What are the historical customs and habits in Yancheng?

Yancheng is the birthplace of Huai Opera, and is known as "the hometown of Huai Opera", "the hometown of small operas" and "the hometown of modern operas". Yancheng is also one of the three semi-acrobatic towns in China, which has unique advantages in acrobatic resources, education and training, and talent team.

Huai Opera is also called Jianghuai Opera. Popular in Jiangsu Province, Shanghai and parts of Anhui Province. In the middle of Qing Dynasty, a rap form "Menrang" was popular in Yancheng and Funing, Jiangsu Province, which was developed from Jia Min's chant, Tian Ge's "Lei Lei tune" and "rice planting tune". The form is a solo or two duets, and only the bamboo board is used to beat. Later, it was combined with the folk "incense drama" to reward the gods, which was called "Jiangbei drama". Later, influenced by Hui Opera and Peking Opera, Huai Opera gradually enriched in singing, performance and repertoire. In the early Huai Opera, "Old Huai Tune" and "Yi Ba Tune" were the main tunes, and the vocals were basically composed of qupai, without orchestral instruments. Around 1930, Dai Baoyu, Liang Guangyou, Xie Changyu and others began to create some new tunes accompanied by erhu, which was named "Ladiao" because erhu was played with a bow. The performing arts of Huai Opera have been greatly improved, and the floating area has gradually expanded from Yancheng, Funing and Huai 'an to Jiangsu Province. 19 12, Huai Opera artist He, etc. Bring Huai Opera to Shanghai to sing. Later, the famous actor He Jiaotian created "Lian Sentence" aria, which further enriched the "free tune". Traditional dramas of Huai Opera include: The Tip of the Tongue, Catching Feet, Clever Grandma Scolding Cats and other early life dramas. Qin Xianglian, Lan and other 9 plays with lotus characters, Wang, Su and other 13 plays.

In the rural areas around Yancheng and Funing, there have been witch fairs in history, including: praying for a bumper harvest for seedling fairs and seedling fairs; Extend happiness and eliminate disasters, be a Taiping meeting, a Mars meeting, etc. With the change of history, this kind of performance has been enriched continuously, and after a long period of evolution, it has gradually developed into a incense play.

Incense Opera is a local opera closely related to folk belief in ghosts and gods, also known as Three Fires and Three Fires, which was finally formed around the first year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty (1862). Its singing is composed of incense popular in China and Huai Bangzi popular in Huaiyin and Baoying. At the same time, incense artists often join hands with gate artists, so many tunes in incense plays come from gate valves.