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To accurately grasp the light, there are many stage magics that use the role of the lens to distort the light. And a flat mirror. There is a very common technique, that is, a flat mirror is placed obliquely in a square paper box or carton, and many props can be placed under the mirror, which will be an empty box for the audience.

2. In order to master mechanics, some simple suspensions are realized by using the principle of moment balance. Tilt like that.

A large part of the magic show relies on "anti-physics" phenomenon to achieve the effect of surprising the audience. The audience thought it was impossible from what they had learned before, but the magician did it. This heartfelt joy and surprise can only be achieved through magic. Therefore, magic can only achieve this "anti-physical" effect after further study of physics.

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David crossed the Great Wall.

Crossing the Great Wall, performed by American super magic master Copperfield, is the crystallization of the wisdom of China people. Magicians can't achieve magical effects by drilling holes and digging walls, but can only use magic. Let me describe this magic performance, maybe you can understand a thing or two. The magician boarded the stage against the wall from the wooden ladder and immediately surrounded it with white cloth. When the light is on, the magician appears on the white cloth. At this time, the wooden ladder was quietly removed by a big crane and hoisted to the other side of the Great Wall. After the magician walked out of the Great Wall, the wooden ladder tilted and the magician got down from it. Notice why I often describe wooden ladders. It turns out that this mechanical device is on a wooden ladder, which is specially designed to accommodate magicians. I won't say anything else, do you understand?

The truck disappeared.

Super magician David drove a huge truck to the X stage and covered it with a huge iron cage. After the audience saw it clearly, the iron cage was covered with a white curtain. Then let the audience join hands in a big circle and surround the white curtain. Soon, the white cloth fell from the floor and the truck disappeared. Disappeared in front of the audience! It turns out there are many people in the truck. When the curtain fell, the audience stepped onto the stage. In the process of the audience forming a circle, the people in the car came down to face the audience. The lights reflected their shadows. The audience under the stage thought it was the shadow of the audience on stage, but it was actually the figure of the people inside. Others in the truck quickly connected the iron cage with the truck. The iron cage is movable. At the same time as the curtain fell, the lights changed, and the iron cage and all the people inside were connected to the car. The truck was hoisted to the top of the stage by a huge crane. The audience only saw the audience on the stage hand in hand in a circle, and the truck disappeared. This kind of magic is very close to the magic way of crossing the Great Wall, covering the Statue of Liberty and covering the plane. But you can't perform without money. It takes a lot of money to build a stage and make props.

Saw man

Super magician David Sawing Man is one of the amazing traditional programs in the history of magic. During the performance, the performer asked his assistants to carry a rectangular wooden box to the table. The top and sides of the box can be opened. After explaining to the audience, a female assistant lay in the box and exposed her head and feet outside the holes at both ends of the box. So, the performer picked up the saw, sawed the box and the female assistant in half, and inserted two boards in the saw gap. Now the two parts of the box can be separated from each other, and the audience can see the female assistant's feet moving and her face smiling. "Punching the peep show is not uncommon. "There were two female assistants who participated in the performance, and the second assistant was already lying in the table in advance. The invisible female assistant can put her legs into the box through the flap at the bottom of the box, so that her feet are exposed outside the box, while the female assistant who enters the box in front of the audience bends her legs.

There is also a trick of sawing people, which was modified by David, because he can't always perform the trick of being caught. This time he is a female assistant! But this box can sink. After the female assistant sleeps, her ass sinks and her waist sinks. When the magician closed the chessboard, he inserted a steel plate in the waist of the female assistant, and then he began to saw things with a chainsaw. When he sawed the steel plate, he stopped and his head and body were sawed off. Actually, he didn't see it

Hang people in the air

Super magician David can fly. He can let a female assistant hang in the air with nothing to support him up and down. You can make your legs disappear. Can he? Sure! Here's what he does: he will definitely wear a black suit and black gloves, which is what a great magician must wear. Why are you dressed like this? Because it can be covered. The magician put his assistant (in a white dress) flat in the air, supported by several tripods. He dismantled a tripod at a time, leaving only one pillar. In fact, other tripods are useless at all, only this pillar is connected to the assistant, and there is a steel plate on the back of the assistant, which is easy to fix. At this time, it is not uncommon for a magician to let his assistant go up and down. But the other assistants actually took the last pillar, but the female assistant was still floating in the air. What happened? Jojo will definitely ask this question! It turns out that the magician sometimes replaces the steel column with a broom when other assistants remove the last column, but there is steel in it, otherwise how can he hold on! ), the magician has a steel bar on each arm and inserts it into the mechanical device on the back of the female assistant. The audience was stunned by the magician's arm strength to support the female assistant. Ha ha! Jojo doesn't have the strength. You can let the doll float in the air. Just try it. It was fun! You can also make the doll fly!

A cup of fuzzy water.

The performer picks up a paper cup, pours water from a big glass into the paper cup, and then pours more water back into the glass. Prove that all this is true. Then put the paper cup into the hat, which has been explained in advance. Suddenly, the performer remembered something; He took out a paper bag containing fruit from his chest pocket, explained the paper bag clearly, carefully took out the paper cup from his hat, put it in the paper bag, lifted it up, made a commission slowly with both hands, without leaking a drop of water, and then stuffed the paper ball into his trouser pocket. The performer told the audience that he would change the crumpled paper cup with the disappeared water back into the hat, and then take out the crumpled paper bag from his trouser pocket and throw it into the hat. At this time, the performer deliberately pretended to look at the hat and told the audience what he saw-how the paper cup was restored-and then took out the restored paper cup and water from the hat with his index finger and thumb in a very slow motion and poured the water back into the big glass. Hold the brim with your fingers and turn the hat over. Only crumpled paper bags came out. The hat is empty. You might as well open the paper bag and explain. Hats as props can be borrowed from the audience because they have never been made. But paper cups are processed. Actually, there are two paper cups. The bottom of a paper cup was cut off and the bottomless cup was placed in another forest. In addition, prepare two identical fruit paper bags, wrap one of them in advance and put it in the trouser pocket. Then prepare a large glass with a handle, which contains water, pour the water into two stacked paper cups, and put the paper forest into the hat. Don't pick up the bottomless cup at once, or the audience will be suspicious. If you want to take it out, why don't you put it down? Therefore, the performer deliberately pretended to think of a paper bag, took it out for the audience, then took out a bottomless cup, carefully put it in the paper bag, deflated the paper bag at once and put it in his trouser pocket. Similarly, don't take out the pre-placed paper bag immediately, so the performer had better say a few words to the audience, then take out the empty paper bag and throw it into the hat. The following process is self-evident, so I don't need to repeat it.

Trapeze acrobat

1. Put two chairs on stage X. A person is lying on the X axis of a chair, and his head and feet are just lying on the chair. 3. The performer covers the person who is lying down with a sheet, exposing only his head and feet. When the performer recites the mantra, he moves the chair under the feet of the lying person with his feet, but the lying person still doesn't move! Then, move the chair away from your head. However, the lying person is still unaffected and can still rise or fall with the spell. It turns out that the leg of the sleeping person is fake, but he is actually squatting. You got it?

Trinity of human body

There is a closet on the stage. The door of the closet is painted with thick figures, and there are holes in the head, right hand and left foot. The performer opens the cupboard door, invites an actress into the cupboard and closes the cupboard door behind her. At this time, the actress's face is facing the hole in her head, and her left hand and left foot are sticking out of the hole. The performer pointed to the actress's hands and feet in the cupboard, and the actress's hands and feet shook, which proved that she was indeed in the cupboard. Then, the performer takes two thin steel knives, one inserted in the middle of the cabinet waist, and then pushes it to the right to separate the middle part of the cabinet. The performer can wave his handkerchief in the middle of the cabinet to show that the middle part of the cabinet has indeed been removed. Obviously, the actress is really divided into three parts. Although the actress's head, hands and feet are distributed in three places, it is surprising that her head, hands and feet can move freely! Finally, the performer pushed the middle part of the cabinet back to its original position, pulled out the thin steel sheet and opened the door. The actress still came out of the cupboard with a smile. The trilogy of human body is a set of large-scale magic in modern foreign countries. 1982 At the World Magic Championship held in Paris, France, the French magician Jean Rogal gave a wonderful performance. The "three-part human body" mechanism is not only ingenious in the design of props. The key is to draw props according to the principle of chromatics, so that the audience will have visual errors. After pushing open the middle part of the cabinet, the connection part between the middle part and the upper and lower parts looks very narrow, and it seems that the human body can't pass through, but in fact it has a certain width. As long as the actress has a slim waist and some basic skills of soft waist, it is not a problem to lean in the middle of the cabinet.

The lost Statue of Liberty

The disappearance of the Magic Statue of Liberty performed by American super magic master david copperfield really shocked the world. The mystery of this magic has not yet been revealed. The Chinese magic circle has done some research from a professional point of view, and finally knows a little, but it has not been completely cracked. As we all know, the Statue of Liberty will not disappear, only our short memory will disappear. I can't teach you how to perform this magic here, because this magic will cost millions of dollars, and no magic master in China can perform it. I just want to remind you that the giant floor built as an auditorium is movable and can form a certain angle with the Statue of Liberty. Because the auditorium is far away from the Statue of Liberty, a small inclination angle is enough to make the Statue of Liberty disappear. When the floor tilts, the black cloth covering the Statue of Liberty actually rises at the same time. All the movements are controlled by the computer and operated slowly, and the audience can't detect them. When the black cloth falls, the audience can only see the empty sky on the Statue of Liberty, and the Statue of Liberty magically disappears.

Flame towel

The performer holds a scarf in his right hand and a gas lighter in his left. Then he touched the scarf on the flame, and the flame passed through the top of the scarf. He moved the scarf around again, neither burning it nor putting out the fire, which was quite strange and interesting. First, before the performance, light the gas lighter (flame size should be moderate), then put the scarf into the bottom of the flame and pull it back and forth with your right hand immediately, so that the scarf will not burn out. Second, because the flame bottom of the gas lighter floats upward (unlike other flames). Therefore, it can wear a thin scarf. Therefore, as long as the scarf is constantly pulled back and forth, the flame can float on the scarf.

Frozen magician

Super magician David locked himself in the ice hole for days and nights, without eating or drinking, and was safe after taking out the ice. Ice caves are made up of huge blocks of ice, and the whole process is monitored by cameras. The magician has a medical monitor, and the changes of the magician's heartbeat and breathing can be seen outside. It turns out that there is a switch under the floor of the ice hole, just enough for a person to climb up and down. This is a very comfortable cabin. The magician found a man as tall as himself, slept under him and ate and drank. When the magician was too cold to stand, the man climbed up and stood behind him. The magician switched places with him, just like a golden cicada, and changed people. Repeatedly changing this way, what the audience sees is that the shadow has not changed at all, but the people have changed. How can it be cold? The monitoring instrument can also see the heartbeat of the people inside. The real magician is drinking in the cellar!

card magic

The magician asked a spectator to draw a card and then tore a corner from any part of the card to keep it. Then the magician tore up the card, burned it to ashes and mixed it with gunpowder. Another spectator was holding a nail, and the magician asked him to load gunpowder and nails into the gun chamber. Then he picked up a gun and shot at the wall. The nail shot from the muzzle nailed the torn card to the wall, except for a corner torn by the audience. Take the torn corner and check it. It's a perfect match The secret of this wonderful program is that when the magician gets a card with a corner torn off by the audience, he will put another card on it and tear off a similar corner, so he continues to perform with this card, while the original card is taken backstage by the assistant. The gun is treated, that is, the magician can secretly take the nail out of the gun. The assistant nailed the card to a small board at the back of the stage, and the wallpaper on the board was the same as the back wall of the stage. There is a hole in the wall through which a small board passes, and a wallpaper connected by wires is hung in front of the hole. When the magician shot, the assistant pulled the rope, and the wallpaper fell to the ground, so the small board appeared, which looked like nails and cards were shot on it.

An unbreakable balloon

How can a balloon not be punctured? But the magician punctured the balloon with a metal needle in front of the audience, and the balloon did not explode. The performer pre-treated the balloon as follows: deflate the balloon a little with enough air, and then put a 3 cm transparent tape on both ends of the balloon. The performer holds the needle in his right hand, inserts the balloon into the adhesive tape from top to bottom, and goes out of the adhesive tape at the other end. Tape can prevent the "wound" from expanding, so the gas in the balloon leaks very slowly. Pull out the metal needle, gently bounce the balloon, let it float in the air for a while, and let the audience see that it is "safe and sound". When the performer inserted the needle into the balloon again, only a bang was heard, and the balloon exploded because it was not inserted from the tape this time. This second puncture is necessary. Because the balloon has a "wound", the gas is slowly escaping, and the balloon is getting smaller and smaller, so it must be inflated to "kill the mouth".

You can also wrap long balloons in paper tubes. After it is inflated, you can't pierce it with a sweater, because the balloon can't be blown in a paper tube. Give it a try!

The magic bucket took something.

There is a square tube on the table in front of the performer, and there is a leaking window in front. Through the leaking window, you can see there is still a pipe inside. The performer picked up the outer tube and showed it to the audience from all angles, and then put it on the inner tube again. At this time, the audience reached for the inner tube and could see the performer's hand through the leaking window. Pick up the inner tube and prove to the audience that it is also empty. Once the inner tube is stuffed into the outer tube, the performer will reach into the inner tube and take out countless handkerchiefs and flowers. Finally, remove the outer cylinder, put it aside and lift the inner cylinder. A pot of flowers appeared on the table. The audience can't find the mystery anyway, because there is a tube made of black cardboard in the inner tube, and because the inner wall of the outer tube is painted with non-reflective black, even when the inner tube is taken out for the audience to watch, the inner and outer black tubes can't be found through the leaking window. Of course, the outer cylinder and the inner cylinder cannot be taken out at the same time, so these two cylinders can only be displayed in turn. Both cylinders are made of thin wood chips, and there is a back cover under the black pipe, so you can put the two cylinders and pipes directly on the table or add an overhead platform; This can avoid suspicion and prevent the audience from thinking of any secrets in the table board. If you want to produce a pot of flowers in the end, then the black tube should not have a bottom. It must be noted that light is not allowed to shine into the tube from above during the performance, otherwise the clarinet will be easily found, and the light should be tested from the audience's point of view before the performance. If you can stick a piece of metal on the inner wall of the clarinet mouth, fix a small piece of fireworks paper on this piece of metal, and ignite the fireworks paper with cigarette butts or candles at the beginning of the performance to produce fireworks, which is both beautiful and convincing. Also burned out). In addition, silk handkerchiefs and compressed cylindrical newspaper lanterns can be made. Moreover, a miniature battery and a miniature light bulb can be installed at the bottom of the lantern, and their circuits are connected in advance, but separated by insulating paper, and the insulating paper is connected with the handle at the upper part of the lantern. In this way,-hold up the lantern; The insulating paper was removed and the lantern was lit.

Bird cage flying

The magician had a square birdcage in his hand, without any cover, and suddenly the birdcage disappeared. A birdcage consists of two metal frames connected by metal rods. It looks like the birdcage is very strong. In fact, these metal strips are flexible, so the birdcage can be quickly dumped and leveled. There is a hard cuff made of leather behind the wrist of the performer's right hand, and a strong rubber band is fixed on the hard cuff; The other end of the rubber band goes through the sleeve, bypasses the back, comes out of the cuff of the left hand and holds it in your hand. When performing, hang one end of the rubber band on the birdcage, hold the birdcage with both hands and press the narrow end of the birdcage at the same time. The elbow is opened at an angle and the rubber band is tightened. As long as the performer quickly presses forward and pushes down the birdcage, the rubber band will immediately pull the removed birdcage into the sleeve of his left hand and reach the performer's back. Faced with this sudden disappearance, people's eyes can't see through it in time. Later, things that disappeared became bigger and bigger, such as earphones, bright desk lamps, potted flowers, kerosene lamps and so on. In this case, the square towel is used to cover up what is going to disappear. Obviously, the big birdcage can't disappear through the sleeves. They must hide in other places, such as trays or small magic tables. However, these bases are usually so small that people never think that they can accommodate large items such as radios and desk lamps. In fact, these things quickly disintegrated and disappeared into the base. However, when performing this program, the audience and the actors need to keep a certain distance. If the distance is too close, the audience will not only see the real thing, but also hear the sound of the props, and the secret will easily be exposed.

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Appreciate magic

Magical and incomprehensible things are always impressive, and magic shows can make people feel happy to forget reality, which is its most attractive place.

As far as stage magic is concerned, it can be combined with various performing arts, such as dance and drama ... Therefore, when the audience appreciates it, they can not only see the magic of magic, but also feel the effect of combining with other performing arts and reflecting each other. As far as close-range magic is concerned, the magician is by your side. Whether it's playing cards or coins, you can not only watch them carefully, but even participate in them in person, which is another kind of appreciation pleasure.

Frankly speaking: magic is fake, but the most important thing is that the principle of any magic, no matter how simple, is the crystallization of the designer's intelligence and hard work. Therefore, in order to respect the designer and appreciate the best effect for the audience, from the standpoint of the performer, you can't perform easily before you master it, and you can't explain the principle casually after the performance; On the contrary, from the audience's point of view, it is not appropriate to ask performers to reveal their principles or lend props for observation, unless it is on a formal occasion to teach magic. Especially when watching close-up magic, you should not "do" or interfere with the performers in other ways, which is the basic respect for magic performances.

Because the general public doesn't know enough about magic at present, I hope this article can enhance the audience's appreciation, support and recognition, and I hope more fans can join the performance.

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The origin of magic:

A brief history of Chinese magic

Chinese magic has a long history. It was called "magic" or "showing off skills" in ancient times and was called "magic" by the people. It is called "magic" in modern times. It is said that the earliest magic in China appeared in the Xia Dynasty.

"Xia Jie abandoned etiquette and advocated Excellence in dwarfism, which made it a dramatic drama. "Biography of Liu Xiang Lienv.

Mr. Zeng Guozhen said in the book "Chinese Magic": "The drama here is neither primitive dance nor drama after the Han Dynasty, but a trick and acrobatic performance that is being formed ..."

During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, princes contended and a hundred schools of thought contended. At this time, the class of "scholars" rose. At that time, many governors and kings believed the words of alchemists and magicians and pursued the art of immortality. Many of these "scholars" are talents with strange skills or illusion masters. My husband's Mozi pillow says that these alchemists can hide people anywhere, change from men to women with a smile, and make people "fly up and down". In the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, there were records of magic from the Western Regions:

"When Zhou Muwang was in China, the nationalized people of the West Pole came, entered the fire and water, and penetrated the stone; Oppose moving mountains and rivers to cities; Take advantage of this, don't hit a person when he's down, and touch the reality? . Ever-changing, can't be extremely poor. It changes the shape of things, and it is easy to worry. Beijing is a god, and things are like kings. Zhou Muwang's article

During the Han Dynasty, China was full of tricks. Since the Han Dynasty, magic has become an important program of court banquets. Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty sent Zhang Qian to the Western Regions, which promoted cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries. In order to show off the strength of the Han Dynasty, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty set up a "wine pool and meat forest" in Shanglinwan, Chang 'an, and held an unprecedented magic acrobatic contest. Performances include China's earliest recorded magic programs "Long Wenyan" and "Donghai Huanggong". Note: There will be more introductions about Long Wenyan, Huang Gong in the East China Sea and Jiao Xidi in the Chinese Magic Dictionary. )

"In the spring of three years, I made a strange play and watched it within 300 miles of Fiona Fang." Books of Han dynasty

Play Bayu, Dulu, Haizhong, Ji Bo, Manyan, Fish Dragon and Jiao? Biography of the western regions

The performers of this hundred-play performance also included the magician "Li Xuan" sent by "Kingdom of Interests" ("Ancient Persia"), who performed magic programs such as swallowing knives, breathing fire and killing people.

Buddhism was introduced into China from the Han Dynasty, which had a great influence on the culture of China. It is said that the famous monks "Kumarajiva" and "Fotu City" also know the tricks.

In addition to Buddhism, Taoism also began to develop in China. Many traditional tricks in China have Taoist names, such as "Fairy Picking Beans", "Three Immortals Entering the Cave" and "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea". There are also many magicians who pretend to be immortals in their stage names, such as modern Lin Yuxian, Stone, Wang Xiaoxian and Murphy Fairy.

During the Three Kingdoms period, "Zuo Ci" was good at performing wonderful programs such as "fishing with an empty pole" and "throwing a cup to turn a bird". His deeds are recorded in the Book of Later Han Dynasty and Search for Ji Shen. "Zuo Ci smashed a cup and hit Cao Cao" in the 68th episode of Romance of the Three Kingdoms is a famous plot. If you are interested, you can click here to have a look.

Japan's "Shinji Ancient Music Map"

"Dancing in the pot" is China's trick of "crossing the sea".

During the Sui and Tang Dynasties, there were still many large-scale court magic performances. Great cause for two years, Yang Di held one hundred plays in Luoyang. Play and entertain Tekkhan. The scale of the performance is as high as tens of thousands of people.

During the Tang Dynasty, Chinese magic began to spread to Japan. Shinji Ancient Music Map, which is now stored in Masakura Hospital in Japan, records some magic that spread to Japan from the Tang Dynasty, including "dancing in the pot", "dancing on the sword" and "dancing in the belly of a horse".

In the Song Dynasty, foreign invasion was frequent, and many court artists were living in rivers and lakes, and folk tricks were developed. These Jianghu artists call them "Luqi people", which means they are confused and uncertain. At that time, the venue where artists performed in the street was called "Washe", which can be regarded as an ancient playground.

In the Song Dynasty, Ji Yun Society, the earliest recorded magic performance group in China, also appeared. The Ji Yun Club headed by "Lin Yuxian" has a total of 19 people, and is good at performing antique programs such as "hand painting", "joking" and "hiding". There was also a famous magician named Du Qisheng in the Song Dynasty, and his "murder and resurrection" trick was also quite famous. The name of this program is "Seven Holy Laws".

In the Ming and Qing Dynasties, there were few large-scale court magic performances. Folk magic performances are mainly divided into "dumping the ground" and "hall".

"Dumping" is mostly a small family group, and there are also individual artists (called "single package of plums"). They travel around the world, performing arts in the streets or at temple fairs in towns and villages, and some of them also sell medicines and other things.

Artists who perform "Tang" skills have a high status. They shuttled back and forth in the banquet of dignitaries and performed some auspicious ancient color tricks. Because most performances are held in the hall, it is also called "hall color".

Chinese magic is only recorded sporadically in ancient literature. It was not until the Guangxu period of Qing Dynasty that the first official fantasy book "Goose Fantasy Collection" finally came out. Today, with the development of information, there are still few books and websites about Chinese magic. Maybe everyone is more concerned about the secret of magic and the price of magic products! Sorry, this website won't have any secrets of Chinese magic, and there are no magic products for sale.

I hope this essay will give you a general understanding of the history of Chinese magic. If you have any comments or want to know more about the historical development of Chinese magic, please come to the message board to discuss and share.

Magic can reflect the living conditions of the society at that time. For example, China's "ancient color tricks"-China's traditional magic-changed mostly to poultry and grains, which just reflected the mentality that everyone in the agricultural society was eager for a bumper harvest at that time! In western magic, most of the changed colored paper, pigeons and bouquets just reflect the romantic side of western thought.

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