Present situation and inheritance of elephant hat dance

Elephant hat dance is widely circulated in Wangqing County, Jilin Province. During festivals, weddings, leisure time and competitions, men, women and children get together to perform. As the elephant hat dance is one of the unique representative dance forms of the Korean nationality, it is very popular with people because of its superb skills. According to the survey, as early as 1949, Wangqing County set up an elephant hat dance performance team, which was handed down by Professor Liang, the first generation of elephant hat dance. Every festival, wedding, leisure and competitive activities, men, women and children get together and perform heartily. 1954 As a representative mass culture and art of the Korean people, agricultural music dance was put on the stage in the form of elephant hat dance through the efforts of many performers and presented to the world with a brand-new look.

Since the reform and opening up, Wangqing County has invested a lot of manpower and material resources in the protection and development of elephant hat dance, which has enabled the elephant hat dance, a traditional Korean folk dance performance form, to be continued and passed down. Wangqing Elephant Hat Dance Performance Team has participated in many national performance competitions and provincial and state competitions, and its unique national cultural characteristics and beautiful dance have won praise from domestic and foreign audiences. 1986 In the first national folk music and dance competition in Beijing, the elephant hat dance "Joy" won the special prize; From 65438 to 0987, the first Farmers' Culture Week was held in Baicaogou Town, Wangqing County, during which thousands of dance teams performed a large elephant hat dance, which caused a great sensation. At present, the production of elephant hat in Wangqing county has reached the leading level, and the length of elephant hat ribbon is 28 meters, which is the longest elephant hat ribbon at present. Baicaogou Town was named the hometown of elephant hat dance by Yanbian Cultural Bureau.

Elephant hat dance is one of the most distinctive dances of Korean nationality, which has developed to the sixth generation. Its dance form has also developed from simple outdoor entertainment to professional art group performance, and won many national and provincial awards. However, its development is facing a difficult situation. With the development of the times, traditional culture has been impacted, and the inheritance and protection of elephant hat dance are also facing great difficulties. On the one hand, professional dance talents with high attainments are aging, and the backbone talents are lost; On the other hand, with the development of the times, traditional culture has been impacted, few people concentrate on practicing elephant hat dance, and there are fewer and fewer professionals. In order to protect and inherit this precious national art, Wangqing county holds an elephant hat dance training class every year, trains reserve talents of elephant hat dance, and also extensively carries out elephant hat dance performances to popularize and popularize elephant hat dance.

The state attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. On May 20th, 2006, the Elephant Hat Dance was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.