The soil of the dregs of the Daozhi shadow, why can stun the world?

The dream of the Silk Road, the most moving to me is still the Huanxian. Why? Although Gansu has many world-class landscapes. The bright moon of the Qin Dynasty, the Han Dynasty passes, the Tang Dynasty post, the Great Wall of the Jiayuguan Pass; Dunhuang Mogao Caves, condensed how many gorgeous colors, the sad black water country, silent in the desert edge~~~Silk Road in Gansu, I do not know how many fascinated by the artist.

In these wonderful descriptions there is no Qingyang, much less Huanxian. I went into Huanxian with some trepidation. What could I find? What would make the trip worthwhile? I did my homework online.

Huanxian is "China's shadow township" has a long history of shadow Huanxian "China's small grain township", "China's shadow township", is the northwest of cashmere, wool, leather and a variety of meat food one of the main areas of origin.

Small grain township, the heart a burst of joy, for those of us who are sugar lovers, can find a planting of grains of the "poor", not only solved the problem of us to buy the origin, natural small grain wish, but also to do some work for poverty alleviation. Let an ordinary wandering can be extended more meaningful, is not also a great thing.

"China's shadow township", to be honest, shadow is not rare, in this place is not economically developed, why can hang on the name of China? Also called the township of shadow, I came to Huanxian with a head full of questions.

The high sky and thick earth to see Qingyang, from Qingcheng rushed to Huanxian on the road, all the way to see is the land is rare, high sky and thick earth. Come to Huanxian County, a head into the Huanxian Daoxiang shadow art museum. To be honest, I've seen a lot of museums, but I've never seen a shadow museum. Originally, this is China's only comprehensive schools and Longdong characteristics of the shadow museum.

Huanxian shadow is popular in folk shadow art, is a treasure of the Yellow River culture in the mountainous areas of Longdong. Here we learned the history of Huanxian shadow. For thousands of years, the folk artists in Huanchen County, with their own ingenuity, extensively absorbed the folk paper-cutting, painting, carving and other artistic means, and gradually formed their own regional cultural characteristics. The modeling design is unique, the carving is fine and smooth, especially focusing on the changes in craftsmanship and pattern decoration, with a strong contrast in color. Characters, gods and monsters and all kinds of animals are rich in imagination, different shapes, easy to operate, with the honesty of the old people of the Northwest, bold aesthetic taste.

Huanxian Daoxiang shadow play is a product of the fusion of Qinlong culture and the culture of neighboring communities. Shadow theater, rumored to have arisen in the Song Dynasty. Folk commonly known as "light and shadow play", "small play", is to take "borrowed lights, shadow, voice, in order to play the means of storytelling, integration of folk music, art and oral literature as a whole, to become the local people to enrich the cultural life and undertake the rituals, cross the border, wishing, festivals, and other customary comprehensive art.

Huanxian shadow is rooted in the high heavens and thick soil, has a deep folk foundation Huanxian ancient name of Huanshou, is located in Shaanxi, Gansu and Ningxia provinces at the junction of the border, is a border stronghold, has always been the place where the soldiers must fight. Since the Song and Yuan dynasties, with Qiang, Rong, Xixia, Jin, Hui, Manchu, Tubo struggle, the local people skillfully use of Taoist fishing drums, tube board accompaniment, the form of Taoism interpretation of Taoist stories, promote Taoist ideas, encourage people to protect the country against the enemy against the foreigners of the infestation and domination. In the long-term performance, local artists in order to make the Taoist stories more vivid, intuitive and meaningful, and gradually introduced the shadow into the Taoist stories, so that the two reach a perfect combination.

There are few people here, and the shadow of Huanchen Daoxiang is also known as "a donkey pack". In the long slow years, this mode of performance, wandering in the people's red and white wedding, New Year's festivals in more types of activities, and has laid a deep foundation of folk. What the people need is the best.