Mei County is located in the south of Qinling Mountains and the north of Weishui River. The county has 10 towns, 123 administrative villages and a population of 310,000. It is an agricultural county mainly engaged in grain, fruit and fishery. It has a long history, profound cultural heritage and beautiful mountains and rivers. The famous Taibai Mountain National Forest Park, Red River Valley Summer Resort, Zhang Zai Memorial Hall and other places of interest are all located in our county. Mei County is also an important birthplace of Yan Emperor culture and Zhou and Qin culture. 27 bronze wares famous both at home and abroad were unearthed in Mei County. "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkeys" are distributed in Zuitou Village and Xizhai Village in Qinghua Township, Mei County. Zuitou Village, Qinghua Township is located on the Niyu River in the southeastern mountainous area of Mei County, with Qinling Mountains in the south, Zhang Zai's tomb "Master's Tomb" in the west, Zhang Zai Temple in the north, and the Taoist holy place Louguantai in the east. The village has more than 1,100 people, a land area of more than 1,200 acres, and a single personnel structure. Zhang Zai, a famous thinker, philosopher, and master of Guanxue in the Northern Song Dynasty, wrote books and set up a school to give lectures here. Since ancient times, this area has a strong cultural connotation. Zhang Zai's "virtue and emphasis on education" has been subtly influencing the cultural psychology of the people here. In this cultural atmosphere, the local people sublimated the theme of stilts running donkey, a fragment of rural daily entertainment life, into a folk dance "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkeys" with rich life interest and strong ethical education. It can be said that it is natural. The historical origin of stilts driving stubborn donkeys is influenced by Zhang Zai's thoughts. The cultural connotation of Zuitou Village, Xizhai Village, and Shima Temple is very strong. Since ancient times, folk performances with traditional cultural colors have been more active. Around the fifteenth day of the first lunar month, there are more than 10 performances. Until the early Ming Dynasty, the mass cultural activities here added a unique and novel performance style, that is, stilts running donkeys. On the eve of the Republic of China, the eighth-generation descendant of stilts running donkeys made bold artistic processing and gave it new connotations. After the performance, "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkeys" was well received by the people. In May 1989, it participated in the first folk art festival report performance and became a hit. After being rebuilt by the Mei County Cultural Department, it was unveiled during the China Baoji Western Trade Fair in 1992, which caused a sensation in the mountain city and was highly praised by domestic and foreign audiences. In 1994, it made a shining debut at the CCTV Spring Festival Gala and was praised by the Chinese people. The basic content of stilts driving stubborn donkeys The traditional performance forms of stilts running donkeys are mainly running in circles, crossing rivers, going uphill, downhill, lying donkeys, etc., which are characterized by flexible, skilled and thrilling performance skills. As a skit-style folk dance art, at first, people and donkeys were tied to wooden sticks about one foot long, and they performed to their heart's content according to the simple and plain storyline. After being artistically processed by the Mei County Cultural Department, the entire dance after the adaptation is a complete and high-grade pantomime skit. It revolves around two couples of old and young driving donkeys to travel on a narrow road and meet each other. The overall situation ends with the change process from not giving in to each other to finally giving in to each other. The program strives to highlight the word "stubborn". Performance form: square tour, stage performance. Basic characteristics of stilts driving stubborn donkeys 1. The performance skills are thrilling and skillful. 2. The music integrates Qinqiang, Meihu and Meixian Daoqing, which is full of regional characteristics. 3. The plot is humorous, ups and downs, and fascinating. 4. The artistic images of people and donkeys are vivid and lifelike, and the donkey is very humane. The main value of stilts driving stubborn donkeys 1. "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkeys" is a model of local traditional ethnic folk culture and art, and is widely representative. 2. It is a fine product of ethnic folk traditional dance, which is very artistic and ornamental, and has development and promotion. 3. Protecting and inheriting the folk traditional dance "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkeys" is of great significance to the prosperity of mass cultural and artistic undertakings, cultural exchanges between China and foreign countries, and the promotion of economic development and the construction of a harmonious society. 4. Carry forward advanced culture, strengthen rural cultural construction, and continuously meet the growing cultural and spiritual life needs of the broad masses of people. The endangered status of "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkey" In recent years, with the rapid development of the film and television media industry, the villagers in Zuitou Village, Qinghua Township, a remote area, mainly rely on watching colorful TV programs to meet their spiritual needs; the comprehensive realization of agricultural modernization and the establishment of a market economy system, a large number of young and middle-aged laborers go out to work all year round, coupled with a serious shortage of talent and funds. Therefore, the folk dance "Stilts Driving Stubborn Donkey" has been suspended for many years, and there is no successor. It is in a serious endangered state and urgently needs to be protected, excavated and inherited.