Yancheng customs and habits about Yancheng customs and habits

1. In the rural areas around Yancheng and Funing, historically, there were wizard activities in which the boy did incense and fire, the contents of which included: praying for a good harvest to do the green seedling meeting and the plus seedling meeting; prolonging blessings and eliminating disasters to do the Taiping meeting and the Mars meeting, etc. The wizard activities of this kind of performance have been enriched with the change of history and gradually developed into the incense and fire theater. With the change of history, the content of this kind of performance is constantly enriched, and after a long period of derivation, it gradually develops into incense and fire theater.

2. Incense and fire play is a kind of local opera closely linked with folk beliefs in ghosts and gods, also known as San Cham, San Ke Zi, etc., which was finally formed around the first year of the Tongzhi reign in the Qing Dynasty (1862). Its singing style consists of the "Fragrant Fire Tune" popular in the territory and the "Huai Bunzi" of Huaiyin and Baoying. At the same time, the artists of Xianghuo Opera often teamed up with the artists of Huayan Baoji, so there were many tunes from Huayan Baoji in Xianghuo Opera.

3. Yancheng is a prefecture-level city under the jurisdiction of Jiangsu Province, one of the 27 cities in the center of the Yangtze River Delta. Located in the east coast of China, central Jiangsu Province, east of the Yellow Sea, bordering Nantong in the south, southwest of Yangzhou, Taizhou as a neighbor, northwest of Huai'an City, north of Lianyungang City, and across the irrigation river.