Paper binding
Paper binding is a unique folk art that integrates paper cutting, painting, straw weaving, bamboo binding and pasting. It is indeed time for the paper-bound art to enter Wulian. According to an old man in Hongning Village, during the light years of the Qing Dynasty, his ancestral home was engaged in paper binding, and he was the fifth generation. There are dozens of papermakers in Wulian County, mainly distributed in Hongning, the county seat, Dujiagou, Chaohe, Xumeng, Yuli and Wanghu. Before liberation, cows, horses, sedan chairs, chests, cornucopia, cash cows, lotus tables and figures in Dozza were used to pay homage to those who were buried with them. Sometimes kites are tied, including Tiangong, Bagua, Phoenix, bangs, butterflies, swallows and moths. Also tied lanterns and dragon lanterns. Usually, people who hold happy events and build new houses are decorated, such as tying the ceiling and beautifying the bridal chamber.
With the development of the times, the ancient art of "paper binding" absorbs the strengths of sister art and shines new splendor. Since 1981, Wulian County Cultural Center and Library have jointly held the Spring Festival lantern riddles, and the paper lanterns selected and sent by each village have different images, which are really beautiful. In 1986, Hongning Village created "Shuanglong Play Pearl" paper-bound artwork. Two dragons are coiled around two pillars, with a treasure in the middle and colorful clouds around them. The artwork is only one meter high, unique in shape and profound in meaning. In the Spring Festival of 1987, Wulian County Supply and Marketing Cooperative made a dragon-shaped float. Two dragons are stuck on both sides of the car, and the car is moving, shaking its head and wagging its tail, just like a real dragon walking around, and the audience is surrounded by the car, cheering and praising.
in Chaohe Town
There are thousands of lanterns in Hualouzi
In Wulian Mountain area, fireworks and firecrackers are lit every Spring Festival or festive day or opening ceremony. There are many kinds of firecrackers and fireworks, so there are folk songs such as "Didi Jin Er Xiao Bao Zheng (that is, Bao Zhan), Dahua Lei Zi Yan Bao Zheng" and "In the first month, the first month is new, and there are thousands of lights on the floor". "Flowers are everywhere" refers to the folk saying of "pole flowers". "Pole Flower" is a folk flame flower artist who carefully creates varied flame flower stories and sets up a continuous combination of flame flowers with wooden poles. "Rod Flower" is rumored in Wanghu, Xumeng, Yuli, Hongning, Jietou, Chaohe, Hubu and other towns and villages. According to textual research, there has been a legend of "pole flowers" in Wulian area since the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, which has a history of more than 3 years. On February 2nd, 1915, a "stick flower" was released at the bottom of willow tree in Renwang, which attracted audiences from Weixian, Anqiu, Gaomi, Zhucheng and Linyi. This time, the flower pole was made of five vertical poles. The first four poles were 4 meters long, and the top of each pole was covered with an umbrella lamp. A 4-meter-long crossbar was tied in each pole, and there were apricot flowers, barrel flowers, pear flowers, fighting flowers and hot wheels at both ends, which were called one pole and four drops. The fifth pole was 6 meters high, with six layers of crossbars and six layers of flowers. When it is set off, some of them are like "butterflies flying in wings", which is graceful; Some are just like "the goddess scattered flowers", competing for each other; There are also elephant bouquets, the glow of which is flashing and colorful. The ancient traditional fireworks technology has injected new vitality and bloomed with the splendor of the new era.
dragon lantern dance
dragon lantern dance
is also called playing dragon lantern. The utensils are made of bamboo and cloth, generally 9-12 knots, about 2 meters long. During the performance, one person holds one section, and each section is fitted with candles. In recent years, dry battery bulbs have been installed, which greatly improves the range of movements. Most of the movements are tumbling, jumping, running big and small steps, etc., to show the dragon's spinning and flying posture. In front of the dragon lantern, there is a person holding a "pearl" to guide the dragon to make a way to break through the clouds and fog. The most common forms of performance are "dragon heads up", "golden dragon turns over", "adding scales", "dragon's tail" and "dragon's nest". When the dance reaches its climax, the dragon's mouth spouts flames, commonly known as "dragon spits fire". At this time, the golden light of the dragon body flashed and rolled up and down, like walking on clouds, and the scene was warm and spectacular. What is even more unique is the "Three-section Dragon" in Happy Town, which consists of three girls holding their heads, bodies and tails, swinging up and down, left and right, and dancing in a unique style. People in Heshan Township become dragons. First, the stilt team with various colors enters the stadium. When it reaches the climax, the leaders first lift three people to set up the already prepared dragon, and then three people behind them carry one person to unfold the dragon suit, and the stilt team immediately becomes a dragon. The acrobatic teams are mostly led by dragon lanterns. Every time they arrive at a village, they will beat gongs and drums and set off firecrackers to greet them, which is called "welcome the dragon head". If there are dragon lanterns in this village, they should also dance out of the village to show etiquette, and some are intended to compete with each other. The acrobatic team is huge, and the dragon lantern dance is often accompanied by lion dance and aquarium dance, and there are warm scenes such as dragon and lion fights and aquarium fights.
stilt dance
stilt dance
stilt dance is commonly known as walking on stilts. The stilts are made of hard logs, the lower circle is flat, there is a stilt in the middle, and two are a pair, about . 6 meters. During the performance, you should pedal your feet, tie your feet and calves on the stilts and stilts with a cloth bag, and wear trousers or a special gown. Stilts teams are generally composed of twenty or thirty people, with more than forty or fifty people. Before the founding of the People's Republic, only men participated (some men and women). After the founding of New China, women joined and increased year by year. Stilts teams usually dress up as one or several groups of characters in myths and operas, such as "Tang Priest's Learning from the Scriptures", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea" and "Fishing to Kill the Family". Some of them are mainly yangko, such as "catching butterflies", "Zhang Laobei's wife" and "big shovel jar". Stilts dance pays attention to the formation transformation, and its basic transformation forms are "stepping on the street", "crossing flowers", "one-stop", "scissors", "big eight-character" and "Kirin seeing off children". This formation generally appears in downtown areas and grand occasions, and it is difficult to move. When performing, everyone holds one person in a prone position, which looks like a unicorn. The accompaniment instruments of stilt dance are complete, except percussion, there are suona, flute, sheng, jinghu, erhu, sanxian and other instruments. The most commonly used gongs and drums classics are Yi Ma Qiang, A Book and Yao Er San.