Ningchegu was named after Ningchegu. It was originally part of Baodi County. It was liberated in December 1948 and established as a township in August 1953, and was transferred to Renfeng Commune in August 1958, and then to Beitang Commune in Tanggu District at the end of the same year, and then to Ningchegu Commune on August 13, 1966, and then to a township on August 13, 1983, and then in 2000, the township was abolished and transferred to Beitang Street. With the development and expansion of the settlement, the formation of East, West, South, North four villages. In addition, it also governs the two villages of Chuangye and Yangbei on the south side of Tanggu Reed Company. The area is about 58 square kilometers. Jurisdiction of 6 villagers committees, including 6 natural villages, 23 villagers groups, 2043 households, 7119 people (including collective account 62 people). In addition to Han Chinese, there are Manchu and Korean. Before the withdrawal of the township government in the north village, 16 kilometers south of Tanggu.
Located in the sea alluvial plain, low-lying terrain, very little undulation, slightly higher in the north, slightly lower in the south. The natural climate is warm temperate semi-humid continental monsoon climate. The soil is mainly rice soil. The Chaobai New River runs through and enters into the Yongding New River. Before the founding of the country, the villagers made a living by beating grass and fishing, and lived in dire straits. Folk legend has it that "Ning Chegu has three treasures - flat stretcher, rope and broken jacket". Ninghe County Records: "In the southwest of Eup, there is Ningchegu, which is dozens of miles across, and it is not suitable for cultivation. And long reed creeper, after the rain, Mian Qian, Ningjin two eups are taken to capitalize on it". Nowadays, Ning Chegu has become a land of fish and rice through gradual development and multiple management. Now there are 8820 acres of arable land, the main production of rice. Fisheries to raise shrimp is the main, breeding area of 14,194 acres. Township enterprises are machinery, screws, motors, bait, knitting and other factories, as well as storage yards. There are 1 middle school, 3 elementary school and 1 health center. Previously, the villagers of Ningchegu lived in low adobe houses. 1976 Tangshan earthquake, almost all houses collapsed. 1980, brick houses were built one after another.
The Jingshan Railway, the North Ring Railway and the Jinqin Passenger Railway pass through here. It is the starting point of Jitang Expressway, Tangcheng Expressway, West Central Ring and Extension Expressway of Binhai New Area and Tanghan Expressway. The Yongding New River Bridge runs through the city, and 134 public ****cars go to Tanggu. According to the functional positioning of Tianjin Binhai New Area, it will build a harmonious society, prosperous economy, livable ecological environment, seaside leisure and tourism resort area, and become an international tourist destination. Etiquette and folklore
Crowning ceremony: into a child is added to the hat, the ancient three plus rituals, commonly known as the wedding that.
Wedding: the two surnames, first ask the name of the matchmaker. Has been decided, the male family for the female to recognize. With a Qiyi, general name post, prepare sheep wine, so-called "booking alliance". The woman's family replied in turn, which was called the "promise of alliance". Thereafter, the male family with jewelry, silk and other items for the female line of recruitment, known as the "coin". There are also used to money gifts, cloth instead of coins. Will marry, first choose an auspicious day, with a post sent to the woman's home, known as the "please period". One day before the marriage, the woman sends her crown and belt, which is called "urging her to make up"; the woman's family also sends her trousseau and other things, which is called "making the bed". Provisional, the male family to ask the best man sedan chair horse drums and blowers to accompany the groom to the female home, rise to worship again, the Royal Wheel grant sui, known as the "pro welcome". There are also some simplified, or sedan chair or car to welcome the woman to the door, the man to the colorful scarf introduced. On the same day, fm radio, **** feast goblet. In the three days of the temple to see, worship ancestors, worship aunts and uncles and uncle long and other generations, so called "worship three". Or eight Chao or double nine, the woman's family invited son-in-law and the woman to the house of money together, known as "back to the door". To the countryside habits continue, there are the marriage of the same family name, the real is not a gift.
Funeral rites: When a person is about to die, he or she will move to his or her bed, burn a piece of furniture, and send it to the door, which is called "sending off". The restaurant is a great place to eat, and you can also enjoy the food. Over said "send the road", prepare lanterns and torches, the production of cited ghost cards, at the City God Temple, the countryside at the Land Temple. Where friends and relatives of men and women are with the guide to the home, crying and worship. Three days into the coffin, according to the seven sacrifices, in order to pass the distant relatives not hanging. Burial with Dan gleam, color ■, meditation, ruminant spirit, each with his family rich and poor to be rich and frugal. Fortunately, there is no bier of ills, but living near the water, often floating in the riverfront Alcove, through the years, more submerged, exposed. I see every for the compassionate, because show the strict ban, earnestly advise, its wind cover can be less change cloud.
Sacrifice: "Ching Ming Festival," the ancestral graves, hanging paper, put up flowers, laid on the tomb, than all households. Back to the collection of family temples, widely set up a few feasts, the clan will eat, happy together after a day. There were also those who took the time to meet and drink at home. On July 15, they offered hemp grain. October 1, send cold clothes. At the end of the year, on New Year's Eve and New Year's Day, statues were hung and offerings were made and sacrifices were made at home. On the anniversary of the death of an ancestor, they would invite the master to be present in the hall, make sacrificial offerings, and pay homage to the ancestor's memory. Three years after the shutdown, the guests of honor, ready to dedicate the ceremony, wishing the spirits of the ancestors, easy to murder from the auspicious, not bothered, not idle, still have the ancient style.
Folklore
New Year's Day: "New Year's Day", celebrating festivals, gods, ancestor worship, worship, young and old in order to worship, and friends and relatives to congratulate, called "New Year's Day". Lift the family to eat flat food, the first five days of the family to eat the next year of rice, do not forget the old sense of justice. From the first day to the tenth day, to the yin eyes to divine the year's abundance of consumption. Before and after the "New Year's Eve", towns and cities hanging lights for three days, the countryside is also inserted into the lights to celebrate, beat the drums ■ gold, Chen Hundreds of plays for fun; food dumplings. On the 16th, women walking bridge, touch nails, to eliminate disasters, or please toilet nuns to divine the blame.
February: the second day, the name "dragon head". The family school ordered the children to open the pen to take signs. People with lime to attract the white dragon in, with small ash to attract the black dragon out. There are also flat food rituals. This month also, "spring equinox", the people are plowed.
March: "on the Si", I do not know to repair the purification, Shi Feng of Park. "Qingming" worship first, show the tomb plus grave soil, hanging paper money, more willows, wearing pine and cypress branches, the clan many will eat. Children also gradually fly kites. This is also the month, always hope for rain.
April: 8th, "Bathing Buddha". Common competition on the temple, the knowledge of the ritual is not. Eighteen days, "Virgin Birthday"; 28th, "Medicine King Birthday", three days of theater, the city and the township praying for the report to fill in the road. This is also the month, looking for rain is particularly urgent.
May: "Dragon Boat Festival", people to corn feed, children wear Dan Fu, flowers win. Door insertion of moxa leaves, drink xionghuang, calamus wine, in order to avoid the plague. Is also the month, will be the mango, first sowing broomcorn, ten days after the summer solstice, agricultural wheat, so-called wheat autumn.
June: six days, fried rice flowers, exposure, sunshine book. Into the volts to make sauce, vinegar, making song. It is also a month, always looking forward to clear, fear of heavy rain hurt crops.
July: "Tanabata", the woman waiting for the cloud cluster of the tricky ones, cast a fine needle floating in a bowl of water, depending on the length of the shadow of the thickness, to account for the tricky ones. "Mid-Yuan Festival", visit the ancestral tombs. Monks put river lamps, night moon boat, holding the scriptures, Buddhist services, in order to discourage the soul.
August: "Mid-Autumn Festival", people worship ancestors, old women worship the moon, to moon cakes, watermelon gifts. Depending on the brightness and darkness of the moon, it will be clear and snowy for the next year's Lantern Festival. From July to here, early harvests are ripe.
September: "Chongyang", no meeting, but the fields to release animals at this time. This is also the month, late broomcorn early harvest.
October: the first day of the new year, the tomb, the production of paper clothes burned on the tomb, commonly known as "send cold clothes".
November: "winter solstice", do not congratulate the festival, food wontons, like half of the meaning of the child. Children from school for a day, and the same as the official holiday.
December: 8th, home food all kinds of rice, beans, dates, chestnut congee, the name "Laha congee", and temples also have food congee fasting. Twenty-third, "sacrificial stove" in the stove defile. "New Year's Eve" three or five days before the cake, win feed, the name "feed Festival". Change peach symbols, door god, Yichun list. Family sleeplessness, drinking yellow and white wine, eating sweets up to the day, known as the "New Year's Eve". Set off firecrackers, save fire around the stove to help Yang Qi, and often stay up all night, in order to omen a good year. Fertility customs
Pregnant women giving birth is commonly known as "sitting in the moon", before giving birth to the mother's family to send children's clothes, small quilt, diapers and other things, called "catalytic". After the birth of a child, to friends and relatives to hang noodles, brown sugar, eggs, fabric, doughnuts, etc. as gifts, congratulations, pay attention to the 4-color gift, the maternal family gifts generous.
After giving birth, the third day for the wash three, the seventh day to eat dumplings, called "pinch bone seam", 12 days called "over the pussy rot days", also known as the "small full moon", one month after the birth of the "full moon". "full moon", the family to entertain friends and relatives with wine and banquets. After the full moon, the woman in labor to her mother's home, commonly known as "move shame nest".
Children born 100 days called "hundred years", the grandmother's home or friends and relatives to the child hanging long life locks, bracelets, anklets, wishing them a long life. In reproductive activities, boys and girls are slightly different, although there are local habits of son preference, but not very prominent. After the liberation, after the propaganda of the new law of midwifery, birth control and family planning, superstitious customs significantly reduced. 70-80 years, pregnant women go to the hospital to give birth. But after 12 days, the full moon "hundred years old" custom as usual.
Wedding and funeral customs
Wedding customs
Ming Dynasty and Qing Dynasty, the wedding has the Na Cai, ask name, Na Ji, Na Zheng, please date, kiss welcome. To the end of the Qing Dynasty, the early Republic of China, the evolution of folklore, gradually change the old rituals, not according to the ancient customs, gradually formed a set of marriage mode:
Matchmaking, by the intermediary to introduce the two sides of the situation, commonly referred to as matchmaker; marriage, fortune-telling, according to the birth of Mr. Marriage, there is no match; engagement, commonly known as the exchange of the dragon and phoenix post, the male party to choose an auspicious day, the bride price, will be the dragon and phoenix post into the worship box, to the female family. The woman will also send the dragon and phoenix post back to the male party, that the marriage has been booked; choose the date, also known as send days, selected date of marriage, notify the female party, and under the second gift, commonly known as over the gift, the female party to receive the notice, prepare 2 pounds of noodles and rolls as a gift, that the wedding date has been booked, and will not be changed; send a dowry, marrying before the woman to prepare a dowry, friends and relatives to give money gifts is called the Tim box, in the day before the day of the marriage before the noon to send to the man's home, on the same day, the male party to set up a feast shed sticker The wedding, held in the morning, the male party to send people to the car to pick up, the female party to send relatives to send, and then is to worship, picking the cover, open face, makeup new (sitting in the blessing), eat reunion dumplings, divided into small and large, the night of the bridal chamber; back to the aunt, the male party to take his wife back to his mother's home three days after the wedding to see his father-in-law, mother, so-called back to the aunt; to worship the three three, three days after the wedding, the newlyweds head to meet Close to the branch of the family, so-called worship three. Ten days after the wedding bride back to her mother's home, live nine days, called ten days nine live. After liberation, the old marriage customs have gradually changed. Such feudal and superstitious rites and customs as merging marriage, passing rites and worshiping heaven and earth have been basically out of fashion.
Funeral customs
Old funeral ceremonies were cumbersome and superstitious. The general adult dying, burned to the head of the paper, haircut, purification, wearing clothes, bed; after death, pointing, mourning, reported to the temple (also known as sending paper), out of the list of calamities, mourning, coffins, family rituals, point of the Lord (the dead tablets), send the road, ringing the shed, out of the funeral; after the burial of the 3-day round tomb, 7 days after the head of the first period, after every 7 days to pay homage to a time, the five-period large festival, the festival of seven-period, also known as the break of the seven; and after the anniversary of the festival, the first year called the anniversary of the day of the festival. . The above rituals are practiced by the rich, while many are abbreviated by the poor due to their limited financial resources after death.
After the liberation, people still followed the old custom in the 1950s. In the sixties, the government called for the change of customs, advocating funeral reform, the funeral from simple, the public awareness, superstitious activities gradually reduced. Especially since the 1970s, the government has built crematoriums, strengthened funeral management, and gradually abandoned coffin burials. In the past, it was customary to bury infants and young children in small wooden boxes rolled up with reed mats in a righteous place. Unmarried adults and married women were not allowed to enter their ancestral graves.
Local Folklore
This article is based on the "Ninghe County Records" on the joints of the custom, after the Ningchegu area some of the old people's interviews, collated from, for reference only.
The first day of the first month of the year
Get up early and see if the weather is good. If the sky is clear and there are few clouds, it means that the first half of the year will be smooth; if the sky is cloudy and there is snow, it means that the first half of the year will be abnormal, and the clan and friends will pay tribute to the New Year from this day onward.
The second day of the first month of the lunar calendar
Waking up in the morning to clean the courtyard is called welcoming the God of Wealth. Women go to the temple of the God of Wealth wearing pompoms and buy handicrafts such as Yuanbao and Jubao basins to take home. Young men go to the river or well to pick water and fill the water tanks, which is a metaphor for the arrival of silver at home, meaning that there will be money in the year.
The fifth day of the first month of the lunar calendar
This day is also called the fifth day of the broken, meaning that the Spring Festival festival has passed. It ended the New Year's greeting.
The eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar
This is the day when the store opens for business, and the shopkeepers who live outside the city arrive on this day. In the morning, the store is cleaned and firecrackers are set off to open the door. The shopkeeper arranges for a good meal.
The tenth day of the first month of the year
The morning also depends on the sky clear and cloudy. If the sky is clear, the second half of the year will be smooth; if the sky is cloudy and there is snow, the second half of the year will be abnormal.
On the 14th day of the first month
The day before the Lantern Festival, we start to eat well, and in the evening we have a flower show and hang lanterns. For three days from this day, women do not do needlework and family members do not say anything unlucky.
The 15th day of the first lunar month
On the Lantern Festival, there is a flower show during the day. People watch the festival during the day, go to the street to watch the lanterns at night, and go home to cook and eat the lanterns.
On the 16th day of the first month of the lunar calendar
In addition to watching the flower show and the lanterns, women are invited to cross the bridge to feel the nails. Wooden bridges are connected by large iron nails, and stone bridges are also connected by large iron nails between the stone slabs, so touching the nails can prevent disasters.
The 22nd day of the first month
The birthday of the Queen of the Hundred Flowers. Women must stop sewing or else they will get sick with the Hundred Flowers disease.
23rd day of the first month
Dog Day. On this day, dogs are driven out of the house to poop, and women stop doing needlework, otherwise they will get sick of dog vomiting.
The 24th day of the first month
The Day of the Rat. Women stop doing needlework, children should go to bed early, do not meet the rats, or else they will have old rat sores. There are called rats in the field of marriage, the day varies, there are the first three, ten, seventeen, eighteen and so on.
The 25th day of the first month of the lunar calendar
The Filling of Barns Festival. The festival means filling up the barn, symbolizing a good harvest in the new year. Wake up early to clean the courtyard, with a dustpan full of charcoal ash or grass ash slowly 搕打, in the courtyard of the hall painted a round barn hoard, and on the barn, hoarding ladder. After painting, fill a handful of grain inside. During the Republic of China years, changed the chalk drawing hoard. On this day, people used to eat noodle soup and women stopped doing needlework.
The 28th day of the first month
The birthday of the God of Fire. There are lanterns and flower shows, and the market is bustling with trade.
29th day of the first month
The birthday of the Fire God. Activities are the same as on the 28th. This day is also known as the ninth day of the new year, and is the first month after the Spring Festival and the Lantern Festival.
The second day of February
Dragon head-raising. At this time, the weather is getting warmer, and it is the time of the hibernation and the spring equinox, which is said to be the time when the Dragon King raises his head. Early this day, the family with a dustpan loaded grass ash 搕 hit into the line to attract the black dragon out, and then white ash to attract the dragon into the door. In the late Qing Dynasty, evolved from the water tank to scoop a pot of water lead sprinkled to the river, called the new dragon into the door. This is a kind of luck that people take at the beginning of the new spring. On this day, students began to attend private schools. Women do not do needlework for fear of piercing the dragon's eye.
February 18
Guanyin's birthday. On this day, incense is offered to the Goddess of Mercy, and women stop doing needlework for fear of giving birth to a child.
February 19
Guanyin's birthday. The custom is the same as that of the birthday.
The third day of March
The birthday of the Queen Mother. On this day, the gods went to the Peach Blossom Society, fortune-telling blind man also chose this day to meet, discuss the price of the fortune-telling gold. Women stop doing needlework, or else their children will have a hard time being born.
Cold Food Festival
This festival is more in the end of February and early March, that is, three days before the Qingming Festival, about sixty days after the beginning of spring, because the folk have spring to cold food for sixty days. On this day, women do not do needlework, said to do the poor. In addition, this day is not allowed to eat meat and potatoes and congee, the folk have eaten meat and potatoes cold food, poor pacing all over the proverb.
Ching Ming Festival
More in late February and early March. It is a day to sweep the graves of the ancestors and add new soil to them. Tomb-sweeping lasts for 20 days, 10 days before and 10 days after the Qingming Festival, in order to wait for the arrival of relatives who have traveled long distances.
Grain Rain Festival
Half a month after the Qingming Festival. On this day, people wake up early to watch for rain so that they can plow. Women stop doing needlework, otherwise they will go blind.
The eighth day of the fourth month
Buddha Bathing Festival. Legend has it that it is the birthday of Sakyamuni, and people burn incense and bow to the Buddha. To the Republic of China, this festival has become a temple monk things, people no longer pay attention to.
April 18th
Niangniang's birthday. A few days before this day, people go in groups to the Niangniang Temple pilgrimage, a large scale, solemn ceremony, taboo.
April 28
Yakuo birthday. Three days of temple fairs, temples open, burning incense and praying for people bustling, the market is very lively.
Fifth day of May
Duanwu Festival. Locally, it is called the "May Festival" or "Wudangwu". Families with reed leaves wrapped dumplings, steamed sugar triangles with white flour, give each other. Children wear five poison paper charms. The five poisons are scorpion, centipede, toad, gecko and snake. Paper charms are also put on the wall, but they are just a pair of scissors holding a scorpion. In front of every house, we also inserted mugwort and drank calamus wine, all of which were to avoid the plague.
May 13th
Master Sharpening the Sword. The master refers to the God of Guan. A proverb says that a drought will not last until the 13th day of the 5th lunar month, meaning that on this day it will rain, and if it doesn't, it will be a drought, and people will bring the bronze statue of Guan Gong out to beg for rain.
The sixth day of June
Tian Kuang Festival. This festival is often held before the day of the sun, and people used to dry their clothes and books to avoid the moisture. Families ate fried rice and made dough for fermentation in preparation for making sauce and vinegar.
Summer Solstice
It was customary to eat eggs on this day, and it was said that eating them would not make the summer miserable. As the proverb says, "Summer solstice is a summer vacation", and there are three vacations, each lasting for ten days, and the local saying goes, "Dumplings on the first day of the vacation, noodles on the second day of the vacation, and scrambled eggs on the third day of the vacation".
The seventh day of the seventh month
The Cowherd meets the Weaving Maiden. Girls beg the Weaving Maiden for coquettishness by placing a needle gently across a bowl of water and letting it float for a while to see how long and thin the shadow of the needle is; short and thin means that one's hands will grow up to be dexterous, while the other way round means that one's hands will be clumsy. At night, adults led children to watch the stars Tianniu and Weaving Maiden, and the less bright stars on either side of Tianniu were said to be the two children carried by the Cowherd. In the evening, the opera house sings "The Match of Heaven and River".
July 15th
Midwinter Festival. It is also known as the "Ghosts of the New Year Festival". During the day to clean the ancestral graves, at night the temple monks put river lanterns, later evolved into the people put river lanterns. At night, the river is full of floating lanterns, see a lot of people, in fact, a kind of amusement.
August 15
Mid-Autumn Festival. Commonly known as the "August Festival", families offer sacrifices to their ancestors and to the rabbit. Buy mooncakes, steamed sugar cakes, purchasing fruits, and go home for reunion regardless of the distance. And according to the folk proverb of "the clouds cover the moon on the 15th of August, and the snow hits the lanterns on the 15th of the first month", they judge the weather of next year's Lantern Festival.
On the ninth day of the ninth month
The Chongyang Festival. There are no mountains in the area, and it is located in the plains, so there is no custom of ascending to high altitudes. However, on this day, animals are pulled out to the fields to graze and enjoy the fall. It is also customary for families to eat corn cakes.
The first day of October
Ancestors' Day. Families burn paper on their graves and cut paper clothes to burn, meaning that they send cold clothes to the ghosts of their ancestors when it gets cold.
October 15
Taking the Nyonya home. The second Niangniang Temple, pilgrimage scale is the same as April 18, local legend Bixia Yuanjun Niangniang is razor clam people, so there is this day to pick up the Niangniang back to his mother's home.
Winter Solstice Festival
This day into the "nine", used to eat wontons, and later changed to eat dumplings, and legend has it that you can not freeze your ears. Children are dismissed from school for the day. The government offices take a day off. In the Republic of China, the government offices no longer take a vacation, and students, except for private schools, no longer take a vacation.
The Eighth Day of the Lunar New Year
Commonly known as the Lunar New Year Festival. Families use rice, millet, broomcorn millet, barnyard rice, red beans, green beans, chestnuts, jujube porridge to eat. From this day onwards has entered the New Year's Eve, people have to do the New Year's goods.
The Spring Festival
Spring hit six nine head of the proverb, so this day is also known as "playing spring". The Spring Festival is usually held in the second half of the lunar month. Spring time, people can not lie down, married daughters can not live in the mother's home, "can not play in the bed" and "can not play in the mother's home," said. It is customary to eat spring cakes and bean sprouts on this day.
Lunar New Year's Day 23
Sacrificing the god of the stove. In the daytime, the god Zaowang is given a sugar gourd, which means to stick the mouth of the god Zaowang with the sugar gourd, so that he will say more good words and less gossip in the sky. In the evening, the god Zaowang is burned, and while burning, the god kowtows and prays, praying for the success of the things that are expected in the next year. This day is also known as the "New Year's Day".
The 24th day of the Lunar New Year
Sweeping the house.
The 25th day of the Lunar New Year
Making tofu.
Lunar New Year's Eve 26th
Stewing meat.
Lunar New Year's Eve 27th
Killing chickens.
On the 28th day of the Lunar New Year
White flour is used to steam buns with red dots on them, and to make noodles such as fish and hedgehogs.
The 29th day of the Lunar New Year
Pastes door gods, door pairs, window paintings, and New Year's paintings. Make offerings to the ancestors.
30th day of the Lunar New Year
Also called the 30th day of the Lunar New Year. The day of the Spring Festival is the first day of the month, but people often use this day as the Spring Festival, the year of the old calendar. Early in the morning, the whole family changed into new clothes and had lunch at noon. At night, lanterns are hung by the door of the main room, and a new statue of Zao Wang is put up. Then, at nightfall, the children light lanterns and shout: "Light lanterns, get rich, the golden pony is coming home." A bundle of sesame straw was put in the door nook. It is said that Jiang Ziya forgot himself when he sealed the gods, and when the gods were in place on that night, Jiang Ziya had no place to go, so he went to guard the lanterns in the sky. His wife is a broom star, door to door looking for him to go home for the New Year, people are afraid of broom star into their homes, they put sesame straw. On the third day of the third shift, the whole family burns a sacred code, and the main man in the family kneels down to pray for a safe year, and then the whole family cooks dumplings and eats them, and all kinds of taboos and prohibitions start from this morning. Before the liberation, there were more than ten kinds of folkloric festivals in Ningchegu, but with the change of time and the folk's demand for culture, some of them have been lost or are on the verge of extinction. Some of them have been lost or on the verge of extinction. Now the main ones that have been passed down are: stilt walking, rice-planting songs, and wufa drums. In order to let readers understand the content and form of several kinds of flower fair, now choose three kinds of introduction is as follows:
Pedal on stilts
Pedal on stilts is commonly known as binding wood feet, also known as "stilts", "step on stilts", "tie", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet", "high feet". High foot", "walk high leg", is a mass performance of skills prevalent in Ningchegu, more in some folk festivals by the dancers feet tied to the long wooden stilts in the square for the performance. The stilt-walking skill is strong, the form is lively and diversified, because the actor on stilts is higher than the average person, it is easy to watch from near and far, and the flow is convenient and different from the movable stage, so it is loved by the masses. Participants step on 3-foot wooden limbs and play the roles of Xu Xian, White Snake, Green Snake, Wu Song, Yang Xiangwu, woodcutters and fishermen. When marching, they play satchel drums and small gongs, and the person who plays Wu Song dances with two sticks as a guide, while the rest of the participants dance with the drums. The performance is divided into groups of pairs. There are fishermen fishing, pouncing on butterflies, etc., and they are mixed into the movements of turning, turning, prancing, moving and putting down the fork.
Twisting rice-planting songs
Twisting rice-planting songs is one of the most representative forms of folk dance in Ningchegu, because of the colorful dance of twisting rice-planting songs, popular among farmers and lively. Rice-planting song has its own style characteristics, generally by the dance team of more than ten to one hundred people, dressed as historical stories, myths and legends and real-life characters dance while walking, with the rhythm of the drum, good at changing various formations, coupled with colorful dance, popular with the majority of the audience.
Wu Dharma Drums
Dharma Drums is a unique form of drumming performance in Ning Chegu, which has a history of more than a hundred years. Drum performance momentum, ceremonial deacon graceful and magnificent, exquisite, so there is a "half of the deputy LuangDao" said. It is characterized by playing and dancing, both military and civil, skills and skills are mainly embodied in the drums accompanied by the cymbals up and down and cymbals around the turn on the cymbals, cymbals and cymbals through the different ways of striking and changing the different actions. It can be said that the Dharma is blended with literature and martial arts, and the drums are harmonized with the wind and clouds. Dharma drum performances can also be divided into three types of Dharma drums, martial arts drums and music drums, the form of which is differentiated by the fixed "set up" and the marching "line meeting". Some of the drums to win the beat, some cymbals, cymbals of the extraordinary outstanding, and some to tie color, lights, props of the exquisite eye-catching. The number of people attending the festival is usually more than a hundred, or at least seventy to eighty people. In the past, the whole village, the number of people can be as many as four or five hundred people.
Additionally, Beijing Opera, Peking Opera and Hebei Opera are some of the more popular styles of opera among the people of Ning Chegu. In terms of music, since the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China to the present, Ning Chegu has no specialized music institutions, mostly folk music classes, playing instruments: pipe, sheng, Xiao, flute, suona, erhu and percussion instruments.