Playing "Bamboo and Horse Dry Boat" in Una Village

? It was a long time ago that people in Una Village, Zhutian Town, Feixian County could dance lions and sticks. Now every New Year, villagers will organize performances spontaneously.

Wang Laohan of our village specially explained the stick dance in this track. Speaking of great dancing, aunt Wang next to her replied, "Your uncle doesn't know this as much as I do!" " Wang Laohan smiled and said, "This was done by your aunt before." After listening to their introduction, I realized that the great dance was not an independent program, but a dance in the folk opera "Bamboo and Horse Dry Boat". Every Spring Festival, the performance group of our village will go to the county seat to perform, and will also tour to various towns and villages, but they are all excerpts from this play. A complete large-scale performance was performed by a * * * in our village for four times, the last time was at 1986, and now it is more than 30 years ago.

? Who created the play "Bamboo and Horse Dry Boat", or when and where it was introduced to Una Village, two 80-year-old people couldn't tell, at least it was officially staged in the late Qing Dynasty and the early Republic of China. It may be a traditional ditty, created and added by artists from generation to generation. It is a rare local track in Feixian County and an important intangible heritage left by our ancestors. Although the play is good, there are fewer and fewer old artists, and few people can sing it completely now. It is urgent to save this cultural heritage.

The actors are all ordinary people in the village. As soon as it gets dark, they make up in their own homes and go directly to the show. After several scenes, it was already midnight when they were singing. The audience is also ordinary people, men, women and children are watching the scene. There are more than 40 actors on the stage of this play. Aunt Wang calculated it for me. There are mainly about 20 people, four sticks, four riding bamboo horses, a small pulley (vendor), a medicine seller, a clam meat essence, a float selling daughters (father and daughter), an old man, an ugly woman and a flower boat.

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Aunt Wang is a big shot in the bamboo horse dry boat. Interestingly, the person who told us the story of Aunt Wang was also an aunt Wang. At some point, Aunt Wang began to sing, singing the little pulley and came to the fork in the road. "Majiazhuang has good wine, and Wangjiazhuang has a wife. Little pulley doesn't like to drink good wine, but she loves Wangjiazhuang to look after her wife. " The most beautiful woman in Wangjiazhuang is, of course, Aunt Wang in the play. She is actually a beautiful young woman. In her own lyrics, she said, "Walk like a willow in the wind, stand like a column of incense, three steps and two steps of lotus, four steps and five steps of begonia." It's so beautiful, I want to go. Small pulley is interested in shouting at the door of Aunt Wang's house. Aunt Wang heard the cry of the little pulley and wanted to go out and have a look, but she was embarrassed. Still hiding half of her face behind the guitar from us, Aunt Wang in front of us told us that the audience's favorite play was Aunt Wang's play, and Aunt Wang was beautifully dressed. Aunt Wang is even funnier dressed as a woman. There are several men "Aunt Wang", and Lian Shilong, a villager in our village, is one of them.

Aunt Wang said in front of her that Aunt Wang in the play is actually a demon, and the little pulley is the land god. The little pulley kept staring at Aunt Wang, and Aunt Wang didn't do anything bad, so the story had a perfect ending. I always feel that the editor of this play is making excuses for Xiao Pulley. Obviously, he wants to see beautiful women and unrequited love, but also as the embodiment of justice to exorcise evil spirits. Aunt Wang is not coquettish or frivolous, and she goes out carefully for fear of attracting gossip. It's hard to say that ancient China literati wrote all the evil spirits too beautifully. There's a two-part allegorical saying in Una Village: The small pulley bears the load-think about it, this is the real small pulley, unrequited love, but Aunt Wang doesn't mean it at all.

Beauty or goblin, most people don't care about this. They like to have a trick addiction on their own stage in their spare time. Although the singing is rustic, it has strong local characteristics, pleasant to hear and comfortable. Accompanied by loud suona, gongs and drums, and villagers dressed in bright costumes, singing ditties, chanting hymns, yangko dancing, lion dancing, humorous language, exaggerated movements and lively festive atmosphere, it is very poor in cultural life and a rare spiritual enjoyment.