Chapter 397: The Art of Drifting Colors
The huge team of wandering gods paraded in the village, and the battle was completely not lost to the previous emperor's patrol, which was very popular.
When I was almost done visiting Zhangjiazhai, it was already afternoon.
Zhang Fan took a gap and said hello to the old village chief, and replaced his uncle Zhang Liye to come over to carry the flag for him.
If you have the right to carry the flag, how can the Bodhisattva account for such a subsection? Not to mention that Zhang Fan can take a big lead in organizing a temple fair!
"Little friend, aren't you carrying the flag, why are you free?" Du Lao saw Zhang Fan coming over from the crowd.
"Yes, it's not for my uncle to go over to top me, so I have time to come over! How do you feel today?" Zhang Fan greeted after finding Chen Baoli and them.
"Haha, that's wonderful. Chen Baoli and Manager Liang said in unison.
"It turns out that the guanzi you sold this morning is just floating color! Chen Baoli patted Zhang Fan on the shoulder and suddenly realized.
"It's the first time I've watched the floating color performance so closely, and it's really breathtaking!" Manager Liang on the side also sighed.
"Those 'perverted boys' and 'perverted girls' are so vivid that they rise up in the air, they are really masters in the folk! I don't know where the performance troupe is?" asked Du Lao.
"This is not to make the temple fair more interesting, so I asked if there is anything to show for it! Then, under the matchmaking of the town mayor and the county magistrate, I got to know this performance troupe, and I felt that I could take this opportunity to let more people see these good traditional arts!" Zhang Fan replied.
Floating color, also called lifting pavilion, caiqing, high lifting, color frame, tie story. In fact, it is an ancient traditional folk art that integrates drama, magic, acrobatics, dance, music and other elements, which originated in Lingnan in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, and is still an important folk art form in Lingnan.
According to Zhang Fan's understanding, floating refers to detachment from the ground and showing the beauty of the sky, and color refers to careful and ingenious camouflage.
In other words, floating color is a kind of folk art performance in which the performer stands on a small stage with a length and width of several meters and a height of nearly two or three meters pushed by several people to become a "color cabinet" or "color board", and displays fragments of folklore or mythological stories in the form of a procession.
"Then what kind of floating color is so beautiful! That is, those children stand on such a high place, won't they fall down?"
"How is that possible?
"Brother Fan, what do you think of this question?" Manager Liang cast a puzzled look.
"Hahaha. The brackets they stand on are all made of steel, and they skillfully use the principles of mechanics to balance the center of gravity of the color stage, and then skillfully arrange the distribution of the performers' modeling structure, and then carefully camouflage them to stand in the air, so naturally they will not turn over the stage!" Without waiting for Zhang Fan to answer, Du Lao began to explain.
It is the use of mechanical principles and camouflage to create this amazing visual effect of "floating".
"Where is the steel bracket?" Chen Baoli's sudden question caused everyone to burst into laughter.
"If you see it, why do people come out to mix, how can they float?" Zhang Fan glanced blankly.
According to historical records, this kind of art has a history of more than 300 years, especially the large-scale and difficult floating color of 18 people, which has been praised by Chinese and foreign folk experts! However, today there are 12 people, 10 people, 8 people, 6 people and other various squares, which are also very wonderful. ”
As soon as Du Lao said eighteen people, Zhang Fan reacted, knowing that he was talking about the eighteen people who became famous in the circle a few years ago.
It is said that the performers should fly out of the air on the color stage of seven meters long and wide, six meters high, and perform, the difficulty is extremely high, the floating body is huge, the momentum is magnificent, and it has won the National Folk Art Golden Flower Award with magnificent atmosphere and superb skills, and is known as a unique national folk custom.
Later, there were comers who continued to surpass, and more than 20 different shapes and lifelike "color boys" and "color girls" floated out of the air with a color stem, and the color stalks could also do ultra-difficult performance actions such as 360-degree rotation, which were widely circulated by countless audiences.
In addition to the big attraction of "floating", Ling Kong stands on a camouflaged thin iron branch more than two meters high, wearing gorgeous ancient costumes, and the "color boy" color with exquisite makeup is also the most eye-catching.
It is said that they are generally between seven and nine years old. It is not easy to be selected to be a "pervert" and "pervert", in addition to being young and lightweight, you must also be handsome, well-behaved, and have a certain talent for acting.
In the past era of material scarcity, there were many children in the family, and if they could be selected as "perverts" and "perverts", it means that the children can grow up healthily, make a difference, and get ahead.
"It's a pity that my foodie kid doesn't have a chance, otherwise he can feel it!" Chen Baoli was a little regretful.
Zhang Fan knew what the little guy's body shape and age were, and quipped, "Brother Chen, it's strange that your living treasure doesn't cry when he goes up, and he overturns the stage?"
But I know that some children are crying in fear today, and the videos are going crazy on the Internet!"
After speaking, Chen Baoli took out his mobile phone and opened a video link, which played the scene of several "perverts" and "perverts" crying in the colorful phalanx of Zhangjiazhai's temple fair today.
It seems that the little ones who are crying are about seven years old at most, probably because they are standing a little high, and it is the first time to participate or something, so they cry without warning.
In order to stop the children's crying, the parents who followed them used various housekeeping skills to coax the baby: colorful wave candy, oversized marshmallows, Superman Ultraman Tiga, bald strong, Barbie dolls, etc., make grimaces or something, and use whichever can coax it.
The onlookers and tourists also kept cheering for the children, cheering them up, and without crying for a few minutes, the "Lust Boy" and "Lust Girl" recovered their lively and lovely expressions and performed hard.
Zhang Fan didn't expect such an episode to also be photographed by tourists, and the number of views exceeded 500,000 in less than a day after it was uploaded to the Internet, attracting praise and praise from many netizens.
If those little guys find out that their troubles have been put on the Internet, they will probably remember that they will also laugh and cry!
There are not only from mythological stories, traditional drama representative plot scenes "Tang Seng Learns the Scriptures", "Taoyuan Tie", "Diao Chan Worships the Moon", "Heavenly Maiden Scattering Flowers", "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea", but also newly created "Phoenix Wings", "Dragon Horse Spirit" and other phalanxes.
The colorful performers, with their gorgeous clothes and elegant volley movements, attracted countless audiences to stop and gaze.
This performance troupe was originally on the verge of disbanding, but there was really no way to take over, and now the people are paying less and less attention to tradition, and it is very difficult for them to engage in traditional arts.
In order to invite them, Zhang Fan paid a lot of money. That's more than the acting fee, which is enough for the performance troupe to continue to last for a few months.