As of 2009, Ximeng County has dozens of species of mammals including slow lorises, green monkeys, yellow monkeys, tigers, bears, leopards, nearly a hundred species of birds, dozens of snakes and aquatic species. animal.
As of 2009, Ximeng County contains 1 species of mosses, 16 species of ferns, 2 species of gymnosperms, and 380 species of angiosperms. In 2013, the sown area of ??grain and bean crops was 238,000 acres, and the total grain output was 41 million kilograms, an increase of 2.2% compared with 2012. Agricultural development in autumn and winter totaled 73,000 acres, an increase of 24.8% compared with 2012, and the construction of 100 acres of specialty health vegetable base and 100 acres of standardized freshwater fish farming projects was completed. Ximeng County has 55,167 pigs on hand, an increase of 11.6% compared with 2012; 45,992 pigs are slaughtered, an increase of 5.5% compared with 2012. There were 17,548 large livestock on hand, a decrease of 4.2%; 5,584 livestock were slaughtered, an increase of 9.7% compared with 2012. The output of poultry and eggs was 311 tons, an increase of 91.3% compared with 2012; the total output of meat was 3,947 tons, an increase of 6% compared with 2012. The total output value of agriculture, forestry, animal husbandry and fishery in Ximeng County is 445.55 million yuan (current price), an increase of 7.4% compared with 2012.
In 2013, 4 winter melon pig breeding associations were established, 1 winter melon pig processing enterprise was introduced, and 3 standardized pig breeding farm (community) construction projects were completed. Ximeng rice and buckwheat planting area is 27,000 acres, with an output of 1.552 million kilograms, an increase of 4.6% compared with 2012. Ximeng County has a rubber area of ??240,000 acres, of which 84,000 acres are harvested, with an output of 7.3 million kilograms. 4 standard tea primary manufacturing plants were built, achieving a tea output of 2,373 tons. A total of 15,000 acres of coffee have been planted, with an output of 450 tons. 10,100 acres of newly planted sugarcane were planted, a total of 12,700 acres of walnuts were planted, and 34,900 acres were afforestation. As of 2007, Ximeng County *** has 71 schools of all levels and types, 453 teaching classes, and 15,411 primary and secondary school students and children, including: 1 complete middle school and 6 junior middle schools (new middle school ), there are 4139 junior high school students and 518 regular high school students; 1 vocational middle school, 823 junior high school students and 162 vocational high school students; 58 primary schools (37 complete primary schools, 10 junior primary schools, There are 11 schools with one teacher and one school), 319 teaching classes, and 9,252 students in school; 4 kindergartens (2 kindergartens run by the education department and 2 private kindergartens), 517 children in kindergartens and preschools; 1 teacher training school Institute, responsible for continuing education and short-term training of teachers. The gross enrollment rate of junior high school-age teenagers in Ximeng County is 93.57%, the dropout rate is 2.68%, and the three-year completion rate of junior high school is 73.4%; the enrollment rate of primary school-age children is 99.49%, the dropout rate is 0.9%, and the six-year completion rate of primary school is 98.55%; 3- The kindergarten (class) admission rate for 6-year-old children is 26%.
Ximeng County has 1,252 teaching staff, including: 1,015 full-time teachers, 100 substitute teachers and temporary workers, 99 work staff, and 38 others.
The primary and secondary schools and kindergartens in Ximeng County have 114,271 square meters of school buildings, and the average school building size per student is 7.41 square meters; the area of ??dangerous buildings is 21,516 square meters, and the dangerous building rate is 18.83%. In the first half of 2010, Ximeng County completed the new rural cooperative medical software upgrade of 9 designated medical institutions in Ximeng County. The construction project of the inpatient building of the County People's Hospital, a national debt project, passed the county-level acceptance on May 12. Ximeng County *** has 91,320 Each person received medical compensation from the New Rural Cooperative Medical Care System, and the total expenditure fund was 3.4996 million yuan, accounting for 35.42% of the funds raised this year (9.88148 million yuan); accounting for 31.96% of the funds available for this year (10.95125 million yuan).
In the first half of 2010, Ximeng County’s New Rural Cooperative Medical Care provided hospitalization compensation (including normal delivery in hospital) for 2,153 people, with a total hospitalization cost of 3.8622 million yuan, and hospitalization compensation costs of 2.4153 million yuan (accounting for 69.02% of the total fund expenditures) %), the average hospitalization fee exemption per person is 1,121.83 yuan per person, including: 212 hospitalizations for normal delivery are exempted, the total hospitalization fee for normal delivery is 153,200 yuan, and the normal delivery fee is 84,800 yuan (accounting for 2.42% of the total fund expenditure). 89,167 outpatient visits were exempted, the total outpatient fee was 2.6645 million yuan, the outpatient fee reduction was 1.0842 million yuan (accounting for 30.98% of the total fund expenditure), and the average outpatient fee reduction was 12.16 yuan/person. In 2013, Yuesong Township's township consolidation promotion project passed municipal acceptance, and provincial key village projects in 70 villager groups in 8 villages were implemented, with an investment of 10.5 million yuan completed. Completed the construction of poverty alleviation and relocation housing for 370 households. Implemented 8 village-wide promotion projects with fiscal poverty alleviation awards and subsidies, completing an investment of 8.9237 million yuan. Completed the construction tasks of Shanghai's counterpart assistance industrial projects and the whole village promotion project, and completed an investment of 8.79 million yuan. Distributed 30 million yuan of subsidized poverty alleviation loans with an interest discount of 1.5 million yuan.
In 2013, Ximeng County created 328 new urban jobs and re-employed 50 people, maintaining a dynamic clearing of zero-employment households and controlling the urban registered unemployment rate within 4.5%. Distributed 13.9 million yuan in pensions and 81.023 million yuan in various relief funds in 2013. Buddha’s New Rice Festival
The Buddha’s New Rice Festival is held every year on the 15th day of the eighth lunar month.
Before this day, every household in each village must leave a bowl of new rice when eating new rice. After the village leader collects it, he sends someone to the Ximeng Buddha Room. On August 15th, three cannons were fired in the Buddhist room, and people worshiped the Moon Buddha and chanted sutras all night long.
Sacrifice to the Big Stone Horse
On March 15th every year, men, women and children of the Lahu people dress up in costumes, beat gongs and drums, carry offerings on the platform, and play the Lusheng to pay homage to the Big Stone Horse. Big stone horse.
Every year on the fifteenth day of the twelfth lunar month, it is the Seal Opening Festival of the Buddha's room. The Buddha's seal is usually kept in the Buddha's collection and no one is allowed to see it. On the Seal Opening Day, Buddha took out the big seal and placed it on the altar for everyone to see. Buddhas, believers, and people of all ethnic groups who participated in the Seal Opening Festival celebrated with singing and dancing and took a day off together.
Buddha Worshiping
The ninth day of the first lunar month every year is the Buddha House Worshiping Festival. On this day, people from all villages come from all directions to worship the Buddha at the Ximeng Buddha Room. Everyone who comes must bring a gift as an offering to worship the gods and Buddhas. After the sacrifice, the Buddha was entertained by dancing in the square of the Buddhist chamber compound. The activity lasted for three days, and everyone went home on the third day.
Guan Yin Festival
The fifteenth day of the first lunar month is the Ximeng Buddha Room Guan Yin Festival. On this day, all villages have a day off from singing and dancing entertainment to celebrate the Seal Festival. The next day, everyone gathered in the Ximeng Buddha Room to worship Buddha. After the worship, the Buddha put away the Buddha's seal, and then distributed some grain seeds and glutinous rice cakes to the worshipers. The Buddha Room also paid for the killing of pigs, grinding of tofu, and Cook a meal to entertain all the worshipers, and the Guanyin Festival ends. Lahu Nationality - Haba Festival
Haba is the Moon Festival in the Lahu language, also known as the Moon Festival. On the night of August 15th every year, shouts like this can be heard everywhere in Lahu Village: The moon will come out soon——, the moon will come out——. At this time, a bright full moon slowly climbed to the top of the mountain amid people's endless calls. People bring new rice, dried balsam, tobacco leaves, fresh fruits, sugar cane and other sacrifices to the Buddha room for collective moon worship activities. Pa Mu Ba (Buddha) hangs a white cloth as big as a kang in the Buddhist room. The white cloth is painted with the shape of the moon, and a large offering table and incense candle holder are set below. Those who worship the moon offer sacrifices on the altar table, light incense and candles, burn paper money, kneel and kowtow to the moon image, listen to the Buddha chanting sutras and pray.
Lahu people
After the collective moon worship activities ended, each family began to worship the moon. People picked up the table filled with sacrifices to a high hill outside the house, and under the leadership of the old man, they knelt down to the moon three times and sprinkled new rice and copper pot wine into the sky. People gathered around the table, played the Lusheng, danced and celebrated the joy of the harvest. Young people often play in the East until they reluctantly say goodbye to the moon. Before leaving, each person takes a pear, symbolizing that they will never be separated from the harvest and happiness.
The Moon Festival comes from a beautiful legend. According to legend, when the Lahu people first entered the farming period, the early grains they planted were heavy and golden. Seeing a good harvest in sight, they did not expect that they would all be eaten by wild beasts at night. People were in tears. The next year, someone hung ears of grain outside the house and loudly called the moon god to come out to bless them. The moon was indeed as bright as day, and wild beasts did not dare to come out again. Later, on August 15th every year, the Laku people would hold a moon sacrifice activity, and the moon sacrifice festival has been passed down.
Sigangli
Sigangli" is an ancient legend spread among the Wa people. "Sigang" means cliff cave, "Li" means coming out, and "Sigangli" It means coming out of the cave. The specific geographical location is opposite the Nanxi River in Yuesong Township, Ximeng County, at a place called Bagdai near Yancheng, Myanmar. The outline of the historical legend of "Gangli" is that people were imprisoned in times of great hardship. Unable to get out of the sealed cave on the cliff, Mo Wei, the almighty god, commissioned a small sparrow to dig out the cave. The mouse lured away the biting tiger guarding the entrance of the cave, and the spider bet against the big tree that prevented people from leaving the cave. Get out of the cave, live and recuperate in various places... This is the general meaning of Sigangli. In short, the legend of "Sigangli" is the origin of human history. In the past, the Wa people visited it every year. A cow is sacrificed at "Sigangli" in Bagdai.
Tengsuo Bridge
Tengsuo Bridge is a bridge between the Wa and Lahu people of Ximeng. In the past, bridges built on the Nankang River, Xigu River, Nanxi River, and Nanxi River in Ximeng were built with strong and thick tree vines as indexes, bamboo and wooden branches as fences, and several fine pieces of wood in the middle. There are bridges of this type on the Kajiang River.
Wooden Drum House
The Wa language calls the wooden drum "Kro", which is the sacred weapon of the Wa people. The wooden drum is one of the 56 in my country. A unique type of drum among the nation, it is a typical female reproductive worship in matrilineal clan society, and is the patron saint of the Wa village. It is played during religious festivals such as the Wood Drum Festival, the New Fire Festival, the New Water Festival, and the New Rice Festival. The wooden drum is a custom of singing, dancing and entertainment. It is regarded as the supreme artifact in the primitive nature worship of the Wa people. It is the incarnation of the omnipotent god Mo Wei and the protector of the Wa village. The functions of the wooden drum are: first, it is used for sacrifice and prayer. The wooden drum protects the safety of the village, the harvest of grains, and the prosperity of people and animals; secondly, it is used to call the police. When there is an emergency such as fire or external invasion in the village, the wooden drum is sounded to call the police to summon the villagers for emergency response and protect the interests of the village; thirdly, it is used for singing and dancing entertainment Each village has at least one wooden drum house, and some Guiguan tribes have one wooden drum house. Therefore, some villages have multiple wooden drum houses.
In the past, the Wa people had one wooden drum house. People hunt for heads to offer sacrifices to wooden drums, and there is a pile of human heads next to the wooden drum room. After 1958, the state banned hunting heads for sacrifices to wooden drums, and replaced them with animal and animal heads.
Wa folk houses
Wa folk houses are "pole-rail" buildings with bamboo and wood structures and thatched roofs. People live upstairs, and firewood is piled or livestock and poultry are raised downstairs. Wa folk houses differ in house decoration depending on the region or branch where they live.