Gansu Folk Customs and Folklore Essay 200 Words

Shihuo, widely popular in Gansu, is a kind of singing and dancing, diverse genres, a variety of comprehensive performing arts, mostly performed in the first month of the lunar calendar. In the folk social fire performance, the historical heroes, good men and women and various characters in folklore as the role.

In order to shape the characters, artists in make-up, from the characters of different temperament and character, with rich imagination, using a variety of colors, painted a variety of faces, and gradually formed a distinctive face art.

Social fire face painting faithfully expresses the people's aesthetic psychology of truth, goodness and beauty and the good and bad of historical figures, and they exaggerate, visualize and vividly express their emotions through social fire face painting. Unique in the social fire performances are Lanzhou's Taiping drum dance, Wuwei's attack drum dance, Zhangye's top bowl dance, Longdong's rice-planting songs and Tianshui's fan drums, wax flowers and so on.

Swinging in the first month of the lunar calendar

In the first month of the lunar calendar, Linxia mountain villages among the trees, a swing set up, began the annual swinging game. Playing the swing, there are two basic posture, one is sitting on the horizontal board, by others in the back to send, leisurely swaying, flying not too high, this posture is suitable for young children; the second is to stand on the horizontal board, their own force, so that the swing quickly soared, this posture is most favored by adults.

Throughout the day, the swing is the position of the dolls, they are suddenly like eagles spreading their wings, want to fly the blue sky; and suddenly close their eyes across the sitting, slowly swaying ...... noisy, noisy, hee hee ha ha ha, all the way to the lights of the house is brilliant.

At night, the swing is again a small daughter-in-law, big girl's world. They play the swing, no noise, all quiet