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Longxian Vacational Education Center (2015 CyberFair Project ID 7991)
China,
shanxi,
baoji
Official Status:
Final Project: Ready for Judging
Teacher:
Category: 8. Local Music and Art Forms
We estimate 6 student(s) from 16 to 17 will work on this entry.
Description of Our Community: Longxian is located in a mountainous county in the western end of Shaanxi. It was famous as Shehuo of longzhou since ancient times. After the founding of new China, Longzhou Shehuo performances are unprecedented, and there are 300 Shehuo organizations in more than 200 administrative villages in Longxian. The scale is larger and larger, content is richer and more colorful, performances are more exquisite and moving, and it has retained the original ancient dress form.
Project Description: Shehuo is a play for festivals. Its origin is that the Han people gradually add other square entertainments in Ceres activities. At the beginning, people called Shehuo as shehu, as one of the Han nationality folk sacrifice activity, it was gradually evolved into the spring festive entertainment. Longxian Shehuo originates from Song , Yuan dynasties. flourishing in Ming, Qing dynasties, and revival after the establishment of China. Through following reform on the century 80 and 90 times, Longxian Shehuo has now developed into a fixed facial makeup, costumes, props and acting time of the masses of the Han folk culture and arts and entertainment activities.
During the Spring Festival, people from village, factory and unit plays Shehuo. In Lantern Festival Every year in Longxian, the Shehuo play ,including more than 200 performance teams and four or five thousand role players, assembled in county. The streets and lanes were all decorated with lanterns and festoons, and the place reechoed with the sound of gongs and drums, attracting tens of thousands of viewers and visitors, and become one big landscape.