The Spring Festival holiday has ended for a period of time, many people have already entered the workplace, and the taste of the New Year has disappeared. It may be that young people are now staying in big cities, rural hometowns have long been deserted, and most of the people walking on the streets are elderly. The author was born in a village in Zhouzhi County, Xi'an, Shaanxi Province, where we have the custom of going to the grave on the fifth day of the first lunar month to worship our ancestors, so we returned to our hometown with our wives and children.
I heard that there was a social fire performance in a neighboring village, and I drove there without stopping for a moment, as if I was back to my childhood. Maybe many children no longer know what a social fire is? Shehuo is a kind of street performance that integrates folk arts such as rice songs, gongs and drums, dragon dances, stilt walking, and opera, and the performance team is as short as tens of meters and thousands of meters long. Now, as people are getting busier and younger, young people are reluctant to inherit this traditional art, and it is slowly being forgotten.
The Guanzhong Province area in Shaanxi Province, where I grew up, has been a cultural center since ancient times, and people still attach great importance to traditional art and culture. I remember when I was a child, the Spring Festival social fire performance was seen everywhere, almost every village had a gong and drum team, and sometimes dozens of village drum teams gathered together, that kind of momentum is really rare. From the beginning of the first month of the new month to the busy summer, almost every few days there are places to stage the social fire, and there are also choose which ones are good to see.
The most attractive thing in the previous social fire team was the float, because some theatrical scenes would be decorated, and some floats were more than ten meters high, which made people look both lively and worried. Now, due to the wires and shelves everywhere, such floats cannot travel, and the previous shelves are now estimated to be gone. Although people are lamenting that they are not as good as the previous social fires, they are still rushing from all directions to reminisce about the old age.
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