Three ancient town
If you encounter Pu, perhaps not for her; if living in Pune City, you will be comfortable with the idle of the drunk.
Walking in the Pune City rugged quartzite on the road, the quiet long deep streets, the simple style of the courtyard, the carved dragon phoenix carved doors and windows, the color mottled temple, the ruins of the Association... No less than a strong infiltration of Pu City, the ancient culture of the atmosphere.
To understand Pu, Pu people must be familiar with tea, theatre, worship, this is called Pu three flavors.
1, tea
Pu city people love to drink tea.
"Tea" and Pune City, had forged indissoluble bound "".
During the war of resistance against Japan, Pu city "tea house", the business of the prosperous, ranking first in Xiangxi. Jiangsu, an micro, Henan and other provinces in the fall of exile compatriots, have fled to Xiangxi. In order to survive, they will choose the "small big profit" tea business. Then offered "comfortable restaurant", "leisure teahouse", "river teahouse", and "open-air teahouse", "Chai Park teahouse" is their masterpiece. Restaurant decoration is very simple, there is no sign, no decoration only some tea cup, dish with tables and chairs, indicating that here is "teahouse".
Sunset, people in twos and threes tea, huadengchushang, Wind River Fumian, culture and life together, patrons, is intoxicated.
Pu "teahouse", for ordinary Maojian, low price, for the public. Tea bubble tea drinkers, not tight not busy listening to other patrons put Longmen ", especially" Dragon Boat Festival "before and after January, tea business is red, everyone around the topic of dragon boat, big swing" dragon boat ".
Source: people of urban and rural people from all walks of life, people have to pull the car carrying, business people. Different ways of expression: "a deafening ring, do have to whisper, as implied by the mutual finger extension.
The tea house is a place to chat. One day trivial things and so on, all sold out in the teahouse. Said Yao woman how how the, home to say business is the boss not, even the tea fresh is not fresh, boiling water is not boiling, live clean is not clean, tea boss good and bad these contents are to comment. Then a sigh of sound.
Teahouse to resolve conflicts and disputes. Sometimes in order to deal with the contradictions and disputes, a teahouse became the reason places, a nice cup of tea, is also easy to handle, is the so-called "one Zhang Chazhuo four feet and said get off speaking off". If the two sides have not the money, each pay half; if one party is deficient, to pay the money bag.
Tea house is a channel for the spread of news. Pune city people often say: "old opium dens (suction opium place) with the teahouse, is the dissemination of news and the fastest and the most informed the switchboard room. "Sit teahouse", can be heard on the market in the great things, can hear no newspaper published the grapevine, can freely vent my feelings, express their views, coltish. The true taste, non drinkers can understand.
Instead of saying "sitting in a teahouse" is a hobby, it is a hobby ". In Pu City, not only the elderly love "tea house", young people also like, it seems that the tea house became a history of Pu city history". Many people in the tea to sit to "teahouse" low taste Maojian, in the way of life of the laity, feel refreshing "local customs" and mosey. At the beginning of foreigners here, often have the illusion, think a "reunion in staying-up late on new year's eve".
In the middle of the eighty's, "Pu City teahouse" also with the trend of the times and the progress of reform. Teahouse additions to the TV, the winter preparation brazier, Xia Tianbei ceiling fan, also equipped with books, materials and brand chess tool, let Chake in the teahouse was more comfortable.

2, the theatre
Pu city people also love to play.
History, Pu City, every major festival, all can not be separated from acting. Before and after the lunar new year in August two, Pu busy, especially love to sing opera, drama.
Pu, drama, play more time river high pitched tune!
Chen River play from Pu City, Xing Yu pu. Drum Wai Tong, short play, the high-profile opera, Chen River show in the art of the peak in the state, resulting in a Yao Jinbang, Yao Zu Xuan, Qijia, Mi Dianchen, Mi Shousheng, Chen Desheng, Yu Qing Tang, Sheng Chang Chen, Chen Yibai etc. a number of sensational Chen River lots of performers, art.
In general do not have to sing opera stage, in the spacious Ping Chang zhatai. The stage on both sides tied with "Taiwan", for a man in the protagonist. The people stood on the stage of positive Ping watch.
If the teahouse is the pursuit of spiritual calm and constant apprehension, the theatre is more focus on the true colors the catharsis of life.
Drums knock, Suo La rang, high pitched voice he floated out, like the tea overflowing streets. The key to play high, the actor in the play or realistic, tears streaming, or he do silly. The audience is like a heart with an air almost of idiocy, Benz a vast expanse of water, with the story of the turbulence flow can not be closed, stop.
In the drama, the neighboring counties Chenhe Gaoqiang opera actors and fans are all. Performers display capability, spare no effort, often competing, you shot me a knife. Veteran fans taking advantage of call, support, boos, this is not the only one. Many famous performers came into being.
Show every month, every year, so Chen River can sing a few words of everyone. Who says: "although the city produced Pu Gao Qiang, three years old children know the lyrics," the popularity of Pu Gaoqian's visible city.
History into the clouds. Now, dilapidated ancient stage difficult to find Gaoqiang Yingzong, except for the Yuan Lu Chen waterside four counties for the masses base preserve the sporadic high pitched tune repertoire, in other counties of Gaoqiang all gradually Meehan instead.
3, worship
Of course, more can not forget, Pu city people like to worship the buddha. Because they like to worship the Buddha, they built a large number of temples. Historical records, the history of the number of temples in the city, Xiangxi's premier. The 72 temple, 99 blocks of "Fang" (land, 10 hall) three palace hall buildings. Perhaps it is because too many temples temple, the city people privately called "Hunan Miao Xiang pu".
Pray to the temple fair, is an essential thing in the life of Pu city. February the second land father birthday, every workshop to give gnomes candles birthday; March sixth is carried a black dragon Bodhisattva; cattle birthday is April 8th, the temple to held a Niu Wang method... Every month has a temple, something to worship. Pu city on the market throughout the year can see all kinds of unprecedented "Buddha", "Tao" ritual activities. The temple fair dressed up colorful ritual activities, strange "Qing Jiao", "Huang Jiao", "crater" folk activities.
Today, Pu city remained to worship the gods of the customs. Worship of the day, no matter how busy, also want to buy Candles, incense paper basket to a Buddhist temple. In the long history of the years, burn incense and pray, worship the gods has evolved into the Pu, a custom, and even can be said is a unique blend of history and culture and the people of the local characteristics of the life together.
Pu City, less than 12 km radius of the ancient town, traces of history and religion can be seen everywhere. History, Pu city on their own have a wonderful and unique positioning, this sentence is: "the government is small, social; soldiers less, more bodhisattva". Is Pu city people on the history of the feudal era of the history of the bitter and helpless awareness, or PU city people numb stubborn stubborn, only the day to know.