What folk arts are there in Binzhou?

1, Lu Opera. Around 1870, natural disasters occurred frequently in Huimin area, Shandong Province, which is located in the lower reaches of the Yellow River, forcing some farmers to make a living by "art". They learn to sing local popular country tunes and "meditation" and make a living by selling songs and begging. The more famous ones are Sun Zhongxin and Zhang in Boxing County. Later, they absorbed the singing form of "make-up dulcimer", with "playing pipa" and "dulcimer" as the main accompaniment instruments, and gradually began to play characters and perform short stories. Then, a band of several people was formed, which has a simple foundation of singing and dancing such as martial arts, the basic characteristics of local opera and the embryonic form of Lu opera, laying the foundation for the rapid development in the future.

Lu Xiao opera is deeply loved and welcomed by local people with its strong local flavor, simple, vivid and lively performance characteristics, and its performance team is also growing. At the beginning of the 20th century, "Shunhe Class", "Yihe Class" and "Qinghe Class" were formed successively. At this point, the performance of Lu opera has basically formed four main lines: life, Dan, cleanliness and ugliness, with more than one role type 10; Musically, basic plates such as Siping, Baner and Running Water and simple gongs and drums classics have been formed. There are more and more small dramas, and there are also some big dramas and series.

2. Qinghe Town Woodboard New Year Pictures. The New Year pictures originated in Yangliuqing, Tianjin, were brought to Qinghe Town by the ancestor Wang from Jixian, Tianjin via Zaoqiang, Hebei. In the next few decades, they inspired other lovers of New Year pictures with surnames in Qinghe town (such as Zhang, Zhou, Ji and Cao Shi), and after years of development, they became an art form deeply loved by people in northern Shandong. In its heyday, there were more than 60 painting shops all over Gaoqing, Boxing, Zouping, Binzhou, Yangxin, Wudi, Jiyang, Shanghe, Zhangqiu, Yucheng and Cangzhou. With the development of society and the progress of science, the woodcut New Year pictures in Qinghe Town have been improved, and gradually evolved into a woodcut overprint method, which is divided into working procedures such as typing, engraving, black printing, color registration and color application.

It has the characteristics of concise conception, clear theme, profound meaning, beautiful shape, exaggerated deformation, smooth linear condensation, firmness or boldness. The woodcut New Year pictures in Qinghe Town have bright colors, strong contrast and harmonious and changeable color matching. Painters often overprint in red, yellow, green, blue, purple, pink and other colors, pursuing local flavor, fragrant rhyme and simplicity. In its nearly 300-year development history, the woodcut New Year pictures in Qinghe Town have influenced the whole northern Shandong area, and the isomorphism with other folk arts has formed the cultural diversity and pluralism in this area.

In 2006, "Qinghe Town Woodblock New Year Pictures" was approved by Shandong Provincial People's Government to be included in the first batch of "Shandong Intangible Cultural Heritage List".