Puyang's high wire acts go global

ZHENGZHOU－Qiao Jinsheng, a 78-year-old acrobat in Puyang city, Henan province, never thought that the acrobatic skills he inherited from previous generations would one day develop from countryside sideshows to art on the world stage.

Puyang is known as the "cradle of traditional Chinese acrobatics", and now, Puyang acrobatics as performed in Dongbeizhuang village has been added to China's intangible cultural heritage protection list.

From Nov 8 to 13, the city hosted the Fifth China Acrobatic Arts Festival, during which the 11th China Acrobatics Golden Chrysanthemum Awards Competition showcased the latest achievements in national acrobatic creativity.