Yidu culture

Yidu is one of the birthplaces and blending places of Ba culture and Jingchu culture. The local folk customs are simple, and all kinds of myths, legends, folk songs, music, dances, houses, restaurants and places are filled with the charm of Bachu culture. Yidu folk culture is rich and colorful, which not only contains the details of Ba culture in western Hubei, but also has the charm of Chu style in central Hubei. At present, the most distinctive varieties in Yidu are: Yidu Banggu, Yidu Yugu (Nanguan) and Chu Opera. Yidu Green Temple riddle is known as the first riddle village in China. In Yidu, local people and Han people live together and lead a folk life, including eating and drinking, productive labor, dressing up, weddings and funerals, etc. It is also mixed with various characteristics of Bachu culture and folk customs. Such as: funeral, funeral, beating funeral drums, jumping funeral, planting seedling drums, riddles and so on.

Yidu can have both Buddhism and Taoism. The buildings, figures and missionaries of the two major sects are quite influential in and around this area. Religious sites mainly include Liangshan and Songshan.

Liangshan, there are Buddhist sites and Taoist sites, with Taoism at the top and Buddhist sites in the middle; There is a Jinding on the top of the mountain, Guanyin Pavilion, Guandi Temple, Daxiong Hall and other buildings on the mountainside, and there is a danger of one-day gate, two-day gate and three-day gate. Jinding is the steepest and is known as "Southern Wudang".

Songshan is now a provincial forest park and Longquan Temple is a religious place. Built in the early Ming Dynasty, it was named "Qingquan Temple" because of the clear spring water beside it. During the Jiaqing period of Qing Dynasty, it was renamed "Longquan Temple". During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, King Hui and Princess He believed in Buddhism and once worshipped the abbot of Songshan as their teacher. Therefore, these two temples are large in scale, with strong incense and followers all over Sichuan, Hubei and Hunan provinces, becoming famous religious shrines. Besides, there are Catholicism, Christianity and Islam in Yidu. City sign

Yidu logo was considered and adopted at the eighth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth Yidu Municipal People's Congress on March 7, 2008. The main graphic of the logo is based on the lowercase "Y" and "D" of Yidu hanyu pinyin letters, which were designed in Lian Bi, and the organization has become the following main body.

Urban spirit

Yidu is an ancient city with a history of more than 2,000 years. It not only has rich historical and cultural heritage, but also has beautiful landscape garden characteristics, full of fresh breath of modern cities. In order to strengthen Yidu's external publicity, enhance Yidu's image and create Yidu's "city card".

In 2007, Yidu commissioned the School of Economics and Management of Three Gorges University to conduct a research on the topic of "Theoretical and Practical Research on Marketing Yidu". After nearly a year's investigation, the research group has carefully sorted out the humanistic genes and spiritual characteristics formed in Yidu's miracle work, held some symposiums for party representatives, deputies to the National People's Congress, CPPCC members and people from all walks of life, and solicited opinions through various forms such as networks and conferences 1500. Repeatedly summarized, refined, cultivated and developed, many drafts were easy to draft, which was deliberated and passed by the eighth meeting of the Standing Committee of the Sixth People's Congress of Yidu on March 7, 2008, forming Yidu's "city spirit, city symbol and city propaganda language".

Yidu's urban spirit is: trustworthiness, dedication, harmony and preciseness.

Urban tree flower

In July, 2000, Yidu City launched a campaign to select urban trees and flowers. At the14th meeting of the Standing Committee of the Fourth People's Congress of Yidu City on June 5438+00, 2000, it was decided that Cinnamomum camphora should be named as an urban tree and Lagerstroemia indica as an urban flower.