Vivid dance culture of She nationality

The dances of ethnic minorities mainly reflect the joys and sorrows of life, with a sense of the times and national cohesion. She dance has a strong sense of the times and is a new dance with strong national style, which shows the unique style of She dance in the national and artistic circles of the motherland. Then, let's take a look at the vivid dance of She nationality in her culture.

The traditional folk dance of She nationality mainly includes sacrifice, funeral and productive labor. She dances can often be seen in activities such as doing meritorious deeds, "pulling out wounds", "beating people" and offering sacrifices to ancestors. Mainly, the master plays the dragon horn, dances the spirit knife, sings (or recites) songs, and dances with the sound of gongs and drums. There are single, double, four or group dances, and the dance steps are mostly hunting movements.

Sacrificial dance

Pan Hu is the ancestor of She nationality tradition, and worshipping Pan Hu is the common mentality of all She nationality people. Since the Tang Dynasty, the She nationality has had the custom of offering sacrifices to Pan Hu. Every time I worship Tiger Pan, I will dance the sun and moon dance, dragon umbrella dance and ancestor worship dance. Dance of the Sun and Moon shows the myth that Pangu created the world and the sun and the moon shone on the earth. Four actors and four actresses, each with a prop model of the sun (red) and the moon (white), sang together, "Holding the sun in the left hand and the moon in the right hand shines on the earth; The sun and the moon turn in the sky, and twelve o'clock is sharp. " Accompanied by the beat of gongs and cymbals, the sun and moon model rotates with both hands, shuttles left and right, and dances.

Dragon Dance tells the story that our ancestors were allowed to surrender to help pacify foreign aggression. In the dance team, some hold ancestors, some hold dragon sticks, and some hold faucets. The dragon staff was held high by the warden, and four faucets (two men and two women) stood opposite each other. They held their hands together and held them up and down several times to show their respect. The formation includes in-situ jumping, marching posture, left and right interspersed, etc.

"Dragon Umbrella Dance" moves with the faucet, with jumping action, and it is relatively free to shuttle left and right. With the rhythm of gongs and drums, it sings "Pan Husong" while dancing. "Dancing to Meet the Ancestors" shows the memory of Pan Hu's ancestors. Participants hold banners, crossbows, knives, horns and other props made of various colors of cloth and silk. , with flute, flute, suona and other musical instruments, and the dance steps are relatively free, with three steps and one turn, expressing the nostalgia and infinite admiration for the ancestors.

Funeral dance

Funerals of She people are often accompanied by dances. According to historical records, the She nationality "killed Mu Na, and the young and the long fought, and the main mourning circle danced four times"; Blow the horn and dance for Dan. The colorful funeral dances of the She nationality in eastern Fujian are to turn the dead into souls, so the mage has to dance more than ten kinds of dances, such as washing altar, making altar and making well.

In "Washing the altar dance", the mage wears a blue robe, holds a bell in his right hand, palms of his left hand are up, his fingers are three-legged, and he holds a glass of clear water in the middle. The mage walked around the hall, mumbling something, squatting and standing, marching slowly or quickly with the urgent bell. At the same time, the clear water in the cup (commonly known as "divine water") is sprinkled to every corner of the hall to wash the altar to exorcise evil spirits.

Productive labor dance

She nationality has created many traditional dances reflecting productive labor, among which the famous ones are "Hunting Step Dance" and "Planting Bamboo Dance". Hunting tap dance (also called tap dance). This dance is performed by four men, who are dressed in the traditional costumes of She nationality. The rhythm of the whole dance is constantly changing with the sound of gongs and drums from beginning to end, which shows the scene of the brave struggle between the ancestors of She nationality and wild animals when hunting, and is full of life breath.

Bamboo planting dance is a dance that reflects the process of planting bamboo and making paper with bamboo in She nationality. The performers sang and danced according to the percussion rhythm of gong, drum and cymbal. The dance steps are mainly "small jump" and "step squat", and the hands and feet keep turning along the rhythm of left and right advance and retreat. Light and clear movements. The lyrics describe the whole process of planting bamboo, chopping bamboo, soaking bamboo, pulping and papermaking, and each link reflects the hardships and joy of the She people.