The art of stilt-walking in Yangcheng Village, Qinghe Town, Shanxi Province, is the performance of several people on stilts to ride the beasts.

The art of stilt-walking in Yangcheng Village, Qinghe Town, Shanxi Province, involves two people on stilts riding a beast.

Stilts (stilt-walking), a traditional dance in Jishan County, Shanxi Province, is one of the national intangible cultural heritages. Stilt walker is a form of performance in the temple fair cultural activities in Yangcheng Village, Qinghe Town, Jishan County, Shanxi Province, which flourished in the early years of the Yongzheng period of the Qing Dynasty, and appeared in the grand scale of the temple fair activities. It is a conjoined stilts performed by two people, skillfully combining man and beast to interpret myths and legends.

The beast on stilts consists of a beast head, a beast body and performers, two people on stilts with the performance of riding the beast, the actor loaded with heavy loads, according to the song beat walking. Auxiliary music is composed of gongs, drums and other percussion instruments. People and beasts of peculiar shape, marching in formation in the sound of drums and music, magnificent, very spectacular.

The performance has different rhythms according to different characters and storylines. Stilts pace is divided into walking and broken step two kinds, walking is more uniform, artists foot stilts pace as normal people walk, walking steadily, up and down the pace is accurate, feet alternating pace stride big, walking distance changeable. The rhythm of the broken steps is relatively fast, and the rhythm of the drum beats is tight, mostly in situ broken steps.

The stilt-walking show has a variety of beasts, and the beasts are mostly taken from myths and legends. Yangcheng Village in Qinghe Town, Jishan County, is divided into the southern and northern Yangchengs, and the beasts in the northern Yangcheng include unicorns, brave wolves, unicorns, bamboo horses, and cats, while those in the southern Yangcheng include black civet tigers, plum blossom deer, and tapirs.

The significance and value of traditional culture:

1. Provide a solid soil for nurturing socialist core values.

2. Provide strong support for enhancing cultural confidence.

3, for the realization of the "Chinese dream" to provide spiritual impetus.