Laixi's "on the clouds" scratching the cabinet

Xinhua News Agency, Taiyuan, February 26 Title: Laixi's "On the Clouds" Scratching Pavilion

Xinhua News Agency reporters Zhao Yang and Chai Ting

"Scratch up!" Hao Laixi's Scratch Pavilion "Cloud Live" performance has begun!

Stepping on the drums and silk strings, Hao Laixi and his son Hao Yongjun rushed to the mobile phone camera and scratched the Xiange'er in their hearts. 10-year-old grandson Hao Jincheng held the live broadcast "artifact" in his hand, closely followed their pace, and introduced to netizens from time to time: "'On the cloud' scratching the pavilion, cloud New Year!" This is a non-heritage performance from Dai County, Shanxi, and the three of us grandchildren celebrate the Lantern Festival with everyone on the clouds! Welcome to the thumbs up! ”

Hao Laixi is a native of Haojie Village, Ekou Town, Dai County, and the inheritor of the national intangible cultural heritage of Ekou Pavilion. Influenced by his father from childhood, he began to contact scratching the cabinet at the age of five or six, and it has been nearly seventy years.

"Scratching Pavilion" is the northern dialect of Jin. "Scratch" is to lift, "cabinet" for children. Ekou Pavilion is a kind of "hundred plays and acrobatics" circulating in and around Yanmen Pass, with a tradition of thousands of years, known as "wordless drama, aerial dance, flowing acrobatics, vivid sculptures", in the past before the war performance was used to boost the morale of the soldiers, the weekday performance is to pray for the next year's grain abundance, is an important part of the border culture.

"Don't light the lanterns and the moon is not round, don't play the social fire to sad the year." As an important part of the folk culture of the Lantern Festival, the "red fire" and the social fire are widely accepted by the masses and passed down from generation to generation.

Every year during the Lantern Festival, Scratching Pavilion is the main project of locals making "red fire", and it is also a good time for Hao Laixi to promote the culture of Scratching Pavilion. Rough dance steps, rustic music, and the scratching pavilion after more than 1700 years of baptism are more like silhouettes of time walking through the long river of history.

The shelves are made of pig iron and weigh fifteen kilograms, most of which have been in use for decades. The shapes of birds and animals, flowers, sorghum corn, and large red peppers on the shelves need to be re-decorated every year to strive for a new and colorful effect of flowers. "The seventh and eighth days of the first year began to prepare, cutting river willows, practicing gongs and drums, preparing clothes..." Hao Laixi said proudly, "Generally starting from the thirteenth day of the first month, the performance is carried out for four consecutive days, when the streets are crowded with people, and people in ten miles and eight townships come to see the liveliness!" ”

However, due to the epidemic, the local government has not held mass cultural and artistic activities during the Spring Festival for two years. "My heart feels empty." Hao Laixi sighed.

Seeing his grandson taking online classes at home, Hao Laixi had the idea of performing the cabinet and spreading intangible cultural heritage through live webcasts. "New Year's In place, did not return to my hometown, saw the live broadcast, homesickness surged into my heart, I shed tears!" "Never seen it before, I hope I have the opportunity to see it with my own eyes!" "The old man is old and strong, and the technology is superb"... Looking at the messages of netizens, Hao Laixi's family was both touched and excited.

"Innovation in inheritance, inheritance in innovation." Cloud live broadcast not only meets the requirements of epidemic prevention and control for mass activities, but also allows the people to celebrate the Intangible Cultural Heritage Lantern Festival with joy. Hao Laixi said. (End)