Beilun unique folk customs and art of what?

Beilun District, Ningbo, located in the East China Sea, the vast number of working people in production activities and social activities for a long time in the creation of a wealth of folk dance, Beilun District jurisdiction Guoju, Chaiqiao, Dagangue and Changshan, folk dance is concentrated in the Chaiqiao, Guoju, there are insteps, lion dance, dance dragons, car lamps, lanterns, stilt walkers, lions, white elephants, and so on, these folk dances have been passed down from one generation to another constantly developing, enriching the people's cultural life, the lion white elephant is one of the many forms of performance in Old Cao Village, Chaiqiao Street. These folk dances have been developed from generation to generation, enriching the cultural life of the people, and the lion and white elephant of Lao Cao Village in Chaiqiao Street is one of the many forms of folk dance.

Lao Cao village lion white elephant is the living old man Cao Meng crocodile (born in 1910) in 1927 and a few young people to form, the performance team continues today.

In the old days, Beilun District was very active in folk art activities, the people in order to pray for the blessing of the Bodhisattva to eliminate disasters and blessings, every year to hold a variety of temples and temples to welcome the gods, such as worship will be, the green seedling will be, the rice will be, please dragons will be, etc., in which the worship will be the local people's faith in the event.

Every *** folk art teams from all over the world will focus on Chaiqiao, Guoju, Dague three major towns to hold *** activities.

Various forms of folk art teams one after another, drums and cannons in the sky, music and song around the field, along the way to watch the masses countless.

Welcome to the God will be divided into the General Assembly and small meetings.

Such as the General Assembly, the race will be held for three days, according to the prescribed route team to which village, where the villagers are responsible for reception, the next day to continue the line will be touring three days before stopping, visible at that time to welcome the grand scale of the race will be God.

In addition to the superstitious colors of the welcome to the God will, history has held two unprecedented scale, "anti-Japanese victory will" and 1949 Ningbo liberation "victory will".

These two guilds concentrated almost all the folk art teams, and according to the memories of the old people, such a conference was unprecedented.

The lions and white elephants of Lao Cao village were formed and developed in a long period of folk activities.

Every *** they represent the village to participate in the celebration, because the team consists of a lion and an elephant, the form is unique, the folk regard the white elephant as auspicious, so the program is doubly popular with the masses.

Before 1949, the lion and white elephant were composed of private individuals, who needed certain funds for their activities, so they sometimes rented out the program to foreign villages to participate in the race, props and performers together with the rent of 600 pounds of grain, the income in addition to the performers to share the rest of the money used to repair and purchase musical instruments.

After 1949, the village took over the folklore team, on behalf of the village performances on the streets during festivals, and since then no longer rented

After 1985, the show stopped for many years, after 1988, the policy of wealth to the countryside has brought vitality, the old Cao village lion white elephant and active in the streets and alleys.

1983-1985 Lantern Festival participated in the Zhenhai County Lantern Festival, with his unique form and successful performance of the people's praise.

The whole procession of the lion and white elephant consists of a lion, a white elephant, a big-headed monk and a cannon stretcher, followed by percussion, and the procession departs with the cannon stretcher as the vanguard, containing a number of cannons, generally by two people taking turns to point the cannon, and another two people for the cannons loaded with gunpowder, and along the way, the cannon is constantly fired to cheer.

Lions and white elephants for two performers, a dance head and a dance tail, dance head of the two hands to hold the head of the dark handle, the person leaning forward; dance tail of the two hands to grab the head of the waistband, the body bowed, *** top of the lion's tail in order to tighten the lion's coat, the same dance elephant.

During the performance, the tail dancer moves with the head dancer, and makes various movements according to the speed and strength of the percussion rhythm.

The first action is called "opening string", in the rapid and intense sound of gongs and drums, the lion people out, then the white elephant followed closely, in the field quickly around the field to run string, the lion should be done before the pounce and turn around to show that the majestic, and then the music turned slow, the lion to do "sudden hair, hair", the white elephant to do "sudden hair, hair", and the white elephant to do "sudden hair, hair", and the white elephant to do the same. ", white elephants do "tread flower step" and other actions, followed by "white elephant sudden lion", the lion lying down on the ground, the white elephant with a long nose to the lion sudden hair, from the head sudden to the tail, repeated a few times, and then pick up the lion and white elephant kissing and biting each other to show the Both intimate.

Subsequently, the "lion string white elephant", the white elephant lying on the ground, the lion around the field to do the preparatory action, followed by accelerated front string, from the back of the white elephant is scurrying past, and so on several times, to complete the action, the requirements of the lion dance of the two actors to cut with the pace of unity of purpose, the action is clean and sharp, and finally to the end of the spitfire, in general, the lion in the mouth of a firecracker, the lion in the mouth of a firecracker. The lion's mouth is loaded with a firecracker, the lion dance head of the actors to use the opportunity to take a break and turn around on the firecracker to spray around.

The lion dancer is usually dressed as an old lady.

Head wearing old lady headgear, with a long robe, holding a fan while shaking the fan and twisting the waist, in the middle of the lion and white elephant interspersed twisting, it looks like commanding the lion and the elephant, the action is more civilized, in the plaza performance by the main role in maintaining order.

Accompanied by percussion-based, large drums, flat drums, gongs, gongs, cymbals, small cymbals.

The percussion is fast and furious during the "appearance", "lion and white elephant" and "lion spitting fire", while the rest of the movements are generally performed with slower gongs and drums.