Traditional repertoire The traditional repertoire of Zuoquan Xiaohua Opera is about fifty kinds of repertoire, which are mostly passed down from generation to generation by oral teaching. After the liberation of the new repertoire of about 50 kinds. The representative works of the traditional repertoire are Shoveling Vegetables, Little Cowherd, Sending Auntie, Touring the Garden, Whore's Complaint, Playing Cherries, Dan Brother, Vegetables for Sale, Flatbread for Sale, Playing Wife, Top Lamp, Sleeping Much, Wy Kids, Hair Kids, Dame Ya, Golden Box Hat, Abduction, Auntie Two, Jumping Umbrella, Wild Doctor, Taking the Bastard The content is mostly a comedy reflecting the life of the common people, and the roles of the two small clowns and the small dancer are mainly, and the individual plays are the three small plays of the small student, the small dancer and the small clown. Performing Music The music system of Zuoquan Xiaohua Opera is a music system, which is divided into two categories, namely, single repetition and joint set of songs, with no fixed music specification, free and random combination of tunes, and a musical structure that can be expanded and contracted according to the needs of the content, which is of great expressive power. The tunes of Xiao Hua Opera come from the popular Zuoquan folk songs, of which the most representative is the "small tune" in the folk songs, followed by the "big cavity". Most of the programs are in the form of continuous music, and there is also one opera and one song. The interludes and the overdoors are used to connect the singing in the continuous form, which makes the tunes stretching and moving and full of mountain and countryside flavor. The songs are divided into slow, medium, fast and loose, mostly in G mode, with 2/4 and 3/8 beats as the main accompaniment. Instruments include suona, sheng, flute, banhu, erhu, low hu, etc., and yangqin, cello, violin, etc. are added later. Percussion instruments include drums, drums, gongs, gongs, hairpins, hairpins, wooden fish and bells. In the past, there were hairpin pulling machine, four tiles have been lost. The music of Xiao Hua Opera is constantly innovated with the development of the times, some of which use ready-made Zuoquan folk songs, and some of which are created with folk songs as the material. For example, the traditional drama "Flying a Kite" originally had only one typical minor key singing song, but there were 11 singing words sung over and over again, which appeared to be monotonous and tedious. Later, it changed its form into a three-part form, added the introduction, the appearance of the song and the door, and the use of transposition techniques, so that the color is new. The tunes in the small-flower opera "Wash Your Clothes" "Peach Blossom Red and Apricot White" are adapted from the folk song "Wash Your Clothes in the River" "Liu Mei Hiding from the Marriage" based on the big cavity, which is elegant, elegant, and rich in local flavor. It can be seen that the folk songs and small flower opera flesh and blood, you have me, I have you. Folk songs provide a steady stream of musical resources for the small flower opera, and the small flower opera promotes and enriches the melodic color of the folk songs, the two complement each other and are inseparable.
Zuoquan small-flower opera performance form for the side of the song and dance, there is a song on the dance, there is a dance on the song, to sing the performance of the characters, to dance to express the feelings of the meaning of the song to sing loudly, but also to dance twisted flexible, but also the play wonderful, this very comprehensive aesthetic requirements limit the small-flower opera script can not be too long, so the length of the traditional small-flower opera script are generally very short. Later, in order to adapt to the performance requirements of a slightly longer script, the singing method was reformed, with the addition of backing singers, helpers, chorus and other singing styles. The custom of Lantern Festival around Zuoquan has been continued until now, and most villages hold the Lantern Festival on the 14th or 17th day of the first month. or 17? , fifteen, sixteen three-night "lantern", a variety of social fires to participate in street performances, "lantern" after the end of the small flower show on stage, three consecutive nights, performing nearly two hours each night, while requiring the program can not be duplicated. Sixteen, seventeen is between the village social fire exchange performance, eighteen county cultural performances, daytime parade, the night in the temporary stage race performance.
When the Zuoquan small flower opera ready to perform officially before, must first visit the village temple. When visiting the temple, it is divided into two parts: rituals and performances. Early in the morning on the 15th day of the first month, the flower opera team returned to the village temple to worship. Inside the temple, there will be "Three Sacrifices" (Three Sacrifices in the offering must be male; the horns of cattle, horses and sheep need to be complete; pigs must be black, sheep must be white) and other tributes, and the Taoist priest of the temple will preside over the rituals, and the rituals will begin. First by the village head to the God incense, three kneeling and nine kowtow rituals, and then by the flower theater team in turn into the offerings, incense, three worship and nine kowtow rituals. Sacrifice is completed in front of the temple performance Zuoquan small flower opera. Before the performance, there is also a ceremony. First of all, from the main hall to invite out of the God's tablets, ceremonies, and then by the martial arts social fire to open the way, the God's tablets, ceremonies escorted to the performance site. In the morning at six o'clock, the salute cannon three times, the show began. First by the gongs and drums to open the way, the ceremonial weapon first, there are pairs of incense streamers, blue dragon and white tiger flag, dragon fan, the emperor card, gold melon, vis-à-vis the axe, stirrups half towards the sky towards the imperial chariot. Next is the yellow umbrella under the sedan chair carrying the tablets of God, followed by the social fire team. After walking around the field in a circle, it began to perform Zuoquan small flower opera. At this time the small flower opera performers to perform, watching the public is also crowded, lively and extraordinary. After the performance of several classic small-flower opera "picking peppers", "building a road brother", it will be escorted by the Wushe fire will be the god's tablet, ceremonial weapons back to the temple.
After the ritual performances, the flower opera teams from each village first go from house to house in their own villages. When they arrive at a house, they will first beat a gong and drums, and if the family wants to see the performance, they will open the door and welcome them in; if they don't want to see the performance, they will close the door tightly, and then the flower troupe will re-enter the other house. These small flower opera team generally perform two traditional programs, after the show, watch the performance of the family will give these small flower opera team some cigarettes and wine, peanuts, melon seeds, flower opera team to take something to say some words of joy and good luck on the next to go to other homes in Zuoquan is called "string of households". After the string of villages, to the county administrative institutions to perform, and these institutions will give these flower opera team cash. A day down, these flower theater team can earn a lot of things, and so back to the village, they will be these properties to the people involved in the performance of equal shares.