From 18^th July to 20^th, the casts and crews of Tieling City folk Art Troupe came to Chaoyang City, Heishan County of Jinzhou City and Lingyuan City, all of which are in Liaoning Province, to give three specialtours of Tieling intangible cultural heritage, which showed Errenzhuan (a kind of folk art of talking and singing as entertainment popular in the northeast of China) to the local audience and got consistent high praise.

It is said that the tour is part of the series of grassroots activities of intangible cultural heritage, whose subject is “Inheriting National Culture, Building Spiritual Home”, and which is host by the intangible cultural heritage protection center of Liaoning Province. The grassroots activities gave three special performances of Tieling intangible cultural heritage items, with more than 50casts and crews of Tieling City Folk Art Troupe taking part in. After careful preliminary rehearsals, Tieling City Folk Art Troupe prepared wonderful programs with high quality for the public. All of the programs displayed in the tour were provincial Prize-winning works, not only including some classic Errenzhuanpieces, such as Sister Wang Er Missing Her Husband, Divorce,Flooding Blue Bridge, Pingju(a local opera of north and northeastChina) excerpts Drama Life andso on, but also  operetta like After the Hit, comedy like Dad's Coming and other original programming transmitting positive energy, which have been involved in ILove the Applause Section of CCTV-3. Through the humorous language and vivid performance, the play reflected social problems in the laughter and transferred the positive energy of integrity and filial piety. The whole show included more than 10 programs and each of them has won the audience’s applause.

According to Zhao Xiu, head of Tieling City Folk Art Troupe, in spite of the high temperature, all the casts and crews showed the intangible cultural heritage and folk art of Tieling to more people, and let more people enjoy the charm of traditional culture, which was beneficial for promoting the protectionand inheritance of the intangible cultural heritage at the grassroots level.”

Time：2015.7.27  

Source：Tieling Daily