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

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

Applicant: Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province

Item No.: 994

Project No.: Ⅹ - 87

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: folk customs

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: Wuchuan Cultural Center

Brief introduction of Taige (Xinzi, Tiezhi, piaose) (Wuchuan piaose)

Applicant: Wuchuan City, Guangdong 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.

Wuchuan piaose, which is popular in Wuchuan City, Guangdong Province, is a comprehensive plastic art integrating drama, music, fine arts, magic and acrobatics. It is famous for its "high, fine, dangerous, strange and skillful" characteristics. It is unique in shape, diverse in artistic forms, and contains more historical and mythological stories. A floating stage is like a small stage for activities.

Wuchuan piaose performs during the Lantern Festival on the 16th and 17th of the first lunar month every year. The parade team is several miles long, and the scene is very spectacular. The floating characters are supported by a hidden "color stem", and the actors are generally between six and twelve years old. The characters sitting or standing on the small stage on the counter are called "screen", while the characters flying in the air are called "gone with the wind". In the past, Wuchuan's floating colors used to be one screen with one floating color, but now it has developed into one screen with many floating colors, or even many screens with many floating colors.

Wuchuan piaose has successively participated in cultural performances in Maoming, Zhongshan, Jiangmen, Shenzhen, Guangzhou, Haikou in Hainan Province and Luxi in Yunnan Province. With its strong artistic vitality, it has promoted the improvement of piaose creation and performance in the surrounding areas, and has given profound enlightenment to the development of folk art in other provinces and cities. In 1992 and 1997, Wuchuan piaose went to Beijing twice to attend CCTV Spring Festival Gala. In 2003, Wu Chuan's floating color modeling works won the gold medal of the first China cultural relics imitation and folk arts and crafts exhibition.