In the performance of Haicheng Stilt Rice-planting Song, the magnificent big field and the light and delicate small field include various forms of music, dance, acrobatics, opera and so on, which constitutes a comprehensive folk plaza art with dance as the main body. The following is the classification of stilts that I help you organize, welcome to share.
Today's stilts, mostly wooden, performances have double stilts, single stilts. Double stilts more tied to the calf, in order to show skills; single stilts with both hands to hold the top of the wooden stilts, easy to go up and down, dynamic and interesting. Its performance and "cultural stilts", "martial arts stilts" points, cultural stilts heavy play like and twisted teasing, martial arts stilts emphasize personal skills and tricks, all over the stilts, have formed a distinctive regional style and national colors.
The height of stilts varies across Shanxi Province, with low stilts as low as a few inches and high stilts as high as seven or eight feet, and the height of stilts in Ruicheng, Xinjiang and other counties in Shanxi reaches one and a half feet or even one and a half feet. Normally, stilts are more common at a height of about four feet.
Stilts in Shanxi has a long history of extension, in Jinzhong around Yushe County unearthed in the Northern Wei Dynasty sarcophagus can also be seen on the stilts, acrobatics drawings, although the stilts are not documented in writing, but should be the latest from the Northern Wei Dynasty began. In Shanxi performing stilts in the ranks, divided into two kinds of stilts and martial arts stilts. Wen stilts focus on twisting and stepping, martial arts stilts to perform stunts.
Wu stilts in Fushan County, the head stilts for the conductor, the second stilts is the leader, the theater characters in the middle, and finally by the ugly man pressure. Performances first twisted a variety of field map, and then perform "over the immortal bridge", "jumping table", "jumping double stool", "big fork split "and a variety of difficult actions.
The Hu Village area in Yuanqu County, stilts are mainly performing stunts. The stilt show here, not only have qaqi abduction, touch abduction, back abduction, falling fork, jumping table, heeling and other skillful actions, but also lift two sections, lift three sections, sit and lift, stand and lift, combination of lift and other difficult lifting method, and can constitute a "horse-drawn cart", "over the sky bridge" modeling. The stilts in this county, the most difficult is "on the tiger stairs".
The "Butterfly Puffing" in the village of Berbi in Xinjiang County and the town of Shuangchi in Jiaokou County is a stilt show with a storyline and many difficult actions. This program is performed by three people, female youth playing the role of Dan, picking butterflies forward, male youth playing a young man, holding a fan to pounce on butterflies, clowns shaking rattles playfully chasing, very lively, vivid, fun is very strong. These three people in the performance, there are "squatting away", "jumping table", "harrier flip", "more head jump", "back roll", "single-legged jump" and other skillful movements.
Jishan County and Youyu County's "walking animal stilts", is performed by two people on stilts. Stilt performers feet tied to wooden stilts, the waist tied to the animal skin, the front of the animal head, the upper body to play with the corresponding characters, composed of a group of shapes, in the music and drums, dance while moving forward.
Xiaxian and other places in the three people step on the four stilts, four people **** tied five stilts "legged stilts", for the performance of the requirements of tacit understanding, the difficulty is great.
The stilts in the territory of Yuanping, Pingding and Dingxiang counties, while twisting the rice-planting steps, while changing the formation, and then commented and sang, called "rice-planting on stilts". In Xi'an County, Ganjiazhuang, there are stilts leg articulation tied to a small bell block "ringing bell stilts" way of performing.
In Shanxi Province, stilts performances in a variety of forms, a variety of eclectic. These stilts performance time, generally in the first month of the lunar calendar around the fifteenth of the alarm "red fire" activities, stilts is a form of performance in the whole event. This activity content mobility, action is relatively free, can be performed in a large field, but also can walk the streets and alleys.
Shandong stilts often stacked up three layers (two or three layers without stilts) play opera characters, the upper layer of people stepped on the shoulders of the lower layer of people traveling as usual.
Beijing and Tianjin stilts, actors often perform "one-legged jump", "split", "over the barriers" and other difficult skills; some use one foot to perform a leap from four high tables and other stunts. The first is the "Battle of the Bulge", which is the first of its kind in the United States.
The stilts are prevalent in the Northeast, and "Liaonan stilts" is the most famous, the form is complete, standardized performances, the beginning of the first "ride the elephant" (stacked up two layers of modeling) singing rice-planting songs, which means "peace and elephants! "and then run a large field to change the formation pattern, and then group performances of duo dance, "pouncing on butterflies", "fishing" and play folk theater.
Minority stilts, actors are dressed in their own costumes, performances unique. For example: the Buyei both double stilts, and single stilts (also known as dolomite stilts), both hands are holding the stilts end, the production is convenient, and its dolomite stilts are especially loved by children; Bai "stilts play horse", the actors are also stepping on wooden stilts, dressed in horse props performance; Uyghur "double stilts", the folk pair of folk stilts, the "stilts", the folk pair of folk stilts, and the "stilts", the stilts, the stilts are not the same as the stilts. "
The stilts belong to the ancient Chinese opera of a kind, as early as the Spring and Autumn period has appeared. China's earliest introduction of stilts is the "Liezi - said Fu" chapter: "Song have Lanzi, to skill dry Song Yuan. Song Yuan called and made to see his skills.
To double the branches of the long times its body, belonging to its shins, and tends and chi, get the seven swords iterative and leaping, the five swords are often in the air, Yuanjun shocked, and immediately give gold and silk." It can be seen from the text, as early as five hundred years BC, stilts have been popular. Performers not only walk on long wooden bound feet, but also jump and dance sword, stilts stilts, stilts and running stilts three kinds of stilts, the highest more than one zhang. Han Wei six dynasties in the hundred red stilts called "stilts technology", the Song Dynasty called "step on the bridge". Since the Qing Dynasty known as "stilts", with 1 to 3 feet long strip of wood made of wood on the support. Performers tied their feet to wooden sticks, disguised as various characters, one or more people to and from the dance, accompanied by suona, performing interesting actions or stories. In Beijing, it is called "Stilts Club". In the Yellow River basin, it is called "Zaogaoqi", and there are cultural stilts and martial arts stilts. Wen stilts mainly perform walking and singing with simple dance movements. Martial stilts performs inversion, jumping high table, stacking Luohan, splitting fork and other actions. According to ancient records, the ancient stilts are wooden, in the middle of the planed wooden stick to make a support point, in order to put the foot, and then use the rope tied to the leg. Performers on stilts can do sword dances, splits, jumping stools, over the table, twisting rice-planting songs and other actions. In the northern Yangge on stilts, the characters played are fishermen, matchmakers, silly eunuchs, little brothers, Taoist nuns, monks and so on. The performers look funny and can arouse the great interest of the audience. The stilt walkers in the south play the roles in the opera, such as Guan Gong, Zhang Fei, Lu Dongbin, He Xiannu, Zhang Sheng, Hongniang, Jigong, Shenxian, and clowns. They act and sing, lively and lively, make fun of, as if walking on the ground. It is said that this form of stilts, the original is the ancient people in order to collect the wild fruits on the tree for food, to their legs tied to two long stick and the development of a stilt activity.