What are the folk customs in Zhoushan?

1. Zhoushan gongs and drums are based on gongs, drums, cymbals and suona, with silk and bamboo in between. The sound is majestic, the melody is exciting and unrestrained, the atmosphere is extremely warm, and it has distinctive island characteristics. After liberation, this folk art was slowly brought to the stage after processing and improvement. His major works include "The Triumphant Song of Fishing Boats", "The Song of Fishermen in the East China Sea", "The Joy of Fishermen", etc.

2. Zhoushan fishermen’s chants are the general name for boat and fishermen’s chants in the Zhoushan Islands. It is a marine folk oral music passed down from generation to generation by fishermen and boatmen on various islands in Zhoushan. It is closely related to the operations of fishing boats, transport ships and fishing ( Boat) people accompany them closely when working at sea and on shore. It is one of the representative folk labor chants in Zhejiang Province and even in China.

3. The Flea Club, also known as the Stove Dance Club, is a folk dance spread in Baiquan, Zhoushan. It is named after the dance looks like a flea and the legend that women can extinguish fires by jumping on the stove and peeing. It takes the form of a male-female duet dance, with the male playing the role of Jigong and the female playing the role of the God of Fire (the man disguises himself as a woman wearing red clothes and green trousers), which means "Ji Gong fights the God of Fire".

4. Singing pengpeng means singing news, which means that the musician uses accompaniment to rap and sing current affairs news and comments to the public, and gets a certain amount of reward.

5. Offer sacrifices to the sea. Before fishermen go out to sea, they must first worship the gods on the boat and burn the ultimatum, commonly known as "executive documents". Then the boss throws the wine in the cup and the meat on the plate into the sea, saying it as a "reward for the wandering soul", so that he can go out fishing safely.

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