Why should we walk on stilts during the Spring Festival? Where did the tradition of walking on stilts come from?

1. One of the sayings of walking on stilts during the Spring Festival is that during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, Yan Ying laughed at his short stature when he went to neighboring countries, so he installed a Shuang Mu leg to make himself instantly taller and make the monarch and subjects look ridiculous. Then, he used the title to satirize all foreign monarchs and subjects and embarrassed them, so the activity of walking on stilts has been spread to the present.

There is also a saying that people outside the county have a very good relationship with people in the city. During the Spring Festival, they get together and wish each other a prosperous business. But later, a corrupt official came and regarded it as an opportunity to make a fortune. Anyone who goes to the city to hold a social fire needs to pay. Shut the gate if you don't pay it, but it's still hard to resist people with brains. As a result, the traditional project of walking on stilts came into being.

There are many forms of performance on stilts. On the first month of the lunar calendar, many people walk on stilts together and cross the road with percussion. Performers need to have traditional costumes, such as ugly girls, Tang Priest and White Snake. Very interesting, very emotional, very popular with many Beijingers.

4. Generally, many people need to be organized together to walk on stilts. In many flower parties, it is essential to walk on stilts. Generally, people go to the streets on the fifteenth day of the first month, and it doesn't end completely until 18. Generally, some snacks and tea will be placed in front of big businesses along the way to comfort people who walk on stilts. They will stop for a moment or express their gratitude in the form of performances. The stilt-walking queue will be held in the street. Generally, a single-row snake array is used, and a double-tied formation is used in crowded sections, which will also become a figure-eight. There are dangerous moves such as big splits, flower arms and small cyclones during the performance.