In the northwest there is such a place, he has a special day every year, in this day, the county nearly 100,000 people flocked to the county, *** to a cultural feast. This place is called Zhuanglang, this day is called the twelfth day of the first month, Zhuanglang hundreds of thousands of fathers and mothers gathered Luo Cheng, joyfully celebrating the "Zhuanglang Culture and Arts Festival" Song General Liu Hu extended construction of the 974th anniversary of the city of Shuiluo!
This day is the day of Zhuanglang social fire competition, the day of social fire of various categories, colorful, especially the high platform modeling for the "one of the best". And this high platform is the most exciting program worth seeing.
It is three-dimensional plastic art, installed on a wooden platform iron column, take myths and legends or historical stories in the frozen plot, with color, silk cloth tie-made landscape, flowers and trees, animals or artifacts, camouflage iron column, and then tie the role of the children dressed up in costumes, the executive props appeared to tie the situation, people lift to line, so called "high platform.
A variety of social gatherings, Zhuanglang unique non-heritage high lift, colorful cars, rice-planting songs, stilt walkers, horse social fire, Rocky City rain, ten thousand people to welcome the General, a hundred colorful cars, Yan, the parade show God. Firecrackers turn into clouds and mist, gongs and drums startle the sky, men and women dance in square formations and talk about the past and present in a single mouth. Stilts walk all over the street, monkeys play in the corner, old men grin, children call their mothers. The buildings are high up in the sky, but there is no trace of the old city. If you ask yourself, you will never forget the people who built it.
The gongs and drums are noisy to bid farewell to the old year, and the golden dog sends prosperity to the new year. The twelfth day of the first month of this year is the 974th anniversary of General Liu built Luocheng, in this joyous festival, from Zhuanglang and neighboring brother counties and districts 77 162 social fire team.
Including 49 colorful car, 21 high lift, 61 drum car, rice-planting team 14, 13 waist drum team, 2 lion dance, 2 stilt walkers, the county has 9 townships, 11 county departments and units, 12 enterprises, 45 villages and societies to participate in the show, more than 12,000 people, accompanied by the vibration of the gongs and drums, for the urban and rural masses staged a sumptuous cultural feast, more than 300,000 people in the county! The masses are now watching, the scene of a sea of people, lively and extraordinary.
Zhuanglang social fire another feature, is not to say spring official poetry during the performance, the expression of euphemistic and implicit, which can not be a pity for the revered poetry Zhuanglang people, but in no way affects the unique charm of Zhuanglang social fire. She is like a natural beauty, the beauty of the fair lady, without excessive modification, no need to rave, no need to boast, with its natural simple quality of the style of conquest of the people.
With the evolution of the times, Zhuanglang social fire of feudal superstition gradually faded, spiritual civilization inheritance, social fire content is more colorful, covering the history, politics, culture, economy in many areas, in addition to those popular folklore and historical stories, and Zhuanglang people tenacious and perseverance, the battle of heaven and earth, and recreation of beautiful mountains and rivers of the heroic.
In this sense, today's Zhuanglang social fire is not only the display of Zhuanglang culture, but also the promotion of the spirit of contemporary Zhuanglang. On this day, Zhuanglang County, the streets and alleys everywhere crowded, can be said to be a sea of people. Shoulder-to-shoulder crowd like a long dragon in the county streets to swim around, through the flow of people like the Luo River flow of water, surging to and fro.
This day, buy kites, buy toys, set up stalls, buy food and drink is really lively. Every year on the twelfth day of the first month, it is unforgettable and memorable for us.