As of 20 12, there are 26 ordinary middle schools, 83 vocational middle schools and 83 primary schools in Wangcheng District. Full-time teachers in ordinary middle schools 1697, and full-time teachers in primary schools 1672. There are 26,456 students in primary schools and 24,554 students in middle schools. The enrollment rate of school-age children in that year was100%; The junior high school enrollment rate was 99.65%, increasing by 1. 1 1 percentage point; The high school enrollment rate was 85.66%, an increase of 2.86 percentage points. In 20 12, Wangcheng District completed the construction of the comprehensive inpatient building and brain hospital (Phase I) of the District People's Hospital, completed the reconstruction and expansion of 26 village clinics, and built four new public health centers. The comprehensive reform of township hospitals has been solidly promoted, and village clinics have achieved zero-difference sales of essential drugs.
By the end of 20 12, there were 23 hospitals in Wangcheng District, with beds 1678, health technicians 1543 and health and epidemic prevention personnel 2 14. The annual mortality rate of children under five years old is 5.73‰, and the infant mortality rate is 3.44‰. The number of participants in the new rural cooperative medical system reached 4487 19, and the participation rate reached 100%. The most popular local opera in Changsha originated from the folk song and dance-Dihuagu, with Changsha dialect as the unified stage language and distinctive local characteristics.
Shadow play is also called light shadow play or shadow play. It is a folk art, which is performed with a special transparent cowhide or donkey skin, and now it is carved with leather paper lining. It makes various actions behind the screen in a transparent way, performing dramatic plots and stories, accompanied by music, singing and Daobai. This drama began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Song Dynasty. It is sung by xiang opera and Opera, and it is very popular in Changsha and other places. Changsha shadow play has vivid modeling. His plays include historical plays, divine plays and modern plays. Among them, fable plays and children's plays are more exciting. For example, tortoise and crane, two friends, picking mushrooms, crows and foxes, what makes the sea noisy and so on. Chengguan Town of Wangcheng County is known as "the hometown of shadow play".
Xiang embroidery is a traditional handicraft in Hunan. It is particularly prominent and lasting in the rural areas of Wangcheng. There are exquisite dragon and phoenix embroidery in Chu tombs unearthed in Changsha before the 5th century BC 1958. 1972 The funerary objects of the tombs of the Western Han Dynasty unearthed at Mawangdui are more than 2 100 years ago, and contain many embroidered clothes and materials. Around 1898, many outstanding painters participated in the reform of Xiang embroidery techniques, which made Xiang embroidery enter a new stage of development.
Xiang embroidery is an exquisite handicraft embroidered on high-grade materials such as satin with silk thread. Like other embroidery techniques, it has the characteristics of painting-oriented, using various stitches and color lines to describe the image, and has its remarkable and unique characteristics, that is, emphasizing generalization and realism.
The famous brand products of Xiang embroidery, lion and tiger, enjoy a high reputation in the world and are regarded as artistic treasures.
Xiang embroidery products are divided into two categories: daily necessities and ornamental products.
Scissors are a kind of folk art, and Wangcheng in Changsha is one of the important producing areas in Hunan.
Zongzi is a folk snack. Eating zongzi is also a traditional custom to commemorate the great patriotic poet Qu Yuan.
Xiangfen, also known as Nanfen, is named after its origin in Hunan. The west bank of Xiangjiang River in Wangcheng District is the main producing area, also known as "West Powder". Wangcheng County has been making Hunan powder for more than 400 years.
Spring tea is produced in Getang, Wangcheng District. The fresh leaves of this tea were picked in front of Grain Rain. It has fine workmanship, uniform appearance, green color, white hair, soft leaves and lasting fragrance.
Lantern is a popular folk handicraft in Wangcheng, which is hung at the door and hall during festivals and celebrations. Legend began in the Western Han Dynasty, and since then, there has been the technology of making lamps. Folk artists use local bamboo, wood and other materials to make colorful lanterns and decorate them with paintings or embroidery. The architecture in Athens is exquisite, simple and elegant.
Lantern: It is a folk art of paper binding, which takes contempt as the skeleton, pastes square or round lanterns with colored paper, cuts out people and horses with paper pieces, and sticks them on paper wheels, which are placed in the middle of the lanterns. Use the heat of light to drive the paper wheel to rotate, so that people and horses are dynamic.
Palace lantern: it is a special handmade product. It is carved with bamboo, wood, lacquer and mace, inlaid with silk thread, glass or corner pieces, and finely painted or inlaid with jade jewelry. Now it is made of aluminum alloy and other metals, plexiglass, plastic and other new materials. Palace lantern is a luxurious lighting art decoration.
Lantern: Lantern is a general term for all kinds of folk art lanterns. Various geometric figures and animal abstract figures are popular in Wangcheng County, symbolizing auspicious lanterns, which are generally used in folk festivals.