What is the historical origin of gymnastics pyramid?

Duoluohan is a large-scale traditional performing art in Yiwu, which integrates martial arts, dance, acrobatics and instrumental music. Mainly distributed in Huaxi, Wangdian, Hezhai, Confucian House, Dayuan, Xishanxia, Xinting, Youbeitang and Bali Bridge.

The pyramid-shaped arhats originated from Yiwu soldiers who followed Qi Jiguang Pingwo during Jiajing period of Ming Dynasty. In addition to fighting and training in peacetime, it is a game to practice martial arts according to martial arts routines, wartime arrays and acrobatic skills. At that time, Yiwu people were "vulgar and close to Qin Feng, and liked to learn spears". People always like to practice arhat boxing in South Shaolin. The folk in Shili Baxiang often take the legendary story of the conversion of eighteen arhats to Buddhism as the theme and set up arhats classes. There are dozens of people in each class. Every year, when Chongyang Temple Fair welcomes the gods, they act as guards, performing pyramid-shaped arhats, rolling lions, practicing boxing, sticks, knives and guns in passing villages. During the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, there are also performances in our village or nearby villages. Therefore, this kind of martial arts entertainment game soon spread in Yiwu area, and gradually formed a set of relatively complete and standardized performance contents and forms over time.

Luohan class was the most popular during Tongzhi period from Ming Dynasty to Qing Dynasty, and it has a history of more than 450 years. Most pyramid-shaped arhats are performed by a village or a nation. First, on holidays, temple fairs are open to celebrate the harvest year, which is lively and festive; Secondly, it shows that the village (clan) unites with Qi Xin and shows off its strength, so that outsiders dare not bully, so three generations are often in the same array and four generations are under one roof. There are more than a dozen higher Luohan classes, and there are competitions every year on the Double Ninth Festival, which is similar to the fighting platform of a troupe.

Luohan Class in Baliqiaotou Village, Chen Da Town was founded in the late Qing Dynasty, when the political situation was turbulent. Baliqiaotou people were founded by (19 1 1), Jiang (19 17) and Ge (1938) to prevent bandits from strengthening their bodies. It was interrupted during the eight-year anti-Japanese war and resumed after the victory of the anti-Japanese war. After 1949, there was a break, and in the first month of198/kloc-0 (lunar calendar), in order to enrich the cultural life of the masses, the village re-established the Luohan class at the initiative of Jiang Xiaohong and others. The traditional performance form has been restored, and changes have been made in clothing, props and performance programs, and the original scattered form has been stylized.