Located in Zhuanglang County, Pingliang City, central Gansu Province, there is the Yunya Temple, a national forest park, as well as the Yunya Grottoes, Zijing Mountain, Chenjiadong, Wuwang Tomb Mountain, Guanshan Tianchi and Chao Naqiu, a provincial cultural relic protection unit. and other places of interest, and the local people also have unique traditional folk customs. Today’s folk festival will introduce to you the local traditional folk activity with a long history-Zhuanglang Shehuo.
Zhuanglang Shehuo is a local traditional folk cultural activity with a long history in Zhuanglang. It originated in the Song and Yuan Dynasties, became popular in the Ming and Qing Dynasties, became popular in the Republic of China, and developed in the 1980s and 1990s during the reform and opening up period. , has now become a mass traditional folk art entertainment event with fixed facial makeup, costumes, props and performance time.
Zhuanglang people have a long history of playing Shehuo. Every year on the twelfth day of the first lunar month, the people of Zhuanglang County gather in Shuiluo City, the seat of the county, to play Shehuo to commemorate the construction of Shuiluo City during the Northern Song Dynasty. General Liu Hu, the famous general. It is said that General Liu Hu has been admired by the people for generations because he recovered Shuiluo City and built the city to protect the local people. Therefore, on the twelfth day of the first lunar month every year, people from all sides of Zhuanglang spontaneously organize social fire teams to perform in the city to commemorate The immortal achievements of "General".
On the twelfth day of the first lunar month, people from all over Zhuanglang rushed to Zhuanglang County to watch the Shehu Fire. At 1 o'clock in the morning, the loudspeakers in the countryside began to shout about dressing up. People who were still in their dreams also got up early, put on new clothes, dressed up, had breakfast, or rode motorcycles, or took buses, or Taking a self-driving car, people from east to west, north and south gathered like a tide to watch the Shehuo in Zhuanglang County.
Zhuanglang Shehuo can be divided into daytime Shehuo and night Shehuo according to the performance time. The main daytime Shehuo includes Gaodi, Ma Shehuo, Gaoguaizi, Chunniu, Paoshehuo, etc. The largest scale of Shehuo during the day is on the opening day of Shuiluocheng on the twelfth day of the first lunar month. At that time, floats, horse shehuo, yangko troupes, waist drum troupes, etc. from all over the county gather in Shuiluocheng and line up in a long queue from west to east. The vast and mighty road slowly drove by, and the scene was quite spectacular.
"Yeshehuo" is also called "Night Story" or "Stall", and people in Zhuanglang County are accustomed to calling it "Carpet Playing". "Night Society Fire" starts from the first day of the first lunar month and ends on the second day of the second lunar month, and sometimes even to the Qingming Festival. Its contents include land boat racing, singing ditties, laughter stalls, allegro, opera, lion dance, etc.
Singing ditties is the main content of the night club. The form is performed by four men and four women, or multiple women sing. Each person holds a fly brush (whisk) or a money whip (bala whip), followed by a Xiaodan person, and gongs and drums accompaniment appear one after another; after singing a verse, the drum accompaniment circles the venue until the end of the song.
Lion dancing is the closing show of the night club. The lion dancers dress up as warriors and usually have learned martial arts. They jump on the table and recite four ancient sayings: "The green-maned lion is a ball of hair, and the Bodhisattva sends it down." To celebrate the new year, perform a trick on your head to make you rich and prosperous for eternity." Dance with a lantern in your hand, direct the lion to jump on the table, roll around, look at the lantern and other performances, and use martial arts fists and kicks to subdue the lion, and finally ride the lion to the end.
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