The ongoing investigation of historical and cultural resources in Laixi City, Shandong Province has made great discoveries. Experts have studied the muppets in the Western Han Dynasty, the tomb stones of Xiaojiazhuang Warring States and the ancient Shao music in Shao village, and initially determined that Laixi is one of the cradles of ancient Chinese opera and music.
Muppets in the Western Han Dynasty are national first-class cultural relics. 1979 Unearthed from the Han Dynasty tomb in Laixi, it is now preserved in Laixi Cultural Relics Management Office. Its value has been found in the general survey of historical and cultural resources: after textual research, the "play god" worshipped by the pear garden industry is a puppet. Puppet shows have a long history. Generally speaking, it began in the Han Dynasty and flourished in the Tang Dynasty. It has a history of more than 2,000 years, which is the basis for the emergence and development of drama art later. Kunqu opera, Beijing opera and many other major operas still retain quite a few puppet show features such as "Puppet Step". The pronunciation of some paragraphs in the quintessence of Peking Opera still retains the local dialect characteristics of Laixi dialect: Bai's pronunciation is "Bo", He's pronunciation is "Huo" and Jiao's pronunciation is "Ju". At the same time, in April 20001year, more than 40 pieces of various cultural relics, such as copper, stone, pottery and jade, were unearthed during the rescue excavation of the tomb of the Warring States in Xiaojiazhuang, Laixi City, and the stone bells of the Warring States were first discovered in Qingdao, indicating that there were ancient music performances in Laixi during the Warring States Period. The research fully proves that Lacey is one of the cradles of China opera, and this important research achievement is the first time in Qingdao.
In the ongoing investigation of intangible cultural heritage, it is also found that Shaole was once preserved in Shaocun, Laixi City, hence its name. Shao village is located ten miles north of Laixi, with Dagu River in the west and Hutou Mountain and Mayin Mountain in the back. According to the place names of Laixi, this village was built in the first year of Hongwu in the early Ming Dynasty. "Formerly known as Zhoujiazhuang, it is said that Majialou, a place name in the northwest of the village, has an ancient well, commonly known as Anerjing. There is a nun by the well (it has been a long time), and the nun in buddhist nun is very good at playing Yu Shun's music. At that time, people named this village Yiya: "Shao Village", which means that there are still ancient Shao Le in this village. "
Shaole originated in ancient times and was used by Yu Shun in Shangshu Hao Tao Mo. The so-called "90% Xiao Shao, the phoenix comes to the instrument." Confucius "smells Shao Yu Qi, but I don't know the taste of meat in March". The ancients commented that bamboo instruments, such as flute, were played nine times, and all animals danced in unison. Lairen lives in Shaocun, Laixi City. In addition to the place names and legends related to Shaole, it is also an ancient cultural carrier adapted to the preservation of Shaole. 1983, an ancient site was discovered around a plateau on the west bank of Dagu River hundreds of meters west of Shao village. Its cultural characteristics cover Dawenkou culture, Longshan culture, Yue culture and Pearl Gate culture, and lasted for thousands of years until the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. Subsequently, several similar sites were discovered around. The following year, a large sacrificial site was discovered between Beilan and Lugezhuang, more than ten miles north of Shao village. There are numerous sacrificial pits, large and small, on both sides of the Jiadagu River, where a large number of ashes and sacrificial vessels are piled up. All these indicate that Shaocun area is the center of the life and activities of the ancient Yi people, and there are sufficient conditions to preserve and utilize Shaole. Confucius sighed in his later years: He wanted to live in Jiuyi. I closed my door to sort out ancient books and wrote 300 poems, all of which were string songs, in order to fit in with the sound of Shao, Wu, Ya and Ode. It can be seen that the importance of less music in Confucius' mind and even in the whole history of ancient music strongly proves that it is a historical fact to preserve less music in Laixi Shaocun.