The soil, it and human beings have long had a relationship of fish and water. Soil has a rich and extraordinary nutrients, breeding a colorful folk art. Folk painting is one of the wonders. Folk paintings have national and local, in other words, the painting expression of each regional characteristics, because of its strong earthy flavor, Cixi farmers paintings stand out in Zhejiang, and even the country.
Cixi farmers' paintings, no matter in the conception, composition, modeling, outline, coloring, etc., have fully embodied the wisdom of local farmers. There are many hobby painters and calligraphers among the farmers in Cixi, so it was named the hometown of modern folk painting by the Ministry of Culture, and Cixi peasant paintings have won awards frequently, not only at home, but also abroad, such as the U.S., Japan, South Korea, and Western Europe, where the audience loves them.
Excellent Cixi peasant paintings, or unrestrained, or rough, or condensed, in the childish modeling, you can see the painters' love of life, and the eulogy of new things. In the artistic expression, you can see their skillful handling methods. They are rough and fine, strong and soft. Cixi peasant paintings in the chapter, the force to break the balance, quite natural interest, which is undoubtedly a new form of expression of modern Chinese peasant paintings, worthy of attention and appreciation.
Cixi City was named "China's modern folk painting township" by the Ministry of Culture in 1988. Cixi held one or two exhibitions every year, each time displaying 30-50 works, the author of about 10-20 people, regular creative activities, so that Cixi has emerged some excellent creative talent, such as Yu Navy's "countryside", Sun Liqiang's "three northern people", Wang Jianjiang's "new farmhouse", Sun Zhongshan's "double push the mill", "back to my mother's home" and other works have become a representative of the peasant paintings in Cixi.
Fenghua Boulong has a long history and a long lineage, and is said to have a history of three hundred years so far. It is a folk dance that has been gradually developed by honoring and entertaining the gods, with a beautiful dance, unique style and strong artistic influence.
Bulong is mainly divided into three parts: form, dance and song. Shape, colorful cloth as the main raw material, with bamboo, wood and other auxiliary materials, made of realistic, powerful and majestic cloth dragon. Dance, dragon dancers use roll, turn, stretch, jump and other full-body movements, dance out the dragon clouds and fog, turning rivers and seas, still as a child moving like a rabbit dynamic, showing the dragon flexible, swallowing the mountains and rivers to fight in the air, reflecting human beings dare to fight with the sky, people will win the good wishes and heroic spirit. The music is slow, exciting, like the night rain, or swaying in the breeze. Dance language, with the beginning and end of the chapter, depicting the dragon from quiet to movement, from the opening, climax, epilogue, ending the whole process.
The Fenghua Dragon has a broad mass base in the folklore, and every festive season, there is a tradition of Dragon Dance and Dragon Race in the folklore, and the scale of the Dragon Race is quite impressive.
After the founding of the PRC, the influence of Fenghua Dragon has spread far and wide, and it has been performing in Beijing on behalf of the province and the city for many times, and has won high honors.
In March 1955, Fenghua Dragon took part in the National Amateur Music and Dance Concert, and was awarded the prize of excellent performance.
The Premier of the PRC praised Fenghua Dragon after he had watched the wonderful performance of Fenghua Dragon and said "This Dragon can represent the country to go abroad."
In September 1988, Fenghua Dragon won the second prize in the National Dragon Dance Competition.
In July 1997, it won the "Best Award" and "Jade Seal Award" at the First Dragon Dance Festival and "Dragon Cup" Invitational Competition in Beijing; in September of the same year, it took part in the Sixth National Miles Border Dance Competition. In September of the same year, to participate in the sixth national cultural corridor construction will be, Zhejiang "Pearl of the East China Sea" large-scale cultural evening, won the performance of the Gold Medal.
Fenghua was named the hometown of Chinese Folk Art (Bulong) by the Ministry of Culture because of its superb Bulong art.
Lion dance originated from Buddhism, started in the Tang Dynasty, prevalent in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, known as "the hometown of the lion dance" Ninghai lion dance commonly known as "playing the lion", "lion lamp", popular so far has been It has been popular for nearly a thousand years. In the Ninghai countryside in front of the house, both sides of the bridge, the public **** site is still distributed in different forms of stone lions, people to the lion as a protection against evil, symbol of good luck, and in honor of the gods and ancestors, the custom of the lion dance to send a good harvest, peace and good wishes. Lion dance is generally in the first month or festivals by the lion class up to a specific organization to carry out activities. Every time the lion class into the village performance, there is a special person to report, and blowing horns, gongs, drums, firecrackers, warm and extraordinary, signaling the arrival of good luck. First in the transfer hall. Temple Temple dance to the ancestors, the gods to view, in order to show frank, pious heart, and then go to the square, forming the climax of the lion dance. Due to the differences in cultural and geographic, cultural and psychological factors, Ninghai Lion Dance in the long-term popularity, development has formed a unique style, which has a performance of mountain lions fierce and courageous character of the martial arts lion dance, jumping, ascent, fall, teng Yue and other series as the main body; there is a performance of the lion's docile character of the coastal areas of the lion lion dance, in order to scratch the itch, shaking the hair, lick the tongue, meditation and other performances. The area between the mountains and the sea is the integration of the two styles of taming the wild in one, called the Wenwu Lion Dance, in this lion dance, there are tough, brutal "grab bite" and other large-scale action, but also subtle "friendship" and other descriptive action.
The colorful boats of Xianxiang Town began in the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty and has a history of more than 200 years. Xianxiang Town is located in the port of Xiangshan, on the coast of the East China Sea, naturally formed a way to celebrate fishing and salt harvest with colorful boats. With the extension of time, every year during the eighth and ninth lunar month, cotton, early rice harvest, everyone in the form of a temple fair to make colored boats to celebrate, the guild, the people have to taste their craftsmanship, so they are quite competitive with each other.
After the liberation, in order to celebrate the founding of new China, anti-American aid to North Korea, the Federation of industry and commerce, mutual aid cooperatives, people's communes, the establishment of the Revolutionary Committee and major national activities, the party's birthday and a series of major events, Xianxiang color boat has become the people's heart of the mascot, is the form of mass cultural activities are indispensable to the form of a traditional project, the masses are always tired of watching, participate in the side of the appreciation. 1992 Xianxiang town, there are four Village boat on behalf of Yinzhou team to participate in the Ningbo International Culture and Tourism Festival; 1993, 1997, the two Culture and Arts Festival are Xianxiang color boat team; 1999 Xianxiang Town, double-dragon boat breakthroughs to Hangzhou, to participate in the Zhejiang Provincial Qunxing visual arts exhibitions; in October of the same year, three boats to participate in the China's first Liangzhu Marriage Festival, and Zhongshan Road in Ningbo to participate in the stamping activities, of which salty six villages on behalf of the Yinzhou color boat to participate in the Ningbo city Lantern Festival competition, won the first prize. The county's previous art festivals, business township trade festival, all have Xianxiang color boat team.
Colorful boat specifications:
Colorful boat specifications (commonly known as yarn boat): 1.2 meters wide, 3 meters long, 3 meters high.
Name: dragon boat, phoenix boat, fish boat, sunflower boat, flower jiao boat, with the process of history, development to the South Lake boat, Tiananmen, tank boat and so on.
Production materials: the original small bamboo to do the frame, tied with colored paper and colored flowers, the current wood, paint, carving instead of bamboo, paper, specifications have also increased, now 5 meters high and 4 meters long.
Contents: a colorful boat to participate in the event. First of all, about 5 meters high flagship, (commonly known as the big belly) to open the way, four people to carry, with eight people in rotation (now changed to wheel push), a group of folk band 15 or so people, a total of more than 20 ****, the boat is equipped with large, medium and small three drums, with a person into the inner beat, the boat is equipped with four gongs, also with a person, and then there are small gongs (the dog called Luo) dialing each person, percussion **** four people; pulling strings: Panhu, erhu, in the big hu Violin, blowing to bamboo flute, but also whistle na, trumpet, etc.; plucked, three-stringed, Yueqin, electronic piano. The repertoire: "Plum Blossoms Three Six", "Liu Qing Niang", "Theater Rules", "Selling Flower Floss", "Purple Bamboo Tune", "Learning from Dazhai", "Slender Man's Love", "Great China" and so on.
Activity form: mobility stepping street, while carrying, while playing.