What kinds of music and dances are there in the southeast coastal areas of China?

Popular in all parts of southern Fujian, many rural farmers will perform. This dance was originally preserved in the local opera Liyuan Opera Li Yaxian. The play depicts Zheng Yuanhe indulging in brothels day and night. In order to please Zheng Yuanhe, Li Yaxian invited people to dance "colored ball dance" at the banquet. Therefore, Minnan people are also called "Yaxian Tap Dance" and "Gongqiu". Because this kind of dance is relatively independent and complete in the play, it was later proposed as a common dance in activities such as stepping on the street. There are 6 performers, 1 player (dressed as a boy), 1 ball girl (ugly Dan) and 4 ball girls (Hua Dan). The whole dance is beautiful, lively, cheerful and funny. In recent years, on the basis of the performance of Liyuan Opera, new ideas have been incorporated, highlighting the humorous, optimistic and hearty life atmosphere. The music adopts Minnan folk song "Lantern Red Song" with distinctive percussion music such as Nanyin, Xiaojiao, Tongzhonghe, gongs and drums, which makes the dance have a unique southern sentiment. The processed colored ball dance has participated in many national performances in the province, which was well received and made into a film, becoming a famous traditional folk dance in Fujian.

Jiuli Lantern Dance by the ditch in Huangshi Town is a unique and wonderful folk dance in Putian City. It originated from the "Hundred Dramas" in the Tang Dynasty, also known as "Sanqu". It is a colorful zaju and song and dance performance with a history of more than 1,000 years. Nine carp lantern dance originated from various lantern festivals in the first month, and differentiated into "Nine carp lantern dance". It was formed in Song and Yuan Dynasties and flourished in Ming and Qing Dynasties. Through the continuous improvement of folk artists from generation to generation, a complete dance performance form has been formed. Dance language is rich, and the props and dance performances used are rare in China. According to Chen Wenshui, the representative inheritor of Nine Carp Lantern Dance, the name, shape, production technology, material processing, dance techniques and procedures, skills, array, posture and dance steps, percussion formula and specific rules of Nine Carp Lantern Dance have been passed down through family oral tradition and never spread abroad. So far, the "Nine Carp Lantern Dance" has only been handed down in the family-style natural village in the north of Goubian Village.

1May, 1992, "Nine Carp Lantern Dance" participated in the exhibition of "Fujian Folk Dance Integration Boutique" and won the banner of "Promoting National Cultural Tradition and Preserving the Essence of Folk Dance" issued by Fujian Federation of Literary and Art Circles and the Department of Culture. Its unique and rare "Nine Carps" props and rich folk dance vocabulary and performances have been highly praised by experts and scholars.

"Nine carp lantern dance" is named after dancing nine kinds of fish lanterns. The so-called nine carp are not all carp, but nine different aquatic species: including dragon (slug), turtle, bass, carp, crucian carp, flower fish and goldfish. Nine carp along the ditch in Putian are made into nine different fish lanterns according to the specific shapes of these nine aquatic animals. Each fish lamp has a wooden handle in the middle of its belly, and a foreign oil candle is lit in the lamp. Dancers wear ancient costumes, sandals, four small copper bells (when the bell rings), hold fish lanterns, five people hold five torches, and four people carry a gantry on their shoulders. With the rhythm of percussion, they dance according to the prescribed routine.

Chest clap dance is a popular folk dance in southern Fujian. Dancers wear grass rings and their upper bodies are bare; The rhythm is dominated by single rhythm of beating, beating, clamping and stamping, and the parts are concentrated in the chest, elbow, armpit, shoulder and palm; At the same time, it is supplemented by vigorous squatting and complacent swinging, which constitutes a rough, simple, humorous and enthusiastic dance style.

There are always different opinions about the origin of breast beating dance. Cai Xiangjiang, vice chairman of Quanzhou Federation of Literary and Art Circles and chairman of Dancers' Association, put forward a new archaeological theory after years of research-breast-beating dance is the relic of primitive sacrificial dance of ancient Fujian and Vietnam people. This idea has been recognized by experts and scholars, and has been included in the China Dance Yearbook to be published by the Ministry of Culture.