How do people perform fire breathing? Acrobatics is to drink oil into your stomach, right?

In Shaanxi, there is a folk performance called spitting fire, which we often see in some juggling and Shaanxi opera. As soon as the performer performed the fire-breathing, he immediately got a full house of applause. There are many forms of performance, such as direct blowing, reverse blowing and oblique blowing, such as oblique blowing, oblique blowing, turn blowing and jump blowing, which are difficult to perform and difficult to see in ordinary performances. When a performer performs, sometimes he only sprays one mouthful, and sometimes he sprays several mouthfuls continuously. The fire is shaped like a mushroom cloud or a dragon. Performers will spray different flames according to the needs of the plot and dance movements. Many Shaanxi opera actors are good at breathing fire, among which horses are the best. She can blow out more than 40 kinds of fires in one breath. She played Li Huiniang in "A Journey to the West Lake to Save Pei Sheng". She also taught this stunt to many dramatic actors in Beijing and Shanghai. How do they perform fire breathing? Is the fire-breathing in acrobatic performance to drink oil into your stomach?

Many people watch the fire-breathing performance and want to know how they fire. Some people say that it is obviously unreasonable to drink oil into your stomach when performing fire breathing. Imagine that what you ate in your stomach was spit out. This process can't be completed in an instant. Obviously, it is impossible to drink oil into your stomach, whether it is a fire-breathing performance or an acrobatic performance in a drama.

According to Baidu Encyclopedia and online inquiry, the performer first grinds rosin into powder, filters the ground powder, wraps the finest powder with special paper, and then cuts off the paper. The actor bites the rosin bag in his mouth before performing on stage, and blows the rosin bag with air during the performance, just like the fire in the actor's mouth. This is the fire-breathing method performed by Ma in "Swimming to the West Lake to Save Pei Sheng".

There are also some fire-breathing performance methods, that is, put a mouthful of alcohol or special kerosene in your mouth, spray it into a mist when spraying, control your breathing and don't suck it back, and move your face immediately after spraying. Otherwise, it is easy to be in danger.

After reading these materials, it is not easy to find acrobats and opera actors who perform fire breathing. Next time you watch their performance, you must respect them, pay more attention and applaud.