Prose on local conditions and customs

& lt& lt I'm talking about local conditions and customs, and I'm talking about people.

Before going abroad, I heard many people say that in foreign countries, the relationship between people is indifferent, and there can be no deeper communication between people. Only money matters. Therefore, we can't expect anyone to help each other like we in China.

I came to Canada with this idea.

However, in just a few tens of days, several small things that I have encountered in succession have shaken my concept.

One day, I took the subway for the first time in Toronto, and I was confused about the direction of the train. While I was looking up the map, a foreigner next to me came up and asked, Do you need help? I told him the location, and he not only pointed out where I was going on the map, but also took me to the platform. I think, if you want to ask for directions in China, you must find someone who looks honest, otherwise you don't know if you will show me Java. Before I sang the Internationale, my friends came to help me. If I sing Internationale, I'm afraid there will be more friends in the world.

In the subway, a child rushed into the carriage at the moment of closing the door, and the door suddenly closed, clamping the child's arm. In an instant, several foreigners in the carriage rushed to the door at the same time, and too many chefs wanted to open the door. At this time, there were many yellow-skinned China people in the carriage, and they didn't reflect from beginning to end. They seem to be unconsciously watching a movie that has nothing to do with them. Even more exasperating, I suddenly heard a Cantonese sentence: "The door won't close, so don't panic."

In fact, the subway door is just like the elevator door. If there is an obstacle, it will open automatically, so there is no need to worry. This truth is known not only to China people, but also to everyone. But instinctively, foreigners will rob it at the same time. And those who claim to help each other, not only do not show concern, but also say a few sarcastic words, showing that they have seen the world and crossed the dock. It seems that the ancestral precepts of a gentleman saying things but not doing things are deeply rooted in the hearts of China people. Of course, this kind of thing is very common in China, and it is not worth making a fuss about.

Canada is an immigrant country, and its history and reality are related to the exchange and migration of immigrants. It should be said that Canada is full of vigor and vitality because of this immigration flow, and it has also become one of the developed countries.

It is precisely because of this feature of Canada that the great integration of all ethnic groups has formed the integration of personality characteristics with various national characteristics.

The openness of the United States, the reserve of Europe, the rudeness of Africa and the meanness of Asia are vividly displayed in Canada.

In human nature, American frankness, European euphemism, African wildness and Asian hypocrisy are equally competitive in Canada.

In a joke with local foreigners, I actually heard a very unpleasant list: there are four kinds of people who are least welcome in China: blacks, Indians and Pakistanis, Vietnamese and Canadians. Among them, Asians accounted for three. A few new foreigners told me sincerely that they didn't want to have more contacts with China people because "China people don't have credibility" and "cheat people".

It goes without saying that blacks are tough and rude; There is no need to say that Indians and Pakistanis are mysterious and treacherous; Vietnamese bandits and pirates have long been despised by the world; But where did China people offend these foreigners?

Perhaps this is white discrimination.

& lt& lt [Prose] Changbai Mountain Tianchi;

Chinese national geography is a landscape beauty contest. Mountains and rivers can't be explained in one or two sentences. In the past, the magazine had 148 pages, which was increased to 550 pages in the issue of 10 in 2005. Thanks to chinese national geography, the price is still 16 yuan without increasing the price. This magazine was out of stock soon after it was published. Beijing is one of the earliest cities in China. It is said that more than 80 photos have been taken online, and many readers are angry that they can't buy magazines. Chinese national geography published a full draft on its website forum with the title of "I hope everyone will calm down".

Chinese national geography lists the 15 group "China is the most beautiful", and the ranking order is: the ten most beautiful mountains in China, five lakes in China, five deserts in China, three Ya Dan in China, five urban areas in China, ten canyons in China, six tourist caves in China, eight coasts in China, six waterfalls in China, six glaciers in China and ten forests in China.

The reason why I copied this list in turn is because I found that for some reason, there are no rivers on the list. Maybe with the canyon, there is no need to talk about rivers. In some years, maybe only the Yarlung Zangbo River is clean, and maybe this river can only be seen in a canyon-like area, so it is hard to say on the whole.

In this selection, in terms of the most beautiful mountains, Changbai Mountain in Northeast China was shortlisted, but it failed to enter the top ten most beautiful mountains. It is gratifying that Changbai Mountain has not entered the top ten most beautiful mountains, but Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain has entered the most beautiful lake. Changbai Mountain was not selected, but Tianchi in Changbai Mountain is the highest point in Changbai Mountain. No one can move it to the apartment. If you want to see Tianchi Lake, you must go to Changbai Mountain.

Looking through this issue of chinese national geography, there are many words about famous landscapes, such as introduction, evaluation or appreciation. The magazine also invited famous poets and writers Shu Ting, Yu Jian and Liu Liangcheng to write articles for Gulangyu Island in Xiamen, Suzhou Ancient City and the hinterland of Gurbantunggut Desert respectively. However, even in Tianchi, Changbai Mountain, there are only two pictures, 59 words of expert comments and more than 220 words of explanations around the title "Tianchi, Changbai Mountain: Calm after Fury". In a popular phrase, it is depressed. Isn't there anything to say in Changbai Mountain Tianchi? But on second thought, I'm happy again. It is not easy to climb Changbai Mountain once a year. It's been over two thousand years. There are few scholars here to recite poems and write poems, and no emperor will come here to worship heaven and Zen. Although the Qing emperor canonized Changbai Mountain as a sacred mountain, he could only build a temple in Wende Hengshan Mountain, Jilin City. From nature to humanity, there is no ready-made language for people to use.

There are two photos of Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain in the magazine, one is a scene in summer and the other is a scene in winter, which shows that the editor has moved his mind. In winter, few people can climb the top of Changbai Mountain to see Tianchi Lake, and most people have no chance. A friend went there in winter. After many years, he was very happy, so he wrote a travel note.

Like many pictures of Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain, chinese national geography has two pictures of Tianchi Lake, one is decorated with wild flowers and the other is covered with snow, but both of them are beautiful and sunny. The water in Tianchi Lake is really as calm as glass. Too many pictures like this will make people misunderstand, as if Baishan Tianchi is always so good-tempered. In fact, it is not easy to see Tianchi in winter, and it is not always possible to see Tianchi in summer. In July of 200 1 year, I traveled to Changbai Mountain and drove into the mountain gate. It's already dusk, and it's raining in the seemingly short sky on the mountain. The driver is friendly. He stayed in the mountains for a long time and gained some experience. He reminded me that we should take time to go to Tianchi as soon as possible. If it starts to rain, one day, the driver said that some important people came from the country not long ago and stayed in the mountains for a few days. The weather was always bad, and finally nothing was seen. Listen to the driver and go straight to Tianchi. Sure enough, it didn't take long to get to Tianchi, people were shivering with cold, the mountain wind was getting stronger and stronger, black clouds floated from the opposite side of Tianchi, and Tianchi was swallowed up. At this dusk, I saw Tianchi, which was completely different from my impression. On the top of 16 peak around Tianchi, the detector looked down, and I couldn't see the calm and gentle beauty that people said and pictures showed in the past. At present, Tianchi is gloomy and motionless, as if a plot is brewing, as if to reach out and drag people down, which makes people feel gloomy, ferocious, horrible and terrible.

There is a book "Range Rover of Changbai Mountain in Ancient and Modern Times" published by Jilin People's Publishing House in August, 1990. According to the book, on the one hand, the Manchu emperor banned Changbai Mountain, on the other hand, he sent people to look for the main peak of Changbai Mountain. 1644, after Fu Lin, the ancestor of the Qing Dynasty, went to Beijing, he honored Changbai Mountain as the "God of Changbai Mountain". In the 16th year of Kangxi (A.D. 1677), on April 15th, Aisingiorro Michelle Ye ordered Minister Jue Wu Luo Moon and his party to pay their respects in Changbai Mountain, and "pay a detailed visit to show their sacrifice". In the summer of the same year, Wumuna and others boarded Changbai Mountain, arrived at Longtan, which is Tianchi, and returned to Beijing for a visit in autumn. However, according to research, Umuna didn't really see the main peak of Changbai Mountain during his visit. A Qing Li said in A Record of Changbai Mountain: "In the thirteenth year of Kangxi, Wu Munan traveled to Changbai Mountain and only went to Yin Na in the northeast of Baishan." Li's "Thirteen Years of Kangxi" is debatable here, but he should be right to say that Wu Mu did not reach the main peak of Baishan. Although Wu Muen also saw a pool of water, there was more than one pool in Changbai Mountain. "The Range Rover of Changbai Mountain in Ancient and Modern Times" contains Wu Muen's submission to the emperor after visiting Changbai Mountain. A passage about Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain goes like this: "There is a pool on the top of the mountain, surrounded by five peaks, standing near the water, with clear water and rippling blue waves, and Chi Pan has no vegetation." Anyone who knows Changbai Mountain knows that there are not only five peaks around Tianchi, the highest point in Changbai Mountain. If Wu Muen really saw the Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain, he just covered up the other eleven peaks. Anyway, although Wu Muen didn't mean to, he cheated the emperor.

Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain is about 4.5 kilometers long from north to south, 3.5 kilometers wide from east to west, with a lake area of 9.8 square kilometers, a waterside perimeter of 13.6 kilometers, an altitude of 2 185 meters, an average water depth of 204 meters, a maximum water depth of 373 meters and a total water storage capacity of about 2 billion cubic meters. It is the highest crater lake and the deepest lake in China. This is 65438 from Jilin Literature and History Publishing House. Some people say that throwing a building into the Tianchi Lake in Baishan is like throwing it into a matchbox. In fact, it's bigger than this. Baishan Tianchi gave birth to rivers and is the source of Tumen River, Yalu River and Songhua River. Perhaps it can be said that the small fish in Tumen River, the ordinary huts along Yalu River, the soybeans and sorghum along Songhua River are all raised in Baishan Tianchi. In the winter of 2005, I thought it was a warm winter at first. I really hope it is a warm winter. I hope Tianchi Lake in Changbai Mountain has a lot of flowing water, and use its clear water to wash away the turbidity in the river.

& lt& lt "Bamboo Bed Array" in the streets of Wuhan on a summer night;

After the summer solstice in July, the hot summer night forced Wuhan citizens to leave their homes and had to lay bamboo beds on both sides of the street to sleep on the street. The dense bamboo bed is next to it. Old people, children, young people, young women and even girls lie on bamboo beds and spend night after night. Northerners or foreigners see young women and girls sleeping in the street in shorts and skirts, which is extremely puzzled and fresh. However, the local people are used to it.

Wuhan is one of the three famous "stove cities" in China, with the temperature as high as 40 degrees Celsius in summer. The unbearable heat lasted for about two months, which made it form a unique folk custom "bamboo bed array" in Wuhan.

2. Eat zongzi and race dragon boats?

Eating zongzi and dragon boat racing are the customs in many parts of China. However, this custom comes from commemorating Qu Yuan, which makes it worse in Qu Yuan's hometown of Hubei. ?

During the Dragon Boat Festival on the fifth day of the fifth lunar month, dragon boat races and Zongzi Festival are held all over Hubei. As long as there are lakes, rivers and rivers, people will trim or clean up dragon boats early. From the first day to the fifth day, dragon boats will be launched one after another. "Huanglong", "White Dragon", "Red Dragon" and "Qinglong" cut waves one after another, with ten thousand arrows in full swing, gongs and drums roaring and cheering. People who watch the dragon boat race on both sides of the river will be dark. ?

Legend has it that after Qu Yuan died in Guluo River, people in Zigui, his hometown dreamed that Qu Yuan was thin, so he made angular millet (zongzi) with rice wrapped in bamboo leaves and threw it into the river with a dragon boat. Because the aquarium belongs to the dragon tube, they think it is the horn millet sent by the dragon king, so they dare not eat it. This can be eaten by Qu Yuan. This is the origin of dragon boat racing and eating zongzi.

3. Jingzhou Flower Drum?

Jingzhou Flower Drum was originally a "flower drum along the door", which was a grass-cutting yangko for poor people to beg for a living. This kind of "flower drum" is that one person drums and sings lyrics, and several people echo it. ?

In recent decades, Jingzhou Flower Drum has evolved into a unique local flower drum drama. 1955, an old artist collected and recorded all the vocals of ancient paintings and operas, sorted out the first complete music score of ancient paintings, and boldly used ethnic instruments such as erhu, banhu, pipa, dulcimer, bamboo flute and suona to accompany ancient paintings and operas, ending the history of "singing in unison" and simple accompaniment of gongs and drums. Nowadays, Jingzhou ancient painting drama is full of strong local flavor and melodious singing. With Huxiang life as the theme, there are dozens of plays that show Huxiang's style, such as Family Case-solving and Water Town Love. In the folk, men, women and children walk, work and hum Hua Gutiao from time to time, which also has great "magic". Someone said, "Hey, hey, you don't need to take medicine when you are sick!" " "I don't sing Huagu opera when I work, and I have no strength." When you come to Jingzhou, you can see the radios carried by primary school students after school. On the bus and in the counters of shops, all the plays are Jingzhou Flower Drum Opera.

4. Tianmen "Three Bangs Drum"

In Tianmen and mian yang, people suffered floods in the past because of low terrain and abundant water resources. In order to make a living, they left their hometown, shouldered the "three-stick drum" and wandered around. Many people came from Hubei to southwest China, Indian, Iranian, Central and Western Europe. Some people go to the Philippines and other Southeast Asian countries via Guangdong.

The "three-stick drum" they carry sings wherever they go. People call them "Gypsies in China".

5. Tongshan Mountain Drum?

According to legend, Tongshan Drum Dance originated in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. It is a traditional folk art that farmers sing with drums when they are working in the fields. ?

The shape of the mountain drum is similar to that of the small palace drum used in China traditional opera, but its size is slightly smaller. There are iron rings on both sides of the drum body, which are tied with cowhide belts or ribbons to facilitate the drummer to hang on his chest. When singing, the drummer holds the string in his right hand and the drum bottom in his left hand, and adjusts different timbres with his fingers. An excellent drummer can generally play dozens of drums with different rhythms and different emotions. The sound of the mountain drum is bright and clear, and can be heard for miles away.

Tongshan drum is mainly divided into two categories: digging drum and planting drum. In addition, there is a kind of "mountain gongs and drums". This kind of "mountain gongs and drums" not only has a mountain drum on the drummer's back, but also a bronze gong hanging on his waist, with a clock in his left hand and a string in his right hand.

The tunes of Shangu are closely combined with the local language, with strong sense of rhythm, high-pitched and passionate tunes, simple and warm, and strong local colors, which is an art form that enlivens the labor scene. In the 1988 Hubei Folk Music Dance TV Competition, the program "West Canal" drum adapted by Tongshan County won the silver cup award.

6. What are the old habits of Chongyang people?

Chongyang county in southern Hubei has beautiful scenery and charming scenery. Being far away from big cities, the villagers kept many folk traditions and customs. When young men and women get married, the furniture style is still an ancient form. For example, a wooden bed for sleeping is a flower bed carved with ancient wood. There are carved poles around the bed, three layers of carved "dripping edges" above the carved board in front of the bed and three layers of pedals in front of the bed. There is only one "hole" at the entrance of the bed, and two people can sit side by side. The two ends and the back of the bed are nailed with a whole board. This exquisite flower bed is really a very rare custom in Chongyang. ?

In addition, the tea made by the hospitable Chongyang people is baked with salt and pepper, and the dishes they eat are large pieces of meat, large pieces of fish, sweet potato vermicelli and fried tofu. A large piece of bacon, one inch wide and two or three inches long, is enough for the city people to eat one or two pieces.

7. Tujia customs in western Hubei?

Western Hubei is adjacent to western Hunan, northern Guizhou and southeastern Sichuan, where hundreds of thousands of Tujia residents live. They have unique living customs. Unique and bright clothes. The clothing of the Tu people, especially the clothing of the young people, has a distinctive national style. For example, a young man has a long blue headscarf wrapped around his head, and his coat is usually white cloth with a wide blue border. Traditional cloth buttons and pants are wider. Young women, their headscarves are colored cloth towels, and their tops are red or green, but the neckline, back shoulders, cuffs and hem are all inlaid with beautiful patterns. Wearing a gold or silver bracelet.

Singing folk songs is an indispensable skill for young Tu men and women, and some elderly Tu folk songs can also sing "a lot". Melodious folk songs can often be heard on winding mountain roads, in fields, tea gardens, farmhouses and mud ponds. There are even folk songs sung by men and women, and young people of Shan nationality express their love for each other in this form. Konoha flirts. Young Tu people hold a green leaf in their mouths and make a beautiful, moving and euphemistic sound. This voice is a touching love song. A small leaf only expresses feelings for men and women. The article comes from the Ivy League Literature Network:, please keep the copyright!

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Finally, I wish you all a happy Spring Festival.