Song and dance creation

That is, the front part of the overall organization of the English song team is also the main part of the English song team. Small-scale is composed of 24 or 36 people, and large-scale is composed of 108 young and middle-aged men, disguised as heroes who are the main force of the water margin uprising troops. The two leading men are conductors and must wear black beards and red beards. The black beard is Li Kui jy, and the red beard is Yang Zhi or Qin Ming. The monk dressed up as or. Two of them are Sun Erniang and Gu Dasao. Other characters include Ishizu, Kowloon and Jie Zhen, the Orion. Two-thirds of the team held two sticks more than a foot long, beating and jumping at the same time, and performed heroic deeds through vigorous dance performances. 1/3 people, holding small drumsticks in their hands, beating time and dancing, cheering for progress. In addition, one person in the team should play the role of moving from time to time, holding a cloth snake, shuttling and jumping, adjusting the formation, and exchanging dance movements and dance graphic information. When the dance team in the front shed performed, they played sticks and drums, and performed various dance movements and choreography in coordination with the English songs and drum rhythm of "Knock, Knock, Knock", which showed the siege war compactly and quickly. Magnificent, spectacular, with strong touching artistic charm, inspiring the audience with high-spirited feelings, inspiring people to play the role of heroes and learn from them.

The traditional dance movements and artistic images of song and dance generally include "picking the mallet", "greeting the New Year", "washing the street", "paving the field", "ear of wheat flowers", "snail circle", "pulling the mallet" and "glasses frame". In the past, in addition to dancing English songs, there were also singing English songs, that is, the backup singers were dancing. The lyrics not only praise the historical content of Liang Shanbo's heroic feat of fighting for Daming Mansion, but also have folk stories and exhortations, such as "Twenty-four Filial Pieties", such as: "Dinglan Pavilion, Nanshan went to shepherd sheep. Kneel at the sight of the sheep to repay the favor. Ding Lannian's mother is sad, carving wood to worship filial piety, cooking in the morning and evening to respect her mother ... "But this practice of dancing and singing often affects the coordination of dance, which hinders the speed and chop of the hammer, so there are few backup singers now. That is the rear forces organized throughout Ying Ge, which represents the confluence of the rebels and the people in the water margin and forms a powerful reserve force. Everyone holds all kinds of swords and halberds, forming a huge warrior team. This team is generally composed of symbolic sixteen or twenty-four or thirty-six. There is no strict requirement on the number of people, just an even number. The members of this team take turns to perform various martial arts on stage to show that the heroes of Liangshanpo are all heroes. There are boxing singles, duets and mixed fights during the performance, as well as singles, duets and mixed fights of various musical instruments; Punching and kicking, stick and spear, sword and shadow, real gun and real fight, thrilling.

The final closing program is "Playing Horse". Dressed up as a court official, he hung a cloth horse around his waist, with his upper body exposed in the middle of the cloth horse and his lower body covered by the cloth horse, which looked like riding a horse. The official took two hammers and fought with a wooden stick with the walking monk. Finally, the officials of the imperial court were defeated and fled in confusion, which marked the end of English songs. Legend has it that there is a story about the origin of "beating horses": in the Qing Dynasty, there was a temple in Lihu Lake called Fentou Temple. There lived a monk with high martial arts in buddhist nun. At that time, the magistrate thought it was a hidden danger and came to clean it up. However, the monk was skilled in martial arts, and the county grandfather was defeated and fled in confusion. Later, people compiled this story into "Beating Horse stance" and developed it into an art program, which was performed in the back shed of English songs.