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What are the folk stunts in China?

There are many folk stunts, such as the following:

1, micro-carving:

The art of micro-carving is one of the most delicate and tiny crafts in traditional Chinese arts and crafts. It is the size of a grain of rice in the ivory, bamboo or a few millimeters of hair on the carving, its works to use a magnifying glass or microscope to see the content of the carving, so it has been called "stunts".

2, ventriloquism:

Ventriloquism is a folk performing art, a kind of acrobatics. In ancient times, ventriloquism was actually only a kind of sound-imitation art. Performers use their mouths to imitate all kinds of sounds, which can make the people who listen to them have a feeling of being there, and it is one of the valuable legacies of our culture and art. This technique, the Qing Dynasty is a "hundred plays" of a performer more invisible in the curtain or behind the screen, commonly known as "next door play". And there are also ventriloquism. The use of mouth, tongue, throat, nose, and other articulation techniques to imitate various sounds, such as train sounds, birdsong, etc., with the performance of the action, can enhance the sense of reality. In addition, the literary works of Lin Sihuan and Pu Songling are named after "ventriloquism".

3, fire-breathing:

Also known as blowing fire, the Qinqiang stunt, the performer can spray fire from the mouth, the importance of which is as important as face-changing in Sichuan opera. It is generally used in plays where demons and ghosts appear. In the Qin Opera's "Touring the West Lake - Saving Peisheng", Li Huiniang uses this technique. The method of blowing fire is to first research rosin into powder, filter it with a bamboo, then use a kind of white linen paper with long fibers and strong tensile strength to wrap it into a small package that can be contained in the mouth, and then cut off the head of the paper. Actors blowing fire before the rosin bag in the mouth. With the gas blowing rosin bag, so that the end of the rosin flying to the torch, burning up the flame. Common forms include: straight blowing, tilting blowing, slanting blowing, tilting blowing, leaning blowing, tilting blowing, turning over blowing, bungee turning over blowing, and so on. On its shape can be divided into; single mouth fire, even fire, turn over the fire, a dragon, mushroom cloud fire.