Bayu culture is a part of China traditional culture with a long history.

More than 3,000 years of history has shaped a unique Bayu culture in this land.

Chongqing people are "dry", bold and reckless, enthusiastic and cunning, humorous and rustic, tolerant and xenophobic, so they are good at fighting and making trouble and watching the fun.

People in Chongqing eat spicy hot pot. The more they sell, the hotter they are. The more people eat, the more varieties they eat. It takes ten days and a half to eat all kinds of hot pots, such as Yuanyang hot pot, Siwei hot pot, medicated hot pot, fish head hot pot and whole sheep hot pot.

Chongqing's individual catering industry attracts diners with special dishes and services, and has formed influential food areas such as Nanshan Spring Water Chicken, Six Kilometers Beer Duck Food Street, Geleshan Spicy Chicken, Ciqikou Bean Flower Fish, Tongnan Taian Fish and Bishan Laifeng Fish.

Chongqing people have good feet, because when they go out, they climb mountains, men, women and children get exercise, and they also practice the waist of Chongqing girls.

Foggy winter and hot and humid summer also give girls delicate and fair skin; From snacks to spicy and delicious Sichuan cuisine, they are passionate and outspoken, and they hang their voices high as soon as they open their mouths.

Old people love to listen to Sichuan Opera, which is lively and humorous, singing in three points, playing in seven points, playing in half drums and half plays, and it is very lively.

Street teahouse, cheap and easy-going, a square table, a bamboo chair, plus a dollar and a bowl of tea, listening to other people's gossip while DP, watching the traffic, advancing and retreating freely; Luxury teahouse, comfortable and quiet, with beautiful music from violinist. Dr. Tea wears a double-breasted coat and holds a long and narrow teapot to replenish water for the guests. This is a lucky escape. When you are free, you can go to Tongliang to see the Dragon Lantern, which is the hometown of the Dragon Lantern.

Tongliang Dragon Lantern has a long history, which began in Sui and Tang Dynasties, flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties, and is now widely known.

The saying "Hechuan Lantern, Dazu Fish, Tongliang Dragon" has been circulating since ancient times.

The Dragon Lantern Dance in Tongliang shows great momentum, excitement and joy with big props, big moves and big scenes, accompanied by cheerful folk percussion and fierce folk fireworks, which sets off a warm festive atmosphere.

Chongqing acrobatics is famous at home and abroad. Chongqing Acrobatic Art Troupe "Shake the Board Xiaowan" won the Silver Award in the 9th World Future Acrobatic Competition and the Golden Lion Award in the National Acrobatic Competition. Disc and Earth Circle won the Silver Lion Award in the National Acrobatic Competition.

Rongchang folding fan, exquisite and elegant, exquisitely made, exquisite in craftsmanship, various in variety, bejeweled and graceful, is a special commodity and craft treasure.

Also, Dazu Dragon Water Knife can be bought, Qijiang peasant paintings can be seen, and Wanzhou "Tan Carpenter" wooden comb is famous all over the world.

Compared with other parts of China, the folk customs of Chongqing people formed over thousands of years are similar, such as New Year greetings, watching lanterns on the 15th, worshipping ancestors in Tomb-Sweeping Day, enjoying the moon in the Mid-Autumn Festival, hanging wine, catching a temple fair, sitting in a sedan chair and flying kites.

However, as there are five Tujia and Miao Autonomous Counties in Chongqing, these two warm and traditional ethnic groups have their own unique folk festivals.

The ingenious Tujia people have extraordinary talent in dancing.

Every year from the third day to the fifteenth day of the first month, Tujia people hold grand sacrificial ceremonies, prayers and festivals.

Men, women and children put on festive costumes and danced a cheerful and warm swing dance.

For a time, my ears were full of drums and music, and my eyes were dancing.

Brave Miao people have a soft spot for singing.

The annual "Catch Autumn" is a traditional festival for Miao people's congresses to show their heartfelt wishes.

Young men and women can also express their feelings by singing at the Autumn Festival.

Sacrifice, prayer and festival activities

Tujia people in Qianjiang area have large-scale sacrifice, prayer and celebration activities from the third day to the fifteenth day of the first month every year, during which they have to dance with their hands.

During the grand event, it was very lively. Hundreds of Tujia people in Fiona Fang, men wearing Xilankapu and women wearing gorgeous clothes, came here in droves.

In front of the wave hall, lanterns are decorated, and the wizard wears a crown hat and eight skirts around his waist, holding bronze bells and knives and conducting while dancing.

Three guns were fired, drums and music were ringing, and suddenly songs were everywhere, and men and women were singing and dancing all night.

"There are thousands of lights, thousands of people are empty, and a song is lingering."

Hand-waving dance originated from the ancient Bayu dance, and its movements include simple pendulum, double pendulum and rotating pendulum. Performance etiquette, labor scene or fighting action, the rhythm is bright, the dance is beautiful, and the original atmosphere is shocking.

Miao people "chase after autumn"

Miao people are good at singing and dancing. Miao songs are either loud and passionate or elegant and euphemistic. When people don't meet each other, everyone can sing, greet with songs, describe with songs, and express their feelings with songs.

Song is the shadow of Miao people, and it is also a great matchmaker for young men and women to express and communicate their feelings.

At the wedding, songs are even more indispensable. The host will sing a song to the matchmaker thanking the guests and the media. Everyone will sing blessing song to the newlyweds, and relatives and friends will sing songs, duets and nursery rhymes to each other for three days and nights.

"Catch Autumn" is an annual traditional festival of Miao nationality. On this day in early autumn, the Miao people in the village put on holiday costumes and flocked to Akita from all directions. The field was full of gongs and drums, singing, swinging, climbing knives and ladders, dancing lions, playing dragon lanterns, jumping monkeys and singing, which was very lively.

Young men and women use "chasing autumn" to find lovers, and singers and actresses sing their hearts out.

In addition, Miao festivals include March 3rd, June 6th, July 7th, Miao Festival, Sheep and Horse Festival and so on.

1, Qijiang farmers' prints

Qijiang county in Chongqing is a mountainous county with agriculture as its main industry, where a wonderful flower-Qijiang farmhouse prints is blooming.

Qijiang farmer prints integrate ancient folk crafts such as stone carving, wood carving, clay sculpture, paper-cutting, cross-stitch and batik into prints, which makes the print art full of vivid, lively, lively, simple, naive and humorous features.

Qijiang farmers' printmaking is a wonderful work of China folk art, which is highly praised by art circles at home and abroad.

1985 Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, Provincial Artists Association and Chongqing * * * awarded Qijiang County the title of "Hometown of Farmers' Printmaking"; 1Feb. 988, the Ministry of Culture of China named Qijiang County as "the hometown of modern folk painting in China".

2, copper beam dragon lantern

Tongliang County is located in the northwest of Chongqing, and the county seat is 0/03km away from Chongqing/KLOC-.

Tongliang Dragon Lantern is not only a colorful dragon lantern, but also a dance with dragon lanterns as props. It is a folk comprehensive art integrating dance, music, fine arts and handicrafts.

The characteristics of Tonglianglong can be summarized into three words: big, long and lively.

"Big" refers not only to figure, but also to exaggerated modeling. The artist combines traditional Chinese painting, sketch, paper-cutting, embroidery and other techniques, and refers to the depiction techniques of traditional Chinese opera facial makeup. The colored pen walks the ridge to depict the hairpin, highlighting the temperament of the dragon and making it full and magnificent.

The length of the dragon is generally around 24 knots, with moderate proportion and flexible dancing.

"Living" is the introduction of mechanical principles into the dragon dance operation, and the development of hand-cranking, clockwork, electric and other methods makes the dragon dance jump and roll more agile and vivid.

3. Xiushan Lantern Festival

Xiushan Tujia and Miao Autonomous County in Chongqing is located at the junction of Chongqing, Hunan, Guizhou and Hubei provinces. Here, there are beautiful mountains and rivers, outstanding people and rich folk culture and art, especially lanterns.

Xiushan Lantern is a simple, humorous, lyrical and beautiful comprehensive art that integrates song, dance, percussion and strings.

It originated from the "dance troupe" of the aborigines in the Yuan Dynasty, and gradually evolved into a unique folk art under the influence of national cultures.

Lantern props: lanterns, flowers and lights.

Flowers, all kinds of flowers cut by hand and pasted on lamps, are colorful; Lights, bamboo sticks, white paper, new edges and colorful decorations are divided into four corners, six corners and four squares. By the way, take a photo, which is auspicious and prosperous. Fans, cattail fans, folding fans and double fans are called "fan skills", which is more difficult; Table, the main prop of the original lantern.

Xiushan County is known as the "hometown of lanterns".

The Lantern Festival originated from the "Lantern Festival" of the Han nationality, and then merged with the singing and dancing performances of Tujia and Miao people in Xiushan, and developed into an artistic form with novel style, moving songs and dances and being deeply loved by the people of Han, Tu and Miao nationalities.

4. Youyang Swing Dance

Hand-waving dance is an ancient folk dance of Tujia nationality, which began in the Tang Dynasty and has been spread to this day.

Wave dance, ranging from dozens to hundreds, is called "wavelet wave dance"; From thousands to tens of thousands of people, it is called "big swing dance".

Its dance forms are "single pendulum", "double pendulum" and "rotating pendulum". Dances mostly imitate wading through mountains and rivers, farm work, fighting posture, rock eagle spreading its wings and daily life.

These dances are generous and full of life, showing the national character of the unearthed family members.

Every holiday season, Tujia people will go to the "wave hall" or the lawn and courtyard dam to dance.

5. Kowloon couplets

Jiulong town, Jiulongpo District, located in the western suburbs of Chongqing, has jurisdiction over 6 natural villages and 4 neighborhood committees with an agricultural population of more than 8,000.

For more than 20 years, jiulong town has been persistently exploring the development of characteristic culture. Mass cultural activities led by couplets took root and sprouted on the fertile soil of the people. Through calligraphy and painting, seal cutting and other carriers, I have climbed ten mountain cities, eight went to Chengdu, nine went to the Three Gorges and seven passed Fusang Mountain.

Kowloon couplets, with their vivid form, elegant style and unique charm, supplemented by calligraphy and epigraphy, are quite ornamental.

By the end of 1999, more than 3,600 people in jiulong town had created more than 24,000 works, of which 10000 works were widely used in people's daily lives, and more than 260 pieces were carved on wood, stone, bamboo, brick, stainless steel and other materials and hung around all the year round. Twenty-two series of Kowloon couplets have been published, totaling tens of thousands of copies.

In March, 2000, Kowloon Couplet won the title of "Top Ten Folk Arts in Bayu".

6, Liang Ping three unique

The traditional Liangshan Lantern Opera, Liangping New Year Pictures and Liangping Bamboo Curtain are called "Liangping Three Musts".

Once known as a wonderful flower in eastern Sichuan, it was rated as one of the top ten Quyi in Bashu in 2000.

Liangshan Lantern Opera, commonly known as Baotou Opera, is a folk opera of Liang Ping.

As far back as the Ming Dynasty (1506- 1522), it stood out from the folk lanterns and yangko operas. By the mid-Qing Dynasty, Liangshan Lantern Opera had spread all over urban and rural areas, staged on holidays, and gradually spread to surrounding areas, forming a "Liangshan flirt system" with dozens of operas in the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River and hundreds of counties in southern 13 provinces and cities.

Liang Ping's New Year pictures were once called one of the three New Year pictures in the land of abundance.

Liangping New Year pictures originated in the early Qing Dynasty and have a history of more than 300 years.

It adopts romantic techniques and bold artistic refinement, with exorcism, happiness and historical stories as its themes. Its unique and exquisite shape, vivid characters, humor and strong local flavor. Technically, it has the effects of animation, paper-cutting and comics. Its picture is full and concise, its shape is simple and rough, its expression is vivid, its composition is complete and its contrast is strong. As a color scheme, it gives people a strong formal beauty visually.

The production technology of Liangping bamboo curtain has a history of more than 1000 years.

According to historical records, as early as the Northern Song Dynasty, it was listed as a royal tribute, which won the reputation of the world and was called "the first curtain in the world".

Liangping bamboo curtain is made of rich local bamboo, using traditional techniques, combining painting, calligraphy, embroidery and flocking to produce various forms of hanging curtains, screens, decorative paintings and practical handicrafts.

It is elegant in color and exquisite in craftsmanship, with strong local characteristics and natural charm.

7. Card explosion

The folk percussion performances in Jielong Town, Banan District, Chongqing are all mountain customs and traditional cultural customs with a long history.

With the development of society, folk percussion music rooted in the vast number of mountain people and constantly inherited, explored and innovated has formed the characteristics of different styles and bright colors, and has become a rising folk music force in mountainous rural areas.

Solitaire folk percussion music is known as a wonderful flower of Bayu culture.

Its characteristics: diverse varieties, rich tunes, music classes taught by teachers and schools.

199 1 year, Solitaire established a folk percussion association with more than 500 members. 1996, Jielong Town established a folk blowing art troupe.

199 1 At the end, the Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture named Jielong as "the hometown of folk music blowing".

In March 2000, Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture, Chongqing Evening News and other units selected "Top Ten Quyi of Bayu" through mass voting and expert review, and "Bayu Chuida" was famous on the list, especially the folk percussion music in Jielong Town of Banan District and Jinqiao Township of Wansheng District.

8. Wooden Cave Folk Songs

Mudong is located in the east of Chongqing, on the south bank of the Yangtze River. It is a town in Banan District of Chongqing.

There are more than 100 tunes in Mudong folk songs, including labor songs, folk songs and minor tunes, as well as folk songs and dance music.

Labor songs include boat songs, bricklayers, portering, workshops, farming songs and labor songs, such as running halls. Folk songs include Helai, Shen Ge, Pange and Luoer tunes, among which Helai and Pange are the most distinctive.

Woodhole playing (singing) can be divided into high notes, flat notes, low notes, coloratura and even eight sentences; In addition to self-singing, there are duets and couplets, which are mostly improvisational, easy-going and lively; Minor songs include enlightenment songs, house-repairing songs, narrative songs, seasonal songs and chanting tunes. Folk songs include festival songs, wine songs, birthday songs and so on.

The folk songs of Mudong people have been sung from the fields, streams and rivers in rural areas to the literary stage, colleges and universities and film and television screens in the city; Singing from the banks of the Yangtze River to the plain of western Sichuan is well known.

1990, Chongqing Municipal Bureau of Culture named Mudong Town as "the hometown of folk songs".