Lishui Culture · Lishui District, Nanjing, Jiangsu

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From the Luoshan Great Dragon to the Putang Bridge temple fair; from paper-cutting and iron painting to the poems in the old gazetteers. Every entry states its category, level and guardian unit, records its sources, and appears in Chinese and English.

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Dragon and Lantern Dancewudao Dragon lanterns, horse lanterns and dragon boats — traditional dance items, mostly seen at the New Year and at temple fairs. 8 entries Browse all Traditional Craftsjiyi Food making, bamboo weaving, iron painting and other crafts transmitted by hand. 13 entries Browse all Traditional Fine Artsmeishu Paper-cutting, wood carving, flower arrangement and enamel work — items known for form and pattern. 5 entries Browse all Folk Customs and Temple Fairsminsu Temple fairs, shehuo and seasonal observances — customs held on fixed days of the year. 4 entries Browse all Medicine, Songs and Legendsyiyao Traditional medicine, folk songs and folk literature — the smaller categories. 3 entries Browse all Cultural Spaceskongjian Villages, mountains, waterways, academies and inscriptions — the places heritage attaches to. 4 entries Browse all Poetry and Documentswenxian Entries written here: dialect, poetry, old gazetteers and the heritage lists. 12 entries Browse all

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Intangible Heritage Representative items of intangible cultural heritage in Lishui District. Each states its category, level, listing batch and guardian unit; level and batch follow the official lists, and anything the lists do not give is left to be filled in. 33 entries Browse all Cultural Spaces The villages, mountains, waterways and old seats of learning that heritage attaches to. Where a protection level is given, its listing is given with it; where the listing is unverified, the entry says so. 4 entries Browse all Poetry and Documents Entries written here: the two accounts of the dialect boundary, the documentary basis of poems, the punctuation of an old gazetteer, and a survey of the heritage lists. Quotations carry juan and page; tradition and record are kept apart. 12 entries Browse all

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Education and culture Poetry and Documents Bai Juyi and His Lishui Connection His uncle Bai Jikang, magistrate of Lishui, and Bai Juyi's examination there Bai Juyi's uncle Bai Jikang served as magistrate of Lishui and died in office, and was later honoured as the city god of Lishui. Later compilations say Bai Juyi joined him, sat the county examination at Lishui in 798 and passed in 800 as a Xuanzhou candidate; his own presence there is an inference, not a direct record. Notable figuresPoetry and proseTang dynasty Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Poetry Poetry and Documents Li Bai's "Inscription for the Chaste Woman of Laishui" The Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer record, and the question of her home place Juan 8, Literature, of the Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer carries Li Bai's "Inscription for the Chaste Woman of Laishui", signed "Hanlin Academician". It makes her a daughter of the Shi family of Huangshanli in Liyang and tells how Wu Zixu, begging on the Laishui, was fed by her before she drowned herself to keep his secret; it names the local officials through whom the text was cut in stone. Zhenyinu and the Laishui story belong to Liyang, not Lishui, and this library records the inscription only because the gazetteer's Literature section carries it. The source used is a web transcription, not a collated edition. Poetry and proseInscriptionsTang dynasty Confidence: Qualified Standard District level Medicine, Songs and Legends The Tale of Yiqidun A folk-literature item transmitted around Zhongyang Village, Hefeng Town The Tale of Yiqidun is a folk-literature item transmitted around Zhongyang Village, Hefeng Town, Lishui District, included in the recommended list of the district's fourth-batch ICH public notice of January 2024, with the Hefeng Town Cultural and Sports Centre as its recommended guardian. It is said in local tradition that the Yiqidun mound is the joint tomb of Zuo Botao and Yang Jiao'ai, while specialists suspect it is in fact a mound tomb; the legend and the specialists' view are set out separately here. intangible cultural heritageFolk literatureLegends Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Standard Textual criticism Poetry and Documents The Xiaoguan Stele of Pan Qian, Magistrate of Liyang The eulogy, transcription and one Lishui thread in the Kangxi county gazetteer Juan 8, Literature, of the Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer carries Zhao Xun's Han "Eulogy for the Xiaoguan Stele", erected for Pan Qian, magistrate of Liyang, in the tenth month of the fourth year of Guanghe. The appended transcription records that Yu Zhongyuan, assistant magistrate of Lishui, found the stele on the shore of Gucheng Lake in 1141 and placed it in the official quarters, that Hong Shi of Poyang produced its readings, and that by the Zhishun era a further sixteen characters had become illegible. The stele belongs to Liyang, not Lishui; this library records it only because the gazetteer's Literature section carries it and its discoverer was a Lishui officer. The source used is a web transcription, not a collated edition. InscriptionsTextual criticismQin and Han Confidence: Qualified Standard National level Dragon and Lantern Dance Luoshan Great Dragon A dragon dance of Luoshan Village, Hefeng Town, in the second national batch of intangible cultural heritage The Luoshan Great Dragon is a dragon dance of Luoshan Village in Hefeng Town, Lishui District, entered in 2008 in the second national list of intangible cultural heritage, item III-4, with the Nanjing Lishui District Cultural Centre as guardian unit. intangible cultural heritageTraditional danceDragon dance Confidence: Qualifiedunchecked Long-form Textual criticism Poetry and Documents A Textual Study of Li Bai's "On the Road from Lishui" The gazetteer record and the doubt over what Lishui refers to The Kangxi Lishui County Gazetteer, juan 11, lists "Three Poems Mourning Wang Yan on the Road from Lishui" under Li Bai; a scenic-area page says he left poems in Lishui. Whether Lishui means Nanjing's Lishui or a waterway near Liyang is left undecided. A local promotional article claims Li Bai passed through Lishui in 761 CE and wrote the mourning poems on hearing of Wang Yan's death, which fits the first reading but rests on no documentary basis and is registered only as a lead. Poetry and proseDocumentsTang dynasty Confidence: Unconfirmedunchecked Standard

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