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Jingzhou News Network (special reporter Zhu Chuanrong) The unique Jingchu style lantern dance "Five Shrimps and Catfish" was included in the fifth batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative projects in June this year.
The "Five Shrimp Catfish" lantern dance program, which debuted at the Shanghai World Expo in July 2010, has performed many times during the Hubei Activity Week and has been favored by foreign guests and Chinese people.
"Five shrimp catfish" is also known as five shrimp noisy year, catfish and year harmonic sound, commonly known as "shrimp lamp". The five represent the five elements: gold, wood, water, fire and earth; the five parties: southeast, northwest, and middle; the five blessings: shoufu Kangde end; the meaning of the five blessings Linmen, the five blessings of the life, the five grains and fengdeng, the five sons of Dengke, the five qichang and other auspicious words.
"Five Shrimp Catfish" originated in the Spring and Autumn Warring States Period, the Qing Dynasty was popular in the Jingsha area and the surrounding Honghu, Jiangling, Shishou, Jianli and other areas, every Spring Festival, Yuanxiao Lantern Festival, birthday celebrations, wedding celebrations and other festive moments of performance, is the Jingchu Water Town the majority of the people love the traditional folk performance form.
In the 1950s, Shashi's performance in Wuhan won the first prize of the province, but then it was almost lost, and over time it was forgotten by people.
Mao Mingkang, a 72-year-old native of Shashi, is the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage project "Five Shrimp Catfish". Born in a family of paper ties, his father Mao Juqing has been engaged in hemp paper making skills all his life, commonly known as paper horse laying paste color za. Since the age of 12, Mao Mingkang has studied art with his father. During the New Year's Festival, my father was busy making dragon lanterns, lion lanterns, lotus boats, mussel shell essences, shrimp lamps and marquee lamps, and he was a deputy to learn from the side, and he heard and passed on the skills of his fathers.
"Five shrimp catfish" lost nearly half a century, to re-tie the real is still a little difficult, so he bought fresh shrimp and catfish, carefully observe the posture of swimming in the water, pondering the father's tying skills, after repeated practice, finally tied successfully, and the shrimp body can be flexed and extended, the catfish head and tail can swing, the fish body can squirm, the fins can be opened and closed, and the performance is vivid and vivid. The "Five Shrimp Catfish" lantern dance, which has been lost for nearly 50 years, returned to the public stage in 2007.
An all-round talent like Mao Mingkang, who can not only tie the system, but also standardize dance and play, and at the same time understand percussion instruments, is rare in Jingzhou. In the performance, two people danced shrimp in a group and catfish in one person, a total of 11 people, and a new lotus dance was added. When dancing, fish and shrimp shuttle like clouds, leisurely playing in the water, fish jumping shrimp play, jumping around, there are bouncing, jumping, flipping, turning and other actions: "Dancing face flowers, there are snowflakes on the top, there are dead tree roots underneath, left hit left flower arrangement, right hit right flower arrangement, a jade belt wrapped around the waist, and finally hide the sky across the sea", a variety of techniques are integrated, coupled with the foil of percussion instruments, showing the charm of the unique Jingchu Water Folk Art Characteristics Lantern Dance Performance.
In 1980, the "Chinese National Folk Dance Integration" included "Five Shrimps and Catfish". In 2013, "Five Shrimp Catfish" won the highest award of Hong Kong Bauhinia Flower. The "Five Shrimp Catfish" lantern dance was reported by CCTV's "East, West, South, and North Over the New Year", "Colorful Huaxia" Jingzhou Ancient City Celebration of the New Year, "Civilization Code" "Five Shrimp Catfish", "Exploration of Fa Guan" craftsmen's ingenuity and other column programs.
Mao Mingkang took the inheritance of intangible cultural heritage as his responsibility, at the Shanghai World Expo, a foreign "clown" was the leader of Hong Kong street dance, became interested in this program, worshiped the old man as a teacher, taught a dancing shrimp face-to-face action in person, and said "Thank you!" This lantern dance program also went to Mianyang in Sichuan, Shiyan in Hubei, Liangzi Lake and other places and performed at the closing ceremony of the 14th Provincial Games.
Intangible cultural heritage community, in shashi Yuejin Road community set up "five shrimp catfish" Mao Mingkang studio. In Yangtze River University, Entrepreneurship School, Art Theater, shashi special education school, respectively, set up to inherit the "five shrimp and catfish" art class.
He also set shrimp lamps for the University of the Elderly in Huizhou City, Guangdong Province, and taught them to dance and play through video lessons.