Ningdu Liukeng Bamboo Horse Lantern Dance

Jiangxi
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Ningdu Liukeng Bamboo Horse Lantern Dance (the fourth provincial level) Ningdu Liukeng Bamboo Horse Lantern Dance is a very unique dance custom that arose for sacrificial activities. It is inherited in Liukeng Village, Ningdu, Jiangxi. Luo Kehai, the 87-year-old inheritor, recalled that when they were sensible, they heard from the elders that the project was to pray for blessings from the gods. The Qili Village Group of the current village committee invited a master to teach. The Qili master said that he learned it from Yihuang in the middle and late Qing Dynasty, and Yihuang was passed down from the "Qingyuan Ancestor" in Guankou, Sichuan. It is said that it has a history of thousands of years. It was interrupted for ten years during the "Cultural Revolution" and resumed in 1977. The whole event is centered on the "washing horses and removing cards" of the martial arts stage performance. "Washing horses and removing cards" is a folk dance custom that integrates martial arts and stage performances. From the simulation of horse-washing life scenes to the performance of martial arts movements, they are full of dance beauty. The movements are vigorous and powerful, with the beauty of strength and skills. The modal response is vivid and accurate. The changes, transitions, arrangements and shapes of movements all have a natural and smooth beauty. The Liukeng Lantern Dance custom contains a strong Hakka sentiment and has data value for Hakka research. It is a unique folk dance custom and has important resources and reference value for the research and innovation of modern dance forms and contents. Its custom has a very important position in local sacrifices and blessings. In the past, before the start of folk performances in various parts of Ningdu every year, the Lantern Team would be invited to perform "washing horses and removing cards", which not only had a vivid martial arts stage performance, but also represented the incarnation of "Qingyuan Zushi" (the god of drama). Therefore, the Lantern Team's "washing horses and removing cards" performance custom has a great influence in Ningdu.

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