Rugao's culture and art

Rugao folk songs have strong local color and local flavor, and are famous all over the country for their rich contents and beautiful tunes. Among them, Tanzideng, Hua Dan, Inverted Flower Basket and Lianxiang were included in China Folk Dance Integration (Jiangsu Volume). "Watching Lights" was included in "China Folk Songs Integration", which was broadcast on Shanghai TV Station and Jiangsu TV Station successively. Rugao folk songs include chant, minor, folk songs and children's songs, and hundreds of them have been collected.

Rugao people are loyal and honest, and it is common to respect the old and love the young. According to Rugao County Records and Customs published in the thirty-ninth year of Jiajing in Ming Dynasty (1569), Rugao people were described as "gentle in temperament and vulgar in quality". People are afraid of the law and ashamed of sin, while scholars learn and follow reason. The subject collection is easy and the lawsuit is simple. ..... crowns, faints, funerals, sacrifices, customs and rituals, and more. " Fear of law and shame, rational study, simple litigation and imprisonment, and frugality are the true portrayal of Rugao's simple folk customs at that time. 1933 "Jiangsu Records Draft" said that Rugao was rated as "clean" in the province's folk customs survey. Filial piety is the essence of Chinese ethics and the traditional virtue of the Chinese nation. The fashion of respecting and loving the elderly has been passed down from generation to generation in Rugao. "A family as old as a treasure" is like the rules and regulations in Rugao countryside. Children do not regard the elderly as a burden, but as the glory of the family. If there are elderly people at home, their children will be respected by people in society, which provides a good social environment for the health and longevity of the elderly. Confucian bonsai is one of the seven schools of bonsai in China. It goes hand in hand with Lingnan School, Shanghai School and Yang School, and is well-known at home and abroad for its unique shape of "beautiful waist". Rugao bonsai can be seen in Zhongnanhai, Diaoyutai, Chairman Mao Memorial Hall and some central state organs. Rugao bonsai cultivation of flowers and trees began in Song Dynasty and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Since 1980s, more than 600 bonsai in Rugao have won grand prizes in international and domestic competitions. Rugao won three of the nine gold medals at the 2002 World Flower and Horticultural Exposition held in the Netherlands in October-February. Rugao is the largest export base of bonsai for flowers and trees in East China, with a planting area of more than 200,000 mu.

Rugao bonsai, with its mature technology, rigorous composition, standardized procedures and unique modelling technique, occupies a place in China bonsai art garden and has become one of the seven schools of bonsai in China. The cultivation of flowers and trees bonsai in Rugao began in the Northern Song Dynasty, developed in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and matured at the end of the 20th century. At present, there is only one pot of "Cangfu Nanshan" in Lianyuan, a scenic spot of Shuihui Garden, and it won the third prize of 1985 China Bonsai Appraisal Exhibition. Luohansong-Que Tongue 1 Pot, with two bends and a half shape,1over 20 years old, 1985 won the second prize of China bonsai appraisal exhibition. Now in Lianyuan, a scenic spot of Shuihui Garden. 1 Pan Yingkesong's works in Qing Dynasty, 1982 won the Excellence Award of Jiangsu Bonsai Exhibition and was preserved in Lianyuan, a scenic spot of Shuihui Garden. In the middle period of welcoming Luo, 19 10 was built (in the second year of Qing dynasty), and 1982 won the excellent prize of Jiangsu bonsai exhibition and was deposited in Lianyuan, a scenic spot of Shuihui Garden. Que Tongue was made of 1 basin with two bends of water, and 1987 won the honorary prize and the third prize of Jiangsu bonsai exhibition respectively. There are 1 pots of tiger thorns, which are called "deep in the shade", and 1 pots of pineapples, which are called "enjoying the spring scenery in the world". Age 180, made in Rugao Green Garden. In 65,438+090 Osaka International Flower Expo, he won the international grand prize and the highest honor award-the International Excellent Gold Award. 1May, 1993, the bonsai "Xiao Chun" and "Elm" produced by Rugao Green Garden won the gold medal in the Third National Flower Bonsai Expo for their unique artistic style. Rugao has become the largest export base of bonsai in China, and bonsai of flowers and trees are sold all over the world. Only the Green Garden sells about 65438+ ten thousand bonsai to Italy, Holland, France, Japan, Germany and other countries every year.