During the Republic of China, there were "teahouse storytelling" and "beating gongs and drums" on Pingjin Street, and there were gongs and drums for folk weddings and funerals, and lions and cage lanterns celebrated every year (Spring Festival). In the 31st year of the Republic of China (1942), Mr. Li Xiping, a squire, and Tong Shize of Xinchang in Dianjiang County jointly founded the Jin Xin Sichuan Opera Society, with the main actors being Li, Li, Qiu, and. He performed in Liangping County Theater and was dissolved in the summer of 38 (1949). In the early days of the People's Republic of China, during the Spring Festival in Pingjin Town, yangko, waist drum, money stick, float, lion, cage lamp and hand-played gongs and drums were put together for half a month (from the first day to the fifteenth day of the first month). The town also organizes folk customs, hand-blown gongs and drums, floats and other cultural performance competitions.
Woodblock New Year pictures
Ping Jin is the birthplace of woodblock New Year pictures, one of the "Three Musts of Liangping". Liangping woodblock New Year pictures, together with Liangping Laze gongs and drums, are listed as the national intangible cultural heritage protection list.
The Liangping woodblock New Year pictures, which originated in Pingjin Town, take exorcism, happiness and historical stories as their themes, and are romantic, exquisite and bold. The picture is full and concise, the shape is simple and rough, the expression is vivid, the composition is complete and the contrast is strong. As a color woodcut, it has high artistic value. Together with Liangping Bamboo Curtain and Liangshan Lantern Opera, it was once known as a wonderful flower in East Sichuan, and was rated as one of the top ten Quyi in Bayuqian in 2000. In 2006, it was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Liang Ping's New Year pictures are mainly made of stationery, flower paper and door paintings with various patterns, which can be divided into three categories: one is the door god, which mainly includes the picture of the general and the picture of the five sons entering the company; The second is fairy tales, which mainly include "A mouse married a girl" and "A unicorn gave a child". Thirdly, there are drama stories, mainly Shiro's Visit to Mother and Stepping on an Umbrella.
Ping Jin is the printing and publishing base of Liangping New Year pictures. In the early years of the Republic of China, there were as many as twenty or thirty screen paintings. Representative painters are Xu Yunshan and Xu Bi (graduated from Nanjing Art Institute), and their representative works include Menshen, Blessing Heaven Official, Eight Beauty, Zhong Mei Marries a Woman, Mouse Marries a Woman, Jujube, Six Livestock Flourishing, Qing Ji and so on. The New Year pictures collected by many old artists during the Cultural Revolution have been destroyed by "breaking the capitalism". 1994 Liang Ping's New Year pictures selected by Pingjin Town were exhibited in Beijing Art Museum and sichuan fine arts institute.