Thousands of years of vicissitudes have created wonderful flowers.
Liaocheng acrobatics has a long history. According to historical records, acrobatics originated from Jiaodi, also known as Chiyou Opera. The legendary hero Chiyou, the earliest gladiator, lived in Liaocheng and was buried in Shouzhang, Liaocheng after his death. Cao Zhi used to be the king of East Afghanistan, and history shows that he is good at "hundred plays". There is a popular folk song in Dong 'e: "Happy horse racing can solve the big stick, jump around the meteor whip and walk along the river to ensure safety." Don't forget to worship Cao Zijian first. " So the acrobatic circus in Liaocheng was quite famous at that time. Since then, Liaocheng folk acrobatics has flourished, and acrobatic artists such as Li (Li) and Zhang Yicheng (Zhang big braid) have emerged, which has had an important impact on modern acrobatic art in China.
After the founding of the People's Republic of China, Liaocheng acrobatics has developed by leaps and bounds, and the mass base has become richer. Luzhuang, Zangzhuang, Hulutou and Liucaiyuan in Shenxian are all famous acrobatic villages. According to statistics, there are 1200 artists working in acrobatic troupes in many provinces and cities in Dong 'e County alone. Acrobatics artists who are originally from Liaocheng or have relatives with artists in Liaocheng area are almost all over the country.
Old plays constantly have new features.
In the training base of Liaocheng Acrobatic Troupe, we saw a lot of stills of different periods and programs, and the vivid pictures reflected the "persistence" and "change" of Liaocheng Acrobatics. Wang Guangming, head of the troupe, said that acrobatic art has changed from a simple acrobatic performance to a comprehensive art combining acrobatic performance with dance, music and costume art, and the acrobatic troupe can only adapt to this change through program innovation.
The traditional program "Flying Fork" used to jump on the ground. They arranged for actors and actresses to dance on seven iron piles with a height of 1.8 meters, which was innovative and made new breakthroughs in skills and performance forms. Meihuazhuang Flying Fork won the Silver Lion Award in the 3rd Wuqiao International Acrobatic Art Festival, and then won the Innovation Award of the Ministry of Culture to participate in the 45th National Day performance.
The Little Cook is a children's program. In the past, it was only pots and pans that were quickly passed between a few small actors. The style is simple. After careful adaptation, under the beautiful light, the actors danced the disc at will, which made the audience beautiful. This program won the silver award from the Ministry of Culture in one fell swoop.
65438-0999 The Ministry of Culture awarded Liaocheng Acrobatic Troupe the honorary title of "National Advanced Collective of Cultural Work". In recent years, they have made greater efforts in team building and market development, giving more than 600 performances every year. Among them, many of their programs have won national and provincial awards and have been performed in more than 30 countries and regions around the world.
Educate new people to open up new horizons.
There is a saying in acrobatic circles that national acrobatics is a play. Acrobatics programs don't change in time, and over time, of course, the audience doesn't want to watch them anymore. Wang Guangming believes that in order to produce more new programs, it is necessary to train more new people.
In order to cultivate new talents, Liaocheng launched the "Cultural Platform Singing Tournament", which created opportunities for acrobatics. The government invested nearly 10 million yuan to build an acrobatic training base of more than 3,800 square meters. The opening of the base "Digital Theater" also provides hardware support for acrobatic innovation and development. Liaocheng Acrobatic Troupe jointly runs a school. This year, more than 40 freshmen from all over the world entered the Acrobatic Art School, and spent five years systematically learning acrobatic specialty, culture, music and dance knowledge, bringing hope to the development of Liaocheng Acrobatics.
1959 March 10, Liaocheng Volkswagen announced that "the first acrobatic circus report performance conference in Shandong Province will open in Liaocheng tomorrow" and published an editorial to welcome and congratulate the performance.
On March 1959 and 19, Liaocheng Volkswagen reported the closing of the performance with a full page, and the newspaper of that day had two pages.
Why did an acrobatic performance make the organ newspaper of Liaocheng District Committee at that time report in such a large space? 19, the former head of Liaocheng Acrobatic Troupe told the reporter the story behind it.