Traditional culture in Chaozhou

>>The play in Chaozhou

The play in Chaozhou is so called the drama of Chaozhou and is one of the ten big 100 kinds of the whole country and the eight kinds of plays which go abroad. It formed by the south drama of Song Dynasty and Yuan Dynasty, there is the history of more than 500 years. In the long-term developing process of the drama of Chaozhou, it sucked broadly pink of the music and folks dance of Chaozhou and gain the strength of other plays at the same time, became a kind of drama that has the special art style finally.
It was born in Chaozhou, and then is popular in the area of Chaozhou and Shantou, the south of Fujian, Taiwan and Hong Kong. It has the deep influence in many countries of Southeast Asia. A lot of Chaozhou plays engrave originally such as the Lijingji, the Golden flower Woman, the Suliuniang are collected in many libraries of the United States, England, Austria and Japan etc. The people of Chaozhou in Thailand are the most, there are more than 30 troupes of Chaozhou in Thailand.
The roles of the play in Chaozhou are divided three types. They are the Sheng which are the young, the old and the action, the Dan which are the color, the action, the old and the Wushan and the Jing which are so called the Black face, the Ugly which are the young, the old and the female.
There is special art style in performing of the play in Chaozhou, especially it pay attention to be clear, pleasing moving in the singing work. The skills of Sheng and Dan are vivid, delicate, image. The performance of the ugly roles is the humorous humor and wit, is like very much by the people. All the roles on the satge, the whole figures actions all have the program norm. For example, the movable niche of the hand, there will be basic norm of" the hunds of the color Dan put at the navel, the hands of the young Sheng put on the chest, the black face arrived the eyes and eyebrow, the old ugly act unreasonably".
The accompanies of the play in Chaozhou are divided into cultural and action. The music of the cultural adopts the whole set of musical instrument with stringed Chaozhou, the music of the action adopts mainly gong and drum of Chaozhou.

>>Song volume of Chao-chou

The song volume of Chaozhou is a kind of manifestation of civil literature in Chaozhou, owns the extensive crowd's foundation, the women that know the word love to sing, the women that don't know the word love to hear, there are also the professional singers.
The materials of the song volume of Chaozhou in the main depend on the history chapter novels, the phrase song text and the Changlianxi of Chaozhou. It generally is said that the Chaozhou play plays what drama will spread what song volume. According to understand, there are 233 different edition song volumes in area of Chaozhou and Shantou. Each of divide some books, some volumeses again.
The characteristics of the song volume of Chaozhou are popular to understand, rhyme easily and easy to read. For example, the folks spread ¡¶the song of Baipinghuadeng¡·. It listens well and extremely draws on the person.

>>Gong and drum of Chaozhou

The gong and drum of Chaozhou includes the big gong and drum, small gong and drum, the Su gong and drum etc.

Big gong and drum: It is mainly stroke joy, makes the conductor with the drum, and goes together with playing together with the orchestra. Take the Suona as the melody lord plays music the machine to call" big gong and drum of the Suona "; Take the big firm whistle as the melody lord plays music the machine and has the whistle set to give musical performance the style special features, calls" a big gong and drum of whistle". The big gong and drum vehemence is big, the atmosphere is solemn in common using in the absolute being exposition and celebration ceremony activities in the folks. After found the nation, the big gong and drum in Chaozhou had the new development and varieties vigorously, it will play and visit the demand of performance for the orientation, entering the theater from the square, having to process and raise merely on the art.
Small gong and drum: It is the small form to play together deleting the orotund loud and clear and crude and uncivilized greater half gong and big Su from the big gong and drum. Certainly, the small gong and drum did not be like the big gong and drum from the form, the song body structure and the adoption song card aspects so of careful and abundant. Generally speaking, the style of musical performance is delightfully fresh lucidity and fast active.
Su gong and drum: Give musical performance with Su gong, Su drum, it took off the pedestal in the incidental music form of the Waijiang drama which is the Han play of Guangdong, and it has a unique style. It calculates" big gong and drum of the Suona ¡°and" the small gong and drum" in the gong and drum of Chaozhou most for universality, distribute most widely .Any place that has the Chaozhou person's footprint, there will be this kind of gong and drum. Big gong and drum in Chaozhou that people often say, is this kind.

>>The strings of Chaozhou

The strings of Chaozhou is the most popular widely, has the most the crowd and is the most common music type of the all kinds of music in Chaozhou. The strings of Chaozhou take the Touxian as the first instrument. There are the Yehu, the Tihu, the Xiaosanxian, the lute, the Zouqin, the Yangqin, the small flute ...etc excepting for the Touxian. The strings are very abundant. There are the ten famous strings of the most representative which are Zhaoqunyuan, Hanyaxishui, Yueergao, Huanglici, Xiaotaohong, Pingshaluoyan, Yulianhuan, Jinshangtianhua, Fengqiuhuang, Dababan. There are still the civil pop music, brand songs, songs...etc. The strings of Chaozhou is beautiful, the structure is careful, it is delightfully fresh and pleasing, it often be as the happy form of the people to amuse oneself.

>>The paper-cut of Chaozhou

The paper-cut of Chaozhou is a strange type of the Chinese paper-cut art, it is famous because of fixing delicately and the beautiful shape. It used generally the specially scissors which are about half an centimeter long and are sharp mouth. The workers shear on some papers, they can shear 4 or 5 paper-cut every time, the art special features of the paper-cut of Chaozhou are beautiful, clear quick, soft and beautiful, the whole choiceness of work, extremely keen, comparing for paying attention to realistic, tailor according to the certain kind table, body now delicate extremely of the contrast relation of the space of the lines and reasonable. So it has the very strong adornment and crafts.
The life of the people and the paper-cut art of Chaozhou are inseparable. Many paper-cut tell exactly the common people's daily life and the customs of Chaozhou. The village women in the past combined to provide the contest that the article carries on the paper-cut, proving them to be good and wise every festival. This kind of custom was more widespread, they sheared a varied wood grain pattern, sticking respectively at godly provide the article to decorate up the conduct and actions, which mean the good luck. The daily ornaments are the paper-cut which look like a fan, the tobacco pouch, the letter, the candlestick etc. These works all express the Chaozhou and Shantou people's adoption gives the thing to send the feeling or give the skill of the language of happy, using the natural thing in those to arouse people's affection up the mind and fine images of the health induct the people to the fine and affective association of thought. There are generally some ways to express. They are the image expression, the writing expression and the sound expression. The clubs and orchids are compared to the spring, the peony are compared to the riches and honour, the sheep and chocks compared to the happy, the pie and clubs are compared to the glad. It enriched the people's cultural life and then increased happiness atmosphere of the folk activity.
The paper-cut is the simplicity of type in the art of the folks of Chaozhou. Because its material is cheap, manufacture is sample and the topic is extensive, so it is very universal.

>>Decorative lanterns of Chaozhou

The origin of the customs of hanging the decorative lanterns in the Rice glue ball Festival is very early. There is the customs of hanging the decorative lanterns in the Rice glue ball Festival in Chaozhou, the decorative lanterns are the dazzling bright pearl in the festivals. Decorative lanterns are divided into the Qi lantern and Huo lantern. The Qi lantern fixes person, pavilions, terraces on the top of the lantern. The Huo lantern can make the heads and hands of the person turn to move, to go to all hold to take a stroll. The special features of the decorative lanterns are: The craft is meticulous, the shape is beautiful, the comparison is accurate, every act and move, it is very rich dancing movement. The thing is gorgeous; all is natural and big-hearted, lifelike. The decorative lantern are exquisite, contend up and down, is new, making the person unwilling to leave, stirring state of mind.

>>Dialect of Chaozhou

Dialect of Chaozhou which is the language of Chaozhou belongs to the Minnan dialect department that is one of the Chinese language dialects eight greatest languages fasten. Its phrase remit is abundant and vivid, is full of very strong performance dint, and keep a lot of compositions of ancient Chinese language, so it is valuable by more and more linguists. The dialect of Chaozhou owns itself dictionary which is the dictionary of Chaozhou, and the 15 sounds of the language of Chaozhou etc. There still are the special language of Chaozhou which is researched the local language. Dialect of Chaozhou is also the most ancient and the most special dialect in present whole country. It is ancient and cultured, the phrase remit are abundant, the phrasing is special, reserving the ancient righteousness of ancient phrase of ancient sound much, the language is vivid and rich sense of humor. Therefore, it is cared by the many Chinese and foreign linguists, the person of studying the words of Chaozhou are so many, the relevant special books, dictionaries and wordbooks about the language of Chaozhou also are many. The language of Chaozhou is the tache for keeping the heart and has the great effect particularly in the foreign country or other places. The same native accent is likely the relations.