The Yimeng region has a splendid music and dance culture. Since the Spring and Autumn Period, "the music of the barbarians", the Han Dynasty, "a hundred plays", the Tang Dynasty, "music and dance", the Song Dynasty, "dance team", the Ming and Qing Dynasties, "Yangge", different forms of music and dance, the Yimeng region has a splendid music and dance culture. Ming and Qing Dynasty "Yangge", different forms and styles of folk dance, through dozens of dynasties of wind and rain washing and sifting, preserved has become the essence of traditional folk dance. Among them, the Dragon Lantern Carrying Pavilion is unique in the country. As early as 150 years ago, the dragon lamp, carrying the pavilion was circulated in Hedong District, Jiuqu Town, three Temple Village area, is a combination of folk dragon dance and carrying the pavilion in the performance of the square dance, rough and unrestrained, magnificent. In the past, it was used for rituals and seeking rain. During the Anti-Japanese War and the Liberation War, the Dragon Lanterns and Carrying Pavilions took part in the activities of welcoming the Eighth Route Army and the People's Liberation Army as well as celebrating the victories, and it became an indispensable entertainment program for festivals and celebrations. Dragon lanterns, carry loft dragon dancers for the young and strong, there are two groups to take turns on the field, each group of 10 people (or 14 people), 1 people Prime beads, 9 people are in charge of the dragon head, dragon tail, dragon body; 8 pay to carry the loft by the 16 people to perform (8 people adults for the "lower carry", 4 children for the "on the carry"), mostly dressed as the 8 Lu Army, the PLA, to celebrate the victory activities. "), mostly dressed up as mythological stories such as "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" in the character image.
Butterfly fluttering is another very distinctive square dance in Yimeng. Among them, the performance of Li Jieqian Village in Hancun Township, Linshu County, is known far and wide. The village has a large performing team. From the Spring Festival to the 15th day of the first lunar month, they not only perform in their own village, but also often go to neighboring villages and the county to perform. Participating in the performance of more than a hundred people, as few as dozens of people, men and women dance in teams, showing the youth's aspirations for a better life and praise for their hometown. In the war years, the butterflies propagated the Party's policy, promoted "rent and interest reduction", "land reform", "mobilization to join the army", The butterfly fluttering played a great role in promoting the Party's policy of "rent and interest reduction", "land reform", "mobilizing the military", and "handing over grain to support the front line". Crossroads Township's horse lanterns, Ezhuang's dance Dazhu Ma is also famous far and wide.
Opera
The opera in Yimeng area has strong regional characteristics, among which the Liuqin opera is the most famous. At the beginning of the founding of the country, a number of excellent liuqin actors emerged, such as Li Chunsheng and Zhang Jinlan, who sang the blue-colored flower girl. Liuqin Opera, formerly known as La Soul Cavity, has popular and vivid lyrics, is good at elaboration, and is especially good at narrating and expressing the psychological activities of the characters. The singing music of Liuqin Opera originates from the popular girl's accent and flower-drum tune in Linyi, and is influenced by Liuzi Opera, with its colorful floral accent and unique dragging accent as its main singing style. The repertoire is mostly based on historical stories and folklore, and the performances are simple and life-like. Especially the clown's performance is witty and not vulgar.
Yimeng region has a lot of Zhuangfu troupes, Yishui Gaozhuang Town Zhu village troupe, founded in 1941, people changed one after another, but the passion for the theater does not diminish, and every year they use oxcarts, horse-drawn carts to pull the actors and boxes, the four neighboring villages to perform. There is no need for a high stage and a large courtyard, and no need for a rush of strings, so they set up a frame in the courtyard by the hedge and a platform in the open field at the head of the village, and when the gongs and drums sound, they throw off their coarse cotton jackets and their big voices and step on the stage with a broken step. When the red curtain opens and closes, the characters in the play have fluttering sleeves and flowing eyes, and the words are correctly interpreted in the play's sorrows and joys.
The Yimeng region is famous for paper-cutting. No matter which village you go to, no matter which window you pass by, you'll almost always find auspicious, fiery red window flowers adorning the days of farming families. On the bed, in front of the stove fire, in the snowy night, under the old tree, a pair of dexterous hands, a pair of flying scissors, the ever-changing farm life cut out the infinite scenery, cut out the rich poetic mood.
Paper cutting is the carrier of folklore. Mr. Wang Bin of the Linyi Art Museum has made representative achievements in the field of paper-cutting, a folk artist who lived in the cold and damp basement of the art museum in the 1970s, and who put the roots of his artistic creation deep in the fertile soil of his ancestral culture, and who extracted invigorating vitality from the folk art to embody the spirit of the times. He and his student Tian Guihong created large-scale paper-cutting "Lian Sheng Guizi", "Peach Child", "Wang Xiang Crouching Fish", etc., in the celebration of the 50th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China and the National Paper-cutting Exhibition was awarded three gold medals, two silver medals; paper-cutting serial painting "Wang Xiang Crouching Fish" was collected by the Tsinghua University School of Arts and Crafts. This paper-cutting of heaven and earth as a semicircle, the sky is covered with half a circle of snowflakes, Wang Xiang lying on the ice abdomen cut a large fish, surrounded by a group of small fish swimming, constituting a Han painting stone carving and decorative flavor of modern woodcut. He in the "Water Margin Characters 108 Generals", "Journey to the West", "Romance of the Three Kingdoms", "Dream of the Red Mansions" and other paper-cutting creations, absorbing the rich image of traditional folk culture connotations, in the modeling and knife skills on the bold and deliberate out of the God, from the law to the law, the traditional charm of folk art into a new paper-cutting language symbols. Wang Bin also draws on the traditional framing techniques of Chinese painting, the large paper-cutting works inverted on the cloth sprayed with water to flatten, and then the front of the paper-cutting stick seal four sides, successfully framed a paper-cutting works. Yimeng area also has a kind of digging and mending door paper, also called the set of color door paper, folk called "change the hall", rich and simple, bright and not kitsch, unified and rich in variation. Spring Festival floats in the family's lintel, like running water out of several festive rhyme.
Printing and dyeing
The Yimeng region is famous for its blue-printed and color-printed fabrics. Ancient dyeing and printing workshops still exist in Cangshan, Jounan and Linshu. Those ancient huts scattered in the mountains and villages, exuding the aroma of a long time ago, support this art with a nostalgic feeling, and sow the beauty of blue printed fabrics deep in the Yimeng land. The pigment of blue printed fabric is indigo, which is extracted from a plant called blue grass, with stable physical properties and elegant color. Xunzi, who was the order of Lanling during the Warring States period, said in "Advice on Learning", "Green, taken from the blue is blue in the blue". This simple calm and soothing blue color, with auspicious mysterious and beautiful patterns, is purer than the white clouds floating in the blue sky, and more affectionate than the flowers blooming on the earth. This is the highest and silent artistic language that best represents the wisdom and passion of Yimeng children to create life. The pattern of blue printed cloth is mostly based on seven-point bird and flower, and the structure is composed of small dots, short lines and small blocks, which resembles a cat's paw and plum blossom; some of them adopt traditional patterns such as "roll line". The colorful printed fabrics are mostly printed in five-color sets of red, green, peach, purple and yellow, with rich structures and brilliant colors.
Painting and Calligraphy
Yimeng is the hometown of the "Sage of Calligraphy" Wang Xizhi, the famous hometown of painting and calligraphy. Influenced by the Sage of Calligraphy, there has been a tradition of studying calligraphy here since ancient times. "Linyi was known as Langya in ancient times, and it is home to a large number of historical figures and scholars. In addition to Wang Xizhi, the great calligrapher of the Eastern Jin Dynasty, Yan Zhenqing, the great calligrapher of the Tang Dynasty, was also born here. Linyi old city of the southwest corner of the Puzhao Temple site, originally Wang Xizhi's former residence, has been retained in the past Wang Xizhi's "sunshine book platform" and "wash ink stone pool" and other relics. Linyi city originally had a five wise ancestral temple, which was built by the ancients to honor the five philosophers of Zhu Geliang, Wang Xiang, Wang Nian and Yan Zhenqing, Yan Gaoqing. Over the past ten million years, the wind of calligraphy and painting in Linyi has never ceased, from the youngest child of a few years of age to the oldest man of eighty years of age, there are many people who wield the brush and splash ink on the paper, such as Zhang Shoumin, Wang Xiaogu, Hui-Yukun, Pi Zhixian, Gao Qingrong, Ma Yao, Yan Quan, Li Dakun and other famous calligraphers, who have further developed the traditional art of calligraphy. In recent years, calligraphy fever has gradually become a regional culture with strong local flavor. Some folk academic groups for researching Wang Xizhi and Yan Zhenqing were also established one after another. 1990 May, Linyi area successfully held the Sage of Calligraphy Art Festival, and at the same time held the "China Linyi Sage of Calligraphy Cup International Calligraphy Competition" and "Wang Xizhi's Hometown International Calligraphy and Paintings" invitational exhibition. Linyi region is taking advantage of traditional calligraphy. With the charm of traditional calligraphy, Linyi is attracting more and more people from home and abroad to come here to observe calligraphy and exchange skills.
Shen Yinmo, a famous master of calligraphy, once said, "The world recognizes Chinese calligraphy as the highest art because it can show amazing wonders, colorless but with the splendor of painting, soundless but with the harmony of music, which attracts people to appreciate it and make them feel happy." This accurate assessment of the aesthetic characteristics of Chinese calligraphy is vividly evidenced in ancient Linyi.
Craftsmanship
Craftsmanship in the Yimeng region has a long historical tradition and even broader prospects for development. Wangjiafang in Junan was once hailed by the Chinese Ministry of Culture as the "Hometown of Sculpture in China". Those sleeping stones in the mountains and fields, in the clanging of burins and hammers, and in the ticking of sweat down their dark backs, become a piece of ingeniously conceived, elegantly modeled, elegantly fashioned, and y connoted treasures. The granite of Zhucang Township under the Cangma Mountain in Linshu County is the best material for stone carving, and the carving of lions, tigers and other products are of high artistic taste.
Small Guo Dong Village in Cangshu County is known as the "Hometown of Chinese Clay Sculpture" by the Ministry of Culture of the People's Republic of China, and the history of making clay toys has been more than 130 years. These clay toys have clay mold molding, focusing on the appearance of the exaggeration. White powder is applied to the clay blanks as the base color, then red, peach, yellow, green, purple and other colors are applied, and finally black is used for outlining, so as to achieve the effect of variety and unity. The back and bottom of some of them still show the original color of the clay, which is simple and unadorned. Linyi clay toys to peach and green as the main tone, warm, bright, lively, a variety of operatic characters, a variety of animal modeling is exquisite, showing the extraordinary wisdom of the working people. Chuzhuang's "cow's head whistle" can blow a few monotonous tunes. "Five silk whistle" to red, yellow, blue, white, black, five-color line tied with pottery whistle, take the Dragon Boat Festival folk wear "Banzai Suo" auspicious. These rich local flavor and strong fun toys, many times abroad to participate in folk art exhibitions, some were sent to Song Qingling's former residence museum display. It is worth mentioning that the folk craft of kneading noodles, which is very close to clay toys, is often seen in the streets of Yimeng area. In 2001, CCTV filmed the "Dream Theater" in Linshu County, and the kneaders were on camera.
Tancheng wood carving toys have a long history, a wide variety of styles, swords, guns, horses, birds and animals, a variety of characters, hanging lamps and lanterns, up to 7 categories of more than 500 varieties. Those tiger bell, plum blossom gun, Longquan sword; those walnut people, horse-drawn carts, the Eight Immortals baskets carrying beautiful fairy tales, ballads and countless magical legends, squeaking and crushing through the years of the alley, through the generation after generation of people's childhood. In recent years, as people's lives have improved and the level of artistic appreciation has risen, many of the things that used to be unremarkable have also made their way into the hall of honor. Linshu, Junan area of willow crafts, blossomed everywhere; to the Yimeng Mountain, Cangmashan roots as raw materials for the root carving also appeared in style.