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Types of Leping Stage
The stage built by clans can be divided into big clans and small clans (houses and stocks). It is built on a clan basis, mostly with ancestral halls, and it is a place where clans worship their ancestors. Most of the stages built by the big clan were built by neighboring villages with the same surname, such as the Xiabao stage in Gutian, Lingang. There are many scattered villages near Gutian. Most of these villages are inhabited by Sheng people, the so-called "Gutian Eighteen Families", all of whom are descendants of the same ancestor. In order to facilitate the centralized ancestor worship, eighteen clansmen raised funds to build a stage in Xiabao Village, hold activities such as ancestor worship or genealogy repair, and at the same time perform their own plays. At that time, eighteen clans had to elect leaders (leaders of all ethnic groups) to participate in the planning and sharing of expenses. In addition, there is a stage built with the house shares in the clan, which is built for the concentration of this house (share) and the convenience of sacrificing ancestors. Such as the leaves of Shuangtian village, there are three stages with one room, four rooms and nine rooms. At the foot of the tower, there used to be an upper stage and a lower stage in Zhujiajian Island (the upper stage was demolished due to disrepair). Double Dragon Ball also has three stages. The stage built by the clan is connected with the ancestral hall or built on the periphery of the ancestral hall, forming the center of clan sacrifice, social and entertainment activities. This kind of stage is mostly built with ancestral halls. The stage is opposite to the ancestral hall, and there are balconies on both sides to connect the stage and the ancestral hall. Balcony can be used as a box or for artists to stay overnight. Below the wing is the place where women watch plays. The stage, ancestral hall and balcony form a square enclosed encirclement, with a big yard in the middle, which is the place where men watch plays. In feudal society, the rules in the theater are also very feudal. When acting, there is a "mouth seat" for holding wine in the ancestral hall. The so-called "oral banquet" refers to holding a banquet in the ancestral hall opposite the stage, with the side facing the stage as the top, that is, the chief. Take the host and guest as an example. For example, the leader (boss), elder or "Zong Hua" (a distant cousin from the same clan who lives in other places) of this clan. Guests sit on both sides, and one side of the platform is empty, with no seats and gaps, so it is called "mouth seat". Invite leaders, elders and China guests to watch a play while drinking. In feudal society, generally speaking, men and women can't mix together to watch a play. If a woman goes to the theater in the yard among men, she will be ashamed of being a "dirty", "bitch" and "slut"; If a man goes downstairs to see a play among women, he will not only be condemned by the public, but sometimes even be beaten.

In the rural areas of Leping, some clan stage also created a double-sided stage, rain or shine. If it is an ancestor worship, a banquet or performance on rainy days, it is the rain platform, which is the ancestral temple near the platform mentioned above. The biggest defect of this stage is its small capacity, which will make people crowded and sometimes even cause trouble. The biggest advantage is that when performing in rainy days, you can sit in the ancestral hall and upstairs and downstairs without an umbrella, and you can chat and watch movies while eating and drinking. The back of the stage is not closed with a wall, but with a door panel, which is generally not opened. If it is sunny, in order to accommodate more audiences, most performances are performed on sunny stages. Then open the wall on the back of the rainy stage, change the foreground of the rainy stage into the background of the sunny stage, change the background into the foreground, and exchange things before and after the stage to perform, such as Tianji Jia Peng and the old stage in Nan 'an Yu Jia. However, as far as the scale and quality of the existing sunny and rainy double-sided stage in Leping rural areas are concerned, I am afraid Hu Chengjia's stage is the best. Pang Hu is located one kilometer north of leping town Bridge Town, and the stage was built at 1872 (the 12th year of Tongzhi in Qing Dynasty), which took three years to complete. Seen from a distance, the double eaves are upturned and magnificent. In the center of the roof is a huge colored glazed porcelain vase with an iron fork pointing to the sky, and the bottleneck is tied to the four corners of the eaves with four irons. Iron horse wind chimes are hung under the eaves, and the wind chimes are crisp and melodious. The platform is 14m high, 25m wide and 12m deep. The center of the platform is horizontally separated by wooden carved screens, becoming a sunny and rainy double-sided stage. The sunny table faces north and is the main body of the whole table. It is beautifully carved and magnificent. There are three algae wells (commonly known as shacks) on the ceiling of the platform. The middle is a threaded bucket arch, and there is a roof caisson on both sides slightly in front. On the upper end of the back wall hangs a gold-plated plaque engraved with the base plate of eighteen arhats, on which are written four vigorous and powerful Chinese characters: "The more you look, the better". On the four pillars of the top beam in front of the stage, there are couplets written by famous local Confucian scholars, and the handwriting is chic and elegant. On both sides of the stage, there is a wing connected with the rain platform for actors to enter and leave the stage. On the stage, there are carved beams and painted buildings, and there are reliefs of characters in golden operas everywhere: Kuixing Dou, Playing Golden Toad, Zhao Fan, and Three Rent Cottage ... There are more than 100 places, which are varied and lifelike. The structure and installation of rain platform are slightly inferior to balcony. Caotai is a temporary performance stage, supported by wood and covered with straw (or bamboo mats). It can be used alone, or it can be placed next to the ancient stage for two troupes to "fight". No matter which side performs well, the audience will scream and fall to the other side, and the atmosphere is very warm. It is really "Cao Tai's performance in the Spring and Autumn Period, with numerous audiences" that leads to "an eye for an eye".

Most of these ancient stages with different styles were made by local craftsmen.