Juggling Shenlou, a folk art form of the people of Hancheng

Stumbling, jumping, gouging, running, bumping, kneeling, wrenching, pressing, and on the pole, swimming swing, martial arts. A series of movements form the folk art form of the people of Hancheng, Jiu Shenlou. In fact, juggling is also known as lifting and jumping. This issue of Hancheng culture introduces you to the folk art form of sending the gods to the gods in the seventh month of the lunar calendar, the Jiu Shen Lou. The first time I saw this is when I was a kid, and it was the first time I saw a kid.

Juggling God House, also known as "lift the God House", "jump God House", "stumble master frame", is popular in the Han Cheng Beiyuan, Dongyuan area of folk ritual dance. Some people say it has a superstitious color, in fact, is a deep-rooted folk dance.

God building is a temple-shaped architectural form of wooden pavilions, because the built-in clay idols, so called "God building". God building is divided into three parts: on the roof of the building, in the body of the building, under the building legs. The top of the building like a temple roof, ridge tile slope-shaped building, but more wood top, brown skin, brown beard instead. Building body about 2-5 feet square, like a temple bedchamber, built-in clay painted idols.

God building has a civil and military points. Martial arts god building two, is for playing. Wen Shenlou a, only lift not play. Wen Shen Lou is slightly larger than Wu Shen Lou, routinely ranked after the Wu Shen Lou. Two Wu Shen building idol, a said "black tiger" God, that is, the Taoist worship of the God of Wealth "Zhao Gongyuan Shuai", black-faced six-armed. A said "Lingguan" God, that is, Taoism is worshiped by the "Yu Shu Huo Fu Tianjun". The statue of the God of Wen Shen Lou, known as the "Old God", for the five pools of Bodhisattva. Xizhuang Township, in addition to the three gods, there is also the God of the King God Building. This kind of god building is tall, heavy, need 16 people to lift. Juggling God building, more in the seventh month of the lunar calendar every year when the townspeople thank the rain to send God. There is also the Lantern Festival in the social fire when playing.

The dance movements of the Jiu Shenlou are very rich, there are 11 kinds of stumbling, jumping, gouging, running, bumping, kneeling, wrenching, pressing, and on the pole, swinging, and martial arts, etc.

The dance movements of the Jiu Shenlou are very rich.

Stumbles: four people (two before, two after) carry the building bar on their shoulders, one hand to carry the pole, one hand to help the building legs, with the drums, step on the foot, four people at the same time will be the gods of the building of the left and right parallel to the swing. In addition to the left and right dance steps, there are also forward and backward movements. With the lifter's dance, the building swayed back and forth, and the statue of the god in the building also danced up, vividly and unusually powerful. This kind of stumbling movements and steps, is the most basic dance vocabulary when playing God building.

Jump: This is another basic trick. That is, in addition to the "stumble" posture, with the rhythm of the gongs and drums and feet and jump, before and after the feet of those who lift the dance to make the gods up and down.

The key: similar to the top, top. That is to say, the former two people carry back with shoulder force, and the latter two people are vigorously forward top, such as two oxen against the frame in general. This makes the God building more turbulent, so that the statue of the dance is more active, vivid.

Run, on the pole: stumble, jump, gouge, dance to a certain time, the head of the road to support the building suddenly issued a password, then sound the gong to open the way, along with the sound of the shouts, the four carry the God building running forward. Running to about 30 meters away from stopping and then stumble, side gouge, side turn, with a gong, and yell as before and run, back and forth many times. Running, the two Wu Shen building at the same time in the opposite direction of the wrong body to run, was a rectangular cross picture, such as the roc to fly generally, the dance is magnificent and spectacular. Only see people running, building running, God also run, Xin got the sound of the gong, the sound of people, the sound of the iron ring, a warrior galloped on the battlefield of the killing atmosphere. Run the building several times, the Black Tiger God downstairs four people in black clothes, wearing a black scarf, holding a black flag, Lingguan God downstairs four people in red clothes, wearing a red scarf, holding a red flag, each air on the pole, each corner of the building tilted to the outside. Waving flags and shouting, running with the building and into, vast and mighty, so not awesome.

hit: that is, the four people lifting the building coordinated with the head of the lifting bar, as a door hit, repeated several times. In the past, the door is really hit, which is encountered in the weekdays inappropriate, unfair behavior, a little public anger of the family or store, intentional action, as a warning. These customs, may be with the Black Tiger God "justice" and the spirit of the God "Division of heaven and earth picket duty" related.

Wrench, kneeling, pressure, martial arts: wrench. Kneeling, pressure is intended to create a conflict between the first two people and the two after the dramatic colorful action, for the future of the martial arts as a prelude. Such as the first two people, one will first lift the bar off the shoulder with both hands under the wrench. Make the building body tilt and lose balance, to the latter two people's lifting caused difficulties. As the front side of the building tilted. The diagonal of the back side will inevitably buckle, so that the lifter shoulders away from the bar, in order to maintain the balance of the building, you have to take the same approach to the buckled bar downward. Thus, the two diagonals will appear in the state of front and back or back and front, which makes the building tumble and interesting. When the two people in front of the bar at the same time, there is a half-kneeling, and the head of the two bars also hit the ground at the same time. In order not to make the back side of the people won, around the assistants will help pressure bar, so that the God building are all tilted forward. At this point. In order to overwhelm the opponent. The latter two men will exert themselves to pull down the bar, and some other assistants, like the assistants in front of the building, will also help to press the bar downward. As a result of the front wrench, the back wrench, the front pressure, and the back pressure, the sacred building is tilted in a big way, either forward or backward. When the competition is fierce, the person who pulls the bar can be hung in the air, showing the general danger of "trapeze". With the crowd's shouts, noises, curses, the God of the building to play to the climax, the God of the sky will also be "powerful". Then on the ground to fight, the village community fighting each other, do not fight not scattered. Fighting when the six relatives do not recognize, death does not pay. The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.

Why fight? According to legend, people do not fight, God is not angry, God is not angry, then the sky does not rain, fight is in order to move heaven and earth, so that God's wrath and rain, to protect the wind and rain, the country and the people in peace. Due to the fight rude and cruel, resulting in injuries, and then gradually canceled this section. In recent years, in order to preserve this tradition, the villagers are studying the design of "fake fight" program, with the art of martial arts instead.

You pendulum: This is the East Village to lift the God of the King of God building when the group dance scene. As the building is too large, too heavy, too many lifters, it is not possible to play like a martial arts God building that easy to dance, and by 16 lifters unified footsteps, stepping on the drums, marching in formation (*** four columns: the first two columns, after the two columns), or left and right wandering. From a distance, such as fish and dragons swimming in the river, jumping in general. With the same play Wu Shen building, lift the God of the King of the building also has a running action, the artists called it "running drums". Running drums, due to the building heavy people lead to inertia, another need more than ten people in front of the guard block. Lift the protector of the many, run shouting, its scene business is vast and spectacular, imposing, called the people look excited.

According to the book of Xuzhuang God building, the earliest time of the God building repair for the first year of the Ming Wanli, more than 400 years of history from now.

Hancheng city party and government departments for the inheritance of the development of folk art, in 1985 in Shaanxi Provincial Department of Culture radar, Zhang Zhenxiang and other support, by the then Hancheng City Bureau of Culture Cheng Baoshan is responsible for the organization of this ancient folk dance excavation, finishing and new rows, so that it after half a century and back to the light, and made a video.

In 1977, Japan's new production of the seat of the folk dance troupe to visit Xi'an, had performed the "Toyoshin Matsuri", which is preserved in the Japanese folk dance of the lifting of the shrine. According to them, this kind of dance art, from China to Japan. And our country "play God building", in the disappearance of many years and then see the light of day, which has a greater significance and impact.