Artistic Characteristics of Haiyang Yangge

The performance of Haiyang Rice-planting Song is rich in content and the team structure is strict, mainly composed of three parts. At the forefront of the procession is the deacon's part, followed by the band and then the dance team. The dance team has dozens of various roles. Rice-planting team commonly used formations are "two dragons spit beard", "gossip bucket", "dragon swinging tail", "dragon disk tail, "two dragons strangling columns", "three fish fighting for the head", "stars cupping the moon" and so on. The outstanding feature of Haiyang Yangge dance movement is the combination of running and twisting, the dancers twist in running, women twist the waist and pull the fan, step up and shake the shoulders, lively and generous; men shake their heads, wave their arms and change their shoulders, bright and funny. The team of Haiyang Yangge is mainly composed of three parts, and the one at the forefront when traveling is the deacon's part, which consists of a three-eyed cannon, colorful flags, incense plates (held by the head of the association or the deputy head of the association), and a big gong.

Le Dafu is the conductor of the dance team, the left hand holding an umbrella, the right hand holding a dump, about its identity, folklore is different, some say it is a watchman, anti-wearing coat is to protect the cold, hand holding an umbrella with the intention of praying for wind and rain; there are also said to be a passing doctor, hand holding a horse dump is in order to eliminate the disease to go to the evil.

Flower drums are generally composed of sixteen to twenty-four young men, wusheng disguise, at the front of the queue, for the rice-planting team to open the way and play the field, one-handed drums, the left hand, although the drumstick, but do not hit the drums, but only with the rhythm of the corresponding movements.

The Little Daughter Man, dressed as a country girl, originally performed in pairs with the flower drums, and then gradually separated from the flower drums and performed independently.

The Cargo Man and Cuihua. This is a performance of the life of a small merchant in the countryside who travels around the countryside and a village girl who buys small commodities.

The Leakmaker and Wang Daniang. Folklore; Wang Daniang is the daughter of the Jade Emperor drought demon, she privately down to earth, into the village woman Wang Daniang. The hoop funnel maker is the change of the land god of the South Heavenly Gate, by the order of the Jade Emperor, to the mortal world to catch Wang Daniang back to heaven. The artists chose the episode where the two meet and tease and maneuver around each other, and choreographed it into a two-person dance, which can be performed both on the street and on its own in the performance hall.

The Ugly Woman and the Silly Boy. The Ugly Woman is an old woman from the countryside and the Silly Boy is a naughty child. The two of them are not limited in the rice-planting team and can run around at will, teasing and laughing to please the audience. The music of the Haiyang rice-planting songs consists of gongs and drums and songs, with gongs and drums as the main accompaniment. The percussion consists of drums, gongs, cymbals, cymbals and gongs. The two main types of gongs and drums are slow and fast, but the speed is not the same, and the rhythm is basically the same, with three drums and one gong (one board and three eyes). Songs are mostly Han folk tunes, sung in the middle of the percussion insertion, its representative repertoire for the "Dafu Tune", "Run Sichuan", etc., according to the actual situation of the choice of flute, sheng, erhu and other musical instruments accompaniment.