Wuqiao county was selected as the candidate for the first acrobatic county in world record association, setting a new world record. The locals call acrobatics "juggling", and there is a folk proverb: "You can't leave until you are ninety-nine. Everyone has a hand in Wuqiao juggling." It can be seen that acrobatics is very extensive and popular in wuqiao county.
Wuqiao acrobatics has a long history. 1958, about 1500 years ago, the mural of an ancient tomb unearthed in Xiaomachang Village, wuqiao county, Cangzhou during the Eastern Wei Dynasty in the Northern and Southern Dynasties depicts acrobatic performances such as handstand, belly top, tumbling and equestrian.
However, Wuqiao acrobatics in Cangzhou enjoyed a high reputation in the whole country after the Yuan Dynasty. Before that, Henan acrobatics was more influential. After the establishment of the Yuan Dynasty, the capital moved from Kaifeng, Henan Province to Beijing, and Wuqiao acrobatics in Cangzhou, Hebei Province began to flourish, with increasing influence. It has become a famous "hometown of acrobatics" at home and abroad.
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In the 1950s, Premier Zhou visited 14 countries in Western Europe, and among the overseas Chinese were Wuqiao acrobats. Premier Zhou happily praised and said, "Wuqiao is really the hometown of acrobatics!" "Hometown of Acrobatics" got its name from this.