The original name of the theater troupe in Zhangzu Dawan was Zhangzu Chu Opera Troupe, which has been established for more than 50 years. Every New Year's Eve, the troupe sets up a stage and sings, from the first day of the first month to the fifteenth day of the first month. This humble village theater attracts folks to carry benches and chairs and flock to it. People from neighboring villages and groups also came to the theater, and everyone's faces were full of excitement and smiles. When they hear the sound of gongs and drums and suona coming from the theater, the adults rush to speed up their pace, and the children also scramble to run after them.
In 2001, the Zhangzu Dawan troupe had another "highlight". That year, Zhang Huanhua, a retired teacher from Zhangzu Elementary School, organized the elderly and housewives in the village to join the troupe. "It's too monotonous to keep singing those few Chu operas, and the audience has seen too many of them without a sense of freshness." Zhang Haibin, the protagonist of the troupe, suggested some lively programs for the New Year to add a little New Year's flavor.
So, members of the troupe to use their spare time or evening rehearsals, to create a number of good programs: Hubei Daoxiang "six grannies praise daughter-in-law", Hubei drums, "the new countryside, new look", the three sentence half of the "out of poverty and rich and well-off" and "hymns to the migrant workers", and so on. People with these programs to participate in the city and town cultural performances, but also won the first and second prize.
The troupe became a veritable "countryside literary task force", more and more fame, in the surrounding townships and villages popularity is very strong, they are not only in the Bay, should also be invited to neighboring villages, door-to-door performances, but never charge a penny, self-written, self-performing self-entertainment. To noon, the villagers in order to thank them, each family out of a plate of food, come to a person, *** into the lunch, its happy.
The backbone of the troupe Zhang Shaoqin, He Chunqin two people use their free time, organizing local women to learn to dance square dance. In the evening, mothers-in-law and sisters-in-law lined up in rows, dancing to the music, although not professional, but this does not affect the happiness of everyone, they have to dance until 10:00 pm every night before the scene. Some people gathered around to watch, a small sae in the crowd shuttle play ...... countryside night lively, rich, fashionable.
"In the past, the biggest entertainment for folks during the farming season was playing mahjong and cards, and we were prone to friction and disunity. Now, we sing, dance and chat together, not only is our body energized, our feelings deepened, and there are many fewer conflicts." Zhang Shaoqin said, dancing not only exercise the body, cultivate sentiment, but also enrich the villagers' spare time cultural life, promote civilization and harmony.
The role of the theater troupe is much more than that, during the epidemic, it is also extraordinarily colorful. "The village has been blocked, the road has been closed, in order to safe sitting at home; new pneumonia, spread fast, strictly guard this area ......" epidemic prevention and control period, as the theater troupe in charge of the village cadres Ma Shuang, came up with a propaganda of a good method. He picked up the loudspeaker, turn on the radio, play the wisdom of the theater troupe, wrote a paragraph of catchy propaganda, and mobilized the team to participate in the propaganda, effectively mobilizing folks to support the prevention and control of the enthusiasm.
"Let the majority of villagers sing, dance and jump up, so that the cultural life of the countryside more, in order to let the gambling table less go down." The village "first secretary" said that the realization of rural revitalization, rural spiritual civilization construction should also keep pace with the new era, with a new rhyme to raise the new wind. Author Wang Xiaochang