On the fifteenth day of the first month, the reporter approached the cultural station of Shandai Town, Tuzuo Banner, and the sound of instrumental music, singing, and laughter came from inside the station.
"The Communist Party loves the people, the general secretary is Xi Jinping, he led the people of our country to get rid of poverty and get rich and take deep roots...", pushing the door in, the reporter saw that the literary and art team of the Cultural Compound of Shandai Town was rehearsing, singing their self-written program "Thanks to the Party's Good Policies".
The members of the literary and art team are all villagers who love the duo stage in the nearby ten miles and eight villages, and everyone wears performance costumes with red flowers and willows, even if it is not a formal performance occasion, it is full of ceremony. There were many good plays on the stage, and the applause from the stage was continuous. You sing, I appear, and the team members evaluate each other's programs from time to time and exchange skills.
According to Chang Erhua, the leader of the literary and art team, the literary and art team has been established for nearly 3 years, and there are more than 20 members in the team, most of whom are elderly people over the age of 60 and under the age of 70.
"Every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at two o'clock in the afternoon, everyone comes to the cultural station on time to rehearse new programs, sing the traditional songs of the two-person station, and people who love to sing sing sing!" Speaking of the daily life of the literary and art team, Chang Erhua smiled and blossomed.
Erhu, Sihu, and Banhu each, one Yangqin and one bronze, and one pair of four bowls and zizi, which are all the instruments of the literary and art team. It is understood that in addition to the traditional songs such as "Bai Da Nian", "Stealing Flower Shoes" and "Five Brothers Herding Sheep", there are also "Old Songs and New Songs" with new lyrics such as "Little Scattered Flowers". Wu Heping, a member of the team, told reporters that there are three or four members of the literary and art team who are responsible for composing lyrics, and he is one of them, and the team members have created several tracks. "In order to carry forward the traditional history and culture and to publicize the spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress of the Party, there are two groups of personnel in our regiment who have written three or four small repertoires, such as "Thanking the Party for Its Good Policies," "The Spirit of the Nineteenth National Congress Warms People's Hearts," and "The Old Two Mouths Watch the News.", all of which were written and performed by ourselves." Wu Heping said.
The members of the Literary and Art Team of the Cultural Compound of Shandai Town prepared their own musical instruments and costumes, gathered together with their full love for traditional culture and full enthusiasm for life, and sang the motherland, singing their hometown, and singing the gratifying changes in life with their own simple words.
Team member Xie Fengfeng has more than 30 years of experience in singing the duo stage, and now that she is old, she no longer has to follow the troupe to the east and west, returning to the countryside to enjoy a comfortable old age, while participating in the literary and artistic activities of the Cultural Compound of Shandai Town, guiding the singing voice and movements of the team members. "In the past, I sang to earn money, but now I sing for good health and good mood." Xie Fengfeng said happily to reporters.
Team member Chang Meimei not only loves to sing, but after joining the Shandai Town Cultural Compound Literary and Art Team, she was also infected by the team members, she also fell in love with lyrics, and has written two works of "Singing praises to Tu Mo Chuan" and "Respecting the Old and Loving the Young Heirlooms", which she hopes to be displayed on formal performance occasions. Chang Meimei said that the cultural activities in the cultural compound are a "heart-strengthening agent" for her to regain confidence in life, "because of the leg disability, I was very discouraged, when I first came to the cultural station, I doubted whether I could sing and sing well, and the result was welcomed by everyone, so I let go of singing, singing when cooking, singing when walking, sitting and singing, not to mention how happy." At the end, Changmei smiled heartily.
According to Hao Yufei, a member of the Shandai Town Propaganda Committee, in order to enrich the spiritual and cultural life of the masses, Shandai Town has given full play to the role of the town's own cultural stations and the cultural rooms of various villages and peasant bookstores as the main cultural front; at the same time, it has built and announced the exhibition room for poverty alleviation in the village and the calligraphy exhibition room of Chaohao Village, so as to facilitate the masses to carry out cultural activities. Simple folk customs, enriching the spiritual home of the masses, guiding villagers to achieve a better life of "industrial prosperity, ecological livability, civilized rural style, effective governance, and affluent life".
Rong media reporter: Ma Shaoyuan Liu Zhilin