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"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

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This issue of the video: one-person drama class, variety of life)

There is no mouth to mouth

It's a man who doesn't dance

A man, a pair of hands, a mouth, a pair of feet

Sing and do play

Born and born to be ugly

Solo performance

Just saw this puppet show

It is spread in the Cangnan area of Pingyang

Cangnan is included in the national intangible cultural heritage list

"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

Single-stop cloth bag play

Also known as "pocket play"

From the Han Dynasty

Flourished in the Tang Dynasty

During the Southern Song Dynasty

It is spread in the Cangnan area of Pingyang

as well as Fuding and other areas where the Border of Zhejiang and Fujian speaks Hokkien

It blends with local marionette puppetry

Folk art elements such as storytelling

Formed

It has a strong local atmosphere

A unique art form

"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

The third generation of single-stage cloth bag drama

Mr. Wu Mingyue

Born into a family of cloth bags

At the age of 13, he began to learn art until now

It has gone through more than forty years of ups and downs

Personally experienced the development of the "single-gear" bag drama to a difficult road

And he also came from an ordinary rural kid

Became a famous folk artist in southern Zhejiang and eastern Fujian

In 1983, he was elected to Wenzhou City

The first director of the Qu Artists Association

He has held since 1991

Vice Chairman of Cangnan County Opera Association

"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

When performing in a single-stall cloth bag play

Entertainers sit in one seat

The "back" of the stage designed as a pavilion

Put the puppet on the palm of your hand

Use both hands, feet, and mouth

Stomp on the big and small gongs with both feet

Hands-on puppet show

Sometimes the right hand is freed

Play drums, cymbals and other instruments

One asks oneself

Constantly use methods such as "umlaut"

to represent different scene changes

as well as the characters

Different singing voices and white vocal cavities

It can also pass through the high and low of the sound cavity

and a fast and slow rhythm

to express the character of the character age situation

and moods and situations such as moods and sorrows

Slang is also interspersed from time to time

Witty humor

It has a strong breath of life

"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

Performing skills

Entertainers rely on the palm of their hands

Tips on the fingers and wrists

Vividly

Express the different personality characteristics of different characters

As well as the whole crown, appearance, stage, horse racing

Fight, turn over and other stunts

It can be said that people or things are fully presented and come to life

"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

Since Mr. Wu Mingyue has been forty years

Unremitting efforts and long-term research

He is now

It is already the border of Zhejiang and Fujian

A leading figure in the opera circles of various counties and cities

In order to promote the excavation and development of local folk opera art

Made a big contribution

In addition to excellence in performance, he keeps pace with the times and strives for innovation

It is also meticulous in props

He uses puppet heads and feet helmets and hats costumes

And the stage "building" is all made by themselves

Mr. Wu Mingyue is not playing a bag play

He also taught himself for hundreds of years

Cangnan fishing drum, which is loved by the masses

For this

Rescue and protection of the endangered fishing drum art

Also made

Due contribution

"Old Pleasures": One-man drama class, a hundred forms of life

For single-stop cloth bag plays

The inheritance and development of cangnan fishing drums and other forms of music and art

Say it with deep feeling

As a national inheritor

Of course, there is responsibility

Do a good job of this inheritance

This on stage

A few minutes

Offstage is ten years of work

Be an "entertainer"

To learn art, to have artistic virtue

Is the most fundamental "quality"

"Old Happy Things" is a column about Wenzhou culture launched by The Hurry Wenzhou APP and Mr. Chen Le, the creator of self-media, and is updated every Monday at 18:00.

Chen Le, as the name suggests, takes "Chen" for pleasure. Most of his life has been in the business sea, building high-rise buildings. In his spare time, he captures the lines of the city and captures fashion. Approaching retirement, the style of painting has suddenly changed. Abandon photography, pick up the mobile phone, play short videos, walk the old streets and alleys, walk between light and shadow, and carefully capture the beautiful memories of Wenzhou City infiltrated by the years. From paper cuts to bamboo wire inlays, from wontons to feather paintings... He was full of joy to pick up the artistic essence of the land of Dong'ou, tirelessly, and the short video works gradually became a unique landscape. From copywriting to commentary, from shooting to post-production, he did it alone. After network dissemination, Wenzhou folk art has been loved and praised by Wenzhou people around the world, and the "Learning Power" Zhejiang Learning Platform has also been reprinted many times.

The column "Old Happy Things" displays all kinds of Wenzhou folk art micro-videos, so that you can enter the essence of Wenzhou culture in light and shadow and enjoy the beauty of art. Related works have also been broadcast on video numbers (Hurry Wenzhou short videos), Douyin (Hurry Wenzhou TV), and Kuaishou (Hurry Wenzhou TV).

Source: Hurry up Wenzhou APP "Old Happy Things" column

Choreographer: Chen Le

Preliminary Editor: Ye Wei

Editor-in-Charge: Ye Hong

Auditor: Qian Zhongbiao

Chief Producer: Chen Taisheng

Producer: Wu Xiao, Chen Xiyu

Director system: Chen Zhenshi

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