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Culture
Update:0001-01-01
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Taizhou’s social culture started from the Eastern Jin Dynasty. In the Tang Dynasty, Zheng Qian, a famous scholastic official, was devoted to development of local education and culture. Entering the Southern Song Dynasty, Taizhou became a cultural and educational center. Taizhou boasts of many talents and historical figures. 96 persons from Taizhou including Xiang Si, Dai Fugu and Qi Zhaonan have once been biographied in Chinese historic books. Since 1949, 21 |
| Taizhou-born persons have successively become academicians of CAS and CAE. |
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| In “Siku Quanshu”, the Complete library in the Four Branches of Literature in Qing Dynasty, were collected 141 books written by 107 Taizhou scholars, such as, “Cuzhi Scripture”, the first entomologic book of the world by Jia Sidao of Song Dynasty, “Quanfang Beizu”, the globally earliest botany dictionary by Chen Jingxin of Song Dynasty, “Book of Fungus“, the first domestic fungus monograph of the world by Chen Renyu of Song Dynasty, “Wuyue Youcao”, the first economic geography book by Wang Shixing of Ming Dynasty, and “Veterinary Herbs”. Taizhou is the birthplace of southern China operas. “Taizhou Luantan”, a southern China opera genre and one of 318 local operas in China, took shape during Qing Dynasty. Taizhou also boasts of colorful folk arts, such as Dragon-contest, dragon lantern dance and boat racing. “Needle-pierced boneless lantern” from Xianju County, which firstly appeared during the Tang Dynasty, is praised as “the Best Lantern of China”. |
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