Rangge is nowadays often understood as a type of "folk dance". But be careful, "Yangge" is a common name today - categorizing similar folk dances into that category. Therefore, it is not the case that only those that mainly express "planting rice seedlings in the field" are called "Yangge. However, "Yangge" must be related to farming. Experts and scholars feel that rice-planting songs have a long history. It should be accompanied by the gradual "agricultural revolution" on the ground in China 10,000 years ago. In fact, the ancient people also feel so.
The rice-planting song, sung in the case of rice-planting music, there is a view that the rice-planting song is the ancient period of everyone, in the wilderness in the field of hard labor planting rice-planting time of the music of the joy, and therefore the name of this. According to the "Yuanling County Records" of Hunan Province, it is customary for local farmers to plant seedlings with pine bark on the spring equinox, and then beat drums and sing songs to congratulate them, and there is a similar account in the "Xixiang County Records" of Shaanxi Province. In many sources, the rice-planting song is expressed as related to the agricultural work of planting rice seedlings, but it is puzzling that the northern Shaanxi plateau region is not a farming culture farming area,
Local weather drought water resources are poor, and not suitable for planting rice. For this matter, the key expression is, originally began in the southern region of the farming area of the stilts, in the Ming Dynasty period was a lot of "south of the official north of the immigrant investment also have their relatives sent to the northern Shaanxi plateau region, and the local worship of the national dance, resulting in the northern Shaanxi rice-planting song. The rice-planting song is actually pronounced at the Mandarin level, and in Shaanxi Province, the rice-planting song is usually referred to as "yangge",
According to the local point of view in Shaanxi Province, the rice-planting song originated from the early local people's admiration for the light of the sun. At the beginning of the interpretation of the Shanxi rice-planting songs, the head of the umbrella hand-spinning flower umbrella to lead the team, and then twisted out of the various shapes, in order to pay homage to the gods and pray for the smooth and happy and safe. Umbrella head high spinning flower umbrella, in the northern Shaanxi plateau folklore called "Rizhao", that is, the representative of the Kayos, and from the top of the umbrella floated to the colorful silk in all directions, indicating that the light of the light of the radiant.