What are the characteristics of Yao dance? It contains rich folk culture consciousness.

Characteristics of Yao Dance

Yao folk dances are very rich. According to investigation and statistic

What are the characteristics of Yao dance? It contains rich folk culture consciousness.

Characteristics of Yao Dance

Yao folk dances are very rich. According to investigation and statistics, the folk dances of Yao people in Guangxi are all over Yao villages in more than 60 counties in Guangxi, with more than 20 kinds of dances and more than 100 programs. From the content of Yao folk dance, it can be roughly divided into three categories: one is the dance to commemorate and worship ancestors; Second, religious sacrificial dance; The third is the festival custom dance.

These dances are rich in folk culture consciousness and have obvious folk characteristics, which is the result of the gestation, birth and nurturing of Yao folk culture. Investigating the folk characteristics of Yao traditional dance, besides the above-mentioned characteristics of interdependence and close relationship with production folk customs, festival folk customs and belief folk customs, it has the following characteristics in form.

First of all, from the perspective of dance movements, Yao dance has the characteristics of primitive folk culture. The traditional dance of Yao nationality is generally simple in action, rough in style, charming and vigorous in dance, cheerful and bold, dancing to a high place, and the atmosphere is extremely warm with the intervention of onlookers. For example, the performance of "Long Encouragement" is generally integrated with its own performance actions and procedural actions to form a unique performance program. In action, short, steady and trembling are the same characteristics.

Short, refers to squatting. People judge whether the long drum dance is good or not, depending on whether it is short or not. Steady is a steady and powerful dance step. Tremor refers to the up and down vibration of the knee. When shaking, take a strong shot and take a weak shot. The shaking must be strong and elastic. In terms of dance steps, it takes three steps and seven stars in the form of kneeling and bending, which shows the inherent characteristics of religious dance. From the action of Yao folk dance, we can see that the characteristics of Yao folk dance are closely related to Yao folk religious sacrifice activities, which evolved from Yao folk religious sacrifice activities and is the reappearance of folk culture.

Secondly, from the perspective of dance props, it has the simple characteristics of folk culture. There is a folk proverb "Yao never leaves the drum", which shows the important position of drum in Yao dance. Drum is the main prop of Long Drum Dance and Bronze Drum Dance, and the drum itself is a tool for offering sacrifices to Pan Hu, the ancestor of Yao nationality.

The dance "Driving the Sheep to Make Drums" shows a legend: Pan Hu (Wang Pan), the ancestor of the Yao nationality, once went hunting in the mountains, and was unfortunately killed by a goat who fell off a cliff while chasing a goat. Tiger Pan's children (six men and six women) went to the mountains to find their father. They found Tiger Pan's body hanging on the paulownia tree on the cliff, so they cut down the paulownia tree and hollowed out the trunk to make a long drum. Shoot goats, peel goatskin, cover drums and play long drums in memory of Tiger Pan. Obviously, the long drum is a tool in the folk sacrificial activities of the Yao people, and it is also the object of worship of the Yao people, and the remains of ancestor worship of the Yao people. Yao folk culture is embodied by folk dance.

Third, from the dancer's point of view, it has the grassroots characteristics of folk culture. In the past, the performers of Yao folk dances were all played by teachers, or mainly teachers, with singers, singers and musicians.

These teachers, singers and singers usually live at the grassroots level of the Yao people and are inextricably linked with the broad masses of the Yao people. Master Gong's dance and Yao Festival dance are typical performances of Master Gong. The performance ceremony was presided over by the master.

During the fasting activities, the master performed the Gongcao Dance, the Recruiting Dance, the Sanyuan Dance, the Dragon King Dance, the Jiulang Dance and the Kao Dance, which showed the mysterious artistic conception of the master possessed by gods with special dance steps and movements.

The dance of abstinence is performed by the person appointed by the teacher. With the development of the times, these traditional dances of Yao nationality, which used to entertain gods, have gradually evolved into entertaining people, and the performers have also developed from teachers, singers and singers to ordinary artists and the masses, thus making the grassroots characteristics of Yao dancers more fully manifested.