The rice-planting songs are government-run and privately-run. Once upon a time, the official rice-planting songs were mostly organized by the big families in the townships, and were financed by the private enthusiasts. After the liberation, the people's government by the township to organize activities. Private rice-planting songs are mainly organized by the rice-planting singers themselves, the remuneration, according to the pre-agreed method of distribution.
In the old days, the commander-in-chief of a rice-planting team and the leader of the dancers was the "Sha Gongzi" (or the "Fury Gongzi," "Spill Gongzi," "Silly Gongzi"), who wore a headdress and a hat, and the dances were performed by the "Shah Gongzi. "He wore a scarf, a cape and a blue shirt, and pulled on his open shirt, so he was also known as "the one who pulls on the shirt". The twisting and singing are all directed by him. The left side of the Yangge team was led by Mr. Sha. All of them were dressed as men and women, and the one at the head was called "Da Lahua". The first one is called "Big Lahua", followed by "Second Lahua" and "Third Lahua". "All of them were dressed in colorful dresses and wore flower crowns and beads on their heads. The team on the right was led by Silly Pillar. The leader was called "Big Clown". The first one is the second one, and the third one is the third one.
Because of the initial participation of duet artists in the Guandong Yangge, the Yangge is often accompanied by small plays. When someone ordered an opera when playing the field, they sang a small opera. Thus, until now, the rice-planting team also some people play opera makeup, such as playing "White Snake" in the white snake, green snake, Xu Xian; "Journey to the West" in the Tang Monk, Sun Wukong, Monk Sha, Porky Pig; "Big Head Monk Amusing Liu Cui" in the monk, Liu Cui; "Three Maidens Playing Stove" in the three Maidens, Stove King; "small mother to open the pound" in the small mother, broad master, stupid column; "Iron Bow Rim" in the hand of the old woman with a mallet, the characters became a major feature of the Guandong Rice-planting Song, which is a very important feature of the "Guandong Rice-planting Song". Guandong rice-planting song a major feature of the play to have a certain degree of kung fu. Playing "Baochai butterfly" Baochai, stepping on stilts more than a foot high, with a fall of the "butterfly", play can be undulating freely to pounce on the butterfly. The two groups of rice-planting song against, often rely on these stunts to win.
Range songs string street, double line column, side dance. When there are firecrackers to greet them, they stop and play. Yangge into Tuen New Year's greetings, have to contact in advance, roughly divided into two ways. One is to play the field, into the center of Tuen Mun Square, slow walking array, dance round field, flag and drum in the center; singing duo or opera, to the whole Tuen Mun New Year's greetings. The other is to pay New Year's greetings to big families, or from the beginning to pay New Year's greetings from house to house. Rice-planting team "Yanbeibei wing" into the yard, twisted to the upper door and then back to the gate to return to the team, on the round field. Once the gongs and drums stop, "Sha Gongzi" starts to sing and pay tribute to the New Year, and then it goes down to the bottom:
A small fan with eight sticks of firewood.
It's time to move on to the next row of the rice-planting song.
Whoever is assigned to it will sing for me.
Da Lahua led the big ugly man.
The master gave him a reward, and "Sha Gongzi" sang again
When the housewares were hit, they rang out to the sky,
The rice-planting songs brought more trouble to the courtyard.
We will thank you for the reward,
and the boat will sail when the gong is sounded.
After the song is finished, the rice-planting team leaves the yard in the "snake shedding its skin" or "dragon swinging its tail" manner. After the establishment of new China's modern Yangge. Although it still follows the tradition of the Sha Gongzi to play the head, but the "head of the pack" is no longer played by men. In addition to the ground rice-planting songs, the "head wrappers" were all played by women, and the girls and daughters-in-law tied on stilted legs to twist the rice-planting songs (some of them could not step on the one or two-foot ones, so they stepped on the seven or eight-inch short legs, which was called "stepping on the inches"), which was regarded as a new style, and from then on, the young women joined the rice-planting teams and twisted the rice-planting songs, which was regarded as a new style. From then on, young women joined the rice-planting teams, and rice-planting became an indispensable activity for festivals. "During the Cultural Revolution, the rice-planting songs became monotonous, with only the "Saffron Rice-planting Song" and the "Workers' and Peasants' Rice-planting Song". "After the Cultural Revolution, the traditional rice-planting songs were restored as a favorite.
Dragon lanterns, dry boats Dragon lanterns, lion dances, dry boats and other juggling activities are mostly grouped together in the rice-planting songs, and some of them are large-scale and are often performed separately. After the liberation, become a celebratory festival square culture of the masses very happy to see the project, festival juggling has three categories:
One type of dance, there are dragon dance, lion dance, clam dance, big-headed dolls dance, and so on. Lion dance, clam dance, big head doll dance with the rice-planting team, become part of the rice-planting team, the dragon dance often separate activities. The dragon dance is performed during the daytime and the dragon lanterns are played in the evening. Dragon lanterns are generally 9, 11, 13 sections. In the old days, as many as 23 sections of dragon lanterns in Jilin and Fuyu.
Another category is with a certain theatrical plot of juggling. There are "running dry boat", "running bamboo horse", "(old man cart", "old man back less wife" and so on. These juggling can be performed at the end of the rice-planting team, but also in the middle of the big field to make fun. Pushing carts, running donkeys, rowing boats have a more delicate dance and quite a sense of humor and harmony. Some teams also have two or four "dry boat" dances. After the liberation, the social phenomenon of the old man and the young wife is less, so it is mostly changed to "Piggyback Daughter-in-Law", "old man wheelbarrow" has also been changed to "small two back to the door". There is also a category of acrobatic activities. Such as saving pole, turn the pavilion and so on. "Pouting pole" for the Han folk entertainment forms, its sister arts a variety of, collectively known as the "five pole", including pouting pole, lifting pole (also known as "lifting brother", "" (also known as "lift brother", "Prime Brother"), lifting pole (also known as "sitting flower pole"), turn the pole (also known as "turn the pavilion", "lift the pavilion"), back pole. These five poles have influence on each other, the Southern Song Dynasty by Zhou Mi (Wulin old things) Volume III: "to the wooden beds iron engine for the immortal Buddha ghosts and gods and so on flying in the air, called the" Taito ""台阁. The end of the Qing Dynasty, the Republic of China spread to all parts of Jilin. After the Cultural Revolution, the pouting pole was developed in Daan and Qian Guo Counties in the Songnen Plain, where it was performed in programs such as "Nezha Raising the Sea," "Three White Bones," "Water Floods San Francisco," and "Scientific and Technological Development of Agriculture," among others. Nezha's Follies with the Sea A lever is set up on a cart, with a dragon at one end. Nezha performers ride on the dragon, and when the lever is pressed, the dragon rises up in the air and Nezha performs a variety of shows, which are quite spectacular. The "Revolving Pavilion" is a car with a revolving stage decorated with colorful silks. As the car moves forward, the stage revolves, and little actors play various theatrical characters on the stage.