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The origin and origin of song and dance.

There are three theories about the origin of song and dance, one is "timely rain", the other is "yangko" and the other is "Nuo dance". As follows:

1, Timely Rain said:

In the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhang Dai, a famous scholar in Shaoxing, wrote this sentence in the "timely rain" section of Tao An Meng Yi. This section describes the scene of asking for rain. Zhang Dai believes that it may be because Song Jiang, the hero of the Water Margin, is nicknamed "Timely Rain".

2, yangko said:

Song and dance were born out of "Daguzi Yangko" in northern Shandong and "Liulin Yangko" in western Shandong. Because English songs and "yangko" are similar in pronunciation in Chaozhou dialect.

3, Nuo dance said:

There is also a saying that today's English songs evolved from the ancient Nuo dance.

operating characteristic

Song and dance are divided into front shed and back shed, with 36 people in the front shed. Each person holds a colored wooden stick about 1.4 inch long and 4 cm in diameter. Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, conch and shouts, two sticks collided and turned over, dancing while walking. There are 72 people in the back shed, dressed as various jugglers, accompanied by gongs and drums, and some also added graffiti or martial arts performances.

Queue changes include *** 18 episodes, such as Long Snake Advance, Ssangyong Going to Sea, Four Tigers Driving Together, Pink Butterfly Picking Flowers, Proud as Peacock, etc. The stick techniques include left tapping, right tapping, up tapping, down tapping, hip tapping, back tapping and so on. Facebook can be divided into tattoos and martial arts. Rhythm can be divided into allegro, medium board and adagio.