An essay introducing the customs of Hunan

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There are fifty-six ethnic groups in our country, and the folk customs and customs also vary greatly with regional differences. Every nation has its own folk traditions that vary greatly.

My hometown is Hunan, a place with a rich cultural heritage. There are many unique customs and customs in my hometown. With the rapid development of society, the customs and habits of many places have been diluted. However, if you come to Hunan, especially in the simple rural areas of Hunan, you can feel the unique customs and customs.

My hometown of Hunan is a region that retains unique customs. Whenever there is a happy event, according to the enthusiastic temperament of Hunan people, they will build a stage with wooden boards in their yard and invite artists to sing Hunan's famous flower drum opera at home. Place a large round table in the house and invite relatives and neighbors to your home for dinner and theater. Setting up a large round table symbolizes reunion and peace. There won’t be too many bowls of dishes on the table, but each bowl is rich in content. We call it “mixed-flavored dishes” and it is one of the most famous local dishes. The dishes include sausages, fungus, dried tofu... Although this kind of dish It is not as refined as "Huaiyang cuisine", but you can taste the unique natural and simple style of the farmhouse from this rough and bold home-cooked dish, and it also has a unique flavor.

In rural areas, people eat vegetables and rice grown by themselves, rarely buy anything, and their houses are built by themselves. The house we live in was built with the sweat of our grandparents when they were young. Red bricks and black tiles are the biggest features of our house. Our house has two floors. We sleep on the upper floor and eat on the lower floor. The layout is simple. It's not like the houses in the city, which are shiny and magnificent. They are all made of natural soil. When you walk in, you will smell a fragrant earthy smell, which has a unique smell that can make people return to nature.

The adults also hummed when they heard the charming tune, while the children concentrated on picking sausages in the big bowl on the table. What a lively and peaceful scene! After the play, the food was finished. , the guest and the host reluctantly say goodbye. Before leaving, the host will always hand a piece of bacon to the guest. The meat is smoked red, and it contains the warm and hospitable friendship of the Hunan people.

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My hometown is Hunan. The folk customs of Hunan and Guangzhou are very different. Let me tell you about them next.

The buses in Hunan are completely different from those in Guangzhou. Everyone on the bus was very kind and kind. In Guangzhou, there is a machine that allows you to put two yuan into the bus as soon as you get on the bus. But it is different in my hometown. There is a special conductor on the bus in my hometown. She will first ask you where you are going. If it is somewhere far away, she will charge you a little more. If it is 6 yuan, if you give 5 yuan, she will not say anything. It's more than 10 yuan, and you can still bargain. If it's New Year, the conductor will say "Happy New Year."

Hunan people are very enthusiastic, which is completely different from Guangzhou. In Hunan, if someone in the family gets married or celebrates a birthday, as soon as there is a happy event, relatives, friends and neighbors will be invited to attend. People in Hunan call it not a party, but wine, and those who participate call it drinking. When eating and drinking, men always sit in the hall, while women and children sit in the tea room. This is due to their different status. The wine making is done at home, and an art troupe is hired to set up a stage outside and perform. Invite a cooking team to cook the rice. After watching the show, the guests went to the back room to prepare for drinks. The food came as soon as everyone sat down. There were five or six people at the table and ten plates of food, all of which were meat. People in Hunan are not like Guangzhou. In Guangzhou, people drink red wine at parties, while in rural Hunan they drink nutritious fast food, rice wine and white wine. In Hunan, rice wine is drunk as water. The more you drink, the more generous the host is. It’s even better when you’re drunk!

This is my hometown - Hunan! This is the folk customs of my hometown, which are very different from those in Guangzhou!

Hunan folk culture:

The basic spirit of Hunan Huxiang culture is "honesty and justice", "brave and martial", "practical in the world" and "continuous self-improvement". "Simple" means a lively, vigorous, unmodified, and unrestrained nature. "Chongyi" means a strong sense of justice and group orientation. The integration of the two constitutes the unique Huxiang culture.

(1) Hunan dialects

Hunan dialects include Xiang dialect, Southwest Mandarin, Gan dialect, and Hakka dialect. In addition, there are also Hunan dialects and Xiang dialects that have not yet been determined. dialect. Hunan is a region with complex dialects. In areas where ethnic minorities live together, many people can both speak their own ethnic languages ??and communicate in Chinese dialects.

1. Xiang Dialect

The Hunan dialect (also called Xiang dialect) is the most representative dialect in Hunan Province, including Changsha, Zhuzhou, Xiangtan, Hengyang, Shaoyang, Yueyang, Yiyang, Loudi et al., the population in 2010 was approximately 45 million. From the internal phonetic differences of Xiang dialect, there are differences between New Xiang dialect and Old Xiang dialect. Old Xiang is widely spoken in Ningxiang, Hengyang and other places in central Hunan, while New Xiang is popular in large and medium-sized cities such as Changsha and Zhuzhou.

2. Southwest Mandarin

Southwestern Mandarin in Hunan is mainly distributed in most areas of northwest and western Hunan, as well as the urban area and some towns of Chenzhou in southern Hunan. Southwest Mandarin was formed relatively late. , but it has a wide influence in northwest and western Hunan. It is the second largest Chinese dialect in Hunan Province and the largest dialect in Huguang area (Hunan and Hubei). ?

(2) Hunan Hunan Opera

Hunan Province currently has 19 kinds of local operas and nearly 100 artistic performance groups, among which the most influential is Hunan Flower Drum Opera. Flower Drum Opera's "Old Biao's Anecdotes" was selected into the 2007-2008 National Stage Art Quality Project's key funded plays, achieving a breakthrough in the selection of national-level quality plays. The large-scale landscape reality program "Tianmen Fox Fairy - New Liu Hai Chopping Wood" was successfully staged.

In addition, music, dance, art, calligraphy, photography and other art forms have also achieved fruitful results, with the emergence of He Jiguang, Li Guyi, Song Zuying, Zhang Ye, Chen Sisi, Tang Can, Lei Jia, Wang Lida, etc. A large number of famous Hunan singers.

Reference link: Hunan (provincial administrative region of the People's Republic of China)_Baidu Encyclopedia