Shandong Yangge

China has a long history of music and dance culture, especially the rich and colorful folk dances of various nationalities, which have a long history and unique style, and are an important part of the music and dance culture of the Chinese nation. Shandong Yangge" is a splendid and colorful flower in the history of Chinese music and dance culture, and occupies an important position in Chinese folk dance.

Shandong rice-planting songs have a prominent regional, from the distribution, to the west, north and Jiaodong Peninsula, the most prevalent. According to incomplete statistics, there are more than 30 different kinds of Yangge in Shandong Province, and the overall style of Yangge is relatively uniform. The overall style of Yangge is relatively uniform. The forms of expression are roughly divided into three types: ground Yangge, inch Yangge, and stilt Yangge, of which the stilt Yangge has the longest history, is the most widely distributed, and has a simple form of performance. Inch Rice-planting Song symbolizes the small feet of women before the 1940s, but it gradually disappeared after the 1940s, and most of it was transformed into Ground Rice-planting Song. Rice-planting songs are rich in performance forms, with a wide range of mass participation, role-playing can be divided into old, middle-aged, young and young, etc. Generally, the stilts and the rice-planting songs are fused into one corresponding performance, and they can play the role of heroes of all times and reflect the pieces of folklore and customs. The most important ones are "Drum Rice-planting Song", "Jiaozhou Rice-planting Song" and "Haiyang Rice-planting Song", which are called "three big rice-planting songs" and "three major rice-planting songs" in Shandong. They are called the "Three Great Yangge" and "Three Great Folk Dances of Shandong". The overall style of the male roughness and boldness of the masculinity of the female charm and flexibility of the subtle beauty.

Warm and fiery drum rice-planting song

"Drum rice-planting song" was first called "playing drums", also known as "big drum rice-planting song", "Running Yangge" and so on. It was only after the 1940s that it was commonly known as "Drum Rice-planting Song". Drum Rice-planting Song is widely spread in Huimin, Leiling, Yangxin, Jiyang, Linyi and other counties and cities centered on Shanghe County. The main roles of the song are umbrella, drum, stick and flower, which are named after the props used by the actors. Among them, the flower is the female role, umbrella and divided into ugly umbrella and flower umbrella, ugly umbrella more dressed as old man image, flower umbrella more dressed as youth, ugly umbrella in the first and second umbrella is the performance of both the organizer and conductor, but also the leader of the dancers; drums is the drums Yangge performances of the main force, the largest number of people and by the male young adults to play; stick is generally played by the teenagers; flowers, also known as flowers, there are flowers (without stilts) and stilts (stilt walkers), mostly played by the young girls. The flower, also known as la hua, is mostly played by young girls. In addition to the above four roles, there is also a clown role, also known as "outside the corner", can be played as a variety of comical roles, generally not in the official establishment, depending on whether there is the ability to play this role of talent. The various roles of the drum rice-planting songs are not standardized in terms of the number of people, and are generally divided into three types: large, medium and small, with a large number of more than 90 people, 70 or so medium-sized, and 50 or so small. Increased roles must be an even number and its multiples. For example, if the base number of umbrellas is 4, they are incremented in multiples of 4. If the base number of the drum is 8, it is multiplied by a multiple of 8, and so on for the other roles. In order to maintain the dominance of the drums in the rice-planting songs, the drums must be more than twice as many as the umbrellas.