Local Representatives of Chinese Folk Art

I. Window Cutting

Window cutting is the most widespread and popular folk art activity in Shaanxi. This traditional decorative art has a long history, as early as the Han Dynasty, folk farmers and women on the use of gold and silver foil and colorful silk cut into a kind of "Fang Sheng flowers and birds", pasted on the temples for beautiful decorative fashion, and then gradually developed to the Sui and Tang dynasties, in the festivals, celebrations, with colorful paper cut into a variety of flowers and grasses, flora and fauna, characters, stories, and pasted in the window panes on the so-called "window flowers". "Window Flowers"", pasted on the lintel of the door called "door stickers", "door painting", the wedding bed, wall and bed on the said "Decal", "happy flower", "top flower", etc.; Song Dynasty has a systematic variety of paper-cutting, so that "happy flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower", "gift flower" and so on. ", "ceremonial flowers", "door flowers" in the wedding to the funeral and daily life, especially the funeral, there are a variety of long tube-shaped "funeral flowers"; In the Ming and Qing dynasties, when a woman got married, it was very important for her to be "on the kang shears" (i.e., she could cut all kinds of window treatments, clothing samples and other knife-cutting crafts), so-called "on the kang shears under the kang sickle". In modern times, in rural areas all over Shaanxi, from old women to young women, almost every family had the custom of cutting and pasting window decorations, and most of them would cut out "flowers, birds, insects and fishes", and many families kept "window decorations", which were put up before and after Chinese New Year festivals. On New Year's Day, before and after the window panes, walls, are pasted with a variety of characters, opera, landscapes, birds, flowers, insects and fish, poultry, animals and other paper cuttings and window treatments, especially the most common paper cuttings. Whenever red (festive) white (funeral) events, celebrations, festivals, have to cut and paste a variety of "lattice", "lace", single, double "happy" characters, "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck", "good luck" and so on. Auspicious Figure", "Taiji Figure", etc., the room, the hall arranged in an organized, beautiful and fresh. This custom, passed down from generation to generation, unabated, increasingly prosperous. In many farming families, the window flower paper-cutting has become one of the conditions of marriage, such as so-and-so girl "can describe (painting), can cut (window, clothes, style, style), can tie (embroidery)", by the farming families to choose marriage, at the same time, this paper-cutting process has also become a person-to-person, household-to-household, ask for the beauty of the beauty of the competition for victory in the content of one of the customs. This all fully reflects the Shaanxi folk people of all races *** with the same psychology.

Shaanxi window cuttings, northern Shaanxi, Guanzhong, southern Shaanxi, between the three regions, each with its own characteristics and differences, which depends largely on the differences in regional cultural traditions. As for the differences in personal style, it depends on the differences in the quality of folk artists, in addition to innate factors, experience, cultural cultivation, personal preferences is also an important folk artist acquired factors. Northern Shaanxi window flower paper cutting, more famous in the country, this is due to the Yan'an revolutionary base of artists widely fostered, guided, introduced the results, of course, the window flower art of the hidden and the texture of the strong, is the history of the formation. Northern Shaanxi window relatively thick, innocent, natural interest, reflecting the simplicity of the people of northern Shaanxi and generous, its landscape figures, a variety of mountainous areas on paper; Guanzhong window paper cutouts, slightly rough and ingenious, many window paper cutouts have a thick and thin, clever, Jie Linglong, the subject matter of a wide range of miscellaneous forms and clever, and not to "literacy" as a standard, many illiterate elderly people, the window cutouts, the window cutouts are very good. Standard, many illiterate elderly women, cut out the window, its ingenuity and structure, so that literate people "jaw-dropping", marveled at; southern Shaanxi area of the window, relatively, less than Guanzhong, but a variety of paper-cutting, crafts more and more widely, Shangluo, Ankang, Hanzhong, etc., paper-cutting, crafts are also well-known in the province and abroad.

In the vast window cutouts, dramatic characters, dramatic stories, birds, insects and fish, animals, dragons and various customs, secular and other aspects of the selection, is the main content of the window cutouts. Its tone is generally monochrome (black or a certain kind of monochrome), there are also a variety of colorful window (colored paper or dyed color paper), window flower paper-cutting composition is exquisite, the general lines, lines of the body connected to each other, can not break the pen broken head broken line. Therefore, the composition must be simple, beautiful, not too fine and cumbersome, so as not to be difficult to open and close the scissors.

Shanxi window paper cutting famous people!

A Chaoyi paper-cutting Chaoyi window flower paper-cutting, belonging to the eastern province of Shaanxi has the characteristics of a school, it is more than the other counties of the window flower simple, beautiful, slightly longer style, color unique, its content to cut a variety of theatrical characters for the most famous, to participate in the provincial exhibition of famous materials, now stored in the Shaanxi Provincial Museum of Mass Art.

Two Yongshou paper-cutting Yongshou paper-cutting composition, style, known as clever Jie thick, mountainous areas, plains people's life customs and curiosities. Rural women An Yufang, more than 60 years old, known as the expert "florist", participated in the provincial, local and county art competitions; Xia Yumei, Gutun Township, women, good at cutting all kinds of birds, the masterpiece "Birds Toward the Phoenix" is famous at home, and went to France to exhibit.

Three Qishan, Fengxiang paper-cutting Fengxiang County Biaojiao Township Wolong Village, known as the "paper-cutting village", Li Lacui is the village's most famous, can cut thousands of patterns, window flowers than other counties twice as large, full of composition, novelty and chic, is the real tradition of the Qishan (Mountain) Feng (Xiang) Window Flowers. QI, Feng window flowers in the farmers in the area, more as a family side business, every year after the fall cut, "Laha" (the eighth day of the first month of the lunar calendar) market, more than ten pairs can be sold for a few cents, exported to Fengxiang County, Caijiapo, Taibai County, etc., and some skillful women, a year to sell "Piaojiao Window Flowers "

Fourth, the first is to sell the windowpane, and the second is to sell the windowpane.

Four Dali window flower Dali County popular shadow theater, the carving skills, the people asked to follow suit, and thus the rise of window paper cutting. Various dramatic characters and stories in the window flower are thus prevalent in the local area, and all the window panes and courtyard walls of every household are posted with various window flower paper-cutting patterns, and the characters are vivid; in addition, various kinds of flowers, birds, insects and fish paper-cutting are also found in the window panes of every household.

Five Ansei paper-cutting Ansei paper-cutting famous at home and abroad, in the technique, divided into Yang carved, Yin carved two kinds of techniques. Yang carving, strong lines, black and white; yin carving, bold, such as portraits, woodcut. In the paper-cutting exhibition held in the province, Ansai women Zhang Zhilan's "three old men" won the second prize, Gao Quanai's "donkey-riding aunt" won the first prize, they also exhibited a number of traditions, stories, fairy tale paper-cutting series, such as "Mouse Marrying a Daughter", "Wang Xiang lying on the ice", etc., also won praise. Ansai paper-cutting has now become a school of Shaanxi and a strong team of customary painting.

Six Dingbian paper-cutting Dingbian paper-cutting is the main part of the "three sides" of the paper-cutting, its paper-cutting has a strong human flavor and rich flavor of life, in the shape of a black and white woodcuts, a wide range of subjects, unique style.

Shaanxi is a large province of folk art, window paper cutting enjoys a high reputation in the country, after the founding of the country, has been named by the Ministry of Culture as "the hometown of paper-cutting" are: Ansai, Luochuan, Fu County, Xunyi, Dingbian, Jingbian 6 counties, as well as Baoji, Fenghuang, Chiyang, Chengcheng, Huaxian, Heyang, Dali, extension, Huangling, Jiaxian, GaoLing and other counties, works at home and abroad for many exhibitions and awards, some paper-cutting artists were invited to visit France, the United States, Japan and dozens of other countries, such as Shaanxi, for China has won the honor of Geng Town, GaoLing County paper-cutting artist WangShunXi (male), paper-cutting is never painted large sample, also not under the bottom of the sample, always in accordance with the heart of the "heart of the map", to eye! Fixed line and cut successively cut, cut out thousands of various flowers, insects, birds and fish and characters. He began at the age of eight and his parents to learn paper-cutting, to more than 40 years old has been paper-cutting for more than 30 years, every year in the month of wax to sell a few pounds to dozens of pounds, the cut characters and fish and birds, turning life-like, more light-colored diffuse paper, tone natural and clever. 1980, the United States friends to visit the Xianyang opportunity to invite him to the scene of the paper-cutting, he did not hit the draft, the two do not imitate the people, hands a moment to cut a few theatrical characters, was filmed for television documentaries, widely disseminated.

Two, Fengxiang woodblock prints

Fengxiang woodblock prints, according to historical data, so far, has a history of 476 years. According to a family engaged in its industry, an ancestral file records, Ming Zhengde two years (1507) Xiao Li Village Tai's family has eight households engaged in the production of side business of the painting; Qing dynasty Qianlong fifty-five years (1790) ago, Tai's has opened the early years of the painting "Bureau", and then has been continued for more than 190 years of six generations. Fengxiang woodblock prints from small to large, from coarse to fine, after many ups and downs, rise and fall, become the first folk yearbook resort in northwest China. Tai's "Shixing Painting Bureau" in the process of nearly two centuries, based in Fengxiang, facing the whole country, playing to foreign countries, played a greater role in promoting.

Woodblock New Year's Paintings, from drawing, engraving, printing to painting, are all hand-operated by farmers in their farm leisure time. Before the Qing Dynasty, the theme of the New Year's paintings are mainly door gods, and mainly pen drawing coloring; to the middle of the Qing Dynasty Jiaqing, Daoguang years asked, New Year's paintings by printing ink lines hand-dyed, has gradually changed into all sets of printing, such as the main door gods Qin Qiong, Jingde, Fang Bi, Fang Xiang, etc., but such as the beard, eyebrow part is still a pen drawing. Production villages, households in addition to Xiao Li Village, and North Xiao Li Village and Chen Village Town, three villages **** more than thirty, there are six official "Bureau of Painting", in addition to more than ten kinds of large door god, large wall painting, the rest are small and medium-sized door painting and God blessing, such as the "six full god", "Three Stars of Fortune, Luck and Longevity", "Twenty-four Filial Piety", "Spring Bull", "Twenty-four Seasons", "King of Medicine", etc., with an annual output of more than 100,000 sheets, mainly sold to Guanzhong in Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qinghai and other provinces. At the end of the Qing Dynasty and the beginning of the Republic of China, the production of New Year's paintings developed to sixty or seventy, more than ten round bureaus, the production of door paintings, large, medium and small door god of about forty kinds of; styling of civil and military style, standing, sitting, riding a horse, the image of most of the historical figures, such as the Shang Dynasty Fang Bi, Fang Xiang, the Tang Dynasty's Qin Qiong, Jingde, Wei Zheng, Gai Suwen, the Song Dynasty's Bao Wen Zheng; and mythological figures, the heavenly officials, the three stars of Fuk, Luk, Luk, and Longevity, Liu Hai, Zhong Kui, the Divine Judge, and so on, the six There are also mythological figures, Tianguan, Fu, Lu, Shou three stars, Liu Hai, Zhong Kui, God Judge, etc., six full gods, slot horses, slot monkeys; Zaoshen has single Zaoshen, double Zaoshen, single printing frame, double printing frame, vases, lanterns Zaos, etc.; only the "Guyu" paintings, there are more than 50 kinds of, the "twelve phases", "four times of the good news," and so on, there are more than 40 kinds of. The annual output of New Year's paintings is more than 4 million sheets, which are sold to more than ten provinces and cities in China. Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qing, Henan, Sichuan and some other provinces in the countryside, everywhere posted Fengxiang's various kinds of New Year's paintings and God of the stove, has become customary, New Year's paintings merchants in batches from Fengxiang into the goods, shipped back to all parts of the best-selling. Anti-Japanese War to the founding of the country, the production of Nianhua once low, but the production also maintains an annual output of more than 6 million sheets or so. Especially the overprinted silver (also known as silver), after the gold, the masses as a treasure, Shaanxi, Gansu, Ningxia, Qingdao area people, to this yearbook, a beautiful name, called "Xifeng Shixing painting bureau" of the "gold three cuts" brand-name yearbook.

After the founding of the People's Republic of China, from 1950 to 1963, South and North Xiao Li village, organized more than a hundred people of the "New Year's Paintings Society", invested in shares of the people, all with the mechanism of the white office paper, white newspaper, production of the six gods and god of the door, with an annual output of more than 3 million, still sold throughout the Northwest. After due to a variety of campaigns, the annual production of paintings did not return to the number of pre-statehood. 1978 after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the ***, Fengxiang woodblock prints have a newborn, coupled with the national and provincial and municipal arts and crafts community care support, developed a variety of paintings of nearly a hundred kinds of annual production has been restored to more than 3 million sheets. Later, they organized "South Shawli Folk Arts and Crafts Research Association" and "Fengyi Woodblock Prints Research Association", plus 57 individual households, in the national production and marketing ordering meeting, 18 provinces and cities across the country to order, prompting the production of more than 10 million sheets of New Year's Paintings!

The yearly output of Chinese New Year paintings is more than 10 million sheets, and they are sold to more than ten countries such as Western Europe, Nanyang and Japan.

Fengxiang woodblock prints, with its unique and generous style, generalization, concise, colorful, real and empty contrast, the theme is prominent, there is a strong mood, a healthy sense of traditional beauty of the national folklore, to become a folk respect popular appreciation, posting, gifts, known at home and abroad.

Three, Fengxiang mud sculpture

Shanxi Fengxiang County six camps of painted mud sculpture, so far has a history of more than 400 years.

The production of mud sculpture: the first production of clay, mostly fine clay, plus glue, repeated pressure, step, knead, and into. When making mud sculpture, the first handful of good prototypes on the drawing of the original draft, make a draft mold, according to the mold turned top, adhesive modification, so that the molding, and then use the soil to glue to the ink outline, and then dyed point color, drying and brush a layer of glue that is made. Painted clay sculptures have more than one hundred varieties of dramatic characters, mythological figures, birds and animals. These clay sculptures are colorful and bright, with exaggerated, concise, simple and generous shapes, and are very interesting. The most popular ones are crouching ox, standing tiger, hanging tiger, fat doll and so on. These painted clay sculptures, more than the rural areas of the Northwest provinces as the festivities of the goodies, or to the children to do the full moon souvenirs, family daily decorations, gifts to friends and relatives gifts. In recent years, Fengxiang painted mud sculpture has been listed as a tourist souvenir by Shaanxi Province, a large number of foreign supply. Folk Art Overview

Hebei Province is located in the middle and lower reaches of the Yellow River basin, is one of the birthplaces of the Chinese nation, and is the only province in the country that has both plains, grasslands, plateaus, mountains, lakes and seashores. The long history, splendid culture and superior natural conditions have given birth to colorful and diverse folk arts. Hebei folk arts of local opera, folk music, folk songs and dances, ancient music in villages, folk art, special crafts, Cangzhou martial arts, Wuqiao acrobatics, are well known both at home and abroad. These arts from different perspectives of the cultural traditions of the Chinese nation, its *** with the same characteristics of the origin of the folk life, some are inherited from history, some are transplanted from abroad, some are in the form of new innovations, and ultimately and gradually formed strong local characteristics, y loved by the masses, not only in the history of a certain degree of influence, but also to date, still have a continuous artistic It not only has a certain influence in history, but also still has an unceasing artistic vitality. Hebei folk art in the long river of historical development, to the people's cultivation, entertainment, physical and mental, express emotions, exchange of ideas, played the role of the invisible link, to promote the social progress of Hebei Province, has made a pugnacious contribution to the history of the history. 1949, Hebei folk art has been a comprehensive and systematic collation of excavation, entered a period of comprehensive renaissance. 1978, these arts have been rejuvenated again, and increased in number. Since 1978, these arts have regained vitality and added new characteristics of the times. Nowadays, with the development of society, science and technology and cultural progress, in the construction of socialism with Chinese characteristics of the great cause of the thousand years, Hebei folk art more with its unique artistic charm, for the cohesion of people's hearts, to create a healthy spiritual atmosphere, to promote cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, to serve the economic construction, and to play the social function of the promotion of the overall development of political, economic and cultural.

I. Folk Art

Hebei folk art includes folk paintings, carvings, handicrafts, calligraphy tablets and posters of the past dynasties, and murals of temples and tombs, etc. Among them, calligraphy tablets and posters of the past dynasties are the important materials for the study of historical artifacts and the art of calligraphy, and murals of temples and tombs are the important materials for the study of mural art and the history of fine arts, which are precious cultural heritages with high artistic and cultural relics value. Folk paintings, which are drawn from folk life and developed and innovated on the basis of inheriting traditional painting styles, are also an important part of Hebei folk art. Handicrafts in Hebei Province are numerous in number and rich in artistic achievements. There are not only traditional pottery with a long history, such as Ding Kiln, Magnet Kiln, Xing Kiln and Black Pottery, but also ingenious carving art, such as clay toys, paper-cutting, shadow, batik, stone carving, bone carving, wood carving, shell carving, etc.; there are not only exquisite decorative crafts, such as Teng's cloth paste painting, filigree, filigree jewelry, filigree ornaments

1, Yutian clay toys

Hebei Yutian is a place where jade has a relationship, highly valued by some emperors of past dynasties, and is also an important part of Hebei folk art. Relationship with jade, highly valued by some emperors and related experts and scholars of the ancient county. It is located in the center of Beijing, Tianjin and Tangshan, more than 3,000 years ago for the Yan State, the first capital of the location, the Spring and Autumn Period belonged to the Wulin Zi State, the beginning of the Tang Dynasty set up for the Wulin County. Since the time of Empress Wu Zetian, it has been renamed Yutian County based on the story of "Yang Boyong planted jade on Mount Wuling" in the Jin Dynasty's Ganbao's novel "The Book of Sojourn" (1)。 Since 1993, the People's Republic of China *** and the State Ministry of Culture named Yutian County as the "hometown of Chinese folk art (folk clay sculpture)", Yujia not to speak of their own names, dazzling people's eyes.

Yutian clay production has been more than two hundred years of history, its origin is mainly distributed in Daijiatun, West high mound and other villages. 1981 native toys expert, China Art Museum researcher Mr. Li Cunsong to Yutian clay township test: early Yutian clay animal works and Yutian unearthed ceramic pig, ceramic horse, clay ocarina (whistle) and other Han Tomb Mingqi is quite like a twin. Visible folk clay sculpture has a long history. The long river of history has nurtured and created this magical land of Yutian. In the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, the clay toy artists represented by Liu Kai (1870--1961) had a great influence on the clay figure themes that enriched the content of hand-made operas with the prevalence of kungfu dramas such as "An Tianhui" (Journey to the West), "The Story of the South and West Wing", "The Story of the Sword", etc., which were prevalent in the north at that time, as well as the popularity of the Yangliuqing New Year's Paintings. Famous artists who later perpetuated Yutian clay figures include Liu Junxiang, Wang Xiqing, Liu Guangtian, and Wu Yucheng. □

Two, folk theater

Hebei has an ancient traditional opera. Jin and Yuan miscellaneous dramas were spread southward to the Jiangsu and Zhejiang areas after they flourished in Hebei Province. Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, Yiyang, Kunshan, clappers, Erhuang and other opera voices have been prevalent in Hebei. by the end of the 1940s, the most influential and fastest-developing local theater in Hebei, mainly Hebei clappers and appraisal of the opera. There are more than 30 types of theater popular in Hebei, of which 26 are native to Hebei, and the representative ones are Hebei Opera, Baoding Old Tune, Anguo Old Tune, Pingtong Luzi, Xinying Tune, Hengji Tune, Haha Cavity, Four Strings Opera, Paiju Opera, Tang Opera, Tangshan Shadows, Baoding Shadows, Nanxinzhuang Puppetry, Guiyi Stall Opera, Silk String Opera, Dashang Two-Man Stage, and Haixing Nanglong Opera.

Three, folk music and art

Hebei folk music and art has a long history, a wide variety of songs, rich programs, the main songs circulating around the West River drums, Leting drums, Renqiu drums, Jinzhou dragon drums, Zhanhuang drums, Anguo drums, Gaoyi waist drums, Changshan war drums, Ligaoqiao gold cymbal war drums, Cangzhou woodblock drums, wooden board books, ten not idle, as well as the single-stringed, flat book, comic, and the counting of the treasures, There are more than 30 kinds of music. These kinds of songs, some sing long books, some sing small sections, over the years down the size of thousands of books, engaged in these songs of professional actors and rural amateur rappers tens of thousands of artists.

Four, folk songs and dances

Hebei folk songs and dances, including folk songs, blowing songs, songs and dances and other forms and content. Among them, Hebei folk songs are mostly oral folk creations, rich in content and style, reflecting the vast history of life picture, expressing the people's voices. Hebei Blow Song is a unique form of folk instrumental performance, with suona as the main instrument, accompanied by pipes, sheng, flute, banhu and percussion instruments such as gongs, drums and hairpins, which are played during festivals, marriages, funerals or celebrations. Hebei songs and dances are basically based on rice-planting songs, and there are also a variety of lamps, drums, and lion dances performed with props, bamboo horses, dry boats, boats, carts, big head dances, and other 146 kinds of dances.

Fifth, folk music

Hebei countryside ancient music active in the Hebei countryside, the complete preservation of the main Xingtai City, Guangzong Taiping Taoist music, Julu Taoist music class Jiaojiao music, Langfang City, Gu'an County, Qujiaying concerts, military Lu Village Boxer music. These four kinds of music *** with the same characteristics is wearing a religious cloak, but fully embodies the national cultural traditions, can be called monks, Confucianism, Taoism and the use of solemn and elegant music. These precious ancient cultural heritage is the treasure of China's national music, with its simplicity, elegance, and uniqueness in the folk music in the big garden.

Six, folk martial arts

China has 129 types of folk martial arts, 52 of which originated in Hebei Province. These 52 styles are mainly distributed in Cangzhou, Handan, Baoding, Tangshan, Langfang, Hengshui, Xingtai and other places.

The surviving ones with greater scale and influence are Bajiquan, Cleaving Fist and Yanqing Fist of Cangzhou, Yang-style and Wu-style Taijiquan of Yongnian of Handan, Bagua Palm of Langfang, Plum Blossom Fist of Xingtai, Xingtai Xingtai, Xingyiquan of Shenzhou, etc. The 52 styles are mainly distributed in Hebei Province.

Seven, folk acrobatics

Hebei acrobatics, a long history, a long history of more than 2000 years. China's acrobatic hometown has more than one, in terms of history, folk foundation and domestic and foreign influence, Hebei Wuqiao is the most prestigious. Hebei Wuqiao birthplace is the cradle of acrobatics, acrobatics township reputation, famous at home and abroad.

According to the survey, in the early Republic of China, Wuqiao acrobatics can be divided into 13 types: one, martial arts; two, top technique; three, ventriloquism; four, stomping technique; five, hand techniques; six, car skills; seven, circus; eight, aerial programs; nine, stepping on steel wires; ten, drilling techniques; eleven, mouth twisters; twelve, magic; thirteen, and other (eg, shuttlecock, shaking the bamboo, etc.). Summarized to include martial arts, juggling, animal taming, illusion four categories.

Nowadays, Wuqiao acrobatics has created and improved many new programs on the basis of the original one, such as lion dance, dragon lantern dance, hoop dance, colorful silk dance, Chinese streamer, flying sheet metal, cross flyer, double swing, brain tandem, big flying hangman, flying car, large-scale magic and so on.

In history, Wuqiao County has produced many famous acrobatic artists. Only in the Qing Dynasty, Wuqiao has created many famous acrobats and acrobatic family. For example, five generations of bear playing the bear Cheng family, known as the king of a giant magic master Mu Chenglin, once won the Emperor of Ethiopia, won a gold medal Yao Zhenkui, many times in the Palace of China's folk theater veteran Jiang De Cheng, founded China's first circus and renowned Southeast Asian acrobatic master Sun Fuyou, etc., are WU Qiao acrobatic artists.

Acrobatic groups throughout the country and the world's 28 national acrobatic troupes, there are Wuqiao acrobatic artists, so the domestic acrobatic community has no Wuqiao people do not acrobatic class said. Wuqiao county currently **** there are 29 acrobatic troupes, **** there are more than 900 actors.

Based on the far-reaching impact of Wuqiao acrobatics at home and abroad, as well as its broad mass base, Hebei Province in 1987 began to organize the China Wuqiao International Acrobatic Festival, which has been held eight sessions (1987, 1989, 1991, 1993, 1995, 1997, 1999, 2001), *** from Asia, Africa, Europe, the United States, Australia and other five continents. Hundreds of countries to participate in the world acrobatic event. The acrobatic festival held in a single year, generally in the last week of October or the first week of November, the venue is located in the provincial capital of Shijiazhuang, the festival to Cangzhou Iron Lion Zhenhai roar as a model to symbolize peace, friendship, green as the background color, the production of the festival emblem, set up a Golden Lion, Silver Lion, Bronze Lion Award. This not only promotes the exchange of Chinese and foreign acrobatic art, but also promotes the overall development of Hebei's foreign culture and society.