Folk opera is the most representative traditional culture and art in Hailufeng area. Since the Ming Dynasty, Hailufeng has preserved four ancient and rare types of theater known as "living fossils":
Chengzhi opera. Formerly known as Zhengyin Opera, the singing voice of Dao Bai are used in Zhongzhou rhyme, the main voice of the Zhengyin Qu and Kun cavity, with a small amount of Pihuang, ditto. It is believed that Zhengzi Opera was born out of Yiyangqiang. Yiyang opera is the Song and Yuan southern opera spread to Yiyang, Jiangxi, with the local dialect, folk music, and absorbed the evolution of the northern song, and then multiply and develop in all parts of the country. It is believed that Hailufeng had Zhengzhi opera activities in the early Ming Dynasty, and since then it has been rooted here and popularized in the eastern part of Guangdong, southern Fujian, and has traveled to Hong Kong and Southeast Asia.
West Qin opera. According to the examination is the end of the Ming Dynasty, West Qin cavity (i.e., qin cavity, Gansu tune) into Hailufeng, and the local folk art combination, to the early Qing Dynasty and gradually separated from the West Qin cavity and stand on its own, forming a distinctive style and characteristics of the West Qin theater. The main voices are the main line and Xipi, Erhuang, and a small number of flowers and miscellaneous tunes, singing, white along the Zhongzhou rhyme, men and women with different voices and the same tone, men sing in the real voice, women sing in the fake voice. The performance style is rough, bold, impassioned, and majestic, long in martial arts, Xi Nanpai, Zongzhi Shaolin.
Baiji opera. In the early Ming Dynasty, it flowed into the eastern part of Guangdong Province from southern Fujian Province, and when it arrived at Hailufeng, it combined with the local dialect and folk art to form the Hailufeng Bai Zi Opera with strong local characteristics. In order to distinguish it from the Teochew White Character (i.e. present-day Teochew Opera), the Teochew people called it "Hailufeng White Character" and "Nanxia White Character". The music of the opera is basically a combination of songs, supplemented by folk songs and ditties. Because of the singing of the song more "A Yi Ai" liner notes to pull the cavity, it is commonly known as "A Yi Ai". 1988, SITC White Character Theater Troupe went to Hong Kong many times to perform, and received favorable reviews.
Shadow theater. It is said to have originated in the area of Chang'an (present-day Xi'an) during the Han Dynasty. It began to spread to foreign countries in the Yuan Dynasty. Foreign shadow theater circles believe that it is the predecessor of the art of film. Shadow play was popular in Hailufeng in the early Ming Dynasty, and in 1976, Lufeng County Shadow Players invited Yu Zheguang, the president of the Chinese Puppet and Shadow Art Society, to be their guide, and carried out a comprehensive reform of shadow play repertoire, singing, performance, and choreography, which was once a brilliant success.
In the Hailufeng area, for a long time, the word play, West Qin opera, white play three rare types of theater, in addition to the original state-run professional troupes, amateur troupes all over the place, a great spectacle, becoming a distinctive cultural phenomenon. Several rare types of theater originally from the provinces, popular in many places, but in the end are rooted in Si, active in Si, fully demonstrates that Hailufeng this region, good at compatibility with foreign culture, but also good at the foreign culture will be created for the local culture.
As a study of the origin and flow of opera "living fossil", Hailufeng's several rare types of theater has been highly valued by experts and scholars, praise words. Unique West Qin, Baiji, Zhengji and other three ancient types of theater, known as China's art garden in the three still emitting a strong fragrance of the oddball, but also the Chinese cultural and artistic treasures in the treasure trove of opera part of the treasures.
Hailufeng area has passed down a large number of folk oral literature, generally have myths, legends, stories, raps, jokes, proverbs, riddles, hiatus and folk songs. Folk songs are categorized into Hakka songs in the north, Jianmi songs in the west, fishing songs in the southeast and Fuluo songs in the plains.
The folk music of Hailufeng region is most famous for the orchestral music of "eight tones", Qu Ban and Blow Ban, which can be said to be derived from the art of opera, and together with the art of opera, create an extremely strong musical atmosphere. The "eight tones" are mainly strings and strings, and generally there are eight kinds of musical instruments, and there are pavilions, which are called "Pavilion of Eight Tones" or "Pavilion of Eight Tones". The music played is the same as that of the Baiji opera.
The folk dances include the Lion Dance, the Money Drum Dance, the English Song Dance, and the Red Women's Dance, etc., and there are many classics that have become reserved programs for performances and competitions. The lion dance includes the one-horned unicorn, the hornless "Shi Auntie", and the wooden lions of the Hakka region, collectively known as the "Dancing Tiger and Lion".
Additionally, the more famous ones are the "Rolling Golden Dragon" of Lufeng Daan Township and the "Dancing Elephant" of Hai Feng Fair. The "Rolling Golden Dragon" has won many shows in recent years. In the 1950s, the Qian drum dance was taught by an old man named Li Huoyi in Shanwei Township, and it has earned a reputation by dancing from small towns to county towns, provincial capitals and Beijing. Li Huoyi was employed as a librarian by the Provincial Museum of Culture and History for his merits in preserving and teaching the money drum dance and enjoys a life-time salary. Ying song and dance to Lufeng Koshi Town is the most famous, taken from the story of Liang Shan Po good man, 108 people painted eyebrows and wiped their faces, hands holding a short stick, dancing and knocking, echoing each other, with the tacit understanding of the rhythm is strong, very spectacular, the most suitable for performances in the square or parade.