Cangshan music has the characteristics of vigorous and bold gongs and drums in the north, and has the style of spectacular gongs and drums in Sichuan New Year. Earth-shattering, overwhelming, and all the listeners are shocked. Slow beating and drizzle make people intoxicated and relaxed. There is no limit to the number of bands and dance teams, such as performing in the square, which can be hundreds. Since the reform and opening up, the motherland's economy has prospered and developed, and promoting the main theme of national culture has become the historical mission of the cultural department. The joy of Cangshan, which has been neglected for many years, began to appear. With the strong support of relevant departments in cities and counties, Cangshan Joy has developed greatly. On March 8th, 199 1, Li Yongshou, former secretary of Deyang Municipal Party Committee, came to Cangshan on the first night of inspection, full of praise, and instructed the cultural department to do a good job in this folk art with local characteristics. Du, former director of the Sichuan Provincial Department of Culture, chairman of the Provincial Dancers Association, and Ya Xin, deputy director of the Sichuan Folk Music Integration Office, and other seven people went to Cangshan to inspect the history and present situation of Cangshan and put forward many pertinent suggestions for its development. Mr. Yaxin also wrote an inscription for Da Yue: "Cangshan Da Yue is famous, drum music is a town of Zhenshan, national culture is a treasure, and Chinese spirit is brilliant!" For the development of Cangshan Da Yue, in May, 1996, Cangshan Working Committee invited experts in music and dance from provinces, cities and counties to publicize the leaders of cultural departments. After on-the-spot observation, it held a "Cangshan Dayue Development Seminar" in Cangshan, listened to opinions from all sides and polished it carefully. On this basis, it further improved its performing arts. 1996165438+10, Deyang TV recorded the TV musical "Cangshan Da Yue", and then participated in the music program exhibition of 100 city TV stations in China. When it was chosen in Guangzhou, it was a blockbuster. In more than 220 national performances, with its unique folk culture and art and superb performance skills, it won the bronze award for music and television performances of 100 city TV stations nationwide. 1997 10 Cangshan Dale was invited to participate in the China Arts Festival held in Chengdu and performed at the opening ceremony of the Folk Arts and Crafts Expo, which was well received by all walks of life. 1On October 25th and 28th, 10, CCTV's Focus Interview and sctv special programs reported the performance on special TV respectively. At this point, Cangshan Da Yue has also been gloriously recorded in the history of China folk music. Cangshan people are predestined friends with dragons and are descendants of dragons. Cangshan, as an ancient town with strong local cultural characteristics, is always associated with mystery and mystery. Anyone who has dabbled in Cangshan history will be surprised: this is a magical and full of heat. Not to mention that Cangshan, the capital of Cangshan before liberation, was founded from the king's side, nor how the magnificent Cangshan Palace made great achievements for China, but the dragon lantern of Cangshan was deeply touched and sighed. When did Cangshan's Dragon Lantern originate? We don't go to research. However, shortly after the Revolution of 1911, Cangshan Dragon Lantern formed its own characteristics. Cangshan people are hard-working, rough and heroic, and have unyielding passion in oppression and suffering. Dragon dancing is the cultural carrier of Cangshan people's dragon and horse spirit. In the Revolution of 1911, the decadent Manchu dynasty was overthrown, and the spirit of the suffering Cangshan people was unprecedented. Cangshan Dragon Lantern has also become more active than before. Legend has it that Cangshan has two dragons, one is the golden horned dragon of Gleditsia sinensis and the other is the golden dragon of Long Chao Temple. Later, with the support of Li Donggu, the head of Cangshan District of Kuomintang at that time, Cangshan Dragon in Qi Fei, Kowloon was overjoyed at Cangshan Palace, and with the addition of "emperor's sacred driving", fire dragon, golden dragon, flower dragon and peach dragon boiled Cangshan and its adjacent areas.
Among Cangshan dragons, the dragon is the first. The dragon is decorated with hard materials and coarse cloth, and the dragon in shape is slightly "slim". If you look closely at the dragon body and dragon shape, it is lifelike and full of aura, and then look at the iron skeleton, which is fierce and powerful. Playing with dragons is a tough guy's business As soon as the gongs and drums rang, the lean men who were naked except for a torch and trousers danced wildly at the fireworks sprayed from all directions. In this way, the industrious and brave Cangshan people danced the soaring and shining dragon lanterns and walked out of the oppression of the three mountains in modern times. Cangshan people once played a joke on the times in order to resist cultural autocracy. During the Cultural Revolution, Cangshan fire dragon faced extinction in the era of "breaking the old and establishing the new" and "sweeping everything". When someone tried to burn Cangshan fire dragon, it suddenly disappeared overnight. It turns out that the descendants of the New Age Dragon in Cangshan have built a "tunnel station" to protect Long Mai, where they want to exchange guns for a place. Cangshanlong spent ten years in the cold palace before he was able to see the light of day again. Cangshan people still can't forget the golden autumn of 1978. Only two years after the Party Central Committee smashed the Gang of Four in one fell swoop, it eliminated all kinds of interference and exposed the "two whatevers", and the people of the whole country ushered in the successful convening of the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the Party. People are ecstatic and Cangshan is boiling. Cangshan Fire Dragon, which has been hidden for 10 years, reappears in front of people. People beat gongs and drums, rushed into the street without consulting, and reveled with the fire dragon. In this way, every holiday, people flock to see Cangshan Dragon Lantern, and the whole Cangshan City is crowded with people.
The spirit of Cangshan Longren is really beyond the imagination of ordinary people. Since ancient times, dragon dancing has been a man's patent, and women are not allowed to set foot in it. Now when it comes to Cangshan Dragon Lantern, it is well known that Cangshan is active with Taipo Dragon Lantern Team. After the Cultural Revolution, those grandmothers who let go of their hands and feet emancipated their minds under the encouragement of the Party's reform and opening-up policy. After the completion of Long Chao Temple, the grandmothers thought that the golden dragon of the temple should also be restored, so in 1987, Ai Guozhen, Liu and others invited more than 20 grandmothers to spontaneously organize the "Cangshan Granny Dragon Lantern Team" to take over the temple that had been waved by men for many years. Every holiday, Cangshan is very lively as soon as "Taipo Long" goes to the street. The dark crowd surrounded the Taipo Dragon Lantern Team, and residents hung firecrackers at the door to welcome the Taipo Dragon Lantern Team. Firecrackers sounded, the crowd surrounded, and the Taipo Dragon Lantern Team danced there vividly. Anyone who sees this kind of atmosphere will be infected. "Taipo Dragon" has a history of 17 years. The ups and downs of 17, and the ups and downs of 17 ... The dragon mothers insisted on practicing and performing hand in hand, achieving Excellence, and the exquisite materials and technological innovation in the production of dragon lanterns were quite distinctive. Today, the "Cangshan Taipo Dragon Lantern Team" has been composed of more than 80 elderly women, including dragon dancers, drum musicians and flag-raisers ... each with his own duties and tacit cooperation. Although these grandmothers are old, they are really methodical and powerful in jumping Cangshan Dragon. The dragon holds the column, spreads its wings and is watertight ... Every movement and style is true. The inheritance of Cangshan Gulong in Long Mai can be said to be a classic masterpiece of modern times, which is the Taipo Dragon Lantern Team. They represent the spirit of Cangshan Dragon and convey the cultural information of Cangshan people. They not only raised the dragon lantern of Long Chao Temple, but also raised the cultural flag of Cangshan Mountain. From 65438 to 2007, the dragon grandmothers brought incomparable surprises and joy to the local cadres and masses, and Cangshan "Taipo Dragon" became a beautiful scenery in people's eyes. It is no wonder that in recent years, tourists and photographers from all directions have flocked to Cangshan to take beautiful photos of "Tai Po Long", which were exhibited in various provinces and cities and published in newspapers and periodicals. Sctv also put the "scenery" of "Tai Po Lang" in the program "Golden Land" to meet TV viewers. June 5, 2003 10, which was widely reported in the fourth edition of Sichuan Daily. Therefore, "Taipo Long" is dignified and prestigious, and everyone likes it. Therefore, the number of people who come to Cangshan for sightseeing by "Taipo Long" has increased. Cangshan is full of traffic, and the business is extremely good and lively.
Cangshan is rich in folk arts, including not only Cangshan Happy and Taipo Dragon Lantern Team mentioned above, but also Cangshan Troupe, Cangshan Friends' Association, Cangshan Flower Drum Team, Cangshan Farmers' Band, Lion Lantern, Walking on stilts, Caiguangtai and so on. Cangshan is a magical place with rich historical background. The dinosaur fossils identified by provincial cultural relics experts as 70 million years ago were unearthed in Cangshan, which aroused great interest from people at home and abroad. From then on, Cangshan, a small town, became famous, and went out of the city gate, the provincial gate and even the national gate to let the world know the name Cangshan. Cangshan has a municipal cultural relics protection unit-the Emperor Temple. The main temple of the emperor was built during the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty. As soon as we entered the Emperor's Temple, magnificent buildings immediately appeared in front of us, but what people were interested in was not the magnificent buildings, nor its unique shapes, but the huge columns, with exquisite carvings on them, and the dragon pillars, dragon flowers, dragons spreading their wings, dragons playing with pearls and dragons robbing treasures on the stigma were all vividly carved. The mighty lion is very lifelike, and there is no lack of aura in the mighty lion, and that ...
Located in Daobei Village, Cangshan Town, the stone carving is composed of seven grottoes, facing south. It was discovered in the cultural relics survey in 1987. In April 2003, seven new caves were discovered. According to the investigation with the archaeological experts of Chengdu Cave Temple, it is considered that the seven-niche grottoes discovered by 1987 may have been built in the early Tang Dynasty, and the newly discovered seven-niche grottoes may have been excavated in the prosperous Tang Dynasty, that is, during the Kaiyuan and Tianbao years of Xuanzong of Tang Dynasty, and the statues mainly include Maitreya Buddha, Sifang Buddha and Western Pure Land Sect. According to the site analysis of the grottoes, there may be stone tablets, cliff carvings and their new discoveries hidden underground, which are of high value in the archaeology of cave temples in our city. It is a large-scale cave group with exquisite carving art in our city at present. With the excavation of these cultural relics, newspapers, magazines, internet and television spent more time reporting Cangshan, and more people went sightseeing in Cangshan, which increased the contact between Cangshan and the outside world.