The characteristics of English Song and Dance are as follows:
English Song and Dance is characterized by square, symmetrical, strong and powerful music rhythm, which is consistent with the dance rhythm of the style of strong, robust, courageous and powerful, and the close match between music and dance.
Historical origin:
About the age of Chao Yang Ying Ge Dance, "Chao Yang County Records" has "from the Ming Dynasty, Chao Yang began to have Ying Ge", but the description is not detailed.
From the story of the Liangshan Po heroes combined with the modern form of the performance of the Yingge Dance, it can be roughly presumed that the origin of the Yingge Dance should be counted from the Ming Dynasty, and if the folk dance characteristics and religious awareness of the Yingge Dance, it may be time to push forward much earlier.
On the origin of the English song and dance, there have been different accounts, there are several main statements.
Influenced by the ritual of Confucius. In the old days, when Confucius was worshipped on August 27 every year, not only the whole set of music and dance, but also the dancers had "short bamboo", which was similar to the "short stick" of the English song and dance dancers.
Evolved from the ancient Nuo dance. English song and dance face is generally black and white, ghost face, more murderous gas, as well as the formation of the English song changes that the ancient Nuo dance to drive away the ghosts and other religious consciousness and artistic characteristics, indicating that the English song and dance is the ancient Nuo dance transformation.
Theatrical influence. People in their daily lives like to tell the story of heroes, imitating the behavior of heroes, Liangshanbo story appeared in the theater stage, inspired the masses of spontaneous interest in learning, gradually, the performance on the stage is derived from the group square performance to.
From the evolution of Shandong big drums son rice-planting song. Because Shandong uses two hands to hold two mallets to strike the two drums of the flower drums, the mallets used are similar to the two mallets used in the Chao Yang Yang Yangge Dance, and the content of the dance vocabulary as well as the dance performance procedures are also similar.
The "Ying Ge" form was created for the purpose of fighting against the government and the powerful in order to spread martial arts. Because the main dance dynamics and the combination of choreography, can be seen by the influence of Nanquan martial arts.