What are the special customs in Hebei?

Shijiazhuang--Jingfuzu Lahua

Jingfuzu Lahua belongs to the northern rice-planting songs, which are produced and circulated in the territory of Jingfuzu County, Hebei Province, and is a kind of local peculiar folk art form of the Han nationality. Lahua originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties and has a long history. It has a long history and is characterized by movements such as "twisting the shoulders", "twisting the arms", "turning the wrists", "sucking the legs" and "skimming the feet". Skimming the feet" and other actions as the main dance vocabulary, forming a unique artistic style of rigidity and flexibility, roughness and subtlety. Her dance posture is novel, stretching and healthy, generous in bending and stretching, and quick to change, and she is good at expressing different emotions such as sadness, joy, love and romance. There are many props, rich in connotation, each with its own symbolic meaning. Such as umbrellas - wind and rain; baggage - rich clothes and food; too flat - the four seasons of peace; whip - the king of the Wenzhiwugong; vase - peace and prosperity ...... traditional Jingfu pull flower performance content mainly has "six contract spring", "selling pomade", "looking forward to the five night", "under the Guandong", etc. The number of performers varies. The number of its performers varies, the original 4 to 11 people, now, as few as 2 people, more unlimited, can be a hundred, a thousand people.

Folklore

Love life

"Lahua" is a village girl named "Lahua" who choreographed a dance based on her own love life experience and named it after her. Zhuangwang Lahua's "Cargo Man's Burden" is very strong in this sense, and his song "Cargo Man's Ballad" harmonizes well with its content.

"Lahua" means pulling flowers

Legend has it that a man named Yang Mingju, who was the magistrate of Xihua County in Henan Province during the Wanli period of the Ming Dynasty, brought several clusters of peonies back to Luoyang, a peony resort, and honored the god with "King of Peonies" in the temple of Laojun of this village. From then on, every time when the flowers bloomed, many men and women were attracted to watch them. In order to commemorate the happy event of peony taking root in Jingfu, some folk artists choreographed them into dances. Because of the inconvenient transportation at that time, the migration of peony flowers could only be carried by human power during the road journey of nearly one thousand miles, so it was named "pulling flowers". As a result, the actors appeared to carry flowers on their backs, insert flowers on their heads, draw flowers on their faces, and carry flowers on their shoulders, and the attire of flowers everywhere and the dance postures of leaning forward, dropping down, and skimming the feet, which were closely related to pulling, appeared. Therefore, it is said that "when there are peony flowers, there are pulling flowers".

"Lahua" is the harmonic of "Lahwu"

Ten years of nine droughts in the defile, as well as years of war, forcing the people to leave their homes with their children to flee the countryside, and they sang on the street while walking, telling their woes and begging for alms, which over time formed a qualitative form of begging - "Lahwu". Nowadays, can still be collected in some of the old artists in some of the "La Wasteland" in the legend of the anecdote. Because the "flower" and "deserted" for the local harmonies, so called "pull flowers".