Folk customs in many places

My hometown is in Yangquan City, Shanxi Province. I found some folk customs here for your reference.

Local culture

Yangquan meticulous painting

1955, workers' cartoons and Chinese paintings first appeared in our city. 197 1 year, to commemorate the 30th anniversary of the publication of Mao Zedong's Speech at Yan 'an Forum on Literature and Art, 17 Mining Bureau, railway, Yang Gang, bauxite mine, municipal government and other units organized workers' art lovers to create their works, and selected 90 works to participate in the art photography exhibition of the 360th anniversary of the publication of the commemorative speech in Yangquan City. During the period of 1973, artists from the Municipal Cultural Center successively held workshops for workers' art creation in No.2 Mine, No.4 Mine and Shannan Reservoir, and created 439 pieces of Chinese paintings, prints, comic books, New Year pictures, paper-cutting and sketches that reflected miners' lives and water supply projects, and held four art exhibitions on the basis of merit. The above activities have been valued and praised by the whole province and the whole country. 42 works were selected to celebrate the 24th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China in Shanxi Chinese Painting Exhibition and Fine Arts Exhibition. Shanxi People's Publishing House published Selected Paintings of Yangquan Workers. Shanxi Daily published a full-page review article and selected pages of Zan Yangquan Coal Mine Workers' Painting, and representatives of Yangquan were invited to attend the national art creation experience exchange meeting. 1974 65438+ 10, Yangquan Municipal Committee held a symposium on artistic creation in No.2 Mine, summed up and popularized the experience of the Mining Bureau, No.2 Mine, No.4 Mine and the Municipal Agricultural Machinery Factory in carrying out the artistic creation activities of employees, and further promoted the artistic creation activities of employees. The city, the overall situation and the mine have successively set up a leading group for workers' art creation or a workers' art group, and the workers' creative team has grown rapidly. The units directly under the city and the Mining Bureau, No.1 Mine, No.2 Mine, No.3 Mine and No.4 Mine held 6 workshops on workers' art creation, and 127 workers participated in the creation. Artists from the Provincial Art Creation Group, the Provincial Cultural Center and the People's Fine Arts Publishing House successively went deep into the workshops to assist and guide, and * * * completed 2 15 paintings. In addition to the city exhibition, the "Shanxi Workers' Painting Exhibition" was also exhibited. 1974 10, the Ministry of Culture held "Shanghai, Yangquan and Luda Workers' Painting Exhibition", and 33 paintings by Yangquan workers were selected. After being exhibited in Beijing, it toured Nanchang, Guilin, Changsha, Xi 'an, Taiyuan and Shenyang from 10 to July. The influence of Yangquan meticulous painting has spread all over the country and gained a wide reputation, which has been well received by international friends such as France, Britain and Japan. During the exhibition, * * * received an audience of 654.38+0.492 million. There are 1835 Yangquan Gongbi paintings in the national collection, 5 Yangquan Gongbi paintings, and 6 works published by the national publishing house, including 338,455 single paintings. Newspapers and news agencies at or above the provincial level published 1 1 articles of Yangquan workers and commented on production articles 125 articles.

Comment on Yangquan

Recitation is a folk art form with a history of nearly a hundred years. Originated in Pingding County and developed in Yangquan area, it is the main genre of Shanxi Quyi. At first, Kuaifugen, a folk artist, absorbed Daobai and other rhyming songs from local drums and yangko, and strung local anecdotes into "Ha Ha Xiao" to rap in the street, and later named it "Yangquan Review" and put it on the stage. The main artistic means of commenting on Yangquan are speaking, learning, teasing and singing. Its basic characteristics are white dialect rhyme, long and short sentence patterns, humorous artistic style, catchy, cordial and touching. There are single, double and multi-person performances, and in recent years, there have been different forms such as dressing-up explanation, explanation sketch and explanation drama, which further enriched the artistic expression form of Yangquan explanation.

A series of rapid drums.

* * * * is a kind of folk art popular in Yangquan area, which has two forms of performance: singing and dancing, rap and formation walking. According to different performance forms, they are also called "Kevin Drum" and "Wu Kai Drum" respectively. Wengu is a combination of speaking, singing, jumping and playing. The spoken language is dialect and rhymes with humor. Singing is a song with one eye. Although there is no accompaniment when singing, the rhythm is bright and distinctive. Dancers holding colored fans, colored silks and percussion musicians cut out the venue mainly in a "round step", with light and smooth steps and beautiful dances; Percussion instruments are played by gongs, drums and cymbals. Wearing colorful clothes and pants. Wen Yi drum is active in the streets during the day, which is called "Lantern Festival", and it dances into people's courtyards at night, which is called "driving away waste". Wu Yun summoned sacrificial ceremonies such as games originated from ancient gods. There are fixed programs, that is, 265,438+0 people, holding drums, cymbals, cymbals and cymbals respectively, dancing while playing, with fixed formation names, qupai and hitting methods.

Jiuqu Yellow River Array

Popular activities during the Lantern Festival in Yangshugou and Sanquan in the suburbs of Yangquan. The main body of the array is 19 meters square, with 36 1 stake. Piles are connected with ropes into zigzag channels according to certain rules. The whole array is divided into 9 regions, and each region has a 360-degree bend. 36 1 Each pile has a colored paper lamp, and a yellow flag is inserted at the top of the middle pillar, with eight diagrams under it. The picture below shows a bucket with "Nine Curves of the Yellow River" written on all sides. On the four sides one meter away from the periphery of the main body, it consists of four doors and corner posts tied with colored silk. The layout of Jiuqu Yellow River Array is rigorous and spectacular. According to folklore, walking along the Yellow River array on the fourth day before and after the Lantern Festival can cure all diseases.

Tiger

Originated from the old game of meeting the gods, it can be divided into eight-person lifting and 16-person lifting. Wooden poles are tied to the frame, iron bars are planted on the frame, and the actors are tied to the iron bars. The upper end of the iron bar bends and penetrates into the sleeve, which looks like one arm is held horizontally. An iron bar was erected at the end of the pole, on which an actor was placed. The whole composition is like a person holding another person with one arm. Lift the wooden frame, jump while walking and sing. Currently installed on trucks. This dance form is widely circulated in Pingding County.

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One of the forms of folk hundred plays. A "pavilion" dance in which one person carries another. The method is: make an iron cross and two iron brackets at the lower end, put them on the shoulders of the wearer and fix them with ropes. Put a boy or girl on the cross.

Niu Douhu

Spread in Yuxian area. According to legend, this folk dance originated from a local folklore. The whole dance is that two people are cows, two people are tigers, 1 people are bears. It shows the story that the tiger fought with the cow at the instigation of man and bear, and was finally defeated by the cow. Cowhide and tiger skin are made of cloth and put on actors to perform. Accompanied by drums, gongs and cymbals, the "overlord war" was played. With strong folk characteristics and local flavor, it has become the most popular program on Lantern Festival Night.

Story fire

In the early years of the Republic of China, Jia Jinyi of Xiaoqiaopu village brought back a broom fire from Hebei, and the villager Wang imitated and reformed it to make a model combination lamp with many organs, medicines and twists connected with each other, which can express stories and be called story fire, and set it off for the villagers on holidays. Before the discharge, hanging on the rope, Yunlong coefficient is fun, after the ignition, the beads are sprayed, and the organs are one after another, and the group images are colorful and spectacular. Its themes are mostly dragons catching goblins, two-headed snakes, four-faced monsters, spider spirits, etc., which show the local folk traditions. Since the end of 1980s, the story fire in this village has successively appeared representative works of modern themes such as Shooting Tanks, Bombers Dropping Bombs, Nine Lotus Lights, Spreading the Wings of Phoenix, and Looking forward to the New Year. Participated in the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival mass cultural activities in the county for many times, and was deeply loved by the masses. 199 1 year, "Flat Top Story Fire" won the first prize of Shanxi Square Art Video Competition.

Horsetail monkey

During the light year of the Qing Dynasty (1821-1850), a foreign artist came to Xiaoqiaopu village to perform a wooden animal puppet show. Gao Qing, an oilman from our village, came to give a lecture. After research and transformation, it gradually became a ponytail-shaped puppet with a paper model. After the improvement of villages in past dynasties, it became the puppet show of ponytail monkeys today. Most of his performances are folk stories of exorcising evil spirits and avoiding disasters. People call the performance "Fighting Aoshan". By the third generation of descendants and Yang Shi, the production technology was more and more advanced, and people nicknamed them ponytail monkeys. In the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, senior artists produced new programs, such as public grain, watering the land and rocket flying into the sky, and matched them with gongs and drums to make them more perfect. Since the late 1980s, the "ponytail monkey" in the village has participated in the mass cultural activities of the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival in the county for many times, which is deeply loved by the masses.

Imperial law and order

Donghui Palace, which originated in Sui and Tang Dynasties, was a new type of transportation at that time. It was mainly used for royal and court officials to transport valuables, and the government to transport food, grass and other items to help the victims. There are two classes, one is water, that is, ship and planning; One is the dry profile, that is, the vehicle profile and the lifting profile. Later, it was used in folk weddings, such as stone boxes and carrying boxes. With the continuous development of society, it has also evolved into a large-scale traditional folk art performance form, which is deeply loved by the broad masses. This folk art rooted in loess is grand and magnificent. Its Long Snake Array, Erlong Water Array and Jiuqu Yellow River Array are unpredictable and magical. In recent years, Donghui Huanggang has participated in many major mass cultural activities in cities and counties and is deeply loved by the masses.