Ninghai pingdiao

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Ninghai pingdiao

Applicant: Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

Project No.: 153

Project No.: Ⅳ - 9

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: Traditional Drama

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Ninghai pingdiao art inheritance Center

Introduction to Ninghai pingdiao

Applicant: Ninghai County, Zhejiang Province

Ninghai pingdiao is one of the ancient local operas in Zhejiang Province. It belongs to the branch of Xinchang tune. It originated in the late Ming Dynasty and early Qing Dynasty. Centered on Ninghai, it is popular in Xiangshan, Huangyan, Wenling, Linhai, Xianju, Tiantai, Fenghua and other places. It has a history of 300 or 400 years. It has more than 100 traditional plays such as little money, jinniuling, lu'anzhou, tianmenzhen, baimenlou, yubilou, Baihua Zhijian, drunken princess, Chen Lin's savior, stealing poetry to catch a boat, etc. among them, little money has been closely combined with the skill of playing teeth for more than 100 years, and has become the most characteristic representative play in Ninghai pingdiao.

Ninghai pingdiao's singing tone is high pitched and graceful. When you sing "Zhongbang", you don't need orchestras to set off with gongs and drums. There are many forms of "mixed Gang", "clear Gang", "whole sentence Gang", "fragment Gang" and "one word Gang". In addition to the clown dialogue, Ninghai dialect and "reading sound" are basically used in the performance. "Playing teeth in Ninghai" is a unique skill in Ninghai pingdiao performance, which has a history of more than 100 years. It is a kind of "mouth changing" skill, which is rough and delicate, wild and flexible. It is mainly divided into a bite, two licks, three swallows and four vomits. Artists take more than 200 kg of male pig mandible upper tusks in the mouth, with the tongue as the main power, and with teeth, lips, Qi activities auxiliary performance. This kind of performance with exquisite "mouth changing" Kungfu and unrestrained posture, combined with flat tune "three big and one small" and "general order" and other tunes, creates the arrogance of the unicorn dragon in the play, which is amazing. The skill of playing teeth in Ninghai pingdiao is unique, and the procedure is fastidious. It seems easy, but in fact it is a hard work. Every generation has to go through a hard practice process to master it. After the founding of the people's Republic of China, playing teeth has been improved on the basis of tradition, from the original six to ten, which has won the unanimous praise of the audience.

Ninghai pingdiao adds a unique skill of playing teeth to Chinese opera performance, enriches the form and content of opera facial performance, and attracts wide attention. At present, Ninghai pingdiao, like other local operas, is in the doldrums, and there is no one to inherit the unique skills of playing teeth. Both the whole drama and the striking technique of playing teeth need to be rescued and protected as soon as possible.