Role Composition of Drum Rice-planting Song

To understand Shandong Drum Rice-planting Song, the first thing to understand and master is its organizational form and its role composition.

According to the interviews, records and mapping of the literary workers after the establishment of New China, the roles of Shandong Drum Rice-planting Song are as follows. Ding umbrellas are divided into umbrellas with "head umbrellas" and "flower umbrellas", and the head umbrellas are more often called "ugly umbrellas".

The head umbrella is the leader who directs the change of various scene formations, generally speaking, several head umbrellas located on the right side of the one for the lead umbrella, he signaled other head umbrellas to cooperate with each other to direct the change of the whole scene.

The head of the umbrella dress dress such as the Peking Opera "fishing to kill the family" in the Xiao Xiao En, wearing black and white beard or no beard have, dress in dark colors, the left hand umbrella buckle in the left shoulder, the right hand holding a fan-shaped cattle scapula "paddle" (here mainly refers to the insertion of umbrellas and carry umbrellas school). (here mainly refers to the Umbrella Insertion Sect and the Umbrella Carrying Sect). Toggle made of cow hind leg bone, ringing bell used to signal command to pass information. According to the traditional rules and customs of the head umbrella should be set up four or eight

people, the umbrella in the middle of one or two "umbrella", responsible for the whole field of change scheduling.

Floral umbrellas are named after the umbrellas that are decorated in a fancy way and lead the "flowers" in the performance. Flower umbrella costumes are generally more colorful, more beardless, left hand holding an umbrella, the right hand holding a "tiger support", that is, dumbbell-shaped bell. The number of flower umbrellas and ugly umbrellas in the same Yangge team is the same.

As props in the drum rice-planting songs, cow fan bones, umbrellas, tiger braces, etc., with the wind and rain, blessing the four sides of the symbolism. The snare drum is the main performing role of the rice-planting team, the largest number of people and played by male young adults. The performer holds a drum with a diameter of about 25 centimeters and a width of about 8 centimeters in his left hand, and a drumstick in his right hand, which can be freely reversed during the performance, striking the left and right sides. The performers look like the warriors in the opera, with heroes' scarves, handsome and dashing. The number of combinations, the drum is generally "umbrella" two or three times; 8, mallet. Performers holding about 50 centimeters long wooden stick with both hands to hit, around the trick and waving, this kind of role played by teenagers, dressed as the opera in the Wusheng, but also masquerade as the image of Liangshan Wusong.

The number of mallet performers is generally less than the number of drums, and is set in even numbers, usually in multiples of umbrellas. Flower corner, that is, the female role of the Yangge team. Flowers are divided into ground flowers and stilt flowers, and the costumes are mostly from my female relatives, or dressed in the expensive and colorful costumes of unmarried and newlywed wives. In the past, some also hanging flower jacket more than one, colorful skirt nearly ten or more, in order to show that their families are rich, known as the "bright box", for the local people are happy.

Flower used to be played by men, now more young girls, dress is also more elaborate, standardized

, but in terms of performance than in the past is much worse. The stilt flower has also been changed to the ground flower.

Flower less than ten people, more than a hundred people, holding fans, scarves, flower branches and other props; outside the corner of the Department of the small field of song and dance, to sing folk stories. Clown that belongs to the outer corner of

one, can be dressed up as a variety of comical roles, generally not in the official establishment, depending on whether there is the ability to play this role

color of the talent.　It should be noted that the various roles of the drum rice-planting song in the number of people with no uniform regulations, generally divided into large, medium and small three types, large-scale generally more than 90 people, 70 people left

right for the medium-sized, 50 or so for the small. Increase the role must be an even number and its multiples. For example, if the base number of umbrellas is 4, they are incremented in multiples of 4. If the base number of the drum is 8, it will be increased by multiples of 8, and so on for other roles. In order to maintain the dominance of the drums in the rice-planting songs, the drums must be more than twice as many as the umbrellas.