In the late Republic of China, wars were still frequent, people's livelihood was depressed and education shrank.
At the time of liberation, there were 2 17 primary and secondary schools in the county, with students 17 183.
After liberation, education has made great progress. After the adjustment of county boundaries, there are 3 middle schools with 1955 students and 260 primary schools with 37,663 students.
1958 and during the cultural revolution, it developed blindly twice and was corrected after adjustment and rectification.
From 65438 to 0983, we adjusted the structure of secondary education and began to develop secondary vocational and technical schools.
By 1984, illiteracy among young people will be basically eliminated and primary education will be popularized.
From 65438 to 0985, the system of "running schools at different levels and managing them at different levels" was implemented, which mobilized the enthusiasm of local schools.
1986 Hushan and other six towns took the lead in implementing nine-year compulsory education.
By 1987, there were 420 full-time primary and secondary schools in the county, with 4,945 teaching staff and 965 14 students, accounting for 10.3% of the total population of the county. Gradually formed a relatively perfect education network composed of general education, normal vocational education, adult education and other educational service institutions.
By the end of 20 12, there were 256 kindergartens, 49 ordinary middle schools, 88 primary schools and 6 secondary vocational education schools in Cixi. There are 4335 teachers in ordinary middle schools, 4396 teachers in primary schools and 1 129 teachers in secondary vocational education schools. This school year, there are 53,600 ordinary middle school students and 90,000 primary school students. In 20 12 years, the enrollment rate of junior high school graduates was 98.25%, the enrollment rate of school-age children was 100%, and the average years of education of newly-added laborers was 14.97. Cixi dialect is a dialect of Wu dialect, which has a long history in Chinese. Its ancestral language can be traced back to the Spring and Autumn Period. Mainly used in southern Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, southern Anhui, Shangrao, Jiangxi and other places. Commonly known as "Jiangnan dialect" and "Jiangsu and Zhejiang dialect", it has a population of nearly 80 million, ranking second in Chinese dialect and tenth in the world.
The Records of Cixi County has a special record on the origin and distribution of Wu dialect in Cixi City: Wu dialect has five sub-dialects, and Cixi dialect belongs to Taihu Lake of Wu dialect. Taihu Lake in Wu dialect is divided into six small pieces, Cixi is located at the intersection of Guyue Prefecture and Gumingzhou, and Cixi dialect accounts for two small pieces: Guanhaiwei in the east, Bates and Zhenbei in the east, Mingzhou (Ningbo Prefecture) in ancient times, and Mingzhou (Yongjiang) is a small piece of Taihu Lake in Wu dialect area; Qiaotou and the former part of Yao Bei to the west belonged to Yuezhou (Huijifu) in ancient times, belonging to Shaolin piece of Taihu Lake in Wuyu District.
In addition, there is a small area in Guanhaiwei Town where residents speak Mindong dialect at home. Locals commonly call it "Min dialect" and use Cixi dialect externally. He is a descendant of the Taoist priest who communicated with Jianning Wei (now Xiapu County, Fujian Province) more than 600 years ago when Guan Haiwei first built the Wei. At the beginning, the guards were heavily guarded inside, so it was a dialect island. Later, they gradually intermarried with local residents, and gave up what Wei did in the early Qing Dynasty, and their descendants lived there for a long time. In this way, they use the local dialect outside and still use the Min dialect at home. The history of land reclamation in Cixi can be traced back to 100 century ago. The large-scale pond building with written records began in gutang, and was built in the seventh year of the Song Dynasty (1047), with a total length of 80 kilometers, which took 340 years to complete. This project is very huge.
In the following 600 years, people have built Xintang, Batang, Tang Jiu and Shitang one after another, and some river sections have been built to the 11th pond, and the coastline has also moved northward. The people of Cixi built 480 kilometers of old and new seawalls, reclaimed 664 square kilometers of land, and finally the sea became a mulberry field. In the early days, many people in Cixi lived along the mountain and moved north and east with the construction of seawall. At the same time, people from neighboring areas and other provinces gradually moved in, and immigrants came here to produce and live. During the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty, more than 5,000 guards from Funing, Fujian Province were transferred to guard Cixi and stationed here. Today, most residents in Guanhaiwei area are their descendants.
According to records, in 2 10 BC, Xu Fu led 3,000 boys and girls and nearly 5,000 sailors and workers across the sea to Japan, looking for an elixir for Qin Shihuang. The ferry is located in Feng Pu 'ao Village in Cixi today.
The earliest population record in Cixi began in the Song Dynasty. The statistical population of Cixi County is 156380, which was 249225 in the nine years of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty. After the county boundary of 1954 was adjusted, the total population was 52 1706, and the registered population of Cixi was1008,000 at the end of 2004.
Since the reform and opening up, Cixi, as an open coastal city, has poured in a large number of migrants. By the end of 2004, there were more than 570,000 registered migrants in Cixi. A large number of immigrants moved in along the Millennium, which made the immigrant culture of Cixi people. Cixi is one of the cradles of China porcelain, and the firing time of celadon began in Han Dynasty and ended in Song Dynasty. In the last two centuries from the late Tang Dynasty to the Northern Song Dynasty, it flourished for a time and became a veritable porcelain capital of Tang and Song Dynasties. In the Tang Dynasty, Lu Guimeng praised "September and autumn dew passing through the kiln, winning the green color of a thousand peaks." .
Cixi is also an important starting point of the famous "Maritime Ceramic Road". Yue Kiln treasures, represented by celadon from Shanglin Lake, are listed as Four Treasures of the Study in Tang Dynasty alongside gold and silver vessels, precious vessels and silk. Depart from Mingzhou Port and cross the ocean to Sri Lanka, India, etc. And reach Spain as much as possible.
In August, 20001year, Cixi Shanglinhu Yueyao Celadon Co., Ltd. resumed the celadon production that had been interrupted for thousands of years, and successfully copied some fine products such as chicken-headed pot, octagonal bottle, incense burner and three-legged toad. At the same time, a series of celadon instruments, such as Moon Gull and Imitation Chime, which can play beautiful music, were developed and tried to burn. They visited France with the Cixi National Orchestra and sent China's historical and cultural treasures to the world. Winter red festival
The fifth day of the fifth lunar month is a traditional folk festival in China, but in Cixi, it is generally called "Winter Red Festival" instead of Dragon Boat Festival. Folk sayings about the Winter Red Festival: First of all, safflower cakes in winter and solstice noodles in summer are eaten like Ge Jiejian. Second, in winter, the red bayberry is hanging in the basket, and in summer, the red bayberry is full of mountains and mountains. Third, La-Toad should avoid winter red. Fourth, eat red jiaozi in winter and freeze it for three times.
Yang meijie
The first Yangmei Festival has been held in Cixi since 1989. Yangmei Festival, with plum as the media, cultural entertainment and economic results, has not only become a major festival in Cixi, but also attracted guests from all over the country and overseas. As the origin of Myrica rubra in China, Myrica rubra picking tour is one of the most distinctive tourism projects in Cixi.