The Difference Between Social Fire and Yangge

The difference between social fire and rice-planting is that social fire is a generic term encompassing rice-planting songs, gongs and drums, dragon dances, lion dances, dry boats, stilt walkers, juggling and so on.

Shehuo is a traditional Chinese Han folk celebrations to celebrate the Spring Festival carnival activities, is the intangible cultural heritage of the northwest region of Qinghai Province, Gansu Province, Shaanxi Province and other places, the specific form of the region and there are greater differences. "Shehuo" has a long history, historical sources say "Shehuo, in the festival played a variety of miscellaneous plays"; also known as "folk drums and music called Shehuo, can not be remembered in full, roughly to make fun of the funny."

Yangge (Yangxin Drum Rice-planting Song) is a traditional dance of Yangxin County, Shandong Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritages. The origin of Yangxin Drum Rice-planting Song can be traced back to the Tang Dynasty, with umbrellas, drums, rods and flowers as the main roles, and the whole process of the dance is basically a typical process of ancient military drills, i.e., "parade, pointing out the generals, laying out the lineups, starting the fight, and closing the army".

Social fire types

1, the ground social fire: that is, in the "ground" performance of the story. This kind of "story" is suitable for night performances, family courtyard, institutional courtyard, street, wheat field can be used as a performance venue.

2, the car social fire: that is, in the car performance of the story. Previously used horse-drawn carts, oxcarts, mule carts, after the 1980s, replaced by walking tractors, four-wheeled machines, automobiles. Now generally do not use other vehicles, only cars.

3, horse social fire: that is, riding on a horse, mule, donkey performance of the story. Actors one person a horse, on the horse to hold weapons, or knife or sword or go, each person to make a fixed posture, in order, shall not be easily changed.