Nose nails, eye stubble.
Nose nail and eye stubble are thrilling and traditional acrobatic activities with early origins.
In 2008, the nose nail and eye stubble were included in the list of municipal intangible cultural heritage.
Two 8 cm long bone needles were inserted into the two nostrils respectively, and then the nostrils were plugged with paper. During this period, the performers were calm, talked and laughed freely, and frequently interacted with the audience at close ......
In Wuqiao Acrobatic World Jianghu Cultural City, the audience who is performing in the city's intangible cultural heritage project Wuqiao Acrobatic Nose Nail Eye Stubble Inheritor Li Yinhuai almost gasped, and they were even more worried about the elderly.
Seeing the bone needle "drilling" out from under the eyelids, some timid people covered their eyes ......
The nose nail and eye stubble used to be a qigong program performed by the old Beijing Tianqiao, and now, there are only a handful of people who can perform this unique job.
Ancient acrobatics.
After the performance, the audience, who calmed their nerves, gave warm applause to the old artist.
Some viewers stepped forward and asked, "Do you have any stabs in your eyes and nose?"Is this a peculiar feature of the show?”
This actually belongs to the traditional internal qigong program, the bone needle is inserted in the nostrils like nails, and 'drills' out in the eyes, like stubble, so it has the name 'nose nail eye stubble'. Coming to the backstage, Li Yinhuai said, "I watched this show less than once, and now, not many people can play it." ”
Wuqiao has a long history of acrobatics, all-encompassing, stunts outstanding, worthy of the reputation of "the hometown of acrobatics". According to the records of "Historical Records" and "Book of Han", in the area of ancient Jizhou, a game in which people wore masks with horns and competed with each other and fought with each other. The folk call it "Chiyou Opera". "Chiyou opera" is the prototype of ancient acrobatics.
During the Northern and Southern Dynasties, the historian Ren Fang once recorded in the "Narrative of Differences", "Jizhou has a famous opera." Its people are two, two, three, three, and three, wearing horns on their heads and countering each other, and the Han Dynasty makes horns to resist the play, covering its legacy." This kind of activity is both a performance and a competition, and was later renamed "Jiao Duet Opera". The further development and evolution of Jiaoju opera and other labor, sports and games formed the "Hundred Operas" with diverse skills and rich content in the Han Dynasty. "Hundred operas" is a general term for the art of various performances based on acrobatics in ancient times.
The nose nail and eye stubble are traditional acrobatics formed with the development of "Hundred Opera". Like the "Hundred Operas" at that time, it flourished during the Han and Tang dynasties, and entering the house became the main form of entertainment for the ruling class. In the Song Dynasty, this skill went to the folk with acrobatics and became an art that the common people in the market could also see.
The art forged by blood and tears.
Whether it is from the people, or from the court to the people, the nose nail eye stubble, which has flourished in the folk for a long time, has gradually become cold because of its extremely high technical requirements. In recent years, people's material life has been continuously improved, and rural cultural life has also quietly emerged. The ancient program of nose nails and eye stubble, after the persistence of several generations of inheritors, has entered the tourist attractions and rural cultural activities.
Even so, there are very few actors who can perform this show. The reason for this is that few people are willing to let their children practice this skill hard.
Li Yinhuai, 72 years old this year, was born in an acrobatic family, and began to perform acrobatics seven or eight generations from his ancestors, including nose nails and eye stubble. Li Yinhuai began to learn this skill with his father Li Fuyou at the age of 8, learned it at the age of 11, and followed his father, uncle, and aunt to carry a flat burden and push a cart around the rivers and lakes at the age of 15.
Learn the nose nails and eye stubble are bitter!It's really sinned!Recalling the past, Li Yinhuai was full of emotion, "To learn the nasal nails and eye stubble, you must first practice internal qigong, and rely on luck to thicken the lacrimal sac tube, so that the bone needles can penetrate from the nostrils to the eyes." When I was studying art, the tears in my eyes were dry, and if I wasn't careful, I would burst my tears. ”
In those years, the whole family walked along the Grand Canal to perform in a township and a village. I have traveled north to the three eastern provinces and south to Liangguang. Li Yinhuai recalled. He vaguely remembered that in 1985, when he was performing nose nails and eye stubble in Tongjiang County, Heilongjiang Province, the bone needle was inserted and the lacrimal sac tube was punctured and bloodied. In order not to leave regrets for the audience, he took another breath, thickened the tear sac duct, and endured the pain to complete the performance.
Li Yinhuai's family kung fu has acrobatics, tricks, qigong and other skills, among them, swallowing iron balls and nose nails and eye stubble also belong to internal qigong. Iron ball swallowing is when the performer swallows a 12-tael solid iron ball into the stomach and then luckily spits the ball out. For generations, this technique has been performed by performers swallowing an iron ball, and Li Yinhuai created a record of swallowing two iron balls at the same time after some research and testing.
Stunts can't be lost.
In 1993, Li Yinhuai returned to his hometown and became an actor in Wuqiao Acrobatic World. "A few years ago, I performed in the big world to swallow iron balls, eat swords, eat fire and spit fire, and return to the cave of three immortals. Later, no one could perform the nose nail eye stubble, so I dedicated to this show. Li Yinhuai said.
Performing nose nails and eye stubble, it is not enough to have hard work, but also soft power, and can "gong songs" and "mouths". "One.
Two. Three, one, two, three, never learned art to Maoshan. There is an old Mao Tao in Maoshan, and his unique skills have passed me ......Accompanied by the catchy "gong song", Li Yinhuai hummed the song when he walked the rivers and lakes in the past.
While speaking, Li Yinhuai took out a small box, which contained the props of his performance-bone needle. These bone needles are made from cow bones. In the eyes of ordinary people, there is no room for a grain of sand, but in the eyes of this old man, it can accommodate a few centimeters of bone needles.
Li Yinhuai took out two yellowed bone needles from it and said: "These two bone needles have been performing with me for seven or eight years, and the rest are spare, all of which I polished with cow bones." Cow bones do not hurt the eyes, and the bones of other animals cannot be used as bone needle ......”
Maybe it's because he performs hard qigong with a thin body, or maybe it's because he has been performing nose nails and eye stubble for many years, and gradually, this old-timer in the acrobatic world has been given the nickname "skinny bones".
Over the years, Li Yinhuai has also brought out several apprentices, and now they are scattered all over the country to perform. His son Li Liang began to learn acrobatics at the age of 6 and inherited the family kung fu relatively completely. Because of the highlight of the acrobatic world performance "Shangdao Mountain", he was given the stage name "Strange Foot Li" of the "Eight Monsters of the Rivers and Lakes".
Li Yinhuai's 16-year-old grandson Li Hongyi is in middle school, and after school, he also follows his grandfather Li Yinhuai and father Li Liang to practice magic, acrobatics, qigong, etc. "Since I was a child, I have asked Hong Yi to practice dantian qi with a board, but I am reluctant to let him learn nose nails and eye stubble. In order not to let this skill be lost, in the past two years, watching his grandson grow up, he also has a lot of perseverance, so he began to take him to practice nose nails and eye stubble. ”
The unique work of nose nails and eye stubble has been passed down from generation to generation of acrobatics, and it was really difficult when I started practicing, but I couldn't stop it. I hope to teach my grandson well, and bring a few more excellent apprentices to pass on this skill. Looking at the audience in front of him, Li Yinhuai said with emotion.
Reporter Niu Jiancun, Cui Rujing, Wei Zhiguang, correspondent Hong Feifei).