The local flavor of Pengxi County

Chuanzhong Dagaku

Chuanzhong Dagaku is a large-scale folk percussion. It was originally called "Penglai Dale" and was popular in Suining City and its border areas. It is popular in Suining City and its border areas, and flourished in the early 20th century in the counties of Zhongjiang, Jintang, Pengxi, Shehong and Nanchong in Sichuan.

Chuanzhong Dagaku consists of two groups: the main music group has foot-pan drums, big cymbals, big horse gongs, rao-bangs, hairpin, su-bangs, su-hairpin, dang-dangs, cymbals, etc. When the auxiliary music group is playing, the two groups will play the drums. When the auxiliary music group plays, the two groups of bands overlap and alternate, with a huge lineup and spectacular scenes, as few as dozens of people, or as many as thousands of people, with songs such as "Cloud Top Flip", "Phoenix Nodding", "Puffing Moth", "Pulling Tengteng Teng", "Pulling Tengteng" and "Pulling Tengteng".

Colorful Lotus Boat

Colorful Lotus Boat is also known as "rowing dry boat", "flower boat", mostly performed during the Spring Festival and large-scale cultural activities. It is performed by the youngest nun and the boatman. With the gongs and drums, the boatman then rowed the boat on the field, the two singing and dancing, with a tacit understanding, composed of a relaxed and joyful duo song and dance.

The performance of the colorful lotus boat mainly imitates the movements of a boat on the water. The dance movements of the Mogu can be summarized in four sentences: "shake the wrist, tremble under the leg, be diligent in the waist, and pull up the body", and the dance movements of the boatman, such as "rowing step" and "sucking the leg and rowing the boat", are all based on the body style of the short man in Sichuan opera, which is the same as the body style of the short man in Sichuan opera. The boatman's dance movements, such as "rowing steps" and "sucking legs and rowing the boat", are based on the stance of the short man in Sichuan opera, which echoes the floating of the Mangu. The dance visualizes the boat on the water, at times boating in flat water, elegant and graceful; at times breaking the waves, undulating and floating. The dance begins and ends with a leisurely swing. There are strong folk characteristics.

The Che Che Lantern is also known as "Teasing Mui" and "Running Dry Boat". Mainly performed before and after the Spring Festival. Performers 3 people, 1 person decorated with a sister, 1 person decorated with a small flower face, 1 person decorated with a car driver or boatman. There are also 7 performers, in addition to the above 3 people, adding 4 lanterns in the hands of the "newspaper" (playground people). Lantern class are led by the countryside performance skills of the older artists, tandem with some of the people who love to play with the lights, the temporary formation of the "car car lights" team, the Spring Festival to play around with the lights, the Spring Festival will be disbanded once it is over.

The performance of the "car car light", first by the small flower face holding a flower folding fan to run the field, teasing out sitting in the "colorful car", wearing sunglasses, hand dance colorful scarf of the 么 sister (mostly male), and then improvised and sang a variety of festivals, farming, folklore related to the harmonic words, to humor! The main focus is on humor and amusement. In the car and boat, the mamei handles the edge of the car and swings back and forth with the lyrics, showing shyness and coyness. The driver or helmsman of the boat will push the car and row the boat according to the rhythm of the song.

After the small flower face leads the singing, other people help to sing along. After each section is sung, traditional routines such as "Turning Yuanbao", "Pulling Ants" and "Sifting Lotus Flowers" are performed to the sound of gongs and drums to change the formation. The performance technique is summarized as "Mamei should be stable, and Hua face should be amusing", and there are two parts of the opera, namely, the super-cavity and the counting-cavity. Lyrics are mostly up and down structure, rhyming sentences, mostly 7-word sentences, often with additional liner notes, embedded words, singing for the micro-tune, tune repetition singing. Accompanying instruments include erhu, yueqin, march, sihu, gongs, drums, and four-sided boards.

Dongjing Music

Originated in Pengxi County, its founders were Liu Ansheng and Wei Qi. Qian Dao four years (1168), in Pengxi County, Baoping Mountain (now Chicheng Mountain) Yuxu altar written into the Wenchang Great Cave Immortal Scripture 5 volumes, widely circulated in the community. Because of the performance of Wenchang Great Cave Immortal Sutra, the music of the sutra has become famous in China and abroad. The music has been recognized by UNESCO as a valuable intangible cultural heritage of mankind.