The main performing instrument of the Yingge Dance is a not very long round wooden stick called "Yingge Mallet". "The length of the mallet is usually 1.2 feet to 1.8 feet. Women's mallets are generally shorter than men's mallets, which are usually 1.2 feet. Su Ping said, "Yingge mallet" playing method, according to the mallet flower movement difference between straight mallet and horizontal mallet two kinds. The formation of Yingge Dance is generally two columns, the same number of people, which is conducive to maintaining a neat procession. At the same time, these two columns can be readily changed into various symmetrical or asymmetrical formations.
There are many ways to categorize English songs and dances, and the general one is to divide them by the rhythm of English songs, which can be roughly divided into three main categories - slow English songs, medium English songs, fast English songs:
By the rhythm of the dance, there are three main families of English songs and dances: the slow English songs, the medium English songs, and the fast English songs. The slow English song, the medium English song, and the fast English song. The slow English song rhythm is relatively slow, with a classical court-style features, typical of the town of Haimen's lake English song team, as well as the cotton city of Pingdong, Fengdong, Feng on the Feng, Fengnan, Fengbei, Danan English song team. In the middle of the board, it is a little simpler drumming method, reflecting the "force" and "momentum" of the art of beauty, more elegant, typical of Jinpu's rows of words English song team. The quick tempo is faster and more courageous than the other two, and the drum beats are compact, with the opening and closing of the formations, the ups and downs of the movements, and the atmosphere is more enthusiastic.
Among the three categories, the fast-paced Ying Ge has a unique use of mallets and is generally categorized into two types: the Nanshan School of Literature and the Nanshan School of Martial Arts.
The costumes of the players performing the songs are based on the image of the Liangshan heroes. There are those who dress up as Song Jiang, and there are also those who dress up as other Liangshan heroes. The leading mallet dancers are generally Qin Ming or Li Kui with black whiskers on the left team, Yang Zhi or Guan Sheng with red whiskers on the right team, Lin Chong on the second mallet, and Lu Zhishen and Wu Song on the third mallet.
Because of the fast tempo and high training intensity, the development of Nanshan Wushu School in Chaoshan is facing some substantial difficulties, and the heroism and bravery of Wushu School are difficult to be seen in the past. At present, the better development of Nanshan Wushu is the Yingge Team of Caowei Village, Tonglu, Chaoyang. Grass Tail Ying song team's main development advantage is to break through the Ying song development of a lack of talent, lack of funds for the plight of the team to the shrine for the development of relying on the annual borrowing of the lunar calendar February 18 and February 9 two to welcome the Heavenly Queen Mother and the Holy Mother Mother (i.e., across the Taiwan Strait, the coastal residents of the **** respect for the A-Ma Zu Lin Mo Niang) to the village parade in the name of organizing the young and strong people to train in the Ying song program, a fixed public performance of one to two times, not only the unity of the township, but also to make the young people The program is not only to unite the township, but also to enable young people to exercise and improve their health.
Cao Mei Ying Song is famous for its bravery, highlighting the fast action and fierce momentum, which makes it unique among the Chaoshan Ying Songs. This is mainly due to the fact that as a characteristic cultural activity of Chaoshan, the popularity of Caowei English song is high in Caowei village, and almost all men in Caowei have been practicing English song and dance since they were small, and everyone knows how to perform English song and dance. It is organized in a flexible way, with a strong appeal, and is mainly financed by fund-raising through the activities of the Shrine and the enthusiastic support of the local villagers. Therefore, the momentum of development is good and flourishing, and it has become a vibrant and energetic cultural team in the Chaoshan English song team, and it has also become a living material of the culture of Chaoshan English song and dance. In the past, in the Chaoshan area, especially in the rural areas of Chaoyang, when it came to agricultural activities, in order to pray to the gods for blessings, there would be performances of Ying Song and Dance; during the Spring Festival, Ying Song and Dance was also a reserved program for the celebration of the autumn harvest or for the rituals of folklore activities. It has changed from a ritual of praying to the gods for blessings to a celebration of joyous events. Su Ping said:
Today, with the continuous development of society, there are more and more occasions for English song and dance. On Chinese New Year, Labor Day, National Day, New Year's Day, welcoming foreign guests, or cutting ribbons at schools, people can enjoy the performance of English songs and dances. From the previous rituals of praying to the gods for blessings, it has become a celebration of happy events.
Chaoyang Yingge Dance is a Han folk dance. It originated in the middle of the Ming Dynasty and has a history of more than 400 years. The original dancers, 108 in number, performed the story of the Liang Shan Po heroes who made up and fought in the Da Ming Mansion.
Ying song and dance is divided into the front and back shed, the front shed 36 people, each holding a long about 1 feet 4 inches, 4 cm in diameter colorful wooden stick, with the gongs and drums, conch horn and yells, the two sticks hit each other flipping, walking and dancing. The 72 people in the back of the shed, dressed as various types of jugglers, beat the gongs and drums to accompany the singing, and some of them also dress up as Tu opera, or add into the martial arts performance. Its queue changes in the long snake, double dragon out to sea, four tigers and drive, pink butterfly flowers, peacock screen *** 18 sets; stick method has a left knock, right knock, on the knock, knock, knock, crotch knock, behind the back of the knock, etc.; face has a literary face, martial arts face of the points; the rhythm of the fast board, in the board, the difference between the slow board. Chao Yang Ying Song and Dance combines theater, dance and martial arts in one furnace, and the performance is unique and charming. It is a powerful, majestic, rough and unrestrained dance, which constitutes a majestic, mighty, strong and heroic momentum, giving people a shock of force and beauty!
Chaoyang Yingge Dance, which has both national characteristics, but also the flavor of the times of the Han Chinese dance art flower has a distinctive local color, rich flavor of life, mellow flavor of the soil, famous at home and abroad. Puning English song has a history of about four hundred years. It originated in the people's after work like to practice martial arts (learning fists), in order to eliminate fatigue, fitness and health, and then in the practice of martial arts on the basis of the story based on the heroes of the Song Dynasty Liangshanbo attacked the Daimingfu created singing songs, and then passed down from generation to generation, the development of the southern Han Chinese national excellent folk traditional dance. (Qing Dynasty Qianlong years dry pond people into the technology to create Ying song and dance, preaching to the people. (Qing Xianfeng years Tieshan Xu Yamei, Dachanglong Chen Niangkang borrowed the name of singing heroes to practice martial arts, in preparation for the re-emergence of the righteous division, but also Puning Yingge earlier famous heir).
There are three styles of Puning Yingge: first, its basic movement is to hold the baton level with the shoulder, buckle the baton in front of the chest, flat arm, horse stance, and advance with more side stepping. This is represented by Nanshan and Xintan villages around Liusha. The second is to hold the baton on the chest, raise the arm, raise the leg, take a single jumping step, and take a ding zi ma (horse stance), which has the spirit of life, sound, and flexibility in the transportation of the baton. This type is represented by Tukeng and Hamliao in Haigashan and Xiachun in Zhamlong. The third is represented by Liaoyuan's Mudgou Yingge and Daba's Baikeng Village, whose basic action is to buckle the stick under the bottom, from the bottom up, and lift the arm, single-kick the leg, and the action is robust, light, and full of dance. In addition, there is a unique dry pond Yingge, the basic action of this team is divided into two categories of dance and fight, it is characterized by playing four doors, belonging to the action of the fight, its action is slow, each dance step must be done in accordance with the footwork of boxing, there must be a horse stance potential.
Ying Ge has become a popular Han folk dance art in Puning. Puning City, under the jurisdiction of the population of 2 million, townships and districts 422, the basic village
Village Yingge team, stronger, higher level of 160. The most prominent are: Liusha's Nanshan, Liaoyuan Township's Mudgou Yingge, Xiajiajishan Township's Tukeng, Xianliao, Zhamlong Township's Dryang, Nanyi Township's Longhua, Meilin Township's Central Village, and Yunluo Township's Yunluo and so on. In Nigou Village alone, six classes of Ying Ge teams can be organized at the same time. In recent years, there are also many women's English song teams and teenage English song teams in various places, which adds infinite interest. Every festival, festive days, the village is less than the English song of this activity, English song drums and gongs ringing all over the town village, English song wherever, the villagers heard the sound of the villagers, help the old and young, surrounded by the water, neatly stepping sound, buckling stick sound, drums and gongs, drink call sound, sound rush, the spectators of the cheering and applauding, the enthusiastic scene to a climax.
Puning Yingge's best, the first mud ditch, Nanshan, Xianliao, Tu Keng and other villages. Their performances are the most wonderful, each with certain artistic attainments. Xianliao village old artists Luo Bingchi (deceased), Chen Bingkun in 1951 on behalf of the Guangdong East Administration to Wuhan to participate in the South China folk art performances. The following year, the two of them and the village of Chen Zhenfan, Chen Niang and performances in Guangzhou. 1953 and the four people based on the two sides from the Tu Keng, Nanshan Ying song team selected four elite, namely, Tu Keng's Chen Yongli (deceased), Chen Qingquan, Nanshan's Chen Caidou (deceased), Chen Ruipeng and other line of eight people, Ying song team on behalf of Guangdong Province, to participate in the National First Folk Art Festival in Beijing.
Nanshan Ying Ge in 1958 and under the guidance of experts, compiled into the "Great Breaking Da Mingfu", (i.e., now performed by the eight people in this set) Ying Ge Dance, alternating between the use of group dance, four dance, duo dance and other forms, and with the Teochew dialect song accompanied by singing, storytelling, artistry, ideology, the country and was awarded the first prize of the 1958 Shantou Prefecture, the masses of the first prize of the amateur cultural and artistic performances; and was selected to participate in the 1959 Central and South China Folk Art Festival, and was selected to participate in the 1959 China Folk Art Festival. The program was selected to participate in the 1959 Central and South China Literary and Artistic Festival, and was highly praised.
Puning Yingge's outstanding spiritual value, social value, artistic value of the relevant experts, to obtain the Ansai waist drums in the north, south of Puning Yingge's reputation, Puning was also named Guangdong Province, the hometown of ethnic folk art. 4, Chaoyang cotton city, Pingdong three, four mallets, also known as "drunken mallet". There are only one or two sets of movements in this type of playing, and the speed is slow, so it is another kind of rhythmic representation in the English song. In the whole action, the process of articulation between actions is short, the static modeling time is long (but there is a stick flower spinning), the dynamics of the bow-step single throwing mallet, the Golden Cock Independence Mallet, the whole squatting turn, kneeling and so on. The power is short and sharp, and the dancers themselves have a certain degree of control over the internal strength of their movements. This kind of team has limited distribution in Chaoshan Yingge.