Continue to pay attention to the Spring Festival special program "The Year of the Tiger Says Tiger", in addition to the real tiger in reality, the artistic image and derivative crafts of tigers are also more, such as tiger head shoes, tiger head hats, cloth tigers and so on. What we want to take you to see today is a folk art called "fire tiger", which is spread in Fengtai County in our province and is still a national intangible cultural heritage. What is a Fire Tiger? What does it look like? Let's take a look.
The Year of the Tiger says the tiger: Fengtai "fire tiger", passed down for more than a thousand years
What is the origin of the fire tiger? And what's so special? Let's start at the beginning.
In the Huaifeng community of Chengguan Town, Fengtai County, under the warm sunshine and spacious courtyard, Sun Zhijian, Sun Yuanduozheng, the provincial non-hereditary heirs of the fire tiger, and the villagers made props to perform the fire tiger.
The fire tiger is composed of three parts: the tiger's head, the tiger's body, and the tiger's tail, and the tiger's head is tied into a skeleton with a hemp rod, and then tied with a twist made of hemp rope.
The tiger body is made of more than 20 paulownia trees made of wooden boards, and each paulownia board drills more than a dozen small holes at an equal distance, and each small hole is also inserted with a hemp rope twister about ten centimeters long.
Tiger tail uses a mulberry branch more than two meters long to bend it into an upturned shape, and similarly, the mulberry branch is tied with more than a dozen hemp rope twisters from top to bottom.
These props look simple, but in fact, they are very laborious to make, in terms of the hemp rope used for ignition on the tiger, the raw materials alone are not easy to find.
Sun Zhijian, a provincial non-hereditary heir of the fire tiger, said that this kind of hemp is wild hemp and should be collected from the wasteland.
After harvesting wild hemp, it also has to go through a number of processes such as drying, pounding, and rubbing, so that it can finally be made into this kind of hemp rope that is used to ignite the fire during the performance. Compared with artificially planted hemp, this kind of hemp rope made of wild hemp is more suitable for ignition performances.
Sun Zhijian said that the hemp planted in the family is easy to catch fire, and their hemp is all Mars, there is no open fire, and it is easy to have accidents when it is open.
During the performance, the lit hemp rope is plucked, and the sparks splash around, which is particularly beautiful.
Sun Yuanduo, a provincial non-hereditary heir of the fire tiger, said that once the fire is exploded, the three strands of rope will explode like three plum blossoms, which is very beautiful.
The wooden board used to make the tiger body is also exquisite, and it must be made of paulownia tree material, which is because of the characteristics of the paulownia board, which is more suitable for the performance of the fire tiger.
Sun Zhijian, a provincial-level non-hereditary heir of the Fire Tiger, said that one is light and the other is that it is not easy to walk out of shape and ignite when drilling eyes
On the morning of the reporter's interview, all the props of the fire tiger were made, and with the help of several villagers, Sun Zhijian tied the tiger's body made of paulownia board to the limbs and back, the tiger's tail made of mulberry branches was tied to the crotch, the tiger's head made of hemp poles was put on the head, and then he each took a wooden stick full of hemp rope as the tiger's two front paws. Dressed in a dress, Sun Zhijian began to imitate the movements of the tiger in the courtyard.
Shaking the head, swinging the tail, kicking the legs, the tiger's movements are imitated extremely realistically, it can be noted that during the performance, the tiger body and tiger tail are tied to Sun Zhijian's body with ropes, and the tiger's head is completely fixed by his teeth. The two inheritors said that in order to keep the tiger's head stable during the performance, when they are fine, they must often bite the hemp rod in the middle of the tiger's head to exercise their endurance.
The reporter noticed that this newly planted tiger head had only been practiced a few times, and the hemp rod in the middle was bitten off the skin.
Sun Yuanduo said that at first, his chin and cheeks would be sore and drooling, but he would get used to it for a long time.
The Year of the Tiger says tiger: Fengtai "fire tiger", passing on the torch
The performer puts on a line and moves like a tiger. The two non-hereditary heirs of the fire tiger said that the most difficult thing in the performance is not to bite the tiger's head with its teeth, so what is the most difficult? What is the origin of this folk art form of fire tiger?
The legend of the fire tiger originated in the Five Dynasties and Ten Kingdoms period, when later Zhou and southern Tang competed for Shou County, the Southern Tang general Yu Hong was defeated and fled to the Bagong Mountain, and the Later Zhou general Liu Jinding set fire to the mountain, and the tiger in the forest was burned.
Sun Zhijian said that the tiger was on fire, and when he went down the mountain and encountered two lions fighting together, he was seen by the old artist
According to this legend, the fire tiger derived the performance form of tiger fighting lions, which has a history of more than 1,000 years, and in 2008, the fire tiger was awarded the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage.
The fire tiger, as the name suggests, is to ignite the hemp rope twister on the body during the performance, so as to produce Mars, in order to become a veritable fire tiger, and the performers are wrapped in Mars, which is also the biggest test they face.
Sun Zhijian said that the most uncomfortable thing is the smoke and fire, especially the smoke will be choked open and breathless.
In order to overcome the influence of fireworks during the performance, Sun Zhijian said that usually they would light a hemp rope and put it in front of them to exercise their endurance.
Sun Zhijian said that it is necessary to continue to smoke and practice, if you do not practice, when the time comes, if you go on the field, you will be discouraged if you don't have to play.
The fire tiger that has been passed down for thousands of years has a heritage and an improvement, and in the past, performers used indigenous methods to prevent being burned by Mars.
Sun Yuanduo said that he would wet the shan with water and drape it on his body.
Now they are wearing advanced fireproof clothing, and the safety factor is much higher. Because the props of the fire tiger are cumbersome to make, and the raw materials are scarce, Sun Yuanduo said that now they perform once or twice a year, and they are generally happy during the Spring Festival.
On the day of the filming, the reporter learned that there was a fire tiger performance at night, and the nearby villagers were very happy.
Residents of Huaifeng Community in Chengguan Town, Fengtai County, said that they wait all year round to see this fire tiger fighting lion! When you play it, the fire is red, and it looks very good!
At 5 o'clock in the evening, Sun Yuanduo, Sun Zhijian and their performance team came to the Farmers' Cultural Square in Ruiji Community, Fenghuang Town. There are many audiences, in addition to Sun Yuanduo's team, the Fengtai County Flower Drum Lantern Art Troupe will also perform the fire tiger today, and their performance skills are taught by Sun Yuanduo and Sun Zhijian.
Wang Limei, head of the Fengtai County Flower Drum Lantern Art Troupe, said that the purpose is to pass on this national non-genetic inheritance. Sun Zhijian said that he hopes that they will be better than blue out of blue.
It was getting dark, and the lads of the Flower Drum Lantern Art Troupe were about to take the lead. They tied two flashlights to the tiger's head as the tiger's eyes, and lit the hemp rope twister all over the body, requiring seven or eight people to do it at the same time.
Ten minutes later, the fire tiger played by Sun Yuanduo made a grand appearance. A tiger and two lions, suddenly entangled together. As the tiger shuttles back and forth, dancing back and forth, the tiger's body is splashed with sparks, and the brakes are good to see.
The audience also said that they are really like tigers, vivid and vivid! National intangible cultural heritage is also their pride.
Although the fire tiger performance is only a few minutes, but under the smoke and fire, Sun Yuanduo is also snotty and breathless, and it is the passing of this generation of folk artists that makes this dazzling spark burn for a thousand years.
Sun Yuanduo said that it is worth it to be tired for the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage!
Anhui Economic Television reporter Jiang Lei Dong Tian reported
Editor: Shen Xian
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