Shuozhou's social fires are Yangge twisting up, and Xinglong's waist drum. Shuozhou rice-planting song is the integration of martial arts, dance, opera in one comprehensive folk art form, popular in Shuozhou City and the surrounding southern Inner Mongolia Jining, Hohhot, Baotou and the Loop.
The other Hebei Zhangjiakou and Shaanxi near Shanxi cities and counties also exist. Early for the square, the streets of the rice-planting dance team performance of the Shuozhou rice-planting song has a long history, in the Song Dynasty added a martial arts component, the late Qing Dynasty and added the story of the content, and now to dance and opera two forms of art activities in the folk. The dance-based Yangge is called "Kick Drum Yangge" and the theater-based Yangge is called "Da Yangge".
Other information about the social fire.
There are many different forms of social fire performances, including the "back social fire" in which an adult carries one to three children on his back, the "horse social fire" in which horses, cows, and mules are ridden, and the "stilt social fire," "car social fire," "mountain social fire," and so on. When playing social fire, it relies on the movement performance of actors and actresses, and is accompanied by flags, honor guards, Luo, drums, cymbals and Qie, etc. The scale of the festival is huge and the scene is warm and spectacular.
Social fire performance content is also extremely rich, extensive, due to the social fire does not say not sing, can not be restricted by time and space, content, from the ancient myths and legends of the Three Emperors and Five Emperors to the historical stories, anecdotes and wild history, legendary heroes, etc., everything is not included, everything is not acted.