Fengyang Flower Drum, also known as Double Drum, was originally represented by two sisters-in-law, one beating the drum, the other beating the gong, singing a minor, and knocking between the drum and the gong. The lyrics are all sad: "Say Fengyang, say Fengyang, Fengyang was originally a good place. Since the birth of Zhu Yuanzhang, there was a famine for nine years in the19th century. Large families sell cattle and horses, small families sell children, and I have no children to sell, so I walk around with my flower drum on my back ... "In the old society, drought and flood in Fengyang continued, and many families sang flower drum lanterns and begged for a living. Fengyang Flower Drum became a symbol of poverty and begging.
After the reform and opening up in China, the form and content of Fengyang Flower Drum have changed greatly. Fengyang Flower Drum has become a tool for Fengyang people to entertain themselves. Huagu Opera is popular in both urban and rural areas. Whenever there is a happy event or a distinguished guest, Fengyang people always perform enthusiastically to express their happy mood. The style of play, dance steps, posture and singing of ancient paintings are all integrated with modern song and dance techniques. While maintaining strong local characteristics, the forms are more vivid and diverse, the atmosphere is more warm and cheerful, and Fengyang ancient paintings are becoming more and more famous.
2. English and Shang Hua ancient lamps
Yingshang Flower Drum Lantern is an art form created by working people and passed down from generation to generation. Produced in the vast rural areas of Huaihe River Basin, it is mainly popular in more than 20 counties and cities along the Huaihe River. The main content of Yingshang Flower Drum Lantern is to express people's good wishes for political integrity, good weather and long life, to show the courtesy, diligence and courage of the children of Huaihe River, to show the pure and simple love of young men and women, and to reflect people's persistence and yearning for a happy life.
3. Chizhou Nuo Opera
Chizhou Nuo Opera originated from the consciousness of totem worship, and mainly spread in Guichi, Shitai and Qingyang counties (districts) at the foot of Jiuhua Mountain in China 100 km away, especially in dozens of villages and towns such as Liu Jie, Mei Jie and Mao Tan in Guichi District of Chizhou City. Historically, it is said that "no village can be built without Nuo". It has no professional clubs and artists, and still takes the clan as the performance unit, with the purpose of worshipping ancestors, exorcising evil spirits and entertaining ancestors, and wearing masks as the performance feature. Chizhou Nuo opera has Nuo instrument, Nuo dance, Nuo opera and other forms. The whole "drama" is a drama with both dramatic plots and performances, as well as dramatic features such as foot color and stage construction.
4. Chaohu folk songs
Chaohu City is located in the middle of Anhui Province, surrounded by Jingjiang River. There is a site of "Hexian Ape Man" 300,000 to 400,000 years ago, which proves that it was once one of the birthplaces of Chinese culture. With the ancient history of Chaohu Lake, Chaohu folk songs have experienced the evolution from simple to complex, from single to diverse, and have been sung to this day. Chaohu people love singing and writing folk songs. The creative form of "looking at the willow" allows smart singers to sing whatever they see, wherever they go and what they do.
5. Huizhou Mulian Opera
During the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, Zheng Zhizhen, a native of Qingxi, Qimen, Anhui Province, created a new drama "Mulian Save Mother and Persuade Kindness" on the basis of previous operas, essays and legends. Once produced, Zheng Ben's Mulian Opera was widely circulated in Qimen, Xiuning, Shitai, Wuyuan and Shexian. Qimen Mulian Opera has no fixed performance place, with drums, gongs and cymbals as accompaniment, no orchestral strings, and longevity with suona. Its basic singing style is simple, which is the "Hui Chi Ya Diao" popular in Huizhou in the middle of Ming Dynasty, that is, Huizhou harmonizes Qingyang Diao, and retains the characteristics of "rolling Diao". Foot color is divided into raw, denier, tail, clean, miscellaneous and tight, and facial makeup includes grimaces, marked faces and painted faces.