Luochuan County, culture and art

Ranges

There are three kinds of folk songs in the performance style: Huangzhang, Old County, Yongxiang and other places in the five northern townships, the performance action is rough, such as lame drums and clothes are like ancient warriors dressed up, jumping and brave, with the style of the Qin and Han Dynasties; in the five townships of Fengqi, Jingzhao, Yangshu, the old temple, etc., the performance action is fine, elegant, clothing has the characteristics of the Ming and Qing Dynasties; the southern eight townships represented by the Shiquan, the performance is rich in content, accompanied by a large drum team and firecrackers, with a grand and spectacular, similar to the ancient triumphal return ceremonial procession. Rich in content, accompanied by a large drum and gong team, firecrackers, grand and spectacular, similar to the ancient triumphant return of the honor guard.

Social fire

Social fire is a kind of large-scale folk performance in Luochuan during the daytime. The form of its performance is divided into three parts: the front is the drum team, drum team line, gongs, cymbals line, two lines face to face, the drummer with a rope tied to the chest of each person a drum, knocking the "social fire drums", stepping on a certain point, side step forward. There is no limit to the number of drums and gongs, and some of them are as many as dozens of people. In the middle of the gongs and drums team stands a person, holding a long wooden pole, the upper side of the pole with colorful paper wrapped with patterns, while moving forward, while waving the colorful wooden pole, adjusting the gongs and drums team, and the back of the stilts to make it coordinated with the masses called "yell social fire". The stilt walkers follow the gongs and drums, and this is the theme part of the show. Mao embroidery

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Luochuan folk embroidery deteriorated with the variety and beauty of daily necessities. Mao embroidery is based on embroidery, cloth products and other styling and creation of hemp fabric as a base, embroidered with colorful wool thread. The motifs are mostly based on theater stories, birds, animals, flowers, real-life production, life, and visions of the future. There is a combination of images, individual images, used to decorate the walls.

Noodle Flower

Luochuan noodle flower is a traditional folk art of making blessings with processed leavened noodles. People on New Year's Day, honoring the gods and ancestors, marriage, birthday wishes, visiting friends and relatives to noodle flowers as a grand gift, steamed, branded, fried and other ways to make a variety of forms, good-looking and tasty. Producers with a wooden comb pressure, will become a bird's feathers, with a spoon to the fish and dragons carved scales, with scissors to the small fish, birds, rabbits cut out the mouth, tail, with beans decorated with eyes, and dyed with color.

Pottery

Luochuan County is the ancient pottery production place, pottery has long been for the Luochuan people's daily necessities, after the founding of the country enameled daily necessities are widely used, pottery is rarely made. Tile urns, tile pots, tiles, etc. in the countryside for the majority of farmers still love. Legend has it that placing food is not easy to be bad, so far farmers still regard pottery as heirlooms, polished bright and shiny, set in the highest level of the bowl rack.