The meaning of stilts

Stilts, also known as stilts yangge, is a kind of Han folk dance that spreads all over the country, and also refers to the wooden sticks used in performing stilts.

1, stilt pinyin: Gao Qiao.

2. Stilts can also be divided into "literary stilts" and "martial arts stilts". Literary stilts are twisting and plot performances; Wushu stilts emphasize showing off their skills.

Stilts performances are generally performed in the form of dance teams with different numbers of dancers. Dancers usually play characters in ancient myths or historical stories, and their costumes imitate traditional opera costumes. Common ways are handkerchief, wooden stick, knife and gun. And there are two forms: "stepping on the street" and "throwing fields". There are "big venues" where dance teams dance collectively and walk in various formations and patterns, as well as "performances by two or three people"

Scholars believe that the origin of stilts is related to the totem worship of primitive clans and the fishing life of coastal fishermen. According to the research of historians, the Danzhu clan, which took cranes as its totem in the Yao and Shun period, had to dance on stilts in the ceremony to imitate cranes.

5. There is a description of "long-share country" in the ancient document Shan Hai Jing. According to the comments of the ancients, we can know that the "long-share country" is related to walking on stilts. It is not difficult to imagine the image of fishing in shallow water with long wooden stilts tied to feet and primitive fishing tools made of long wood from the annotation "Long-legged people often take long-armed people to fish in the sea". More interestingly, today's Jing fishermen living in the coastal areas of Fangcheng, Guangxi still have the habit of fishing with long stakes in shallow waters.