What is the core social fire?

Core social fire, is popular in the northwest of China folk culture.

Social fire, as the oldest custom, in China has thousands of years of history, it comes from the ancient land and fire worship, is the product of witchcraft and totem worship in ancient times, is the ancient people used to worship God for religious activities."" She" is the god of land; "fire", or fire ancestor, is the legendary god of fire. It can drive away evil spirits and take refuge. Worshipping the god of society, singing and dancing and offering sacrifices are meant to pray for favorable winds and rains, abundant harvests, peace of mind, and all the best. In China, which is famous for its agricultural culture, land is the foundation of people's existence, and it lays the material foundation for the survival and development of human beings. Fire is the source of cooked food and warmth, but also essential to the survival and development of mankind, ancient people with primitive thinking that fire also has a "spirit", and regarded as a special meaning of the gods, to be worshipped, and so the formation of the concept of reverence for fire. By the ancient land and fire worship, produced the custom of sacrificing to the community and fire. With the development of society and people's awareness of the ability to improve, the rituals of the fire gradually increased the entertainment component, becoming a large-scale, complex folk entertainment. The term "social fire" was first seen in the Song Dynasty. Folk social fire is a popular folk entertainment during the Spring Festival, in Shaanxi, Shanxi, Hebei, Henan, Liaoning and other provinces are widely spread.

Core is also known as pallet, flat pallet. It is a kind of static thrilling modeling art with a history of about 200 years. At the beginning, it was mostly used for welcoming the gods and competitions, and later became the amusement program of the Lantern Festival. The core is made of children aged 4 to 5 dressed up as various characters and fixed on the iron core to present a thrilling and beautiful modeling. Generally, a core represents a plot or a moral. The core is divided into lifting core and back core, lifting core is dressed up as a character in the play of the child's iron frame, placed on top of the square table, carried by several people; back core is a strong person by a strong shoulder to carry the iron frame to walk, shoulder to carry the person is dressed up as a character in the play looks like, up to the iron frame of a few hundred pounds. In recent years, the core will be more iron frame fixed on tractors, cars, performing large core, up to a dozen people, the performance content is also richer.

Core social fire is the traditional performance of the most charming art form, popular in Shaanxi and Gansu, mainly five to seven-year-old children dressed up as traditional opera characters, and with the relevant character movements, placed on a wooden frame or iron frame, a fulcrum will be carried on their backs, with the performance team on tour. Because the core is placed on the shoulder, it is known as the "back core".

In Shaanxi, social fire is a common name for the core, stilts, bamboo horses, dry boats, lions and dragon lanterns. It is an art that relies on playing, modeling and skills to win. It is through a variety of difficult movements and tightly conceived, so that the actors play into the historical and modern characters, forming a story combination, giving people a high level, thrilling and surprising artistic infectivity. Especially this art is closely combined with Qinqiang, originating from the ancient yellow land, with a long history and unique charm.

Every year, from the first to the fifteenth day of the first month, Yangxian County in Shaanxi Province is a sea of joy and a world of celebration. Every day there are nearly a hundred colorful cars, in the noon hour, began a parade around the city, so that the people of Yangxian and tourists from all over the world, a full from ancient to modern eyes.

Folk culture is the crystallization of human wisdom, is the hard-working people through the labor summed up the essence of culture, worth inheriting and promoting. Exhibition is to promote folk culture is the most direct, the most fruitful activities, people can through the exhibition and performance, understand and love traditional folk culture. The first day of the Lunar New Year to fifteen, a thousand folk artists, a hundred kinds of folklore exhibition activities will be held in Xi'an Qujiang International Convention and Exhibition Center.