Spring Festival

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Spring Festival

Applicant: Huairen County, Shanxi Province

Project No.: 449

Project No.: Ⅹ - 1

Time of publication: 2011 (the third batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Shanxi Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Huairen County, Shanxi Province

Protection unit: Huairen Cultural Center

Spring Festival (Huairen fire custom) Introduction:

Applicant: Huairen County, Shanxi Province

Huairen Wanghuo, commonly known as "fire dragon", also known as "big Wanghuo", is a popular folk activity in Huairen County of Shanxi Province during the Spring Festival and Lantern Festival. Huairen area is rich in coal resources. The Qing Dynasty has formed a folk custom of burning coal to pray for the Spring Festival. According to the records of Datong Prefecture by Qianlong of the Qing Dynasty, "on New Year's day, the burning coal is placed on the door, like a small floating picture, which is called" flourishing fire. "

Its main form is to build a tower with large blocks of coal, which is called Wanghuo, to celebrate the prosperity of the whole year. Put firewood inside and stick a big red letter on the outside, with the words "vigorous Qi rushing to the sky" on it. When the prosperous fire is formed, the fire shoots out from innumerable small holes, which looks like a floating picture and is spectacular. Wanghuo has a large scale and exquisite shape, which is completed by masters with superb skills. People from a hundred Li radius came to watch, and people gathered around the biggest fire pile to pray for "prosperity".

Huairen Wanghuo is a relic of the combination of Nuo sacrifice and Shehuo performance, which has important folklore research value. Due to the economic and social transformation, some accomplished old artists are old and lack of successors. They are faced with inheritance difficulties and need to take effective measures to protect them.