The big rice-planting song counts as a square dance doesn't
Count. Yangge is a very mass and representative of the folk dance class name, square dance is the dance art in the most large system, because more in the square gathered and named, square dance including a variety of dances, such as folk dance, modern dance, national standard dance, contemporary dance, rice-planting dance and so on, big rice-planting song counts square dance. Rice-planting songs have a thousand years of history in China, the Ming and Qing dynasties reached its heyday, the Qing dynasty Wu Xilin "New Year's Day" copy of miscellaneous aria: "rice-planting songs, the Southern Song Dynasty Lantern Night of the village field of music is also". The origin of "Yangge", Chinese folklore, there is a saying that the ancient farmers in the rice planting, pulling rice seedlings and other agricultural labor process, in order to alleviate the face of the soil, back to the sky of the pain of labor, so singing songs, and gradually formed a rice-planting song; another folk legend is that "Yangge" originated in the fight against floods. Another folk legend is that "Yangge" originated from the fight against floods. Ancient people on the banks of the Yellow River, in order to survive, fighting against floods, and finally, victory, we are happy to pick up the tools to fight against floods as props, singing, jumping up and down, expressing the happy mood, with the increase in the number of participants, there are dance movements and dance combinations, and gradually on the formation of rice-planting songs.