Introduction
The Tea Picking Dance is a self-indulgent dance of the Yulin folklore, which is usually a combination of song and dance, and is usually performed by a man and two women. The male is called the Tea Gong, and the female is called the Tea Niang, and the props are money rulers, colorful fans, handkerchiefs and ribbons. During the Spring Festival, many places are almost no village without singing, no dike without dance. Performance venues are not confined, the open field, lawn can be, there are also in the bamboo and wood built platform performance. The content of the tea-picking dance is mainly to show people's production and labor process, sometimes inserted to reflect the storyline of young men and women in love. These episodes can be in the "tea-picking big example" (that is, from the song and dance to the string of ancient, character, plot song and dance form) in the performance, but also as a separate performance, the folk called these episodes "tea insertion", that is, the tea-picking interlude, such as "ten dozen dance" that is, "tea-picking dance" is a "tea-picking dance" is a "tea-picking dance". Ten dozen dance" is such. Tea-picking dance costumes, male actors wearing black color embroidered head ring, red belt around the waist, feet wearing black shoes, different roles in different costumes, white lapel tops, white pants, blue pants, red undershirts or black undershirts, etc., pants and undershirts are inlaid with the various color lines. Actresses wear red colored head rings and embroidered shoes. Some of them wear yellowish Zhuang slash blouse, red pleated skirt, or red lapel coat, green pants and so on. Tea-picking dance with unicorns, phoenixes, flower baskets, flower umbrellas, colorful fans, coin whips and so on. Accompanying instruments for the erhu, flute, suona-based, then accompanied by gongs, drums, cymbals-based percussion. With the development of society, tea-picking dance from the original spontaneous organization of the masses to the development of townships and counties to rehearsal and performance of cultural and artistic groups. The tea-picking dances of "Six People Fighting with Golden Flowers" and "Nine Dragons Swinging Tail" won excellent prizes in the cultural and artistic performances of the autonomous region in the 1950s and 1960s, and the tea-picking dramas "Changing the Feng Shui", "Green Leaves Supporting the Flowers" and "Choosing Son-in-Law" were successively adapted and performed in Nanning and the autonomous region in the year of 1981, and then in the year of 1981 and 1986. Green Leaves Help Flowers" also won the third prize of 1985-1986 script writing in Nanning area. Chongzuo Tea Picking Dance is still innovating, but its musical tunes, performance movements, costumes and props have kept the original style.
Origin
During the Tang Dynasty, the style of tea was prevalent in the world, and the tea dance was more popular among the family members of the imperial palace, which was a kind of tea tasting and tea fighting. Whenever a new tea was picked in the spring, the court would hold some festivals, rituals, or tea activities, and the tea dance was an indispensable part of such activities. Tea-picking dance is a special kind of dance in the Tang Dynasty, different from the popular court singing praises of "soft dance", also different from the foreign imported Hu Xuan and other "healthy dance", but in the "soft dance The style of "soft dance" is a unique dance with the color of Hu Xuan Dance. Fubaoge Tea Performance Troupe performed by the tea-picking dance music, gorgeous costumes, mainly expresses the Royal Tea Plantation picking new tea singing and dancing with the joy of the mood, and the royal relatives and the harem of powdered women around the table to taste tea, watching the tea-picking dance scene. Tea-picking dance in the Republic of China in the 14th year (1925) by the Jiangxi Nanchang tea-picking troupe Liu Xinwang passed into the village of Kailua Yan, after the local folk tea-picking dance team, every lunar June 22, Kailua three thousand marshal temple performance, Jiangxi tea-picking dance, only fan, tea-picking, offering baskets of the three sections of the program. Later, the artist Huang Fa will be eight sets of flower umbrella dance into the "tea-picking dance", enriching its content. Tea Picking Dance is a beautiful dance. When walking, the soft swing of the hands, the trembling of the knees, the lightness of shaking the fan, the lifting, sinking, containing and releasing of the chest and waist when throwing the umbrella, as well as the left and right protective movements of the body when picking tea, all of them contain a skillful, soft and rounded style.
Development
The tea-picking dance in Chongzuo is mainly popular in the villages and towns of Sanglu, Nalong, Zuozhou and other places. Qing Guangxu twenty years (18 tea-picking dance 94 years), Qinzhou, a tile master to pack Lu Wei Zao tile village tile, and teach the people to sing tea-picking opera, but also to the nearby more than one, Tun village, more lazy, Fu Liao village to teach. 1918, Yongning County, that the village of Chen folk artist Lai Fu stack came to the Na Long, Qunli, Zuozhou, Drainage Ming, get Yan village to teach singing tea-picking. Since then, tea-picking opera from abroad began to be introduced to Chongzuo. After 4 or 5 generations of missionaries, the popular tea-picking opera in Chongzuo is mostly based on the main theme of reflecting the labor and production, life and love of the Zhuang people. The tea-picking dance is organized by the local people to rehearse the tea-picking team, playing characters such as the tea public, the tea maiden, the singing companion, the scholar or the rich man. Before the founding of New China, there were generally no women in the tea-picking team, and the "tea lady" was dressed up by male actors. Each team of actors generally about 5 people. After the founding of the People's Republic of China, women participated in the tea-picking team, "tea lady" is no longer a male actor as, each team of actors also increased to 20-30 people, singing venue from a bamboo sheet on the performance on a big stage. Folk tea-picking team performances are generally in the first day of the first month of February to early February, to tea Christine New Year, celebrating the harvest, praying for peace for the purpose of the show. Tea-picking dance with open stage tea (Gong tea), Nai tea, ten send tea, old tea, red tea and more than 10 kinds of performance forms.
Features
The movements of the tea-picking dance are characterized by simplicity and generosity, and rich in a sense of humor. Tea masters often use leg trembling and knee bending to make short stakes for tea-picking dance movements, and the dance is light and dashing. The hand of the money ruler in the performance of the "open field dance" can be used as a hoe, the performance of tea frying can be used to pull the bellows-like, witty action, full of fun. Tea Lady's movements are mostly shy and subtle, delicate and light dance steps, mostly using the "cross step" and "step and turn". The colorful fan in her hand is lightly waved and quickly gathered, like clouds dancing, willow wadding, dancing gracefully and elegantly, fully demonstrating the innocence of the young girl, lively and lovely. The tea-picking dance is also a song and dance, generally two or four lines of a song, between the drums and gongs or music through the door. Dancers in the door into a △-shaped cycle of string insertion, steps as light as a dragon's hand, as fast as running water and wind. With the drums and music, the atmosphere is warm, and it is highly entertaining.
Records
According to Zheng's genealogy, the stone horse Zheng's ancestors Wen Hui Gong from the Southern Song Dynasty from the Goshen double Lou tea mountain moved here, picking tea dance "Guangxu Ninghai County Records Volume III" in "Shima knife creek can be irrigated, there are mountains without the sea, produce tea. Hundreds of years ago, the ancestors hard work, mountains and mountains, the corner of the ground, mountain bay hillock, pit side rock file, and even roadside tombs are planted on the tea, there are mountain bays called "Tea Garden Bay", so the tea-picking dance came into being. Tea Picking Dance" originated in the late Yuan and early Ming Dynasty, flourished in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China, and has been passed down from clan to clan. Every Spring Festival and Lantern Festival, the clansmen would hold tea-picking activities to celebrate the harvest and pray for favorable weather conditions and peace of the country and the people. During the Cultural Revolution, it was included in the Four Olds and ordered to stop activities. 1980 after the implementation of the national policy of "a hundred flowers blossom and a hundred schools of thought contend", the tea-picking dance was revitalized. 81 years ago, the Lantern Festival was invited by the county cultural department to take part in the county folk art exhibition, and in the same year, Dai Qun, choreographer and director of the Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, Zhu Peihua, writer of songs and dances, had been to the village to pick up the wind, and the mid-1990s, the county cultural department had been invited to the village to pick up the wind. In the mid-1990s, the county cultural department had sent staff to guide, on behalf of the Sanmen folk art performance in Taizhou City. The main tunes are: tea-picking tune, flower drum tune, look at the tune, purple bamboo tune, ancient head tune, flower tune, Feng Yang flower drum tune. Tea Picking Dance" performance, the first gongs and drums to make a scene, followed by tea picking performance, the beginning of the performance in the round, playing cross-stringing a variety of formations, tea heart in the front, the tea bucket followed by the tea lady, flower drums, look at the face, selling six heads, monks follow the tea heart rotating, rotating after the counter-rotation, up and down, turn around the modeling, the tea heart in the middle of the other playing formations in the seven outside of the eight, in the seven playing the seven people in the tea lady, outside of the eight playing the tea bucket, one person, flower drums two people, look at the face of the two people, flowers playing tea bucket A person, flower drums two people, look at the two people, sell six head a person, a monk, tea guests a person, **** eight people. Performances in the form of song and dance, the order of precedence is led by the tea heart singing, tea women then and singing, tea guests, monks read white, sell six head read white, flower drums sing while beating the flower drums, look at the face of the people sing while doing. Each sing a section, change formation once, *** performance of twelve sections. Finally, the performance is finished. The whole show singing by the band accompanied by songs, tunes have tea cai tea tune, the whole show singing and dancing, rich tunes, folk art features distinctive.
Process
Chai Cha Dance is a set of songs and dances in one of the folk lamp dance. Along with the traditional dragon lantern dance and horse lantern dance, the tea-picking dance is circulated in the countryside of Qingtian. Every year during the Chinese New Year festival, the village tea-picking dance team, will show their skills, adding festivity to the festival. The dance team is usually led by the village's older and prestigious people, the team has more than ten members, including gongs and drums, playing the piano and sending stickers. But the opening performance of the official actors but only five, some dance team is equipped with one or two alternates. Performing team of pioneers first send stickers according to the households in turn, and then by the performance team according to the stickers of the successive performances. After the performance, the townspeople have tea and water, burned snacks to entertain the actors. The red envelope is the main income of the tea-picking dance team, in addition to some of its members as honorarium, most of the village to do public welfare funds. The props used in the tea-picking dance are not complicated: a pair of gongs and drums, two huqin, and four tea baskets with a few thick bamboo gimlets for the skeleton, surrounded by white paper glued on and written with the words "tea" and "fortune". Tea basket inside a candle, the evening performance when the candle is lit, looks colorful, very nice. Everywhere, as long as you hear the gongs and drums and "picking tea Luo -" yells, folks will organize the yard, set up tables and chairs, waiting for the arrival of the dance team, the children heard, they are happy to gather in groups to run outside the house to meet. The tea-picking dance is performed in the form of song and dance. To the music of the erhu, the actors dance in a plum blossom-shaped formation. The actor who plays the male actor stands at the top, holding a paper fan in his hand, and sings as he dances. The girls who play the role of Miss, Sister and Maiden (two people), each with a tea basket in front of them, make gestures of picking tea, singing while picking. The whole process of tea-picking dance is divided into three parts: moon picking, tea peddling and tea counseling. The content of moon picking is the richest, singing famous flowers and tea, scenic spots, living customs, good quality and so on. Tea peddling is a small family farce with vivid plot combining speaking, singing and playing. Tea-promoting is different from person to person, celebrating the prosperity of people from all walks of life. Accompanied by music, the tea-picking dance, with its innocent chorus and antiphonal tunes, as well as its graceful dance, is loved by the folk folks in the neighborhood. From the second to the fifteenth day of the first month of every year, it is the peak time for the tea-picking dance. Actors dressed up in flamboyant costumes, accompanied by music, and dragon lantern dance, fish lantern dance, horse lantern dance rivaled each other, competing with each other, adding to the joy of the festival. What I remember most is that one year around the Lantern Festival, the weather was cloudy and rainy, but the various lantern dances in the countryside still insisted on performing. Although the paper made of dragon body, fish body, tea basket wall are wet and fall, only the bamboo skeleton, and the performers of the performance of the excitement has not been reduced in the slightest, the wind and rain of the flying dragon and fish and tea picking dance, who is not inferior to anyone. So that the people watching forgot that it was raining, the children's brand-new clothes squeezed all over the mud, young boys wet clothes do not care, all excited, there are cheering, there are cheering, only the old people even sighed at the weather is not good, trembling Wei Wei busy stove, burning hot water, snacks, for the performers to heat up the body warm heart, the scene is still unforgettable. The family loved the tea-picking dance, especially my father, who was a fan of the tea-picking dance. He not only sings and performs the tea-picking dance, but over the years, he has also organized and recorded more than a dozen sets of tea-picking dance words, and often take them out to look at his free time, and sometimes when he is in the mood, he also teaches us to sing the tea-picking dance, which amuses the adults and the old people straight to the joy of the people. Nowadays, people's living standards continue to improve, entertainment is also more and more rich. But the tea dance this traditional folk dance is still loved by the people, the childhood play tea dance scene is still fresh in my mind.
Prevalent
Harvest drums, the sea of rice, full of rhythmic tea-picking dance. A "agricultural flavor" full of the sixth National Agricultural Games opening ceremony of the tea-picking dance was held last night at the Quanzhou Strait Sports Center. 8 p.m. on July 8, 2007, dressed in traditional rural costumes, performers sounded the harvest gongs and drums, 80 dancers dressed as symbols of agricultural seasons and seasons of the Myriad Birds, the unfolding of the "wings". "The 80 dancers, dressed as myriad birds symbolizing the agricultural seasons, spread their wings and flew into the scene, kicking off the performance with a cheerful dance. In the harvest chapter of "Food for the People", 1600 actresses formed a golden "sea of rice" surging, through a variety of actions to show the "golden wind blowing, rolling waves of rice," a festive scene. The actors sang the "Harvest Song", which mirrored the dance, showing a harvest scene. Style chapter "sweating between heaven and earth" on the new era of mountain tea farmers, grassland herders, coastal fishermen and other production and life of the artistic depiction, showing the motherland east, west, south, north and south, forests, pastoral and fisheries areas of the different styles. The reporter saw, when the local characteristics of Fujian, "tea plucking butterfly" music, tea village women carrying small bamboo tea basket appeared on the stage, jumping up and down the joyful and lyrical, rhythmic tea-picking dance, the audience have applauded and applauded. Miaoyin bird image throughout, in the outlook of the chapter "Spring Breeze Ode Auspicious" part, the piano colorful music accompanied by soprano singing, composed of professional dancers Miaoyin bird came, accompanied by auspicious clouds perform "the sea bridge of the heart" of the scene, expressing the good wishes of the people. Agricultural Games "agricultural flavor" throughout the opening ceremony performances, to discuss the small sea of Meizhou women, wearing a flower scarf, wearing a hat Hui'an women. Different characters appeared on stage and performed a variety of programs that were rich in rural characteristics. Zheng Zhengfeng from Quanzhou Inspiration Bookstore came with his family of five to watch the opening ceremony, "It's rare for Quanzhou to hold a large-scale national games, and I've never seen the opening ceremony live before, so I brought my family here. I didn't expect the opening performance to be so wonderful and have such a local flavor. I heard that the later games are also very interesting, I am going to come to see the games on both days."
Poetry
According to Kaihua Geng poem written by General Chen Yi Wing Long Ding, said the end of the lyrics, "Steep Dragon Top" three words and in 1938, General Chen Yi led Xiang Gan, Gannan four, five battalions of the Jiangnan Province spring team north to the anti-Japanese to Anhui Rock Temple concentration, passing through Huabu rest stayed ink treasure! "Wing Long Ding" poem related. General Chen Yi "Wing Long Ding" poem as: tea-picking dance a banner out of Gan imperial insults, when it rains peach blossom Hua town tour. The three waters around the island of Vujinxi, sparkling light bursting eye knot mirage. Drunken Rongxin Song Pin Longding, you drink a thousand goblets of wine will be more rewarding. Sibling rivalry is a pity, and now we are waving our arms against Japanese invaders. In Kaifa Chinatown, there is also a song of "Farewell Song" from the war period: The wind is blowing, the rain is pattering, the peach and willow are green, and the cuckoo is singing. The wind is pleasant, the rain is heavy, the peach blossoms and willows are green and the azaleas are singing. I hope that you will send me away for thousands of miles, and I hope that you will send me good news about your expedition to the invaders. When the war is over, my wife will make dragon tops for my husband
Related
Olympics in Beijing From Jiangxi University of Science and Technology, it was learned that the school's "Chinese Olympic Cheerleading Babes" will take Jiangxi's traditional tea-picking dance as the main action design elements, and bring the tea-picking dance into the Beijing Olympic Games to show the charm of the dance to the world, as well as the charm of the dance for the Olympic athletes, and to show the world how to make a difference. The charm of the dance, cheering for the Olympic athletes. It is understood that the Jiangxi University of Science and Technology cheerleading team **** 13 members, 7 men and 6 women. The Olympic cheerleading baby performance of tea-picking dance is also a song and dance, the dancers into a triangle cycle interspersed, steps as light as a dragonfly, with drums and music, the atmosphere of the scene is warm, rich in rich flavor of Gan Poyang, expressing the province's people's deep blessings for the Beijing Olympics. It is reported that in January 2008, in the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games sports show on-site performance cheerleading finals, Jiangxi University of Science and Technology cheerleading team to the first place as the Beijing Olympic Games, "China's cheerleading baby", during the Beijing Olympic Games in August, will be in the shooting, fencing and swimming and other items of the arena for live performances.