The Lantern Festival Street Stomping
Jimo has a tradition of Lantern Festival on the 15th day of the first month. On this day, every house is decorated with lanterns and fireworks; people dressed in festive attire, flocked to the streets in groups to watch the folk performances of dragon lanterns, lion dances, stilts, rice-planting songs and other forms of song and dance, "Street Stomping" activities. In recent years, this traditional "street stepping" activities, has been a small-scale spontaneous folk scattered performances, developed into a large-scale organized grand festivals.
On the fifteenth day of the first month, the entire city of Jimo is filled with a festive atmosphere. Residents of the city and neighboring areas to sightseeing tourists more than 100,000 people, gathered in several major streets and the city government in front of the central venue around the spectacle of the magnificent waves of the "street" activities. Accompanied by the earth-shaking New Year gongs and drums and the melodious sound of the oboe sheng flute, a beautifully decorated ornate, colorful colorful car, carrying the image of modern corporate culture and traditional folk art interest, to the people slowly approaching. The colorful car that "double dragon soaring", "phoenix wings" beautiful shape, "aircraft in the air," "rocket to be launched" of the magnificent posture, as well as "investment, economic development," "revitalization of Jimo, science and education, agriculture," and other slogans and slogans glittering, everywhere flaunted since the reform and opening up of the prosperity of the situation and the grand blueprint of the Jimo economy once again to take off. Show folk songs and dances of the rice-planting team, stilt team, dry boat team singing and dancing, jumping with joy, people dance is a peaceful world, singing is the joy of the harvest." Pig Bajie back daughter-in-law", "ginger old back ginger old lady", "old matchmaker marriage", dress witty and funny, people can not stop laughing, the return of the "Tang Monk teacher and disciple" and smiling "Jigong living Buddha" looks elegant and courteous, can not stop to the audience along the way to bow to pay homage to the New Year, congratulations on the New Year. Children and young people performing the "big head doll dance" "children's drums", but also lively and cute childish fun. Lantern Festival parade and folk songs and dances, not only the traditional cultural flavor, but also has a modern flavor of life.
Tianheng Sacrifice to the Sea Folklore and Cultural Festival
Tianheng Sacrifice to the Sea Folklore and Cultural Festival is held on March 18 every year and lasts for three days.
The Tianheng Folk Festival has a history of more than 500 years. On the day of the festival, almost every house in Zhougezhuang Village is full of guests, and the whole village is bustling with people, full of a strong festive atmosphere. The temporary construction of a large pine door draped in color and red, looks magnificent, spectacular; beach banner (stand tassel) in the spring breeze fluttering; repair of the fishing boat posted on the auspicious couplets. A large East Beach is crowded with people. Dozens of "a" arranged tables, filled with three animals (whole pig, whole chicken, whole fish) and carefully made noodles, birthday peach pastries and other offerings, especially the dozens of shaved bright red flowers on the whole pig and the production of peacocks on the birthday peach "peacock", "Lotus Fairy", "Carp Leaping Dragon Gate" and other unique handicrafts, attracting people's admiration for a long time. ...... Surrounded by a sea of people, drummers and gong players dressed in classical costumes put on a joyful drum and gong show. In the crowded surroundings, dressed in classical costumes, drums and gongs, the cheerful drums and gongs to vibrate the earth, running dry boat, stilt walkers, twisting rice-planting songs, cheering and jumping, lively and extraordinary, joyful atmosphere like the surge of spring tide, a wave higher than a wave. With the sacrificial ceremony presided over by a command, the beach, fishing boats, hundreds of thousands of firecrackers in order to ignite, thunderous firecrackers accompanied by resounding drums and gongs, resonating throughout the Harbor, the festival of the sea (on the Internet) Festival to a climax. In recent years, under the leadership of the town government and cultural departments, the sea festival has evolved into the largest sea festival in the northern region of China from the spontaneous formation of a fishing village - Zhougezhuang village folk rituals; in the form of traditional sacrifices to the gods has evolved into a series of folk cultural connotations and a series of folk cultural activities of the grand festival - "Tianheng Sea Folk Festival The festival has evolved from a traditional festival of the gods to a grand festival with rich folk cultural connotations and a series of folk cultural activities - "Tianheng Sea Festival Folklore Festival".
In order to further promote the excellent national culture, promote marine folk tourism and economic and trade investment activities, and strive to meet the spiritual and cultural needs of the people, "Tianheng Sacrifice of the Sea Folklore and Culture Festival" is now organized by the Tianheng Town People's Government, Qingdao Museum of Folklore, the Jimo Municipal Bureau of Culture, the Jimo Municipal Bureau of Tourism*** with the planning of the organization. The festival is organized by Qingdao Folk Museum, Jimo Cultural Bureau and Jimo Tourism Bureau. *** organization of more than ten large-scale cultural activities, mainly: the grand ceremony, folk culture set, painting and calligraphy photography street exhibition, on-site painting and calligraphy performances, folk dance parade, martial arts magic show, riddles with prizes quiz, peace singing opera, seascape fireworks, cockfighting, meat and potatoes face painting competition and exhibition, folk photography invitational, a wide range of commodities trading, and so on.
Mashan Cultural Tourism Hill
Mashan temple fair has a long history, and will be more than in Jimo when the first. Among them are the 16th day of the first month of the Lunar New Year Dawang Temple Fair, March 28th Tianqi Temple Fair, September 9th Jade Emperor Temple Fair, and the most grand is the June 28th Baiyunan Temple Fair.
The 28th day of the 6th lunar month is the day when the Ming Guangzong Emperor gave the name "Zen Master Huijue" to the Taoist." Huijue Zen Master" is the Ming Dynasty Mashan Donglu Shandong village people, surnamed Liu, the name of Zhenjie (word Hengqing), the end of the Wanli, by the edict of Emperor Shenzong of the Ming Dynasty, into the Beijing Sermon. Chongzhen years, back to the White Cloud nunnery discipleship sermon. Later, people in honor of her, spontaneous June 28 this day as a temple fair, so far there has been more than 300 years of history.
After the reform and opening up, in order to carry forward the traditional culture of the nation, in line with public opinion, the temple fair was restored, and will be officially named "Qingdao Mashan Cultural Tourism Hill Fair", the period from the lunar calendar June 26 to 28, for three days.
Today's mountain fair by the past superstitious colorful folk temple, into a cultural stage tourism singing cultural tourism mountain fair. Mountain will be mainly tourism, highlighting the geological and scientific culture of Mashan and ethnic and religious cultural characteristics. Religious (Taoist) activities to gather immortal Palace, Baiyunan for the official activities of the place, and have a full-time clergy to live.
During each mountain festival, there are professional and folk cultural groups performing wonderful drama, opera, song and dance, acrobatics and other cultural programs in the square in front of the statue of Imo Dafu.
Tianjing Mountain Temple Fair
Tianjing Mountain Temple Fair, because of its rich traditional folk culture connotation and many beautiful folk legends, attracts many visitors. Every year on the thirteenth day of the sixth month of the lunar calendar (legend has it that this day is the birthday of the "Black Dragon King"), guests from near and far come in droves.
The past Tianjing Mountain temple fair, superstitious color is relatively strong. People are grateful to the "Black Dragon King" rain, blessing the township, the merits of the four directions, held every year a grand scale of the temple fair. Catch the party in front of the band to open the way, people holding flags and umbrellas and fans, with eight sedan chair carrying the "Black Dragon King" statue, the wind, thunder, clouds, rain messengers and a variety of ceremonial weapons followed closely behind. Mountain down the hustle and bustle, the Dragon God Shrine in front of the smoke, good men and women shoulder to shoulder, followed by a grand sacrificial ceremony.
Now the temple fair, in addition to the traditional folk activities, gradually filled with the new culture of the times, the city and foreign cultural and artistic groups competing to come here to perform, vendors are the news of the influx of tens of thousands of visitors to the hill into a traditional folk activities and modern culture and entertainment combined with the big stage.
Tokyo Mountain Temple
Tokyo Mountain, located in the east of Aoshanwei Town, because there is a huge rock on the mountain is shaped like an eagle's beak, so it is also known as "eagle's beak mountain". This mountain is facing the Aoshan Bay, west and east of Laoshan Xiuheshan adjacent to the beautiful scenery, sea light and mountain color is unique. The annual temple fair, more this hill adds a beautiful scenery.
Tokyo Mountain, "Fox Fairy Temple", was built more than a hundred years ago. Legend has it that the "Fox Fairy" here is extremely spiritual and can answer any request. Every year, the first day of the first month, the twentieth day of the first month, the third day of the third month, the sixth day of the sixth month, the ninth day of the ninth month of September is the day of the temple fair. The temple fair on the twentieth day of the first month is the most popular. From the early hours of the morning, there are tourists on the mountain, plus vendors and foreign tourists, up to 50,000 people a day, can be called a sea of people.
Jimo Liuqiang
Jimo Liuqiang is an old local theater, which began in the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, evolved on the basis of the widely circulated "Benjiao Drums" in Shandong Province, originated from the Gu River basin in the western part of the city, and is popular in the Jiaodong region, with a history of more than 200 years.
In the early days of Liuqiang, the form of singing was very simple, and the instruments used were only a gong, a tambourine and a bamboo board. Later, influenced by the "four-stringed ditty", it began to use the "four-stringed huqin'er" accompaniment. When the strings were first used, the pulling and singing were not coordinated, so the artists slipped upwards with them, which was jokingly called "slipping cavity", and later the artists found it indecent, so they borrowed the homophonic characters and named it "Liu Cavity". From then on, the willow cavity as a kind of theater, on the popular stage in Jimo. The repertoire of Liuqiang is mostly traditional folk stories which are popular among the common people, and the dialogues are in Jimo dialect, and the tunes are in the form of happy tune, sad tune, palletizing plate, slow plate, counting plate, nanluo, and doll's voice. The singing is euphemistic and delicate, beautiful and fluent, the language is funny and vivid, and the performance is simple and unadorned, with a strong local color and a strong flavor of local life, which is loved by the masses. Especially in the "four-stringed huqin children" melodious melody accompanied by the Liu cavity, plus the unique upward turn high 8 degrees or 6 degrees of the end of the "hook cavity", listening to the sound is really curling up and around the beam of three turns, so that generations of the hometown fathers and mothers obsessed with it.
After the founding of the country, the willow cavity has been highly valued by the party and the government, Jimo County in 1956 set up a professional "Jimo willow cavity troupe". After the old and new artists to explore, organize and innovation, so that the willow cavity whether in the performance repertoire, or singing style, musical accompaniment and song, have reached an unprecedented degree of perfection, at the same time, also ushered in the heyday of the development of the willow cavity art career. 1959, Qingdao City, the willow cavity troupe was invited to Beijing, and three times into the South China Sea Huairen Hall, to the central leadership and the theater industry celebrities and the capital people to report on the performance of "cut robe", "Zhao Mei" and "the". Cutting Robe", "Zhao Meirong Watching the Lamp" and other plays, which were a great success. The actors and actresses were cordially received and warmly encouraged by the Party and state leaders, such as Liu Shaoqi, Zhou Enlai, Zhu De, Chen Yi, etc., and were affirmed and praised by a large number of cultural celebrities, such as Guo Moruo, Tian Han, Laoshe, Mei Lanfang, etc. The performance was also recognized and praised by the Beijing Daily, Guangming Daily and the Beijing Newspaper. Beijing Daily, Guangming Daily, Wen Wei Po, China Youth Daily, Drama News and other newspapers and magazines have published commentaries on the Liuqiang gave a high evaluation of the Liuqiang, the Liuqiang known as "the flower of Jiaodong". Since then, Jimo willow cavity of this small local theater, with her unique artistic charm, famous throughout the country. Former Minister of Culture Huang Zhen, Zhu Muzhi also visited Jimo, after watching the performance of the willow cavity troupe, highly evaluated the artistry and ornamental nature of the Jimo willow cavity. The famous poet He Jingzhi also wrote a wonderful poem "Drinking old spills with a cup of Tian Shan, and listening to the sound of willow in the countryside of drunkenness" after watching the performance of Jimo Willow Cavity.
Over the years, Jimo willow cavity troupe has a large number of excellent plays and outstanding actors won awards, including the willow cavity "Wang San sells fish", was produced by Qingdao Television TV opera film, won the 1985 China's first opera TV film "Eagle Elephant Award" second prize. Because of the willow cavity has a strong artistic infectious force and a broad mass base, Jimo City, in addition to professional willow cavity troupe, many villages have amateur willow cavity troupe.
Jimo Nine Lion Dance
Nine Lion Dance is a folk art of Jimo. It was created and choreographed by Jimo folk artists in 1924, and was first performed in Jimo City during the Lantern Festival in the following year, and was well received by the public. Since then, it has been preserved as a traditional folk dance program.
The lineup of the Nine Lion Dance consists of 12 people and 9 lion props, of which 4 people hold 2 "mother lions", 7 people each hold a "son lion", and 1 person holds an embroidered ball to lure the lions to dance. Groups of lions dance, with the joyful and exciting accompaniment of gongs and drums, 7 "son of the lion" around the 2 "lioness" with the beat, jumping and jumping, sometimes rolling pouncing on the ball play, sometimes swinging his head and twisting his waist, every move of the real lions of the ferocious habits of the fierce and robust performance of the best, it is marvelous to see.
The performance form of the nine lions is divided into two parts: "Walking Street" and "Circle". Walking street" for the marching dance, in the process of walking to perform "dragon tail", "twisting rope", "double pair of lions" and other actions." Round field" is a local performance, mainly "four door fight", "embroidered ball play lion", "group of lions pouncing on the ball" and other dance movements.
Jimo Drums
Jimo Drums, which was created in the early years of the Republic of China by a blind artist from Jimo, is a combination of three forms of music and art that have been passed down in the folklore of Jimo, namely, "Xiemen Drums", "Gaomen Fisherman's Drums", and "Limen Bam Bam", and was created through the integration of the three forms of music and art. The singing voice is beautiful and full of flavor, the accompaniment is pleasant and melodious, the language is interesting and vivid, and the sung books and chapters are compact and full of suspense, with strong artistic contagiousness. After several generations of artists innovation and development, so that this form of art is increasingly rich and perfect.
The Jimo drums are a branch of the "Donglu School", which adopts a falling zither accompaniment, and the words are sung in a rhythmic manner, and the singing voice has three kinds, namely, "slow plate", "four or six", and "fast plate". The performance form is based on singing, with commentary, which is inherited from the characteristics of the Donglu drums, and is based on the use of the Jimo dialect with a slight Anhui accent.
Jimo Yangge
Jimo Yangge was active in urban and rural folk as early as the Ming and Qing Dynasties, and it has been performed by village Yangge teams in the streets and lanes during farming, New Year's festivals and temple festivals, especially during the Lantern Festival in the first month of the lunar calendar, and has continued to this day.
Jimo Yangge is divided into two schools, the East and the West, in terms of performance style. The eastern coastal area for the eastern school, the eastern school of dance movements blended with martial arts style, characterized by song and dance, the scene of joyful and enthusiastic, dance formations clever and varied, action rough and bold, robust and powerful. Western Wagozhuang, Liujiazhuang area for the Western School, the Western School is characterized by singing the main charming and colorful, light and supple song and dance small sections, movement is delicate and smooth, witty and humorous.
The overall performance form of Jimo Yangge is divided into two types: the "big field" and the "small field." The "big field" performances are organized into two categories. The performance lineup of the "big field" usually consists of 9-12 people, including 4 "flower pulling women" with flamboyant outfits, "cargo man" and "matchmaker" with comical and ridiculous outfits, as well as 2 martial arts students dressed as "money poking stick" and "mallet" with scarves on their heads, which are dressed in different outfits and distinctive roles, and are under the unified on-the-spot direction of the "anointed guest", the leader of dancers, who takes umbrella as a standard and rattling bells as a signal, and constantly changes the formation and intermixes and interlaces with each other to run the field. In the process of changing the formation pattern, the unique pace of Yangge is used to show various dance movements, and according to the adjustment of the tempo, as well as the amusing gags of each character, a cheerful and lively scene is shown. At the same time, in the intervals of running, by the soul of the field "anointed guest", improvisation and play self-singing Yangge tunes, most of these small sections of the voice and feelings, so people enjoy." Small field" is commonly known as storytelling, generally by 3-5 people staged some of the songs and dances have a storyline of the small paragraph.
The accompaniment of Jimo Yangge is composed of percussion and orchestral music. Percussion is usually used in the "big field" accompaniment, orchestral music is usually used in the "small field" accompaniment, the main instruments are erhu, suona, sheng and so on. Its main music, "Catch the Temple", "Yangge Songs", "Dry Boat Tune" was included in the "Shandong Folk Songs Anthology".