Hai 'an Luohanlong, also known as "Ding Jialong", is the dragon dance of Ding Shi family in the northern suburb of Hai 'an, and its origin can be traced back to at least the late Ming and early Qing dynasties.

This dragon dancing tool is made of 1 1 white dragons, which is small and exquisite. In the action and routine mode of brachiosaurus, besides "drilling, circling, jumping, circling, rolling, turning and flying", there is also the characteristic of "overlapping" while dancing, so it is called "Luohanlong".

There are as many as 72 kinds of arrangement patterns depending on circles and curves, and the feature of "overlapping" is even more peculiar. Without using any appliances, the stacked "pagodas" with three layers added and four layers overlapped have 48 shapes, such as unit treasure, double gold ingot, Xianqiao tower, overlapping heart tower, three-stage tower, four-stage tower, lotus flower, sending unicorn and pan-eight immortals, and the highest one can reach.

Second, Lotus Waterfall.

Lotus, commonly known as "dropping seeds" and "beating lotus". It is a rap art in the artistic style of Quyi. The props of the lotus pendant are three bamboo pieces, two of which are equipped with two bamboo columns about two centimeters at the top, and a lotus flower and two copper wires that can jump up and down are installed on the bamboo columns; The other piece of bamboo has serrations on both sides.

During the performance, two bamboo pieces wrapped in copper wires are sandwiched between the thumb, forefinger and middle finger of the performer's left hand, which are slightly staggered back and forth, making the copper wires at the front end of the bamboo pieces rustle due to the up and down pinching of the thumb and forefinger and the shaking of the wrist. The right hand moves or knocks on both sides of the two bamboo pieces held by the left hand with serrated bamboo pieces, thus knocking out high and low strength, jumping and flapping music, making its rustling sound endless and forming a lively rhythm.

At the same time, the performers recite rhyming words, or express their feelings, or narrate, but after each last sentence, they all join the chorus of "one whale and two silvers, three dozen carp and crucian carp, five sharks come, flowers bloom and lotus flowers fall".

Three. Huagu (Haian Huagu)

Hai' an Flower Drum has been popular in Hai' an Jiaoxie area since the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties, affecting places such as Donghu _ and Dongtai New Street. The dance movements of Hai 'an Flower Drum are mostly refined and developed from production and life.

The Wind Shakes Willow is born out of the dynamic of spring breeze blowing willow; "Sparrows move" is an image that simulates animals walking; Typical movements, such as "nodding and shaking shoulders", "getting out of the buttocks first, and micro-moving", are all evolved from the labor of local village women busy farming and weaving nets in their leisure time, which is the tenderness of the Han nationality.

Fourth, folk songs (Tongdong folk songs)

Tongdong folk songs are widely spread in the eastern part of Haimen, Nantong. It is mainly distributed in nine towns in the north of Haimen, including Sijia Town, Huolong Town, Wang Hao Town, Shuxun Town, Yudong Town, Yuzheng Town, Changbao Town, Liu Hao Town and Dongzaogang Town, with a circulation area of 450 square kilometers and a population of 4 1.5 million. In the singing style of Tongzhou folk songs, the tunes are long, intense and elastic.

Among them, the most representative ones are various types of songs formed by different working methods. There are crisp and tactfully beating wheat, loud and long underwater sound of cars, cheerful and exciting dowry sound, rough and bold thumping sound, distant and deep fishing songs, sonorous singing, song-making and wine-making, car-carrying, building houses and so on, which are not only diverse in form, rich in content, but also different in tune.

Five, the staff head puppet show

Rugao Zhangtou puppet show is famous at home and abroad for its long folk art tradition, exquisite puppet making, magical dance stunts and exquisite operation performances. In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, famous writers and dramatists Mao Bijiang and Li Yu all had dramatists' classes and puppet shows on the same stage, and Yangzhou Eight Eccentrics also recorded the poems of puppets.

Zhangtou puppet show is a mature stage performance art, which takes Zhangtou puppet as the carrier and has the basic characteristics of comprehensive art of drama. The basic structure of Rugao stick puppet can be divided into four parts: head, body, lifting pole (commonly known as life pole) and symbol.