In the social and cultural section of Guilin Cultural Bureau, we can see that the first batch of intangible cultural heritages in Guilin are divided into 12 categories, including folk music, folk dance, folk quyi, folk literature, folk handicrafts, production and trade customs, consumption customs, life customs, seasons, folk beliefs, folk knowledge, entertainment/traditional sports, competitions, etc., which run through Guilin for more than two thousand years.
The expert in charge of excavating and sorting out intangible culture of the Municipal Cultural Bureau told the reporter: Through these intangible cultures, we can get a glimpse of the glorious history of Guilin. ...
From the ancient sounds of nature
Tu Guisheng, a senior cultural researcher who has been engaged in cultural relics archaeology and folk culture and art excavation in Guilin for more than 20 years, told reporters that when he went to Xing 'an for field research, the first time he listened to He Lang Song, he felt very wonderful, just like hearing the sounds of nature from ancient times.
The "He Lang Song", also known as "Flower Candle Poetry", which was popular in the towns around xing an, rose around 200 BC. This is a cheerful little song. People congratulate the groom at the wedding and make a scene in the bridal chamber. Can solo, duet, chorus, lead singer, divided into three parts: "He Lang", "Moving Flowers" and "Sending Lang". 1952, Xing 'an singers participated in the first national Quyi performance with "Song of He Lang", which was well received. The central leadership also invited actors to perform in Zhongnanhai.
Guilin has many essences of folk literature, art and opera with a long history. In addition to Guangxi Guiju and Guangxi Caidiao, which have been selected in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage lists published by the State Council, 34 items were selected in the Guilin municipal intangible cultural heritage list last year.
Tu Guisheng said that Tang, a native of Guanyang who became the governor of Taiwan Province in the late Qing Dynasty, lived in seclusion near Ronghu Lake in Guilin in his later years, reformed the original local opera and founded Guangxi Guiju Opera. During the Anti-Japanese War, Guilin was once the cultural center of the Anti-Japanese War. Ou Yangyuqian, Tian Han and other drama masters further improved and sublimated Guangxi Opera, making it one of the top ten dramas in China. Guangxi Opera is a comprehensive stage art with strong literariness, artistry and appreciation, which has been deeply loved by people all over Guangxi for hundreds of years.
More than 0/00 landscape legends in Bajiaozhai/Kloc-Ziyuan County were born in the Sui and Tang Dynasties. They are permeated with Buddhist cultural thoughts of karma, restraining evil and promoting good, and contain people's life values of pursuing truth, goodness and beauty and lashing false, evil and ugly.
After hundreds of years of baptism and elimination, the culture that can be precipitated and rooted in the people has its shining place.
Special technology passed down for thousands of years.
It's gold. It always shines.
Some very valuable folk crafts, production and living techniques in Guilin can be passed down for hundreds of years. In addition to their own value, they are often closely related to historical events and celebrities.
Around 204 BC, Qin Jun stationed troops in Xing 'an for more than ten years, digging canals and canals. Qin Bing, from the north, was not used to eating rice from the south, so he processed rice into noodle food, and Guilin rice noodles were born. Nowadays, rice noodles have become the most profound food culture affecting Guilin people, and half of Guilin people are keen on eating rice noodles every day; The first thing many Guilin people want to do when they come back from a business trip is to go to the rice noodle shop to eat a bowl of rice noodles. Whenever there is a wedding, the host will prepare rice noodles to entertain guests; Hospitalized patients have a bad appetite and often choose rice noodles to eat. ...
Emperor Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty was ill and didn't want to eat. Chen Hongmou, the prime minister from Sitang Township, Lingui County, took out the tofu from his hometown and asked Emperor Qianlong to taste it. When Qianlong put a small golden, delicate and mellow bean curd into his mouth, he praised "there is another delicious food in the world" and his appetite was wide open. Since then, Guilin bean curd has become a tribute and a good gift for the court.
As early as the end of the Yuan Dynasty and the beginning of the Ming Dynasty, some Yao and Zhuang people fled to live on the mountain at an altitude of 1 100 meters in Heping Township, Longsheng Autonomous County, and developed the ridge with a slope of 26-50 degrees into a first-class terrace, creating a beautiful scenery that shocked the world-the unique terrace scenery.
In thousands of years of life, people of all ethnic groups in Guilin have created exquisite food, goods and landscapes with their diligence and wisdom, which greatly enriched the local culture and life.
When China was selected into the national intangible cultural heritage list for the first time, a well-known judge was surprised to ask the relevant personnel in Guangxi: "Why didn't Guilin declare the project?" Unfortunately, only the manufacturing technology of Guilin's "Three Treasures" can be famous all over the country. "
In fact, in addition to the "Three Treasures of Guilin", there are many food and goods making techniques and technologies in Guilin, which are unique to China, such as camellia oleifera in Gongcheng, braised pork in Lipu, Yao Hong costumes in Longsheng, grass dragons and grass lions tied by Dong people and so on.
Interesting and unique folk customs
Every year in May 14 of the lunar calendar, a grand "flag-playing" game and sports activities are held in Sishui Township, Longsheng Autonomous County, and young men appear in the fields holding flags. The children grabbed the mud and threw it at them, driving the flag-bearers everywhere, which made the spectators laugh.
This movement was born in the Eastern Han Dynasty. At that time, in order to resist the oppression of court officers and soldiers, the Yao people trained their children to fight the enemy with stones and sticks from an early age and conducted a centralized inspection every year. This is such a serious matter that the Yao people have turned it into a romantic game sports activity.
The marriage custom of "two-headed pulling" in quanzhou county, which originated in the late Yuan Dynasty and early Ming Dynasty, fully embodies the simple thought of equality between men and women of Yao nationality. In order to escape the war, a Yao ancestor named Biaomin moved from Jiangxi to Dongshan Township, quanzhou county, and established the marriage custom of "pulling at both ends". This marriage custom stipulates that after marriage, young men and women should support their parents, husband and wife should honor their parents during the Chinese New Year holiday, and they should go to their parents' homes to do farm work during the busy farming season. In addition, the fields, property and harvested crops in the parents' homes can also be distributed according to the proportion of husband and wife. The marriage custom of "pulling at both ends" has laid a solid ideological and cultural foundation for Yao people to establish an equal and harmonious society.
In recent 10 years, a beauty performance team with long hair has been active in Nanning, Guangzhou, Shanghai, Beijing and other cities. They are Yao Hong women from Longsheng Autonomous County. Red Yao women cherish their hair very much and regard long hair as beautiful and noble. Women only cut their hair once at the adult ceremony held at the age of 16, so all women in Yao Hong have beautiful long hair. There are only 56 households in Huangluo Yaozhai, but there are more than 60 women whose hair length exceeds 100 cm, and the longest is 208 cm. It is a rare sight for Yao girls with long hair to collectively wash their hair in the clear and swift stream.