I believe that everyone may have seen the acrobatic performance, acrobatics include a variety of skills, such as: car skills, ventriloquism, trick, lion dance, jiu-jitsu, and so on. Now people have created many new tricks.
One book calls acrobatics: "A specialized art with a long history, including jumping, body skills, and balancing movements, and later using long poles, unicycles, balls, buckets, trampolines, and hangers."
In ancient times, acrobatics were one of the forms of entertainment at that time. Ancient acrobatics include song and dance, puppet plays, hundred plays, miscellaneous music and so on.
In many history books, it is recorded in Wei Zhi Lezhi: "In the winter of the sixth year, Zhao Taile, ZongZhang, and advocated the addition of acrobatics, and created five soldiers, horns, unicorns, phoenix emperors, immortals, long snakes, white elephants, white tigers, and fearful beasts, fish dragons, ward off evil spirits, deer and horse immortal cars, gao xuan hundred feet, long zhao yuan, jumping pills, and five cases to prepare for a hundred plays."
It seems that the development of acrobatics in ancient times has been very good, and Chinese acrobatics have a history of more than 2,000 years. Of course, acrobatics have also been passed down forever.
There was once an old man named Wang Baohe, who was almost seventy years old, and he won 400 million yuan for Li Ka-shing with three balls and two bowls. In the eyes of our ordinary people, this is simply incredible, but it is also such a legendary old man who has done something unimaginable to ordinary people.
As we all know, Wang Baohe is an acrobat, and people who like Wang Baohe know that Wang Baohe has two very brilliant skills: "bone reduction and soft work" and "three immortals returning to the cave". Wang Baohe was born into a folk performing artist, and both Wang Baohe's grandfather and father were acrobatics, which are still ancestral crafts.
Wang Baohe's grandfather and father had both set up stalls outside to sell art, and his grandfather also had a name called "one of the eight monsters of the jianghu", and was also quite famous in the acrobatic world. When Wang Baohe was a child, because his family was poor, he went out with his father to sell art on the flyover, because Wang Baohe was too young at that time to do some auxiliary work, help his father complete the performance, and occasionally perform some basic kung fu.
After 1951, Wang Baohe grew up and chose to return to his hometown of birth, Wuqiao, to find an acrobatic team to perform. In 1958, Wang Baohe joined an acrobatic troupe in Wuqiao and became an acrobat in the troupe.
Wang Baohe's two unique skills were inherited from his grandfather and father, and in order to inherit and learn these two skills, he suffered a lot of suffering and suffered many sins over the years.
In addition to practicing every day, Wang Baohe has been gritting his teeth and insisting, day after day, year after year, whether it is spring, summer or autumn or winter, every day must be practiced in the open air. But Wang Baohe never wanted to give up, and he has been working hard to pass on the craftsmanship of his grandfather and father. This is not only the inheritance of craftsmanship, but also the protection of spirit and generation after generation.
After Wang Baohe's diligent and hard training, after more than ten years, he finally practiced these two skills and carried them forward. But then there was also a root cause of the disease, that is, the problem of pain on rainy days. In the current Wuqiao acrobatic Li, Wang Bao fit with a special skill, won applause at home and abroad, he has won many awards, and has been rated as the "inheritor of intangible cultural heritage" by the state.
The "Bone Reduction Soft Gong" and "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" inherited by Wang Baohe are not only the crafts taught to him by the previous generation, but also the spirit of hardship and hard work of generation after generation and the development of the essence of traditional Chinese culture.
On June 9, 2007, Wang Baohe performed several programs in the great hall of the Great Hall of the People. Among them, "Bone Reduction Soft Gong" and "Three Immortals Return to the Cave" made many viewers stand up and applaud Wang Baohe. Wang Baohe's superb skills are obvious to all, and he is an excellent acrobatic performer.
Wang Baohe has been practicing acrobatics from the age of six to nearly seventy years old, and the "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" he performed is different from other acrobatics, the "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" is facing the audience close at hand, and the audience participates, and the "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" requires very high hand speed and brain reaction of the performers, the hand speed must be fast, and the mind must react quickly.
Seemingly very simple tricks, but in fact, the requirements for the performer are very high. However, for those who have been practicing and performing for decades, and the techniques have reached the point of pure fire, these are only small meanings for Wang Baohe.
Although Wang Baohe came from a grassroots background, he is a true acrobatic master, his life is incredible, and many famous people have been impressed by Wang Baohe's superb acrobatic performance after watching his performance.
In 2002, Wang Baohe was invited to perform in Hong Kong, where he performed for several months, and the venue was crowded with people, and many Hong Kong media and television outlets rushed to report on it. Wang Baohe performed his unique skills in Hong Kong: "Bone Reduction And Soft Gong" and "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave", which opened the eyes of many people in Hong Kong, and was praised by the Governor of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region, Tung Chee-hwa, as "Ghost Hand", which is the origin of Wang Baohe's name as "Ghost Hand".
Since then, Wang Baohe's name can be described as thunderous, but he has always thought that his performance is not remarkable, but the provincial leaders are stunned by his superb skills, and later become more and more popular. Wang Bao's combination of three balls and two small bowls and chopsticks allows them to make endless changes, which is breathtaking.
Wang Baohe once performed his own stunt "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave" in CCTV, the producer wanted Wang Baohe to reveal the mystery of the "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave", Wang Baohe politely refused the producer's request, but the producer was not willing, using three machines and equipment to video Wang Baohe's trick at the same time, after slow play, he still did not see the mystery, although he did not shoot what he wanted, but the director admired Wang Baohe's skills very much.
Wang Baohe has also traveled to many places abroad for exchange performances, and every time he goes to a place, people will be impressed by Wang Baohe's stunts. Wang Baohe has also won many awards: the "Golden Ju Award" Silver Award, the "Hebei Provincial Literary and Art Revitalization Award" and so on.
Acrobatics on the human body requirements are very high, acrobatics is not a martial art needs strength and practice, Wang Baohe practice of stunts not only on the body's elasticity and toughness requirements are very high, learning Wang Baohe's stunts require a certain talent. Ingenious techniques such as seeking danger in stability, seeking curiosity in peace, and seeking quietness in motion are the basis for practicing the "Three Immortals Returning to the Cave".
Wang Baohe has traveled all over the motherland with his own stunts, and he has deep feelings for Wuqiao's acrobatics, hoping that Wuqiao's acrobatic skills will go to the world, hoping that Wuqiao's acrobatics can be carried forward, and hoping that the stunts left by the ancestors can be inherited and developed.
Wang Baohe once said that what has been handed down from the ancestors cannot be lost, and that stunts should be passed on to young people, and although many young people want to learn stunts from Wang Baohe as a teacher, Wang Baohe is not willing to let stunts pass into the hands of people who have ill intentions, improper intentions, and no morality.
Wang Baohe was very cautious and careful about the teaching of technology, afraid that if he taught someone with an unhealthy mind, that person would use this skill to do things that harmed society.
He very much hopes that his hometown can become rich, although he does not like commercial performances, every time as long as it is a business investment Wang Baohe will go to the performance, hoping to make his own efforts and contributions to the construction of his hometown.
In 2008, Wang Baohe once went to Hong Kong with the team, this is his second time in Hong Kong, when Li Ka-shing's son Li Zeju was deeply shocked to see Wang Baohe's performance, Li Zeju was very curious about Wang Baohe's magic, because Li Zeju was very interested in acrobatics, he decided to invest in Wang Baohe's hometown Wuqiao. In the end, Li Zeju's father, Li Ka-shing, invested 400 million yuan in Wang Baohe's hometown. Wang Bao used three balls and two bowls to win Li Ka-shing 400 million.
Wang Baohe inherited not only these skills, but also the inheritance and development of the spirit of the ancestors and the traditional Chinese culture. The inheritance of the culture and spirit of traditional crafts is the continuation and development of China's excellent traditional culture, and at present, the society inherits and revitalizes Traditional Chinese crafts. Wang Baohe spent his life to inherit and carry forward the art of acrobatics, so that more people can see traditional Chinese crafts.
Of course, Wang Baohe's deeds have also given us endless inspiration to the younger generation, the spirit of craftsmanship is formed in the development and creation of traditional crafts, to cultivate the younger generation to inherit similar to this can meet the aesthetic needs of the masses of the people.
The spirit of craftsmanship and "skill have a specialty" are the same, do a line to love a line, remember not to give up halfway. Traditional crafts require human participation, and carry forward the spiritual sustenance and ideological and cultural spirit contained in traditional crafts in new ways.