White Cat Folk Song is a branch of Wu Ge with a long history.

White cat folk songs are the spiritual wealth jointly created by Changshu people in Baimaotang Valley and the crystallization of Changshu people's wisdom.

According to legend, during the Han Dynasty, Sean came to White Cat to teach folk songs. Up to now, there are still lyrics in White Cat folk songs, such as "Sean is a singer, sitting on a kite to teach homesickness".

White cat folk songs highlight the thoughts and feelings of white cat people. It can be said that every ballad is sincere. White cat folk songs have distinct characteristics of the times. The language of white cat folk songs is simple, fresh, natural and fluent, which has high literary value. White cat folk songs not only spread among the people, but also influenced the literary world, making many scholars and literati fall for it. The expressions of white cat folk songs are rich and varied, such as the use of Bi Xing and Fu. White cat folk songs have beautiful tunes, including big folk songs, small folk songs, four-sentence headers, absolute sounds, spring tamping sounds, invitation sounds, dragon boat strokes, balcony sounds and so on.

White cat folk songs are indeed a wonderful flower of Chinese folk literature and art. For a long time, Changshu people have made unremitting efforts to inherit and carry forward this native folk literature and art, so that white cat folk songs are still relatively complete.

White cat folk songs have attracted worldwide attention. Many famous universities and research institutions at home and abroad, as well as folk literature and art researchers from UNESCO, the National Museum of Japan, Europe and Asia, have made a special trip to White Cat and given high praise.

1995, the first folk song exhibition hall in China was built and opened to the public. 1998 "white cat folk song development research society" was established, which marked that the research on white cat folk songs embarked on an orderly and standardized road. In 2000, the Ministry of Culture of People's Republic of China (PRC) named White Cat as the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Literature and Art". The white cat folk song "generously voiced and clearly turned out of nature" will become more and more beautiful. .

Changshu lantern riddle

Changshu has a long history and a rich collection of humanities.

During the Song Dynasty, Bao Zhao, the prefect of Yu Hai County, compiled a collection of historical poems and argots. His three enigmatic poems, Well, Turtle and The Earth, are known as the "ancestor of crossword puzzles".

At the end of the Ming Dynasty, the writer and street person Qian wrote the poem "Xi Su Shang Tomb in Guihai Garden": "Spring mud is blowing in the dark, and Yi Deng is like a bean night. Worried that monitoring is even more leaking, stuffy cold stove recalls that year. Good scenery and good nights are abandoned, and dark dust and bright moon are puzzling. No one can solve the problem of the broken lamp fan, so why add two temples? " As can be seen from the poem, tomorrow's Spring Festival quiz has become popular in Changshu.

Yi, a novelist in the late Qing Dynasty, changed his real name into a person's name with riddles in his novel "Evil Sea Flower".

During the Republic of China, the People's Education Museum was very attractive every year when it hung riddles and asked for shots in Xinzheng and Yuanxiao.

Yi people are mysterious and have been lost for a long time, and passed down from generation to generation. There are some manuscripts of Gu Xizhen's riddles in Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty.

After liberation, Changshu Workers' Cultural Palace opened a riddle room at 1956, which is open on holidays. 1957 released the riddle set and invited employees to create riddles. 1In April, 1986, the Civic Culture Association and Window of Knowledge magazine jointly held the "1986 Changshu Lantern Festival Invitational Tournament".

Many riddle books and newspapers, such as Window of Knowledge, Culture and Entertainment, Intelligence and China Enigma, all contain the works and manuscripts of Changshu riddle lovers.

Some grass-roots units such as the city printing and dyeing factory and Xushi Middle School also insisted on carrying out lantern riddles. Compile and publish internal mysterious magazines such as Roaring Yushan and Mysterious Flowers.

In 2000, Xushi Town was named as a characteristic town of riddles. 65438+February 18, the Xushi Town Lantern Festival, founded by the Municipal Cultural Bureau and Xushi Town Government, opened and held the "Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai Lantern Festival Invitational Tournament".

The lantern riddles in Changshu, a famous historical and cultural city, will bloom in a more colorful way in the new century.

Pingtan

Pingtan is a general term for Suzhou Pinghua and Tanci. Pinghua, also called "storytelling", takes military affairs of past dynasties as its theme. Most of its actors are solo actors. Pay attention to watch, interject, ventriloquism, hands, face and eyes when performing, and generally make great movements. Tanci, also known as storytelling, is often sung by legends and stories of joys and sorrows in unofficial history. Its actors have developed from single row to double row and three rows (both men and women), with speaking, beating and singing as the main artistic means, and singing is often accompanied by black boy and pipa. Pingtan has been spread in Jiangsu, Zhejiang and Shanghai for hundreds of years because of its clean twists and turns, wonderful performances and strong appeal, and is deeply loved by people from all walks of life. As Changshu is the hometown of Suzhou Pingtan, there are many famous people in Pingtan field, which have been passed down from generation to generation. On the basis of inheritance, Changshu pingtan actors made great efforts to bring forth the old and bring forth the new, and created many plays, which were well received.

Changshu story

Changshu is located in the south of the Yangtze River, with a long history and rich culture. In the past 3000 years, Changshu's ancestors have developed territory and lived by water. They have overcome difficulties for survival and development from generation to generation, and the fuel of civilization has been passed down from generation to generation. In this long and splendid time, many beautiful and moving legends have emerged, such as the world, the sun and the moon, Shang Hu in Yushan, immortal heroes and local specialties. This is a valuable wealth and an indispensable link in the long chain of Changshu humanistic spirit. 1987, the project of "integrating folk literature stories, ballads and proverbs into one" was started in the State Council, and Changshu organized a special person to collect and sort them out, thus having its own collection of folk stories, which included myths, legends and stories 1 165438, and Changshu Story Collection was also in 1985.

lake carrier

In the old society, boating on the lake was very popular in all towns and villages, especially in Yang Ren, Tang Shi, Jing and other water towns. After liberation, the lake boat not only appeared in festivals, but also went to the literary stage.

flower-drum

Ancient paintings and Lianxiang are very popular in Hupu and Fushan. During the performance, everyone held flower drums and lotus flowers, singing and dancing, and it was lively and cheerful. There is a difference between civil and military battles in Lianxiang. Wen Lianxiang, an actor, pays equal attention to singing and dancing when performing, with a brisk rhythm, while Wu Lianxiang, an actor, is active and free when performing, with a smooth rhythm and rough movements, showing a happy atmosphere.

dragon lantern

Dragon bodies vary in size and length, and the colors are generally blue, red, soap, white and yellow. If several dragon lanterns get together to perform at one time, Huanglong is the head. In the dragon lantern trick, there are also difficult moves such as "snake shelling", "breaking arhat" and "prying lotus". Dragon lanterns are popular in Changshu urban and rural areas, especially in Dongxiang Plum. The Dragon Lantern Festival is held every year at the turn of the Lantern Festival or summer and autumn.

Dragon Boat Racing

Changshu used to hold it every spring and autumn. The most lively events in spring are Li Sanqiao in Nantang outside the East Gate on March 29th of the lunar calendar, Wang Li Temple and Ouqugezhuang in Hudian outside Ximen on April 2nd, and three activities outside the South Gate on July 3rd and 4th. The competition held in autumn is called "rowing young crops" to wish a bumper harvest. The dragon boat races between Li Antang and Dayi are also very lively.