Wuxi culture is dominated by "Yuanshui Culture Group". From the recent archaeological discoveries in Xiangxi, the cultural history here is very long. The "Five Rivers Culture", including the "Yuanshui Culture Group", is mainly composed of Nuo culture (farming culture), witch culture (sacrificial culture), Pan Hu culture (minority culture), Chu culture (Chuci), Han culture (Confucianism) and Buddha culture.
Wuxi culture has a long history. Rich prehistoric cultural remains of the old and Neolithic Age, such as Yuanshui cultural group, Jingzhou cloak slope site, Hongjiang Gaomiao site and Xinhuang Gaokanlongpo site, have been found here. More than 600 pieces of lacquerware, pottery, jade and bronze were unearthed from the tomb of Hou Wuyang in Hanyuanling, Huxi, Yuanling, Shanxi Province, and more than a thousand pieces of bamboo slips were a sensation, which was rated as one of the "Top Ten New Archaeological Discoveries in China" that year.
On the representative figures of Wuxi culture
In the Qing Dynasty, there were poet Long Qirui, dramatist Yang Zhaoli, essayist Xiang Wenhuan, calligrapher Wang Jixian, epigraphist Huang Benji, educator Xie Guangchi, and philosopher Yan Ruyu.
During the Republic of China, there were great writers Shen Congwen, dramatist Xiang Peiliang, poets Huang Zhonghao, Zhu Xiang and Xie Zugan. Zhang Boliang, a Buddhist, is the author of the Outline of the Yoga Master's Theory of Land.
After the 1950s, there were painters Huang Yongyu and Li Fengbai. Poets Ke Yuan, Long Peter, Shi Tairui; Novelists Liu Jianping, Cai Cehai, Sun Jianzhong, Wu Xuenao, Xiang Bengui and Wang Yuewen; Prose writers Su Ye, Yan Jiawen and Wang Puan; Playwright Shi Huangyuan; Children's writer He Xiaotong; Lyrics writer Long Yanyi, etc. At the same time, while studying Buddhism, Ming Yi, a Buddhist monk, also published many essays, new poems, novels, comments and ancient poems.