Lantern Dance Lantern Dance is mainly popular in the counties of northern Jiangxi language family, especially in Jiujiang, Ruichang, Wuning and Yongxiu. In ancient times, lantern dances were mostly performed when people prayed for good weather and good harvests. Today, on festive days, people dance all kinds of lanterns, either in Changjie Square or at the village head bay, to add a happy atmosphere.
There are many kinds of lanterns. There are mainly dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, mussel lanterns, rickshaw lanterns, tea baskets lanterns, horse racing lanterns, lotus picking lanterns, etc.
Jiujiang's "dragon lantern" is also called "dragon dance", and the saying goes "playing with dragon lanterns". Its images have their own characteristics, mostly made of bamboo, wood, cloth, paper, etc., and the number of knots is nearly a hundred. Play and dance between two dragons. The dragons dance with red beads, roll, roll, or insert, so that the audience can't catch their eyes.
The boat lights in Jiujiang counties are also called lotus-picking boats. They are tied into a boat with bamboo sticks, covered with colored cloth or paper, and the water is represented by green silk. The three people coordinated their movements, simulating boating movements such as going up and down the beach, stranding with the wind, and so on. The girls in the boat sang all kinds of minor tunes, accompanied by gongs and drums, and the male and female farmers chimed in from time to time, which was humorous and funny.
Hukou Fishing Drum is popular in Hukou and Poyang Lake area. It is based on rich Poyang Lake fishing songs and folk ditties, which can be used alone and used separately. Singing can be combined with rap. When singing, the performer holds a bamboo drum covered with puffer fish in his left hand, and a delicate wooden stick in his right hand, beating the drum surface and postscript at the same time, making a crisp and rich "two-ring" sound. Its sound is like a fishing boat cloak beating waves, with smooth melody and euphemistic tune, which has a strong flavor of water town life.
Nuo dance. Commonly known as "ghost play" or "jumping face", it originated from the totem belief in ancient clan society, and later developed into a ritual in primitive witchcraft, and gradually evolved into a festival ritual with a fixed purpose and content. This kind of folk dance with a long history generally has two performance situations: one is performed by four protagonists, and the performers wear masks such as crowns, animal skins, godshields in their hands and "Nuo" in their mouths. Holding a whip several feet long, shaking and chanting the names of all kinds of gods who specialize in eating evil spirits and beasts, each dance is accompanied by music.
Due to the different regions where Nuo dance is spread, its performance styles are also different, including the genre of "Wen Nuo" with complex scene changes, meticulous performance, strong life atmosphere and beautiful dancing. There is also a school of "Wu Nuo" with majestic momentum, unrestrained and cheerful mood, vigorous and lively rhythm and strong movements. This ancient traditional flower of Nuo dance is still popular in the stages, halls and village heads in De-an Yu, Wuning and Duchang counties.
Ruichang boats drum, formerly known as "Dragon Boat Drum". Originally, residents of lakeside water towns were in Duanyang. It has been enriched and developed. In addition to the original small drums and horse gongs, the accompaniment instruments have added joyful suona, forming a unique Ruichang boat drum.
The singing form of the boat drum was originally sung by one person standing, and later developed into a group of people to help. When singing, a woodcut "dragon boat" will be mounted on the wooden orange, and the bow will be tied with a single-sided drum and a small horse gong, and the gong will be tapped, mainly for singing and speaking. There are five, seven, and cross sentences. Traditional songs include "Noisy Duanyang", "Flower Dynasty Tune" and "Worship the New Year".
Ruichang paper-cutting is a kind of traditional folk decorative art in China, and Ruichang is known as the "hometown of paper-cutting".
Ruichang paper-cutting is characterized by conciseness, beauty, symmetrical composition, vivid modeling and lively cutting. It can also be used to embroider pillowcases, uppers, door curtains and tablecloths. It gives people beautiful enjoyment and is loved by the broad masses of people.
Wuning tea-picking opera is located in Wuning County, Mufu Mountain area, where tea is abundant. Because of the popularity of local tea-picking songs, it gradually formed a small tea-picking opera called "Triangle Class", which spread to Hunan, Hubei and Hubei around the Qianlong period of Qing Dynasty. Taking the county town as the center, it is called Shanghe School in the upper reaches of Xiuhe River and Xiahe School in the lower reaches of Xiuhe River. The former is influenced by large-scale dramas such as Han Opera, xiang opera Opera and Ninghe Opera, and is good at doing work. The latter is influenced by Hubei Huangmei Tea-picking Opera and Yangxin Tea-picking Opera, which focuses on singing.
There are more than 15 kinds of large and small tea-picking operas in Wuning, most of which are folk-tale dramas, among which there are also some. They are an organic combination of folk music language and folk literature language, and their singing is beautiful, easy to understand and full of local flavor.
The mountain-hoeing drum in Wuning, also known as the "work-urging drum" and "drumming song", is very popular in Chuantan, Wentang, Nanyue, Donglin, Lixi, Yangzhou and other townships in Wuning County. It is a traditional art with unique local style and is also a folk art. While waving hoes, all the people are playing with the numbers, and the rhythm is fast and slow, the melody is rough and the style is high.
Generally, the hoeing drums are divided into three times: the first one is relaxed and slow, the second one is gradually fast, and the third one is urgent and quick. With the rise and fall of the drum beat, the rhythm of the song is melodious, but the hoes are flying and the sound of "Oh" is clanging.