Fire Sedan chair stilts walking is a type of magnificent group dancing performance that delightful to watch.

The fire sedan chair stilts walking in Jiaozuo’s Qinyang could be traced back to Tang (AD618-907) and Song (AD960-1127) dynasties. In the period of Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), the local’s traditions of stilts walking and sedan chair carrying were integrated and developed into sedan chair stilts walking by Zhu Zaiyu, a prince of the Ming Dynasty who was born in Qinyang.

After that , Zhu further improved the sedan chair stilts walking into fire sedan chair stilts walking by changing the common sedan chair into fire sedan chair made of yarn and decorated with candles. The top of sedan chairs were set with a Chinese dragon head, through which colorful fireworks spouted out.

Not only the sedan chair’s physical structure, Zhu also worked to enrich this performance’s contents by adding folk dancing into it. And the guanzi (guan instrument) and suona after improvement made by Zhu served as accompaniments in the performance.

Qinyang fire sedan chair stilts walking was listed on extended items list of the first batch of National Intangible Cultural Heritages.