There are many genres of folk dramas in Jingfu with rich repertoire. The traditional types of plays include Yangge, Silk String, Hebei Opera, Shanxi Opera, Henan Opera, Peking Opera, and Old Tunes. Defile is commonly known as "theater nest", 318 villages in the county, in the 1960s and 1970s, there were 197 rural amateur troupes, the peak of the time "village gongs and drums, everywhere there is a play," some of the more populous villages, more than three or four troupes, spell to do good. In some large villages with large populations, there were as many as three or four troupes, trying hard to do good things. Some small villages with a few families also have troupes, and almost every family has an opera singer, with some families participating as a whole.
In the old society, one kind of folk troupes in Jingfu was the Jiu Xing Ban, and the other was the Zi Di Ban, which was also called "Zi Zi Ban". After the founding of the country, there are professional troupes, half-farming and half-art troupes, joint troupes, individual investment troupes and old artists
Running Lights
"Running Lights" is a kind of art of venue light show developed on the basis of the four-cornered sets of folk social fires. It is a realistic image, set of varied, beautiful, majestic, coupled with the vast night, rumbling drums, just like a spectacular ancient battlefield in front of the audience, giving people the enjoyment of beauty.
"Running Lanterns" is composed of five kinds of pictorial lanterns, including flag lanterns, tiger lanterns, umbrella lanterns, peach lanterns and vase coals. "Running Lantern" actors not less than 30 people, more unlimited, the more the better. The actors should form a dragon in the order of holding flag lamps, tiger lamps, umbrella lamps, vase lamps and peach lamps from high to low (except for peach lamps). During the performance, the actors take the light, heavy, slow, sharp and stopping drums as the rhythm of their steps, and use the flag lamps as their guide, seeking unity in change, seeking change in unity, and completing various sets. The traditional sets include "Two Dragons Playing with Pearls", "Four Doors Fighting the Enemy", "Eight Iron Walls", "Four Seasons of Peace", "Happy Songs All the Way" and "Peace in the World".
The Jingfu "Running Lanterns" are usually only active at night during the Lantern Festival. They not only run in their own villages, but also run to neighboring villages, which plays the role of contacting and enhancing friendship between villages.
Fireworks and Lantern Festival
Fireworks, in the old days, were called "fireworks" in Jingfu. Fireworks and lanterns are traditional celebratory customs during the Lantern Festival. The colorful fireworks and lanterns decorate the festival more charmingly.
"Setting fire" is a very common folk custom to celebrate the Lantern Festival in Jingfu. Now, Jingfu retains the oldest "medicine hair puppet" style "fighting fire dragon", also has a unique "point fire pole", "playing iron flower There are also the unique "fire pole" and "iron flower", and the "fire horse" and "fire rowing" that make the spectators fall in love with the integration of "flower fair" and "fireworks". "
Well, it's a great place to see the world's most beautiful flowers and fireworks.
The date of "fireworks" in each village of Jingfu is different, some of them are chosen on the night of Lantern Festival, and some of them are chosen on the 25th and 6th of the first month. But because the "fire" in the past are people's homemade, so the preparatory work generally in the waxing moon has begun. The place where the "fire" was made was commonly known as the "fire room". To be made after the completion of the "fire" will be moved to send in the "Fire God Temple", "Old Mother Temple" and so on by the local people to worship the temple, and wait for the "fire! "The first time I saw this was when I was a young man.
"Fire" is an exciting day for the people. This day early in the morning, the village men and women, young and old, as well as invited to the civil and military flower will be holding "handsome" word big banner, Luo umbrella block, dragon and phoenix flags, wolf tooth flag, some beating gongs and drums, some firecrackers, clusters of tep "God drive", "Gold Mountain", "Silver Mountain", "Gold Dipper", "Silver Dipper" (paper products) and other fire to the temple. The team often stretches for miles, a unique flavor. This action, folk "fire".
At night, the road like a river, people like a tide ......
Folk chess games
Folk chess games. Folk chess competition is similar to Go and checkers, commonly known as "stone chess". The two sides use different stones to set up a formation with each other, go formation in order to determine the winner. Local materials, convenient appliances, playing style many.
(1) Ansan. A and B each choose to distinguish between the other side of the color of the stone in hand, the way it goes is: A and B in the "Anshan" chart in turn Anzi, a child, three children do not distinguish between vertical and horizontal that is the chain. The first into the chain, so that the other side of the self-pulled a son, and so on, no matter how the cycle of gradual progress, such as into a double chain, so that the other side of the self-pulled two sons, until a party less than three sons can not become a chain until.
Anshan its rules by the A and B parties stipulated in advance, generally not allowed to "go back to the son", commonly known as "coaxing the collapse of the party". Whether or not you are allowed to "go back", can not press the mountain (three children in a line for the mountain) must be mutual **** guard.
(2) Going to the pit. A and B each take different from each other's color of two stones, directly on each side of the pendulum four on both sides of the opposite direction, no matter who goes first can be, a son rushed (hedge) b son, remove a son of the side of b (and vice versa). The rules require: A and B each have two discs on the same line do not violate each other; if A has three discs on a line, B has a disc on the same line, A is not allowed to eat B, and vice versa; when the two discs are hedging, there must be no discs in the back of this single disc to be effective.
(3) Tiger eats sheep. A and B are tigers, holding two big pieces; B is a flock of sheep, holding a small boy. The way to go is: side B first in the sheep circle in the center of the nine children, the rest of the children in the sheep circle around the defense; side A in the two tiger nest (the castle) in the center of each one of the tigers. The rules require: A. The tiger goes first, can go at will, can only "jump and eat"; B. Party B must force the tiger into the tiger's den to win; to be blocked by the two tigers, so that the tiger can no longer walk to eat for the win; C. The tiger eats the goat to eat the tiger to win when it can't be blocked.
(6) Tiger stringing sheep. ***Set up four tiger nests with four tigers; circle 48 sheep. Walking method is: walking on a single line, the tiger on a single or three can eat; such as the center of a sheep, forcing the tiger into the nest, the tiger for the loss; the center of the restless sheep, will be forced to the tiger, the tiger that is dead in that.
Social life customs of the fine grain to do class
1, oil fruit (now called doughnuts). Legend has it that in ancient times, when the people of Jingfu celebrated the New Year, they fried the fruits into two-legged human figures and called them "fried ghosts" to frighten the ghosts and monsters who dared not come to their homes to infringe on their families during the New Year. After the Southern Song Dynasty, people hated the treacherous Qin Hui who brutalized Yue Fei, the national hero, because "ghosts" and "hinoki" sound similar, there are called "deep-fried hinoki". Frying oil fruit with the "head of the Woo noodles" as raw materials, alum, salt, edible lye each appropriate amount of boiling water into the water and noodles. And a good noodle and wake up two or three hours to "fried fruits". The fried fruits have different names because of their different shapes. Traditionally, the oil fruits are in the shape of a double-stranded circle; in the area of south and north defile, the oil fruits are fried in the shape of a zigzag, which is commonly known as "fried ghosts"; the oil fruits are fried in the shape of a cake, which is called "oil cake"; and on top of it, a layer of caramel is coated with molasses, which is commonly known as "molasses", and then fried into a cake. The one that is coated with a layer of caramel (commonly known as "molasses") and then fried into the shape of "oil cake" is called "sesame candy". The noodles of the oil cake are cut into rectangular shape with 8 to 10 knives in the middle, stretched and put into the pot, and then fried into bamboo chopsticks thick strips in the middle, which are crispy and delicious. In the area of Weishui, it is called "Crispy Oil Cake". Now it is popular to deep-fry "oil sticks", stack up two pieces of oil fruit noodles, stretch and twist them into "twist" shape, and deep-fry them to save time and cook quickly, and separate them into single-stranded strips after deep-frying, so called "oil sticks", which are convenient to carry and consume, The food is easy to carry and eat.
2, baked cake. Well-furnished biscuits to "cylinder stove biscuits" as the main, unique practice, before the founding of the country is known far and wide. First of all, to do the stove baklava with the "cylinder stove", that is, a grain with ceramic in the lower part of the urn chiseled to the bottom of the "two bucket urn", so that the top of the mouth to close the small, the stove belly is larger. Secondly, prepare a good stove baklava with carbon, generally with bituminous coal burning smokeless spent charcoal, commonly known as "orchid charcoal", in order to make the fire power moderate cut no soot flavor. Thirdly, you should make good noodles, use "first wok" or "second wok" noodles, mix the noodles into deep-fried noodle shape with appropriate amount of edible oil, add salt and warm water and hard noodles, make dough on the noodle case, roll it into a round cake, fold it into a square shape, roll it out and fold it up again, repeat the process for 3-5 times, and then fold it into a rectangular shape, wipe it with light face, and then make it into a square shape. Rectangle, light side up, wipe with water, sprinkle with peeled white sesame seeds, turn and pat to make the sesame seeds stick to the surface, you can stick to the "cylinder stove" wall baked and eaten. The proportion of water is reduced and the proportion of cooking oil is increased when mixing the noodles, which makes the "crispy baklava", which is salty and crispy when eaten. The more times you roll out the slices of baklava, the more layers there are in the baklava, and the softer and more flavorful it is when you eat it.
In recent years, there are in the "cylinder stove baklava" in the addition of eggs into the baklava, more delicious flavor, nutritional value is higher, can be called the innovation of the times.
Social life of tea drinking customs
In the past, the people of Jingfu had a hard life, and except for a few rich families, the general public did not have the habit of drinking tea. In some towns, there are a few teahouses, but they are only open for business on market days, and in addition to a few rich people, there are also some idle, idle and elegant people who patronize the teahouses. Most of the hard working people are not thirsty and have to drink, but have no time to taste are quickly swallowed down.
The Wells Tea Hut Children In the past, in the wells of the ancient post road and thoroughfare, there is a set of teahouse and store function as one of the "Tea Hut Children". Different from the teahouse and the store, there is no charge for drinking water and lodging in this place, which is a charitable facility of almsgiving. It is built by the local people who raise money and materials, and voluntarily contribute to the construction of the place, which is free of charge to provide water, lodging and rest for the passers-by, so that the passers-by can be free from the pain of dry mouth and tongue, and alleviate the difficulty of fatigue to the tiredness of the people, and it embodies the honest and simple hospitality of the people of the defile, as well as the charitable and charitable virtue and good wind. There are records of "giving tea shed" in Baishiling and Longgang Temple of Phoenix Ridge on the ancient stage road. South Barrier City village south of the bridge, there is a place called "Chapeng children's corridor" is also a place to build a teepee.
Social life customs of clothing customs
One, clothing styles
The old society of the people of Jingfu dress simple. From the end of the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, no matter men and women, old and young, clothes are mostly green, blue and black, and in summer, they wear white and earth flower-colored clothes. Clothing materials, rich households (commonly known as the rich man's house) more wear satin, leather, yarn, etc., and sometimes also countryside on the pattern. Clothing styles are mostly robes, long shirts, go out to guests when the jacket coat, to show the solemnity. Also made of foreign fabrics. The majority of peasants mostly use soil cloth as clothing material, with the soil method of cooking and dyeing, looks rough, but sturdy and wearable. Clothing styles, the main upper garment is a long shirt, robe, or a short jacket and liner jacket, are generally long round neck and lapel, from the neck collar to the right horizontal open, in the right arm of the gum diagonal to the bowels, embellished with five copper buttons or garlic pimple buttons (with a thin cloth shear narrow strips, sewn with a line into a cylindrical knot of thin rope). Under the plain generally wear wide-legged crotch pants, crotch above the sewing feet wide waist, cover the hands of the pants tied with a belt, commonly known as "cover the waist pants" or pleated pants "before and after not divided, can be worn on both sides of the rotation. In addition to summer, general laborers wear short jackets and long pants. There are long, cotton shorts called gowns and single shirts (or shirts); and there are short, cotton shorts called jackets and single shirts called lab coats.
After the Republic of China to the early founding of the country, the style of clothing has not changed much, except for a small number of rich men wearing silk and fine foreign cloth tunic, coat, the general poor people's clothing materials are mostly self-woven self-produced coarse cloth (commonly known as soil cloth). The county grows very little cotton, most of the villages have no cotton spinning custom, only the north near Pingshan County, the south and north of the defile, preventing the mouth, Luoyang and a few other villages in the women's spare time spinning cotton, individual households set up machine weaving cloth, the vast majority of farmers in the market in neighboring counties, such as Pingshan, Deer and other purchase of cloth to do the new clothes. They also purchased estimated clothes (old clothes worn by wealthy households) to wear or to be converted. Poor peasant men were mostly bare-chested in summer (commonly known as bare-chested), and wore single coats in late spring and early fall, with small round collars and large lapels (fewer and fewer lapels were inherited from the Qing Dynasty, and they were basically extinct at the beginning of the founding of the People's Republic of China), and were adorned with five garlic pimple buttons, and pockets openly sewn in the lower part of the front lapel, mostly one each on the left and the right, slightly square, with a flat upper mouth and a slightly rounded upper mouth. There are also dark sewn in the armpit openings, from the hand forward diagonally down into the fetch "hand pockets", this style of blouse, the back of two pieces from the center of the sewing up, and the front of the two pieces of equal width, commonly known as the "four pieces of Qi". Women's coats are still handed down for the Qing Dynasty style, small round neck, bias lapel (generally to the right), from the neckline to the right front shoulder diagonal to the armpit, along the lapel decorated with 5 pairs of garlic pimples buckle or copper buckle, and in the lapel covered by the lapel sewing a pocket on the small lapel on the right side of the armpit to the front of the downward diagonal insertion of the loaded things. Single pants for men and women of the same type, wide-legged large crotch, another on the waist of about 5 inches wide pants. Men's summer clothing is mostly white or earth flower color; women both light blue, blue or white with blue lines, blue and blue checkerboard and other colors. Winter wear cotton jacket, cotton pants, new cotton or old set of internal flocculent, fat and bloated, men and women's style Sydney such as summer clothes, the color is mostly blue and black, the mouth for the sewing in the front lapel inner layer of the left and right two then (women sometimes only stay a), the opening in the armpit of the smooth parts, inserted very convenient. Sometimes men's outside suite partial cover large complementary ticket, ankle-length cotton robe, or a little fatter than a small cotton jacket, and the front and back of the left and right to leave four slits on the lapel of the "choke necktie", the elderly are also accustomed to cotton robes or "choke necktie" outside the Department of a long and wide cloth belt, commonly known as the "war belt", "the war belt". Commonly known as "war belt". Often carts, picking, engaged in manual labor is good to wear a kind of slit pants, its style such as cotton pants, do not do the waist, but for the two single-legged, waist clothing belt tied at the waist, after all the buttocks are exposed, the wearer of these pants must be within the set of pants. Women often outside the jacket set of cloth shirt, the color is mostly light blue or indigo. Spring and autumn wear jacket, jacket pants, its color, style and color and winter clothing similar. Summer young people generally do not tie legs, other seasons, people are accustomed to about 1 inch wide, 2 feet and a half long black binding band installed at the lower end of the trouser legs wrapped, commonly known as "binding legs", poor farmers also use cloth or hemp rope to tie legs.
One to two years of age under the baby summer more wear "bib", winter cotton or spring and autumn jacket to wear exposed buttocks dress pants, shoulders connected, no sleeves, buttons decorated in the back of the center, commonly known as "hitchhiking child pants", "stay crotch pants", the lower part of the trouser leg to do a little longer, on the bottom of the socks, said "even feet pants", ankle two bands decorated with the feet tied, both warm feet water easy to get out, easy to learn to walk. Blouse lapel with a large tail that can protect the buttocks, or another piece of hip protection cloth tied to the waist; to three or four years old, wearing a lab coat in summer, under the crotch pants with elastic band slits; sometimes half-sleeved shirts and pants with the waist, commonly known as "donkey roll"; spring and fall of the jacket or winter cotton coat, the lower body is still wearing crotch pants, and wear a small jacket or jacket. Small jackets or coats. Most of the infants and young children under the age of two or three weeks with "bibs", that is, made of cloth about 4 to 5 inches wide crescent-shaped, with the neck, the back decorated with buttons or straps, the other separated from the baby's saliva, the winter does not soak the cotton clothes. Conditional home even do two or three change wear. More than three weeks to eat on their own children to wear "cover" (huò), the lower part of the semicircular, shoulder about 2 inches wide, set on the shoulder, back buckle or tie, to prevent the fall on the rice contaminated with dirty shirt, in recent years into a "smock" with sleeves. To five or six years of age after the beginning of learning to bind the waist, wear "cover the waist pants", the lapel blouse, and adult clothing is largely the same, the male color is more bright, and sometimes press the "taping" and other decorative objects.