The Great Wall spends（Beijing）folk culture dissemination limited company

The Great Wall Iron Flowers, or molten iron performance, is a kind of ancient folk culture, an intangible cultural heritage and a magnificent Chinese performance.

The performance has a very long history. It originated near the thousand-year-old Gui River to the north of Beijing, and developed at the foot of the Great Wall. It is said that the performance first came into shape in Liao and Song dynasties and reached the period of great prosperity during Ming and Qing dynasties.

When the molten iron reaches the required temperature, the Iron Flower performers use the specially made ladles to toss it into the sky with unique skills, forming different images. The beautiful images have different names like “Golden Phenix Facing the Sun”, “the Fall of Fire”, “Fire Tree and Golden Flowers”, “Tow Dragons Playing with a Pearl” and “Fire in the Sky”. The performance will leave a great impact on the audience, thus it’s known as the most striking and magnificent performance in China.

Besides the Iron Flowers performance, the Great Wall Iron Flowers Performing Site also provides many types of performances.