Basic footwork of Yangge dance movements:
a) Heel pressing: different foot positions of heel pressing. Such as the front step, small step, big eight step, bow and arrow step. When pressing the heel, the second half of the beat lifts the heel of both feet, the forefoot lands on the ground, and the legs lift the knee. The first half of the beat quickly drop the feet to the heel, the time to lift the heel should be short, and the time to fall to the ground should be relatively long.
b) Double knee flexion and extension: different characteristics of double knee activities. Hard flexion and extension of the double knee fast flexion and extension and elasticity; soft flexion and extension of the knee joint flexion and extension to have an internal sense of flexibility, the music of the action of the heavy beat of the body's center of gravity downward; straight knees to show that the action of the funny, playful characteristics.
c) Upper Body Rhythm: The body rhythm of Northeast Yangge is mainly swinging from side to side and twisting back and forth. Horizontal swing is the body of the left and right sides of the chest and waist alternately lifting pressure, forming the upper body of the left and right horizontal swing. Before and after twisting is the axis of the waist, shoulder-based body on the left and right sides of the body alternately before and after twisting, shoulder and upper body twisting to form a body, crotch do not twist, such as the shoulder alternately before and after the circle that is, the right shoulder drives the upper body behind the upward arc to the front, while the left shoulder to go down the arc to the rear.
:Yangge performances are mainly in the form of New Year's greetings. In the towns, the Yangge team will go to the local government offices and merchants to perform in the name of New Year's greetings, and in the countryside, it will go to the nearby villages in a big car to perform in the village office or in the mansion of a rich family, which is also meant to pay New Year's greetings at the door. This kind of performance, the worshiper to prepare tobacco tea hospitality, and in the rice-planting team on the way out of the "rice-planting head" reward money, and some have to manage the meal.
So the rice-planting team to pay homage to the New Year has been selected in advance, at least to give up the reward money to go, or else people to eat the horse to feed a variety of costs will be difficult to expense. Of course, the performance of the local men, women and children can be white to see the fun. In the past, the rural New Year's Eve, a figure of "joy", the second is to speak face.
The history of Yangge is that it originated in the Han Dynasty as a gathering for festivals, and has been around for thousands of years. Yangge teams are usually dressed up as characters or squares from life or historical myths, and are directed by the dancers, who collectively walk out in various formations or patterns, including the traditional pattern of the two dragons spitting out their whiskers and rolling up cabbage hearts, with the basic movements being simpler and more simplistic, imitating the basic movements of folkloric labor.
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