A Profound Culture

Huangshan City is the hometown of the Huizhou Merchants the birthplace of the Huizhou Culture Huizhou Culture upheld Confucianism as its core. It covered as many subjects as polities, philosophy ,economy, history, medicine, science, arts. Many achievements have long been held in repute throughout China such as Huizhou Business. Xin’an Rationalism.Huizhou Textual Research, Xin’an Medicine, Xin’an Painting School, Huizhou Architectural Style, Huizhou Block Print, Huizhou Seal Cutting, Huizhou Opera, and Huizhou Cuisine, Huizhou Studies, together with Tibetan Studies and Dunhuang Studies, are the three well-known regional studies in China.

Huizhou has given birth to many celebrities Among the 40.000 celebrities collected in the China’s Who Is Who. more than 800 were born in the region. They include such masters as Zhu Xi the great master of Rationalism in the Sony Dynasty. Wang Daokun, the well-known dramatist.Hu Zongxian, the national patriotic hero who fought the invading Japanese, wang Ji , the great doctor. Cheng Dawei, the abacus master , And Jian Jiang, the pioneer of Xin’an Painting School in the Ming Dynasty. Dai Zhen, the great philosopher. Wang Maoyin, the only Chinese economist mentioned in Das Capital by Karl Marx. Hu Xueyan, a business tycoon and banker, and Zhan Tianyou , father of the Chinese railroad in the Qing Dynasty. Hu Shi, celebrated contemporary scholar and one of the advocators of the New Cultural Movement in the early 20th century China, Tao Xingzhi, contemporary educator and great scholar. Huang Binhong, the master painter. And Zhang Shu ,the great musician.

Huangshan City is also rich in its cultural relics. There are 12 ancient towns. Villages and streets under the state-level protection Seventeen cultural relic sites are listed as the key national protected units. The existing ancient village, towns and buildings add up to 13.438 about 150.000 items are collected in the city museums. Among which about 10.000 items fall in Category Ⅲ or above. Fifteen items are listed as national intangible cultural heritages, Including 11 representative bearers of these heritages. The traditional Huizhou hand-made ink techniques have been nominated for the addition to the world intangible cultural heritage. Huangshan City is the core area of the Huangshan Ecological and Cultural Conservation Experiment Zone ratified by the Ministry of Culture.