Many people like to watch Liu Qian's magic show, it is to enjoy a variety of contrary things to produce the expectation of the eye-catching effect, it is worth noting that the acrobatics that originated from the folk and magic have the same magic, China is a country with a long tradition of acrobatics, and many regions have very distinctive acrobatic skills.
Among them, the acrobatics of Wuqiao in Hebei Province are well-known, as the "hometown of acrobatics", In addition to successfully holding the "Wuqiao International Acrobatic Art Festival" for 17 years, Wuqiao has also cultivated a group of famous acrobatic artists, and one of the characters that have to be mentioned is Wang Baohe.
In 1945, Wang Baohe was born into an acrobatic family, his grandfather and father both relied on superb acrobatic performances to support the family, and their family was also very famous in Wuqiao. Wang Baohe has been performing with his father since he was a child, and because he is too young, he is responsible for collecting money on the side.
At that time, Wang Baohe's father's unique skills were "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" and "Bone Reduction Gong", the so-called "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" is to turn the hard beans into soft bags, and the other props have two bowls, sometimes the soft bags can be three or more, so people usually give a high evaluation to the acrobats who perform this unique work.
Under the influence of his father, Wang Baohe also began to hear about it, when he was only 6 years old, he followed his father to learn acrobatic skills, no matter the wind and rain, he got up early every day and insisted on training, did not dare to be lazy, at the same time, the grandfather and father of the acrobatics also had great expectations for him, his own efforts plus talent, Wang Baohe successfully learned to do acrobatic skills, and also began the road of acrobatic performance.
Subsequently, Wang Baohe lived up to his family's expectations and performed the acrobatics to the extreme, which also made more and more people see the traditional Chinese folk acrobatic performances and marvel at them! In 1999, Wang Baohe was invited to Hong Kong to perform, and after watching him perform the show "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave", he could not help but praise his performance for being fascinating, and he also deliberately grabbed his hand to examine it carefully, and after watching it for most of the day, he called Wang Baohe's hand a "ghost hand". Since then, the ghost hand has moved the world.
In addition, the bet between Wang Baohe and Li Ka-shing has also attracted the attention of many people, one is a skilled craftsman, the other is a rich man in the business world, who will be the winner? Their bet began with Wang Baohe performing the unique performance of "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave".
When Wang Baohe toured Hong Kong, Li Ka-shing also went to watch the performance, and bet with Wang Baohe that he could see through his tricks, Wang Baohe saw that Li Ka-shing was so confident, but he was not timid, and proposed that if Li Ka-shing lost, he would invest 300 million yuan to build his hometown (and then Li Ka-shing's son Li Zekai added 100 million), and Li Ka-shing agreed after listening to it.
As everyone knows, the real three immortals are not betting on which ball is in which small bowl, the trick lies in opening and closing the bowl, that is to say, Wang Baohe can flexibly use hand speed and angle to change the position of the ball in each bowl, so even if Li Ka-shing presses the ball on which side, Wang Baohe can still reverse the game, and sure enough, Li Ka-shing gambled and lost, and Wang Baohe was also more well known for winning 3 goals li Ka-shing 400 million.
Some traditional folk skills need to be passed on in order to be preserved. In 2007, the Ministry of Culture named Wang Baohe as the "inheritor of the world's intangible cultural heritage", Wang Baohe passed on many skills at the same time, but never saw him pass on this "bone reduction gong" to his son or disciples, normally speaking, Wang Baohe is old, he should be looking for a descendant with Huigen, rather than allowing the bone reduction gong to face the loss of transmission, but no action.
The reason for this is that it was Wang Baohe who had good intentions, he had suffered a lot of hardships in order to practice bone reduction skills, suffered a lot, and finally practiced with his own perseverance, but now he fell behind the old problem of waist pain and back pain, he knew that although the "bone reduction skills" performed wonderfully, the practitioners had to endure a lot of pain to practice, so Wang Baohe did not want others to bear the hardships he had eaten, so he did not teach this skill to anyone.
In fact, there are many kinds of acrobatics, including ventriloquism, tightrope walking, top bowls and other skills, China has more than two thousand years of acrobatic history, the earliest in the Neolithic Era began to sprout, the Qin Dynasty period appeared "horn to play" and other entertainment acrobatics, and then developed to the present, it is with wang Baohe such loyal to the chinese folk traditional culture of the inheritors, acrobatics can be passed down from generation to generation, until today.
History continues to develop, the inheritance of the past is more and more difficult to sustain and preserve, in addition to acrobatics, many national intangible cultural heritage is also worth passing on from generation to generation, such as Sichuan drama face change, shadow puppetry, Kunqu opera, pingtan, for young people, these skills have been farther and farther away from them, the key protection of the state, the passing on of the torch of craftsmen is imminent, in addition to the support of the state and the inheritance of old craftsmen, I hope that everyone can treat traditional skills with more respect.