Folk craft
Root carving is a plastic art that rose in this county in the 1990s. Su Song is engaged in many root carving works, among which, Hong and others are harmony creators. Zhou Qing, a member of Anhui Farmers' Painting and Calligraphy Research Association, owns more than 300 root carving works. His root sculpture "Ballet" won the first prize of 1977 China People's Liberation Army 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition, and 1992 was awarded the title of "Folk Root Artist" by UNESCO and China Folk Writers Association. Wood carving technology has a long history in Susong, and most of its early works are Buddha statues and flower boards. The Gaos woodcarving Buddha statue in Xu Ling Town has been sold to other provinces, cities and counties, and there is also a statue of Guanyin Bodhisattva in Qixiu Temple in Xiaogushan. Flower board carving is a long-standing craft production in Susong, and its works are used for beds, cabinets, architectural ornaments or components. Chen Han, Tingzi, Jiro, Pass, Beiyu and other places in the county have artists engaged in flower board carving. Paper-binding technology has a long history in Susong, and there are many craftsmen among the people who bind lanterns, dragon lanterns and sacrifices together, especially those sacrificial handicrafts, such as pavilions, flowers and birds, which are lifelike. Stone carving art has a long history. Stone carvings include lions, dragons and phoenixes. Most of the stone carvings are inscriptions, which are not only engraved with yin-yang carving techniques, but also engraved with various patterns, such as dragons, phoenixes, flowers and birds, animals and so on. Wang Huiwen's stone carving skills in Chengling Township are superb, and his works can be found in Xiaogushan in Susong, Taibai Bookstore and Pengze Longgong Cave. In 1980s, bonsai production began to rise, and more and more people loved bonsai and made it by themselves. Works include rock bonsai, plant bonsai, coral bonsai, wood carving bonsai, rock bonsai and plant bonsai. Bamboo weaving technology rose in the 1980s, including flowerpot covers, fruit bowls, food boxes, bamboo craft mats and so on. Paper-cutting is fashionable among Susong people, including embroidered shoes and window grilles.
Folk custom and pastoral style
Language, Susong dialect, belongs to the northern dialect area in a broad sense. However, Susong belonged to Wuxu in Chutou since ancient times, and it was the border of three provinces in modern times, and the north and south were eclectic. There are both "Gang" in Jiuge and "Chu Ci" and "Rou" in Wunong Ruanyu in dialect. Just get up, fly into the sky, magnificent. Soft-hearted, heartbroken, tears streaming down her face. Huangmei opera has absorbed quite a lot of Susong dialect, so it is tender and tender to sing and never tires of listening to it. In particular, the passage of "Two Birds in One Tree" in The Fairy Couple, the green in "The Castle Peak Laughs" and the "Avoidance" in "The Cold Kiln can shelter from the wind and rain" are authentic and have charm only when they are sung in Susong dialect. According to linguists' research, Susong dialect has six tones, namely, flat tone, rising tone, rising tone, rising tone and entering tone. The language in this county is complicated, which is directly related to the geographical location. Susong dialect may be influenced by the rhyme of ancient Chinese characters, and its rhyme is easy to learn, but it is difficult to pronounce accurately because of the heavy ending. For example, Lai is called Lei, Eating is called Eating Night, Smoking is called Smoking, and Wife is called Tangke. Before the founding of the People's Republic of China, influenced by the feudal clan system, people with the same surname and the same clan lived in a village, with houses connected together, multiple entrances and hidden alleys, ancestral halls and gates, facing each other, and doors and windows facing each other. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, after the land reform, the living conditions of the broad masses of the people have gradually improved, with fewer households and more single households, which is generally "three bright and five dark". Many villages have built comfortable new villages, which further narrows the living conditions difference between them and cities. Clothing, the people of this county have a tradition of beauty and frugality in clothing. Young girls, especially those who enter school, are very neat, and newlyweds must wear gorgeous clothes. With the development of the times, it is hard to see the traces of old customs. In terms of diet, residents in this county often have the habit of "three meals a day", "one thin and two dry" or "two thin and one dry". However, on holidays, weddings, funerals and celebrations, banquets are held, including sea cucumber seats, fragrant incense seats and fungus seats. There are rich dining tables, strict seating arrangements, and many heritages of etiquette and local customs. The festival also follows ancient dietary traditions, such as eating dumplings on the Lantern Festival, eating rakes on March 3rd to avoid epidemics, eating zongzi and drinking realgar wine on the Dragon Boat Festival, eating moon cakes on the Mid-Autumn Festival, making rice cakes and biting water chestnut, eating crabs and drinking chrysanthemum wine on the Double Ninth Festival, eating Laba porridge on the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month, and paying attention to making printed rice cakes in addition to buying fish during the Spring Festival. With the rapid development of economy and society, communication activities are frequent, and the diet has gradually developed a North-South flavor. Marriage and marriage system are mostly feudal customs before the founding of the People's Republic of China. The marriage process generally goes through mediation, parents' consent to engagement, in-laws' visit, son-in-law's visit, daily ceremony, wedding ceremony, dowry, bride and groom's visit to the church, tying the knot, thanking the media, thanking the guests and returning home three times. When the bride comes to the door in a sedan chair, she will cry, set off firecrackers, blow the horn, knock the gongs and drums, and send her away with great excitement. At the door, the new husband will greet him, choose two women who are both long-lived and long-lived, and help the bride get off the sedan chair. The bride covered her head with a red handkerchief, and together with the groom, she went into the hall to worship her ancestors and heaven and earth, and then went into the bridal chamber. The groom unveiled the red handkerchief, and the husband and wife sat together to drink tea and tie the knot, making a scene for the new house at night. The next day, I visited my aunt, and the bride and my aunt had dinner together. On the third day, they went into the kitchen to make soup, and the husband and wife went back to their parents' home to visit relatives together and returned the same day. During the Republic of China, there were also western-style weddings in families in big cities, and the etiquette was greatly improved. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, men and women were free to marry, and the wedding was generally simple, but they also went through the process of love, door-to-door engagement, holiday communication, formal wedding and returning home to visit relatives. Rural weddings are grand and there are many old habits. Please ask the media to introduce you before you get married. After marriage, you should give rich gifts to the woman's family three times a year, add clothes and expensive gifts when you are engaged, and add pig jar wine when you get married. Many wedding customs are not so complicated in details. Funeral is a bad habit in the old society, which is quite superstitious. After the death of the old father and mother, funeral ceremonies should be held to show filial piety to their children. The funeral of the poor is simple, while the rich are extravagant. From mourning to mourning, the following etiquette is generally needed: when you die, you should lift the door panel and burn the road money; The body takes a bath, collapses after dressing, and is sent to the coffin; Give obituaries to relatives and friends, set up mourning halls, and children take turns to be filial; Relatives wear white mourning clothes, women wear white skirts, and relatives and friends wear white hijab and semi-white shoes; Within three days, accept condolences from relatives and friends, enter the funeral and seal the coffin; Those who come to pay their respects will be given axes, elegiac couplets, money, and some will be given to three animals, all of whom will burn incense and bow down. The dutiful son will bow down in the curtain, set off firecrackers, play funeral music and help the funeral. During the period when the coffin was parked, Taoist priests were invited to fast, recite Buddha, manage lights, do seven things, and break the prison, etc., in order to cross over the soul for the dead and avoid sin in hell; Before the funeral, he held a memorial service, the ceremony called, and he cried and mourned. The dutiful son wears a straw rope around his waist, a Ma Xie, a filial piety stick in his hand and a white cloth on his head. He paid homage to the ceremony three times, repeatedly burning incense and kowtowing, crying; At the funeral, gongs were fired, firecrackers were set off, and paper money was thrown along the way; Before burial, please ask Mr. Feng Shui to choose a good place, determine the direction and time of the grave, dig the pit in advance, and camp for burial on time. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), these old customs and superstitious activities basically stopped. Festivals are very popular among the people, almost every month, depending on the season and climate of the lunar calendar. The first day of the first month is New Year's Day, also known as the Spring Festival. Get up early to open the door, set off firecrackers, go out to the Arabian Nights, worship parents and wish each other well. After dinner, neighbors paid a visit, paid New Year greetings, and friends and relatives began to communicate. On this day, we don't clean the kitchen, but save it. When we meet, we all say "Congratulations on getting rich". On the seventh day of the seventh lunar month, people set off firecrackers at night, such as New Year's Eve, wishing mankind a long life. The fifteenth is the Lantern Festival, and it is popular to play with dragon lanterns and lanterns. February 15th is the Flower Festival. In March, Tomb-Sweeping Day is Tomb-Sweeping Day, to pay homage to ancestors and martyrs and to remember them. The eighth day of April is the Buddha washing festival, the fifth day of May is the Dragon Boat Festival, the sixth day of June is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the seventh day of July is the Seven Spirits Festival, the fifteenth day is the Mid-Autumn Festival, the ninth day of September is the Double Ninth Festival, the fifteenth day of October is the Xiaoyangchun Festival, the eighth day of the twelfth lunar month is the Laba Festival, and the 23rd day is a gift to the kitchen god. The last day of the twelfth lunar month is the twelfth lunar month. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), some of them remained, giving them new content and significance. In addition, many important festivals on the Gregorian calendar have been added, such as International Women's Day, May 1st International Labor Day, May 4th Youth Day, International Children's Day, August 1st Army Day, National Day, etc., which can be described as giving consideration to both the old and the new and bringing forth the new. [8]