Shiping County is one of the counties under the jurisdiction of Honghe Prefecture in Yunnan Province. The county is located in the south of Yunnan Province and the northwest of Honghe Prefecture. Its land area is 3037 square kilometers, of which 94.6% is mountainous, and it is a traditional agricultural county.
The main tourist attractions in Shiping County are Shiping Xiushan and Yilong Lake. Shiping County is known as "the hometown of literature", "the hometown of oranges", "the hometown of bayberry", "the hometown of fish and rice", "the hometown of tofu" and "the hometown of singing and dancing". ?
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Shiping Yao culture
The Yao women in Shuicaozhai, Shiping County are beautiful and simple. Clothing materials are mostly self-spun and self-woven coarse cloth, which is sewn with indigo dyeing. The main color of clothing is blue, and other accessories are auxiliary colors, so it is called indigo Yao.
Yao women are good at embroidery and have a unique aesthetic view. Four-color flowers are embroidered on the collar, chest, cuffs, shoulder pads, trousers, aprons and other places of clothes, which are very beautiful and unique in style. The man is wearing a collarless long-sleeved shirt, a collarless jacket and a pair of wide-waisted open-backed pants. Older people wrap their heads in black cloth or wear old-fashioned melon seeds hats.
Shiping County has preserved the rich traditional culture and ethnic customs of Yao nationality. In the village, the "home-aged" system is implemented, and five people, including the home-aged, manage village affairs and are responsible for sacrificial activities. The traditional village rules and regulations in Shuicaozhai still play an active role in modern social life. Yao people pay attention to etiquette, and children and adults need to accept strict "abstinence" ceremonies and receive education in culture, etiquette and traditional ethics.
Shuicaozhai folk songs are rich and colorful, including lyric songs, narrative songs, life songs and folk songs. At the wedding, the lyrics improvised by the guests are "idle songs", and the songs loved by men and women in the form of singing are called "romantic songs". Singing forms include "Shout", flat voice singing and swivel singing. The lyrics of folk songs are mostly in the form of seven words, and men and women sing in pairs. Lyrics are divided into "singing text" and "singing white".
Yao dance belongs to religious ritual dance, which combines teachers with Taoism and has basically the same movements. It takes chanting gods or religious songs as the rhythm, with percussion instruments such as gongs, drums and cymbals. Dancers hold "Robb" (a long ribbon) flowers, long knives and bronze bells.
The icons of Shang Qing, Yuqing, Taiqing, Shangyuan, Zhongyuan and Xia Yuan, as well as the patterns and patterns embroidered on Taoist robes, are precious traditional works of art of Yao nationality. There are various cultural and sports activities, such as playing top, slingshot, walking on stilts, swinging and grinding autumn, which are all traditional folk sports games.
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