"The movement of hundreds of knots leads to courage, and the Qi nourishes the three burners and nourishes the body." Mr. Wang Yaoguo, 64 years old, wields a nine-section steel whip, plays with rope darts, throws and catches meteor hammers, and plays with water and fire meteors. Go through the eight sections of brocade and perform kung fu exercises in rows with body cover. The old man is brave and ambitious, and his ambition is thousands of miles. As the representative inheritor of the intangible cultural heritage of Zhejiang Province, he has both virtue and art, and his reputation is well-deserved. He carried forward the thousands of years of excellent cultural heritage passed down by his ancestors.
He was born in an ordinary farmer's family in Wangjialu Village, Fan City, Longshan Town, Cixi City in 1957. He was born into a poor family. His mother had been ill and bedridden for many years. He had 5 brothers and sisters. He, the eldest among the brothers, had no choice but to survive. After only studying for a year and a half, he dropped out of school and went home to work in the fields. He started practicing martial arts at the age of 13, and at the age of 15 he studied soft weapons and fire and water meteors with his great-grandfather Wang Wenxiong. Wang Wenxiong settled in Shanghai and only came to his hometown in Fanshi for ten and a half months every year to visit relatives. However, he overcame many difficulties and learned a lot of skills. And in the subsequent practice, he created ten fireballs, which were unique in the world and became famous all over the world.
If you don’t make a sound, it will be a blockbuster. When he was 18 years old, with the completion of the Great Hall of the People in Cixi, he performed on stage for the first time and won the gold medal, becoming famous in the Cixi area.
In 2005, the Straits TV Extreme Player program team came to Longshan Town to interview him, filming his legendary martial arts experience throughout his life, and recording his journey of inheriting the fire and water meteor. At the age of 48 that year, he opened up the situation and expanded his influence.
On June 10, 2006, he was invited to perform at the "Zhejiang Province's First Folk Culture and Art Festival and the Seventh Square Culture and Art Festival" held in Wushan Square, Hangzhou. As a public figure, he began to be noticed by the cultural department of Zhejiang Province.
In March 2007, the Water and Fire Meteor Project was announced as an intangible cultural heritage in Cixi City. Since then, it has been transformed from a folk unique activity into an intangible cultural heritage protected by the government. In May 2008, it was announced as an intangible cultural heritage in Ningbo. In 2009, he was included in the third batch of intangible cultural heritage protection lists in Zhejiang Province; in October of the same year, he was identified as one of the first batch of "Outstanding Folk Literature and Art Talents" in Zhejiang Province.
As a provincial inheritor, he was invited to perform at the "Zhejiang Traditional Performing Arts Special Skills Exhibition, the Fifth Zhejiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival".
As a special guest performer at the 2010 Shanghai World Expo, he played rope darts and danced with fireballs, showing the quintessence of the Chinese nation to friends from all over the world and promoting the excellent traditional culture of the Chinese nation.
In 2011, the special column team of Shanghai Dragon TV's "Looking at the East" came to Fan City to do a program. He used a blindfold to perform the superb nine-section whip, the elusive rope dart and the light-weight meteor hammer, and showed off his signature water and fire meteors. Demonstrated the top martial arts skills of soft weapons and performed endangered unique skills. To this day, this video, known as "Kung Fu Master", is still circulated by major websites.
In the "Eight Immortals Crossing the Sea to Celebrate the New Year" broadcast on the first day of the Lunar New Year in 2012, he interacted with the crew of "The Orphan of Zhao" and performed nine-section whips, rope darts and water and fire meteors. Taking the Shaolin monk as the subject of exchanges and exchanges, the stars held the moon, highlighting his superb soft weapon martial arts and peerless acrobatics of water, fire and meteors, and congratulating the people of the country on the New Year with a performance that made people all over the country congratulate each other with high-fives!
In the list of the fourth batch of representative inheritors of provincial intangible cultural heritage projects announced by the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture on November 4, 2013, he was named the "Representative Inheritor of Water, Fire and Meteor".
He climbed to the top silently without planning or running around. He even declined the invitation to China’s Got Talent show.
Starting in 2012, he used Lakeside Park as the base for the inheritance of Fire and Fire Meteor, officially accepting apprentices and teaching the art. In 2013, he accepted 7 apprentices, including Wang Qinfeng and Wu Wangkun, and in 2014, he accepted 8 apprentices, including Ye Mingqiu. A total of 15 people had tea and apprenticeship ceremonies. Later, the Water and Fire Meteor Art Troupe was established.
Starting from September 8, 2016, Water and Fire Meteor entered Fan City Junior High School and started teaching as an extension of sports and a combination of art.
On October 21, 2016, the launching ceremony of Ningbo City’s “Brilliant East Zhejiang” Civilization Demonstration Line was held on the bank of Dapeng Mountain. Water and Fire Meteor was awarded the intangible cultural heritage inheritance site. He brought Water and Fire Meteor into Pan'ao Village inherits and promotes it.
He spared no effort from planning to completion of the Wangjia Road Cultural Auditorium, and it passed the acceptance inspection on November 24, 2017. "Intangible cultural inheritance village, humanistic Wangjia Road", he is from Wangjia Road, and his water and fire meteors are settled in the cultural auditorium for living inheritance.
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From March 15th to 17th, 2017, the three-day "Mainstream Media Enters Cixi" publicity and planning meeting was held in Longshan Town. On March 16, 13 mainstream media from the People's Daily, Xinhua News Agency, Guangming Daily, Central People's Broadcasting Station, Economic Daily, China News Service, Zhejiang Daily, Zhejiang People's Broadcasting Station, Ningbo Daily, and Ningbo TV Station arrived at Fang's home. Hetou investigation and research. He took his apprentices Wu Wangkun and Ye Mingqiu to perform ten fire meteors. The short performance of three to five minutes attracted great attention from the mainstream media and vigorously promoted and reported it. CCTV reporter Cao Meili wrote in the article "Looking for Feelings in Fangjia Hetou Ancient Village in Cixi": "At this time, there was a lot of people. Oh, it turned out that someone was performing 'Water and Fire Meteor'. Only a man and a woman were seen dancing. There are copper basins around the circle, with fireballs on them. They rotate, throw, bend, lean, squat, and rise. The fireballs whirr but remain unscathed, which makes people stare and marvel, just like watching acrobatics when they were children. , the same." Highly praised and the response was huge.
On June 7, 2018, the second session of the Youth Conference was hosted by the All-China Youth Federation, hosted by the Ningbo Municipal Government, the Zhejiang Provincial Youth Federation, and the China International Youth Exchange Center, and co-organized by the Ningbo Youth Federation. In the "Bridge of the Future" China-Central and Eastern European youth training and exchange activities, the exchange camp delegation *** was attended by about 100 young people from 16 Central and Eastern European countries. When the leaders of Cixi City and Binhai District (Longshan Town) accompanied them, they came to Longshan Town When he was in the ancient village, he performed ten fireballs to the foreign friends who came. Every time I come, I perform once, and *** performed 3 times. Foreign friends were so surprised that they either opened their mouths in wonder, took videos or photos, or applauded. It amazed foreign friends.
From June 11 to 13, 2018, the Zhejiang Provincial Department of Culture hosted the "Intangible Cultural Heritage Preservation Center", the Zhejiang Provincial Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Association, and the Pan'an County People's Government jointly organized ——Zhejiang traditional sports exhibition and evaluation series activities. In the performance, the old leads the new. In the opening, apprentice Wu Wangkun led students Fan Xinyun and Chen Huanting to perform meteors. Then apprentice Ye Mingqiu led Ren Guoxiang and Fan Bin to perform two bolides. In the finale, he led students Fan Xinyun, Chen Huanting, Ren Guoxiang and Yu Mohan. , Yang Hongye performed ten bolide stars. The two performances won the "Excellent Performance Award" in the exhibition reviews; during the exhibition, the Zhejiang Film and Television Entertainment Channel broadcast the entire event live.
On July 3, 2018, director Sun Nina from Zhejiang Film and Television Entertainment Channel and his team came to his home and conducted two days of intense interviews with him, his apprentices and students, and captured first-hand information. I went back to work on it carefully and even worked overtime all night. On July 29, "Hands Dancing Meteor" premiered on the "This is Zhejiang" column. "Hands Dancing Meteor" is considered to be the best program since the launch of "This is Zhejiang", and has been rebroadcast many times by Zhejiang Film and Television Entertainment Channel. It was also promoted to 20180812 "Discovering Zhejiang" and was broadcast on Zhejiang International Channel. After the broadcast, it was known to be rebroadcast in Beijing, the Eastern United States, and the Western United States.
On May 19, 2019, the main venue event of "China Tourism Day" in Zhejiang Province and the opening ceremony of the 17th Xu Xiake Travel Festival opened in Ninghai, the birthplace of China Tourism Day. During the performance at the main venue, he led his students Yang Hongye and Liu Shuncheng to perform ten bolide meteors, which made the stars tower over the moon and amazed the main venue. Then, nearly 20 intangible cultural heritage items including Ninghai Ten Miles of Red Makeup and Jinhua Yongkang Nine Lions, etc., formed the "Ala Intangible Cultural Heritage Association". Starting from the west gate of Ninghai, a large parade began, with no less than 100,000 people walking along the street. The scale was evident. He took his apprentices Wu Wangkun and Ye Mingqiu, and students Fan Xinyun, Yang Hongye, Fan Bin, Liu Shuncheng, Fang Bowen and Zeng Xingxin to take turns performing the water and fire meteors, which was very popular.
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On October 26, 2019, "Poetry Passes on the Past" - the 2019 Zhejiang Traditional Sports Intangible Cultural Heritage Conference and the Tiantai Mountain Culture and Tourism Integration Summit Forum were held on the rooftop. He was welcomed by the leaders attending the meeting Popular. With the efforts of his apprentice Ye Mingqiu and his students Fan Xinyun, Yang Hongye, Fan Bin, Liu Shuncheng, Fang Bowen, Zeng Xingxin, Fan Jiayu and Fan Jiawei, "Water and Fire Meteor" won the "Excellent Performance Award".
? On September 26, 2020, our festival - "Reviewing the Past and Ode to the Autumn Moon *** Appreciation" 2020 Ningbo Mid-Autumn Festival Gala, Wu Wangkun and Ye Mingqiu received the "Xinhuo Project" young and middle-aged inheritors Training completion certificate. The two apprentices he trained were recognized by the Ningbo Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center.
The fragrance of plum blossoms comes from the bitter cold, and the edge of the sword comes from sharpening. It has not been easy for him over the past fifty years, but he still strives for self-improvement and forge ahead with determination. In front of applause and flowers, he always kept a low profile and did not use it as a means of profit, nor did he get involved in social disputes. He only took it as his own responsibility to inherit and promote the excellent traditional culture. His high integrity and strong beliefs are full of positive energy. The book is written to show the world that they should learn from it as an example: A person in his best years only does one thing with all his heart and does one thing purely well.