Artistic Creation of Dragon Dance in Xiaojie Town, Songming County
In May, there was drought and water shortage. So the villagers killed chickens and pigs and went to the local Longwang Temple for rain. Several women in their 40 s and 50 s spontaneously formed a dragon dance team and also came to Longwang Temple to beg for rain. "You can ask for rain, we kill.
Pigs slaughter sheep for you to eat. "The men in the village listened to these women's ideas and felt unbelievable, so they made a bet with these women.
Hearing this, the women went to the edge of the village to take local materials, looking for Artemisia branches everywhere and tying them into dragon's blood.
Represents February of 65438+ year. One afternoon, it was sunny. At the Longwang Temple behind the village, men, women and children in the village came to beg for rain. After they tied the wormwood dragon, they started the most primitive dragon dance. "Dragon to rain, dragon to draft.
Lao Long wants to turn over. "While singing and dancing, the women held aloes high and prayed for rain.
Strange to say, the rainy season came. After 1 many hours, it suddenly began to rain in the clear sky. Within a few minutes, the whole village was flooded with water. With water, the villagers began to cultivate fields and transplant rice seedlings.
The first successful dragon dance made all the men in the village sit up and take notice. Later, they formed a group of more than 30 people.
Our dragon dance team works during the day and learns to dance at night. When they are free, they will go to other villages to dance dragons and play with the villagers. Soon, the news that there was a dragon dance team composed of an old lady with little feet in Agulong Village spread in Xiaojie Town, even every time.
During the Chinese New Year, the old ladies were specially invited to perform, and the old ladies were also very happy. They not only decided on a uniform uniform, but also named their dragon dance team "Little Old Lady". The dragons danced by the old ladies are also unique.
Color, compared with 12 colorful dragons representing one year 12 months, they only danced 9 dragons. Old people think that when the crops are ripe in September of the lunar calendar, too much rain will destroy the crops and reduce the harvest. play
After spending some time with tarragon, they pecked and ground themselves to make dragons. They made grass dragons and bench dragons. Later, they bought cloth, spent two weeks designing and cutting it by themselves, and sewed a black dragon with a needle and thread.
For the "old dragon mother". The dragon cut his nose, ears and eyes by himself. Later, Huanglong, Phoenix Dragon and Octagonal Lantern Dragon were built.
Nowadays, most of these old ladies have passed away, and those who are alive are close to 100 years old. They basically no longer dance dragons, so that there are no old ladies with feet in the strict sense. However, in order to follow the tradition of the Dragon Dance Team, members of the Dragon Dance Team of "Old Lady with Little Feet" now make flower cloth shoes into the style of "Little Feet Cloth Shoes".
Although 86-year-old Yang no longer dances dragons, she used to be a "leader" and all the players listened to her.
Words. She recalled that at that time, dragon dancing would only imitate others, swing from side to side, swing up and down, and only beg for rain. However, due to the lack of cultural activities in those years, the Dragon Dance Team added a lot of joy to the village after its establishment. Yang said to him, dance.
Women in the dragon group often get together to learn dragon dance routines. Slowly, they developed more than 10 routines, including holding the dragon high, holding the dragon horizontally, going out of the palace, dancing the eight-character dragon, taking off the dragon clothes, lace flowers, dancing the faucet and jumping through the feet.
The works are becoming more and more complex and difficult, and more and more people are watching them.
Che Yong, the propaganda committee member of Xiaojie Town, said that the "Little Feet Old Lady" Dragon Dance Team was famous for its dragon and lion dances at the Spring Festival Evening of CCTV's Laughter of Hundreds of Millions of Farmers in 2006. Television stations in Britain, France, Germany, the United States, Brazil, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and other countries are scrambling to interview and follow up reports.
1In August, 1997, at the opening ceremony of the first Lantern Festival in Songming County, Xiaojie Town organized 17 Dragon Dance Team and 68.
The performance of the lion dance team promoted the vigorous development of folk dragon and lion dance activities in this county. Subsequently, the Dragon Dance Team of "Little Feet Old Lady" toured at the opening ceremony of the 6th Asian Folk Art Festival and the 99 Kunming World Expo in 1998.
Exhibition and other international activities, and performed at the launching ceremony of Kunming International Cultural Tourism Festival in China for many times. In 2000 and 2008, Xiaojie Town was awarded the title of "National Folk Art (Dragon and Lion)" by the Ministry of Culture twice.
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In the deafening sound of gongs and drums, the glowing dragons sometimes leap and jump, sometimes break the waves into the sea, and sometimes rush to Jiutiao.
Xiao. Through the body movements and posture changes of the dragon dancers, perform the difficult movements of the dragon, such as wearing, swimming, flying, turning, rolling, spinning, jumping and hitting, and set the picture shape. The contestants are agile, flexible and skilled.
When you are ripe, more than 30 sets of dance steps will "turn dragons into routine, and people are tight."
Dragons are round and dragonflies dance, which fully shows the essence, spirit, spirit and rhyme of dragons. This is the training and performance of the "Pretty Woman" women's dragon dance team in accordance with the standard dragon dance routine formulated by the national sports department. Their performance feels like acrobatics. In an instant, a person stands on the shoulders of several people, and in another instant, people walk through the dragon and dance with it in one breath.
This is the training of the "Pretty Woman" Dragon Dance Team of the Xiaofeng Village Committee in Xiaojie. Drum music bursts on the field, colorful dragons churn, and there are high notes from time to time.
The appearance of difficult movements and shapes is very spectacular. The "Pretty Woman" Dragon Dance Team consists of rural women aged 30 to 40. According to Li Yongqing, the team leader, this dragon dance team is composed of villagers spontaneously, with a total of 18 people. from
From 20 10 to 20 13, this team has won the first prize of Kunming Dragon and Lion Competition for four consecutive years.
Nowadays, the era of foot-binding has long passed, but under the influence of Agulong's "Little Foot Old Lady" Dragon Dance Team, the middle-aged and elderly people in Xiaojie Town
Women's dragon dance activities are very active, and the rising "Pretty Woman" women's dragon dance team has become the successor of the "Little Foot Old Lady" dragon dance team. 20 10 "pretty woman" women's dragon dance team participated in the first dance in Yunnan province.
The Dragon Dance Competition won the sixth place (champion of women's group), the first prize of 201"Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Lantern Festival" and the first prize of 20 12 and 20 13 Kunming Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Lantern Festival.
The first prize of the "Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Lantern Festival" in Kunming won the title of "Dragon Dance and Lion Dance Lantern Festival" in Kunming for three consecutive years.
"Dragon dance is not only a technical activity, but also a physical activity." Li Guilian, a member of the dragon dance team, said that the women's dragon dance team of Pretty Woman is a * * *
There are 18 people, 5 men and 0/3 women, and men play drums and women dance dragons. The team was established in 2005, with the improvement of rural living standards. Different from the "Little-footed Old Lady" Dragon Dance Team, it has been in accordance with the national dragon dance standards since its establishment.
Is a regular dragon dance team, allowed to learn rehearsal.
Li Guilian, 40, said that a dragon is 19 meters long, and a performance lasts from three to five minutes to more than ten minutes. Even a young man will be panting after running a few laps, let alone a woman. In particular, the members of the dance faucet, who dance the faucet weighing more than 40 kilograms, have to keep running. After the performance, they often sweat profusely.