"Then he held a ball of rope, counted more than a hundred feet, placed it on the ground, threw one end, and threw his hand in the air, as strong as a pen... Throwing the rope into the void, its momentum is like a bird, flying far away, looking out into the sky. ”
- "Originalization"
Magic shows are an art of performance that can be elusive and unexpected. The art of magic shows can be traced back to ancient societies long ago. At that time, magic shows were not called magic shows, but trick shows.
Of course, when it comes to traditional Chinese tricks, there are very few impressive performances. However, the juggling performances that have been handed down for thousands of years, among which "ShenXian Suo" should be the most famous one. The trick performance of "Shenxian Suo", also known as "Jiaxing Rope Technique", is recorded in both the "OriginalIzation Record" and the "Liaozhai Zhiyi".
It is widely known for a performance in "Sword Rain". However, in addition to the "Immortal Suo", in the early years, there were often "vase girl" trick performances in the village market, which was impressive.
<h1 class= "pgc-h-arrow-right" >, "Vase Girl"</h1>
Yan Leisheng once recorded a strange and strange thing called "The Little Man in The Strange Story" in the "Strange Talk", saying that some people would use an evil method to soften the bones of the child's whole body with medicine and stuff it in the "Little Man in the Dragon" for people to watch the performance.
This little man only has his head exposed, and he can only feed some special food for him to grow. Because it grows in the urn, it cannot be opened to rescue, otherwise even if it is rescued, the villain in the urn will still die because it does not adapt to the outside environment. We don't know whether this strange thing is true or not, but the "vase girl" who is very similar to the villain in The Valley must have seen many post-80s or even post-90s generations.
Like the strange things of the villains in the valley, the so-called "vase girl" performance, according to the introduction text displayed by the performers, the vase girl grew up in the vase since childhood, with no arms and legs, and only a head exposed outside the bottle. The whole vase girl was the same height as the vase, thirty or forty centimeters.
And the vase girl will have some talent, can sing and can answer all kinds of questions people ask. However, because of the reason that she grew up in a vase, the staff claimed that the vase girl usually only drank milk for a living. And because of the weakness of the body, others can not touch each other when watching the vase girl perform.
For the countrymen at that time, such a bizarre thing naturally aroused the curiosity of the public. As a result, many "ignorant" people have "generously donated", you five, I ten, just to watch the vase girl's one-minute talent show.
Speaking of which, it's not just some of the country people in the early years who had such performances. From the internet to find relevant information, we can see that just three years ago in some villages in Weiji Town, Shandong Province, there were also tricks such as the "Vase Girl Art Exhibition".
Of course, from the current point of view, the "vase girl" can only be regarded as an extremely simple magic show, but also a kind of trick performance, far from being called a "scam". However, because the whole performance process was mysterious by the staff, as if they were fooling the audience, it was called a "hoax".
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After the initial surprise, people gradually discovered that the so-called "Vase Girl" was nothing more than a trick scam at its simplest. The woman with the delicate face sat in the "box" on the booth. In the box is a prop made of two mirrors at a right angle on the back, and a notched vase is placed in front of the prop. Then the so-called vase girl, just rest her head on the vase.
The reason why the audience can't see the body below the vase girl's head is because the mirror at a right angle just reflects the reflection of the two sides of the "box" in the eyes of the audience, so that people see not the real scene in the "box", but a kind of virtual image reflected by the wall of the box on the left and right sides of the "box". In fact, behind the mirror is the lower body of the vase girl.
If you don't know the principle of this trick performance, you may feel a little novel when watching its performance, and you will feel very good. But if you know its principle, no matter how you watch it, you will have a tasteless feeling.
This is actually the same as magic shows and trick performances, for those who know its mysteries, this is a kind of charlatanism, and for those who do not know the mysteries, it is not impossible to call it an "art performance". Because in a way, it is not a bad thing that people can spend money for fun without knowing its mystery.
However, in the end, this so-called "vase girl" art performance is still too simple. In addition to the difficulty of making related props, I believe that anyone can perform it completely. This kind of performance is much worse than some of the magic tricks now. Therefore, for well-informed netizens, it is indeed a "scam".
Of course, speaking of this, many people may wonder why the so-called "Vase Girl" art performance is selected to be performed in a country market, not in the city? I believe that many friends have thought of it. That's right, because the people in the countryside are a little less knowledgeable than the people in the cities.
< h1 class = "pgc-h-arrow-right" > third, lack of knowledge</h1>
In the impression of the Chinese people, the rural people are very simple, only know a group of people who work hard in the fields. They are not highly educated and not knowledgeable enough, so they will be more likely to be "deceived" to some extent. This can be seen in the Internet often exposing the tricks of a certain group of scammers who like to go to the countryside to cheat money.
The same is true for the artistic performance method of "Vase Girl", if those performers choose to perform in big cities, I think no one will "take the bait". But the people in the countryside are different, they work in the fields all year round, they have not or rarely go far, and naturally they can't see the secrets behind the "vase girl".
In this way, when the rare thing of "Vase Girl" appears, it will naturally attract a large number of people to come and watch. This makes it easier for scammers to "cheat money."
In addition, it is also very important that the people in the countryside are very weak in terms of legal awareness. Especially twenty or thirty years ago, when the Internet was almost non-existent, the rural people had no legal awareness at all.
In other words, even if the so-called "Vase Girl" scam is exposed, most of the people will have nothing to do with those scammers. Because of the weak legal awareness of the rural people, it is easy for scammers to fool the past. It is a big deal to turn around and continue to perform in the countryside, and there is nothing to lose. But in the city, this treatment will definitely not work.
Therefore, performances of scams such as "Vase Girl" and "Snake Beauty" generally occur in rural areas where traffic is not very developed.
However, with the extreme development of the Internet, the whole society has almost achieved the "do not go out and know the world", and now the rural people are not so easy to deceive. Take the so-called "Vase Girl" performance. For any rural people, it is certain that this performance is against common sense.
After all, if a person lives in a vase without moving, he must be sick all over his body, and he will not live long.
<h1 class="pgc-h-arrow-right" > concluding remarks:</h1>
For many people now, knowledge changing fate is just a joke. But for anyone, reading books can broaden their horizons. For example, in the "Vase Girl" art performance, if this matter is placed in a remote mountain village isolated from the world, then most people who have not read books will be deceived.
If this happens in some villages, but there are more people reading in the countryside, then they will think about the meaning behind this matter. As a result, they are less likely to be deceived. Obviously, the more you know, the lower the probability of being deceived.
Of course, the previous trick show has become a magic show with the development of the times. For people now, everyone knows that magic is fake, but the magic of magic is that the effect of its performance is really amazing. Therefore, this way of artistic performance will be sought after by people.
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