Shiqiaotou Town, Wenling City, Taizhou City, Zhejiang Province

Shiqiaotou town

Shiqiaotou Town, located in the southeast of Wenling City, Zhejiang Province, is 9 km away from the city center. The provincial road Lin Shi line passes through the city, with convenient transportation. The town covers an area of 28.4 square kilometers (2017), with 18 administrative villages, 352 villager groups and a population of 25567 (2017). The town has 14852 mu of arable land, including 12130 mu of paddy field, 2722 mu of dry land, 8721.2 mu of standard farmland and 2050 meters of high standard seawall. There are 52 grassroots party organizations and 1062 party members in the town.

Brief introduction of Shiqiaotou town

In 2007, with the joint efforts of the town Party committee, the government and the cadres and masses of the town, the fiscal revenue of the whole year was 15.41 million yuan, an increase of 27.7% over the same period of last year, of which the local fiscal revenue was 6 million yuan, an increase of 35% over the same period of last year; the investment in fixed assets of the whole society was 180.31 million yuan, an increase of 8.38%, and the average net income of farmers was 7182 yuan, an increase of 6.1% over the same period of last year. We have successfully established Taizhou Education Star Town, Taizhou ecological town, Taizhou folk art Town, Taizhou basic farmland protection demonstration town, and Taizhou advanced collective of conscription work.

Shiqiaotou town focuses on the development of efficient ecological agriculture, The pace of agricultural industrialization has been accelerating. Ten high-quality and efficient agricultural demonstration bases have been built, including ten thousand pig farms, 3000 mu pollution-free vegetable base and 800 Mu grape base. Six major agricultural leading industries have been formed, including vegetables, grapes, watermelon, sweet potato noodles, pigs and poultry. In 2007, three new agricultural cooperatives have been developed: liannong fig cooperative, xiadongqiao waxberry cooperative and xiadongqiao waxberry cooperative Shiqiao fruit professional cooperative has newly registered three agricultural product trademarks, i.e. "green sand" wild duck egg, "Mingjian" fig, "hongmanshan" waxberry. Agriculture gradually embarks on the road of scale, industrialization and branding.

The four pillar industries of foundry, machinery, chemical industry and building materials have been basically formed in industry. The output value of Zhongfa precision steel parts Co., Ltd. is more than 100 million. The agglomeration effect of xiazhaiwu, Xiantian and tutan is gradually emerging. In 2007, the industrial output value reached 748 million, of which 469 million were large-scale industries, accounting for 62.70%.

The detailed planning of the central area has been compiled, and the planning of three industrial gathering points has been revised and started. The scale of the towns has been expanded in an orderly way. The planning of villages outside the built-up areas of 15 villages has been comprehensively adjusted, including forest and stone line renovation, street comprehensive renovation, dill powder processing renovation and reservoir water environment renovation. The environmental sanitation treatment network of household bags, village collection, town transfer and municipal treatment has been basically formed.

Social undertakings are booming. The general survey of intangible cultural heritage was carried out, and 102 valuable intangible cultural resources were collected. The "Wang's Lantern", "rice sculpture" and "Lotus dragon" were repeatedly reported by the central and Provincial Taiwan authorities. The folk dance "floating dragon out of water" won the Gold Award in the outstanding team competition of Taizhou farmers' Cultural Festival, and the "lotus pond reflecting the moon" won the Gold Award in the first Taizhou culture and Art Festival. Now there are 1 class 1 cultural club, 5 class 2 cultural clubs and 10 class 3 cultural clubs.

In short, the Party committee and government of Shiqiaotou town adhere to the guidance of the scientific outlook on development, take the construction of new countryside as an opportunity, firmly seize the development opportunity, vigorously develop economic and social undertakings, and strive to build Shiqiaotou into a suburban ecological town with obvious agricultural characteristics, overall industrial leap, clean and orderly villages, and harmonious coexistence between man and nature.

Economic overview

In 2013, the total industrial output value of the town was 465 million yuan, an increase of 15.82%; the total financial revenue was 64.241 million yuan, an increase of 24.7%; the fixed asset investment on quota was 264 million yuan, an increase of 41.18%; the per capita income of farmers was 14896 yuan, an increase of 11%; and the natural growth rate of population was 2.9 ‰.

Shiqiaotou town is a traditional agricultural town. In recent years, the Party committee and government of Shiqiaotou Town focus on the development of efficient ecological agriculture, and the pace of industrialization is accelerating. There are ten high-quality and efficient agricultural demonstration bases, including ten thousand pig farms, 3000 mu pollution-free vegetable base, 3000 mu waxberry, 1000 mu grape, etc., forming six leading agricultural industries, including grain, vegetables, melon and fruit, livestock and poultry, aquatic products, sweet potato (annual output of 5.5 million jin). Four pillar industries, namely foundry, machinery, chemical industry and building materials, have been basically formed in the industry, and the agglomeration effect of xiazhaiwu, Xiantian and tutan has gradually emerged. With the prosperity and development of cultural undertakings, it has the first town level library in Taizhou. The intangible cultural heritage "Wang's Lantern", "rice sculpture" and "Lotus dragon" have been inherited and developed. It has been rated as Taizhou folk art Town, Taizhou civilized town, Taizhou Industrial strong town, Taizhou poverty alleviation and development advanced collective, Taizhou wuxijiao Town, etc. for five consecutive years, it has been rated as Taizhou "Pingjiao town" Anxiang town has passed the acceptance of provincial civilized town and provincial science popularization demonstration town.

Intangible cultural heritage

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Gunbaman, commonly known as Baman dance, is a Folk Lantern Dance at Shiqiaotou. The so-called eight barbarians are eight kinds of animals, including unicorn, lion, tiger, unicorn, jackal, white elephant, rhinoceros and lion roar. It is said that the stone bridge dance Baman originated in the late years of Qianlong in the Qing Dynasty. At that time, the world was peaceful and the people lived in peace. The Lantern Festival was held every year in Shiqiaotou street. One year, just after the Spring Festival, Jiang's ancestors and houlinzha lantern artists jointly produced eight animal lanterns to welcome the lantern. In the process of welcoming the lantern to visit the countryside, jingshiqiaotou street was planned and directed by talented performers, and the people holding the lantern changed their walking style into jumping and dancing. Since then, eight animal lanterns have participated in the Lantern Festival every year. They can dance with "rolling dragon" and "rolling lion" or perform alone, gradually forming a folk lantern dance called "rolling eight man". Because, in people's minds, lions and unicorns are auspicious animals. It is generally believed that "gunba man" can not only exorcise evil spirits and protect peace, but also add joy to the festival.

The performance of "rolling eight men" is mainly based on eight animal lanterns with four small colored lanterns: monkey lantern, white crane lantern, octagonal lantern and butterfly lantern. During the performance, four small colored lanterns, accompanied by gongs and drums, jump to the four corners of the performance venue, and eight big men come into the arena to dance with unicorn, lion, tiger, unicorn, jackal Lai, white elephant, rhinoceros, lion roar and other animal lanterns. The basic dance steps are small jump steps, interspersed with cross step, flower step, spell step and drop step. The dance is rough, reflecting the power and ferocity of the beast. Dance formation changes with the change of percussion drum, such as rope, inserting, flower, triangle, etc. If the local audience requests to extend the performance time, they can replace the dancers at any time. In the past, if we had to dance in more than ten villages one night, we had to replace the dancers. Therefore, a Baman team usually had more than 30 people.

Shiqiao rice sculpture

Shiqiao rice sculpture refers to the "cake man cake horse" handmade with aged rice cake in the traditional customs of Shiqiao street, Qianlin, Houlin, backstage gate, dajiatou and Zhongfan villages in Shiqiaotou. It includes: unicorn, lion, unicorn, white elephant, tiger, lion roar, rhinoceros, Rex jackal and other animals in the zodiac.

Stone bridge rice sculpture is an indispensable sacrifice in stone bridge folk activities, and it is also a handicraft for people to watch. As the ceremony of Lantern Festival, beam Festival and Bridge Festival, it has the meaning of praying for auspiciousness. In Shiqiao area, according to the traditional custom, the Lantern Festival is held every year for three nights. During the Lantern Festival, every natural village should have sacrificial decorations. A few four sided tables (depending on the number of offerings) are placed at the head of the village, with worshipful offerings such as pig's head, goose, fish, meat, noodles, etc. naturally, there is no shortage of rice shaped cakes, people and horses. At the same time, the clansmen also put on the table the strange, valuable and rare things collected by each family for people to watch and appreciate, and then let the people sing "paijie" one by one. In addition, there is a local custom in Shiqiaotou. When people build houses and set up beams, they should invite people to make cakes. People and horses are used as sacrificial rites. Especially on the auspicious day when the son-in-law's or father-in-law's house sets up beams, sending cakes to people and horses is an indispensable ritual, which is still in use today. Moreover, in the early construction of the bridge, before pulling the stone beam onto the pier, the ceremony of sacrificing the beam should be held, and the main sacrifice in the ceremony is "cake man cake horse".

Shiqiao rice sculpture has a long history. It has been handed down since the late Qing Dynasty. The names of the first generation's descendants are missing due to lack of records; the second generation's descendants are Jiang Yongshun; the third generation's descendants are Jiang Zan Tang; and the fourth generation's descendants are Chen Chunshui and Jiang Zhaozhi.

Shiqiao rice sculpture has its own characteristics. First, it is small, colorful and delicate. The individual volume of rice sculpture is small, and the general size is between 8 cm by 3 cm by 4 cm. Color is basically three primary colors, and thick and gorgeous. The overall technique is exaggerated, and the local technique is very delicate. For example, the eyes can see the eyebrows; the ears and tail can shake, which has a strong artistic and ornamental. Second, the material selection is exquisite, the viewing time is long, does not deform does not crack. The main raw material is soaking rice cake, auxiliary materials are various colors of pigments, lard, copper wire, matchstick, embedded polo and so on. Compared with others, Shiqiao rice sculpture works can not deform and crack for a long time.

Shiqiaotou, located in the southeast coast of Wenling, is a semi mountainous area. It was built in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, with a postal shop. It was a market day on the 4th and 8th of the lunar calendar. In the old days, it was a major trade point in the south of the city. Shiqiaotou street lantern festival custom has a long history, Shiqiaotou rice sculpture has become one of the important contents of Lantern Festival custom. However, as a folk masterpiece, Shiqiao rice sculpture has a certain entertainment and ornamental value, but it has no great economic benefits, so few people learn it and will face the possibility of losing it.

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