Custom culture
Shadow play is a kind of imitation play that combines fishing drum rap with paper or cowhide shadow play. The vocal cavity can be divided into five categories: Daoqing, Siping, Immortal, Kunqu and Minor. In Ming dynasty, fishing drums were used as accompaniment, and most of them were one-person classes; There were two-person classes in Qing Dynasty, including gongs, drums, lessons and huqin. One plays gongs and drums, and the other plays Bodhisattva (shadow style). A sang b and the pictures and sounds painted. Shadow play sculpture is simple and exquisite, and it is a treasure of folk paper-cut carving art, folklore, historical stories, opera scripts and so on. All of them have been absorbed into shadow play, with more than 2,000 performances. When people in the village are happy, they will invite the team to their homes, sing a play or several plays and watch around their neighbors. Very lively.
Hengdong local dishes
Hengdong local cuisine has a long history. In the Qing Dynasty, Sanzhang yellow pepper was named "Gongjiao" because of its crisp and delicious taste. In addition, yangqiao bran meat, Xintangpi, Cao Shi tofu, Liu Xia salted eggs, Shiwan crisp belly and other local dishes have also become representative dishes. Hengdong people used local materials and began to operate large-scale local dishes and restaurants in Hengdong.
Hengdong dialect
Hengdong dialect is the mainstream dialect in Hengdong county, belonging to Changyi piece of Xiang dialect. Much like Hengshan dialect, the two places originally belonged to the same branch, so they are often collectively referred to as Hengshan dialect. Hengshan dialect is divided into Qianshan dialect and Houshan dialect, and Qianshan dialect is used in Hengdong County. Hengdong dialect has 2 1 initials, 39 finals and 6 tones. Simple agricultural elements, simple humanistic customs.