in Qing dynasty and 2 after liberation. Zhao Yi, a famous writer, poet and historian in the Qing Dynasty, wrote a poem "Song of the Ancient Banyan Tree in Duxiu Mountain", saying: "Xiushan has no inch of land, and there are banyan trees on it. Dogan, what a surprise! Don't plant stones instead of earth … ",praising the beautiful scenery of Duxiu Peak.

Jianshui, also known as Jianshui Hui Hui, comes from the foot of Jianshan Mountain in Sanhe Village, Du 'an Township. Its riverbed is like a belt, and the water quality is as white as a mirror. The main attractions are Jian 'an Tang Ai (now Sanhe Power Station), Xiaoxihu Lake and Xiangshui Waterfall. Zhao Yi once wrote a poem "Jian 'an Tang Ai Waterfall", which said, "It's a pity that it is far from home, and it is as famous as Rooftop Luff ..." He praised the amazing scenery of Jianhe Waterfall. The beach of Xiangshui Waterfall is more than 400 meters long, and there are four waterfalls. The beach is about 30 meters wide and the interval is about 100 meters, on both sides of the beach.

Quqiao Liu Yin is commonly known as Jiuqu Bridge. Jianhe flows slowly through the valley of Qian Shan. To the east of Debao County, a big roundabout is formed, and countless islands are injected. 198 1 year, using this natural landscape, a 300-meter curved bridge corridor and a 30-meter iron cable bridge were built. There are three stone arch bridges connecting more than ten sandbars with Xiaoyu's shoulders. Palm, willow, banyan, acacia, bamboo, kapok and other unique garden trees in the south are planted in the sidewalk. In the small fish, pavilions such as Lian Bi were set up, and the statue of Jie Zhen fishing shrimp in local folklore was erected on the river. Here all year round, the clear water is rippling, the bamboos are lush, the banyan trees are shaded everywhere, and the birds are singing and the flowers are fragrant. Step here, forget the hustle and bustle of the city and enjoy the sight of nymphs. 1982 When the tour started, Luo Libin, then vice chairman of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, wrote a couplet: "Learn from time to time, cultivate one's morality and cultivate one's morality, and Fangshan scenic spots protect civilization."

A thousand-year-old paulownia tree and a mulberry tree king in front of Jixingyan Jixingyan, like the two patron saints of Jixingyan, stand tall and straight in the sky, and the sunlight permeates through the dense branches and leaves, flickering and confusing. Jixingyan has a wide mouth and a high ceiling, and the mouth of the cave is connected with beads along the dripping water of vines, just like the gorgeous decoration on the forehead of ancient beauty. Entering the cave, the myriad weather inside is amazing. Stalactites, large and small, are arranged in the stalactite forest, and their posture is lifelike. Tall "gods", colorful "underwater corals", endless "Loess Plateau" and dark "the first clock in the world" are just like works carved by skilled masons, so lifelike and interesting. At the end of 2003, Jixingyan was rated as one of the scenic spots in Baise 18. Jixingyan Development Zone with an investment of 50 million yuan has completed the planning review.

The tiger cave is named after the stalactite pattern in the cave is very similar to the tiger skin. Debao Winery's natural wineries are known as the largest thermostatic wineries in China. In the deep cave, there is a faint fragrance floating in the altar wine, and on the day it opens, it will be drunk with heaven and earth. It's a deep wine shop in the tiger's den, and the new grains are aged and drunk. Debao Mountain is beautiful, and beautiful scenery naturally produces good wine. At the end of 2003, Tiger Cave Scenic Area passed the planning review of the Tourism Bureau of the autonomous region. At the beginning of 2005, Debao County invested 5 million yuan to develop the "Red Tourism" project in Tiger Cave, which became the only place where Baise Youjiang Tourism Belt connects with Jingxi and Napo Tourism Belt.

Hongfenglin Debao has about100000 mu of Hongfenglin. From June 65438 to February of the following year, the red maple in Debao was colorful and everywhere. Therefore, there is a saying that Debao Hongye travels to Jiuzhai. In 2004, a large number of photographers and tourists gathered in Debao County after the red leaf photography activity was carried out. Debao Hongfeng has gradually become a landscape of Baise's red tourism and a new business card of Debao that attracts worldwide attention after Huayin Aluminum Project.

Title: Rural Scenery in Debao County