Raise the Pavilion (core, iron branch, floating color)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Taige (Xinzi, Tiezhi, piaose)

Applicant: Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province

Item No.: 994

Project No.: Ⅹ - 87

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province

Protected by: Pujiang Cultural Center

Brief introduction of the Pavilion (core, iron branch, floating color) (Pujiang meeting)

Applicant: Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province

Also known as "lift angle", "lift song", "lift high", "naoge", "naoge" and "Gaozhuang", lift Pavilion is a form of folk Parade Performance in traditional festival activities. It originated from the activities of meeting gods in the Central Plains, and then gradually spread to the southeast coast and Northwest China. It was popular for a time in the Qing Dynasty. In the process of spreading, it combined with the specific situation of different places and formed different characteristics.

In the activities of raising the pavilion, several children dressed as ancient opera characters, formed wonderful shapes according to the plot, fixed on the iron pillars and supports of the square attic, and carried by people. The traditional modeling of the pavilion is mostly taken from such plays as Liang Shanbo and Zhu Yingtai, Tian Xianpei, the legend of the White Snake, journey to the west, Zhaojun's leaving the fortress, blue bridge club, Yellow Crane Tower, fishing and killing the family. The height of the traditional modeling is about 3 to 5 meters. The attic has 3 to 5 floors. Generally, there are 1 person on each floor, 4 people on the bottom floor, 5 to 6 people on the middle floor, and 1 person on the top floor. During the pavilion tour, four lofts are generally used, and six or even eight lofts are often used. Each loft is carried forward by four or eight people.

It is popular among the people for a long time because of its beautiful shape and spectacular pictures. With the acceleration of the modernization process, the activities of raising the pavilion are gradually declining, and there is no successor in the production skills of raising the pavilion in rural areas, so the relevant rescue and protection work is imminent.

Pujiang reception is a kind of festival tour folk activity with rich characteristics. It is said that it originated from the sacrificial ceremony in memory of Hu Gong and the great emperor. It has long been popular in Huangzhai, Qianwu, Tonghua (now Lanxi) and other places in Pujiang County, Zhejiang Province. Pujiang reception began in Song Dynasty and reached its peak in Qing Dynasty. In October of the 29th year of Daoguang in the Qing Dynasty (1849), qingshanyan, Tonghua Township, held an unprecedented reception.

The pavilion raising tour is one of the important activities of Pujiang meeting. Therefore, Pujiang meeting is also called "Pavilion raising" and won by surprise and danger. The pavilion is composed of five parts: meeting table, lifting shoulder, meeting fence, meeting people and standing small actors. At each meeting table, several lively and beautiful young boys and girls aged from three to five are selected to play the characters of traditional opera stories. On the meeting table, they either stand up in the air or fly in the air. Their modeling adopts the traditional opera human and object images as the main body and further artistic design. The table is carried by four to sixteen young adults, and the actors have to change their shapes. Pujiang reception is named according to the stories on the table, such as "Monkey King borrows fan", "splitting mountain to save his mother", "Jiang Taigong fishing", "three requests for pear blossom", "borrowing umbrella" and "Pantao grand meeting". A table is a play. When welcoming the meeting, the bronze blunderbuss and iron blunderbuss were used to open the way, the dragon and tiger flag, the long flag and the Huagai were used as the forerunners, the gongs were blaring, the meeting table and the assorted classes were followed, and the team was huge and magnificent.

With the changes of the times, the connotation of the reception has changed, and it has gradually become a celebration activity in festivals and various folk festivals. The Pujiang reception embodies the traditional folk culture based on people's beliefs in central Zhejiang and the coastal areas of the south of the Yangtze River, and retains the performance tradition of traditional opera, acrobatics and other folk arts, which has irreplaceable folk research value.