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1、四川与福建文化的差异1. 历史文化差异。2. 食物差异。3. 民俗差异。Sichuan is a province in the central-western China with its capital at Chengdu. Most people living in Sichuan are Han. There are also Tibetans, Yi people, Qiang and Naxi in the western side. The territory of the province and its vicinity were the cradle of unique
2、local civilizations, which can be dated to at least fifteenth century BC (i.e. the later years of Shang Dynasty). Beginning from the ninth century BC, Shu (today Chengdu) and Ba (today Chongqing City) emerged as cultural and administrative centers where two rival kingdoms were established.Shus exist
3、ence was unknown until an archaeological discovery in 1986 at a small village named Sanxingdui in Guanghan County. Believed to be an ancient city of the Shu Kingdom, the excavations yielded invaluable archaeological information.Although the Qin Dynasty came to destroy the civilizations of Shu and Ba
4、, the culture of Shu and Ba was preserved and inherited by people in Sichuan until today. The Qin government also accelerated the technological and agricultural advancements of Sichuan comparable to that of the Huang He (Yellow River) Valley. The Dujiangyan Irrigation System, built in 3rd century BC
5、 under the inspection of Li Bing, was the symbol of modernization of that period. Composed of a series of dams, it redirected the flow of Min Jiang, a major tributary of Yangtze River, to fields and relieved the damage of seasonal floods. The construction and various other projects greatly increased
6、 the harvest of the area which thus became the main source of provision and men for Qins unification of China.Various ores were abundant. Adding to its significance, the area was also on the trade route from Huang He Valley to foreign countries of the southwest, especially India.FoodSichuan cuisine
7、has an international reputation for being hot and numbing (麻辣 in Chinese), because of the common ingredient of the Sichuan peppercorn (called 花椒 in Chiense).Some well-known Sichuan dishes include Kung Pao chicken (宮保雞丁 Gng Bo J Dng) and Twice Cooked Pork (回鍋肉 Hu Gu Ru).Culture四川文化The Li Bai Memorial
8、 (located at his birthplace, Zhongba Town of northern Jiangyou County) is a museum in memory of the Chinese poet of the Tang Dynasty, Li Bai. It was prepared in 1962 on the occasion of 1,200th anniversary of his death, completed in 1981 and opened to the public in October of 1982. The memorial is bu
9、ilt in the style of the classic garden of the Tang Dynasty.Music川乐Sichuan has a long history of folk and classical music. Sichuan opera is an ancient tradition that very is well-known. The Sichuan lantern drama is popular in Sichuan. The Sichuan Conservatory of Music in Chengdu is one of the oldest
10、of musical education in China, having been established in 1939.There is also religious music in Sichuan, played by Daoist priests in their temples.Traditional Sichuan folk music is usually played with instruments such as the bamboo flute, pan and cymbals, gong and horn.Fujian Tulou is a property of
11、46 buildings constructed between the 15th and 20th centuries over 120 km in south-west of Fujian province, inland from the Taiwan Strait. Set amongst rice, tea and tobacco fields the Tulou are earthen houses. Several storeys high, they are built along an inward-looking, circular or square floor plan
12、 as housing for up to 800 people each. They were built for defence purposes around a central open courtyard with only one entrance and windows to the outside only above the first floor. Housing awhole clan, the houses functioned as village units and were known as “a littlekingdom for the family” or
13、“bustling small city.” They feature tall fortified mud walls capped by tiled roofs with wide over-hanging eaves. The most elaborate structures date back to the 17th and 18th centuries. The buildings were divided vertically between families with each disposing of two or three rooms on each floor. In
14、contrast with their plain exterior, the inside of the tulou were built for comfort and were often highly decorated. They are inscribed as exceptional examples of a building tradition and function exemplifying a particular type of communal living and defensive organization, and, in terms of their har
15、monious relationship with their environment, an outstanding example of human settlement. Located in the southeast of Fujian and at longitude 117-118east and latitude 23.8-25north, Zhangzhou is close to Taiwan Straits and facing Xiamen across the sea. It borders Quanzhou City to the east, Longyan Cit
16、y to the northwest and Shantou City of Guangzhou Province to the southwest. Covering a total area of 12,600 square kilometers, Zhangzhou governs eight counties (Zhangpu, Yuxiao, Dongshan, Zhaoan, Pinghe, Nanjing, Huaan, Changtai and Longhai City) and two district (Xiangcheng and Longwen). The total population amounts to 4,500,000, most of which are of the Han nationality, as well as 21 minority nationalities as She and Gao-Shan. Being a famous hometown of overseas Chin
