Shehuo is an essay on country rock and roll.

Shehuo is the finale of the Spring Festival, and the fifteenth day of the first month is the big stage of Shehuo.

Social fire is an annual carnival of rural people, full of rich earthy flavor, full of harvest celebrations and sincere wishes and ardent expectations for the coming year. In the vast rural land, without the help of social fire, the Spring Festival will be too gentle and quiet. With the noise of social fire, the flavor of the year can be vividly displayed and the emotions of the villagers can be fully released.

In retrospect, I was once a member of the jubilant social fire team. At that time, after the second day of the Lunar New Year, the village began to be busy making fires. In the village with strong economic strength, there are various props such as lion drums, fire dragons, dry boats and stilts. It takes several trucks to pull out the performance, which is magnificent. In the small mountain village where we are located, although the strength is weak, the strength is undiminished. We use dry boats to guide the carpenters in our village to do it, and we can make up our own stories. Then we asked the blacksmith to play dozens of "whistle sticks", pull up some "door flags" made of scarlet satin cloth, and embroider the words "if you are idle, you will still be a businessman of workers and peasants", which is what our social fire needs.

Anyway, the first month is the off-season, and everyone has endless energy every day, so they stepped up rehearsals and waited for the concentrated performance in the village on the fifteenth day of the first month. On the day of the performance, the once empty village was packed with all kinds of performance teams. The audience was in high spirits, the actors were ready, the people in charge of the village kept order at the top of their lungs, shovels fired into the air, firecrackers exploded happily like a storm, and the noise, screams and drums intertwined, turning the quiet village into a sea of joy.

Social fire is always accompanied by a strong smell of gunpowder. Whenever the "curtain" of the social fire performance is opened, there are always several villagers holding firecrackers and setting them off around the performers. The onlookers gradually opened the venue to escape. At this time, firecrackers have dual functions, one is to set off the atmosphere, and the other is to open the venue. In the performance scene filled with "smoke" and the smell of gunpowder, the actors and audience enjoyed themselves with cheers and applause, and adults and children had their own fun. As we all know, no day will the lion dancers on the high platform perform so brilliantly, the kannika nimtragol and the old man who beat the drums in the hall will work so hard, and the performers riding donkeys and walking on stilts will dress up so vividly. ...

Social fire is the essence of folk custom. It is an annual gathering of folk artists, and it is also a big gathering where people can participate without deliberate mobilization. The social fire is like a huge baton. Under its rough and powerful waving, all people are passionate, and all participants forget the suffering of the world and sincerely bloom with happy faces.

In this sense, isn't "Shehuo" a strong country rock music?