The folk dances of Hebei Province are rich and colorful, and are known as the hometown of northern Han folk songs and dances. According to the Chinese Dancers Association Hebei Branch of the 1983 survey statistics, the province's folk songs and dances up to one hundred and forty-six, in order to inherit and develop the art of national folk dance, the province each year around the regular organization of folk songs and dances training classes, inheritance of traditions, to push forward the new, and continue to explore and organize the folk dance. In the annual New Year, the Spring Festival tradition of welcoming the Spring Flower Festival and other mass amateur cultural activities, folk songs and dances are exceptionally active.
Hebei folk dance people are familiar with: Xushui lion dance, Tangshan rice-planting song, Changli running donkey, Shijiazhuang defile pull flower, Cangzhou drop dance, Yanshan martial arts fan, Goyang bamboo horse Luozi, Handan Yongnian Xiaoqu, Quchou floats, Xingtai rice-planting drums, Hengshui phoenix rice-planting song, the seven clever lights, Langfang crotch drums in Shengfang, Shengfang lanterns, Baoding, the ground level stilts, drum Luozi, Zhangjiakou flower, and the other two, the other two are the same. Zhangjiakou's flower Luozi, two-man stage, Chengde's spring drums, stick dance and so on. Now will be a few more widely circulated, influential, representative of the folk dance for a brief introduction.
The Jidong Rice-planting Song and Donkey Running
The Jidong Rice-planting Song is widely spread in the Tangshan area of Hebei Province. According to "Ancient Chinese Dance Words" (by Wang Kefen), "the rice-planting songs evolved from the ancient 'village field music'", and their source is the life of the ancient working people.
The rice-planting songs, performed on foot on the ground, are not subject to the limitations of performance occasions and props, are relatively flexible and easy to learn and perform, and are a combination of self-indulgence and performances, a folk dance with a broad mass base, and the traditional forms of activities are basically divided into two kinds of street rice-planting songs and field rice-planting songs. The traditional activity form is basically divided into two types: street rice-planting song and field rice-planting song. The street rice-planting song is performed along the streets and alleys. Its main features are: rhythm and movement unity, different performances, simple dance posture, walking and twisting. The field of rice-planting songs, encountered in the square or cross streets, open the scene, twisted a lot, and sometimes twisted for a while, singing a section, with gongs, drums, hairpin interludes, and then perform a storyline with the "small out of the child" (that is, a small dance program). The main features are: typical character, dance posture, stretching, fitness, flexible and changeable picture.
The traditional performance form of the rice-planting songs is that there are two characters dressed as martial artists (some of them are dressed as Wu Sung and Lu Zhi Shen) in front of them, waving flower sticks to open the way to play the field, followed by the children carrying flower baskets and Buddhist dust, as well as the roles of the field masters, fishermen, woodcutters, scholars and so on. In the line divided into "girl" (young girl or daughter-in-law), ugly (witty, humorous comical characters), Jiu (middle-aged or elderly women), Gongzi (literate and refined scholar). The **** same characteristics of the performance are the up and down shaking of the feet, the combination of shoulder and waist twisting and swaying of the hands, just like the phoenix swinging the willow in general. Props in the hands according to the character, respectively, holding colorful fan, flower silk, fan, rattle drum, mallet, tobacco bag, etc., the basic action of the hands to eight flip flowers, up and down, left and right, before and after shaking the fan flower, changes in the dry, such as pairs of colorful butterflies dancing in the flowers, both lyrical, elegant, elegant, but also fiery, hot, enthusiastic, joyful, full of witty, humorous, simple and healthy interest in life. The accompaniment is mainly the melodious suona, with medium and small hairpin as percussion. Most of them are used to playing "Full House Red", "Sentence Double", "Liu Qing Niang" and other trumpet songs, which are easy to express the optimistic, cheerful and joyful festival atmosphere.
The dance movements of various characters such as nü, chou ((Wen Chou, Wu Chou), and Gongzi in the rice-planting songs are very delicate and expressive, and they are able to portray the artistic images of different characters in the "small field" and "small out of the blue" of the rice-planting songs, and are good at expressing the storyline of a duo. They are good at performing duo dances, trio dances and small dance dramas with storylines. Zhou Guobao, a famous rice-planting song performer, a member of China Dancers' Association and a director of Hebei Branch of China Dancers' Association, cooperated with Zhou Guozhen and Zhang Qian to create the folk dance "Running Donkey" based on "Wang Xiaoxiao Catching Feet" and "Foolish Pillar Receiving the Daughter-in-Law". The main dance vocabulary of "Donkey Running" is based on the material of the ground rice-planting song. This dance, with national style and local characteristics, won the Outstanding Program Award when it took part in the First National Folk Music and Dance Concert in 1953. Subsequently, it was brought to Bucharest by the Chinese Youth Art Troupe to take part in the Fourth World Youth and Student Peace and Friendship Festival and won the second prize in the International Dance Competition.
In addition, Tangshan City, Qinhuangdao City and Changli County, professional and amateur dance enthusiasts, to rice-planting song as the material for the creation of many new dance programs, such as "marrying son-in-law", "blind man feeling the elephant", "Mid-Autumn Night", "Butterfly Puffing", "snatch the bride," and so on. These dances have been popularized throughout the province and are y enjoyed by the masses.
Zhao County fan drums, war drums, satchel drums
Zhao County fan drum drums drums, is a disk-shaped fan-shaped hand drums with a long handle, the handle has nine iron rings, slender drum hammer flexible, drums sound crisp and pleasant to the ear.
The fan drum has a long history, it originated in the Shang Dynasty witch dance. In ancient times, the witch dance was a dance to entertain the gods, and the main props used were fan drums (also known as "Taiping Drums" or "Taiping Shen"). With the change and advancement of society, the Witch Dance gradually evolved from a dance for entertaining the gods to a dance for human beings. According to legend, from 424 BC to 387 BC, the people of Yecheng County, in remembrance of the merits of Simon Bao's rule over Yecheng and the elimination of evils for the people, beat the Taiping Drum (i.e., the drum) and sang and danced in honor of the event every year and festival.
The fan and drum of the Witch Dance was passed on to the Qing Dynasty, and has basically been formed into a folk entertainment activity. Qing Dynasty He Ear made "Yan Tai bamboo board words" in the cloud: "Iron ring vibration drum Peng Peng, dancing groups of years gradually end." This is to reflect the scene of the fan drum performance activities at that time.
Zhao County fan drums for the collective dance form, every time to celebrate the harvest, farmers holding fan drums, field yard twisting dance, beating the drums of the light and lively, singing folk songs and ditties, to express the joy of the mood, very interesting life. Since the founding of the country, some professional and amateur dancers have inherited the tradition and used the fan and drum to create many new dance programs, which are welcomed by the masses. National Day 30th anniversary of the cultural tribute show, Hebei Province, amateur folk song and dance team with the processing and finishing of the Zhao County fan drum "harvest celebration" to Beijing, won the second prize for the performance, the creation of the third prize. Zhaoxian War Drums, a very spirited folk dance that expresses the life of ancient battlefields. With a large drum as the center, the drum surface diameter of one point eight meters, by four young strong young man beating, sixteen strong men holding cymbals, parade with the rhythm of the large drum, back and forth, up and down to fly, constantly changing the posture of the percussion instrument, very powerful, which is a sharp contrast to the slender, beautiful, lyrical fan drums, formed a distinctive contrast.
The Zhao County satchel drum (also known as the back lamp satchel drum), is a very chic folk dance. The performer carries a special dragon lamp or watermelon lamp on his back, sits the drum on his waist, and beats the drum with two pounds. From time to time, they jump and jump joyfully, and then rotate and beat the drums in a brisk and orderly manner. Every Lantern Festival night, hundreds of "back light satchel drum" on the streets, lined up in a long serpentine formation, in the drums, under the lights, in the joy of the crowd to and from the show. Performers and spectators as one, *** with the enjoyment of a peaceful world, the joy of song and dance, enhancing the festive atmosphere.
Cangzhou drop
Cangzhou drop is a Jizhong area with strong local characteristics of folk song and dance. According to the Cangzhou County Records, it is a small field in the big rice-planting song, which originated in the Jiaqing and Daoguang years of the Qing Dynasty (1796-1821). In the traditional dance, the women step on stilts (also known as stomping on stilts), holding flower fans or small bamboo boards, and the men beat the whip with their hands. The characteristics of the dance are that the fan is less flowery, and the dance is more stylized, focusing on the beauty of the curve and the rhythmic flavor. The style of fan dance is dashing, and the movement of the board dance is large, with many changes in rhythm, very bright and fast. The content of the traditional programs of Luzhi is mostly the expression of the hard life of the working people in the old society, as well as love stories and people's longing for freedom, happiness and a better life, such as "Jasmine Flower", "Flying a Kite", "Sighing for a Lovers' Son", "Embroidering a Handkerchief", "A Nun Thinking of a Nun", and so on. Among them, "Jasmine Flower" and "Flying a Kite" have been processed and organized to be even more beautiful and touching, and have become long-running preserved programs in the dance world.
The late Zhou Shutang, a famous folk dancer, made outstanding contributions to the inheritance and development of the Cangzhou Folk Dance. Zhou Shutang grew up in the "Drops workshop" to learn the art, after more than 40 years of practice, since the drop dance has become a school of art. His dance rhythm is characterized by the prominent portrayal of women's "three bends" dance posture modeling: the head is crooked, the waist is twisted, the legs are curved, the lines are beautiful, the flavor is strong, so that people feel elegant, beautiful, dignified. In terms of dance steps, it has absorbed the advantages and strengths of Chinese classical dance and brotherhood folk dance. Zhou Shutang believes that folk dance has no vitality without development and innovation. In order to develop the board dance and fan dance in the drop dance, he is from the folk dance of various ethnic groups, had written down many dance vocabulary and dance movements, after some analysis and research, many of the dance language dissolved into the drop dance, and then processed and sorted out more than 20 sets of fan dance and board dance movement combinations. These magnificent and colorful movements enhance the expressive power of the dance and develop the traditional art of the dance.