Living without a place to eat three meals a day and running day and night on the road, this is the life that truck drivers are accustomed to, and it is also the most important survival skill of Lao Wang for most of his life, in addition, he is also the inheritor of the Intangible Cultural Heritage Stilt Project in Yanchang County.
Families impoverished and forced to drop out of school for decades ran transportation for a living
Lao Wang, formerly known as Wang Zulin, is 53 years old and a native of Hujiachuan, Yanchang County. In order to make a living, his car ruts have run all over the country over the years. "Recall the social fire in the village of the first month, the singing team, the stilt team, the drum band... I remember that I was only 10 years old, and I didn't go home for dinner for a day to watch the whole show, and after secretly learning to step on stilts, the adults allowed me to join the show, and I became the youngest actor on the team at that time. ”
Due to his family's poverty, Lao Wang, who was in the third grade of primary school, had to go home to herd sheep and cultivate the land. In 1988, Lao Wang bought a small four-wheel tractor to start a side business, in 1993 he learned to drive, originally wanted to have a skill after life will have a head, who expected the accident to happen: "After becoming a family in 1989, his wife suddenly suffered from schizophrenia, helpless family breakdown Lao Wang could only go out to make a living, until 1997 met his current wife. ”
With two children, a family to eat, the old Wang Si thought that farming is not cost-effective, business is not cost-effective, he has a driver's license, he worked as a truck driver, this work is more than thirty years. "I believe that hard work can get rich, freight drivers are hard but the income is OK, and the family's life is more than enough than the bottom." In 2016, Lao Wang was also elected as a deputy to the People's Congress of Yanchang County, and was subsequently rated as an outstanding people's congress deputy.
Assemble a stilt team to continue to pass on this intangible cultural heritage
On stilts, dancers perform with long wooden stilts tied to their feet. The form is flexible and is a kind of mass technical performance.
On the thirteenth day of the first lunar month in 2022, the Eastern Crusade Song Team and the Yan'an Holy Land Drum Rhyme Team held a Song Parade in Yanchang County Petroleum Square. The scene of stilts attracted many citizens to watch, "The first time to step on stilts was a 15-year-old performance package judgment case, this time the county cultural center invited me to organize a well-established actor to conduct a training rehearsal, originally planned to perform for 10 minutes, because the crowd response was enthusiastic, and then joined the umbrella performance for half an hour, after 40 years to perform again is very exciting." Lao Wang excitedly told the Huashang Daily-Ersanli information reporter.
Zhao Shengbo, head of the Eastern Crusade Song Team, commented: "These stilt performers performed well, not only bringing wonderful performances to the audience, but also carrying forward the traditional culture of the Chinese nation. ”
As a non-hereditary heir to stilts in Yanchang County, Wang Zulin said that there are 9 brothers and sisters in the family, and 5 of them will step on stilts. "The extension of the stilt intangible cultural heritage project is facing the loss of transmission, this rehearsal time is urgent, we prepared for three hours to start the performance, fortunately, there is no problem in the safety of the team members, everyone laughed and closed their mouths when they heard the congratulatory sound on the scene, and the enthusiasm of the audience also gave me the confidence to pick it up and continue to pass it on to the next generation."
Huashang Daily reporter Jia Lingwei Editor Mana