Magic is a performing art, which is unpredictable and brings surprises to the audience. It is also the art of creating miracles. China is one of the cradles of magic. In 500 BC, the ancestors had a description of "serial", and China's magic solution was called "China Ring". Magic is also one of the earliest fields of China's foreign cultural exchange activities.
According to Historical Records, in BC 108, the King of Rest "came to China to perform magic tricks with big birds' eggs and dazzling people in Li Xuan". Zhang Heng's Ode to Xijing in the Eastern Han Dynasty also recorded the magic programs such as "swallowing knives and spitting fire" and "dividing land into rivers" by magicians in the western regions.
Form of performance
Magic is a comprehensive stage art, and the perfect presentation of magic is the result of the magician accurately manipulating the scene and controlling people's psychology. Magicians often use the principles of distraction, lighting effect and human illusion to produce stage effects, thus presenting an exquisite magic performance for the audience.
Magic relies on the flexible application of physical and chemical scientific principles such as light, sound, electricity, psychology, etc., and cooperates with strange artistic ideas to produce all kinds of grotesque and ingenious performance images. Magic appeared in China's "Hundred Dramas" more than 2,000 years ago or even earlier in the Han Dynasty, and it was especially developed as a performance skill in the Tang and Song Dynasties. At the same time, it began to spread all over the world and influenced the development of magic.