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Charming Western Hunan

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Charming Western Hunan

        The theatre is located in the Wulingyuan district, near the International Pullman Hotel. This performance attracts seas of tourists both from home and abroad, such as Korea, South East Asia, Europe and America. In 2010 Shanghai World Exhibition, performers of Charming Western Hunan represented Hunan province and demonstrated the charming art of Huxiang culture. In 2012 Spring Festival Galla, one part was showed to all Chinese people and overseas Chinese.  It can be divided into indoor performance and outdoor performance.  Each night, the performance will begin at 7:10 pm and last for about 1.5 hours. It is really a visual taste. And in order to get perfect seats and more discount, one should book the ticket one day ahead.  Firstly, one can enjoy the indoor performance.

       These four Chinese characters were written by a famous painter, Huangyongyu, who was born in the western Hunan.

 

        At the beginning of indoor performance, the Miao ethnic minorities will show their worship and love to fire and drum.

       Two girls are at the center stage while other girls are sing melody songs. The two girls will show their skilled actions to keep balanc

 

       Yao ethnic minority’s boys and girls will tell you about their love stories by acrobatics.                                                                                                               

      Tujia girl’s wedding, marriage crying and dancing will be showed.

 

        The western Hunan became renowned mainly for three ancient mysteries. The first mystery is called “Corpse Driving”. As for its origin, the legend said that the king governing the western Hunan was betrayed by his soldiers and failed against his enemy. After his failure, he decided to take the died soldiers go back home. It sounds unbelievable, but one wizard succeeded in driving the deads back. Many years ago, the western Hunan was poor and rarely visited by the outsiders. The local people usually chose to leave away from home for business. Sometimes, once left home, they would never go back again. Informed of death news, their relatives would ask the masters to drive the deads back home. Maybe you would wonder why they did not choose any vehicles. That is because the landform of western Hunan is complex and some rocky mountains soar high. The vehicles were badly limited. And most of the time, the local people could not afford the expensive vehicles. So they were inclined to ask help from wizard. The wizard had an another name, the master of driving corpse. Besides attending an army, the work of driving deads was very popular and earned a lot. If one wanted to get this job, he must pass three examinations. Firstly, he was required to have a strong body, because he would usually carry the died people. Secondly, he should be courageous. Thirdly, he should be ugly, because a Chinese saying goes that ghost feared the ugly people a lot. The master would decide whether he would drive the dead by the way of death. In the following three conditions, if one was beheaded, died by hanging or died in battles, the master would drive. But, if one suicided or one was burned to death, the master would not drive. 

        In the outdoor performance, walking on fire by naked feet and walking on knife by naked feet, and Guiguqigong. All the performers are experienced.

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