Xiqin Association

In the Xiqin Assembly Hall, the ancient town of Yantan, there are original ecological performances with local characteristics. Simple, pure and simple, the local customs are fully displayed. I have never seen such a performance. I personally think it is quite interesting. Tujia wizard (Tima) is worshipping the ancestors, praying for abundance and exorcism. This performance style is a crafty, about 6,000 years old, and its origin can be traced back to the ancient witch songs. The Fuyang folk song is created by the people of Tujia, Miao, Han and other ethnic groups in Tujia and Miao Autonomous County, with rich forms and melodiousness. The gongyang drum is also known as "playing guy", which is a traditional Tujia percussion music circulating in Wulingshan area, with its own unique personality and characteristics. Going up the knife mountain is also called climbing knife ladder, which is to insert the knife pole into the ground and climb on the blade. The knife bar is usually 20 or 30 meters high, and there are 12 less on the left and right sides of the knife bar, and 36 more. When the "God's knife" is inserted, the performer wears a row hat, wears a French coat, barefoot, hangs an umbrella on his back, holds the horn, approaches the knife ladder, holds the blade, and starts to climb with his hands and feet until the top of the pile. Stepping on the iron scorpion is also called "killing the scorpion", originated in the Yin Shang period, is a folk stunt that artists have stepped on the red scorpion mouth with their bare feet, and is also an important part of "up the knife mountain, down the fire". Mask Yang Opera is a primitive drama performed by the people of Xiangyang in folk folk activities for thousands of years, and is named after the wooden face shell in the play, also known as "face shell play" or "jump play".

At the midpoint of the ancient town of Yantan, there is a Xiqin club hall where the Tujia performances will be staged. The performances start around 6:30 pm, about an hour. If it is not a special festival, it is still difficult to see the traditional programs of the Tujia family, and the West Qin Club is prepared for foreign tourists, but it can make people understand the customs of the Tujia more deeply. The first program is the Tujia sacrifice. The most dangerous thing in the show is to go to the knife mountain, before the opening of someone to test, with the board can be cut, from the first knife he stepped on, his heart is licking, deeply afraid that he accidentally cut it, but people are good, the whole process is easy to get up and down, really also pinched a sweat for him. The program is one ring after another, to the mountain song, dance, surprises, can be regarded as experiencing a Tujia customs.