Complete Collection of Chinese Folk Art (14) - Entertainment Edition. Fireworks Volume

Author: Lü Pintian
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Publish Date: 1993-11-01
Features: "Youyi Bian · Shehuo Juan" is the 14th volume of the entire book. Shehuo is a comprehensive art that integrates forms such as fine arts, dance, opera, music, martial arts, and acrobatics. This volume focuses on systematically presenting, from the perspective of fine arts and in terms of plasticity, the widely popular group entertainment activities in Chinese folk culture, such as lanterns, fireworks, dragon dances, lion dances, platform performances, stilts, yangge, dry boats, cloud chariots, drum performances, turning nine curves, whipping the spring ox, jumping on reed pipes, Moba Zongge, dragon boat races, and walking on swords. Through the vivid and lively real-life photographs and macroscopic and penetrating literary theories, it comprehensively reflects the artistic forms of folk festivals and entertainment activities across China's ethnic groups, further highlighting the extensive nature of Chinese folk art forms.