People Dragon Dance, known as the soul of Leizhou Peninsula folk dance, its rhythmic, strong drums, majestic, inspiring. Leizhou Peninsula existing Donghai Island Dragon Dance and Shentang Dragon Dance.
Donghai Island Dragon Dance is a large square dance. The dance is prevalent in Dongshan Town of Donghai Island.
Dongshan Town is located in the center of the island and has always been a military stronghold. Every year on the 15th day of the eighth month of the lunar calendar, the town's east and west streets "human dragon dance" will be devoted to perform three consecutive nights, attracting the island, the people outside the island to come to watch. The Human Dragon Dance originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At that time, Zhu Yu Song, King of Fu led his remaining south, ready to Hainan to establish a base to fight against the Qing Dynasty and restore the Ming Dynasty. Legend has it that the 15th of August went to the place. In order to enable the soldiers to have a good Mid-Autumn Festival, the local squires organized a kind of juggling circulating among the children to perform. From this time, the Human Dragon Dance began to be gradually stereotyped, and has developed into what it is today. The Human Dragon Dance flourished during the Qianlong and Jiaqing years of the Qing Dynasty. Qing Yongzheng ten years, Leizhou garrison division moved to Dongshan Wei, renamed Dongshan Shui Shi Battalion, there are 253 officers and soldiers, and in the Dongshan Wei has a martial arts examination center. Since then, Dongshan Wei was able to develop rapidly. At that time, Dongshan Wei East and West Street each has a human dragon dance team. The examination of Wu Xiu Cai was usually set on August 15th. So, people watched the martial arts test during the day, and watched the "human dragon dance" at night, and the two human dragon dance teams also started the skill competition with each other. For a time, Dongshan Wei lively. In this way, year after year, the convention, the human dragon dance has been dancing to the present day, everlasting.
It is traditionally performed on the seashore, pueblo streets, and the traditional performance time is the 15th day of the 8th month of the lunar calendar. Only in recent years, only out of the island, gradually into the "square" and the stage, the performance time is no longer limited to the 15th of August, as long as there are festivals or major celebrations, it will dance.
The reason why the human dragon dance is called "human dragon" is because the performance of the "dragon" all composed of people, rather than with objects. The dragon body is huge and long, generally composed of 50 or 60 people, some up to hundreds of people, majestic and spectacular. The "human dragon" is divided into "dragon head", "dragon body", "dragon tail" three parts. The "dragon's head" includes three parts: the dragon's tongue, the dragon's eyes and the dragon's horns. These three parts are played by three small children. The person who plays the dragon's head has to carry these three small children at the same time, and hold two shields with both hands at the same time. Therefore, the player must be tall and strong, with good basic skills and skillful performance techniques. The "dragon body" is the main part of the dragon, and each adult's shoulder supports the children who do the tilting motion one after another. The children are dressed in dragon costumes and wear dragon tassels and crowns on their heads, which are connected in sections. "The adult at the end of the dragon also carries a child on his shoulder. When the "human dragon" dances, it is accompanied rhythmically by gongs, drums and other percussion instruments, and the child who plays the role of the dragon's head holds up a lantern or flashlight to show that the dragon's eyes are shining. The body of the dragon is circling left and right, undulating up and down, and as the dragon head advances slowly, the tail of the dragon also swings left and right with the formation. The whole human dragon performs with majesty, grandeur and enthusiasm, with a strong local flavor. In recent years, some local artists have reformed and processed the structure, steps, gestures, music and rhythm of the Dragon Dance, forming the "Dragon", "Dragon Nodding", "Dragon through the Clouds", "Dragon through the Clouds", and "Dragon Dance".
Shenyang Dance is a perfect performance program, which is known as one of the best dances in the East China Sea, and it has been reformed and processed to form "starting the dragon", "dragon nodding", "dragon through the clouds", "dragon rolls the waves", and so on.
Shentang human dragon dance (original type) originated in the Qing Jiaqing years (1523), Shentang villagers to celebrate the local official Chen Shikai new Shentang Wei and the beginning of the human dragon (Chen Shikai Gong is a bachelor's degree, rich Leiyang, the Royal Decree to go to Anhui Province, Lingshi County as a Prime Minister's Office of the governor, the fall full).
In the Mid-Autumn Festival on the 15th and 16th of August this two days in the dike street revelry,, forgetting to put a friend lift on their shoulders, lying shoulder hand holding the latter's feet, feet clip the former's neck, by and by, lifting.
"Dragon head" by the strong and sturdy students to take charge, choose a lively and cute little boy with a red silk belt tied to the chest of the dragon head, will be lit incense so that the little boy's mouth to bite one for the "dragon tongue", each hand holding a piece of incense for the "dragon's eye". "dragon eyes".
Another small boy riding on the shoulders of the dragon, both hands holding a stick of incense for the "dragon corner", "Dragon Tail" is backed by the dragon's feet, a light, waist strength of a good little boy, hands together a handful of incense waving out of the dragon's tail shape, attracting dragons with a lighted incense inserted in the hat for the "Dragon Pearl", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail", "Dragon Tail". "dragon pearl", so that the formation of Shentang's "human dragon dance" predecessor, it does not disguise, not dressed in costume, the length of the people by the people, to the people for fun.
For hundreds of years, it has been practiced to this day.
In the construction of a harmonious society today, Zhanjiang, Leizhou attach great importance to the construction of folk culture. And Shentang for the excavation of the nearly five hundred years of traditional cultural heritage, to create a cultural brand, so, breaking the old form, from clothing to action in all aspects of the folk art without changing the original flavor on the basis of a new rehearsal "human dragon dance" guidance, so that it blends the power, art, dynamism in one!
Now Leizhou Shentang human dragon dance has been included in the "Guangdong Province, intangible cultural heritage" list, and will spare no effort for the declaration of "world intangible cultural heritage"! Dance Eagle Xiong is the people of Zhanjiang in the long-term labor practice, based on martial arts and dance, imitating the eagle, Xiong fight with each other to get along with the movements of the demeanor and created a set of traditional folk art, circulating in Lianjiang City, Xinhua, Heti, Anpu and other places.
"Dancing Eagle and Male" the whole dance has a strong plot. The general idea is that the Buddha with a big belly came from the sky to the jungle in the north of Leizhou Peninsula. The little monkey in the forest leads him on a sightseeing tour through the forest. When they came to a certain place, they saw that the eagle and the male were sleeping soundly. At this time, the little monkey playful, he signaled the Buddha hidden behind the tree, he was in the eagle and male head respectively, knocked, the eagle and the male woke up, mistakenly thought it was the other side in the teasing themselves. So, there was a fight. In the fight for the head, the two sides, respectively, with their own tricks to the other side of the attack. Later, a group of eagles joined the battle. Seeing the fire burning more and more hot, Big Belly Buddha rushed out to tell the truth, the monkey apologized to both sides, so, the war for peace, the two sides shook hands, the forest appeared in the situation of harmony. This story contains the people of the masses for the stability, peace and happiness of life's yearning, longing and good wishes.
The eagle's shape is characterized by a sharp beak, broad wings, sharp claws, and a smart and courageous image. The male made into a dragon head, phoenix tail, money leopard body, unicorn horn, appearing strong and powerful. The performance routines are: Wake up the eagle male, fighting four doors (spring, summer, autumn, winter or east, south, west, north), wash your face and rinse your mouth, crossing the bridge, picking the ground green, picking the sky green and so on. Among them, Cai Tianqing action thrilling, playing the role of eagle actors in the absence of any protective measures, crouching on a high pole, and then, the crowd pushed up the vertical, showing the "eagle strikes the sky," the spectacular scene. The most difficult, is the climax of the whole dance.
According to the villagers Chen Zhaoming said, about the Qing Dynasty Xianfeng years, two beach dike around the activities of the Dancing Eagle Xiong. But it was always just a dance on the ground. Passed to the 1940s, Liang Rongzhang in the original basis, created a 4-meter-high wooden pole, the eagle performers on top of the air, without any protective measures, the use of abdominal force, belly top wooden pole, do high altitude balanced spinning and picking up the green of the difficult skills, greatly improving the performance level of the Dance of the Eagle Xiong.
Zhuyuan Village, the current eagle team leader is Liang Rongzhang's son Liang Baochen, now 63 years old. 1988, he led the team's first double eagle on the pole to pick the green, and the height of the pole from his father's generation of 4 meters to 6 meters, so that the dance of the eagle Xiong more thrilling, exciting, and has a strong ornamental. He led this team has participated in the first and second Guangdong Provincial Folk Art Festival, was included in the "China National Folk Dance Integration" in Guangdong Province, Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture [1997] No. 52 "on the naming of the first batch of Guangdong Provincial National Folk Art Townships of the decision", Zhanjiang City, Lianjiang City, has been named the Xinhua Township of the Dance of the eagles! Xiong's hometown, the program has been broadcast on CCTV "East West, South South North" program.
(Reference February 10, 2002 "Zhanjiang Evening News") Piao color, clay sculpture, flower bridge, known as the three best of Wuchuan. If you look at the performance space, these three great things happen to account for all the water (Huaqiao), land (mud sculpture), air (floating color). The "three best" performance is in the Lantern Festival every year. At that time, the streets and alleys of Wuchuan, crowded everywhere, known as "Wuchuan Carnival". It is because of this comprehensive three-dimensional "three great", Wuchuan City was named by the State Ministry of Culture as China's folk art township.
According to evidence, the floating color is said to have originated in Panyu, and was introduced to Wuchuan City in the late Qing Dynasty. Since the city's municipal government is located in Meilac, the floating color is actually prevalent in Meilac town.
The so-called "floating color" is an ornately decorated "color board" pushed by a number of people, on which figures in fixed positions are arranged. It is said that the first floating color originated in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, has gone through the "turn color", "board color" two stages. Turning the color is in the middle of the wheelbarrow to install a wooden and iron shaft, and then put a piece of the middle can be rotated in the middle of the board with holes, one or two dressed up in a variety of shapes of the characters (these characters are called "Demon color") standing on this board. In the case of Bansei, the characters are fixed to the "color stage", and the costumes are more ornate, and the number of characters has increased to four. Piu Sai was finalized in 1930, when Chen Chi-Heng, a veteran artist, changed the color stalks into iron rods, which made Piu Sai look gorgeous and magical at the same time. Most of the characters in Piao Si come from the traditional dramas that are well known and loved by the public, and some of them are famous characters with great influence in the local community. There are many kinds of floating colors, which can be divided into water colors, car colors, boat colors and so on according to different positions. Wuchuan floating color belongs to the "car color", that is, after the child makeup into a theater character, fixed in a cart more than two meters on the high bar. A cart is called "a board". If a board consists of several characters, it is called "several floats". Such as a board a person, it is called "a Peopeo", now the most has reached a board "six Peopeo". For the sake of the beauty of modeling, the characters will stand at different levels in the multi-drift performance. The performance is mainly in the form of a parade, with three or five people pushing a cart, setting up gongs and drums on the cart, and beating the gongs and drums during the march. "Piao color" of the best is that, due to the use of superior hidden methods, in the eyes of outsiders, those characters are standing in a sword tip or a fishing rod, more surprisingly, many characters are even standing in the body of live animals (such as chickens, fish, etc.). Because of the "disguise" is very clever, it is difficult for the general public to see the mystery. Some Americans call the floating color "hidden art".
Piu Sai performances most of the time with competition, a street and a street race, a village and a village race, a town and a town race. This makes the atmosphere very warm during the whole performance. Coupled with the red and green streets and the laughter everywhere, the whole town of Meilac is immersed in a festive and auspicious atmosphere.
In the past, the color was usually played by adult women, but now it is mostly children around 10 years old in disguise. In terms of craftsmanship, Piao Si has also developed from simple carpentry into a comprehensive craft, with the help of modern means, film, theater, magic, acrobatics and so on.
The representative team of Wuchuan Piao Si is the Meiluodacao Piao Si team. This team has participated in some performances at home and abroad for many times and won many honors.
According to the Records of Wuchuan County, Wuchuan Clay Sculpture originated from Wayao Village in Meilac Town. Wayao Village began in the Tang Dynasty, the founding ancestor surnamed Liao, migrated from Shiwan, Foshan. Liao brought with him the Shiwan ceramic craft. Around the middle of the Tang Dynasty, during the Lantern Festival, a potter casually pinched a small clay figure, which attracted many people to come and watch, and many potters followed suit. Since then, the clay sculpture of this folk art continues. During the Hongwu period of Ming Dynasty, the emperor often sent people to search for beautiful women everywhere, which triggered the dissatisfaction of the people. The people of Meilac Village took the opportunity of the Lantern Festival to build a set of exaggerated clay sculptures of the emperor and the empress and put them on the street to make fun of the emperor. Since then, the local people to build mud sculpture, see mud sculpture, evaluation of mud sculpture more enthusiasm and interest.
Clay sculpture is mainly based on ancient mythological stories and historical opera characters such as Pangu opened up the sky and earth, Nuwa refining stone to mend the sky, the Eight Immortals across the sea, Chang'e Run to the Moon and so on. Clay sculpture process has also experienced the development of "earth" to "foreign" stage of development and change. In the past, it is with straw, bamboo scorn tied tightly to tree poles as a clay sculpture of the support, and now it is with iron wire tie steel bars. People also borrow modern sound and light means, secretly set up some organs, so that the mud sculpture can be shaken, swinging head, up and down movement.
About the origin of Huaqiao, it is said that it is related to the celebration of the Lantern Festival. The people of Hai Village, which is only one river away from the town of Meiluac, flocked to the town to celebrate the Lantern Festival on the fifteenth day of the first month, and the people of the town also went to the town to burn firecrackers at night in large groups. Transition to and from all rely on small boats, very inconvenient. Ming Dynasty Wanli years, the local spring drought, the river fell, the river narrowed. On the eve of the Lantern Festival, across the sea village villagers Lv Guang, Lv You brothers are determined to take advantage of this rare opportunity to build a bridge to facilitate the two sides of the residents to walk. So, they borrowed all the pork stalls in the town of Meiluac, and built a simple bridge for people to cross the river safely and happily to celebrate the Lantern Festival in the village. In order to beautify the bridge, the Lu brothers also placed flowers on both sides of the bridge. The following year, the sea across the villagers were inspired to rent dozens of wooden boats, connected, set up a pontoon bridge, the bridge covered with an arched canopy, the canopy is installed on the lights, dotted with flowers on both sides, known as the "Flower Bridge". Later, people also built a statue of Goddess of Mercy at one end of the flower bridge, want to give birth to a child on the bridge to pick a flower, to the Goddess of Mercy in front of a worship. Flowers can not be picked indiscriminately, want to give birth to a boy, to pick white flowers; want to give birth to a girl, we must pick red flowers. In addition, there are vendors selling mushrooms and lettuce at the end of the bridge to attract customers. It is said that if you buy mushrooms, you will get a boy; if you buy lettuce, you will get rich.
Huaqiao has been preserved as a traditional custom until now. Nowadays, in addition to flowers and colorful lanterns, calligraphy and painting exhibitions have been added to the bridge, adding a lot of cultural flavor to the ancient folklore. The "eight tones" is a collective name for ancient Chinese musical instruments. The "Anpu Banyin" refers to a kind of instrumental music performance art that has been passed down in the ancient town of Anpu, which has a history of more than 80 years. It is recorded that Li Yuanming, a music enthusiast of Anpu, reformed and innovated the ancient "eight tones" by adopting local characteristic folk instruments and using local traditional folk music tunes such as "Reporting Spring", "Little Peach Blossom" and "Wave Rogue Sand" as the concerto. These ethnic instruments include: one each of hand bells, small button gongs, small money, wooden fish, qingpan, brake plate, small drum, one each of horizontal Xiao, hole Xiao, big tube, one each of gaohu, erxian, sanxian, shenhu, pipa, two each of coconut hu, yueqin, qinqin and **** 21 pieces. The Anpu Bayin team consists of 21 people and performs mostly in street parades. The performances of Anpu Bayin are mostly held during the Lantern Festival and Dragon Boat Race at the Dragon Boat Festival every year. At these times, the performers wear long shirts and coats, each holding a musical instrument and marching in a line. The sound player walks at the head of the line, followed by the player who plays the Xiaoqin. The instruments are decorated with colorful bands, ribbons, and pom-poms, making them a spectacular sight. Between the march, Shan Shan step, walking slowly, the sound of floating, haunting the sky. On both sides of the street, the spectators are like a jam, men and women, young and old, rejoicing.
(Source reference "on the culture of Zhanjiang") Nuo dance is an ancient mask dance, known as the "living fossil of dance". Zhanjiang Nuo dance, also known as go into the devourer, is imported from the Central Plains and southern Fujian, mainly popular in Leizhou City, attached to the city, Songzhu, Nanxing, Yangjia, Baisha, Hakka Road and other towns. It is held on the 15th or 16th day of the first month of every year, or on the birthday of the gods. The main purpose is to drive away evil and disaster, pray for peace, welcome auspicious blessings. Nuo dance modeling, showing rough, solemn and majestic. Mask is a whole piece of camphor wood carving and become, color to black, red, yellow-based, simple and exaggerated lines, bright and harmonious colors. Mask modeling martial arts phase bold and unrestrained, rough and fierce, literary phase dignified and handsome, imposing.
Nuo ritual activities are set up by the Taoist priests in front of the temple altar, to the gods burning candles, incense, burning paper treasure, for three animals. Then issued orders, issued a charm, honoring the five-color flag team, eight treasures, floating color, gongs and drums class, Nuo dance team and other road troops to the altar in front of Zazhai practice, and then to each household to drive away the ghosts and evil spirits, blessing of peace. After the God tour. Swimming God team swarmed to the village and town landlord jurisdiction realm of worship. After the tour, the team returned to the temple square, once again held a ceremony to honor the gods, the entire event publicity end.
Nuo dance with percussion instruments are mainly drums, high side of the gong, steel gall bladder and other three, individual large gongs, cymbals and suona.
In recent years, due to this activity has a strong feudal superstition, many places have stopped such activities.
(Information reference "Leizhou Legend") Kaobing dance circulated in the Ma Zhang District, Hukuang Town, the old county village, Dongling Village area, is a large square dance, belongs to Nuo dance in a kind of. Local villagers in the first month of every year on the fifteenth day of the festival, the villagers beat gongs and drums, jumping up the "Kaobing" dance, to show that "driving away ghosts and epidemics, repatriation of disasters and blessings". According to the compilation of the Qing Jiaqing years, "Leizhou Prefecture" records: since the twelfth day from the day of the lights, even to the fifteenth night, each colorful lanterns or three or four hundred for a team, or five or six hundred for a team, set off firecrackers, burning fireworks, make-up ghosts and judgment of the miscellaneous plays. Silk bamboo gongs and drums played repeatedly, tourists up to dawn, the city for the most, the townships between the polder, is said to exorcise, called遣灾, but also to the twenty-eighth or February 12 is exorcising the ......
Old County Village "test soldiers" ritual activities are divided into six sections: test soldiers, spreading food, Expedition, rolling bed of thorns, send Ding blessing, paper boat disaster. The dance is led by a dance leader from the morning until the eleventh hour of the evening.
Nuo dance in the village of Dongling called "test soldiers", or "practice" and "exorcism", by "car", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat", "wheat" and "wheat". "," Mai "," Li "," Liu "and" Hong "five generals ("). Villagers also known as the "Fierce General") and the landlord, the landlady, legend has it that these five generals are the Northern Song Dynasty against the Liao generals under the banner of Kang Huang. It is understood that Zhanjiang Dongling Village Nuo dance is by its ancestors in the Song Dynasty from the north moved to Fujian Putian, Ming Dynasty into Zhanjiang, the end of the Ming Dynasty settled here, Kaobing Nuo's masks in the late Ming and early Qing dynasty carving, so far there have been more than 400 years, Nuo Nuo masks are usually preserved in the Linggang Temple.
In March 1999, the Yangcheng Evening News since the full-page report on the village along the long history of Dongling, known as "the living fossil of the history of dance" of the "Dongling Nuo dance" (Yangcheng Evening News on March 6, 1999, the eighth edition of the visual news), the village and Dongling Nuo Dongling dance has been a wide range of cross-strait attention. Nearly a decade, many experts, professors, literati and journalists have traveled to the village to visit, interviews and photography. 1992, Dongling Nuo dance was approved by the national key scientific research project "Chinese folk dance integration. Guangdong volume" book, attracting attention at home and abroad.
November 2001 in Taiwan, "Folklore" published an academic paper "Zhanjiang City, Hukuang Township, Dongling village of Kaobing Nuo". Sun Yat-sen University, China's intangible cultural heritage research center director Professor Kang Baocheng has also been to the village of Dongling field trip, the phenomenon of Nuo dance research. In addition, Dongling Village "Kaobing" Nuo dance five generals of the mask image was once adopted by the Guangdong Provincial Telecommunications Co., Ltd. printed in the 200 phone card to do the cover. 2007 April "Kaobing" Nuo dance was included in the Zhanjiang City, the first batch of intangible cultural heritage representative directory. In January 2008, Dongling Nuo dance team was also named the most dynamic folk art team in Zhanjiang.
Now Leizhou Peninsula, Leizhou City, Nanxing Town, Songzhu Town; Xuwen County, Dahuang Township; Lianjiang City, Shijiao Township, Shidong Village; hemp chapter Hukuang Township, Hukuang Township, the old county village, East Ridge Village, and other places are still inherited the Nuo dance ritual tradition. At present, Ma Zhang District, Hukuang Town, the old county village, Dongling Village, "Kaobing" dance in 1992 by the provincial, municipal, suburban culture compiled into a booklet with sheet music, modeling, props, action, illustration, field notes, etc., as well as instructions, artistic profile, were selected by the Central Ministry of Culture compiled into the "China National Dance Integration - Guangdong Volume". Pixi Dance is a folk square festive dance unique to Meiluo Town, Wuchuan City. Pixi is a fierce beast in folklore, which is said to be more powerful than lion. The story of brave and the dance of brave have been passed down in Meilac Town, Wuchuan City for a long time.
The Pixi Dance consists of dozens of people using shields to support each other, built into a 3-tier human tower. The first layer consists of 28 big men forming the bottom layer, then 8 people stacked into the second layer, and 8 people forming the third layer. Pixie (played by 2 people) from the human ladder to the top of the "tower", dancing on it, picking green. During the dance, the tower slowly rotates and moves to the rhythm of the gongs and drums. The dance is accompanied by gongs and drums, and the movements are light, soft, slow, sharp, strong and powerful, from the appearance of bravery, pouncing on food, rolling, scratching, playing in the water to climbing to the top of the tower to collect green. The whole set of movements includes braves crossing the mountain, crossing the bridge, going up the small hill, stacking the cards on the mountain, going up the card mountain and so on. The style of the dance is rigid-flexible, rigid-based, through the human body stacked, high-altitude dance play, the use of acrobatic performance skills, so that the sense of dance space greatly increased, and has the characteristics of strange, dangerous, interesting. Leizhou stone dog, is a stone art.
According to "Leizu Zhi" records, Leizhou is the birthplace of the ancient southern barbarians, "the old Yao, boy, Dong, bureaucrats and Li" and other ethnic minorities living in, which the Yao will be regarded as a "totem" of the dog.
In the Tang Dynasty, the birth of Leizu Chen Wenyu is rumored to be because of the discovery of the nine-eared dog; there is a legend of the origin of the name "Leizhou" is the discovery of the nine-eared dog found in the egg of the birth of the Leizu two hands now. The spirit dog discovered Leizu and guarded it as it grew up, so it was regarded as a deity that protects human beings. According to Leizhou Museum curator Chen Zhijian, through the preliminary analysis of the physical objects and the discovery of the environment, it is speculated that the oldest existing stone dogs may be up to the Tang Dynasty. Stone dog in the minds of the Leizhou people, first totem worship, and then into the auspicious spirit. People put these different shapes and forms of stone dogs placed in the village, wells, houses, behind the house, hoping that the stone dog can be for them to drive away evil spirits, blessing the peace. In addition, it is said that the stone dog also has the "function" of reproductive blessing.
Stone dog modeling, but also experienced a process of abstraction to the figurative. So far, the largest stone dog found up to 2 meters high, more than 1,000 kilograms, the smallest only a few centimeters high. The material of the stone dog is mostly local red sandstone, and in the stone dog museum in Leizhou City, there is a small stone dog carved from coral rock.
It is estimated that there are about 15,000 to 25,000 ancient stone dogs existing in Leizhou city. In order to protect these precious historical relics, the Leizhou Municipal Government has already started a large-scale collection from the beginning of 2001. And at the end of November 2001, a stone dog museum was built. More than 300 stone dogs collected will be officially settled in the museum for tourists to visit. According to the person in charge of the museum, in the future, it will continue to collect stone dogs scattered in the folklore and has the intention to build a stone dog park. Centipede dance is a mass recreational and sports activities in the town of Wushi, Xuwen County, south of the Leizhou Peninsula, a crippled in the annual Mid-Autumn Festival performances.
Legend has it that in ancient times, Wushi Harbor was plagued by the plague, the fishing village was depressed, and then the townspeople met *** to drive away the plague. To show that they were united in their efforts, they tied a cable around their waists and went into the harbor at night with incense in their hands to exorcise the evil spirits. The dance is called the "Centipede Dance" because it resembles the crawling of a centipede. The Centipede Dance consists of three teams. One is the gong and drum team. The gongs, drums, and cymbals play together and lead the way for the centipede team. The other is the centipede team, which consists of 59 people pulling a big rope more than 100 meters long, three young and strong men pulling the head of the rope at the front, with a small rope attached to the big rope at the waist, wearing bamboo hats, holding incense sticks with fire in their hands, and moving forward with their backs to the left and right, holding each other up on the opposite side of the rope. The end of the big rope, by two people each carrying a one full of densely packed incense piggy bank, and then by four strong support, let it pretend to be a drunkard big rope on both sides of the rope by the 50 young and strong people waist tie a small rope connected to the big rope, each wearing bamboo hats, hats inserted full of incense, both hands holding a point of incense on the incense handle, with the rhythm of the gongs and drums, left and right back and forth, along the big rope jumped up the Centipede Dance. The other team is made up of dozens of teenagers holding torches on both sides to light the way forward. Wherever the centipede procession went, the sound of cannon thundered. More than a hundred meters of incense dotted into lines, curved and straight, round and square, a spectacular sight, like a real centipede wriggling.
(Material reference: Guangfu Folklore by Chunsheng Zhongye) The Waking Lion Dance is one of the more popular dances in Guangdong. The Waking Lion Dance is different from the Northern Lion Dance. The northern lion has four feet on the ground and looks like a real lion. The Waking Lion has only a head, the dancer has two feet on the ground, and the body of the lion is covered with a piece of cloth (red, yellow, white, green, blue, etc.) to cover the tail of the lion by another actor. Waking lions are divided into two categories: ground lions and high stakes lions. Among them, the Wenche Waking Lion belongs to the high pile lion.
The village has a tradition of practicing martial arts to strengthen the body. The lion dance is often led by a martial arts school. The village's lion dance has a hundred-year history. In recent years, their high-pile lion skills are increasingly progressive, and frequently participate in various domestic competitions, the results are not bad.
Wen car lion performance of high pile total length of about 16 meters, the highest pile of 3 meters, pile somewhere between the cable bridge, cable bridge is 1 meter long. Pile spacing of about 38 centimeters, pile surface 30 centimeters. The content of the performance is: a lion, waking up from sleep, through the jungle, across the gully, to the top of the mountain to take lingzhi (i.e., picking green). The main routines of the performance include: stepping on the plum blossom pile, breaking through the seven-star formation, swinging across the rattan rope bridge, flying over the dangerous cliffs, taking the ganoderma lucidum grass, and returning to the mountain forest in celebration. During the performance, the lion dance is powerful, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong, strong and powerful. Both difficult action, more humor, attention to detail from the living performance of the lion's demeanor, the view of the thrilling and interesting.
Wen Che lion dance has won medals in the 2002 Guangdong Province, the first by the folk art invitational competition, 2002 Zhanjiang folk lion dance performance art competition and 2002 China (Hubei Jingmen) International Lion Dance Invitational Competition. White opera, commonly known as "white opera boy", mainly popular in Lianjiang City, is one of the folk celebrations during the Spring Festival.
It is said that the white opera originated in the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period. This kind of opera, sung in local vernacular folk songs, supplemented by simple homemade puppets, usually two to five people can perform. Because of the rhythm of the bamboo tube, also known as the "wooden fish class". This is the earliest prototype of white opera. During the Daoguang period, the development of white opera has entered a period of prosperity. The singing style was constantly innovated, the music tunes were constantly enriched, and the puppet production introduced Cantonese opera faces with detailed and realistic techniques, gradually becoming a mature local opera. The performance stage of the White Opera is mostly a temporary stage, mostly set up at the entrance of a village or on the side of a street. The stage installations are simple, with movable canvases hanging in the background.
The white opera is represented by the Qu Long village troupe. Many people from the surrounding villages come to the village to learn the art, and when they are finished, they often go on tour under the banner of "Qu Long Ban".
(Reference to February 10, 2002 Zhanjiang Evening News) Leizhou song, referred to as Lei song, is a kind of improvisational folk art form sung by the people of the Leizhou Peninsula, which is popular and widely circulated. During the long period of labor and daily life, the people of Zhanjiang summed up many experiences and lessons of life and production, which were summarized into songs and improvised and sung in the fields, villages and lanes.
The Lei songs have gone through three stages of development: First, the folk proverbs. At this time, the Lei song to production life experience-based, simple sentences, the number of words varies, can be recited can read. The second is the ballad. At this time, the Lei song sentence length and short interactive use, the lyrics of four sentences into a group, the basic rhyme. The third is the song vine. Because at this time, the lyrics of Lei songs are endless, like the entangled vines of trees, so they are called "Song Vine". At this time, the Lei song is closest to the current Lei song, seven words per line, four lines, one, two, four lines rhyme. The rhymes were especially elaborate, such as the first line basically rhyming with Yangping, the second line rhyming with Yinping, the third line must not rhyme, and the fourth line rhyming with Pingping. After going through these three stages, the present style of Lei Ge was officially finalized. Over the centuries, with the passage of time, this strange flower bloomed more and more prosperous, the more it bloomed more and more amusing.
There are many forms of lei songs, including pairs of songs and solo songs, and their contents are colorful and wide-ranging. Among them, the most important, the most characteristic and the most mature one is the girl's song. The girl's song is an art form that develops from "self-singing" to "singing for others". It is mainly sung by girls and supplemented by singing children. The girls' songs are mainly raps, in which the singing girls and the singing children sing to each other, either boldly expressing the love between men and women (love songs), or sincerely advising the world (world play songs), or singing praises to the gods and praying for blessings and peace (songs of praise to the gods). When singing in pairs, the scene is very lively, and the pairs of singers are like beads of wonderful words, which makes people can't help but be amused. If the duets are between siblings, there is a limit to the intensity, but if they take place between mass singers, the situation is very different. As this kind of duet to determine the high and low, than out of the high and low, on stage is always the pro-experienced artists. Singing, often you to me, each other, each unconvinced, each singer is to make every effort, or play on the subject, or to avoid the light, and finally, often to the extent of the development of difficult, in order to overwhelm the opponent from the momentum. This is when the girl's song becomes a "fight song".
Because of the Lei song is a kind of oral folklore, not many have been handed down, but in recent years, many people have begun to pay attention to this aspect of the work. Three Hundred Lei Songs, edited by Zhang Zhuxi and published by Guangdong People's Publishing House, collects three hundred outstanding lei songs that have been passed down in folklore. Dr. Wu Jianhua, in her book "A Primer on Leizhou Traditional Culture", besides enumerating some of the Lei songs, has also conducted an in-depth study of Lei songs. It can be said that Lei songs are increasingly showing its vigor and vitality.
The centipede dance is a kind of folk dance created by the ancestors of Wushigang, Leizhou City, to get rid of evil spirits and pray for good health. The dance originated in the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years.