The origin of Yingge Dance in Chaoshan?

"Yingge Dance" origin of the three claims:

Yingge Dance origin of the three claims, one is "timely rain that", a rice-planting said, one is Nuo dance said.

"Just in time to say" is in the late Ming and early Qing Shaoxing celebrity Zhang Dai's "Taoan Mengyi" book "just in time to say" section. This section describes the scene of seeking rain. According to Zhang Dai, it may be because Song Jiang, the elder brother of the heroes of the Water Margin, was nicknamed "timely rain".

The rice-planting dance is said to have been born out of the "big drums rice-planting song" of Shandong's Lubei province and the "willow-forest rice-planting song" of Lushi province. Because the pronunciation of Yingge and "Yangge" in Chaozhou dialect is relatively similar. There is also a saying that the present Ying Ge is evolved from the ancient Nuo dance. Nuo dance is a form of reflecting religious consciousness and artistic characteristics.

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Ying Ge Dance is widely popular in the Chaoshan area, is also the deepest foundation of the masses of a square dance, very masculine beauty, the performance style of simple, robust, from the rhythmic tension to bring people's aesthetic satisfaction, has always been very popular with the majority of the masses of the people's favorites, it can be said to be the king of the Chaoshan folk dance. Whenever there is a major festival, it is unimaginable to create an atmosphere without the participation of Ying song and dance!

In the scope of the country and even the world, really can not find another dance language like the English song and dance so full of bold, bold, exciting speech. This is a feeling that is shared by every viewer***. You see, on the day of the festival, the countryside wilderness, in three layers, three layers of black crowd are waiting with baited breath. Suddenly, a group of dancers whistled like a wild goose chase.

Dozens of painted faces, dressed in formidable costumes of the pugilist, all the way music and dance, in the rush, the rhythm of the drums, dancing double mallet, up and down, and suddenly the dragon, and suddenly the tiger, moving and flashing, the momentum of the long and wide, but also from time to time to send out a fierce, heroic roar, and with the mallet crisp sound of strikes, echoing through the sky, strong, bold, majestic dance, majestic, bold, and robust.

Let the viewer's blood boiling, shrugged. At this point, people are not just enjoying the dance. The air is filled with an atmosphere of exuberance, the audience unconsciously infected, can not help but follow the horn whistle up!

Many friends from the north are puzzled by the article of the beautiful southern Chaoshan, how could be born such a soul-crushing, strong and bold dance! This is really a karmic meeting of history.

From the point of view of the source, Yingge Dance originated in the Baiyue tribal primitive Nuo dance, intended to drive away ghosts and evil spirits. Subsequently, several large-scale migration of the North, the Central Plains heroes and legends of the prototype (such as the Water Margin characters 108) into the inherent folklore of South Vietnam, millenniums of circulation, the deposition of a unique flavor of the art form, that is, today there is both the ancient style, but also the spirit of the times of the British song and dance.

The dance team is divided into the front shed and the back shed, the front shed is a large number of dancers, holding a short stick in both hands, led by a "snake charmer"; the back shed is a percussion band, with the dance to play the resounding, exciting music. Generally there are 36, 72 and 108 people in three combinations, the formation, dance and percussion are diverse, different places have different characteristics, styles.

There are at least 20 "Hometowns of Ying Song and Dance" in Chaoshan, which is a proof of its strong vitality.

As one of the rare dances in the garden of folk art in our country, the English Song and Dance is the indomitable spirit of the Chaoshan people, and the dance is the courageous style of the Chaoshan people, which is connected with the blood of the Chaoshan people, and the gods and goddesses are connected with the Chaoshan people. Bowed in the prosperous times, Yingge Dance will leap to a new level and dance out an unprecedented climax!

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