Puning's fiercest song and dance

The most intense song and dance in Puning is folk dance.

Song and dance belong to the emotional dance in the Han square dance. Shanwei, Lufeng, Shantou and Puning are the most popular counties and cities. According to the oral tradition of folk artists and the introduction of some supporting materials, the history of Chaoyang Ying Ge can be traced back to the Ming Dynasty. Song and dance performances have a unique charm. With its vigorous, vigorous, rough and unrestrained dance, it constitutes a majestic, mighty, strong and heroic momentum, which gives people a shock of strength and beauty.

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 "in length and 4 cm in diameter. Accompanied by the sound of gongs and drums, conch and shouts, two sticks collided and turned over, jumping 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. There are left knocks, right knocks, up knocks, down knocks, hip knocks, back knocks and so on.

The 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".

The theory of "timely rain" is a statement in the section of "timely rain" written by Zhang Dai, a Shaoxing celebrity in the late Ming and early Qing Dynasties. 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".

Yangko theory means that song and dance are born out of the "Daguzi Yangko" in northern Shandong and the "Liulin Yangko" in western Shandong. Because English songs and "yangko" are similar in pronunciation in Chaozhou dialect.

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