Cheng County in ancient times for the "Yugong" Yongzhou domain. King Wen of Zhou for the south of the border, after the filial piety of the king sealed Fei Zi in the Qin, raising horses and marsh and Wei, the land belongs to the Qin land. During the Spring and Autumn Period, it was the White Horse State. In 221 B.C., Qin Shi Huang unified China, sealed the world for 36 counties, Cheng County belongs to Longxi County, called the lower discernment. Wudu County was first set up, and the county was changed to belong to it, and it was still called Lower Discernment Road. Emperor Wu of Han Dynasty Yuanfeng five years (106 BC), the first thirteen states of the Department of Assassins, Wudu County under the Department of Assassins of Yizhou. Song Yuanjia nineteen years (442 years) Ping Qiu Chi, the county into the Song, under the South Qinzhou Wudu County. The Northern Wei Dynasty Emperor Taiwu Zhenjun seven years (446 years), initially set up the Qiu Chi town, to the county under the town. Western Wei abolished the emperor two years (553 years), changed the South Qinzhou into the state, initially set up with the Valley County.
The historical and cultural heritage of Chengxian County is world-famous for the Xisai Ode. West Narrow Song" full name "Han Wudu Taishou Hanyang Ayang Li Xie West Narrow Song", located in Gansu Province, Longnan City, Gansu Province, Cheng County, 13 kilometers west of the foothills of Tianjing Mountain. Here, the green mountains face each other, a large stream, a group of pools such as beads, cliffs, traces of the ancient palisades still exist. The cliff monument of "Ode to Xizai" is 220 centimeters high and 340 centimeters wide, with four characters in seal script, "Huian Xiziao", and 20 lines and 385 characters in the body. The inscribed characters are Han Clerical, each character is about 4 centimeters square, the strokes are smooth and smooth, and the strokes are strong and vigorous. The inscription describes the life of Li Xi, the governor of Wudu County in the Eastern Han Dynasty, and his achievements as a local administrator, and praises his leadership in opening up the West Narrows Road for the benefit of the people.
The inscription and calligraphy of "Ode to Xicai" have high archaeological research and copying appreciation value, and once set off the "Ode to Xicai" research fever at home and in Japan and other countries. The inscription on the tablet is engraved with 12 lines and 142 words in small characters, which are in the same style of calligraphy as the main text and were engraved by Qiu Jing, a native of Cheng County, Longnan at that time. Contemporary famous master of Chinese painting Li Keran inscription "Ode to the West Narrows" on the right side of the cliff monument. The right side of the main text is engraved with the image of the Yellow Dragon, Jiahe, White Deer, Wooden Lianli and Chenglu people, known as "Yi Chi Five Rui Tu", symbolizing Li Xiexie's administration during the time of the government and people's harmony, the five grains, the people happy with their homes, is a complementary image of the inscription.
The Chinese Calligraphers Association and the relevant experts and departments of the comprehensive assessment, in August 2015, officially determined that the Han Dynasty cliff carvings in Chengxian County, "Ode to the West Narrows" named "Chinese Calligraphy Monument", but also the Chinese Calligraphers Association to carry out this activity since the award of the first calligraphy monument in Gansu Province.
With the Han Dynasty cliff carvings "Ode to the West Narrow" was named the Chinese calligraphy monument, not only the Longnan Cheng County more than a business card for foreign publicity, more Longnan Cheng County and Gansu Civil Aviation Real Estate Investment Company Limited has signed a strategic cooperation agreement of the whole tourism, plans to invest 2 billion yuan to build the "China Cheng County West Narrow Ode culture and health town! "The implementation of the project, played a great role in promoting. At the same time also for the Longnan Cheng County to implement the "one area, two areas" of the province's cultural county construction layout, the development of regional tourism, provides an important cultural support, will be "West Narrows Ode" Calligraphy Exhibition, Gansu Province and even the country's influential cultural exhibitions, for the creation of the Longnan Cheng County as a cultural center for the development of the whole region tourism. Longnan Cheng County to create a "Chinese Calligraphy Township" and "Chinese Calligraphy Association creative writing base", laid a more solid foundation.
Jifeng Mountain National Forest Park, located in Chengxian County 15 kilometers southwest, Jifeng Mountain in the West Qinling remnants of the Huicheng Basin in the middle of the elevation of 1917 meters. Stretching more than 20 kilometers. Jifeng Mountain covers an area of 12,583.5 acres, with 55 families, more than 100 genera and 200 species of trees and shrubs, mainly pine and bamboo. There are 102 families, 446 genera and 1,296 species of fruit, oil, spice, honey, medicinal and ornamental plants. The vegetation coverage rate is up to more than 90%. Jifeng Mountain in ancient times to "chicken peaks towering emerald" into one of the county's eight scenic spots, known as "Longyu small Emei". Jifeng Mountain is to teach the Buddha mainly religious culture complex. Chicken peak mountain is ancient Gan, Shaanxi, Sichuan three sides of the famous Buddhist mountain. 1999 May State Forestry Administration announced for the National Forest Park.
Du Shaoling Ancestral Hall, also known as Dugong Ancestral Hall, Dufu Cao Tang, when built in Chengxian County, 3.5 kilometers southeast of the foothills of the Phoenix Mountains, the green mud on both sides of the river in memory of the Tang Dynasty poet Dufu's Ancestral Hall-style buildings. Dufu in Chengxian County created "Longmenzhen", "Shiquan", "Jicaoling", "Mudgong Mountain", "Phoenix Terrace", "Wanzhangtan", "Qianyuanzhong abode in Tonggu County to make seven songs", "hair Tonggu County" and so on more than a dozen of poems.
In the second year of Qianyuan of Emperor Suzong (759 A.D.), Du Fu was forced to leave the imperial court because he was offended by Emperor Suzong's frank admonition. He was forced to leave the imperial court, and together with his family and children, he fled with the starving people to Qinzhou, which was more than a hundred miles away. At that time, there was a magistrate in Tonggu County (present-day Cheng County, Longnan City, Gansu Province), more than a hundred miles away from Qinzhou, who was called by Dufu as "a good master", and when he heard that Dufu had arrived in Qinzhou, he invited Dufu to come and settle down. This "good host" did not admire Du Fu's poetic talent or take Du Fu in out of pity. He wrongly believed that Du Fu had been a gleaner of the emperor's side, and that he was a person who could reach out to the emperor, and that he had made friends with Du Fu because he wanted him to recommend him in the future. However, when he met Du Fu and realized that not only Du Fu could not recommend him, but also might get him into trouble, he dismissed Du Fu with a meal and never cared about him again. The first time I saw him, he had to set up a simple hut in the Flying Dragon Gorge in Tonggu County, where he had to live with the acorns and chestnuts as his food, and he had to struggle to survive.
Du Fu lived in Longnan more than a month, to travel before and after the order of his visit to the mountains and rivers of the landscape one by one in the poem, wrote "Fajian Temple", "Longmen Town", "Phoenix Terrace", "Liangdang County, Wu ten ministers on the river house" and other more than 20 poems, these somber, frustrated, angry and far-reaching masterpieces, as if the "with the Valley of the Seven Songs" is the most famous, for us to show the great changes in the Tang Dynasty, from the decline of prosperity, and so on. The Seven Songs of Tonggu are the most famous among these masterpieces of melancholy and profound anger. Because of his special sensitivity to many aspects of social life, he sent out heavy feelings, his body is very exquisite, and his lyricism is quite profound, so his works are full of human feelings, which are saddening and heartfelt to read. In these poems, he lamented the tragic situation of the people, sadness of the mountains and rivers of the broken, resentment of the government's excessive servitude; especially valuable is that he broke through the Confucian idea of loyalty to the boundaries of the thought of the king, in the thought of extreme bitterness to find a support for their own. Spiritual strength.
This seven-character poem is a true and graphic record of the hard life of the poet's family when they were trapped in the same valley. It describes the family's tragic encounter and the great grief of the separation of flesh and blood. The poet describes the life is: its food is not fruitful, "the year to pick up acorns and chestnuts with the sniper, yellow alone no seedlings mountain snow Sheng"; its clothes do not cover the body, "short clothes several pull not cover the shin, hands and feet chafed skin and flesh dead"; its live in the desolate and dilapidated, "deserted artemisia old city Cloud is not open, white fox jumping beams yellow fox standing"; its appearance is aging, "a hundred head of messy hair hanging over the ear"; its physical frailty, "the body does not become famous body has been old, three people each thin why strong"; its mood pessimism and despair, "men and women moan and groan, and women moan and groan. "Men and women moaned and groaned, the four walls were quiet, and the west wind came from the sky for me"; his whereabouts were uncertain, "three years of hunger and walking on the barren mountain road". In the poem, the author not only emphasized his own identity as a guest, miserable life, and by the family and the country, exposing the anomalous political phenomenon of the imperial court at that time, the dragon stings and snakes swim, for his own aspirations are difficult to pay off the injustice also issued a sigh and cry.
Difficult to part with the cultural complex, so that the people of Longnan can not forget Dufu, Cheng County will be Dufu lived in the expansion of the place for the Dufu Shrine, later renamed Dufu Cao Tang, Longnan is now the focus of the tourism project and rare humanistic landscapes. In fact, Du Fu only lived here for more than a month, did not build a room, how to say "hall"? But it is a way to commemorate the poet. The more than 100 Longyu poems of Du Fu, is after Du Fu's "three mandarins" and "three farewells", another group of ideology and artistry have reached a new height, the later generations of poetry and research and criticism have a great impact on the milestone significance of the outstanding works.
Cheng County has a lot of historical and cultural celebrities, the main ones are: Qiu Jing, the word Han De, under the discernment of the people. Good literature work book, Han Lingdi Jianning for the Wudu County from the history. In the fourth year of Jianning, the governor Li Xie opened the West Narrow Road, and Jing made an ode to it and carved a stone. In the following year, the Analytical Lane Bridge in Frustration (present-day Luoyang, Shaanxi) was completed, and he wrote an ode to record its beginning and end. Ode to the West Narrows" cliff stone carving, Jing wrote the text, the book Dan, text, book are ancient, and Jing's name is not seen in the historical records, pity. Qiu Shi, character Zi Chang, was a native of Xiandi. Lingdi Jianning for the Wudu county officials, 172 years AD (Xi Ping first year), frustrated by the analysis of the Li bridge into, rope for the book of praise. The calligraphy of the rope is excellent. With the Valley, I do not know his family name. A.D. 901 - 904 years (Tang Zhaozong days back years), the emperor to Zhu Wen's chaos, broadcasting to Qi, Empress He's field drains hunting without degree of full, outside the two sheds, a hundred miles of Flying E. The same valley son was across the green oxen, the bridge in the analyzed. With the Valley is across the green ox at the line, the book on the matter, and chanting "Song of the Five Children". After worrying about it, the potential to make the king of Qin camera to kill, things have not been done and with the Valley Zi has escaped. The emperor returned to Chang'an, sent an envoy to call, and escaped. So, hidden name, for a certain Hanyang irrigation garden old man. Zhang Wei, the word Deyuan, Song Chengzhou people, the number "Zhang red-eye", also known as "Zhang migratory eye". Initially for the Chesapeake Frontier Army cavalry, and the gold people in battle repeatedly won, then Mew charging Lizhou deputy commander, moved to Shinzhou commander, and repeatedly won battles. Later, he attacked Qinzhou and returned without any success, and then dismissed the army and died in Lizhou, and ended up as Yangzhou Observation Minister. Zhang Ju, word can Ting, Qing Cheng County, Zhang Qi Zhai people, Jiaqing Xin You section of the tributary, the official to the Ministry of Criminal Affairs of the Ministry of the first class, was honored by the Jiaqing Emperor as "teacher", was known as "night rain clear lamp", is the Jiaqing years of the famous Beijing officials.
Cheng County, fertile land, rich in abundance, is Longnan's hometown of Tianfu, known plant species up to 1958 species, grain crops are mainly winter wheat, corn, soybeans, potatoes, buckwheat, etc., has historically been the grain silo in Longnan; cash crops to winter rape, garlic and a variety of four-season vegetables; economic forest fruits, mainly walnuts, persimmons, cherries, chestnuts, etc., with tianmu, Poria, Duchess, etc. There are precious herbs and more than a thousand kinds of medicinal plants.
There are 54 kinds of animal species, and there are more than ten kinds of rare wild animals, such as sika deer, panther, bear, paintbrush, red-bellied woodchuck, and so on.
Proven metal deposits in the territory of lead, zinc, gold, silver, iron, manganese and other 17 kinds, especially lead and zinc reserves are larger, ranking the country's second largest lead and zinc ore belt, its geological reserves of about 11 million metal tons. Cheng County has built a lead-zinc-led, construction and building materials, wine brewing, agricultural and sideline product processing, energy and chemical industry and other five major industrial systems.
Cheng County folk culture is rich, diverse forms, unique performance.
Popular in Cheng County around the dragon dance, unique shape, extraordinary momentum. In addition to the dance method is unique, the dragon lantern production technology also has a different general dragon lantern mystery, know-how. Its dance method is based on the inheritance of the ancient traditional dragon dance techniques, drawing, application, play the traditional folk dance, classical opera dance "just with soft, soft in just, just and soft" strengths, suitable for the mountainous terrain, the terrain of the special, in the wide circulation of the continuous development and innovation. In terms of artistic style, especially on the city's Dragon Dance is unique, with its performance form of colorful, varied, robust and lively and well-known. Their dragon dance, there are twelve sections, nine sections and seven sections of the points, more silk or colored paper paste dragon head, the dragon body to cloth painted gold scales, both sides of the red cloth cut "flame", the dragon's tail to the bamboo branch broken into fine. Under each section, there are red paper or red damask glued into a barrel-shaped lantern, lit candles at night, known as the dragon lantern. Dragon dance, a person holding a cut, by the head of the head for the leader, in the tightly in the dance, or through the street, or round, or Brahma swept the ground ...... dragon head shrugged up, the cuts closely followed by the crowd at the same time dance, with the drums and cymbals percussion to do the accompaniment, to go "Two Dragons Playing Pearls "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls", "Dragon Plate Jade Pillar", "Cabbage Rolling Heart" and other patterns. Especially at the climax of the dragon dance, the dragon dancers have to make every effort to jump, roll, or lie down on the ground to spin, the dragon's changes in the performance of the fullest. From a distance, a huge dragon tumbling, jumping, through a stream of passion, through a kind of boldness. Dragon dance "style", it seems to put their own ideals, expectations are pinned on the dragon, the dragon seems to let people dance to life. At this moment, people no longer take the dragon as a symbol of ancient times as an auspicious totem, but as a power, a spirit and a belief!
On the north bank of the Rhinoceros River into the county of Dachuan area, since ancient times has been circulating a kind of elegant and cheerful folklore - "stepping on the word of blessing", this unique folklore in the Longnan traditional Chinese New Year celebrations, can be said to be a unique, the art of the pressure of the crowd. "Step on the word of blessing" activities are generally held in the first ten to fifteen of the first month of the year this time. During the Spring Festival, the folk artists in the villages of Dachuan, Wangyao and Zhaizi on the north bank of Rhinoceros River and the neighboring villages of Hewan, Lishan and Gongshan on the other side of the river have been busy for a long time. Each village has to organize a social fire, which usually starts with stepping on the word "Fu" and then singing a short section of an opera. Village to village exchanges with each other performances, the meaning of one is to wish each other good luck, the second is to take this close inter-village relations, in fact, is for the first month of the 15th day of the large-scale "stepping on the word of blessing" activities for their own rehearsal. The performance program of "Treading on Fuzzy Characters" is generally divided into three stages, the first one is to tread on the characters; the second one is to sing the opera, which is usually "Dragon and Phoenix Presenting Good Luck", "Family Fortunes", "Birthday Worship", "Colorful Buildings", "Wenguang Conquest of the West", etc; and the last one is to "call the clanking" (calling the bells). The so-called "calling clanking" is that the chief stickman says some favorite auspicious words, and the actors and actresses who participate in stepping on the characters respond in unison, shouting the word "have"! This means that they have everything they need. Auspicious words are generally rhyming verses, the leader of the stick people high tone, should be echoed by the sound of spring thunder, everyone is happy.