Jingchu culture, as a culture with distinctive regional characteristics, can be summarized into eight series:
1. Yandi Shennong culture. Suizhou, Gucheng and Shennongjia in Hubei Province are the main activity areas of Yandi Shennong, with many folklore and cultural sites. Here, Emperor Yan Shennong tasted herbs all over the world, cured diseases for the people, invented agriculture and taught people to farm. Its profound historical and cultural heritage marked the transition of Chinese civilization from the fishing and hunting era to the farming era.
2. the history and culture of Chu state. Hubei is the birthplace of Chu culture. As one of the great powers in the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Chu has created brilliant civilization achievements in the long history of more than 8 years. Chu's unique bronze casting technology, the silk embroidery technology of the leaders, the exquisite lacquerware manufacturing technology, profound philosophy, Wang Yang's wanton prose, stunning ci-fu, five-tone music, dancing with sleeves turned up and waist bent, and grotesque art are all very valuable cultural treasures.
3. the culture of Qin and Han dynasties. Hubei in Qin and Han Dynasties was one of the important cultural centers at that time. Yunmeng Guze, Shuihudi and Longgang Qin Bamboo Slips, Zhangjiashan Han Bamboo Slips, Hanming Princess Wang Zhaojun, Han Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu and writer Wang Yi were all important cultural resources. Hubei is also a "land of four wars" where Wei, Shu and Wu are intertwined and fiercely contested. The political, economic, military and diplomatic alliances and struggles are complicated and thrilling, and the famous cultural scenic spots such as Gulongzhong, Chibi, Wulin and Changbanpo are important carriers of the cultures of the three countries.
4. Qingjiang Batu culture. Tujia people in Qingjiang River valley are descendants of ancient Ba people. Enthusiasm, simplicity, diligence, kindness and courage represent the excellent national quality of Tujia people. Its wedding and funeral customs, song and dance music, food and clothing, construction and transportation constitute the distinctive characteristics of Qingjiang Batu culture. At the same time, Hubei ethnic areas with Enshi Autonomous Prefecture and Changyang and Wufeng Autonomous Counties as the main body are also rich in Batu culture, where beautiful mountains and rivers and rich products are important areas for developing Hubei's characteristic economy.
5. The culture of famous ancient temples. There are many famous ancient temples in Hubei, which have formed unique cultural resources of famous ancient temples. Wudang Mountain is a famous Taoist mountain. After hundreds of years of development, Wudang culture with rich connotations has been formed. In addition, Jingshan Mountain, Dabie Mountain, Dahongshan Mountain, Qiyue Mountain, Jiugong Mountain and Huangmei Wuzu Temple, dangyang yuquan temple, Laifengxian Temple, Hanyang Guiyuan Temple, Wuchang Baotong Temple, Jingzhou Tianxing Temple, Wuchang Changchun Temple and many other famous ancient temples, as well as Zhongxiang Mingxian Mausoleum, all have high popularity and unique cultural connotations.
6. Three Gorges culture of the Yangtze River. The Three Gorges of the Yangtze River is the most spectacular canyon in China, one of the most famous canyons in the world, a world-famous hydropower energy base and the largest artificial lake on the earth. With the impoundment and power generation of the Three Gorges Project and its successful completion, its world-famous natural scenery, colorful human landscape, mysterious and romantic myths and legends and peculiar local customs on both sides of the Xiajiang River have formed a cultural school with strong Xiajiang color, which constitutes the distinctive characteristics of the Three Gorges culture.
7. Jiangcheng Wuhan culture. Wuhan is located at the intersection of the two rivers and is known as the thoroughfare of nine provinces. As early as the Shang and Zhou Dynasties, it was a strategic stronghold connecting the south with the Central Plains. Marked by Panlongcheng in Shang Dynasty, Wuhan has accumulated rich culture with a history of more than 3,5 years. After the Ming and Qing Dynasties, Wuhan gradually developed into the largest industrial and commercial city in Central China, and became one of the manufacturing centers and important industrial bases in China in modern times. In modern history, Wuhan once became the political, economic and cultural center of China. As a megacity and regional economic center in Central China, Jiangcheng Wuhan culture has distinct regional characteristics.
8. Modern revolutionary culture. The Revolution of 1911, the first shot was fired in the heart of the Qing Dynasty, which overthrew the last feudal dynasty in China's history and ended the monarchy. The revolutionaries and people with lofty ideals in Hubei contributed greatly. Marked by the first meaning of Wuchang in 1911, it formed a magnificent revolutionary cultural connotation in the modern history of Hubei and Wuhan. During the new democratic revolution, Dong Biwu, Chen Tanqiu and other proletarian revolutionaries of the older generation founded the * * * production group in Wuhan, which was once the center of the Great Revolution. A series of revolutionary activities, revolutionary deeds, revolutionary sites, etc., such as the "February 27" strike, Wuchang Agricultural Institute, the "August 7" conference, the Jute Uprising, the revolutionary base areas in Hubei, Henan, Anhui and western Hunan, the Eighth Route Army Office, the Wuhan Defence War, the Fifth Division Command of the New Fourth Army, the breakthrough of the Central Plains and the Liu Deng Army's advance into the Dabie Mountains, constitute the main contents of Hubei's modern revolutionary culture and are extremely valuable revolutionary cultural resources. The eight cultural series of Jingchu culture have great penetrating power and influence beyond time and space, which is an important foundation for us to build advanced culture and carry out socialist cultural innovation.
Hubei is the birthplace of Jingchu culture and the political, economic and cultural center of ancient Chu. Examining the development track of Jingchu culture from the dual perspectives of material culture and spiritual culture, we can further find that it has innovative characteristics in the following five aspects and is an important spiritual heritage for developing advanced culture today. First, the entrepreneurial spirit of "blue road"; Second, the open spirit of "Fu Yi belongs to summer"; Third, the innovative spirit of "blockbuster"; Fourth, the patriotic spirit of "deep-rooted and difficult to migrate"; Fifth, the harmonious spirit of "stopping the war and making use of it". These innovative characteristics of Jingchu culture are not only the product of the times, but also the concrete manifestation of excellent national culture and national spirit, and are the important resources of China's excellent traditional culture.