Local Culture
Yangquan Workers Painting
In 1955, the city was the first to rise workers cartoons and Chinese paintings. 1971, in order to commemorate the 30th anniversary of Mao Zedong's "Speech at the Yan'an Literary and Artistic Symposium," the Bureau of Mines, railroads, Yanggang, bauxite mines, municipal 17 units, respectively, to organize the creation of workers art enthusiasts, and 90 pieces of works were selected to participate in the commemoration of the 360th anniversary of the "Speech" published Yangzhou City, Shanxi Province. Works to participate in the commemoration of the 360th anniversary of the "speech" Yangquan City, workers, peasants and soldiers art photography exhibition, of which 29 were selected for the "Shanxi Provincial Fine Arts Exhibition", 18 were selected for the "Shanxi Provincial Painting Exhibition". "In 1973, the art workers of the Municipal Culture Center went to the Second Mine, the Fourth Mine and the Shannan Reservoir to hold the Workers' Art Creation Classes, and created 439 pieces of Chinese paintings, prints, serial paintings, Chinese New Year's Paintings, paper cuttings and sketch paintings reflecting the life of the miners and the water supply project, and held 4 art exhibitions on the basis of their excellence. The above activities were emphasized and praised by the province and the whole country. 42 works were selected for the Chinese painting exhibition in Shanxi Province and the art exhibition celebrating the 24th anniversary of the founding of the country. Shanxi People's Publishing House published "Selected Paintings of Yangquan Workers". The Shanxi Daily published a full-page review article and selected pages of works in praise of the paintings of Yangquan coal miners, and representatives of Yangquan were invited to attend the National Conference on the Exchange of Experiences in Art Creation.In January 1974, the Yangquan Municipal Party Committee convened a symposium on art creation in the Second Mine, summarizing and promoting the experiences of the Mining Bureau, the Second Mine, the Fourth Mine and the Municipal Agricultural Machinery Factory in carrying out the creative activities of the workers' art, and further promoting the activities of the workers' art creation. The city and the main bureaus and mines successively set up workers' art creation leading groups or workers' art groups, and the workers' creation team grew rapidly. Municipal units directly under the Mining Bureau, one, two, three, four mines held six workers art creation class, involved in the creation of the workers' authors amounted to 127 people, the provincial art creation group, the Provincial Cultural Center and the People's Fine Arts Publishing House art workers have been in-depth to the creation of the class to assist in the counseling,*** completed 215 pieces of paintings, in addition to municipal exhibitions, "Shanxi Province, workers paintings exhibition" exhibited 110 pieces. "In October 1974, the Ministry of Culture organized the "Shanghai, Yangquan, Brigade Workers' Painting Exhibition", Yangquan workers' paintings were selected 33 pieces of 46 pieces. After the exhibition in Beijing, from January to July 1975, it went to Nanchang, Guilin, Changsha, Xi'an, Taiyuan, Shenyang and other places. The influence of Yangquan workers' paintings spread to the whole country, gained wide reputation, and was praised by international friends from France, Britain, Japan and so on. During the exhibition period, **** received 1,492,000 visitors. National collection of Yangquan workers painting 18 pieces of 35, the national publishing house published Yangquan workers painting collection of 5 books, anthology 6 books, together with a single painting *** counted 338 pieces of 455 times, above the provincial newspapers, news agencies published 111 works of Yangquan workers, 125 articles review, studios and TV stations filmed Yangquan workers paintings in the documentary 1, 2 TV films.
Yangquan Commentary
One of the folk art forms of recitation, with a history of nearly 100 years. Originated in Pingding County, the development of the Yangquan area, is the main genre of Shanxi Province. In the beginning, the folk artist Xi Fugen absorbed the local Yazhou drums, rice-planting songs in the road and other rhyming recitation of the desirable part of the local anecdotes into a series of "ha-ha laugh" in the street rap, and then named "Yangquan Commentary", moved to the stage. Yangquan commentary to say, learning, teasing, singing as the main means of art, its basic features are dialect rhyme white, long and short sentences, with humor, catchy, friendly and touching style of art. Performances of single, double and multiple forms, in recent years also appeared in disguise commentary, commentary sketches, commentary plays and other different forms, further enriching the artistic expression of Yangquan commentary.
Yazhu
Popular in Yangquan area, a folk art, **** there are two kinds of performance forms: singing, dancing, rapping and walking. According to its different performance forms, it is also known as "Wen Yazhou" and "Wu Yazhou" respectively. Wen Yazhou drum set said, singing, dancing, playing as a whole, speaking for the dialect, rut pressure rhyme, witty and humorous; singing for a song, singing, although unaccompanied, but the rhythm of the fast, very rich in characteristics; dance holding colored fans, colored silk and percussionists to "round field step" hollow field-based, light and smooth dance, beautiful dance; percussion by gongs, drums, cymbals playing. The percussion is played by gongs, drums and cymbals. They wear colorful clothes and pants. Wen Yazhou is active in the streets and alleys during the day, called "Lantern Festival", and dances into people's courtyards at night, called "chasing wastage". Wu Yazhou originated from ancient rituals such as the Sai Shen Shanghui. It has a fixed program of 21 people, holding drums, cymbals, gongs, small cymbals, playing and dancing, with a fixed formation name, songs and percussion method.
Jiuqu Yellow River Formation
Popular during the Lantern Festival in Yangshugou and Sanquan, suburbs of Yangquan. The main body of the formation is 19 meters square with 361 wooden stakes. Piles and piles with a rope according to a certain law linked into a vertical and horizontal zigzag channel. The whole array is divided into 9 zones, each zone has a 360-degree zigzag. 361 piles are placed on a colorful paper lamp, the top of the central column inserted yellow flag, placed under the banner of the Bagua map, the map is under the bucket, the four sides of the book "Nine curved Yellow River". In the periphery of one meter from the main body of the four sides, consisting of four doors and corner pillars to the colorful silk tie. Nine curves of the Yellow River array layout is rigorous, Lieutenant is spectacular. Folk legend has it that the Yellow River Formation can get rid of all diseases by walking on the 4th day before and after the Lantern Festival.
Lift Court
Originally from the old welcome to the God will be, divided into 8 people lift, 16 people to lift two kinds of wooden poles to tie the frame, the frame of the tree on an iron bar, will be bundled in the actors on the iron bar. The upper end of the iron stick is bent and worn into the sleeve, like a single arm raised flat. The end of the stick and then erect an iron bar, put an actor on it. The whole composition is like a person lifting another person with one arm. Lift up the wooden frame, while walking upside down, singing the trumpet. Existing installations on trucks. This dance form is widely spread in Pingding County.
Back Gao
One of the forms of folk theater. One person carries another person on his back in a "pavilion" type of dance. The system is: the production of an iron cross, the lower end of the production of two iron buttons, set up in the back of the shoulders, fixed with a rope. The cross is placed on a boy or girl.
Niu Dou Hu
It is said that this folk dance is based on the folk dance of Yu County. It is said that this folk dance originated from a folk legend that has been passed down in the area. The whole dance consists of two people playing the role of ox, two people playing the role of tiger and one person playing the role of human bear. The tiger is instigated by the human bear to fight with the bull, and the bull finally defeats the tiger. The skins of the bull and the tiger are made of cloth and are draped over the actors' bodies. Accompanied by drums, gongs and cymbals, they play the "Battle of the King". With its strong folk characteristics and local flavor, it has become the most popular program on the night of the Lantern Festival.
Story fire
In the early years of the Republic of China, Xiaoqiaopu village Jia Jinyi from Hebei Deer brought back a broomstick fire, the village Wang Deyuan and other imitation of the transformation, made a set of heavy organs, medicine twist interlinked to show the story of the modeling of the combination of the lights, the name is the story of the fire, the villagers burned on the New Year's Eve for the villagers. Before burning, hanging in the rope, and then coefficient of a cloud dragon for the hippie, after ignition, it is spitting beads spit color, organs repeatedly, groups of images, it is spectacular. Its theme is mostly the performance of the local folk tradition of the Qinglong catching demon, two-headed snake, four-face monster, spider spirit, and so on. From the end of the 1980s, the village story fire successively appeared in the artillery tanks, bomber bombs, nine lotus lamps, phoenix wings, Pan Pan New Year's Eve, and other modern themes of masterpieces. In 1991, "Pingding Story Fire" won the first prize in the Shanxi Province Square Art Video Competition.
Ponytail Monkey
Qing dynasty Daoguang years (1821-1850), Xiaoqiaopu village came to a foreign artist, performing wood carving animal puppet show. The village oil maker Gao Qing came to face the guest to pass on the art. After researching and refining, it gradually became a puppet with horse tail and paper molding. After the village has been improved for generations, it became the puppet show of the horse-tailed monkey with strings today. The subject matter of its performance is mostly the folk story of subduing demons and catching and driving away evil spirits to avoid disasters, and people call the performance as Juggling Ao Shan. The third generation of this technique, Zhang Zhitong and Yang Weiyi, became more and more sophisticated, and were given the nickname "Ponytail Monkey". At the beginning of the establishment of new China, Gao Baoqing and other old artists produced new programs such as sending grain, watering the land, rockets to the sky, and accompanied by gongs and drums, making it even more perfect. Since the late 1980s, the village "ponytail monkey" many times to participate in the county's Spring Festival, Lantern Festival mass cultural activities, loved by the masses.
Huangzheng
Dong Hui Huangzheng originated in the Sui and Tang dynasties, was a means of transportation, mainly used for the royal family and court officials to transport valuables and the government to provide relief to the victims to transport grain and other items. The outline is divided into two categories, one is the water outline, that is, the boat outline, rowing outline; one is the dry outline, that is, the car outline, lifting outline. Later on, it was used for civil marriage and funeral, such as stone box, carrying box and so on. With the continuous development of society, it has evolved into a large-scale traditional folk art performance form, which is very popular among the masses. This kind of folk art rooted in the loess is grand and majestic. Its long snake array, two dragons out of the water array, nine curved Yellow River array unpredictable and magical in recent years, the East back to the Huanggang many times to participate in the city and county major mass cultural activities, loved by the masses.