The characteristic culture of Jixian County includes Jinnan woodblock New Year pictures, Jixian suona, thousand-layer hand-painted cloth shoes, terran totem, ancestral drum music, dough sculpture and so on.
1, Jinnan Woodblock New Year Pictures: As early as the Song and Jin Dynasties, the papermaking, engraving and printing technologies in Linfen area of Jinnan were quite developed, so Woodblock New Year Pictures came into being. Brand paintings are very colorful, including fairy tales, folklore, historical figures, drama scenes, humanistic customs, flowers, birds and animals.
2. Suona in Jixian County: It is a folk percussion music based on local folk activities and a typical representative of percussion music in southern Shanxi. Mainly distributed in Jixian county and its surrounding areas, it is often used in various celebrations and ceremonies.
3. Melaleuca's hand-painted cloth shoes making skills: it has been circulated among the people for thousands of years. At first, sole cloth shoes were made for officials. By the Qing Dynasty, the production technology of sole cloth shoes gradually matured.
4. Zu Zutang Zu Zu Zu Drum Music: Zu Zu Tang Zu Zu Drum Music originated from the court, and drifted to Le Tong Village, Wencheng Town, on the bank of the Yellow River in the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, so it is also called "Le Tong Drum Music".
5. Face carving: it is called face flower in Han nationality. In Han folk festivals, such as ceremonies and New Year's Eve, it is used as a symbol or symbol for gifts, sacrifices, celebrations and decorations. It is a very representative local culture, which is accumulated by long-standing customs.