Origin of Basket Yangge

The basket rice-planting song is a unique artistic varieties of the national field rice-planting song, originating from the western Tangshan Fengnan Dong Tianzhuang folk rice-planting song "basket light". "Basket light" is the oldest dance in China by the evolution of Nuo dance, began in the Zhou Dynasty. This Nuo dance performance, many ethnic groups in our country and many foreign nationalities are flourishing, and most of the forms of expression is the square dance. Fengnan basket Yangge in the creation of the performance process, the common folk basket art, painted into a variety of faces, worn on the head, as a mask. It not only expresses the rich local characteristics, but also combines art with labor and creation, glorifying the simple laborers. At the same time, the basket becomes an ingenious prop, which can show the fishermen's hardship of fishing and loading fish, as well as the joy after labor.

Fengnan basket rice-planting song, in fact, belongs to the colorful Jidong rice-planting song. She is a folk villagers in the spare time of labor, entertainment and leisure, boldly created. Fengnan coastal area, in the endless mudflats, full of lush reeds, coastal fishermen to reed woven into different shapes of the basket, used to contain the fish and shrimp caught from the sea. At the end of the year, the Spring Festival, a group of rough, tough sea men and a group of beautiful, spicy fisherwomen, in the wide mudflats, light up the lanterns, dancing basket, to celebrate the harvest. In the dance, they express their joy of harvest and their yearning for a happy life, as well as the beautiful love between the sea man and the fisherwomen. After jumping and dancing, they will basket rushed to the place where the sea and the sky are knotted together, set fire to the sea god, praying for calm winds and waves in the coming year, fish and shrimp full of boats. This simple and beautiful folk dance, literature and art workers have carried out in-depth excavation, and widely absorbed some of the Jidong rice-planting songs of the expression, created into a square dance - basket rice-planting songs. With a combination of romantic and realistic approach, through the sea sacrifice, the soul of the sea, the sea fight, the sea happy four dance sections, showing the Bohai Sea children of good and evil, masculine and rugged mind, overflowing with the sea with the joy, bright and warm, celebrating the harvest, thus revealing the Bohai Sea children of hard work and simplicity, goodness, intelligence, unity and hard work of the profound theme.