Where is the hometown of fireworks in Jiangxi?

The hometown of fireworks in Jiangxi is Shangli County, Pingxiang City.

Shangli County, located in the west of Jiangxi and the north of Pingxiang, is a world-renowned hometown of fireworks and firecrackers in China, Nuo culture in China, folk art in China and modern folk painting in China, and a gateway town at the junction of Jiangxi and Hunan. The unique geographical location and long human history have created rich cultural resources.

As one of the four major fireworks producing areas in China, setting off fireworks and firecrackers at important moments has deeply penetrated into the genetic blood of 520,000 people in Shangli. The annual activity of worshipping Li Yi's ancestors also made Shangli's "Li Yi's ancestor worship custom" included in the list of the fifth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage representative projects in Jiangxi Province.

Development history

The Yang Qi Temple in Shangli was built in Tianbao period of Tang Dynasty. It is the ancestral home of Yang Qijiao, one of the seven schools of Zen, and its followers are all over Central Asia and South Asia. Twenty of the twenty-four schools of Zen in Kamakura, Japan, were sent from Yang Qi's legal Sect.

"Shangli Fireworks", which originated in the Tang Dynasty, has become a dazzling cultural business card of China with tea and porcelain after 1300 years of inheritance and innovation.

The splendor of "a general in five miles and a Nuo temple in ten miles" makes Nuo dance, Nuo temple and Nuo mask, which have been passed down for more than 3,000 years, become the treasures of China folk culture, and "a must in western Jiangxi". "Pingxiang Nuo God" with "Shangli Nuo God" as the main body was selected as the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects.