What are the customs in Shaanxi?

Guanzhong shadow play originated in the Han Dynasty and was originally made of cardboard. After the Song Dynasty, it began to be made of cattle, sheep and donkey skins.

According to the design image of the opera, the first-class donkey, cow and sheepskin are selected and made through six processes: scraping, carving, dyeing, covering, ironing and cutting. Guanzhong shadow play not only inherited the tradition of stone carving in Han dynasty, but also gave full play to the advantages of institutional painting in Song dynasty. It uses fine contour modeling, exaggerated decorative patterns, dense virtual processing methods and meticulous carving techniques to express the appearance, identity, clothing and personality of the characters in the play, achieving artistic effects of both form and spirit.

Second, Ansai waist drum

Ansai waist drum is a folk dance of Han nationality in Shaanxi. A performance can be performed by several people or thousands of people together. Magnificent, delicate and intoxicating, it is called the first drum in the world.

From 65438 to 0996, Ansai County was named as the hometown of waist and drum in China by the Ministry of Culture. On May 20th, 2006, Ansai Waist Drum was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.

"Waist drum" is a kind of folk encouragement spread in northern Shaanxi, especially in Ansai County in Yan 'an, Hengshan Mountain in Yulin and Mizhi.

Third, Yijun peasant paintings

In the history of civilization for thousands of years, it has experienced several periods of cultural development and prosperity: Neolithic Age, Spring and Autumn Period, Warring States Period, Wei, Jin, Tang and Song Dynasties. The profound cultural accumulation and rich artistic connotation have formed people's special aesthetic taste. Yijun peasant painting, a special artistic expression in a special environment, came into being.

Yijun peasant painting is a kind of painting art based on the traditional paper-cut art of Yijun folk artists, which expresses the customs of Yijun and even the Loess Plateau through painting forms. The natural, simple and rough painting style and the artistic expression of harmonious coexistence between man and nature add luster to China art gardens.

Fourth, folk songs in northern Shaanxi.

Folk songs in northern Shaanxi are traditional folk songs in northern Shaanxi, which are divided into three categories: labor chant, belief in heaven and minor. Labor songs include tamping songs, smashing songs, quarrying songs, cattle songs and playing songs.

Xintianyou can be divided into high-pitched cavity and flat cavity. These traditional folk songs, each with its own genre and characteristics, reflect all aspects of social life and sing the joys and sorrows of the people in northern Shaanxi. When the social system changes fundamentally, the content and form of folk songs also change. This change is reflected in the new social life and new characters in content, and it also gives new meanings to various genres.

Verb (abbreviation of verb) Xi An's drum music

Xi 'an drum music is a large-scale folk drum music that has been circulating in Xi 'an and its surrounding areas for thousands of years.

In ancient Chang 'an and its surrounding areas, especially at the northern foot of Qinling Mountains, there were many temples and Taoist temples. These temples and temple fairs and a number of folk music clubs are the basis for the survival of drum music in Xi 'an.

The existing Collection of Musical Scores of Angu Musicians in the 28th year of Qing Qianlong is basically the same as that used in Seventeen Songs directed by Jiang Kui in Song Dynasty, which proves that this collection has a long history and is a folk musical score that has been gradually lost in China since Ming and Qing Dynasties.