Chinanews.com, Yancheng, February 5th, title: Jiangsu "Jianhu Acrobatics" culture benefits the people and "doesn't close" with an average of more than 300 performances per year

  Chinanews reporter Yu Congwen Gu Mingsie

  Holding two thin rods in one hand, with two saucers on top of the rods, gently shaking the wrist, the saucers will spin continuously as if enchanted.

On the morning of the 4th, in the rehearsal hall of the "Jianhu Acrobatics Inheritance Base" located in Yancheng, Jiangsu, actors of the Jiangsu Provincial Acrobatic Troupe were seriously rehearsing the acrobatic poetic drama "Four Seasons Jianghuai".

This "popular" play, which has been successfully performed for more than 20 times in Suzhou and other places, will be staged in the Grand Theater of Jianhu County Culture and Art Center, allowing audiences in hometowns to appreciate the artistic charm of "Jianhu Acrobatics".

Acrobats are rehearsing a show.

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  Jianhu County is "the hometown of Chinese acrobatics" and "the hometown of Chinese folk culture and art".

"Jianhu acrobatics" has a history of more than 2,000 years of inheritance and development. It combines strength and roughness with softness and beauty, and combines difficult skills with relaxed, lively, and delicate movements. At the same time, it draws lessons from sister arts such as dance and gymnastics. Representative of acrobatics.

The actors worked hard on their action skills.

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  Dancing circles, handstands, pinball, climbing poles, somersaults, spinning discs... Every day at 8:00 am, the actors start their daily practice routine.

Assistant to the head of the Jiangsu Acrobatic Troupe and young choreographer Wang Shuo, who instructs the actors to practice in the rehearsal hall, told reporters from Chinanews.com that the actors are divided into three teams for training, and the youngest actor is only 8 years old.

"Everyone has to go to work early every day, practice waist and legs and run, then start daily movement training, and have physical training and cultural classes at night."

The poor performance venue did not affect the superb performance of the actors in the slightest.

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  Wang Shuo, who is in her early thirties, is a Shandong girl who stayed because of her participation in the Jiangsu Provincial Acrobatic Troupe's "Little Bridge and Flowing Water".

Wang Shuo, who has grown up step by step from actor to choreographer and assistant to the head of the troupe, said frankly that the Jiangsu Provincial Acrobatic Troupe attaches great importance to talent training and has introduced a number of incentive mechanisms to promote the inheritance and development of the troupe. On this platform, each actor's Ability can be greatly improved.

The 16-year-old Wang Mengchen won the "Golden Chrysanthemum Award", the highest award in the Chinese acrobatics competition, with "Refinement - Inversion Skill".

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  In 2022, Wang Mengchen, who is known for his top skills, successfully won the "Golden Chrysanthemum Award", the highest award in the Chinese acrobatics competition, for his original acrobatic "Refinement-Inversion Skill".

At only 16 years old, she did not feel complacent, and still insisted on practicing exercises every day.

"If you don't practice for one day, you will know, if you don't practice for two days, the teacher will know, and if you don't practice for three days, the audience will know." Coach Cao Lei revealed that Wang Mengchen has to train with a weight of 20 catties for 8 hours a day. - Inversion Skills", launched an impact on the world's highest acrobatic award "Golden Clown Award".

  In the eyes of ordinary people, it is very hard for acrobats to practice all the year round, but Zheng Chaoshuai, a 20-year-old guy, doesn't think so.

He said that he suffered a lot when he was a child, but now he is becoming more and more skilled in pinball, fancy poles, diabolo, etc. He often performs on stage, enjoys the beauty of art, and can appreciate it from the audience's applause and applause. achievement and happiness.

  Zheng Chaoshuai and his companions often participate in Huimin performances organized by the Jiangsu Provincial Acrobatic Troupe.

According to Jin Chongqing, the deputy head of the Jiangsu Provincial Acrobatic Troupe, during the Spring Festival this year, the troupe selected actors and programs to perform 42 times in the Jiulongkou Tourist Resort for tourists, and also organized programs to perform on-site at scenic spots in various towns (districts) Up to 30 sessions.

Acrobats go deep into the countryside to deliver shows.

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  "We have held the 'Jianhu Acrobatics Village to School to School' brand benefit event project of 'Jianhu Acrobatics Weekend Theater' for 7 consecutive years, with an average of more than 300 performances per year. Every village (residential), primary and secondary school in the county, at least Perform an acrobatic show, and perform two acrobatic shows or plays every Saturday and Sunday in the Grand Theater of the County Culture and Art Center." Jin Chongqing said that these two projects of benefiting the people have been included in the government's practical projects for the people, and become the construction of the lake. Important branding activities of culture.

  "Acrobatic art comes from the people and serves the people." Wu Qikai, deputy director of the Jianhu County Culture and Tourism Bureau and head of the Jiangsu Acrobatic Troupe, said that the Jiangsu Acrobatic Troupe has always adhered to the people-centered work orientation and practiced acrobatic culture in a down-to-earth manner. For the social function of benefiting the people and benefiting the people, make "Jianhu Acrobatics" a booster for creating excellent rural public cultural services.

Huimin performances are well received by grassroots people.

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  In Jianhu, acrobatics is not an art behind closed doors, and has always been "zero distance" from the public.

In Hope Square and Civic Square in the county seat, there are always acrobats among the crowd doing morning exercises every weekend. They not only demonstrate their movement skills for the citizens, but are also willing to discuss their skills with some "folk masters".

In 53 schools in the county, acrobatic coaches and outstanding actors go deep into the classroom, explain the basic theoretical knowledge of acrobatics to students, and provide guidance on basic technical skills, with a total of 30 class hours per year; the acrobatic troupe also cooperates with 8 schools including Huyang Road Primary School on campus A gallery of intangible cultural heritage acrobatics is jointly built in the hall to popularize the knowledge of acrobatics and the demonstration of basic technical movements with pictures and texts.

"Jianhu Acrobatics Inheritance Base" is open to the public on weekends and holidays, attracting many "fans" of acrobatics to visit, experience, and understand the front and back of the acrobats.

On the "online stage", the performing arts activities held or undertaken by the Jiangsu Acrobatic Troupe will be broadcast live online, and at the same time, some high-quality plays and programs will be put on the public cultural cloud for promotion and display.

The coach guides the young actors to practice.

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  The courage of the Jiangsu Acrobatic Troupe to benefit the people and open up comes from the continuous innovation and creation of the program.

Since 2008, the troupe has innovatively integrated acrobatic art with poetry, dance, drama and other arts, and has successively created 4 large-scale stage plays and more than 80 small-scale programs.

Wu Qikai believes that the art troupe must have its own representative works. Only by creating high-quality masterpieces can the brand of "Jianhu Acrobatics" be created, and the "Jianhu Acrobatics" brand can be better protected, inherited, utilized and developed well. Lake acrobatics" is an intangible cultural heritage item.

The Jiangsu Provincial Acrobatic Troupe delivered wonderful programs to the doorsteps of the masses.

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  Wu Qikai said that Huimin's performance is a work of self-imposed pressure by the acrobatic troupe, and it does not make superficial articles, let alone fool the common people.

There will be no less than 20 actors participating in the performance of "From Village to Village", and each performance will not be less than 1.5 hours; after each performance of "Weekend Theater", 5 audience members will be randomly invited to comment on the program and listen to the audience's opinions with humility. Opinion.

All the programs performed by Huimin are also updated every year, and the audience will never be allowed to watch the programs they have seen in the past.

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