Changsha Flower Drum Opera Changsha Flower Drum Opera is popular in the former Changsha area and evolved from rural folk songs, folk tunes and local flower drum operas. The formation period is the last leaf of the Qing Dynasty. Changsha ancient paintings are divided into five artistic schools: Yiyang, West Lake, Ningxiang, Liling and Changsha. Changsha dialect is a unified stage language when singing, so it is commonly known as Changsha Flower Drum Opera. There are more than 200 qupai in Sichuan tune, gong cavity, brand and minor, and 336 traditional plays. After 1949, the traditional repertoires Liu Hai Chops Wood, Xiao Gu Xian and modern repertoires Da Gong and Bu Guo were arranged.
Shadow play and puppet show, also known as "shadow play", began in the Han Dynasty, flourished in the Song Dynasty, and was introduced to Changsha in the Qing Dynasty. There are usually 3-4 people in the shadow play class, with a pair of bamboo playhouses and a box. Artists are versatile, or singing with a paper puppet, or singing as a backup, and each person plays several roles. Xiang opera's tune is used to sing the drama, and the tune of the ancient painting drama is used to sing the drama. After 1949, Hunan Puppet Shadow Play Art Troupe created the fable shadow play "Turtle and Crane".
Xiang embroidery is one of the four famous embroideries in China. Originated in Shaping, Changsha County, with a long history. It uses colored loose silk as embroidery thread, and besides using Qi Zhen, grasping needle and drilling needle, it also creates a unique "mixed needle" method, which makes the image rich and full, the color tone harmonious, and more in line with the charm of Chinese painting. Its embroidered landscapes, figures, flowers, feathers and animals are lifelike. 19 12 and 1933, respectively, won the best prize in the Turin Expo in Italy and the first prize in the Panama Expo. After 1949, Xiang embroidery was restored and developed, and Shuang Mianxiu and double-sided embroidery were successfully embroidered. Unique skills and extraordinary artistic effects are praised as "super embroidery" at home and abroad.
Wangcheng paper-cut folk art Wangcheng is very popular. Whenever national festivals, weddings and birthdays are celebrated, red paper or other colored paper is used to cut out "birds flying towards the phoenix" and "happy birthday pictures", and auspicious patterns and stories are pasted on doors, windows and walls to add festive atmosphere and make exquisite decorations. Wangcheng paper-cut style is rough and simple, clean and free and easy, with poultry and livestock as the theme, lifelike and full of pastoral interest.
Liuyang Fireworks Liuyang Fireworks has a long history, which began in the Tang Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It has a history of 1300 years. In the first year of Yongzheng in the Qing Dynasty (1723), Liuyang fireworks paid tribute to the royal family as a tribute, which caused a sensation in the ruling and opposition parties for a while and spread abroad. 1875 began to export to Asia, Africa, Latin America and even Europe and America. 1April 1995, Liuyang was awarded the title of "hometown of fireworks in China". Major celebrations in China, such as National Day and May Day, mostly set off Liuyang fireworks in large sports clubs.
Hunan cuisine is one of the eight major cuisines in China. It was formed more than 2000 years ago and became a system in the Southern Song Dynasty. By the end of the Qing Dynasty, many traditional recipes were synthesized from folk recipes, ancestral temple sacrificial dishes and palace dishes. Its characteristics are: exquisite cooking, exquisite selection of materials, fine ingredients, distinct shades, rich colors, moderate taste, spicy and different from Sichuan cuisine, sweet and light from Xiajiang cuisine, fresh and tender from Cantonese cuisine, so it is favored by diners at home and abroad. In the process of development, Hunan cuisine has formed three regional styles: central Hunan, northern Hunan and western Hunan, with Changsha as the authentic one.
Fire Palace Snacks Changsha Fire Palace, like Beijing Tianqiao and Nanjing Confucius Temple, is a place frequented by foreign guests. The Fire Palace is located in Pozi Street, and its predecessor can be traced back to the Southern Tang Dynasty. Originally called Gan Yuan Palace, it was dedicated to Vulcan people. In the 12th year of Qing Qianlong (1747), it was rebuilt, and Emperor Xianfeng wrote "Wade declared peace". The hall is resplendent and magnificent. In the open space in front of the hall, individual vendors set up noodle sheds, supported by a big umbrella, and operated more than 300 kinds of Changsha-style snacks, such as fried stinky tofu, sister jiaozi, Dongpo jiaozi, dragon fat pig blood, fairy fruit rice and so on.