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When it comes to the more famous counties in Shanxi Province, Xiaoyi City may be counted as one. In the list of the top 100 counties and cities in the country in 2019, Shanxi seems to have appeared only once, that is, Xiaoyi City, Shanxi.
According to records, King Ding of Zhou began to establish Guayan County in the thirteenth year (594 BC). It has a history of more than 2,600 years and is one of the first nine counties in the country. The former site of Guayan County is in the village of Yucheng in the north of present-day Xiaoyi City, which was also called "Guacheng" in ancient times, and the local people still call the Nearby Yuyi River "Guayan River".
Guayan County is one of the oldest county names in China in the current historical records, and it is a "county" from the initial field division unit to the resident organization and the meritorious fiefdom. A fossil place name in the gradual transition to the name of the administrative district, which influenced the birth of the county system in the Qin Dynasty and later the form of centralized rule.
Filial piety is composed of the words "filial piety" and "righteousness". In the first year of Tang Zhenguan, because zheng xing of Yi "cut off the shares and worshipped his mother", filial piety was heard in the dynasty, and Emperor Taizong of Tang changed the name to Xiaoyi County. The reason why Xiaoyi was taken as the name of the county was moved by the simple filial piety of the local ZhengXing "cutting shares and serving the mother" and the beautiful story of "righteous tiger saving the woodcutter", which moved the world and evolved.
According to records, the filial son Zheng Xing, who was very ambitious since childhood, worked hard all day and served his parents, but his family was poor. After his father's death, Zheng Xing kept filial piety for 3 years. His mother was ill for a long time, and Zheng Xing served before the bed, never undressed, and never took half a step away from his mother. His mother wanted to eat meatball soup, but Zheng Xing had no money to buy meat, so he cut off his own meat and cooked soup for his mother.
Qing Qianlong's "Chronicle of Xiaoyi County" records a story of "righteous tiger saving woodcutters". Today, on January 1, 2007, two large sorghum safflower granite sculptures were unveiled in Xiaoyi City, with the historical allusions of "cutting shares to serve the mother" and "righteous tiger saving the woodcutter", in order to show the image of Xiaoyi city.
To Xiaoyi, there are many local people who can see, such as Zhongyang Tower, Three Emperors Temple, Cisheng Temple, Tianqi Temple, Linhuang Pagoda, Shanzhao Temple, Xiaoyuan West Temple, etc., all of which are key cultural relics protection units at the national and provincial levels.
Zhongyang Building was built in Han Wei, the building is a wooden structure, four-storey four-eaves cross hilltop, through the height of 23.14 meters. Square in plan, it is located on four stone masonry platforms that are 3 meters square and 1.5 meters high. The ground floor is 5 meters high and runs through four directions. On the second floor, a shrine is built, and the seated statues of the four square Buddhas are listed. On the third floor, there is a lotus flower platform and a clay statue of Guanyin Dashi. The fourth floor is where visitors can look out over the city.
Sanhuang Temple is located in the middle of Sanhuangmiao Street, Jiajiazhuang Village, Xinyi Street, the temple sits west to east, the second courtyard, covers an area of 4956 square meters, divided into east and west courtyards, the east courtyard exists in the mountain gate, the west courtyard has the Saishen Opera Building, the gate, the Three Emperors Hall; the north and south corridors, the Mawang Hall, the Caifu Hall.
Feng Jicai once wrote in "Scattered Flowers": "Filial piety is a magical land, with a chest across the Fenhe River and a back to Lüliang. The people of this place can not only cultivate and cultivate, but also create various arts, or sing or perform, but also sculpt and paint to express emotions and comfort their hearts, especially drama, filial piety shadow puppetry is the essence of this. ”
Shadow puppets, puppets, bowls and bowls are known as the "three cultural masterpieces" of filial piety and have been listed as national intangible cultural heritage. Xiaoyi shadow puppetry is an important branch of Chinese shadow puppetry. Using hemp paper paste window as a screen, with the hemp oil lamp hanging behind the paper window, its shape is rough, concise and exaggerated, and the lines are strong and powerful, which is very charming.
There are two kinds of sound cavities, the leather cavity and the bowl cavity, both from the filial piety shadow puppetry. Because the skin cavity is mainly accompanied by the sound of the na, it is also called "blowing cavity". The characteristics of the bowl cavity singing cavity are the mixing of true and false sounds, and the use of "false words false sound cavity".
Xiaoyi puppet show belongs to the cane head puppet show, the puppet shape is simple and rough, the appearance is flexible and vivid, the organ kit is applicable, and it has great northern characteristics.
Filial piety is rich in resources. The proven reserves of coal in China are 7.06 billion tons, the prospective reserves are 9 billion tons, and the coal storage area is 783.5 square kilometers, accounting for 82.8% of the total area. The proven reserves of aluminum ore are 260 million tons, accounting for about 18% of the province's reserves and 42% of the reserves of Luliang City; iron ore resources, proven reserves of 19.643 million tons.
There are many specialties of Xiaoyi, such as walnuts, persimmons, yams, apples, peppercorns, red dates and other specialties, "Fenzhou walnuts" and persimmons sell well inside and outside the province, and lamb wine is passed down for thousands of years.
Fire burning is a kind of cake snack with special flavor in Xiaoyi, and there are salty fires, sugar fires, and vegetable fires. The various methods are different and the taste is different, but the common feature is that it is soft and non-sticky, fresh and delicious, evenly layered, and crispy in texture.
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