临夏世界地质公园

人文景观

一勺勺滚烫的铁水在匠人的击打下，化作一朵朵铁花在夜空中璀璨绽放。过年打铁花是永靖县的民俗传统，在当地以王氏为最。这项传统的民俗表演，其实有着硬核技术作支撑，那就是入选国家级非遗的“永靖王氏生铁冶铸技艺”。

据了解，“花”与“发”谐音，取“打花打花，越打越发”之意，打铁花不仅蕴含着人们祈福纳祥的美好愿望，也展现了民间生铁冶炼传统技艺的工匠精神。永靖王氏打铁花主要分为三步：搭花棚、设彩、击花。当生铁化成铁水后，身怀绝技的王氏铸造传承人们用“花棒”将熔化的铁水打上天空，灼热的铁水在空中迸散，似天女散花，似群星漫天，如梦如幻，美不胜收。

Spoons of hot molten iron hitting by the craftsman turned into iron flowers and bloomed brightly in the night sky. It is a folk tradition of Yongjing county to play iron flowers during the beginning of the new year. Among the craftsmen, The craftsman from Wang’s family is the most important. This traditional folk performance is actually supported by hard core technique, which is the "Yongjing Wang’s pig iron smelting and casting technique" selected as a national intangible cultural heritage.

It is understood that "flower" and "getting rich" are homonymous in Chinese taking the meaning of "Beating flowers and flowers, more and more rich". Beating iron flowers not only contains people's good wishes for blessing and auspiciousness, but also shows the craftsman spirit of folk pig iron smelting and casting traditional skills.There are three main steps for Wang's Iron Flowers in Yongjing, setting up a flower shed, setting up colors and striking flowers.When pig iron turns into molten iron, Wang's craftsmen with great talent of smelting and casting heritage use "flower sticks" to hit the molten iron into the sky, and the hot molten iron bursts out in the air which like fairy maiden scattering flowers, like stars all over the sky, like dreams and illusions, that is incredible beautiful.