What are the basic footwork of Yangko?
A) heel pressing: heel pressing with different feet. Such as positive step, small step, big eight-character step, lunge and so on. When pressing heels, pat your feet with lift heel in the second half, touch the ground with your forefoot and stand on your knees. In the first half of the racket, put your feet on your heels quickly, and it takes a short time to lift your heels and a relatively long time to land.
B) Flexion and extension of knee joint: different characteristics of knee joint movement. When bending and stretching hard, the knee bends and stretches quickly and elastically; The flexion and extension of the knee joint should have an inherent sense of flexibility when it is soft, and the body center of gravity of the music remake is downward; Keep your knees straight when you straighten them to show the characteristics of the action.
C) Upper body rhythm: The body rhythm of Northeast Yangko is mainly swinging left and right and twisting back and forth. Swing the body is to lift the chest and waist alternately on the left and right sides of the body, forming a left-right swing of the upper body. The forward and backward torsion is based on the waist as the axis and the shoulders as the main body, alternately twisting forward and backward on the left and right sides of the body. Twist your shoulders and upper body into a whole, but don't twist your crotch. If the shoulders alternate back and forth, the right shoulder drives the upper and rear arcs to the front, and the left shoulder arcs to the rear.
Yangko performance is mainly based on New Year's greetings. In the town, the Yangko team will perform in the local government offices and merchant shops in the name of New Year greetings. In rural areas, it will pull carts to nearby villages, perform in village offices or houses of rich families, and also have the intention of visiting New Year. For this kind of performance, worshippers should prepare for the reception of rock tea, and when the yangko team leaves, they should give money to the "yangko head", and some even have to take care of the meal.
Therefore, the Yangko team has already chosen the object of New Year's greetings in advance, and at least they can afford to go, otherwise it will be difficult for people to feed their horses. Of course, local men, women and children can watch the performance for free. In the past, celebrating the Spring Festival in rural areas was for "happiness" and "saving face".
The history of yangko originated from the gathering and performance of the Han nationality at night festivals, and it has a history of thousands of years. Yangko teams usually pretend to be figures or phalanxes in life or historical myths, and are led by leading dancers, and collectively walk out of various formations or patterns. The traditional pattern of two dragons spitting whiskers and rolling cabbage hearts is short and simple, imitating the basic movements of folk labor.
References:
Baidu encyclopedia-yangge