Shaanxi’s intangible cultural heritage sport is figure skipping.
Figure rope skipping, a traditional sport in Xi'an City, Shaanxi Province, is one of the fourth batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage lists in Shaanxi Province. Synchronized rope skipping includes 12 categories, more than 60 sets of ropes, and more than 300 jumping methods, which are suitable for collective performances in squares.
Generally common practitioners are mostly "eight sets of elementary ropes" (suitable for beginners and square drills): four basic skills, eight rope skipping exercises, rope skipping dance, marching rope skipping and rope formation, and bodybuilding skipping exercises , long rope jumping, double rope jumping and rope dance exercises. The "eight sets of elementary rope courses" are often performed to the music of "The Rope Skipping Song".
The twelve categories of pattern rope skipping are: rope exercise, rope dance, rope boxing, rope skills, rope formation, fun jumps, long rope jumps, double rope jumps, multi-rope cross jumps, and rope skipping movements. , skipping rope relay race and skipping rope rally race. Various types of rope skipping are divided into various rope paths. For example, rope skipping exercises include "Eight Rope Skipping Exercises", "Bodybuilding Rope Skipping Exercises" and "Elderly Fitness Rope Dance".
Characteristics of pattern skipping:
1. Simple and easy to perform
The simple and easy characteristics of pattern skipping mainly lie in the convenience of venue, equipment and implementation conditions. and economical. The synchronized rope skipping project is not restricted by the venue. Streets, alleys and fields, as long as the ground is flat and there are no safety hazards, can be used as a practice venue for synchronized rope skipping. The equipment for pattern skipping is simple, cheap, compact and portable, and one rope can display all the dazzling patterns.
2. There are many kinds of jumping ropes
There are nearly a hundred jumping methods in various types of jumping ropes such as individual tricks, wheel jumps, interactive ropes, rope net rope arrays, etc., and each jumping method has different characteristics. More jumping methods can be derived. There are endless creativity in pattern skipping. Practitioners can choose to practice the movements that suit them according to their own characteristics, stimulate their own creative inspiration, and create new patterns.
3. High safety
The amount of exercise in pattern skipping can be large or small, and the intensity of exercise can also be freely controlled. There is no direct physical confrontation during rope skipping. The equipment is simple and safe. Rope skippers can complete tricks of different difficulties according to their own abilities. Even if the action fails, they are not easily injured.