The National Culture of She Nationality Township in Taiyuan

The origin of She nationality is full of myths. According to legend, the ancestor of the She nationality was a bug taken from the ear of the ancient queen Gao Xin. After the worms and vegetables were abandoned together, they soon became colorful dragons and dogs. The emperor decreed the adoption and named it "Pan Hu". Later, due to Pingfan's outstanding achievements, he married the third princess of the emperor and cultivated land in Fenghuang Mountain in Chaozhou, Guangdong Province. The population flourished year after year, forming four descendants of Pan, Lan, Lei and Zhong. Later, Pan Hu unfortunately fell to death on a rock, Gao Xin was defeated and killed on the battlefield, and his soldiers chased after the descendants of Gao Xin and Pan Hu. Yincui gorge, who is brave and good at fighting, led the descendants of the whole nation to make arduous national migration over mountains and mountains. Fujian first, then Zhejiang.

If the democracy of the She nationality in Taiyuan was moved from Tingzhou Prefecture (now Changting County, Fujian Province), specifically, the earliest one is the blue She nationality in Shitangwu, Taiyuan Township, which has been passed down for 18 generations. If you take 25 years as a generation, the time to move is in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty.

Although the She nationality in Taiyuan lives together with the Han nationality, their national culture is still very complete. She nationality has its own unique language, belonging to Miao and Yao language family of Sino-Tibetan language family. She people greet each other in She language when they meet. She nationality has no written language, and Chinese is widely used. Therefore, most of the She people in Taiyuan can speak She language and Chinese.

Most of the She people in Taiyuan are good at singing and dancing, especially the folk song culture is very profound. One-third of the 10 1 folk songs included in Yanshan County Folk Songs Collection are She folk songs. "Top Five Faces" and "Opening Angle IV" were designated as key programs of folk dance in Jiangxi Province by relevant provincial departments, and were made into videos by the editorial department of Jiangxi Volume of Chinese Folk Dance for long-term preservation. Song of Emperor Gao, Feng Jinshan, Song of Time, She Women Rushing to Temple Fair, Bamboo Dance, etc.