Recently, the reporter walked into the Cultural Station of The Dumping Shop Township, and a series of crisp ringing bells came from his ears. Fang Dingmin, director of the former cultural station in Qiandian Township, is volunteering to guide three trainees to learn the traditional folk dance "Beating Continuous Sound". The straight body, smooth movements, it is not at all obvious that the old man has long passed the age of flower armor.
Fang Dingmin, director of the Original Cultural Station in Qiandian Township, said: "In 1968, when I was 16 years old, the first program I put on the stage was to play a continuous ring to celebrate the harvest, because the action and rhythm of the continuous ringing were festive and cheerful, and it was very popular with the masses. ”
Fang Dingmin, who was successful in his first contact with consecutive rings, fell in love with this traditional dance. In the 1980s, there were no cultural stations in the township, and Fang Dingmin, who was transferred to the township government, worked tirelessly in the streets, alleys, and fields to explore and file the overall cultural situation and literary and art lovers in the township, and established three creative teams for peasant literature, music, and fine arts; formed a folk artists' association and established 8 peasant bands. Among them, the performance of the "beating continuous ringing" performance team of more than 100 people has attracted widespread attention from all sides.
Fang Dingmin, station manager of the original cultural station in The fallen shop township, said: "In 1992, the Agricultural Games in Yunmeng was the second point of the competition, we organized more than 40 people in the pouring shop, the band was more than 60 people, the 60-person square team was noisy in the Yunmeng gong and drum, the parade was celebrated, and we poured the store and played a continuous ring to welcome the guests, as the opening ceremony performance at the welcome party of the Agricultural Games. ”
In the past few decades, Fang Dingmin has trained more than 1,000 actors to "beat and ring", and the township presents a grand scene of "a stick in every hand, a continuous beating in every household, and a gong and drum in the village". He led more than 100 local literary and artistic backbones, active in the countryside all year round, bringing wonderful performances to the villagers. After retirement, he is still in love with each other and constantly innovates.
Fang Dingmin, director of the original cultural station in The fallen shop township, said: "Now with the development of the times, the original old action, I always feel that there is still a backward form, we gradually reform and innovation, the combination of new and old, constantly integrated into modern elements, the earliest association is no accompaniment, only whistling, whistling, and finally there is a gong and drum family business, and then there is a sigh, to our time there are all kinds of things, there are orchestra strings." ”
A deep affection for the countryside, dancing with the sound of sunset red. Fang Dingmin excavated and sorted out the local intangible cultural skills of the shop and successfully declared the intangible cultural heritage project. Last year, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Hubei Province issued the "2021 Hubei Rural Culture and Tourism Talent Support Project Selection List", Fang Dingmin was selected as a Hubei rural culture and tourism talent, and at the same time, the intangible cultural heritage project relying on Fang Dingmin was selected as a funding project.
Fang Dingmin, director of the former cultural station in The Fallen Shop Township, said: "Our xiangxiang won the first prize of the Xiaogan Folk Song Art Competition in the Xiaogan Folk Song Art Competition, and our consecutive rings were very popular, and our team members were so happy to jump up to get the first prize, and they all jumped up happily. ”
On the big stage of rural culture, Fang Dingmin has written and directed more than 260 rap works, and created and published the "Dirt Trilogy", "Fragrant Soil", "Happy Soil" and "Happy Soil", which are praised by locals as "rural playwrights". Under his leadership, the Cultural Station has created more than 300 music and art, sketches, songs and drama works, and choreographed and performed more than 60 local literary and artistic programs, which are well received by the grass-roots masses and have won provincial, municipal and county awards.
Reporter: Tian Jun, Chen Hong