Acrobatic industry types

Acrobatics industry types include powerful skills, pedaling skills, top skills, juggling skills, high-altitude programs, illusion, ventriloquism, training and controlling animals and animals, and funny/clown art.

1, power technology

In a narrow sense, power skills refer to wrestling, wrestling, sumo and other programs that are mainly about strength and occupy an important position in the "Hundred Dramas" in ancient China. The angles of man to man, man to beast and beast to beast can often be seen in Han's paintings.

2. Pedal skills

Most of the trampling skills are performed by actresses, who lie on a special square platform and trample with their feet. As for pedal objects, there are almost everything, from Shaoxing wine cans, colored cans and tile bells to tables, ladders, wooden posts, wooden boards and noisy gongs and drums, from silk umbrellas to living people weighing more than 65,438 kilograms. Umbrellas, colorful carpets, and actors can also tread gracefully.

3. Lifting work

As early as the Han Dynasty, acrobatics in China formed a body skill with "top skill" as the core, requiring excellent waist skill, leg skill, handstand and somersault. This tradition has continued to this day. "Ding Gong" is also the main feature of acrobatic art, and the top bowl, wooden brick roof, chair roof, bench surface, jujitsu and other programs mainly rely on various "top skills".

4. Play tricks

The juggling skills in acrobatics mainly refer to juggling programs such as playing jars, throwing hands, twisting the waist, flying forks, and turning over the plate. , fully demonstrated the personal ability of the actors in acrobatic performances. Performers need to combine with props perfectly and master the skills of balance and control of center of gravity.

5, high altitude scheme

There are records of high-altitude programs in China ancient literature and cultural relics images, such as bumping skills, walking ropes, playing with cars, etc., and all of them have high-altitude performances. There are basically two kinds: one is to perform on the flat ground, and the other is to perform in the car. In the "Hundred Drama Pictures" in front of the car, the little actors are doing somersaults from the front and falling onto the small stage that was smashed from behind.

6. illusion

Hallucination refers to a method of mental attack, which produces all kinds of hallucinations in consciousness through one's own powerful mental ideas and some seemingly casual actions, sounds, pictures, drugs or objects that make the other person in a trance.

7, ventriloquism

Stomatology is an excellent folk performance skill and a kind of acrobatics. In ancient times, people used dry hunting to imitate the sounds of animals in order to trick their prey into getting food. From the Song Dynasty to the Republic of China, performers used their mouth, teeth, lips, tongue, throat and nose to imitate various sounds in nature, such as birds and beasts, wind and rain, lightning and so on. Let the audience be there.

8. Training and controlling animals and animals

Training and control of animals and animals are mainly based on "Circus" and "Animal Training" programs. Such acrobatic art programs not only reflect the development of this reality, but also show people's transcendence consciousness, and show people's courage, wisdom and infinite strength.

9. Funny/Clown Art

Funny/Clown Art This is a very old acrobatic art category in China, which appeared in the embryonic stage of acrobatic art as early as the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period. The "essence" in the ancient court can be the originator of funny and clown satirical humor in acrobatic art.

The antics of clowns in China acrobatics usually require wit and superb skills. Long people and short people are not all deformed by their bodies. Mostly stilt makeup, turning over. Although it is a gag, it takes a lot of effort.