Rolling lamp (sea salt rolling lamp)

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: rolling lamp (sea salt rolling lamp)

Applicant: Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province

Item No.: 119

Project No.: Ⅲ - 16

Time of publication: 2008 (second batch)

Category: traditional dance

Region: Zhejiang Province

Type: Extension Project

Applicant: Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province

Protection unit: Haiyan Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center

Brief introduction of rolling lamp (sea salt rolling lamp)

Applicant: Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province

Haiyan rolling lantern is a kind of competitive dance performed during festivals and lantern fairs in Zhejiang Province. It originated in Haiyan County, Zhejiang Province, and has a long history of more than 800 years. It is recorded in the local literature of Haiyan in the Southern Song Dynasty and the early Qing Dynasty.

According to folklore, Haiyan is located on the North Bank of Hangzhou Bay, bordering on the sea. In ancient times, there was a trading port, Shupu port, which was often attacked by the sea and pirates. In order to resist foreign aggression, Haiyan has formed a local martial arts ethos, and rolling lantern competition is popular among the people to show the strength of the village. During the competition, some villages produced red lantern and others produced black lantern. The village that captured the black lantern was recognized as excellent in martial arts and powerful in strength. Even pirates avoided the attack and did not dare to invade. Peng Sunyi, a scholar of Haiyan in the Qing Dynasty, recorded the performance of rolling lanterns in his poem lundeng: "children tie bamboo as a wheel, show and rotate, and the lanterns don't go out. When a strong man transports it, he tosses it endlessly in the middle of the road and says, "roll the lamp." It can be seen that rolling lamp was very popular in Haiyan at that time.

Rolling lantern has been handed down from generation to generation in Haiyan folk. It is performed every year on the Lantern Festival. This custom continued until 1949. In 1956, the rolling lantern team of Qinshan town took part in the county's literature and art performance and put the rolling lantern performance on the stage for the first time. In the 1980s, the sea salt rolling lantern was included in the Zhejiang volume of Chinese folk dance integration after excavation and arrangement, and then it was put on the stage many times.

In the sea salt rolling lantern performance, the difficulty of each set of movements is different, with emphasis on skill and strength. Generally, it varies from person to person according to their merits. During the dance, in addition to rotating the lamps up, down, left and right, we also need to roll around the lamps, such as "tiger jump" and "spin", supplemented by classical dance movements such as "shaking hands", "washing waist" and "step and turn over". The accompaniment is mainly "quick Satire" of gongs and drums, and improvised with "zouma Gong" and "seven character Gong" to set off the tense atmosphere.

Sea salt rolling lantern is a kind of folk competitive dance performance form for the working people to entertain themselves. It is mainly used for Spring Festival, New Year celebrations, temple fairs and other activities. It is a typical representative of local folk culture. In the movement style, there are not only the typical graceful and small in the southern region, but also the simple and straightforward of the working people, which repose the good wishes of the working people for life. In recent years, with the changes of the times, the inheritance crisis of sea salt rolling lamp appears, and it is urgent to rescue and protect.

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