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Hunan Opera
xiang opera originated from Yiyang Opera in the Ming Dynasty, and later absorbed Kunqu Opera and Pihuang Opera, forming a multi-cavity opera with high-pitched, low-brand, Kunqu Opera and random play. The repertoires are mainly high-pitched and random, skillfully combined with folk art and local language, and rich in Hunan folk local characteristics, such as Pipa, White Rabbit and Moon Worship.
Xiang embroidery
Xiang embroidery is as famous as Su embroidery, Shu embroidery and Yue embroidery, and it is one of the four famous embroideries in China. There are traditionally 72 kinds of stitches in Xiang embroidery. It can be divided into five categories: Ping Xiu, Weaving Embroidery, Netting Embroidery, New Embroidery and Knotting Embroidery, as well as the knitting methods such as curling needles and disorderly embroidery that have been continuously developed and improved. Xiang embroidery is good at embroidery with velvet thread, and the pattern of embroidered suede has a sense of reality. It once had the reputation that "embroidery can produce fragrance, embroidered birds can hear, embroidered tigers can run, and embroidered people can be vivid"!
Huagu Opera
Huagu Opera is the most homonymic opera in local operas in China. Although it belongs to "Hunan Flower Drum Opera", it is the most famous.
Hunan Flower-drum Opera is the general name of flower-drum opera schools all over Hunan. Due to different popular areas, there are six schools, namely Changsha Huagu Opera, Yueyang Huagu Opera, Hengyang Huagu Opera, Shaoyang Huagu Opera, Changde Huagu Opera and Lingling Huagu Opera, all of which have different artistic styles! The classic representative plays of Hunan Huagu Opera, such as Chopping firewood with bangs, beating gongs and mending pots, which are well-known and have been sung by people, are actually the plays of Changsha Huagu Opera, which represents Hunan Huagu Opera. The performance of Huagu Opera is simple, lively and lively.
Hunan Long Drum Dance
Hunan Long Drum Dance can be divided into "single dance", "double dance" and "group dance". It has 72 sets of performance programs, and each set is divided into several animal details such as "getting up" and "moving the hall". Its action characteristics are rough, brave, unrestrained, strong, heroic, tough and free and easy. Whether it's jumping, jumping, squatting, falling or rotating, flapping, jumping and lifting, it shows the passionate, strong and brave personality characteristics of the Yao people!
Baoqing Bamboo Carving
Baoqing Bamboo Carving is an ornamental and practical work of art, which is born out of the practical bamboo craft, including "Bamboo Green Carving", "Turning Spring Bamboo Carving", "Bamboo Root Carving" and "Bamboo Slip Book Carving". The preciousness of Baoqing bamboo carving lies in the exquisiteness of the carver and the complexity of the craft. Carving a vase has more than 3 processes, including tens of thousands of movements. The masters of Baoqing bamboo carving are good at combining their superb artistic expression skills with the aesthetic taste of literati and the artistic conception of China's classical calligraphy and painting.
Dong Brocade
Dong Brocade, with a history of more than 2, years, is a pure handicraft handed down from generation to generation by Dong women through their mother and daughter and close relatives. Dong Brocade can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, and now it has become a living fossil to show China's "female weaving" culture! The manufacturing process of Dong brocade is extremely complicated, and it has to go through more than ten processes, all of which are manual operations.
Dong brocade patterns are mostly geometric, prismatic, square, round and triangular, with birds, animals, insects, fish, flowers, people and buildings as the main body. They are composed by generalization, abstraction and exaggeration, with precise and rigorous structure and exquisite and elegant patterns.
iron-tapping water
The iron-tapping water in Youxian County, Zhuzhou originated in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, and flourished from the Qing Dynasty to the early days of the founding of New China, which has spanned more than 3 years. The magic of the project is that the "iron-tapping water" can directly touch the molten iron above 15℃ with their palms to make iron flowers. When the molten iron is thrown into the air, it is like a goddess scattering flowers, and when it is scattered on the ground, it is like throwing gold and silver.
Hunan waving dance is an ancient traditional dance of Tujia people, which mainly spreads in the Youshui River and Wujiang River valley at the junction of Hubei, Hunan, Chongqing and Guizhou, with Xiushan County in Chongqing, Youyang County, Tujia Autonomous County along the river in Guizhou, Laifeng in Enshi Autonomous Prefecture in Hubei, Longshan and Yongshun in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture in Hunan as the main inheritance places. Now Enshi Tujia and Miao Autonomous Prefecture has adapted a new version of waving dance, which is easier to learn and inherit!
Xinhua folk songs
Xinhua folk songs are mainly popular in Xinhua County, Loudi City, Hunan Province. Xinhua folk songs, with extensive content, ancient mode, unique style, simple rhyme, changeable structure, distinctive musical features, rich and diverse forms of expression, long and short sentence patterns, more slang dialects and rich rap flavor!
beachhead New Year Pictures
Beachhead New Year Pictures are the only hand-made woodblock watermark New Year Pictures in Hunan Province, which are produced in Tantou Town, Longhui, Baoqing (now Shaoyang), Hunan Province. The beautiful and moist colors, Gu Zhuo, exaggerated, full and personalized modeling methods, pure local materials and unique techniques make the works have the artistic effect of relief.
From the selection of paper-making raw materials, the manufacture of paper and the brushing of the bottom, to engraving, seven printing and seven hand-painting, the production of a beachhead New Year picture needs more than twenty processes. Everything from hand-made paper to finished New Year pictures is produced in one place, which is extremely rare in the production of New Year pictures in China.
Huayao flower-picking
Huayao flower-picking is a unique handicraft among Yao women in Hunan Province. Yao people are called "Huayao" because of the colorful flower-picking on women's skirts. Huayao's flower picking process is unique. Huayao uses navy blue or white homespun and various colors of silk yarn materials. When picking embroidery, the flower picking artist does not need to describe the design, nor use molds to make embroidery racks, but only follows the warp and weft of the homespun by hand. Huayao's flower picking technology is very exquisite. The whole picture of flower picking is black and white, dense and well-organized, with dynamic and static, and bright color contrast, which has a strong visual impact.
Liling underglaze multicolored porcelain
Liling underglaze multicolored porcelain began in the Qin and Han Dynasties, originated in the Tang and Song Dynasties and flourished in the Qing Dynasty. After the founding of New China, it was mostly used as a gift porcelain for state guests and a living porcelain for state leaders, and it was also known as "national porcelain". Paleness and elegance are its most prominent features. The underglaze multicolored porcelain is a master of underglaze blue and white, underglaze red and other ceramics. It has broken through the style of single underglaze colored porcelain for thousands of years, as well as the monochrome painting of blue and white and underglaze red, and made underglaze colored porcelain enter a colorful world.
Jiangyong Nvshu
Jiangyong Nvshu is the only written word for women in the world at present, and its development, inheritance and cultural information carried by it constitute the custom of Nvshu. The works of women's books are generally seven-character poems, and the content is mainly complaining, which is a kind of bitter literature that entertains itself.
These works are written on hand-written books (wedding gifts) on refined cloth, fans, cloth towels and pieces of paper. At the same time, women often get together and sing, read and teach women's books while making women's red. This activity of singing and learning women's books is called "reading paper", "reading fan" and "reading handkerchief", forming a unique women's book culture.