唐杖子村由村民自編自演的“村晚”是十里八鄉最熱鬧的：來自周邊村鎮的近千位村民穿著羽絨服、厚棉襖，一大早就騎著自行車來搶佔好位置；臺上都是熟人，這個叫二哥，那個喚三姨，演得無論好壞，總會報以熱烈的掌聲和尖叫

Sentence |《Ambition》Newspaper Reporter Takee Min

Among the nearly 200 "sticks" dotted around Chaoyang County, Liaoning Province, Tangzhuzi Village in Beisijiazi Township is one of the inconspicuous ones.

30 years ago, a "village evening" initiated by ordinary farmer Li Chunjun made Tangzhuzi Village famous. Speaking of the hometown, singing is nostalgia, dancing is nostalgia, this "village evening" written and performed by the villagers is like a literary torch, which not only reflects the starry sky of the countryside, but also ignites the hope of rural revitalization.

Why did this cultural event sow seeds and take root in Tangzhuzi Village? What changes have it brought to Tangzhuzi Village and the villagers?

"Village Evening" has been red for 30 years

The initiation of the "Village Evening" was a wonderful surprise for Li Chunjun.

Li Chunjun's first job was as a laborer and bricklayer in Shenyang. But he loves to sing, carrying cement on the construction site and singing military songs, walking and singing folk songs on summer nights. During the holidays, Li Chunjun also went to Shenyang Bitang Park to find a roadside karaoke machine to sing a song for 2 cents, feeling "luxurious and satisfied".

The first big item Li Chunjun bought when he got married was a karaoke machine.

On the tenth day of the first month of the first month of the 4th year, the sun is three poles. On the 0th day of the wedding, Li Chunjun moved the karaoke machine to his vegetable garden. After a burst ......of noise, Li Chunjun turned on the microphone and reveled in his singing.

The song grew on its feet and slipped into the courtyards of "Cat Winter", attracting many onlookers. Some of the guys stood on the roof, some climbed the tree, and a few guys stood on the "stage" in the middle of the vegetable garden. Some people forgot the words, some people went out of tune, and some people were dragged off the stage by their daughter-in-law halfway through singing, but the laughter, applause, and the sound of stomping feet in the north wind remained in the depths of memory.

Li Chunjun didn't expect that his song would become an evening party for the whole village. I didn't expect that this village was late, and it would be 30 years to do it.

"The next year, before the Chinese New Year, the people in the village asked me if I could sing, and I said, 'Sing, and sing a big one.'" In the first month of 97, Li Chunjun collected the songs that everyone wanted to sing in advance and gathered the tapes.

The second "Village Evening" was grand - the gray tarpaulin was the stage curtain, and in Li Chunjun's announcement, the villagers came to the stage one by one, smiling green and nervous. Later, he asked, "Chunjun, will you do it next year?" "Yes, of course."

In this way, the village evening, full of the joy and expectation of the villagers, was held year after year: the second had a curtain and a rough program list, the third had a videographer, the fourth had a professional audio, and the fifth and sixth had sketches, dances and magic tricks......

At that time, the performance scene was often "embarrassing": the stage made of stone bricks was slightly uneven, the sound equipment was in constant condition, and the designed spray painting was always blown by the wind......

　　“村晚”現場卻是十里八鄉最熱鬧的：來自周邊村鎮的近千位村民穿著羽絨服、厚棉襖，一大早就騎著自行車來搶佔好位置；臺上都是熟人，這個叫二哥，那個喚三姨，演得無論好壞，總會報以熱烈的掌聲和尖叫。

Yao Xudong, a frequent visitor of "Village Evening", said: "The biggest pleasure of watching 'Village Evening' is to be lively, no matter what the program, everyone is happy when they get together." ”

At the beginning, Li Chunjun paid out of his own pocket to run four or five hundred yuan in the second village evening, and after the performance, everyone went home to eat dumplings and it was lively. The scale is large, makeup, props, and stage art are all money, and Li Chunjun began to "turn into fate". "Those who contract projects in the city, sell fertilizers in the village, and install broadband have asked many people in those years." Li Chunjun said that it is common to have insufficient funds, but no matter how poor you are, you can't do it without it, so you can take fertilizer bags to change the play, and borrow dragon dances and gongs and drums, "you can save it, but you can't break it."

　　近年，在朝陽縣重視下，唐杖子村的“村晚”越辦越好。今年正月初五，李春軍導演的第三十屆“村晚”正式開演。專業的LED背景牆，還有精美的燈光和泡泡機、煙霧機。16個節目涵蓋舞蹈、歌曲、小品、戲曲等多種形式。

The form changes, but the core does not change. Zhu Ling, member of the Standing Committee of the Chaoyang County Party Committee and director of the Propaganda Department, said that the "village evening" that has been held in Tangzhuzi Village for 30 years has always been a matter of the villagers. The sketches "The First Secretary" and "Looking for Peach" tell the story of planting peaches in Tangzhuzi Village to get rid of poverty and become rich, and the group allegro "Hand in Hand to Realize the Chinese Dream" sings about the happy events of repairing village roads and holding picking festivals...... The actors are all villagers from nearby villages, towns, and townships.

In Tangzhuzi Village, Beisijiazi Township, Chaoyang County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, actors perform at the "Village Evening" (taken on 2/0/0) Photo by Li Gang / This magazine

Culture goes on and the days are on fire

Li Chunjun's ability was seen by the villagers. In 2013, Li Chunjun, who returned to his hometown, was elected as the village party secretary.

At that time, Tangzhuzi Village was still a provincial-level poor village, with a total of 218 poor households and 0 people. Everyone is looking forward to the fact that this village party secretary, who loves to sing and can direct, can lead everyone out of poverty and become rich.

　　2015年，李春軍學習經濟發展水準好的村鎮經驗，張羅成立專業合作社，流轉土地717畝，栽植水蜜桃310,000 股，建大棚4座，栽植大櫻桃、油桃。合作社把村貧困戶全部接納進來，他們在果園打工，有分紅、土地租金等3項收入。

It's not easy to do these things in just 2 years. Every day, Li Chunjun led people up the mountains to open up wasteland and plant trees, worked with the workers, ate together, and sometimes was too busy to eat. During the Chinese New Year, Li Chunjun compiled his experience into sketches, wrote jokes, and performed them. "No matter what the hardship and tiredness, the joy and laughter have passed."

　　如今，唐杖子村林果種植面積已達3000余畝，帶動150人就業。唐杖子村不僅實現脫貧，而且村民通過土地租金、投勞收入、分紅和村集體收益紅利等鼓起了腰包，人均年收入超過1萬元，產業振興邁上新台階。

Tangzhuzi Village, which is getting better and better, has gradually developed characteristic rural tourism projects such as agricultural sightseeing parks, cultural exhibition halls, cultural exhibition and performance parks, and intangible cultural heritage protection and inheritance research and training bases. Building a "village of inheritance of folk culture, an active village of rural art, and a beautiful and rich happy village" is becoming the direction of the joint efforts of all villagers.

This is also what Zhu Ling is looking forward to. "It's not just lively and festive, the 'village evening' is still looking forward to and hoping, we want to plant culture and make the days fire."

Li Chunjun paid attention to promoting civilized rural customs in the "Village Evening" program. He wrote, directed and acted in a sketch, about the couple addicted to playing mahjong and ignoring the child's studies, the teacher asked the child "4-0 is equal to what", and the child said "two". "At that time, there was an industry in the village, everyone had spare money in their pockets, and the style of mahjong was prevalent, so we used this sketch to admonish everyone." Li Chunjun said.

　　日子過得紅火，李春軍的“村晚”也越來越受到歡迎。“生活好了，大家參與文化表演的熱情更高了。觀眾由最初的100多人發展到如今的千餘人。”

The venue of the performance is not limited to Tangzhuzi Village. In the past 30 years, Li Chunjun's "Village Evening" stage has moved from the vegetable garden to the county and city many times, and went to Ningbo, Zhejiang Province to "marry" with the local culture.

In Tangzhuzi Village, Beisijiazi Township, Chaoyang County, Chaoyang City, Liaoning Province, the "Village Evening" party opened (taken on 2/0/0) Photo by Li Gang / This magazine

Echoes of the sowers

Li Chunjun, who planted the "Village Evening", is even more pleased to see that many children have embarked on the road of art because of watching and acting in the "Village Evening", and have been admitted to art schools, becoming TV hosts and professional singers.

Li Ying sang "Village Evening" on stage when she was a child, and now she is a kindergarten teacher to teach children to sing and dance; Tong Dandan has been the host of "Village Evening" for many years, and later became a host; Yan Huadong, who goes to the "village evening" every year, was admitted to the Shenyang Conservatory of Music...... Li Chunjun said that in the past 30 years, the seeds of art have taken root and sprouted in the hearts of many children.

These changes around him have made Li Chunjun's "village evening" and "culture" more vigorous.

In 2012 years, in order to allow the villagers to watch performances all year round, Li Chunjun had a new idea and set up the "Spring Rhyme" art troupe. This volunteer group, which is active in Chaoyang, goes to schools, nursing homes, garrison troops and other voluntary performances on holidays, and is deeply loved and praised by farmers.

　　唐杖子村的“村晚”經、“文化”經引來不少共鳴。今年1月以來，朝陽縣多場“村晚”開演，羊山鎮首屆“羊山好聲音”比唱功；根德營子鄉麒麟寶村首屆“村晚”人氣十足，各式各樣的節目輪番上場；木頭城子鎮卜家文化大院熱鬧歡騰，大夥聚在一起放聲歌唱，歡聲笑語回蕩在每一個角落。

　　今年正月初五，唐杖子村第三十屆“村晚”的燈光照亮了鄉村夜空。

　　導演李春軍依然站在側幕，默默觀察舞臺。他說想起了30年前那個冬日，菜園子里此起彼伏的歌聲；想起了淩晨3點修改劇本時，窗櫺上結的冰花；想起了桃山上的鋤頭、鏟子和烈日……

Joy, change, nostalgia, growth...... For Tangzhuzi Village, a "village evening" carries too much.

At the end of the party, Li Chunjun shared two photos with reporters, which were the first and thirtieth "Village Evenings" with his wife.

30 years have passed, and in the photo, the young man who loved to have long hair has become a middle-aged man with slightly white temples; In addition to the photo, the "village evening" of Tangzhuzi Village has grown from a family song party in the vegetable garden to a cultural landmark in western Liaoning.

"Chunjun, will you still hold a 'village evening' next year?" "Yes, of course."

In 30 years, Li Chunjun's answer has remained the same. What has changed is just the branches of the peach trees on the mountain, waiting for the spring to stretch, as if to reach the stars in the sky.■