How much do you know about the folk activities of Pingyao ancient city?

Dry boat; The colorful boat is made of bamboo strips, wooden strips and colored silk, surrounded by satin, covered with wooden strips and satin. During the performance, accompanied by drum music, one person plays a woman in a boat, with ribbons tied on her shoulders, sitting on the "boat" with her fake feet and walking like a boat. The other man dressed as a boatman and paddled in front.

Stilts; Made of two wooden sticks, stilts are generally 6 feet up and down, and the height is 1.2 feet. The upper end of the wooden stick is horizontally provided with a pedal. During the performance, the actor's calf was tied to the top of the wooden stick, stepped on the board and walked around according to various dance steps. Skilled people can jump over obstacles such as benches and tables, or they can fall eight forks and bend over. Traditional contents include the legend of the white snake, the celebration of fixing pearls, the fox's unjust imprisonment, and the Tang Priest's scriptures. After the founding of People's Republic of China (PRC), China increased the contents reflecting the real life, such as sending children to join the army, family planning, the story of the red lantern, and the relocation of Tiger Prison Mountain. The stilt performances in Beicheng Village and Gankeng Village of this county are very famous.

Lift the pavilion; Fix the iron bar on the upper end of the lifting rod, decorate the surrounding of the lifting rod with various props such as lotus flowers and colorful clouds, and then fix three or four boys and girls who play various drama characters and fairy tales on the iron bar, and perform on the back of adult men. There are more than 50 kinds of contents, including Monkey King Thrice Defeats the Skeleton Demon, Fu Guitu, Huoju, Broken Bridge, Rainbow Pass, Interpretation, Baihua Pavilion, Stealing Ganoderma lucidum, Xiahedong, Picking firewood, Sue accompanying maid, Double Mourning and Yellow River Array.

? ? Dragon lantern; Use bamboo, wood, cloth and other materials to make refined faucets, and then use bamboo rings to make a number of dragon joints. Use cloth to enclose the dragon body and tail which are more than 20 meters long, and draw the dragon forest and claws on them. During the performance, one person supported the dragon head with a wooden pole, and a dozen people supported the dragon body and the dragon tail with wooden poles in sections. In front of him, a person plays with colored beads and fireballs to lead the way. Accompanied by percussion and dancing the tap, the dragon body rolls and swings with the tap. The performance forms include "playing with pearls with two dragons", "adjusting the four corners", "eight tunes", "snake shedding its skin" and "setting pearls". The faucet has a built-in candle, which can be performed day and night. When performing at night, the dragon lanterns are brightly lit and magnificent.

Bamboo horse; It is made of bamboo skin or bamboo strips, covered with silk yarn and coated with pigment. The bamboo horse is divided into two parts, the front part and the back part, which are respectively fixed on the front chest and the back waist of a boy aged 12. Wearing many small copper bells. Generally, bamboo and horse teams are played by 14 children, and 12 horses represent the Chinese zodiac. The first one is called the horse's head, which is conducted by Buddha dust in the drama performance, and the last one is the ponytail. The rest of the performers held whips and ran like horses. With the bell ringing, only Malik Pentium was there. At night, lanterns and candles are placed on bamboo horses, which is especially beautiful to perform. The performance forms include snake molting, turning over, double octave, single octave, scissors, octave, Ma Zhu, headless, three-ring ear and so on.

Higher and higher; On the surface, it is similar to a back stick, and the actual performance is more difficult. The performers are mostly boys and girls around 7 years old. They dress up as all kinds of dramatic figures, stand on the shoulders of adult performers without any ties, lean on the children's knees on the back of the adults' heads, and stand hard, similar to acrobatic performances. Adults perform to the rhythm of the music, and the children on their shoulders dance with them. It's really beautiful. Journey to the west and crossing the sea by the Eight Immortals are the most popular dramas.

Diyanko; Yangko dances and sings. Musical instruments have two sides of waist and drum, a pair of cymbals, a pair of hairpin, two sides of gong and four sides of mouth scraping. When conditions permit, musical instruments can be added, and the number of players will increase accordingly. A drummer is quick-thinking, eloquent and lyrical, and improvises auspicious and funny "four or six sentences" in Pingyao dialect. Between sentences, all kinds of musical instruments suddenly struck together, and the intensive interlude was sonorous and pleasant. Waist drummers are the core of the band. He is active in posture, dancing and walking in the team. Other musicians both play and perform, and the form is free. The traditional songs widely circulated in Diyang Song include Reading Five Classics, Ten Lamps, Wang's Mother and so on.