What is the meaning of social fire performance

Social fire performance is a traditional Chinese folk festival celebrating the Spring Festival. It is also a common name for high platforms, stilts, dry boats, lion dances, dragon dances, rice-planting songs, and so on.

In northwestern China, every year in the Spring Festival, the masses in the villages spontaneously organize various social fire activities. The size of the social fire ranges from a few dozen to hundreds of people, including drummers and gong players, lion dancers, and so on. The people set off firecrackers to welcome the fire brigade and give them gifts such as cigarettes and alcohol. Where the fireworks pass by, the sound of firecrackers, drums and gongs, a sea of people, the atmosphere is warm.

The most expressive of the social fires is the high platform. Each of them has a theme. Common storylines are the three white bone spirit, Erlang save mother and so on. Most of them are based on Qinqiang stories. High platforms are often built by experienced folk artists command.

That is, on a special table (there are cars or tractors), the use of steel, fabric, colored paper and other materials to make a variety of shapes, such as wigwams, trees, animals, and so on, and then according to the content of the men and women and children (age 4-5 years old) dressed up as the story of the characters, fixed on the platform, as few as 1 person, as many as more than 10 people, the height can be several feet.

Historical origin of social fire performance:

Southern Fengcheng social fire is a traditional folk activities of the Jiangyun folk system in Fengcheng, Jiangxi Province, west of the river, has been declared as a provincial cultural heritage." Social fire" is derived from people's sacrifices to the bodhisattva, the past dynasties of civil servants and military generals. Since the Song Dynasty, all kinds of sacrificial activities have been passed down, forming a rich and colorful "social fire" culture. The local people originated from people's sacrifices to Bodhisattvas, ministers and military generals of the past dynasties.

Northern "social fire", also known as "shoot the tiger", is an ancient traditional folk art form in China. It refers to the rituals or festivals to meet the gods on a variety of acrobatics, juggling performances. The fire has the meaning of red-hot and lively.

Social fire is quite a long time ago, it is with the ancient ritual activities and gradually formed. Ancient mankind is in the childish period, the productivity is extremely low, the primitive ancestors of human life and death, and many phenomena such as the natural world star of the sun and the moon, the plague, etc. can not resist, but also impossible to understand, can only fantasize with the help of the supernatural power to dominate it, and then create a variety of gods.

When social production shifted from fishing and hunting to farming, the land became the basis for human survival, so the prayers and sacrifices for good weather, good harvests, or to drive away the ghosts and epidemics came into being. The book of rituals - sacrificial law ", " *** work of the hegemony of the nine states also, his son is said to be the back of the earth, can level the nine states, so the rituals for the community."

The land is the basis of human existence. "