Temple fairs

From the Qing Dynasty to the early years of the Republic of China, some market towns and temples in the territory would hold temple fairs several times a year, commonly known as "Chuhui", also known as the "Welcome to the Gods". The dates of the temple fair are as follows: "Guanyin Bodhisattva" will appear on the 19th day of the second lunar month, "Guandi Bodhisattva" will appear on the 13th day of the lunar month, "Chenglong Bodhisattva" will appear on the 1st or 15th day of October, and "Mighty General" will appear. , "Empress Meeting" and so on. Some market towns in the northern part of the county hold temple fairs once every two years, such as Dutianhui, Marshalhui, Guanyinhui, etc., among which Dutianhui is the largest. The temple fair is very grand. The Bodhisattva enshrined in the temple is first carried out in a sedan chair, and there are various honor guards in front and behind to greet him. There were people holding flower umbrellas, catching shields, carrying lanterns, and people walking on high poles and dancing Shizi dances. They were cheering in front and behind, and the gongs and drums were noisy, and firecrackers were blasting. During the Bodhisattva's "tour", some people placed incense tables and knelt down to worship, and there were a huge crowd of onlookers. Many good men and women, dressed in red and green, were happy and lively. Such temple fairs gradually decreased after the 1940s and basically stopped in the 1950s.

Haimen Folk Songs

After the middle of the Qing Dynasty, immigrants from the south of the Yangtze River introduced Wu songs. They were orally sung by the working people of Haimen for generations, and they were constantly refined and created. In the late Qing and early Ming dynasties, they developed into a folk song that was widely circulated within the territory. Haimen folk songs. There are two types of folk songs. One type is impromptu folk songs, which are mostly composed casually while working in the fields or after work. The lyrics include four, six, or eight sentences. The other type is narrative folk songs, with lyrics ranging from more than ten sentences, dozens of sentences, or even hundreds of sentences. In the 24th year of the Republic of China (1935), Haimen folk songs collected by Guan Jiange and Ding Zhonggao were compiled into "Jiangkou Love Song", which was published in the journal of Shanghai Datu University and then compiled into a special album. The following year, the long narrative folk song "Red Lady" collected by Guan Jiange was published in Wuhan's "Heaven and Earth People" magazine. In 1954, Haimen folk songs were put on the stage. In the 1950s and 1960s, some mountain opera scripts were published in national drama publications. In the 1980s, many folk songs and papers on folk songs were published in journals at or above the provincial level. In 1984, the Haimen Folk Song Research Association was established. In August 1985, the county held the first Haimen Folk Song Singing Festival. More than 50 singers sang more than 40 folk songs. Guangming Daily, Xinhua Daily and other newspapers successively reported on this. In July 1986, Song Weixiang sang the Haimen folk song "Little Sister Fancy the Boatman" and went to Beijing to perform with the Nantong Folk Art Troupe. In 1987, "Selected Haimen Folk Songs" was published by China Folk Literature and Art Publishing House, which included more than 250 Haimen folk songs. In 1995, the Haimen folk song "Qinglongjiao" was performed in Beijing. Some of the widely circulated folk song catalogs include long narrative folk songs, including Boatman, Pulling Garlic Seedlings, Peach Seller, Picking Up Auntie, Zhang Erniang, Yangko, Nine Girls, Sister Maihua, Embroidering Falling Clothes, Embroidering Khankerchiefs, Meeting in the Nunnery, and Ten Miles of Love Pavilion. wait.

Love songs: Picking mulberry, picking wood incense, picking red water chestnuts, picking green plums, looking at the dream of flowers, crying for the man, the song of the four seasons, embroidering the man's clothes, the tune of the fifth night, dressing table, thinking about the man, picking. Water Song, Siqu Folk Song, Sunset on the Western Mountain, Forging an Affair, Yolang Folk Song, West Lake Railing, Lover's Folk Song, New Water Truck, Embroidered Bellyband, A Winding River, Looking from a distance to the south of the Yangtze River, a mulberry with a red mouth and a green mouth Parrots etc.

Cross Song: Ten tables, ten worries, ten sachets, ten pairs of slippers, ten wives, ten girls, ten fans, ten beaus, ten pairs of sisters. Embroidered shoes, ten copper fines, ten handkerchiefs, ten liters of pavilion, ten rare talents, ten ladies, ten months, ten gaolangs, twelve flower names, twelve cups of wine, twelve long work songs, thirty-six Stickworms, etc.

Tongdong Haozi

While working, people in Tongdong area compose and sing to the rhythm of labor to form oral music. All collective work, such as driving, threshing wheat, carrying mud, pulling flower stalks, tamping, carrying sticks, carpentry, pulling boats, collecting hay, etc., all have corresponding chants.

Tongdong chants are generally antiphonal chants that are sung and harmonized, and there are also some longer narrative chants; each paragraph has more than ten or even dozens of sentences, such as the rice harvesting and Lishi songs.

Tongdong chants have various tunes and musical styles. Some are lyrical and beautiful, with free rhythm, such as traffic chants; some are vigorous, open, high-pitched and powerful, such as mud-picking chants; some have gentle ups and downs. , the festivals are regular, such as the boat-pulling chant; some festivals are regular and free, such as the dung chant, etc.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, special personnel were assigned to excavate and sort out Tongdong Haozi. In May 1979, "Haimen Folk Song Selection" included 21 various Tongdong chants, among which the boat-pulling chant, the anchor-pulling chant and the dung-picking chant were selected and included in the "Collection of Chinese Folk Songs, Jiangsu Volume". In 1984, the chant solo "The New Sister-in-law Received the Only Child Certificate" was broadcast on Shanghai TV.

Poetry

In ancient times, there were poems and essays in Haimen Jingjing County scattered in old local chronicles. The works that have been passed down to later generations include "Dongzhou Collected Works" written by Cui Jitong in the Ming Dynasty, and "Shou Jialu" written by Zhou Jialu in the Qing Dynasty. "Kaitang Collection", Qing Dynasty painter Ding Youyu wrote "Shuangweiyuan Collection", "Shuangweiyuan Sequel", "Yuqiu Collection", etc., but they were all destroyed in the literary prison during the Qianlong period, and few survived. During the Republic of China, some of the more influential works included the film critic Wang Chenwu's collection of essays "Miscellaneous Collection of the Floating World" and Gong Tinghuai's collection of patriotic poems "Su Huan", "The Wasteland", "Shanghai Collection", etc. From the 1950s to the 1960s, opera creation flourished in the county. Some of the more influential operas include "The Story of Rice", "Peach Picking", "Guard", "Silver Flower Girl", etc. In 1976, "People's Literature" published Xu Naiping's children's literature "Golden Wings", and "People's Daily" published Cheng Han Biao's prose "The Red Flag Is Like a Fire Reflecting the Journey."

In the 1980s, the county published 67 literary works in newspapers and periodicals at or above the provincial level, 28 of which won national and provincial awards. In 1995, Huaxia Publishing House published Yu Bin's poetry collection "Echo"; in 2005, Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House published "Zhang Zhengzhong's Poems, Calligraphy and Paintings - Hundreds of Pastoral Landscapes", which included 160 Zhang Zhengzhong's poems and 108 art essays.

Calligraphy

In the Ming Dynasty, there were masters and apprentices of great calligraphers Zhang Cheng and Cui Tong. Nantong Museum has a long scroll of his calligraphy, which is his masterpiece. The works of calligraphers Cui Siwei, Sheng Ding, Li Qianzhao, etc. are also famous at home and abroad. Cheng Hongling, a calligrapher of the Qing Dynasty, is known as the sage of grass. Li Fangmei is well-known inside and outside the county, and the county cultural relics management committee preserves the authentic works of her regular script works. In the Qing Dynasty, there were also calligraphers such as Xu Shiguan, Li Rulin, Li Laihan, Li Lianxiu, Li Tuan, Zhang Jian, etc. During the Republic of China, calligrapher Huang Zuqian was an expert in official calligraphy, and Chen Jiaqian was a master of Zong Yan's stele. He also studied Han and Wei Dynasties, and became a self-contained entity, famous in the north and south. His younger brother Chen Jialiu followed his brother's calligraphy. His daughter Chen Shuzhen was the only female celebrity calligrapher in the county. Yao Yingchun studied calligraphy style from Zhao Meng, and there is no such thing as Yao Buting in the county. Sha Yuzhao is famous inside and outside the county, and the plaque inscribed on Suzhou Xuanmiao Temple was written by him. Chen Ba's calligraphy was highly praised by Liang Qichao. Modern artist Wang Gezhen is fond of calligraphy and uses stone drum brushwork to develop cursive writing, especially fine gold inscriptions and stone drums, which are rich in the flavor of gold and stone. In 1984, the County Federation of Literary and Art Circles established the Calligraphy Association, with 22 members. In 1990, it grew to 55 people. Contemporary calligraphers include Zhang Baoheng, Liu Yanchi, Cheng Hanbiao, Zhang Zhengzhong, and young calligraphers include Huang Jige, Wang Xin (seal cutting), Hu Xin, Liang Donglei, Shen Jianzhong (seal cutting), etc. Among them, Huang Jige won the national award at the 10th National Calligraphy and Seal Engraving Exhibition and the First National Handscroll Exhibition hosted by the Chinese Calligraphy Association. Wang Xin won the national award at the "Deng Shiru Award" National Calligraphy Exhibition hosted by the Chinese Calligraphy Association. Hu Xin won the National Award at the "Deng Shiru Award" National Calligraphy Exhibition hosted by the Chinese Calligraphy Association. He won the third prize in the National Calligraphy Exhibition celebrating the 85th anniversary of the founding of the Party. Local calligraphers include Wang Lanqing, Xu Xiongzhi, and seal engraver Cai Yiqiang. Currently there are 6 members of the Chinese Calligraphy Association in the Haimen Calligraphy Association. They are: Cheng Hanbiao, Huang Jige, Wang Xin, Shen Jianzhong, Hu Xin and Ge Wenming.

Ding Youyu, a painter in the Qing Dynasty, was good at ink flowers, especially birds and bamboos. His painting style was similar to that of the "Eight Eccentrics of Yangzhou"; his nephew became a scholar, and his style was close to Ding Youyu; the painter Cheng Xie was good at painting. landscape.

During the Republic of China, the painter Huang Xian learned from Gong Tinghuai when he was young, and was good at landscapes, flowers and birds; Gong Yunpeng was good at painting flowers; Huang Yunxiang liked orchids, and her works were scattered on screens and fans. She and Chen Shuzhen were known as the "women's calligraphy and painting show" "Painter Zhang Licun specializes in figure sketching; painters Huang Song'an, Chen Eryi, Shi Yunhui, etc.

In modern times, there are: Wang Geyi, who is good at freehand flower and bird painting. He is the descendant of Wu Changshuo, the master of traditional Chinese painting. He has mastered the essence of Wu School of art. He is also good at poetry, calligraphy, painting and sealing. He is the vice president of Shanghai Chinese Painting Academy.

Gao Guanhua, Wang Gezhen’s cousin, once worked in Haimen. A disciple of Pan Tianshou, a master of traditional Chinese painting, he is good at freehand flowers and birds, poetry and calligraphy, and has a unique painting style. Professor at the Central Academy of Fine Arts.

Wu Shizhen, a native of Sanchang Town, is good at flowers and birds.

The Art Association was established in 1984 with 29 members and its first chairman Wang Yanping.

In 1994, Dongzhou Painting Academy (now Haimen Painting Academy) was established with 14 painters and Zhang Zhengzhong, the first director.

Contemporary painters include:

Zhang Zhengzhong, who is good at Chinese painting, calligraphy, poetry and theory, is a disciple of Mr. Gao Guanhua. "Rapid Rain" won the second prize of the Ministry of Culture and the China Artists Association, as well as more than 20 national and international awards. In his early days, his art was involved in both Chinese and Western art. He later advocated and specialized in the creation and research of pastoral landscape paintings. He published two monographs, "Zhang Zhengzhong's Poems, Calligraphy and Paintings - One Hundred Pastoral Landscape Paintings", "Pastoral Landscape Painting Techniques" and a picture album "Selected Pastoral Landscape Paintings of Zhang Zhengzhong". He is a first-class artist, a member of the Chinese Artists Association, a specially appointed painter of the Jiangsu Traditional Chinese Painting Academy, a contracted painter of the Shanghai Painting and Calligraphy Academy, and the president of the Haimen Painting Academy.

Wang Yanping, good at printmaking, member of Jiangsu Artists Association, associate research librarian, former chairman of Haimen Artists Association, consultant of Haimen Painting Academy;

Wang Jiuxin, good at Chinese painting and masthead painting. He studied under Tang Zhixin. "Spring Rain in the Reed Pond" won the bronze medal in the Provincial Department of Culture's "Calligraphy, Painting and Photography Exhibition of Literary Cadres". In 2002, "Wang Jiuxin's Painting Collection" was published by International Culture Publishing Company. Member of Jiangsu Artists Association, director and deputy research librarian of Haimen City Library, and chairman of Haimen Artists Association.

Zhang Jishan, good at oil painting, member of Jiangsu Artists Association, associate research librarian;

Cui Xingwu, good at oil painting, member of Jiangsu Artists Association, associate research librarian, Vice Chairman of Haimen Artists Association;

Yao Jinfa is good at oil painting and has published "Yao Jinfa Oil Painting Collection". Member of Jiangsu Artists Association, senior lecturer of Haimen College of Jiangsu Province, deputy director of the Art Committee of Haimen Painting Academy, and vice chairman of Haimen Artists Association;

Cai Xin, good at printmaking, member of Nantong Artists Association , member of the Art Committee of Haimen Painting Academy;

Yu Yiren is good at comic books and has published comic books such as "Zhang Jian". Member of Hubei Artists Association and member of the Art Committee of Haimen Painting Academy.

Contemporary painters from Haimen who are from other places include: Cui Xiong, Shi Yongcheng, Shi Zuoxiong, Zhang Ye, Gu Fengzhen, Gu Binli, Huang Mairen, Wu Yongkang, etc.; art historians include Wan Xinhua, Wang Bin, Zhang Qiang et al.; sculptor Guan Dingwei et al.

Dance

Haimen folk dance originated from worship activities. During the Ming Dynasty, there was a custom of worshiping gods and entertaining people during festivals.

Since the middle of the Qing Dynasty, with the prosperity of religious ceremonies and temple fair activities, Haimen folk dances have continued to develop, including dancing the God of Wealth, running in five directions, dancing lions, dancing dragon lanterns, boating on the lake, clam shell spirit, walking on stilts, carrying flower poles, and playing dance. Lotus dance, waist drum dance, horse lantern dance, swing platform, red fan dance, etc. There are dozens of kinds. Most of the dances appear in religious ceremonies, such as "running in five directions" in the Taoist ceremony "giving food"; some are Some of them became popular among the people after being separated from religious rituals, such as "Dancing for the God of Wealth"; some were introduced from other places, such as playing lotus and waist drum, etc. Before 1949, some folk dances were lost. In the 1950s, the county assigned special personnel to explore and sort out folk dances. Dragon lantern dance, lion dance, vegetable delivery, flower picker, lotus beating, waist drum, etc. were successively put on the stage. There is a certain number of folk dances in each cultural performance held by the county. In 1983, the county literature and art department conducted a census of folk dances. The compiled folk dance "Dance God of Wealth" was included in "Chinese Folk Dance Collection, Jiangsu Volume".

Before 1949, some folk dances were lost. In the 1950s, the county assigned special personnel to explore and sort out folk dances. Dragon lantern dance, lion dance, vegetable delivery, flower picker, lotus beating, waist drum, etc. were successively put on the stage. There is a certain number of folk dances in each cultural performance held by the county. In 1983, the county literature and art department conducted a census of folk dances. The compiled folk dance "Dancing God of Wealth" was included in "Collection of Chinese Folk Dances·Jiangsu Volume".

Photography

In December 1984, the County Photography Association was established with 21 members. In May 1989, Li Xiang's photographic work "Caiwenha" participated in the Nantong Photography Exhibition. In 1990, his photograph "Countryside" participated in the "Beauty of Life" national competition and won the Excellence Award. In September, Beijing's "Health Consulting" magazine published Li Xiang's photograph "Greed". This year, the County Photography Association had 24 members.