Putian Lantern Festival folk activities are?

Putian Lantern Festival folk activities are:

1, ten tone eight music

"Ten tone eight music" is both folk singing, but also instrumental music. Most of the ten tones of the song from the Putian opera singing song, eight music is a kind of drumming music, "ten tones of eight music" in Putian is widely spread, each village has one to two or even more "ten tones of eight music" team, become an important component of the active rural culture. The "Ten Voices and Eight Music" team has become an important part of the active village culture. The "Ten Voices Eight Music" has both the roughness of northern music and the elegance of southern silk and bamboo, combined with a long rhythmic singing, adding a strong festive atmosphere to the community and the countryside.

2, Soap Dance

"Soap Dance" is the Putian annual Lantern Festival in the tour and the tour of the lights as a welcome to the divine driver of the ceremonial and entertainment of folk dance, its origins from the Western Han Dynasty "Nuo dance" evolved. So "Soap Dance" is also commonly known as "townspeople Nuo", in the traditional repertoire of Putu Xian opera performances to retain the basic style of this dance. "Soap Li dance" in the local parade has a history of more than 600 years.

The Soap Clan Dance is performed by a variety of people, including flag officers, soap clerks, accompanists, and eight classes. One of the four soap scribes wearing gold paper flowers, straw shoes, wearing masks, respectively, dressed as black, red, green, orchid-faced soap scribes, each holding a soap scribe board. The basic movements of the dance are "cross-legged jump", "left and right jumping step", "left and right look", "left and right swing", etc. The performance is accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums. The performance is accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums and shouts, and the rhythm is competent, brutal and powerful, quite imposing.

3, please play

The Lantern Festival is a major festival in Putian, even more than the Spring Festival, and lasts a long time. The earliest villages in Putian start the Lantern Festival on the sixth day of the first month, and the latest one is on the third day of the second month. Each village will invite the Putian opera troupe to perform at the Lantern Festival, and some villages have three days of continuous performances of Putian opera and two performances in the afternoon and evening. Because of the different times of the Lantern Festival in each village, the three professional troupes and 120 folk troupes in Putian City can still cope with it.

4, tour lamp

The tour lamp is Putian Lantern Festival during the folk entertainment activities, began in the Song Dynasty, has been a thousand years. The essence of Lantern Festival is to entertain the gods and people, drive away evil spirits and welcome good luck, pray for good weather, national wealth and prosperity; and through Lantern Festival activities, the townspeople will be entertained and united.In June 2008, Fengting Lantern Festival was included in the list of intangible cultural heritage at the national level.

5, car drum team

Putian Lantern Festival is basically a variety of forms of worship activities and folk temple fair, the form of the grand even more than the Spring Festival. In this long Lantern Festival celebrations, are inseparable from a kind of folk honor guard - car drum performance.

Putian car drums are mainly a one-meter diameter cowhide drum as the main instrument. Carried by a wheelbarrow or carried on the shoulders of four people, the main drummer whirled the drum whip to beat, the sound of heaven and earth. Another sixteen to thirty people ranging from the cymbal team, each holding a pair of cymbals, according to the drum beat, and according to certain combinations and dance movements, pattern performance, there is a gong point flower remember the rhythm of the fast and slow, and there are a number of umbrellas in the queue interspersed with performances, in order to increase the beauty of the form of dance.