Portable space

There are four sets of lion costumes, two big, two small, and four sets, which are well preserved in the box.

Lion dance is an essential part of the annual social fire, divided into southern lions and northern lions.The shape of the northern lion resembles that of a real lion, with a relatively simple head and golden hair all over its body.A lion with a red knot on its head is a male lion, and a lion with a green knot is a female.The trousers and shoes of the lion dancers will be covered with fur. Before the dance, it looks like a lifelike lion.

What is played here is the northern lion, which usually appears in pairs of male and female; led by the owner dressed as a warrior.Sometimes a pair of northern lions will be paired with a pair of young northern lions. The little lions tease the big lion, and the big lion plays with them for fun, showing family harmony.However, the village is small and lacks manpower. The old village head and a few old people discussed together and took out two sets, one big and one small. The big one can accommodate two adults, and the small one is for eleven or twelve-year-olds. For play.

The old village head shouted to the people around him: "That young man is willing to play the lion?"

"I'll come." "I'll come." As soon as the words finished, there were two promises, and both Wang Laoqiang and Wang Peng ran over.

The old village chief took a look at Wang Laoqiang and said, "How old are you? Are you here to play with a lion? It takes such a lot of labor to beat the gong or lift the core." Then he looked at Wang Peng and said, "Wang Peng is suitable, but you need to find another young man."

Wang Laoqiang and the old village chief scolded but dared not refute. They could only smile wryly and shrugged their shoulders to Zhang Taiping behind him to express their helplessness.

According to Zhang Taiping's understanding, most of the Shehuo nowadays are pulled by cars, and rarely carried by people, so he walked up to the old village chief and said, "Old man, do you want some cars to pull the core? If people carry it, it will be tiring and inconvenient, and the Shehuo outside are all pulled by cars now, so there are more places to turn around and farther to swim.”

It has been several years since the village has participated in playing social games, and the old village chief’s thoughts are still stuck in the kind of games that were played a few years ago or even more than ten years ago, so he didn’t think of using a car to pull them, and Zhang Taiping had to take them together. When I reminded, I remembered that in recent years, the community fires in other villages were all pulled by cars.He patted his trouser legs and said, "Hey, it's a good way to use a car to pull it, which saves manpower."

"See if we can find motor vehicles in the village," Zhang Taiping said.

"There are still two brick-pulling four-wheeled 'Shifeng' cars in the village, which may not be enough." The old village chief thought for a while and said, "But this is not a problem. Tonight, I will go to Tuping Village Han Baoguo to borrow two. The car came over, and he still gave it to me because of the face.”

Zhang Taiping smiled and said: "Old uncle must have this face, but we can't borrow it for nothing, let's calculate it according to the rental wages, and the two cars in the village should be the same."

The old village chief waved his hand and said, "I borrowed money from him, and he still dares to ask me if I can get the money?"

Zhang Taiping shook his head and said: "This is not a question of whether people dare or not, but a question of whether we should. Anyway, the village is not short of this money now, so we can't make others feel uncomfortable, right?"

The old village chief thought for a while and finally said: "This is also the reason. The society is constantly changing, so just follow what you said."

Just as the old village head lamented, the society is constantly changing. If something like this happened more than ten years ago or even a few years ago, all the people in the village would be asked to contribute. No one would complain or want to get anything out of it, but Today's society, which is increasingly corrupted by money, is different.It's not that people lose their simplicity, it's just that the position of simplicity has been pushed back a little bit.

Zhang Taiping continued: "The people who are busy here can't be allowed to work in vain. Each person counts as one job per day, and when the time comes, a towel or a bag of washing powder for each worker will be distributed to me. "

"This is no problem. The money is still spent in the village, and nothing is lost." The old village chief said, "But how can you pay for this money? Collective activities should be paid for by the village."

Zhang Taiping smiled and didn't entangle the old village head about this matter. Anyway, it didn't cost much, and the village didn't lose much if it was spent by the village.

At this time, some eleven or twelve-year-old half-children came over and said to the old village chief, "Village chief, is there no one to play with this lion yet?"

The old village head put the little lion costume in front of them and said: "No one has played it yet, you guys discuss it to see who is suitable, then choose two people to drill in it for a try, if you don't know how to play it, wait for a while to teach I will teach you."

The boys happily took the lion costumes aside and tried them on.

After a while, Wang Peng found a young man to join him, and there were two half-sized men, all wearing lion costumes on their bodies, and started jumping around in the arena.

The former one is a lion's head, holding the lion's head upright with both hands, and the latter one is a lion's body, bent behind to keep the waist of the former one, so that it looks like a majestic and mighty lion with its head upright and chest out from the outside. .

However, the big two, two small and four people don't have much experience in playing with lions, and the front and rear people can't cooperate together, and they look ridiculous when they walk around.

"Ouch!" Wang Peng, one of the big lions, yelled, and then the big lion fell to the ground and rolled into a ball.

Someone next to him jokingly said, "Wang Peng, that's not bad, you learned how to roll a lion in such a short time?"

The people next to him all laughed when they heard it.

Wang Peng took off the lion's head and came out and said to the people behind him: "Just grab my waist, don't pull my pants, they almost pulled my pants off."

The person behind also got out from inside and said embarrassingly: "I didn't step well just now, I almost fell down, I grabbed it randomly in a hurry, but I didn't expect to catch it on your pants, why didn't you tighten your belt? "

"Isn't this wearing sweatpants for the convenience of running?" Wang Peng said, pulling the elastic band on the sweatpants.

"Pay attention next time, pay attention next time."

The old village chief called Wang Gui over and said, "You have played with lions before, let them explain the essentials."

After smoking a cigarette, Wang Peng and the two got into the lion again. This time with Wang Gui's guidance, they slowly found a little feeling. fall down.

The old village chief took another look in the warehouse and took out a pair of willow legs and shouted: "Here are two pairs of willow legs, who would walk with these?"

"Willow legs" is the name in Guanzhong, because it is made of willow wood.In other places, it is also called binding wood feet, tie high feet, walk high legs, kidnappers, stepping on stilts, etc.It is two thick pieces of wood that are thicker than the arms. When playing, they are tied to the legs and used to poke the ground when walking.

High and low are also different, divided into three classes: high, middle and low.The tallest can reach one foot, and the lowest is only less than two feet high.

This is not an activity that everyone can play. You must have skills, courage and good balance. If you play well, you can sing and dance on it or make some moves such as running and crossing obstacles.However, few people have been able to play this in recent years, and even fewer high-difficulty moves.

The old village head took out a pair of "middle stilts" more than one meter high and a pair of "low stilts" that eat more.

Seeing Lie Xin, a young man ran forward happily and said, "I'll try it, I'll try it."

The old village chief asked, "Will you go this way?"

"I haven't passed by." The young man shook his head and said, "Try it."

"It's fine if you haven't passed by." The old village chief took the willow legs back again.Because it is very dangerous for people who have never played with this thing. If one accidentally falls down, there is a risk of fracture or head bleeding, so the village chief simply won’t let him try it, and the village will not use it this year. programme.

On the other side, a group of people are moving out a bunch of things under the guidance of a few old people, and then assembling them into a shelf for the core.

Zhang Taiping went over to have a look, and found that all the equipment underneath was carried by people, and it was not stable on the car.Then he said: "We don't need people to carry it this year, we only use the car to pull it, so we don't need the handles lifted by these people. Find a way to add a fixed thing to the bottom, and it will be stable on the car when the time comes."

The old man who was repairing Qian said: "Didn't you also learn carpentry for a few years, this task is entrusted to you, and you can do it as you see fit."

Zhang Taiping saw that everyone else was busy with work, and standing here by himself was not an option, so he agreed to find a job to do, and went home to fetch the carpenter, and began to add solid support to the frames of these cores. Boards or something.