The origin of the rice-planting song, Chinese folklore, there is a saying that the ancient farmers in the rice-planting, rice-planting and other agricultural labor process, in order to alleviate the face of the soil, back to the sky of the pain of labor, so singing songs, and gradually formed a rice-planting song; folk another legend is that "rice-planting song" originated in the fight against floods.
Ancient people on the banks of the Yellow River, in order to survive, fight against floods, and finally, victory, we are happy to pick up the flood tools as props, singing, dancing, expressing the happy mood, with the increase in the number of participants, there are dance movements and dance combinations, and gradually formed the rice-planting song. The third folk theory according to the "Yan'an Fu Zhi" recorded "spring lively society, commonly known as Yangge", the Court can see the Yangge may be derived from the social day of sacrifice to the activities of the land master.
China's widely spread and has a distinctive national characteristics of the dance form. It is mainly performed in the square on the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, the Lantern Festival. This dance is closely related to agricultural labor. The steps of labor, as the basis of the dance steps, are processed artistically, and the team dances of the masses are neatly organized, forming a complete Yangge Dance, which gradually becomes a congratulatory and entertaining New Year's Eve social fire team dance, with performances of Chinese folk stories, myths and legends.
On May 20, 2006, the rice-planting dance was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
Expanded InformationRangge is a comprehensive art of singing and dancing, a traditional folk art that combines dancing and singing to the accompaniment of gongs and drums. There are four main types of rice-planting songs that have been passed down in Chinese folklore: singing rice-planting songs, twisting rice-planting songs, opera rice-planting songs, and theater rice-planting songs.
Range-planting songs in various places now generally take the rice-planting dance team as their main form, and the number of the team is as small as a dozen or as many as hundreds of people, who dance collectively, as well as in pairs, trios, and other forms of performances, and who, according to the needs of their roles, hold props such as corresponding handkerchiefs, umbrellas, rods, drums, money whips, and so forth, and who dance to the accompaniment of gongs, drums, suona, and other wind and percussion instruments. The dances, movements and styles of Yangge vary from place to place, some are powerful and majestic, some are soft and pretty, and all are beautiful.
Yangge is one of the most representative folk dances in northern China, both performative and self-indulgent, self-indulgent, and loved by the people. There have been some representative folk rice-planting dance artists in various places, and many of them have played an important role in the construction of the dance career of new China. In the rapid economic development of rural areas, the cultural environment has changed, and the folk artists who can master the traditional rice-planting techniques and pure dance style are few and far between, and the protection and inheritance work is urgently needed.
Reference: Baidu Encyclopedia - Yangge