Folk Art in Tai'an

The main types of music and art that have been widely spread in the country are Shandong Quick Book, Shandong Qin Book, Shandong Liuqin, Henan Luzi, Shandong Drums, Xihe Drums, Shandong Luozi, and Xiangsheng. The Taishan Temple Fair, which has been going on for hundreds of years, has become a place for all kinds of music and art artists to present their skills and competitions. Many famous artists became famous in Tai'an. Shandong fast book artist Yu Chuanbin, Zhou Tongbin, etc. are well known in Tai'an performances; rap Shandong drums since the school of Xie Dayu, 13-year-old to Taishan Temple Book, won praise; said the West River drums known as Liu Taiqing often in Tai'an performances; Dongping Li Hongzhen became a well-known entertainer because of the singing of Shandong qinshu.

Shandong Quick Book

Since the Ming Dynasty began to sprout, the first bamboo boards to hit the festival singing, the content of the "Water Margin" in the heroic story of Wu Sung chivalry, so it is called "said Wu Lao Er". Because of the compactness of the rap, open to the mountain, easy to understand, more jokes, soon spread, and gradually formed their own singing style. 1954 named "Shandong Quick Book". There are Fu (Yongchang) school, Gao (Yuanjun) school, Yang (Lide) school 3 schools, the region to Fu school bamboo fast book is the best. Characterized by a stable style, bright language, wonderful accompaniment, vivid expression, good at performing with sound and movement, so that people "as if they were there, such as to see their own people", Fu was known as "live Wu Sung." After the founding of the People's Republic of China, he cooperated with Gao Yuanjun to change the "meat mouth" to "clean mouth", remove vulgar actions and obscene words, increase the content of healthy and beneficial, and advocate actors and actresses to be neatly dressed and discard "crooked hat evil eyes, bare half bladder wearing a short shirt". The old style of "wearing a crooked hat and evil eyes, bare half bladder and short shirt" is discarded, so that the art of Shandong Fanshu can develop healthily.

Shandong qinshu

Oldly known as "yangqin", it was originally a "crop play" in which Zhuang families sang stories to the tune of "wind and sun songs", and gradually formed qinshu. In 1941, the music industry recognized Ru Xingli, Yin Tianchang and He Jincheng as the founders of the South Shandong Road Qinshu. Ru school singing, language Tonggu humor, performance exaggerated fun, the most good singing Qiaokou. At the beginning of the whole garment seat singing, later changed to the side walk singing plus action, in the singing method, big cavity big rhyme plus small cavity small rhyme, individual titles also change to use the new rhyme. Speaking of "real mouth," "real words," "three words Jin", "five words pop", can land! "Smashing Pit". Musical instruments are qin, zheng, falling qin and three strings, erhu and so on.

Shandong Liuqin

Long rumored in Lunan, north of Jiangsu area, by pulling the soul of the cavity of a tune developed, accompanied by the instrument for the Liuqin so named. It is also known as "Yixin Tune" because of its free singing style and lyricism. Before the founding of the PRC, it was gradually formed into a local opera, which has been popular for a long time in Xintai, Ningyang and other places. The lyrics are repeated in paragraphs, which can be used for narrative and discussion, and require rhyming. Narrating the story has a pre-cursor, which seems to greet people warmly and tell their hearts, which is quite infectious. After entering the story, the actor can change the rhythm due to changes in plot and mood. The last three words of each paragraph are sung repeatedly with a trailing accent, and the final note is turned up an octave to form the emotional climax of the paragraph.

Window flowers. Window flowers not only set a festive mood, but also decorative, appreciative and practical in one. Paper-cutting is a very popular folk art in China, has been loved by people for thousands of years, because it is mostly affixed to the window, so it is also known as "window flowers". Window flowers with its unique generalization and exaggeration of auspicious events, good wishes expressed in the best, the festival decorated with red hot and rich.

Taishan stone carving, Taishan stone daredevil, Taishan jade carving, blowing sugar man, mahogany craft.

The cloth dyeing ----- tie-dye, batik, and pinch-dye together are called "dyeing val" craft, which is a traditional folk craft in China.

Dawenkou Ancient Pottery

Dawenkou culture, as one of the birthplaces of human civilization, has always attracted attention with its long history and splendid civilization, and the pottery of Dawenkou has become an increasingly desirable collection.