1. Anhui’s collective and scattered living. Folk customs in Xuancheng, Anhui. In the old days, most of the folk villages were inhabited by clans.

For example, Hongcun Village and Xidi Village in Yixian County, Huangshan City still retain the architectural style of the Ming and Qing Dynasties. The villagers' houses are connected together, surrounded by mountains and rivers, facing north and south.

Each household likes to build a separate living room, such as connecting three, connecting five, and connecting seven (seven houses built side by side), or "three bright and five dark" style living rooms, with a hall in the middle, two rooms on the left and right, and two rooms in the front.

backyard.

Most houses are made of mud bricks and tiles, and a few have blue brick walls; poor households build huts with mud walls to cover their roofs.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, a small number of urban residents lived in unit buildings; after the 1980s, old city reconstruction took off. Most of the streets were built with uniform high-rise buildings, and urban residents mainly lived in unit buildings.

Since the 1990s, community construction has gradually become a trend.

2. Torch Festival of the Yi people in Sichuan: The Torch Festival is the grandest traditional festival of the Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan.

It falls on the 24th day of the sixth lunar month every year. Every family drinks alcohol, eats meat, and kills animals to sacrifice their ancestors.

People wear new clothes and carry out cultural and sports activities with national characteristics. Men participate in bullfighting, sheep, chicken, horse racing, and wrestling; women sing, play oral strings, and play the yueqin.

Kangding Mountain Tour: On the eighth day of April every year, people gather from all directions in Kangding. On the lawn of the top of the mountain, tents stretch out, and there are huge crowds of people. Horse racing, wrestling and other national sports activities are held during the day.

At night, bonfires are lit, people sit on the ground drinking, singing and dancing all night long.

Huanglong Temple Fair: Every year on the 16th day of the sixth lunar month, Tibetan, Qiang, Hui and Han people from hundreds of miles around gather at the Huanglong Temple. They camp in tents in the open space in front of the temple, with fires like stars, and the chiefs of each tribe lead the crowd to line up around the temple.

, dancing around and singing to each other, echoing in the valley.

Sichuan Opera: It is a local drama popular in Sichuan and one of the older types of opera.

Because of its long history, distinctive local color, strong flavor of life and broad mass base, it occupies a certain position on the stage of Chinese drama and is a wonderful flower in the garden of literature and art.

Chunhuan talks about spring: Han social custom.

Popular throughout Sichuan.

The time is around the Spring Festival.

In the old days, the spring herdsmen wore black gauze hats and official uniforms, holding a wood-carved spring cow in their left hand and a spring stick in their right hand; today's spring herders are dressed like ordinary people, except that they carry a cattle whip.

They climbed mountains and waded in rivers, visited villages and villages, and made up some auspicious songs and sang them wherever they went.

After singing, a cow inspection picture printed on red paper is given to the host.

After the inspection is completed, the householder should give some coins to the inspector as a reward.

Leading animals to meet guests: a social custom of the Yi people.

When the Yi people entertain guests, they slaughter different animals according to the different needs of the guests at the meeting: distinguished guests slaughter cattle, inferior guests slaughter pigs and sheep, and ordinary guests slaughter chickens.

No matter what kind of animal is slaughtered, the animal must be brought in front of the guest after the guest comes in, and then slaughtered to show that the animal is not dead or stolen.

Jisuo: Yi nationality’s communication custom.

Yi transliteration means avoidance.

According to traditional customs, daughters-in-law, father-in-law, uncles, and husband's uncles must avoid each other to show mutual respect.

People who need to avoid each other must keep a certain distance when sitting, standing, and walking. They cannot sit face to face, cannot use vulgar language, and cannot have any contact with any part of the body. Even the rugs on the body cannot rub each other.

When two parties meet on the road, the daughter-in-law should stand aside respectfully and wait for the other party to leave before leaving.

A daughter-in-law cannot comb her hair in front of someone she should avoid. If she is combing her hair and suddenly sees the other person approaching, she should quickly cover her head with a felt, otherwise it will be rude.

Wrestling: a traditional recreational activity of the Yi people.

On every New Year's Day and festive occasion, people from neighboring villages will jointly hold wrestling matches, and the scene is very lively.

According to custom, the winning wrestler will become the idol of the girls and win their love first.

3. Shanxi brain is the first famous food in Taiyuan and has been included in the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.

The origin is this: Mr. Fu Shan was proficient in medical skills in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, especially in gynecology.

Fu Shan's mother, Chen, was sick in her later years. He devoted himself to research and invented "Bazhen Decoction" to nourish and recuperate his mother.

Bazhen Decoction was originally a traditional Chinese medicine used to treat diseases during the Yuan and Ming dynasties. It is composed of ginseng, Atractylodes macrocephala, white Poria cocos, angelica root, Chuanxiong rhizome, white peony root, Rehmannia glutinosa, and Zhigancao. They are all treasures for nourishing qi and nourishing blood.

Fu Shan, who was proficient in medical skills, transformed "Bazhen Decoction" from a pure medicine into a medicinal diet, and also benefited from the ancient food custom of brain wine.

For those who drink it for the first time, they are still new to foreign wine, their thoughts must be pure, and their hearts must be pure. In this way, the first time they can swallow it reluctantly, the second time they can slightly appreciate its aroma, and the third time they can enjoy it and get its true taste.

To keep your mind in good health, you often don’t get angry after eating.

There are mutton, yam, and lotus root slices in my mind.

Mutton is hot and nourishing, lotus root clears away heat and resolves phlegm, and yam nourishes the spleen and removes dampness.

It is said that the mind also has a beauty effect, and it is good for women to eat it.

Extended information: As early as in the book "Book of Han·Biography of Wang Ji", there is a record that "the winds are different in a hundred miles, and the customs are different in a thousand miles".

"Book of Rites: Kingship" says: "In the second month of the year, I patrol the east. As for Daizong, I burn firewood and look at the mountains and rivers to worship. I pay homage to the princes and ask those who have been hundreds of years old to see them."