Shouyang Cha Cha is a folk acrobatic form that is popular in Heishui Village, Shouyang County. According to the recollections of old artists, in the old days, the locals would go to Luer Mountain on the fourth day of the sixth lunar month to celebrate the birthday of the birthday star or to fulfill their wishes for rain. On the sixth day of the sixth lunar month, they would also go to Heishui Village to hold a fair. At that time, wizards would be invited to chant spells to exorcise evil spirits and avoid disasters. Cha Cha was a must-perform program on the night. In the middle and late Qing Dynasty, martial arts became popular in Shouyang, and a large number of martial arts and acrobatics emerged. Cha Cha skills were becoming more and more perfect, and were once summoned to the palace to perform for Empress Dowager Cixi. Shouyang Cha Cha is a folk acrobatic performance form born from martial arts. There are ten to fifty performers, bare-backed and bare-chested, rolling iron forks up and down. During the performance, the iron forks kept rotating on the hands, arms, shoulders, back, neck, hips, armpits, knees, waist, buttocks, wrists, condyles, head and other parts of the body. The iron rings made bursts of noise from time to time, and the onlookers applauded. There is also a small iron fork, which is only two feet long. The larger iron fork is easier to grasp. During the performance, two short sticks of more than one foot long are held in both hands and flipped up and down, which is very unique. According to the recollections of old artists, there were more than 50 performance routines of fork-playing in ancient times. Now, there are more than 30 kinds of routines that can be remembered, such as flower-arranging roof, Erlang carrying mountain, fishing from the bottom of the sea, Phoenix spreading wings, golden hook fishing, golden rooster splitting horse, single and double arm flowers, golden silk entwined vines, snake heart carrying sword, golden rooster stringing petals, crooked big urn, beating handles, digging sparrows, and high flying forks. Performers usually wear white towels on their heads, red bellybands on their bodies, bare upper bodies, black pants on their lower bodies, and shoes on their feet. The performance props are four-foot-long iron forks for each person, with a fork at one end and a shuttle, red tassel, and iron ring at the other end, which are divided into large and small types. In Shouyang, people use folk acrobatics, martial arts and fork-juggling as a form of fitness and folk performance, and they perform these activities on every major festival. It is not only a folk acrobatics, but also an important part of "Shou culture", and has important academic value for studying the history, folk customs, and traditional acrobatics of Shouyang. Information source: General Office of Shanxi Provincial Government (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) Information source: General Office of Shanxi Provincial Government (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)