The historical connotation of Heshui Shehuo is usually considered as a folk ceremony to sacrifice to the country. Society is a land god, and fire is a torch, fire or fireworks. Du You's "General Code" contains the saying that "five men are in the column and two are fire" in ancient military establishment. The "fire" of "social fire" is suspected to be a primitive tribal system with military nature. According to the dual identity of ancient ancestors as both laborers and soldiers, "social fire" was undoubtedly a military tribe or state establishment at the beginning, which showed war in "social fire" From the plan to kill prisoners,
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Heshui Yangko is a form of social fire, which rose after 1930s. Actors are dressed in uniforms, while others are mixed with folk corrupt officials, beggars, fortune tellers and ugly women. , accompanied by yangko gongs and drums, wriggling, give full play to their performance skills. The ugly mother-in-law is the most active figure, with ugly face makeup, big feet, pockmarked face, big mouth, paper cannons hanging from her ears and two wooden sticks in her hand. She is free to enter and leave the team during the performance, and she also says some witty and funny words to add a favorite atmosphere. The characteristic of Heshui Yangko is unarmed performance, and its movement characteristics and rhythm can be summarized into four words: pulling, throwing, twisting and winding. The specialties of Heshui County are: noodles with minced meat, bean jelly, sticky noodles, jade noodles, edema, pancakes, stir-fry, Huang Er, mashed potatoes, warm pots, pork intestines, pork ham, yellow wine, tofu, confused yellow wine and so on.