How much is known about Liaocheng? Explore East Awen County

According to the Cultural Tourism Liaocheng:

Dong'a County was not only named the "Hometown of Chinese Acrobatics" by the China Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the China Acrobatics Association in 2017, but since then the intangible cultural heritage "Dong'a Acrobatics" has become a beautiful city business card of Dong'a County. Dong'a County is also a famous martial arts town in China, and the most representative is Dong'a Erlang Fist.

Don Acrobatics

In 2009, Dong'a acrobatics were included in the second batch of Shandong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Traditional Sports, Amusement and Acrobatics List. Dong'a acrobatics have a long history and are famous all over the world, and can be called the hometown and cradle of Chinese acrobatics.

More than 5,000 years ago, the main activity area of the Dongyi tribal leader Xuan You was in the area of today's Dong'a, and Xuan You was known as the "ancestor of acrobatics". Ancient acrobatics originated from the horn play, also known as the Xuan you play. The Han Dynasty was the formation and growth period of Chinese acrobatics, with increasing varieties and continuous improvement of skills, forming a new variety of "Hundred Plays" that mainly based on acrobatic art and brought together various performing arts.

Dong'a acrobatics can be traced back to the Three Kingdoms period, and Cao Zhi, who was good at "jumping pill fencing", made Dong'a acrobatics as glorious as his poetry, "running horses sell off the big pole, jumping pills circle meteor whip." Walking the river will ensure peace, do not forget to worship Cao Zijian first", which more fully reflects the status of Cao Zhi's "acrobatic originator".

In 1951, among the 132 excavated cultural relics excavated in the tomb of Dong A Cao Zhi, there was a garlic-shaped five-flower stone ball, which was according to research as a prop used by Cao Zhi's "jumping pill". The origin of Dong'a acrobatics has a history of nearly 1,800 years since Cao Zhi.

Speaking of Dong'a acrobatics, there is another person who has to be mentioned, he is Ji Xiaofang, who is currently the head of the Dong'a County Acrobatic Troupe, the director of the Dong'a County Acrobatic Training Center, and the president of the China East Acrobatics Association. Ji Xiaofang once said: General acrobats must enter the group to practice at the age of 6 and 7, and after hard training, it takes four or five years to perform on stage.

In recent years, Dong'a acrobatics have kept pace with the times and innovated in terms of program creation and talent training, not only making a name for themselves in China, but also promoting Dong'acrobatics to the international community, and winning numerous awards.

Togaku Jiro Fist

In 2016, Dong'a Erlang Quan was included in the second batch of Shandong Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Traditional Sports, Amusement and Acrobatics List. Dong'a Erlang Fist originated in the Hongwu period of the Ming Dynasty and has been handed down for more than 600 years, and is a local fist of Dong'a.

As early as the middle and late Ming and Qing dynasties, there were boxing rings in villages and villages, everyone practiced martial arts, and there were already sayings on the rivers and lakes that "good fists do not fight copper city" and "darts do not shout copper city", and more than 20 fist types of equipment such as Erlang fist and big red fist were widely inherited in the county.

The ancient fist breeds are endless, and are bred and passed down in Dong'abei Shuangmiao Temple, Huangji, Dongguan, Nanguan, Zhengyu, Ma'an, Chendian, Hulutou and other places, and have been spread to Dongchangfu, Yanggu, Heze, Juye and other surrounding counties and cities, as well as Henan, Hebei and other places.

After several generations of inheritance and development and enrichment, it has been integrated into the twelve-way Tan leg, the weed-leg style, the four-step frame, the three-step frame, the erlang shelf, the large eight-step shelf, the small eight-step shelf, the five-flower cannon punch, the small confused array rack, the hanging arm continuous punch, the Mingtang punch, the eight-fold punch, and various instruments and hard qigong methods, forming the current practice of the Dong'a Erlang boxing system.

Traditional martial arts can be said to be the source of modern competitive martial arts, and the inheritance and development of traditional martial arts excellent fists is of particular significance to Chinese martial arts, and also has a profound impact on the protection and inheritance of traditional martial arts in Liaocheng

Friends, I don't know where to play in winter, just come to Dong'a to see acrobatics and watch Erlang Fist! Here you can also taste ejiao, climb the fish mountain, listen to The Brahma...