When did the social fire originate?

The history of the origin and development of social fire is as follows:

Southern Fengcheng social fire is a traditional folklore activity of the Jiangyun folk system in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province, west of the river, has been declared as a provincial cultural heritage. The "social fire" is derived from people's sacrifices to Bodhisattvas, ministers and military generals of the past dynasties.

Shehu is part of the traditional culture of the Han people and originated from ancient Chinese sacrificial activities. Chinese poet Lu You in the Song Dynasty wrote in the "tour of Shanxi village": "Xiao drums follow the spring society near, simple and simple clothes and ancient winds survive. This shows how long it has been going on.

Whenever the harsh winter is over, the snow and ice melt, spring flowers, the earth recovery, the ancestors will kill pigs and slaughter goats, with their own fruits of labor, sacrifices to the "gods", sacrifices to the ancestors. At this time, the primitive ancestors have a chance to rest after years of labor, they are ecstatic, they "dress up" a bit, painted on the face of vermilion, the bird feathers tied to the head, shouting, jumping wildly. This is the earliest human social fire.

According to Liang Zhongyuan, "Longdong Cai Feng - social fire" records, Longdong folk social fire and social fire across the country, from the content and form of the same characteristics of the ****, the generation of the age can be traced back to ancient times. At that time, people in order to pray for blessings and disasters, to drive away evil and avoid evil, "hit the instrument and sing, clap and dance, pray to heaven and earth, in order to its auspicious also" ("Customs").

This activity has been passed down for thousands of generations, but with the progress of mankind and the evolution of the times, its form and content have changed qualitatively, and the new era has given it a new content.

In the 1980s, the traditional folk entertainment activity of social fire was restored. At present, the social fire is no longer fundamentally an expression of people's worship of "God", but has evolved into a healthy content, lively form, a variety of names, lively and interesting cultural and entertainment activities, and at the same time, it has also become a new folklore.

Social fire manifestations:

Each team of social fire there is a program officer, the Northwest Territories, also known as the "spring official" (folk called poetry), such as the Spring Festival to the unit or residents at home to pay homage to the New Year, the program officer with the drums and gongs to say 4 sentences a toast, generally due to the nature of the function of the unit is different from the nature of the unit. Generally due to the nature of the unit function is different or the situation of the residents of different families and now make up now say.

Social fire team's main projects are: stilts, folk called high crutch, generally made of rafters about 3 feet long or 4 feet long rectangular column wooden legs, in the upper part of about 1 foot place to install a long (to the foot width is appropriate) crossbar, feet on the crossbar, the upper part of the wooden legs tied to the calf of the human body. Dressed in the costume of a historical theater character.

Generally play the characters in such dramas as Broken Bridge, Stealing the Immortal Herb, Picking the Yellow Robe, The Tang Monk Takes the Scriptures, The Eight Immortals Cross the Sea, and The Bao Gong Reparations. Accompanied by strong rhythmic music of gongs and drums, they perform in marching formation or at a fixed point on the site. For example, the Broken Bridge is performed by Xu Xian, the Green Snake and the White Snake, who sing their lines in the Qin accent with simple hand gestures.

Dry boat, made of bamboo in the shape of a boat, and then glued with colored paper or colored silk, a boat girl driving the boat, walking broken steps, as if the boat walking in the sea-like, by an old man walking in front, hand holding the pulp board, do rocking the boat-like. Running bamboo horse, bamboo skeleton, tied into a horse-shaped (also donkey-shaped), decorated with colored silk or colored paper, performers around the waist of the bamboo horse, like riding a horse, men and women in pairs, the formation of shuttle shuttle Benz, jumping, singing, a strong sense of music, rhythmic, warm atmosphere.

Similarly, there is the Piggyback Daughter-in-Law. Gaoxinzi, also known as high platform. There are many kinds of forms such as lift core, back core, car core, especially the "car core" for more. Generally in a small tractor or small car fixed one or several zhang long rafters or iron rods, and then tied to the top of the pole into a lotus-shaped or other shapes of the suspension, which is the core platform.

The core stage and then one or two or more children playing the role of fixed, wearing theatrical costumes, simple movements or shapes, in the marching performance of subtle, thrilling action.

Social fire there are also twisting rice-planting songs, playing lions, dancing dragons, big-headed dolls and so on. The large social fire team consists of colorful flags, gongs and drums, lions, dry boats, big-headed dolls, rice-planting songs, and high cores. Garrisoned troops, armed police, Sixty-nine five plants and Ansai drums, gongs and drums, Taiping drums and Northeast rice-planting songs and other performance content and form.