Sichuan Lianxiao

Sichuan
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Chengdu's "Lian Xiao" is deeply loved by the people of Sichuan's urban and rural areas. It is a folk art that combines literature, music, and dance, and is full of singing and dancing, with strong local characteristics. It is widely popular in Sichuan's urban and rural areas and has a history of more than 300 years. It is divided into single-stick Lian Xiao and double-stick Lian Xiao for solo performances, with the unique artistic characteristics of one person leading the singing and the others joining in. For example, during traditional grand festivals, there are about 100 actors wearing folk costumes, holding "Lian Xiao sticks" while walking, singing, and dancing. The singing is pleasant and the dancing is beautiful. The scene is very spectacular, bringing artistic enjoyment to the audience and a joyful atmosphere to the festival. Its characteristic that it is different from other arts is that it is easy for the masses to participate. At the first Chengdu Folk Art Festival in 1990, the "Lian Xiao Representative Team" in Qingyang District won the "Special Contribution Award" and "First Prize", which caused a sensation, and experts from home and abroad came to learn. Artists who sang Lian Xiao were all over Sichuan and the Yanchang River Basin before the founding of New China. Urban and rural artists in Mianyang, Suining, Chengdu and other places make a living by wandering around. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Lianxiao performers mostly participated in literary and artistic competitions organized by Chengdu and performances on stages and teahouse squares. "Lianxiao" has a long history. As early as the Daoguang period of the Qing Dynasty, Qian Liancheng, a Chengdu native, wrote a poem: "Lianxiao is three feet long, what else can I have here? I beg and sing long songs, willows, willows, willows, willows." Lu Jishui of the Qing Dynasty wrote in "Jinzhou Bamboo Branch Poems": "Narrow sleeves, wide clothes and long pleats, green clouds and beautiful makeup. Singing "Hui Bo Qu" in front of the banquet, begging for green flies to play the xiang." These two poems describe the real scene of a poor girl in Sichuan playing and singing Lianxiao (also known as Lianxiang) while begging. There is also a wood carving of a poor girl playing Lianxiao in the Qing Dynasty in Qin Guild Hall in Zigong, Sichuan, which is still clearly visible today. This shows that there were singing activities of Sichuan Lianxiao in the Qing Dynasty. Until the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China, this folk art was still widely popular among the people of Sichuan. The formation and development of Lianxiao has a history of nearly 300 years. The "Lianxiao" has strong local characteristics, beautiful singing, strong dance, and various performance forms, including solo performances and group performances. It is a very precious folk art that is played, sung and danced at the same time, which is popular among the masses and easy for the masses to participate in. It is widely popular in Chengdu, Sichuan and other places. In the 1980s, there were Lianxiao singing artists in Chengdu who began to teach and train successors. At the end of the 20th century, although there were not many professional artists engaged in Lianxiao singing, there were still Lianxiao performances on holidays, especially the Lianxiao square team performance organized by the Mass Cultural Center with more than 100 people. One person sings and the others sing, while walking, playing and dancing, giving people a refreshing feeling, which is very spectacular. The prop Lianxiao stick used in "Lianxiao" is also called a money stick. This instrument is made of white basil and a bamboo (23 feet). The bamboo is dug with 8 holes, and four copper coins are embedded in each hole, with a total of 32 copper coins (i.e. ancient copper coins). They can be purchased in the antique market, or copper plates can be made instead. The two ends of the Lianxiao stick are tied into single bows with colorful gauze scarves and tied to the two ends of the money stick. Female actors need to wear head flowers, colorful clothes and shoes; male actors need to wear Chinese vests or long-sleeved clothes and Chaoyang shoes. Flute, Erhu, Pipa, Ruan. Large Lianxiao teams need to add suona. "Lianxiao" is a form of folk art created by the masses and loved by the local masses for self-entertainment. It has strong local characteristics and artistic charm. It is often sung on the stage and the audience spontaneously joins in, reaching a state of joy on and off the stage. It has received attention and publicity from domestic and foreign experts and news media. It has a long history, strong local characteristics, beautiful singing, strong dance, and various performance forms, including single performances and group performances. It is a folk art that is loved by the masses and easy for the masses to participate. It is widely popular in Chengdu, Sichuan and other places. It is a form of folk art singing that combines literature, music and dance with the characteristics of Sichuan folk art. "Lianxiao" has participated in the "unique skills and unique skills competitions" held at all levels in the country, Sichuan and Chengdu many times, and won awards.

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