What does singing and dancing symbolize?
Song and dance are the most verve and active folk dances in Chaoshan area. Chaoshan men are proud to be good at English dance, and women also regard the man's English dance as one of the conditions for choosing a spouse.
Song and dance have a history of more than 500 years. It is based on the story of 108 in Water Margin, in which a hero disguised as a street performer rescued Lu Junyi. The expression techniques are mostly to render the battle scenes and warm atmosphere, and to shape the image of hero groups. In Chaozhou folk, people think that dancing English songs can drive away bad habits and ensure peace.
Today, dancing "song and dance" is still a celebration program for Chinese New Year or folk festivals.
There are 108 people singing and dancing, divided into front shed and back shed, with 36 people, each holding a colored wooden stick. Accompanied by gongs and drums, conch horns and shouts, two sticks collided with each other, turned over and jumped while walking. There are 72 dancers in the back shed, dressed as various jugglers, beating gongs and drums as backup singers, performing costumes and martial arts.
Chaoyang song and dance combines drama, dance and martial arts in one furnace, and its performance is unique. With its bold, bold, rough and unrestrained dance, it constitutes a magnificent, mighty, strong and heroic momentum, which gives people a shock of strength and beauty!
Chaoyang song and dance is famous for its bold and vigorous style, and is known as "the typical dance of Han people in China".
Ying Ge in Chaoyang is especially favored for its unique functions of exorcising evil spirits, praying for blessings and welcoming auspicious events in Chaoshan folk festivals. Chaoyang Ying Ge organically combines southern martial arts, Chaozhou opera, Chaoshan folk dance, Chaozhou music and other local art categories, making the extensive dances of this group look colorful and beautiful. 、
Chaoyang song and dance spread and transformed in practice, forming different English song styles. According to the plate division of dance rhythm, it can be roughly divided into three types: English songs for slow board, English songs for medium board and English songs for allegro.
Adagio English songs are slower in rhythm and use longer dance halls than other genres. Its basic dance method is to strike the mallet three or four times to form a group of movements, slowly seeing the trend and showing the gas in the trend, dignified and simple but graceful. In addition, there is an English song Drunk Hammer, in which the dancers look like drunkards and have a unique charm. Adagio English songs are mainly spread in Wenguang, Mianbei and Chengnan.
The rhythm of English songs in the medium board is slightly faster than that in the slow board. The basic dance methods include hitting 5 mallets and 7 mallets to form a group of movements, and hitting 8 mallets 10 mallet 1 1 mallet 13 mallet to form a group of movements. There are obvious differences between gongs and drums and adagio English songs. The former has pause and elongation in the middle of the drum, while the latter is continuous percussion.
English songs in Chinese version are also mainly spread in Wenguang, Mianbei, Chengnan and other places, which are characterized by being sober and expressive in simplicity.
Allegro English songs have a fast rhythm and tight drums, which change with the opening and closing of the ranks. The English songs used are short and easy to transport. Allegro English songs are generally divided into three categories: Dojo, Nanshan School of Literature and Nanshan School of Martial Arts.
The duet style is the performance procedure of English songs such as single hammer and double hammer, which incorporates the boxing styles of Nanquan, such as singles, doubles, three-sided fighting and four-sided fighting. Because of the organic integration of southern martial arts, the dance movements are particularly brave and powerful.
The characteristics of Nanshan School English songs are that not all the dancers are holding sticks, while the front players are holding sticks in both hands, while the back players are holding tambourines and drumsticks, which are warm and lively.
In the process of dancing, there are occasional performances of "crossing the river", which makes the dance melody have a wonderful turning point and shade. This is the uniqueness of Nanshan School of Literature.
The team structure and performance form of English songs of Nanshan Five Schools are similar to those of Nanshan Literary School, but the difference is that the five schools do not have the form of "crossing the river". The characteristic of Wu Pai is that a group of "percussion groups" from more than 20 to more than 30 often appear in the changes of the array, which highlights the courage of "Wu" and makes the scene more magnificent.