Folk Dance Tutorial: Folk Dance Yangge

A representative form of folk dance of the Han people. Originated from agricultural labor, people in the field rice planting, plowing, banging gongs and drums, used to cheer, and later became a kind of singing and dancing. Different regions, different styles.

For example, the Shaanbei rice-planting song, the action of a steady pace, two arms flinging larger, chest and head, giving people a robust and simple sense of beauty; Shandong drums rice-planting song strong, robust and heroic, showing the farmers simple and simple, perseverance and character traits; Hebei Jidong local rice-planting song, dance, rich, especially bent legs, broken step, as well as flexible and changeable waist, shoulder, head movements, constituting its unique style. The song, dance and music are all combined together. The combination of song, dance and music is the same everywhere.

In the form of performance, generally dancers dressed as various characters, holding fans, pads, silks and other props and dance, the beginning and end of the dance for the large field to change the formation of the large group dance, the middle of the small field (by a person or a number of people to perform a simple plot of song and dance or a small play). From the twisted body, the dancers in a kind of soothing and flexible dance posture, raising two arms, as if dancing birds, or pointing to the ground with the toes, or rubbing the ground with the heels, into three steps, back half a step, free and lively. From the twisted flower (pattern formation), in the Chinese folk dance, unique, with the rhythm of the drum, flower changes, dance colorful and lively. 1942 "Yan'an rice-planting movement" after the rice-planting song injected new content, in the people's revolutionary construction, played a greater role, has produced far-reaching impact. The movement has had a far-reaching impact on the people's revolution and construction.