Wandering artists in Song Dynasty were also called Luqi people.

that is, an artist who travels through the state and the government. The Song Dynasty was a prosperous period of Chinese folk opera. At that time, there were performance places everywhere in the vast cities and villages, among which the most important one was the Washe Goulan. In this new amusement park,

staged hundreds of kinds of opera programs, especially speaking, puppet, acrobatics, zaju and shadow play. The artists who could perform in the Washe Goulan were all masters, and a larger number of artists were living outside the Washe Goulan.

Su Shi, a poet in the Song Dynasty, has a poem that the east and the west are separated by several States, and it is not good to be old in the wrong way. There are traces of Luqi people everywhere in vacant lots, streets, tea shops and restaurants.

Lu Qi's related records and Capital Jisheng in the Southern Song Dynasty recorded: "... If you hold the vacant land under the government wall, all kinds of Luqi people will make a scene here, especially in the inner part. So is Sima Dao in the imperial city. Waiting for the tide outside the temple to teach the field, there are also unique performances in summer. Its market, such a vacant lot, is full of people. "

There is a similar record in the Record of the Prosperity of the Old People in the West Lake: "The 13th Army Teaching Field, the Teaching Field of the First Army, the Teaching Field of the Later Army, the Nancang, the Qianyazili, the Gongyuan, and the Yousheng Temple are spacious, and Luqi people are rewarded for their performances." Luqi people's wandering performances were called "playing wild" by the social habits at that time.

The Old Story of Wulin records: "Wazi Goulan, a servant in the city, a servant in front of the temple outside the city, or a Luqi who doesn't enter the Goulan and just plays in a wide place, is called' playing wild', which is second to art." "Manuscript and House" also contains: "..... it's called" playing wild parking "by artists in the market today, but it's called" playing wild "now."

"Fighting wild" seems to have originated from the custom of driving away difficulties in ancient China. Later, this superstitious activity with strong supernatural colors gradually turned into a recreational activity, and this activity gradually became a geisha in the Song Dynasty. After a long time of practice, this kind of activity or geisha has turned into a "player who does not enter the fence and only plays in a wide place."

"Luqi people" are called "city people" when they arrive in the city. Zhao Sheng's "A Brief Introduction to the Ruling and Opposition" said: "... although it has the name of a teaching field today, when it comes to a big banquet, every time it's not enough, it's with hiring city people. In recent years, there are no old people in the teaching field. Most of them are the people of Luqi. "