Deduction of shield dance
Shield Dance has a traditional, solemn and solemn performance. Nine performing warriors all wore long scarves, double-breasted jackets with white edges and chest clouds, black tights, leggings and jute sandals. A steel fork with a ringing ring plays the role of a general or enemy cavalry; The rest held a shield in one hand and a knife in the other, all powerful. The plot content of the shield dance is relatively simple, which mainly shows that the two armies are against each other and attack and defend each other, but the performance forms are various. The whole performance is divided into eight formations, namely quadrilateral formation, long snake formation, eight-character formation, wasp formation, dragon gate formation, purse formation, playing cards and catching. At the beginning of the performance, the samurai were scattered in all directions, and the forked hands stormed from side to side, which immediately brought people to the ancient battlefield of "Fuck Ugosi in rhinoceros armour, and the car was wrong and the soldiers were short". Then the formation changed and became a long snake array with a head and a tail. The warriors jumped to their feet and showed extraordinary martial arts. The knife rang during the onslaught, lingering during the soft attack, and suddenly it was like a popular space dance. The sudden appearance of gongs and drums turned into a figure-of-eight confrontation between the two armies. The two sides have strict barriers and are United as one. With the rapid drums, knives and forks glittering and iron rings clanging, the earth-shattering cries of "ho" and "ho" of the warriors are particularly serious, heroic and inspiring. After a long walk, eight warriors rolled side by side, just like a wasp coming out of the hole, unstoppable and sweeping, just like the description in "National Mourning" that "the sun covers the enemy like a cloud, and the arrow falls to fight for the first place", which is the wasp array; Next is the "purse string array" and "dragon gate array" of encirclement and anti-encirclement. The most tense, intense and spectacular thing is "playing cards", which is the climax of the whole dance. The samurai fought to the death and hand-to-hand with the heroic spirit of "keeping their heads and paying attention to impunity" and "going forward bravely and finally being strong and unyielding". With the martial arts practiced on weekdays, the performing warriors tried their best to play dazzling cards such as jumping cards, drawing cards, shouting cards, waist cards, rolling cards, hiding cards and playing cards. Frost knives fly, sometimes only a few millimeters from the performer's chest, and the cold steel fork is smashed, which is chilling and particularly exciting, as if seeing the heroic spirit of Taiping soldiers.