main topic: folk customs

contents:

Zhongshan is rich in folk arts, including Zhongshan folk songs, dancing dragons, lions and phoenixes, floating colors in the yellow garden, etc. Zhongshan is the hometown of folk songs, and popular folk songs include salty water songs, gaotang songs, big songs, Hakka folk songs, crane songs, girls' songs, fishing drums, dragon boats and minor children's songs.

special tea fruit. There are several kinds of tea fruits. It is made of sticky rice flour wrapped with some stuffing and kneaded into two shapes (the stuffing is salty). Another kind of tea fruit is similar, except that the stuffing is sweet and the outermost is wrapped in banana leaves.

Piao Se in Huangpu

1. Historical origin:

Piao Se in Zhongshan is a folk art with a long history. As an important town in the north of Zhongshan, Huangpu, the representative work of its folk art-gone with the wind, originated from when, and there have been many opinions. In terms of the property of floating color, a large number of clan members from South (Shanghai), South (Shunde) and other places moved to Huangpu during the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and the rhubarb garden at that time included many places in Panyu, among which Shawan was also a rhubarb garden, so it was said that "the floating color in Huangpu originated from the floating color in Shawan". As far as the existing historical records are concerned, the Huangpu floating color parade was quite active in the late Qing Dynasty, and it reached its peak in Guangxu and the folk period. In particular, folk artists from Sanshefang, Gugufang and Linghuifang initiated during the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty, and held a grand parade of floating colors every three years, commonly known as "floating colors in three squares". The time is set on March 3 of the lunar calendar for three days in a row. Because March of the lunar calendar is the rainy season, there is also a saying that "the yellow nursery floats and the rain drops".

The development of any folk art is closely related to the social development. The yellow garden is floating, and it began to be gradually buried in 1961 due to historical reasons and the impact of breaking the "four old". Since 1994, the economy of Huangpu has developed, and the traditional folk art garden, Huangpu Piaose, has been reborn and given off brilliant splendor. Huangpu Town Government strongly supported the development of folk art and took the lead in donating money to all walks of life, and built the first antique floating color museum in Zhongshan City. After that, during major festivals and traditional festivals every year, the floating color of the yellow nursery appeared on the land of Zhongshan with its new look. There are more and more boards with floating colors, and the content is getting newer and newer. And in March 1997, the "Huangpu Folk Floating Color Art Association" was established.

2. Artistic connotation:

The floating colors in the yellow garden are mainly composed of color cabinets, color centers, color feet, color stems and color shoulders. Traditionally, children between the ages of two and thirteen are used as "color hearts" to dress up as characters in folk stories and historical allusions, such as Romance of the Three Kingdoms, Water Margin, Eight Immortals, or Buddhist and Taoist deities. This "color heart" is more particular, and generally only children with lighter weight are chosen to play it, so as to achieve the role of "floating". Therefore, the floating color of the yellow garden has formed the local characteristics of gorgeous color, enchanting color, stress on mechanics, fine color stalks, generous shape, wonderful installation, subtle content and exquisite elegance. Due to the outstanding performance of floating color in Huangpu, Huangpu Town was named as the hometown of floating color art by the Guangdong Provincial Department of Culture in 1998 during the creation of the hometown of folk art in Guangdong Province.

3. Features

As a wonderful flower of local culture, the floating color in Huangpu has formed its own characteristics in the course of a hundred years' development: bright colors and delicate color hearts; Pay attention to mechanics, and the color stalks are fine; Generous in shape and wonderful in installation; The content is subtle and exquisite.

The unit of floating color in the yellow garden is called "version", and each version consists of color cabinet, color center, color foot, color stalk, color bar and so on. "Color cabinet" is a wooden structure with a length of 4 feet, a width of 3 feet and a height of 1 foot, bearing all the weight of panchromatic color. There are a few sandbags in the color cabinet to keep the balance after carrying. Landscape birds and beasts are painted around the color cabinet, and a poem is arranged according to the content of the story; The "color heart", that is, the top child, is usually played by a girl weighing 22 Jin; "Color feet", that is, children sitting on the color counter, are usually played by children aged about 8 to 1; "Color stalk", that is, a handicraft that connects the color feet and supports the color center, is made of special steel with thick fingers in the middle according to the modeling requirements, and the steel bars are cleverly hidden around it through various processes. Some color stems are hidden in the mouth of lifelike white cranes, while others are hidden in the hands and feet of characters or in a certain part of animals, swords and halberds, and there is no trace of "color bars", that is, long wooden strips running through the color cabinet. When marching, four big men lift the color stems, and the color center above them floats with the pace of carrying people. All the structures are simple and colorful, elegant and graceful, and each floating color is a wonderful poem, a three-dimensional painting and a touching story. During the floating color parade, several versions of floating color are equipped with a gongs and drums cabinet, and the orchestral drums and cymbals are played to add fun. If it is lively.

huangpu <; < Zhongshan Daily > > Editor-in-chief Hu Bozhou and others are in <: < The yellow garden floats with color and splendor > > The article wrote: "There is a steady stream of floating colors in China ... Only the floating colors in Zhongshan Huangpu are the essence of it. Because from the true meaning of' gone with the wind', we should not only highlight the floating characters, but also pay attention to the color characters. Gone with the wind means flying in the air, and color means bright and dazzling. The floating color in the yellow garden fits the meaning of these two words. It is melodious and easy to float, just like a fairy coming down lightly, just like Sun Dasheng flying away in the fog. "

huangpu <; < Xiangshan newspaper > > Editor-in-Chief Liu Jushang is in <: < Happy colors float from the yellow nursery > > The article wrote: "The floating color of Huangpu has strong local characteristics, which is obviously different from the floating color of Panyu Shawan, Wuchuan and the cliff mouth of Zhongshan City. It has a unique conception, mainly on the tiny steel bar, through the processes of binding, molding, carving and painting, it is shaped into a beautiful fairy tale or historical legend. The boys and girls aged 2 to 3 who are cleverly propped up at a height of 3 meters from the ground are' floating' under the shaking of the lifting pole and the vibration of the steel bar, which seems to be like a feeling of being tempted to leave. "

We pay great attention to the selection of materials for the contents of floating colors in Huangpu Huangpu, which are all from folk stories, historical stories or literary classics. If "Zhao Gongming goes down the mountain", it comes from <; < Romance of the gods > > The story "Zhao Jun went to the fortress" comes from the historical record <; < Hanshu > > "Serve the country faithfully", from <; < The complete biography of yue > > "Zhao Yun hides A Dou", from < < Romance of the Three Kingdoms > > Wait. Whether it is a legend or a story, every fragment is artistic, ideological and educational, which makes people benefit from it, promote its prestige and drum up its ambition.

It can be seen from the Huangpu that the floating colors in the Huangpu blend sculpture, painting, music and other arts in one furnace, which integrates mechanics and aesthetics harmoniously, and has a strong local cultural color and folk art characteristics, which fully shows the people's beautiful desire for happiness, suppression of evil, promotion of good and praise of peace

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