Piu Sai is an ancient folk art that combines theater, magic, acrobatics, music and dance. It originated in Guangdong in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties. At present, it is still an important art form in southern China.
"Piu Sai" is an ancient folk art integrating drama, magic, acrobatics, music and dance, and is known by various names in different regions, such as "Piu Sai", "Lift the Pavilion", "Cai Kei", "Gao Lai", "Cai Shelf", "Za Story", etc. The performers stand on the stage called "Piu Sai". Performers stand on a small stage called "color cabinet" to parade the form of folklore or mythological story fragments, the magic lies in the actors through the carefully camouflaged steel branches standing in the air, invisible color stalks to support the use of ingenious mechanical principles, creating the effect of "floating".
The biggest highlight of the floating color is the "color boy", "color **", they dress up and demonstrate the level of mental state directly affects the level of the whole event, therefore, each time whether invited to go out on parade or in the countryside parade **** are Carefully selected, and not who want to be when you can be, more than one in a hundred, aged 7 to 9 years old, looks handsome, elf good behavior, but also need to have a certain talent for performance. Floating color is the core of the production of color stalks, color stalks is the support of the bracket, generally made of steel branches, the clever use of mechanics, to achieve the "color table" center of gravity force balance, so as not to overturn the stage. And skillfully arranged **** art structure shape distribution.
Additionally, "floating color" in southern Fujian is usually called "lifting the pavilion"