Shahe tengpai array

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Shahe tengpai array

Applicant: Shahe City, Hebei Province

Item No.: 295

Project No.: VI - 13

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics

Region: Hebei Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Shahe City, Hebei Province

Protection unit: Village Committee of Shilipu village, shahecheng Town, Xingtai Economic Development Zone

Introduction to Shahe tengpai array:

Applicant: Shahe City, Hebei Province

Tengpai array is an ancient battlefield combat project in China. Now it only exists in Shilipu village, Shahe City, Hebei Province. The local people call it "playing tengpai".

Shahe tengpai formation has a long history. It is said that Li Zicheng's army retreated south from Beijing in the late Ming Dynasty. One of them secretly fled Shilipu village and taught the tengpai formation to the villagers to protect the village and defend themselves, leaving behind the admonition of "only pass on men, not women, pass on inside, not outside". For more than 300 years, villagers have followed the admonition and passed down the rattan array from generation to generation. Up to now, it has been passed down for 12 generations, and more than 200 people have practiced it regularly. In the local area, the rattan array has been included in the primary school physical education curriculum.

At the beginning of the battle, tengpai was commanded by the battle drum, assisted by the big screen gongs, cymbals, cymbals and cymbals. When performing the array, there are at least four players in each team of the offensive and defensive sides. The rattan soldiers hold the rattan in their left hand and the short knife in their right hand. They fight with four people who hold three teeth forks, large knives, spears or sticks according to the array method. In actual combat, the tengpai array changes endlessly. The common ones are one word long snake array, eight trigrams serial array, plum blossom five square array, four door enchanting array, eight door penetrating array, etc. the lineup can be expanded to thousands of people according to the actual combat needs.

The main material for making rattan brand is common Vitex in Taihang Mountain Area in the north. After being soft and tough, it can be used to make rattan brand. After the production, a canvas or raw cowhide with tiger's head is covered on the top of the rattan brand.

For more than three hundred years, Shahe tengpai array has played an active role in both defending itself against the enemy and activating the cultural life of the local people. Tengpai array has both attack and defense, and is unpredictable. Further study on it will further enrich the content of ancient Chinese military tactics. On the other hand, dance and music are integrated into the tengpai array scenes, which can be used to enrich people's cultural life and make people enjoy art.

At present, the three surviving heirs of tengpai array are 80 years old on average, and they are old. The number of heirs is not only small, but also the tactics and techniques are unfamiliar, the movements are stiff and simple, the array is not neat, and the competitive level is decreasing. The inheritance of Shahe tengpai array is endangered, and it needs to be rescued and protected.