Brief introduction to the content of social fire in Huxian county

Core social fire: core social fire is the most wonderful, beautiful and important form of social fire in Huxian county. It is amazing and fascinating to express the popular folk stories, fairy tales and drama plots of the Han nationality in the form of height, danger, strangeness and suspension. Song Cun, Mujiabao, Yangjiabao, Dawangdong, Dawangxi and Dingzhou are the most famous social core fires in Huxian County. The core fire in Chishui village is ingenious in shape and magnificent in momentum. Generally, the core is as high as 7.5-8.5 meters and is divided into four or five floors. As many as 24 children were tied to the core. It has dressed up nearly 100 kinds of core social fires, such as dragons and phoenixes, stealing ganoderma lucidum, picking lotus by the prince of Wu, and ten beautiful women entering the temple. The fire cores of Mujiabao and Yangjiabao are exquisitely designed, the paper is exquisite, the birds and animals produced are lifelike, and the whole fire is perfect. In the words of Mu, an old artist of Shehuo, the structure is rigorous and multi-layered, the shape is dangerous and mysterious, and the story is true and reasonable. At the same time, the two villages compete with each other when playing social fire together. In order to get the upper hand, they often satirize each other on the content of social fire, which makes people marvel at its suspense and is more fun. Song Cun's core social fire is famous for its meticulous, civilized, exquisite, clean and innovative ideas. They integrate acrobatics into the social fire, which is suitable for both movement and static, and is breathtaking in suspension. The social fires in Dawangdong, Dawangxi Village and Dingzhou Village also have their own characteristics. In the historical development, the core social fire has gradually evolved from being carried by people in the early days to being carried by tractors or cars.

Platform social fire: Platform social fire is a form of social fire, which plays myths, dramatic characters or life stories on a generous table. It was the main form of rural community fire in Huxian county before the end of Qing Dynasty. At first, the stage fire was carried by people, and later it became a cow pull. When tractors appeared in the countryside, it became a cart pull performance. In the past, when playing Shehuo in the countryside and offering sacrifices on the first day of opening, Pingshehuo was used to play mythical figures such as Hei Hu Lingguan, Fu, Lu, Shou Sanxing and Four Seasons Gongcao, which was solemn and dignified. Chisel tooth village still retains this habit of playing social fire. When playing community fire in Xianluo village, village and village, they often pretend to be platform community fire with real accidents, such as the social fires such as the baldness of martial arts, the cheating of a daughter-in-law, and the play of fox spirits, which have been passed down as anecdotes so far.

Back-to-back social fire: Back-to-back social fire is a form of social fire in which the core is directly tied to a person and children are dressed as drama or mythical figures and tied to the core to perform. As early as before the end of Qing Dynasty, Qiaojiazhuang, Wei Zhenhua and other villages in Huxian county had a social fire. Back-to-back club fires should be drummed, jumped while running, and attention should be paid to running methods, such as stepping on four corners to run the flower tip, running the figure of eight, warp and weft convection, rolling cabbage hearts and so on. The main content of social fire performance is drama accidents, and the people and children who bear it are drama characters and should echo each other. Qiaojiazhuang Back Shehuo is often invited to perform abroad and has been praised by leaders at all levels and foreign guests for many times.

Social fire: Social fire is a form of social fire in which children dress up as drama characters and perform directly on the shoulders of adults. This form is mainly retained in the social fire performance in Chishi Village.

Qian Xigan: Qian Xigan is a form of Han folk dance, with young women as the main actors. The money pole is a dance prop with three or four groups of copper coins evenly placed on the bamboo pole and decorated with red tassels. During the performance, the actors wear bright red and green clothes, while dancing and singing, and at the same time use money poles to play a crisp and pleasant rhythm in all parts of the body. This dance form is still performed in Anzu, Huxian County during the Spring Festival.

Hot Jumping: Hot Jumping is a dance performed by Shangcao Village, Xiacao Village and Shuizhai Village in Caotang Town, Huxian County in the evenings around the Lantern Festival. With the sound of gongs and drums, the actors dressed in costumes and painted their faces made dramatic moves that echoed the story, jumping, jumping and turning. If you don't talk or sing, the locals are also called pantomime.

Tricks: Huxian people traditionally call bamboo horses, dry boats, big-head monk dance dances, fire dragons, earthworms and lion dances tricks. There is a custom of playing tricks around the Lantern Festival in Huxian countryside. The fire dragon in the Southern Song Dynasty, the earthworm in the North Street of the county seat, the lion in the West Street and the bamboo horse in the dry boat in Wangwei Village of Maying have a long history and are well known. When playing with live animals, colored lights lead the way, followed by gongs and drums. At every venue, the fire dragon hovers and leaps, the lion jumps and leaps, the dry boat paddles like on the water, and the bamboo horse team runs in and out, ringing the bell. Go around and play around until the moon is quiet. Playing social fire in Huxian country is generally played by several villages or several social fire clubs in a village. For example, Chishao South Village in Dawang Town plays with Chishao West Village, Songnan in Caotang Town plays with Songxi, Mujiabao in Pangguang Town plays with Yangjiabao, and Wen Yi Village, Xianluo Village and Wei Zhenhua in Cangyou Township play together. The east gate, west gate, south gate and north gate of Jiangcun Village are played by four gongs, drums, clubs and fire clubs, while Dingzhou Village in Weifeng Township is played by three villages and nine clubs. A village or social fire club cannot play, only two or more partner villages or social fire clubs can play together. Therefore, if a village or social fire club wants to play social fire, it must try its best to arouse the interest of partner villages and encourage them to play together. This is called burning the fire of society. Burning social fires is also very entertaining, and there are three main forms: one is beating gongs and drums in the other village, and the other is playing crooked officials. The third is to dress up as a horse.

The teasing of beating gongs and drums: a village was tempted to play social fire. When it's hot, knock gongs and drums at each other. One is to pay a new year call, and the other is to inform it to play social fire this year. The venerable old man in another village must personally cook yellow wine and send it, respectfully and say some funny words to each other. If "Hot Village" goes to "Cool Village" several times and "Cool Village" is still cold, Hot Village will go to the other side to play drums three times and five times, and the lineup of gongs and drums will become bigger and bigger until the brass trumpets are installed. Even carrying "three-eyed large-caliber short guns" and "old guns" to bomb, coupled with "fire platoon" satirizing couplets, they tried their best to provoke the other side to respond. Especially in front of people who like to play with prestige, gongs and drums make people scream and the eaves brush the soil. Although the main family greeted each other with smiles and offered cigarettes and toasts, the troublemakers still persisted, and they didn't stop until the host promised to play with the fire party. Even so, the club was burned down.

Playing crooked ways: Song Cun and Jiangcun ignited the social fire by playing crooked ways. A village or social fire club wants to play social fire this year, so they pretend to be crooked officials and go to the other village to perform and tease each other. "crooked" means "fierce" in Huxian dialect. The crooked officials are all very powerful officials, and everyone has to listen to what they say. Playing a crooked official means that a prestigious, eloquent and humorous person rides on the back of an ox, dressed as an ancient official, and another person plays the role of an official's entourage to lead the ox, and under the strong influence of the gongs and drums team, he visits the other village and gives lectures. Every word, crooked officials and attendants should ask and answer questions and perform humorous performances. For example, the crooked official said in a humorous tone: "There is a bumper harvest this year, and gongs and drums are everywhere to celebrate the bumper harvest. Why is there no movement here? " ? The waiter replied, "People celebrate the New Year, so we are playing with money. Do it quickly if you want to see it. " The master said, "If you want to play, you have to play. If you don't fight, the bones will be broken. " Wait a minute. In order to amuse, the dialogue between crooked officials and attendants is often free and humorous. If the general performance of crooked official drama can't arouse the interest and enthusiasm of the other party, crooked official often goes out of line. For example, riding a cow to the other party's social fire head home. Even lead the cows to the altar of their ancestors and let them eat the sacrifices on the altar. While eating the cow, the crooked official also said, your ancestors have come, so take out the delicious food and let your ancestors taste it. Even so, the main family can't be angry, but smile and propose a toast. Repeatedly, even if the other party didn't want to play, they finally agreed to play together, so the fire of society burned.

Ma Shehuo: Dingzhou village played social fire in the first month, and the way to unify the opinions of the three villages and nine clubs is to play social fire. After the first day of the first month, on the afternoon of the second day of the first month, some young people gathered in a club in Nancun or Beicun to play social fire. So I moved the idea of beating gongs and drums, took a horse or two, found a young man or two, pretended to be a drama accident, got on a horse, and set off for a social fire under the guidance of gongs and drums, swimming around the North and South Fort. If the first player is Nancun's club, what would you do if she was polite and quiet on the first day of her tour in Beicun, indicating that we were playing? If there is no movement in the north village the next day, the enthusiastic people who follow the social fire in the south village will say a few sarcastic words as a "provocation" when they see the people around the north village, hoping that they will also play. Not to be outdone, some village communities have formed a United front to put pressure on those who don't want to play. Every day, they dress up as a stranger riding a horse and follow the social fire. When they get to the streets and alleys where they don't want to play social fire, they scold each other along the street, or pick up "eye-catching" (something that was worn on their eyes at that time for fear of fainting), which means: you don't play social fire, but wear it door to door. Or burn paper money and throw paper pots in the street, which means: no wonder you don't play social fire, so you killed someone. The club that didn't want to play originally couldn't stand the pressure and decided to play. So all the three villages and nine clubs played the Jockey Club Fire, and the Jockey Club Fire was burned. After the fire, the leaders of both sides sat down to discuss when to fight, how to fight and how many days to fight. Then they organized their own gongs and drums team, guard of honor, selected laborers who carried social fire, dressed as children of social fire, organized old artists to plan the art form of social fire, made cores and paper bundles, and were busy preparing. Because two or even three families play together, each family wants to overwhelm others in the lineup momentum and surpass others in the form of social fire, so they do their best and do not hesitate to pay attention to human and financial resources. Shehuo is a folk art activity that marches and performs in the countryside. Every village plays social fire and performs in the village according to the route handed down from generation to generation. The performance lineup of rural social fire in Huxian county is grand and the atmosphere is warm. In front of the Shehuo performance team is stable boy, followed by the guard of honor, the gongs and drums team, followed by free walking forms such as big-headed dolls, stilts and money songs, followed by more than a dozen platforms or core Shehuo, and finally the pavilion. When playing the last social fire, you should play the grass at the end of the performance team. Report the horse: Report the horse running in front of the guard of honor and running back and forth, which mainly plays the role of clearing the way and connecting before and after. Riding a newspaper horse, wearing a fur coat and holding a golden pheasant almanac is an ancient messenger image. HongLing was tied to the horse's head, with a string of bells and a delicate saddle around his neck. The report horse shuttled back and forth in front of the social fire team, which was very powerful.

Ceremony: There are flags and ceremonies in front of the fire brigade in each village. Before liberation, the ceremonial colorful flags of all village communities were made of red cloth or white cloth, while the white cloth or blue cloth was made of flame, triangular and completely ancient. Allusions are painted on the banners of the four torch clubs in Jiangcun, the content of which is to raise themselves and overwhelm each other. Sacrificial ceremonies in all villages basically use colored flags, and the breeze is Buddha. The pretty yellow-flowered girls are dressed in gorgeous costumes, and the flags are lined up. The people's flags set each other off and become interesting, as beautiful as the colorful instruments in the Heavenly Palace.

Gong and Drum Team: Playing a social fire is inseparable from the encouragement of gongs and drums. In the performance of social fire, the gongs and drums team is generally composed of a big drum (also called bull's head drum), dozens of small drums and dozens of cymbals. This is magnificent and full of performance and appreciation at the same time. Before liberation, the lobby drum was called Niula Drum. During the performance, HongLing or colored balls were tied in front of the drum, and the drummer dressed as a strong man waved two big sticks. Tie HongLing or colored balls to the drum-pulling cow. Petunia people always want to find someone who looks like Wu Dalang, put on a sling, red trousers, tie an upright cigarette braid on his head, and drive with an ancient opera whip, making fun of him in an ugly posture. At the same time, there are people who play with clappers and splints, and there are also people who make up their faces and clowns. They are a couple, dancing while playing, teasing each other and full of fun. These forms are still preserved in the social fire performance in Huxian county.

Become an outlaw: Play social fire in the countryside of Huxian County, and everyone will become an outlaw when playing the last game. Walking at the end of the social fire, the most amusing man is dressed as a witch, matchmaker and other funny images-often with two big firecrackers hanging in his ears, a pair of ox saddle eyes buckled on his chest as breasts, riding on the back of an ox, looking around with a bamboo basket, and pretending to visit his grandson. Because of the funny shape, someone stepped forward to pinch her feet and touch her waist. "She" conveniently took out a handful of ashes from the basket and sprinkled them on the smiling faces of acquaintances. So people are afraid to surround themselves and want to give up, so some people throw dirt and firewood at the fugitives and make fun of each other. If two villages grass, a man and a woman meet, they will make love or be sarcastic; If two women meet, the two in-laws will fight or be jealous and sarcastic, and all kinds of humorous modes will always make the audience laugh to tears.