Wen | Zhang Juming
Inscription: Located 26.5 kilometers southeast of Ningjin County in Dezhou City, on the right bank of the Zhangwei River on the border of Jilu, there is a very "cattle" village, which is not only mentioned in the "Water Margin", but also Empress Dowager Cixi has also ordered the village's artists to enter Beijing to perform programs, this village is called "Wild Bamboo Li".
Those who have watched "Water Margin" know that in the eighth time, Lin Chong was framed by Gao Li and mistakenly broke into the White Tiger Hall and committed a felony and was taken to Kaifeng Province. In the case, Kong Mu Sun Ding and Fu Yin sent Lin Chong to Cangzhou. Lu Yuhou bought Dong Chao and Xue Ba, and asked them to kill Lin Chong on the way. When they came to a primeval forest where wild boars were often found after several days of arduous walking, Xue Ba and Dong Chao tricked Lin Chong into tying him to a large tree, revealing to him the root cause of Gao Taiwei and Lu Qian's instructions to kill Lin Chong on the way, so that he would die a ghost. Just as the two men raised their knives to kill Lin Chong, they were saved by Lu Zhishen, who was secretly protecting Lin Chong all the way.
Time flies, the years change, the vicissitudes of the sea, and in the Ming Dynasty, due to war and logging, the former dense primeval forest no longer exists, leaving only a lying cow stone engraved with "wild boar forest".
In the second year of Yongle (1404), the ancestor of the Surname Li was ordered by the court to travel thousands of miles from Jimo in Shandong Province to live in this desolate land, and gradually became a village, known as Wild Boar Li Village. Later, the villagers felt that the word "pig" was indecent, and they tabooed the word, so they changed the name of the village to Wild Bamboo Lee. Later, Yang, Zhou, Zhang, Zhao, Gao, Liu, Qi, Miao, Wang and other foreign artists moved to live, and thirteen brothers with different surnames lived in harmony, multiplying and living for hundreds of years, and now it is a medium-sized village with a population of more than 1,000 people.
Yezhu Li Village is located in the border of Ningwu County, backed by the Zhangwei New River, the affiliation has changed many times, due to the influence of the geographical environment, the villagers have been engaged in the acrobatic industry since ancient times, and are the first of the eight villages in the south and north of the Ningjin and Wuqiao acrobatics. The folk song "Up to ninety-nine, down to just go, if you want to change the trick, everyone will have two hands" is a true portrayal of this village. Between labor, you can see their acrobatic figures everywhere, yards, fields, village streets, fields, you play him on the stage, wooden carts, hoes, pickaxes are their practice of props, one after another is dazzling, dazzling, attracting people's applause.
During the Guangxu period of the Qing Dynasty, Empress Dowager Cixi of the Imperial Hui of the Imperial Hui of the Qing Dynasty issued twelve Yi Orders to summon four acrobatics to The Capital to wish for xingxing, the first of which was to summon the ancestral "Ancient Middle Banner" and "Back Flower on the City Tower" program of the ancestral "Ancient Middle Banner" and "Playing Back Flowers on the City Tower" in The Village of Wild Bamboo Li Village. The class leader "Artist Zhang" was ranked first in the performance with a bamboo pole across the city gate, and was heavily rewarded by Cixi, and became a legend in the acrobatic world. To this day, these programs are still the ancestral skills of the wild bamboo and plum acrobatics. In the early years of the Republic of China, the acrobatics of Yezhu Li Village reached its peak, and the scope of activity was spread throughout the north and south of the great river, inside and outside the Great Wall. At that time, in this small village of less than 100 households, there were more than a hundred "big handles" and more than sixty pairs of "pickers", and they formed acrobatic troupes with acrobatic artists from all over the world and performed in various places.
After the founding of New China, the status of acrobatic artists has been unprecedentedly improved, they are no longer the "lower nine streams" who were looked down upon in the old society of playing tricks on the streets and selling art, but they are also active as people's artists in various places in the vast rural factories and schools, and are respected by the people everywhere. They went to the countryside and villages to perform programs for the grass-roots masses of the people and paid tribute to the border posts. Some are stationed in Shanghai, Nanjing, Beijing, Shenyang, Hefei, Guilin and other places, and some teams have traveled far and wide to perform in more than 30 countries such as the Philippines, Malaysia, Russia, Canada, Saudi Arabia, North Korea, and South Korea, with footprints on five continents.
In 1971, Ningjin County selected a group of top acrobatic talents from the acrobatic teams in Yezhu Li Village, and established the Ningjin County Acrobatic Troupe, which further improved the acrobatic skills and level, becoming one of the few county-level acrobatic troupes in the country. The acrobatics who came out of Yezhu Li Village have also made remarkable achievements in other places, such as the leader of the Tianjin Acrobatic Troupe, the leader of the Wuqiao County Acrobatic Troupe, and the coach of the Acrobatic Troupe of the Beijing Military Region. There are also acrobatic troupes in Gansu Province, Shanxi Acrobatic Troupe, Guizhou Acrobatic Troupe, Shenyang Acrobatic Troupe as the top pillar and platform pillar, Wild Bamboo Li Village Acrobatics have won gold and silver in major international and domestic competitions for many times, they have won honor for their hometown with diligence and sweat, and their hometown is also proud of having them.
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