What are the traditional cultural elements of Anhui and the characteristics of Anhui’s traditional culture?

Everyone is very curious about the local traditional culture and traditional cultural characteristics of each province. After a long history and long years, the province has continued to develop and inherit, and there have been many rich folk cultural interactions, thus forming the local cultural characteristics that we are familiar with. I have sorted out the relevant content and hope it will be helpful to you.

1. Traditional cultural elements and customs of Anhui

1. The charm of traditional Chinese painting - Huangshan, I only understood it when I encountered the sea of ??clouds misty among the pine trees on the Lion Peak The freehand Chinese landscape paintings with splashes of ink really come from nature! The traditional reputation of "Huangshan Mountain is not visited without seeing its peaks" is well-deserved (it must be considered that the literati of the past dynasties mainly lived in the Han cultural area east of the east-west climate dividing line of the Chinese territory. Huangshan Mountain is one of the representative famous mountains, and it is not as big as the ice and snow mountains that have become famous in recent years. Comparability), no wonder the master of traditional Chinese painting Zhang Daqian went to Huangshan to sketch again and again.

Xin'an School of Painting: The pioneer was Cheng Zheng of the Yuan Dynasty, and the style of the Xin'an School of Painting began to form in the Ming Dynasty. At the end of the Ming Dynasty and the beginning of the Qing Dynasty, Jiang Tao (Jian Jiang), Zha Shibiao, Sun Yi, and Wang Yuanrui emerged as the "Four Haiyang Schools". They advocated imitating nature, expressing their feelings in pen and ink, and boldly innovating, which brought great success to the painting circles in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. New life.

2. Hui Style Architecture

The folk houses in traditional culture (or the Chinese folk houses in the impression of foreigners) are what Hongcun looks like. It is no wonder that the houses next to Yuen Marsh are on the list of folk houses. stamp.

Huizhou architecture is characterized by black tiles, pink walls, and horse head walls, brick carvings, wood carvings, and stone carvings as decorative features, and high-rise houses, deep wells, and halls as home features. The houses in Huizhou are surrounded by high walls, which are called "fire-sealing walls" (pink walls, black tiles and horse-head walls). Huizhou architecture fully embodies its distinctive characteristics in terms of village and town planning concepts, plane and space processing, and comprehensive application of architectural sculpture art. Residential houses, ancestral halls, and archways are the most typical ones, and are known as the "Three Unique Ancient Buildings of Huizhou."

Now, you can visit the Huizhou government office (almost all other places have been destroyed), and see the folk houses in the Xidi area of ??Hongcun, Yixian County. There are many ancestral halls scattered in the Huizhou area, as well as the ancient archways in Shexian County. (It is said to be the place where Qiong Yao TV’s Seven Gates was filmed), all kinds of wonderful buildings are gathered together in Huizhou.

3. Anhui Opera and Peking Opera

When talking about Chinese elements, Peking Opera is definitely indispensable.

Huizhou opera was evolved by Huizhou artists on the basis of absorbing Yiyang Opera and Western Qin Opera during the Ming and Qing Dynasties. By the middle of the Qing Dynasty, Anhui opera was popular all over the country and had formed a perfect opera that paid equal attention to singing, reading, acting and fighting. The "Four Major Anhui Opera Troupes" came to Beijing from Yangzhou and pushed Anhui Opera to its peak. During the Daoguang period, Hui Opera and Han Opera were combined to give birth to Peking Opera.

4. The Four Treasures of the Study

This is also a typical Chinese element, pen, ink, paper and inkstone.

Huizhou is a famous place of origin for Hui inkstone and Hui ink, which can still be seen everywhere on shopping streets. There is also a very special Hui ink cake made of black sesame seeds (the edible Hui ink) Hui ink stone, She inkstone, Chengxintang Paper, Wang Bo's pen, and the Four Treasures of the Study are all available in Huizhou, but the latter two are less well-known nationwide.

5. Neo-Confucianism

When I studied history, I knew that the Southern Song Dynasty admired Zhu Xi’s Neo-Confucianism. Although I am very disgusted with its perverted ideas of requiring chaste and martyr women, I have to admit that Neo-Confucianism is also A school of thought that had a great influence on the history of Chinese thought.

Neo-Confucianism has a particularly profound spread and influence in Xin'an, and is known as "Xin'an Neo-Confucianism" in the world. The founders of Neo-Confucianism, Cheng Hao and Cheng Yi of Luoyang, and the master of it, Zhu Xi of Wuyuan, all had their ancestral homes in Huangdun, She County. It is "Chengzhu Queli". Zhu Xi established a rigorous ideological system of Neo-Confucianism, integrated Taoist and Zen thoughts into Confucianism, and proposed a series of important ideological categories such as "Heaven", "Qi", "Studying Things to Know", "Knowledge and Action". He believed that "reason" was supreme and all-encompassing, so it was called "Neo-Confucianism".

6. Tea

Tea is also a typical Chinese element and has always been a major branch of traditional trade.

Huizhou tea has a long history, with written records handed down from generation to generation for more than 1,200 years. She County is the largest tea-producing county in the country. "Qihong" and "Tunlv" have a long history and are famous both at home and abroad; "Huangshan Maofeng", "Taiping Houkui" and "Dinggu Dafang" are among the top ten famous teas in the country. Among them, there are many kinds.

Huizhou has a rich tea culture. There are countless tea poems, tea paintings and tea paintings in the past dynasties. The tea merchants have made great achievements. Wu Yutai and Zhang Yiyuan (this are often seen in the capital) Both are from She County) and other time-honored brands are still shining brightly today.

7. Traditional Chinese Medicine

This is also a typical traditional Chinese element

Xin'an Medicine: originated from the Northern Song Dynasty and flourished in the Ming and Qing Dynasties. From the Song Dynasty to the late Qing Dynasty, famous doctors emerged 543 He wrote and compiled more than 460 medical books, some of which were spread eastward to Korea and Japan. Famous ones include the 10 volumes of "Yishuo" written by Zhang Gao in the Song Dynasty. This is the earliest existing book in my country that contains a large number of biographies of medical historical figures and medical historical materials. It is also the first relatively complete Xin'an medical work; "Yishuo" written by Qimen Wangji. "Shishan Medical Records" in 3 volumes, with eclectic clinical practice and good at diagnosis and pulse detection; "Famous Medical Records" compiled by Shexian Jiang in 12 volumes, collected from Bian Que, Cang Gong, Hua Tuo, and other famous doctors in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties. "Effective Medical Records" is very rich in content. It is the first monograph in my country that collects the medical records of famous doctors from past dynasties.

8. Huizhou Merchants

9. Taoism

10. Abacus

11. Hui School Pu Xue

12. Seal cutting, printmaking, wood carving, book engraving, etc. 2. Introduction to Anhui

Anhui was founded in the sixth year of Kangxi in the Qing Dynasty (1667 AD). The name of the province was a combination of the first words of Anqing and Huizhou at that time. In Wanshan and in the Spring and Autumn Period, there was the ancient Wan Kingdom, which was referred to as Wan.

It is located in central and eastern China and is the most dynamic part of the Yangtze River Delta. The province is about 570 kilometers long from north to south and 450 kilometers wide from east to west. The total area is 140,100 square kilometers, accounting for approximately 1.45% of China's land area. According to Anhui Province’s 2021 National Economic and Social Development Statistical Bulletin, the province’s permanent population at the end of 2021 was 61.13 million.

Anhui currently has 16 prefecture-level cities: Hefei, Huaibei, Bozhou, Suzhou, Bengbu, Fuyang, Huainan, Chuzhou, Lu'an, Ma'anshan, Wuhu, Xuancheng, Tongling, Chizhou, Anqing and Huangshan, 9 county-level cities, 50 counties, and 45 municipal districts.

It has a long history, a collection of humanities, beautiful mountains and rivers, a superior location, and a geography that blends the differences between north and south China. It is the epitome of beautiful China.