"Acrobatics (Sheyang Acrobatics)" Acrobatics (Sheyang Acrobatics), a traditional sports, recreation and acrobatics project in the fourth batch of representative projects of municipal intangible cultural heritage. In April 1957, the Xinyi Acrobatic Troupe (Zhou Changfu's team), Xinsheng Acrobatic Troupe (Zhou Guofa's team), and Fujian Quanzhou Yixin Circus (Sheyang people, Chen Songshan's team) of the 18 troupes of Jianhu successively registered and merged in Sheyang to form the Sheyang County Acrobatic Troupe. The art of acrobatics has since taken root in Sheyang. Acrobatics has made a qualitative leap from performing on the street to performing on the stage, and from wandering folk artists to becoming people's literary and artistic workers. After the establishment of the troupe, due to the change in the status of performers, the expansion of the team, and the support of the government, the performance costumes and props have been continuously updated and purchased, the troupe's equipment has been greatly improved, the quality of the program has been improved, the performance area has been expanded, and the collective economic income has also increased significantly. From then on, the folk acrobatic team abandoned the horses and boats, said goodbye to the shed cloth fence, walked into the regular theater, and toured cities across the province. In 1960, the province organized a provincial acrobatics festival, which played a great role in promoting the development, promotion and improvement of acrobatics. The county acrobatics troupe participated in the festival and achieved good results, but still felt its own shortcomings. In order to learn from others' strengths and make up for its own weaknesses, the county government reorganized the troupe, changing it from a family-based troupe to a social-based troupe, reducing some personnel and absorbing a large number of better performing artists from other places into the troupe, such as Qi Chunlin from Hangzhou, Wang Zhongbao from Tianjin, Wang Daixiao from Shanghai, Wang Shuigen from Wuxi, Dong Yongbiao from Wuhan, Li Zhihuan from Guangdong, etc. The troupe's personnel tended to be uniform, and the programs were more sophisticated. At the same time, a band was formed to play with the performance, set off the atmosphere of the performance, purchased stage lighting, and used scenery to integrate performance, music, lighting, and stage beauty, greatly improving the quality and effect of the performance. Since then, Sheyang County Acrobatic Troupe has entered the mainstream, performing in cities of Jiangsu, Shanghai, Zhejiang, Jiangxi, Fujian and other provinces and cities. Wherever it goes, it is well received by the audience and has received a strong response, entering a new era. In the early 1970s, the flow of artistic talents was no longer like in the 1960s, when talents could be recruited everywhere. Acrobats were clear about this: it was urgent to train successors. With the approval of the government, in August 1970, May 1975, and April 1983, primary school students were recruited throughout the county (also from neighboring counties and other places); in March 1992, March 1999, and September 2008, with the approval of the Provincial Department of Culture, students were recruited through Yancheng Lu Xun Opera School, recruiting 15-25 people each term, and training them in special classes. The government attaches great importance to this work and has allocated training funds to ensure that there are successors to acrobatics and that the art of acrobatics can thrive and prosper in our area. One of the major features of Sheyang Acrobatic Troupe is the neat team of actors and the strong performance lineup. When performing collective programs, the neat team, the fit body and the strong physique give the audience a feeling of spiritual excitement. Secondly, it is important to pay attention to the training of basic basic skills, and the waist, legs, top and somersaults go hand in hand and keep working hard, so that the actors can be well-trained, have solid basic skills, be versatile and handy. After strengthening and improving, the program can meet the requirements of high, difficult, new and beautiful, and win the praise of the audience. The third is to continuously create fine products. Form your own signature program, so that others don’t have it, and others have it. For example, in the 1960s and 1970s, the Sheyang Acrobatic Troupe performed rotating plates, biting flowers, hand skills, top skills, pole carrying, cup rolling, opponent top bowl, chair top brick splitting, top cylinder, double climbing pole, gymnastics skills, shaking board chair top, water meteor, high platform fixed car, car skills, shaking plate clapping, aerial trapeze, ventriloquism, tightrope walking, umbrella pedaling, diabolo, magic, collective martial arts, etc., which are all characteristic programs with a sense of the times. With the progress of society, people's cultural living standards are constantly improving, and the appreciation requirements are getting higher and higher. This has prompted the acrobatic programs to be continuously improved, innovated and innovative while being inherited. Sheyang Acrobatic Troupe closely follows the pulse of the times, and arranges the "biting flower" program of a single performance into "three-layer biting flower", and sublimates the combination of pedaling umbrellas and pedaling people into "double pedaling skills". The top skills have developed from static to dynamic, and are performed on a unicycle. "Walking on the tightrope" absorbs some movements of hard steel wires, and performs forward rolls, backflips, front bridges, etc. on soft steel wires. Hand skills have developed from throwing six circles to ten; five beats have been increased to seven; "Head skills" have been increased from double small head tops to head jumps, head up and down stairs; "High car kicking bowls" is performed on a high platform, and multiple bowls are kicked continuously, etc. Through innovation and development, these programs have become not only difficult, but also novel and more beautiful, and have won many awards in national, East China and provincial competitions. After entering the 1980s, with the continuous deepening of reform and opening up, the commodity economy has emerged, the cultural market is rich and colorful, television and video have developed and popularized unprecedentedly, and modern popular culture such as dance halls, movie theaters, and popular music have had a great impact on acrobatics, resulting in a recession and shrinkage in the acrobatics performance art market. In addition, the operating mechanism, ideological concepts and troupe system formed during the planned economy period, as well as the replacement of the band's performance with tapes, have caused the troupe to have too many redundant staff and too heavy a burden on personnel. The acrobatics troupe is difficult to maintain normal artistic production and daily expenses, so that it cannot perform or loses more and more money. Many professional acrobatics troupes have been paralyzed and revoked by local governments. Although our county's acrobatics troupe is facing many difficulties and is struggling, due to the attention of the local government, in 1987 and 1988, it arranged surplus redundant staff and used it as a special reserved drama, with special funds allocated from the finance every year to support it. From the perspective of its own survival and development, the troupe correctly faced the objective factors of the performance market and realized that, first, acrobatics must change with the development of the situation, and the audience must not abandon acrobatics; second, acrobatics is a genuine popular art, and there is still a certain performance market in the grassroots towns and villages, and it is still popular; third, it is not affected by language and characters, and has no language barriers in international cultural exchanges. It can expand to the international market and make this Chinese art treasure more gorgeous. Through the support of the government and its own efforts, while achieving domestic success, it actively expands the international performance market through various channels, achieving a win-win situation of social and economic benefits, and making acrobatics a characteristic cultural brand of our county. Sheyang Acrobatics Chronicle In 1964, Chen Meiyu accompanied the Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe to visit seven West African countries on behalf of the country. In May 1971, he was invited to perform for Prince Sihanouk in Wuxi. At the end of 1972, he was invited by the Nanjing Military Region to perform for the garrison and training troops in the joint exercise in Chengang. In May 1973, he participated in the provincial acrobatics performance. The provincial TV station broadcast a program of Sheyang Acrobatic Troupe live, and he and Nanjing Acrobatic Troupe performed for the Mansudae Art Troupe of North Korea. In September 1978, he took over the "Xinhuai Filter Element Factory", which was closed down three months later and its assets were sold to Hexing Leather Factory. In October 1979, he performed for the Wenzhou Military Region. In September 1981, he performed in three teams, one team was led by Chen Meiyu and Zhang Youfang; the second team was led by Zhao Yunqing and Wang Shuigen; the third team was led by Qi Chunlin and Wang Fubao, and they merged three months later. In early 1982, he performed in two teams, one team was led by Zhao Yunqing and Chen Meiyu; the second team was led by Qi Chunlin and Wang Fubao. In May, the group was merged; in April 1983, the county government approved the recruitment of 21 students in the third batch, who were trained at the troupe site; in December 1983, the group headed by Ni Xuefan was absorbed, and the group was established under the Acrobatic Troupe, with Qi Chunlin and Ni Xuefan as the leaders; in June 1984, Huang Binbin took over the contract and led the group to perform for half a year; in April 1985, the students entered the troupe and performed in two teams. Two months later, the whole group was merged for training, and the band was disbanded and replaced by recording. In August 1985, Wang Zhongbao took over the contract to lead the performance, which ended at the end of the year. In April 1986, the 83rd batch of students graduated. In May 1987, Zhao Yunqing took over the performance team, and some comrades stayed behind and were paid 30% of their wages by the troupe. In October 1987, the group was disbanded. In March 1988, Zhao Yunqing's contract was terminated and the whole troupe stopped performing and trained for half a year. In October of the same year, the troupe participated in the "Jiangsu Province Acrobatics Innovation" program competition. The "Three-layer Biting Flower" performed by Dong Ruiling, Ji Hongling and Wang Cuihong won the first prize, the "Double-pedaling Skills" performed by Shi Biyu and Liu Wanli won the second prize, and the "Tightrope Walking" performed by Wu Benjun won the third prize; in November, the troupe participated in the National "Xin Miao Cup" Acrobatics Competition held in Changsha, and the "Double-pedaling Skills" program won the silver medal, and the "Three-layer Biting Flower" participated in the Yancheng Art Festival Acrobatics Competition and won the first prize. In May 1989, at the first Jiangsu Province Magic Competition, Wang Zhongbao won the gold medal, Jiang Xinlan won the silver medal, and Jiang Yufang won the assistant performance award. In October 1989, at the Yancheng Art Festival, Wang Zhongbao's "Magic" won the Outstanding Performance Award, and Wang Zhongbao and Wang Fubao's "Voice Skills" won the Performance Award. In November 1990, "Three-layer Biting Flowers" won the performance award in the East China Preliminary of the Third National Acrobatic Competition. In 1992, he cooperated with the Hangzhou Youth Acrobatic Troupe to perform in Hong Kong for 100 days. In 2000, he cooperated with the Zhejiang Quyi Acrobatic Troupe to perform in Thailand for 6 months, and continued to cooperate with the troupe in Japan for 8 months in 2001, and cooperated with the troupe again in Thailand for 8 months in 2002. In 2001, some actors went to Singapore for three months. In 2003, some actors went to Macau for performance. In 2004, some actors went to Japan for performance. In 2004, Zhang Zhengyong competed to become the contracted head of Sheyang Acrobatic Troupe for a term of three years. In the Spring Festival of 2005, "Head Skills" was invited to participate in the Chinese Special Administrative Region Spring Festival Gala held in Zhuhai. In 2005, some actors went to South Korea for performance. In 2006, some actors went to South Korea and Malaysia for performance. In 2007, some actors went to Malaysia and Japan for performances. In 2007, Zhang Zhengyong was entrusted by the Sheyang County Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting and Television to continue to serve as the head of the Sheyang Acrobatic Troupe for two years. In 2008, "Double-pedaling Skills" went to Russia for performances, and "Jiujitsu Cup Rolling" went to Japan for performances. In January 2008, "Top Cylinder" was invited to participate in the "Hundred Flowers Welcome the Spring" Spring Festival Gala held in the Great Hall of the People. In November, "Top Cylinder" and "Straw Hat Flying" participated in the literary evening commemorating the 30th anniversary of reform and opening up and the opening ceremony of the first China Farmers Art Festival. . In 2009, Wang Cuihong's magic "Umbrella Change" won the silver medal in the stage group of the 5th Jiangsu Province Magic Competition. In November, "High Platform Fixed Car", "Jiujitsu Carpet Turning" and "Shaking Tube and Bowl" went to Japan for performances. In 2009, the Sheyang County Bureau of Culture, Broadcasting and Television appointed Zhang Zhengyong as the head of the Sheyang County Acrobatic Troupe. From January to May 2010, "High Platform Fixed Car", "Jiujitsu Carpet", and "Shaking Tube and Bowl" were performed in Japan. In 2010, Wang Hu's "Hand Skills" won the gold medal in the skills category of the first Jiangsu Province Acrobatic Competition, and Wang Hu, Cai Xiaosong, and Chen Shuai's "Funny Flying Knife" won the silver medal in the skills category. In 2012, "Head Skills", "Ballet on Ice", and "Jiujitsu Cup Rolling" were commissioned by the Ministry of Culture to visit and perform in the Netherlands, Malta and other countries in Europe. In 2013, Lu Lixin and Zhang Zhengyong won the Wenhua Director Award in the first Jiangsu Province Wenhua Award Competition, and "Hand Skills Passionate Flying" won the Outstanding Program Performance Award. In August 2013, "Ballet on Shoulders", "Silk Hanging", "Dragon and Tiger Leap", and "Sunshine Girl" participated in the opening and closing ceremonies and award ceremony of the National Youth Science and Technology Innovation Competition. In September 2013, "Dragon and Tiger Leap" won the first prize in the square performance of the first Cultural and Art Week of Yancheng City. In October 2013, Sun Xiuzhi's magic show "Feather" won the gold medal in the 6th Jiangsu Province Magic Competition. In November 2013, Wang Hu and others performed "Passionate Hand Skills" in the 9th National Acrobatic Competition. In November 2013, Sun Xiuzhi's magic show "Feather" participated in the 8th Shanghai International Magic Festival. In 2013, after Comrade Zhang Zhengyong retired, Sheyang County Culture, Broadcasting, News and Television Bureau continued to retain him as the head of Sheyang County Acrobatic Troupe. In October 2014, Sun Xiuzhi's magic show "Feather" won the gold medal in the elite stage group in the 5th Yangtze River Delta "Golden Cane" Magic Competition. In November 2014, Huang Yifan and others performed "Dream on the Top" selected for the 2nd Jiangsu Province Wenhua Award Competition.