"Social fire" has a long history. In primitive society, human beings lived to defeat wild animals, and often celebrated after killing animals, or gathered to dress up as animals to celebrate, educate future generations, and build skills of wisdom, courage and perfection. This is the earliest costume drama and "country furniture" activity.
Farmers build "halls" with households as units and "cooperatives" with villages and castles as units; Things related to "society" are called "social affairs", such as "burning incense mountain society", "social fire society", "filial piety society", "self-music class society", "music society" and "eating and cutting food" (in some places, it is called "eating and cutting food" in some counties and towns). Land sales contracts are written with the consent of neighbors, and finally.
This kind of club is bound to hold entertainment activities, with gongs and drums, torches, lion and dragon dances and crowds following. Obviously, "human power" encourages "divine power" and forms the custom of "social fire".
The manifestation of social fire:
Each team has etiquette officials, and the northwest region is also called "Spring Officials" (known as poets). For example, when visiting a unit or a resident's home during the Spring Festival, the etiquette officer will say four words and one sentence with the concept of gongs and drums, which is generally made up because of the different nature and functions of the unit or the different family conditions of the residents.
The main events of the social fire team are: stilts, dry boats and running bamboo and horses.
1, stilts
People who walk on stilts are called high-turning, and people who walk on stilts wear costumes of historical and dramatic figures. Generally, he plays the characters in the play, such as breaking the bridge, stealing fairy grass, picking yellow robes, learning from the scriptures by the Tang Priest, crossing the sea by the Eight Immortals, and compensating Bao Gong. Accompanied by the strong rhythm of gongs and drums, do marching queues or venues to perform at designated points. For example, if the bridge is broken, the green snake and the white snake will sing their lines and make simple gestures in Shaanxi opera.
Step 2 dry the boat
Dry boat, made of bamboo, and then bonded with colored paper or colored silk. A boatswain is driving a boat, with broken steps, just like a boat in the sea. An old man walked in front, holding an oar in his hand and rocking the boat.
Step 3 run a bamboo horse
Running a bamboo horse, with bamboo as the skeleton, tied into the shape of a horse (or donkey) and decorated with colored silk or colored paper. The performer wears a bamboo horse around his waist, just like riding a horse. Men and women in pairs, running in pairs, dancing in pairs, singing in pairs, with strong sense of music, clear rhythm and warm atmosphere.