The main forms of expression of Chinese folk dance

The main manifestations of Chinese folk dance are the Yangge, the waist drum dance, the lion dance, etc.

1, Yangge is a widely spread in China (mainly in the northern region).

1, rice-planting songs:

Range-planting songs are a kind of mass and representative Han folk dance widely circulated in China (mainly in the northern region), with different titles and styles in different regions. In folklore, there are two types of Yangge: those performed on stilts are called "Yangge on Stilts", and those performed without stilts are called "Yangge on Ground". In recent times, the term "Yangge" mostly refers to the "ground Yangge".

Whenever there is a major festival, such as the New Year, teams are organized in both urban and rural areas to greet each other, wish each other well and entertain each other. In addition, different villages and neighborhoods will also twist rice-planting songs to visit each other and compete with each other in songs and dances. Yangge is a popular Han Chinese folk dance in rural China.

It embodies a distinctive national style in the use of color. People wear clothes in contrasting colors, including red, blue, yellow and green, when twisting rice-planting songs. They sing and dance to the accompaniment of gongs and drums to express their joy and longing for a better life.

2, waist encouragement:

Waist encouragement, also known as "playing the waist drum", one of the forms of folk dance. Pre-liberation folk dance popular in northern Shaanxi, more than in the annual festivals and celebrations, sometimes also inserted into the rice-planting team, with the rice-planting team knocking and dancing.

After the liberation of almost all over the country, popular in the early 1950s around the province, for the collective dance. Performers include ten or dozens of waist-drummers, half men and half women, with double cymbals and military drums and bugles.

3, Lion Dance:

The New Year in the thunderbolt firecrackers, "Lion Dance", due to the spread of Buddhism, has gradually become an indispensable form of protection from evil, good luck and good fortune.

The "cultural lion dance," with its gentle and elegant form, and its cat-like intimacy with people through the performance of playing with balls and stepping on boards, and the "martial arts lion dance," with its robustness and ferocity, and its focus on difficult acrobatic performances, have basically become the two types of lion dances that differ in style between the north and south of the country. "The Lion Dance is a form of lion dance that differs in style between the north and the south.

In addition to the above forms of lion dance, there is also a lion dance that has been handed down in Chenggu County, Shaanxi Province, which is a masterpiece of the lion dance: the "Laughing Monk's Lion Dance". This by the laughing monk and the Jade Emperor was relegated to the earth to redeem the dramatic performance between the lion, the past up to 108 paragraphs.