"Ergui Wrestling" is a hilarious and tireless Wuqiao acrobatic show, which has been widely circulated in the folk for thousands of years. There are full-time actors performing in the Wuqiao Acrobatic World Scenic Area.
"Ergui Wrestling", the most original name is "Ergui Wrestling". It is said that "two ghosts wrestling" is the creation of Su Xiaomei, the sister of the great Northern Song Dynasty writer Su Dongpo. Legend has it that Su Xiaomei not only looks superior, but also is a talented woman who is exquisite in piano, chess, poetry and painting. When the emperor of the dynasty wanted to curry favor with Xigong, he wanted to be a matchmaker to match Su Xiaomei xu to Uncle Xigong guoguo. Su Xiaomei knew very well that this uncle was a playboy with flowers and grass, and she was very disgusted, but it was difficult to do anything. Therefore, Su Xiaomei sewed two evil ghost-faced cloth people overnight, so that one yahuan set up to learn "two ghosts fight", and one yahuan mixed with witches to exorcise ghosts. Su Xiaomei pretended to be bedridden, and Su Dongpo ran around looking for "LangZhong" to treat the disease ineffectively. That night, Su Dongpo invited the witch, and as soon as he entered the door, he shouted: "No, your lady is haunted by double ghosts, and it is not necessary to split the body by sawing the waist." "The witch wears her head and dances, burns incense and paper, and recites words. After a while, the two evil ghosts, shoulder to shoulder, walked out of Su Xiaomei's room slowly. As they walked, they shouted, "Old demon, get out of here, don't come to your death in vain." The witch listened, trembled with fright, and said, "These two evil ghosts are too powerful to surrender, and the only way to save Miss is to find a beautiful woman who is closest to her to die." After saying that, he left in a panic. The haunting of the Su family soon spread to the palace, and the Lady of the West Palace was afraid of bringing disaster to herself as a substitute for the dead ghost, so she played the emperor and canceled this family affair. However, Su Xiaomei became interested in the wrestling performance of Yahuan dressing up as two ghosts, and gradually became a game for Su Xiaomei and Yahuan to catch ghosts. Later, Su Xiaomei and Yahuan took the "two ghosts" to the spring tour, but unexpectedly a jianghu artist named Wang Erhu saw through the secret, so they sewed a conjoined double cloth person, and drilled into the double body cloth person to perform the skills of the two ghosts wrestling, named "two ghosts wrestling".
"Two Ghost Wrestling" is mostly performed by one person drilling into a sewn two-body cloth person, fighting and wrestling. The actor supports the ground with both hands, replaces his feet with his hands, wears a pair of thin-soled fast boots each other, and the four feet collide with each other, like an old man and a young man twisting together, and the fight is inextricable. Therefore, it is also called "old and young fighting". The old man's face was full of wrinkles, his white hair was pale, and his expression seemed to be praiseworthy; the young man's hair was dark, full of red light, and his flesh was strong, and the two of them were wrestling. You pull me and twist, do not give in to each other, make tricks such as hooking, blocking, kicking, and moving under your feet, fight and wrestle for a long time, divide the autumn colors equally, do not distinguish between the upper and lower, one true and one false, and reflect each other.
According to legend, in the last years of the Qing Dynasty, there were two eight-pin officials, one old and one young, who lived in Kyoto's alternate Zhi County, waiting for a long time, staying in the guest house, Ruan Nang was shy, depressed, and irritable. In a very boring situation, the two people meet, go out and walk together, at noon, the two people go to a hotel, the wine is fragrant, people are salivating, they are invariably the same, into the store into the seat, in order to borrow wine to dispel sorrows, chat to relieve boredom. Although the two are poor students, they love to be big, and they compete to be the host to set up a feast and drink, and each has a sinister heart, bent on making the other party pay for the wine banquet, and he is not stingy to eat in vain. The two were hypocritical, they fought with each other, it was difficult to hide their sinister intentions, so they showed each other, and they taunted each other, and as a result, they became angry and ashamed, fought with their hands, and fell up, and everyone looked at it, and it was a laughing stock for a while. Later, this matter was learned by the jianghu artists of Yiwuqiao, who seized this theme and created the technique of "Ergui Wrestling", which was formed by the performance of "Ergui Wrestling", first, to bring out this ugly drama and repeat it, and second, to develop humorous, funny, and interesting acrobatic art. It also lived up to the expectations of the original creators, and as soon as the "Ergui Wrestling" was staged, it became an art that the audience could see both kung fu and know the meaning, so it was deeply loved by the audience.
"Ergui Wrestling" has both a very profound irony and a high degree of artistry. The alternate officials of the hall were outwardly humble and courteous, but when they encountered difficulties and earned a banquet that did not cost money, they exposed their inherent hypocrisy, and even forgot Sven, disregarded their faces, and were ugly in public and wrestled by force. "Expensive" refers to a high-quality and cultivated reader. "Ergui" of course refers to the two literate and hyphenated readers who repaired the Eight Pin officials of Zhi County. Juxtaposed with "nobleman" and "wrestling", as the name suggests, you can know his artistry.
Since then, "Ergui Wrestling" has become a humorous, funny, and interesting acrobatic show that is extremely popular with the audience.