Binyang Shikong Opera
The population of Binyang is dominated by the Zhuang, an indigenous people. Binyang Zhuang Shigong staged plays, so far there is no script, there is no director, by the actors according to the story characters and plots, on the stage while making up the lyrics for improvisation, the actors do not have a female role to face the county and dress to distinguish between male and female roles, the singing only "Shigong tune", melodious low decline commonly known as " crying tune". The melody is low and sad, commonly known as the "Wailing and Mourning Tune". The accompaniment is a gong and a drum. Monotonous and boring, the performance place was limited to the main family hall or temple. After the liberation, the Zhuang Shikong opera, an ancient type of drama, gained a new life. 1955, the modern Shikong opera "Borrowing Umbrellas", created by the Fifth District Montaigne Club, took part in the "Guangxi's first modern drama observing and performing conference" performance, won the excellent drama award. In 1986 by the county cultural center to create a reform of the modern teacher public drama "and gas and wealth" by the Litang Literary Team to participate in the original "Nanning District Rural Literary Performance" won the playwright, director, performances, music design, choreography, five first prize.
October 1980, under the guidance of the party's "Double Hundred" policy, under the auspices of the county people's government, the county cultural bureau and the county cultural center decided to reform the modern Shigong opera for nearly 30 years, is still a gong and a drum as accompaniment, is still an accent of the shortcomings of the reform, and then a comprehensive reform. To this end, the county cultural hall set up a named "bingyang county reform modern division public drama experimental troupe", and creation and rehearsal of modern division public drama "Liu two aunt marrying a daughter" and will be collected, sorted out after the part of the county's excellent division, road, singing and folk songs, ballads ***24 The music scores of the modern Shigong Opera were set as the reform of the cantorial song board, rehearsal of the implementation of the director's system, the increase of national instrumental accompaniment and the reasonable use of percussion, the production of three-dimensional stage sets, making full use of scientific and technological means of sound, light, electricity art, and the effect of the atmosphere of the stage environment and other artistic techniques, and, indeed, the countryside for the practice of the performance of the effect is very good.
April 1984, the county cultural troupe follow the example of the county cultural center, will reform the modern division of public theater, to chartered or ticketed performances in the countryside, that year, the county urban and rural areas set off to watch the division of public theater boom, appeared in advance of the props, door-to-door, please play, queuing up to buy tickets, coaxing high ticket prices, "distance from the average" performances, etc., to see the division of public theater! There was an unprecedented rush to see Shihgong's plays. After this, the county's urban and rural areas to perform the reform of the modern Shigong opera-based literary team, such as the spring has broken ground. In 1986 statistics, the county has more than 200, so far, every holiday celebration days, there are people or units to invite the literary team to go to the performance of the division of public theater, to add color to its celebration for the honor. Formed the county social popularity of a new fashion. Reform of modern Shigong opera has become an indispensable part of the life of local people of all ethnic groups. Binyang Zhuang Shigong opera, in the "push the envelope, ancient for modern use" "a hundred flowers blossom, a hundred schools of thought" under the guidance of literature and art policy, eliminating some feudal dross, in the choreography, performance, music, singing, music, especially the content of the various aspects of the content, came a "The program has been reformed in the areas of choreography, performance, music and singing, percussion, choreography, and especially the content of the program. Now, the New Year's festivals, red and white wedding, birthday celebrations, new house inauguration, promotion to the army, engineering ribbon-cutting, the establishment of the anniversary and other festivals and celebrations days, there is a division of the public theater for its glory to add color to the celebration, has formed the county popularity of a new fashion. Shigong opera has become the people of Binyang County eulogize national unity and one of the main cultural styles of new life.
Wuxuan Shigong Opera
Wuxuan Shigong Opera, also known as the Zhuang Opera, is a unique opera of the Zhuang people, with a long history, and has a history of 560 years since its inception in 1445 (the 10th year of Zhengtong of the Ming Dynasty). In Wuxuan, where there are villages inhabited by Zhuang people, there are opera groups or members who sing in Zhuang language, and the actors wear robes and caps of civil and military officials, accompanied by dances, singing or dancing, accompanied by peak drums and gongs and strings, singing, doing, reading and playing into one, compiling and performing operas reflecting the mass production and life struggles, and extolling the truth, goodness and beauty, which is very popular with the masses, and they love to carry out this cultural and artistic activity during festivals and celebrations. In 1983, "New Flower" and "Mind" plays performed in Tongbian Town participated in the regional and autonomous regions' performances, and in August 2002, Tongbian Town was awarded the honorary title of "Hometown of Guangxi Zhuang Opera" by the Department of Culture of Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region. Autonomous Region Nationalities Song and Dance Troupe has invited the "Zhuang Shi Theater Troupe" of Dachang Village, Tongbao Town, the old entertainer Huang Shushi to teach folk art to the troupe.
Hechi and Shanglin Shikong Opera
The "Zhuang Shikong Opera" (also known as the Zhuang Shikong Dance) of Hechi and Shanglin counties has prominent characters, rich dance vocabulary, and certain rhythms and norms. During the performance, the Shigong, wearing a wide-sleeved robe and a wooden mask with a carved face, performs a solo or duo dance to the accompaniment of percussion, signaling that the god has descended to earth, and then sits down and sings about the god's life and performance, extolling his power and virtues. Each god has a different mask and singing book, and the dance movements and accompanying drum beats are also distinctive, vividly expressing the character traits of each god. For example, General Tang, Ge and Zhou can drive away ghosts and epidemics for the people and eliminate disasters and difficulties, and his movements are heroic and heroic; Sanjie is a divine doctor who can drive away plague and cure diseases for the people and bless them with peace, and his stance is elegant and elegant with a literati demeanor; King Moyi, who is very powerful and can eliminate bandits for the people, is holding a sword in his hand when he is performing, and his movements are strong and tough, with a heroic temperament; Lingniang can bless the people with smooth winds and rain, and good harvests; her dance is slow and light in rhythm, and the dance is very graceful, and she can dance in a slow and gentle rhythm. Her dance is slow and light in rhythm, and her posture is graceful, showing the image of a kind goddess. Gongcao is the messenger to invite the gods, in his dance, the rhythm of twisting the hips and swaying the body throughout, appearing lively; the God of Heaven and the Emperor's mother are the two gods who send children to the earth to give blessings, their double dance is full of the flavor of life, which leaves a deep impression on the people. The Duke of Heaven wears a kind, simple and smiling wooden mask, with the shrug of the shoulders and shake the head, jumping and chasing and other witty movements and funny dance steps, which is really interesting. The emperor mother is wearing a meek and beautiful female mask, subtle and friendly, in the sky male chasing and teasing under the shy, dodge, the sky male chased exhausted, panting, until he fell to the ground, at once, amusing the audience lost their voices and laughed. Here we see the heavenly emperor mother is not the image of God, but the ordinary people's love life in the "Shigong theater" in the reflection, these performances full of life, so that people get the beauty of artistic enjoyment.
Gui County Shigong Opera
Gui County Shigong Opera has two kinds of Zhuang and Han. In the early years of the Qing dynasty, Guixian area has been a Zhuang division of public theater singing, it is similar to Anhui Nuo opera, Guangxi Guibei and Jiangxi Nuo dance, is in the sorcerer jumped on the basis of the development of a folk theater, sung in Zhuang. At the beginning of wearing a red dress wearing a wooden mask, and then use the paper instead of face painting, 1911 before removing the mask, make-up performances, and have a costume. The main singing styles are water-playing, traveling, three light, etc. Most of them are set songs with gangs, and are of the structure of songboards and sets. It is accompanied by percussion drums (made of ceramics), gongs, cymbals and non-membrane flutes in a simple and ancient style. The main repertoire includes "Mo Yi Da Wang", "Shun Zhi Bailing Sea", "White Horse Girl", etc., which are mostly based on Zhuang folk tales.
Wuming Shikong play
Wuming County Records of the Shikong show called "do fast" (Zhuang), such as held seven days and seven nights called "do fast", held generally in October of the lunar calendar, that is, after the fall harvest; there are also held in the seventh lunar month called "Menglan Hui", which is called "Meng Lan Hui". It is called "Meng Lan Hui", which is held in the square in the countryside, so some people mistakenly think that it is "Celebrating the Harvest", but in fact it is not "Celebrating" but "Sacrificing", offering sacrifices to gods and goddesses. In fact, it is not "celebration" but "sacrifice", offering sacrifices to the gods, entertaining the gods, and entertaining the people. "The performance of more than five people, as few as eight or nine people, more than a dozen people, the leader of the dancers holding a flat drum while dancing to line up a zig-zag, changing, dancing to the climax of the end of the exhaustion sweating, as much as the music party rest. Strictly speaking, this division should be a division of the public theater of the Zhuang dance, rather than purely Zhuang division of the public theater. As Wuming Shi Gong artist Li Dengcheng said, Wuming Zhuang popular since ancient times singing Shi Gong play, silk string play (also known as the Yong opera), singing Shi Gong play while singing and dancing Shi Gong dance, and accompanied by horizontal drums ...... Singing Shi Gong play in Zhuang is called "do Zhai", there is the meaning of sacrifice! ...... do fast place in the village in the open ground, so some people mistakenly think that this is in the "harvest celebration", in fact, not "celebration", but "sacrifice! In fact, it is not "celebration", but "sacrifice", offering to the gods, entertaining the gods, and entertaining people. Shigong theater performance less than eight or nine people, more than a dozen people. The ceramic drums are too heavy and easy to break, so they are placed on the side and used as accompaniment. Leader of the dancers are holding a flat drum, while playing and dancing, dance formation changes. Dance to the climax, everyone sweating, enjoy the party. In Zhuang language, this kind of dance is called "Stomping Gang", or "Stomping Lights", according to the different dance movements, there are twelve lights, thirty-six lights, seventy-two lights. The so-called "Big Dipper", that is, the Big Dipper, the Big Dipper, Wuming Zhuang people have the legend of "South Dipper seeks longevity, the Big Dipper hook book (hook book that is, execution)", so every time you dance on the Big Dipper, the dancers will be in formation with the "Fu", "Fu", "Fu", "Fu", "Fu", "Fu", "Fu", "Fu", "Fu" and "Fu". Therefore, every time the dancers perform the Gang Stomping Dance, they will form a line with the characters "Fuk", "Luk" and "Shou" to pray for longevity and good fortune. Mr. Li Dengcheng in the article has made it clear that the Zhuang language, the Shi Gong dance is called "stepping on the Gang", or called "stepping on the lamp".