▲Screenshot of online video
In the video, the young actor was tied to the "high-lifting core" of the Shehuo performance, and was wrapped in white cloth from the chest down. After the adults around him found that he could not wake up, he took off his performance clothes and After cutting off the wrapped white cloth, the little actor still didn't wake up. The reporter verified that the video took place in Jingchuan County, Pingliang City, Gansu Province, and the performing social team belongs to Shuiquan Village, Chengguan Town. It is understood that the "Gao Ti Xinzi" in Shuiquan Village is a national intangible cultural heritage.
A reporter from Red Star News called the Chengguan Town Government of Jingchuan County about this matter. The staff on duty said that the news spread online was untrue. The young actor did not faint, but was just too sleepy and fell asleep. "The child was fine. We found him after he fell asleep and put him down. The rumors on the Internet are all about picking up the beginning and ending and making assumptions."
Jingchuan County holds Shehuo on the 14th and 15th of the first lunar month every year. Performance, according to the news released by the local "Jingchuan Release", "Xinzi" (also known as "Gao Li Xinzi") is the essence of Jingchuan Shehuo and is called the "pressing show". Usually the scene is arranged on the car, and then drama characters and short stories about current life are arranged. After the appearance is decorated, children dressed up in various performance roles are standing on the shelves or tied up, making different postures.
responded to some netizens’ questions about whether children who participate in these social performances get up early, and some get up as early as three in the morning. The staff of Chengguan Town, Jingchuan County denied this, saying, “When I wake up in the morning, I put on makeup. On the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, To make it more grand, we also asked the makeup team to do the makeup one by one." The staff member said that the young actor got up at around 7 o'clock to put on makeup. After putting on the makeup, he went to the "core" and performed on the street around 11 o'clock. Not long after we came out, the child was so sleepy that he fell asleep. Last night, the village spontaneously organized a dragon and lion dance, and the sleeping children also participated.
Source: Red Star News
