Pingxiang folk culture is colorful, and tea picking slang, folk lanterns and ancient lacquer paintings have been passed down through the ages. Nuo culture originated from Chu witches is called "the living fossil of art". There are many kinds of folk art activities, which have been handed down from generation to generation. Up to now, there are more than 30 kinds of gongs, fishing drums, flower drum lanterns, tea lanterns, cow lanterns, fish lanterns, drum dances, kite dances, lotus dances, butterfly dances, clay sculptures, porcelain sculptures, bonsai, colorful ties, bamboo weaving and folk paintings (peasant paintings, lacquer paintings, paper-cuts, pyrography, micro-carvings and root carvings) that have been preserved and circulated among the people. In particular, 1 species should be briefly described. Spring gongs-Pingxiang is the most distinctive. Spring gongs originated in the late Qing Dynasty and prevailed among the people, Pingxiang and neighboring counties (cities) such as Yichun, Wanzai, Liuyang and Liling. The artist tied a small drum with a diameter of 15 cm with red silk, and hung a small gong with a diameter 2-3 cm larger than that of the drum. Drums and gongs have been used as doors, and people go door to door to announce the arrival of spring during the Spring Festival. The lyrics are mostly 7 words and 2 rhymes per sentence, and the language is authentic Pingxiang dialect, which is popular and affectionate. The tracks are all short stories, mostly praise (praise what you see). After the founding of the People's Republic of China, the content of lyrics expanded to current events, stories, family planning, new people and new things, and the length expanded to medium-length, with erhu and other musical instruments in form, which was more beautiful and deeply loved by the masses, and became one of the important programs of various literary evening performances. The new songs "Toast", "Spring in the Millennium", "Seeing Zan", "A clever daughter-in-law with an old mandarin duck" and "Xiyingmen" have been recorded as CDs, and more than 50,000 copies have been released. They are popular for a while and can arouse the homesickness of Pingxiang compatriots at home and abroad. They are welcome gifts from Hong Kong, Macao and Taiwan compatriots at home and abroad and Pingxiang compatriots.
Pingxiang Luo Chun
This is a Gan opera. According to legend, it evolved from the folk "Spring Newspaper". In the old society, every time after the Spring Festival, people who reported to Spring Festival travel rush carried gongs and drums and went door to door to tell people about the farming season of that year, reminding people to sow and plow the fields in time. With the progress of the times and the gradual popularization of almanac, the singing content of Spring Palace began to change, becoming a folk art form to congratulate people on the New Year and spread good news, and gradually developed into a story of rappers. At the same time, due to the flowing singing of artists, the Spring Gong also spread from Pingxiang's urban and rural areas to Yichun, Wanzai and other counties and neighboring Pingxiang's Liling, Liuyang and other places in Hunan.
The spring gong is sung by one person. The singer uses a small HongLing drum, with a small gong hanging on the side of the drum, a drum sign in his left hand and a gong hammer in his right hand to beat the rhythm. Most of the lyrics belong to the praise style, which are small fragments of praise, that is, praise things, praise things and praise people. These praises range from three emperors and five emperors, loyal ministers and good generals to three religions, nine streams and seventy-two lines, each with its own lyrics. Most old artists can recite hundreds of spring gongs. In the past, they often sang songs praising the charcoal shed, tea, grains, the opening of new stores, weddings and so on. The language of lyrics is popular, fluent and vivid, and exaggeration is often used in singing. There is no limit to the number of words in a song, usually two sentences and one rhyme, and sometimes four or eight sentences and one rhyme, so the rhyme is flexible.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, spring gong artists and amateur actors made some reform attempts, created the form of collective singing, and added accompaniment instruments and dance movements. At the same time, many new lyrics were created, praising heroes and model figures, satirizing and criticizing old folk ideas and customs, which made Pingxiang Spring Gong get new development.