Dachepingtun, Yong'an Town, Bobai County:
Inheriting folk culture and leveraging culture to the grassroots
attracted "hundred birds pay homage to the phoenix"
Bobai people follow → Bobai Network 2022-09-16 21:13 published in Guangxi
Bobai County Yong'an Town is located in the remnant of 60,000 mountains and belongs to the westernmost part of Bobai County . Among them, Dachepingtun, Xinxiang Village, is located in the northwest of Yong'an Town, and borders Pubei County . There are 65 farmers and 264 people, including 10 party members and cadres. Last year, Dacheping became famous outside: the former old leader of the Party Committee of the Autonomous Region wrote an inscription for her; people from the literary and artistic circles in the district and outside the district came to collect folk songs and sketch, which has been as many as 4 times this year; two leaders of the county party committee conducted research one after another; more than 200 tourists came; 3 special performances of art performances...
This is the "cultural phenomenon" brought about by the cultural development of Dacheping.
Cultural elements decorate the ancient village
Entering Dachepingtun from the cement road in Xinxiang Village, you can see the village from afar surrounded by mountains and towering ancient trees. The modern buildings and ancient houses are arranged in a stadium in the north. On the stadium, it is said that there are 69 steps above the gatehouse with flying eaves and green tiles. Behind the gatehouse is the Hakka ancestral hall with carved beams and painted buildings. There is a huge rock at the entrance of the village, with three bright red characters inscribed "Dacheping" and seven bright red characters inscribed "Dacheping Cultural Square" on the other side, which was written by Chen Huiguang, an old leader of the autonomous region. When you enter the entrance of the village, you will see the cultural corridor, cultural square, village cultural building and the Dacheping Zhuangfu Folk Culture Center Building created by Feng Sansi brothers. In front of the village is Shishang River. Gurgling water flows out from the stair-shaped fish pond next to the village, forming Shishang River. The river water passes between natural stones and plays snow-white and melodious music in the mist of green, as if to match the leisure people with light music .
Dacheping Zhuangfu Folk Culture Center Building
This village legend is related to the national hero Feng Zicai. Feng Zicai is a famous general and a national hero in the anti-French era. Feng Zicai's ancestors said that he lived in Shatouwei (now under the jurisdiction of Guangzhou City), Nanhai County, Guangdong Province for generations. In recent years, experts and scholars from all walks of life have continuously deepened their research on Feng Zicai's birth and adolescence activities, and have also made new discoveries and new achievements. Feng Zicai was born in 1818. His childhood life was bumpy, he lost his mother at the age of 4 and his father at the age of 10. He relied on his grandmother and brother for life, was lonely, drifting around, and was in danger of peace. About the age of 15, Feng Zicai passed away and since then he was helpless and wandered on the streets. According to the genealogy of the Feng family of Bobai, when Feng Zicai was wandering around, he met Feng Jinxin, the fourth-generation Feng ancestor of Bobai who was famous for his martial arts in the village. Feng Jinxin was 45 years old at the time. When Feng Jinxin saw the wandering Feng Zicai, he felt pity for him. He also saw that Feng Zicai was interested in learning martial arts and had learned his basic skills by himself. He loved it very much, so he adopted Feng Zicai, adopted Feng Zicai as his son, and brought him back to Dacheping to live with him. Feng Jinxin taught Feng Zicai to practice martial arts, and the two were both masters and apprentices and fathers and sons. Feng Zicai has lived in Dacheping for more than ten years. Feng Zicai is a good seedling for martial arts. He is smart and lively, diligent and studious. When he grew up, he was righteous, upright, brave and resourceful, eliminated violence and maintained good fortune, and was famous in the countryside and won the hearts of the people. Later, after several hardships and tempering, he became a famous anti-French general and national hero. Don’t forget this precious history. Feng Zicai lived, grew up here, practiced martial arts here, lived with his master (adopted father), and planned and organized the original Dacheping village with his master. There is Feng Zicai's former residence on the east side of the hall, and some cultural relics are left inside, which attracts people to stop and think about it. There is also an ancient well left on the west side of the village, which is related to Feng Zicai, which later generations call "Zicai Well". In January 2020, after visiting the Japanese, a famous Chinese writer, winner of the Lu Xun Literature Award, and one of the "Three Musketeers" in Guangxi's literary world, he believed that it had historical significance and should be protected well, and wrote the three words "Zicaijing" specifically for the ancient well.
Feng Zicai’s former residence
Dachepingtun people have always praised them for their unity, friendship, honesty, trustworthiness, hard work, simplicity, intelligence and ability. Two years ago, villagers raised more than 700,000 yuan of funds themselves, and the government supported more than 500,000 yuan to build a cultural corridor, a stage, a lighting basketball court and a two-story cultural building.
For a long time, people in Dachepingtun attached great importance to the inheritance of rural folk culture and the promotion of the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation. Mr. Feng Sansi, a well-known writer, poet and lyricist who came out of Dacheping, is currently a member of Chinese Writers Association, member of Guangxi Musicians Association, member of Guangxi Branch of the Chinese Western Prose Society, and vice chairman of the Nanning Writers Association. He has published many works such as poetry, essays, song lyrics, etc. He also specially created music works for his hometown and school: the songs "A Beautiful Small Village", "Big Cheping, Welcome", "We are the Future of the Motherland", "Hometown", "Time of the Old Water Singing", "Time that I Can't Go Back", "Let Time Return to the Past", "Back to Homeland Yong'an", "Colorful Water Singing, My Hometown", "Yong'an is in My Heart", "Confessing Love to Sixty Thousand Mountains", "Magic Clouds Flying Mountains", "Your Figure", "My Hometown", "The Wind of the Nanliu River" (lyrics), etc. Mr. Feng Sansi loves his hometown, pays attention to the construction and development of his hometown, and is particularly concerned about the cultural heritage of his hometown and his sincere respect for the patriotic feelings of national heroes. The poems, essays and songs created for their hometown reveal their attachment and nostalgia for their hometown, their elders and ancestors, and their feelings for their country are everywhere. He and his elder brother Feng Yongqi, the two brothers invested more than 2 million yuan and used the old house and land left by their ancestors to build a residential and cultural complex "Dacheping Zhuangfu Folk Culture Center", a six-story building with a total construction area of about 1,200 square meters. Several living rooms in the building are named after the font sizes, elegant residences, famous works, etc. of cultural celebrities of all generations, for writers and artists to temporarily live in the field trip; the fourth floor is set up as the Dacheping Zhuangfu Folk Culture Center and the Dacheping Feng Zicai Memorial Hall, displaying ancient objects, cluster books, Hakka folk products, folk crafts, cultural totems, Feng Zicai's life and related items collected by Feng Zicai. It also specializes in the poetry and art left by famous cultural masters and scholars inside and outside the area to collect style, sketch or inspect, and the poems and arts left behind by famous cultural masters and scholars inside and outside the area, and also specializes in the poetry and arts left by famous cultural masters and scholars from inside and outside the area to collect style, sketch or inspect, and Music and other works; there is a Dacheping Poetry, Calligraphy, Painting, Music and Culture Salon and Teahouse on the Hall and Gallery on the fifth floor. The sound of silk and bamboo in the evening invites the moon to enter the heart, which is quite elegant in the countryside; there is an observation deck and an open-air folk bamboo horse tea picking salon garden. Whenever folk festivals or various festives, guests will have various instant performances to appreciate. This kind of cultural activity is conducive to improving the cultural literacy of the descendants of the villagers for generations, and promoting the traditional virtues of unity, friendship, mutual assistance and mutual help among the villagers.
Inheriting folk art culture
Dacheping has a rich folk culture. Before liberation, many folk artists were produced, and after the reform and opening up, a literary and artistic team was formed. Folk bamboo cyclograph opera, tea picking opera, , dancing unicorn horses, singing horse songs, singing answers, etc., every sound is heard, and the family tradition of farming and reading is promoted.
Dacheping people have always been proud of the traditional excellent culture passed down by the ancestors of Feng's clan. Deserve lions, kilins, , horses, dragons, etc. as mascots. The Qilin is a lucky god, which is responsible for peace and longevity. It also follows the historical saying that Han people have . Another kirin image is the dragon head, horse body, and dragon scales. The tail hair stretches like a dragon's tail. Its comprehensive range is not as wide as the dragon and phoenix, but its reputation is not small. The people generally use Qilin to control peace and longevity, and is also often used to protect the house. There is also the saying that Qilin can give birth to children among the people. The meaning of Qilin is: (1) Qilin is best at resolving the three evil spirits, the five yellow evil spirits, the sky-cut evil spirits, the heart-piercing evil spirits, sickle evil spirits, , the house corner evil spirits, the sword evil spirits, the white tiger evil spirits, and the second black disease star talisman. When encountering the above evil spirits in the Yang House, it will cause family members to live in peace, damage people and lose money, family disagreement, car accidents, bloodshed, divorce, etc., Qilin Town can ensure safety. Qilin is a kind beast, punishing evil and protecting good people.Good people will protect them, and evil people will be punished if they worship them. (2) Qilin has the strongest ability to control houses and eliminate evil spirits. Those who are content with peace should always be grateful for their protection. Put a pair at home and face the door or window when putting it, which can eliminate disasters and problems, drive away evil spirits, protect the house from evil spirits, promote wealth and promotion, and also add children. The difference between it and lion and tiger is that it does not hurt good people. (3) In Feng Shui, Qilin is like a universal oil that can boost wealth, protect the house, eliminate evil, promote people, seek children, and prosper literature. It can be used in all aspects. Moreover, the kilin is placed indoors, which has the greatest advantage, which protects good people, but is very jealous of bad people. If you find bad people, it will bite them. Therefore, placing copper kilins at home can promote your career, transform villains, and control bad people. Qilin is responsible for good fortune, which promotes career, promotes wealth, and wards off evil spirits. Therefore, placing a pair of bright copper Qilins indoors will bring you auspiciousness in all aspects such as family, career, etc. (4) The purpose of warding off evil spirits is like seeing a corridor rushing straight to the gate in front of the door, which will cause the piercing of the heart. You can use a pair of copper unicorns to block it. If the evil spirit is weak and the corridor is not too long, you can use a copper unicorn to block it. (5) It has the effect of resolving the white tiger. In the direction of the white tiger in the home, placing a pair of copper unicorns can resolve the ferociousness of the white tiger and make the people living in the house safe, especially the chimney or sharp objects outside the white tiger are rushing towards it, and the consecrated copper unicorns must be placed. (6) It has the purpose of improving the home and reducing disasters. Qilin is a representative of auspiciousness. Put it in the home to cure the house and ward off evil spirits and add auspiciousness to the home. It not only makes the owner's career smooth, but also improves his fortune. In addition, the copper qilin can also block the bad air that is stagnant for the owner. The copper kirin that is generally used for transportation is best consecrated so that its power can be fully exerted. Qilin is the auspicious animal that our ancestors most hope to appear, and their appearance indicates the happiness of a generation. Therefore, people at that time hoped that the Qilin would always accompany them, bringing luck and light to themselves, and eliminating ominousness. While this belief of the ancestors was passed down, the auspicious significance of the Qilin was also passed down from generation to generation. The Qilin becomes a symbol of a certain idea, a manifestation of a certain artistic conception, a display of a certain power, and inspires people's imagination, guides people's spirit to fit a certain idea, enters a specific realm, gives people the power of hope, comfort and pursuit, and transforms into folk life and is reflected in all aspects of national culture.
Dacheping people actively inherit and promote folk art and culture (photo by Feng Mao)
The charm of culture is to promote, and the cultural context lies in the people. The rich people of Dacheping believe that Bobai Hakka culture combines ethnic characteristics and regional customs, contains rich traditional cultural connotations, and is an indispensable part of intangible cultural heritage . Traditional culture must be inherited and promoted in the village. To this end, under the advocacy of Feng Sansi, a member of the Chinese Writers Association and vice chairman of the Nanning Writers Association, and Feng Shisong, who works at Renmin University of China, the village reorganized the art team and lion team to unify the costumes, hired old artists, rehearsed folk bamboo cycling operas, tea picking operas, sang unicorns, and horse songs... Every night, the lights are on, the costumes are put on, and the cultural square is full of gongs and drums, attracting surrounding villagers to come and watch. What is gratifying is that whether it is recorded in the ancestral family books, or searching for the narratives of old people from generation to generation and understanding of the legends of generations, Dacheping and the inheritance of folk literature and art have certain inheritors from generation to generation. Among them, the post-80s generation includes Feng Dongmei, etc., the post-70s generation includes Feng Feixiang, Feng Chunhua, Feng Hua, Feng Shifeng, Feng Shiyou, Feng Shiyong, and the post-60s generation includes Feng Yongqi, Feng Decai, Feng Dechong, Feng Shiguang, Feng Shifu, Feng Jin, Feng Fu, Feng Sheng, etc.
Today, the Dacheping Art Team has more than 40 members, from an elderly person in his 80s to a teenager. They actively participate in various public welfare mass literary and artistic activities, bringing unique and colorful folk art style activities to the villagers of Yong'an Town and even surrounding towns.Feng Yongqi, one of the inheritors of Dacheping folk culture, head of the art team and senior artist, said: "On the basis of continuing to enrich the villagers' amateur cultural life, we will also focus on combining Dacheping's historical and cultural heritage, further digging, and unremittingly inheriting it, so that folk literature and art can be integrated into the daily lives of the people and into our cultural bloodline."
spreads historical culture, and promotes rural revitalization with culture to the grassroots level
In recent years, Dachepingtun has promoted rural revitalization through cultural exchanges, and every year famous fieldwork teams come to carry out cultural exchange activities. In recent years, famous cultural and artistic experts and media people have visited successively: Binyang, the head of the South China film, scholar, writer, and poet Binyang (pse name Bai Shitou), vice chairman of the Nanning Federation of Literary and Art Circles, president of the Hongdou magazine, president of the Nanning Literary and Art Institute, poet and lyricist Tang Zhiwei, member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice president of the Guangxi Prose Society, and president of the Zhuang Writers Creation Promotion Association, member of the Chinese Writers Association, vice chairman of the Guangxi Branch of the Chinese Western Prose Society, and vice chairman of the Nanning Writers Association, Li Wen, president of the Nanning Confucius Institute, archaeology expert, calligrapher, Chen Guocai, an expert in historical research, writer, and poet, Guangxi Daily Head of the social department, famous reporter, essayist, calligrapher, poet Nong Yunhai, editor of Nanning Evening News, senior reporter, vice chairman of Guangxi Branch of the Chinese Western Prose Society, vice chairman of Nanning Writers Association, Xie Rong, secretary-general of Nanning Writers Association and editor of "Red Bean" magazine, Zhang Binghui, member of the Chinese Writers Association and essayist, Feng Zhaoqiang, secretary-general of the Party branch of the Chinese Culture Promotion Association, and editor of "Friends of Culture" magazine, Chen Ning, senior reporter and editor of Guangxi Radio and Television Station, pioneer poet and editor Niu Yihe, media person and writer Tang Fang, director of Guangxi NetEase News, Jiang Wei, member of Guangxi Writers Association , poet and writer Xie Xiaomin, member of Guangxi Writers Association and professional folk story writer Huang Hualu, vice chairman of Bobai County Federation of Literary and Art Circles and writer Bin Yehai, member of Guangxi Writers Association, chairman of Bobai County Writers Association and writer Feng Xiukun, member of Guangxi Writers Association, poet and writer Yu Xiaochen, as well as writers, poets and cultural media people Tao Yuan, Feng Ming, Puyuange, Chen Zhihua, Chen Qianming, Banpo, Feng Yongqi, Peng Quan, Huang Weihong, Li Yan, Yongyuan, Feng Ling, Jiuhuo, Feiyan, Chaosong etc.; music artists include Tan Chao, Zeng Dong, Zhong Yan, Tang Fuzhong, Zhuangzhuang, Li Wen, etc.; oil painting artists include Liang Xiaorong, Meng Zhigang, Liu Zhichang, Lin Qing, Li Jianlai, Liu Zhichang, Su Fahui, Feng Maozheng, Feng De, Feng Chaowen, etc. Photographers include: member of the Chinese Photographers Association and Chairman of the Nanning Qingxiu District Photography Association, Lu Yilin, and Chen Difeng, Long Xinzhong, Li Gongming, etc. What is particularly appreciated is that after visiting, each writer, poet and artist created prominent themes, rich and meticulous content from different angles, creating touching literary and artistic works for Dacheping that reflect the rural revitalization in the new era, just like displaying beautiful rural landscape paintings.
Writers from the capital Nanning collect fieldwork in Dacheping (Photo by Feng Mao)
Artist creates on Dacheping
Every year through cultural celebrity fieldwork and other activities, it can spread rural history and culture well, go to the grassroots level, spread good policies through culture, help rural revitalization, develop excellent traditional culture, and build the "cultural five cards" of historical culture, national culture, farming culture, and food culture around the revitalization of national culture, strengthen publicity and education on national unity and progress in combination with national culture, strengthen national unity and progress publicity and education, tell heroic deeds, carry out national hero education and patriotism education, hold propaganda meetings and preach, tell good stories of national unity, and make for forging a strong sense of community of the Chinese nation into the mind and heart.A national program written and performed by people of all ethnic groups, popular with people, and enjoyable with education and entertainment, has created a strong atmosphere of unity, harmony and family-friendly atmosphere among all ethnic groups. Deeply develop demonstration projects such as folk tourism and patriotic education, reshape cultural confidence in the process of dual integration and promotion of ethnic unity and progress creation and rural revitalization, inherit folk cultural traditions to help rural revitalization, enhance "hematopoietic function", and improve self-development ability. At present, Dacheping has more than 1,000 acres of star anise and other health industries, built a village road to Pubei Yueguang Village, developed a Beizhi Neck Waterfall Group, and became a demonstration site for rural revitalization in the county.
Dachepingtun has achieved remarkable achievements over the past few years, thanks to the good policies to catch up with the new era of rural revitalization, and the results of the consistent good work style, good ideas, good measures, dare to take responsibility and work hard in each county and town party committee and government team. (Bin Yehai, Feng Maozheng)
