The customs of Kaixian County are grass gongs and drums, bamboo words, lamp (lion) dance, blowing music, bugles, sculpture, Duan Gong dance, shadow, hot springs race scolding, Cailian boat, car car lamp, playing Lianxiang.
Customs of Kaixian County:
I. Grass gongs and drums. Grass gongs and drums are a special form of singing combined with labor and production that is generally popular in the Three Gorges area. Kaifeng County has inherited excellent lyrics such as "Grass Song" and "Grass Gongs and Drums", which have been recorded in the 1990 Kaifeng County Journal.
Second, the bamboo lyrics. Bamboo branch lyrics belong to the ancient Bayu folk songs, also known as bamboo branch song, is a unique song, is the general name of the Three Gorges area folk songs." King Wu of Zhou, before the song and dance" is the earliest history of this cultural phenomenon. Qing dynasty qianlong "kaixianzhi" records: "the common heavy field god, fishermen, woodcutters, farming and animal husbandry, good singing bamboo song". Qing Xianfeng "Kai County" recorded: "" Yu Ji ": Kai State customs? Men and women are singing bamboo sticks." Visible bamboo song in Kai County has a long history. Kaifeng County in 1983 organized into the "Kaifeng County Folk Songs Integration" published in the world, including 176 folk songs.
Three, lamp (lion) dance. Kaixian folk legend has it that "thirty nights of fire, fifteen nights of lights". Spring Festival is the people of Kaixian County attaches great importance to traditional festivals, celebrations up to half a month, especially the night of the Lantern Festival is more lively, drums and music, firecrackers, fireworks in the air, colorful lanterns four cloth, beautiful flowers, red, dazzle people's eyes. Especially to play dragon lanterns, lion dance, color lotus boat for the most obvious features. Kaixian "play lion" custom, according to legend, began in the Western Han Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty after the Qianlong, mainly in the ground waves of lions, high-footed lions, one-horned lions and other kinds of lions.
Four, playing music. Kaixian ancient Ba country, Ba people are famous for music and dance. Zhuxi Town, Shi Bowls East Han rock tombs, unearthed more than ten gray ceramic music figurines, there are talking, ventriloquism, fiddling, drums, and so on, apparently for a band. Kaixian music culture since the beginning of the Ba, the earliest historical evidence of the "King Wu of the Zhou Dynasty, before the song and dance". The main popular musical instruments include the snare, the flute, the tuba, the trumpet, the trombone, the black pipe, the lusheng, and so on.
Fifth, the horn. Kaifeng County is now circulating the horn, produced in the process of different physical labor, and labor rhythms to match the coordination. Singing in various forms, passed on orally from generation to generation, the tunes are relatively stable. The lyrics are both inherited and can be improvised, but the format framework is largely unchanged, such as a solo stonemason to open the mountain trumpet, the two sang in pairs of sedan chairmen trumpet, a person to lead the singing of all the people and the singing of the lifting of the labor trumpet. Kaixian carry worker horn is very famous, has attended the Beijing, Sichuan Arts and Culture Festival, is a collective horn song, such as "sparrow horn", "even eight sentences over the Wangxiangtai" and so on. Kaixian bugle has stone work bugle, carry casket bugle, picking the burden of the bugle, hit the wall bugle, ramming bugle, sedan chair bugle and so on dozens of kinds of bugles.
Six, sculpture. Kaixian sculpture technology, long history, is the most valuable part of Kaixian architectural culture. Tang and Song Dynasty religious heyday, ancient temples in the Buddha Bodhisattva statues, are stone, wood carving, clay works. Carvings were prevalent on practical wooden beds, tables, chairs and utensils. Ming and Qing dynasties handed down the "Luohan chair" and "carved bed", "grape bed" decoration is particularly elaborate, there are curly grass tassels, phoenix and sunrise, phoenix through the peony and other patterns. Dajue Temple and the Golden Bottle Temple in Tieqiao Town have unique statues of gods and bodhisattvas. Now well-preserved sculptures of the Qing Dynasty, to count the hot springs fairy cave murals, and Yu family compound murals.
Seven, Duan Gong dance. In Kaixian County, there is still circulating a unique form of folk culture - Duan Gong dance, this dance is performed by the sorcerer, regardless of the place. Its inheritance is by the sorcerer set up altar by the disciples, passed on from generation to generation. The books of the sacred songs are all copied by hand. Among them, "Stomping on Flowers", "God Gun Dance", "Sacrifice to the Gods of the Five Directions", "Sacrifice to the Gods of the Five Ramparts", "Rocs and Golden-winged Birds", "Stomping on Eight Trigrams", "Running the City through the Flowers" and so on have preserved the imprints of the Ba culture and the Ch'u and Witch cultures. Its dance program is similar to that in the Chu Rhetoric "Nine Songs".
Eight, shadow. Kaixian is the earliest place in the Three Gorges area where the shadow plays were circulated. In the Qing Dynasty, Kaixian shadow has been widely circulated and quite famous, and there are more leather lampshades left behind. The spread of shadow art in Kaixian County, originated in Kaixian County, a Kaixian court official tampered with Junwei when he returned to his hometown, the court sent him a set of leather shadow brought back from the capital, craftsmanship, fine carving, bright colors, transparency, good, festivals or family celebrations, set the crowd of friends and relatives singing shadow play. After gradually spread and developed in Kaixian County. During the Republic of China period, all townships in the county have shadow theater activities. Now the library collection has carving, workmanship, painting fine art of the Qing Dynasty "shadow" more than 2,000 pieces.
Nine, hot springs scolding. Qing Dynasty to the Republic of China, the town of hot springs east of the river, west of the river residents have the custom of scolding. Every year from the first nine days of the first month that is on the ninth day of the beginning, every night to play dragon lanterns, until the night of the 15th Lantern Festival. Playing with the lights to the east of the river, the west side of the river, each other, competition, comparison, and even each other's attacks, teasing, "disk bottom" (i.e., scolding). Over time, the wind of cursing into a custom. Ten, high festival. Open County on the ninth day of the first month of the custom has a long history, extending to the present day more than 2300 years, the earliest can be traced back to the activities of the Baren and Baren war, Baren or high ancestors, or high prayers, high on a long time into a custom. Every year on this day, almost become a carnival in Kaixian people, all the people come out, have to climb high on the ground, pray for good luck, and its magnificent spectacle, can be called a great miracle in the history of Chinese folklore.
Eleven, picking lotus boat. Cailian boat is the folk during the Spring Festival in the square to play a kind of "boat lights". Cailian boat is made of bamboo clusters into a boat shape, the shape of the fishermen's fishing boat, on the top of the canopy, are to flower paper, colored silk framing, before and after the lotus lamps, craftsmanship, exquisite production. Lotus boat melody is relatively simple, singing content of popular songs and improvisation of the creation of the spring congratulations and other wishes. A rower or runner leads the singing, accompanied by gongs and drums, and sings the chorus.
Twelve, car lamp. Kaixian car car lamp has a long history of origin, origin is unique. Its props, dance moves, costumes are originated from a folk story, singing tunes from Bayu "Bamboo Song". In addition, the Kaiju people like to sing the "Bamboo Branch Lyrics", the Bamboo Branch Lyrics and the car car lamp movements organically combined into the performance, after a number of years of inheritance and change, the formation of a special word, song, with gongs, dance Kaixian folklore - the car car lamps, and sung around, passed down to the present day.
Thirteen, playing even box. Lianxiang, is about a meter long bamboo pole, embedded in six pairs of coins, the two ends of the press colorful beard, shaking and banging when the string of loud sounds. Lianhang can be performed by two young men and women, can also be performed by a large number of people collectively, no matter how many people, to be an even number, the performance, each with the right hand holding Lianhang in the middle, and the rhythm of the singing while playing and dancing. The movement of the box is to performers' own shoulders, limbs and waist, back and other parts of the up, down, left, right, heaven, earth, before and after the changes in the percussion, so that the box constantly emits a rhythmic sound. Or pair wear flowers, or change the formation, or change the posture, or before and after receiving, singing and dancing, the mood is warm. The tunes are mostly fast-paced local tunes, and the singing form is based on unison singing, accompanied by solo and duet singing.
Kaizhou District is part of Chongqing Municipality, located in northeastern Chongqing Municipality, the Three Gorges Reservoir area of the Yangtze River tributary back to the end of the water, west of Sichuan Province, Kaifeng County, north of the Daba Mountains to pick up the city's Kou County and Xuanhan County, Sichuan Province, east of Yunyang County and Wuxi County, south of the Yangtze River adjacent to the Wanzhou District.