A rule passed down from an ancestor in Mudgou is: pass it on from the inside, not from the outside; pass it on to the male, not to the female. If a member of the Yinggou dance troupe is old and wants to quit the dance troupe, he has to train his own son or a descendant of his clan to take over the dance troupe, or else he will not be able to quit the dance troupe. The purpose of the ancestor's good intention is to let Yingge pass on from generation to generation, so that there will not be no one left to take over.
The front shed of the Mudgou Yingge Song, which was handed down by the ancestors, is 8 mallets, 8 drums and 1 snake, and there are not many routines. Although 8 mallets and 8 drums, but the number of teams, on the pre-liberation of the village **** 7 English song team, seems very active. With the emancipation of ideas, when the special organization of a women's English song team, in 1953, the women's English song on the county performance was well received. In the 1950s, in order to express the love of the five-star red flag, created a "five-star flashing" formation routine, praised by the South China Song and Dance Troupe.
Since then, the South China Song and Dance Troupe only mud ditch picking, mud ditch a direct instruction from the artist, progress faster. In the 1960s, the mud ditch English song in the quicksand light stadium in a performance, received the Beijing Dance Academy artists favor, determined that the South China Song and Dance Troupe is responsible for the mud ditch English song tutoring processing, ready to go to Beijing. Due to the outbreak of the Cultural Revolution, failed to do so.
Ten years of catastrophe, Ying song drums rest ten years. After the Gang of Four was defeated, the drums of English songs resounded again. Beijing Dance Academy, Guangzhou Dance School came to Puning to pick up, watched the mud gully Yingge, due to the lack of video cameras at the time, only the mud gully Yingge drums, mallets, footsteps sound recording. Mr. Ma from Beijing immediately wrote: "Ying song dancing in the east wind, Nigou heroic". In the 1980s, Mudgou singing team organized front shed, back shed to Huilai, Lufeng, Jiexi, Chaoyang and other places to perform. Make the local people a big eye-opener.
September 1989, Guangdong Province, Yingge Symposium held in Puning, Mudgou Yingge front shed organization 32 mallets on the county to participate in the performance, by the artists attending the praise. Guangzhou Dance School Yang Meiqi, principal of the Beijing Dance Academy, director of the Department of Folk Dance Pan Zhitao led a group of people came to Mudgou, selected Mudgou as the Guangzhou Dance School's "experimental field", the two sides set the "contract".
In 1990, the Lantern Festival, Puning held a general performance of Ying Ge. Mudgou Ying Ge organized 64 mallets of the front shed to participate in the show, in Guangzhou Dance School Li Yongxiang, director, deputy director of Huang Rulin and lecturer Zhang Xiaozhang under the guidance of the Mudgou Ying Ge pushed the boundaries of the new, playing a new level, a new style. Participating in the performance of *** there are 10 teams, 9 teams are single mallet, the only Mudgou Yingge is double mallet. Nanshan Yingge arranged the first appearance, the first voice, while the mud ditch Yingge arranged the last appearance, but also played the effect of the finale. After watching the five-minute performance of Nigou Yingge, the audience was reluctant to leave the stage. Leaders and experts on the podium look after a smile, nodding frequently. In the fall of the same year, the mud ditch English song was selected to participate in the province "90 China Tourism Arts Festival and the Guangdong Happy Festival" performance, the positive feedback.
July 1991, should be invited by the Shenzhen Municipal Government, mud ditch Yingge in Shenzhen "Lychee Festival" on the show. Wherever Yingge went, it was convenient for many old Shantou villagers to watch. They said that Mudgou Yingge had fought for the Chaoshan people in Shenzhen.
In September of the same year, Nigou Yingge represented Shantou to participate in the opening ceremony of the First World Women's Soccer Championship Drawing Ceremony, and made a great show in Guangzhou Tianhe Stadium. Lingnan TV (now Guangdong TV) broadcast live, for Shantou Ying song to the world played the first shot. A reporter from CCTV and a director from Changchun Film Studio watched it and shook the hand of the chief coach and said: It's great, this is the real folk art of the square, there is a chance that we have to be made into a movie feature film.
December of the same year, the mud ditch English song and on the provincial capital, by the CCTV "Southeast, West, North and West" production organization Tianhe stadium shooting road sets, condensed and refined, broadcast on CCTV for 5 minutes.
In the fall of 1996, the mud ditch English song again on the city of sheep, to participate in the "96 China Tourism Art Festival and Guangdong Happy Festival". Again for the sheep city audience and foreign guests to perform, and returned with honors.
The end of 1999 into the new century, the mud ditch Yingge again should be cautious of the invitation of the municipal government, to participate in the Shenzhen Municipal Government organized by the cross-century carnival night. At that time, the real people of the same music, hundreds of thousands of Shenzhen citizens from the night of 9:00 to 2:00 in the morning, intoxicated in the joy. Wherever Ying Ge went, the audience was packed with people. In the spring of 2002, the mud ditch Yingge was invited by the Shenzhen Municipal Government to Shenzhen "Window of the World" performance, received praise from all walks of life.
December 2003, Nigou Yingge represents one of the culture of Chaoshan, to participate in the World Tourism Festival held in Macao and the Chaozhou Food Festival performances, a sensation in Macao.
In 2004, Macau celebrated the 5th anniversary of the handover, and in December 2005, the Macau International Tourism Festival. Nai Gou Ying Ge was invited to perform again.
July 2004, Mudgou organized a team of more than 20 young people singing, innovative movements and routines, the square art on the stage performances, to participate in the sixth children's art in Guangdong Province and CIOFF third Asian Children's Folk Art Festival competition, won the gold medal.
October of the same year, the Junior English song team on the Beijing celebration of the 55th anniversary of the founding of the garden activities, received the central head of the cordial reception.
Mud ditch English song after several generations of artistic efforts, visibility continues to increase. 2004 mud ditch was named "the hometown of the arts", mud ditch choreographer and chief coach Mr. Zhang Baoqi, was awarded the "Guangdong Province, excellent folk artist" title.