The origin of "Dance Encouragement" in Quanzhou City comes from the dance fragments compiled from the stories in Water Margin. It tells the story of Liang Shanbo disguised as a vaudeville troupe, waiting for an opportunity to sneak into the city gate under the guise of busking, rob the giving ceremony and rescue Lu Junyi. Lu holds a wooden fish, Gu Dasao holds a bronze pheasant, Sun Erniang holds a flat drum, Ruan Xiaoer holds a drum pestle, moves a double bell, and Yan Qing holds six cymbals. Eight people, Shi Xiu holding a grass gong, Hu Sanniang holding a "four-piece suit" (Nanyin bamboo board). The form of performance is that the drummer comes out first, takes it out and beats it with two drums. The shape of the flat drum is 8 inches wide and 2 inches thick. Wear a small stick in the middle (that is, there are small handles on both sides of the drum), and turn the flat drum with the middle finger. It is precisely because this kind of rotating flat drum has a special and important position in dance that some people separate it and call it "enchantment". The drummers danced to the drums and the whole team performed to the tune. They hold their own props, jump with their feet, hit with their hands, twist their waists, bend over and kick their legs. They are brisk, jump freely, funny and happy, fast and slow, jumping and beating, and cooperate with each other tacitly.
Encouragement is the main feature of encouragement. When performing, a flat and bulging actor must have high dancing skills. The form of drum performance is unique. Those who hold drums include "holding drums", "lifting drums", "rotating drums", "lying down to catch drums" and "lighting drums by splitting legs". , with superb skills; Drummers are soft drums, hard drums, single drums, slow drums and tight drums. Those with superior skills can also do "somersault drum", "graceful body drum", "golden rooster independent drum light" and "chicken line twisting drum". And the drummer's performance is bold and unrestrained, and the jump is not artificial; Other actors: monks holding wooden fish have "one knock, two beats, three rings and four turns"; The "four pieces" are "double calendar board", "upper and lower board" and "rotating board", which are unrestrained; Dancers who make clappers with double bells dance softly and lightly; Cai Dan's movements are flower fan, revolving fan, slapping fan and tail fan, which are humorous and vivid. The footwork movements mainly include "seven-step somersault", "slowly throwing feet", "grinding feet", "kuixing kick", "iron turnover" and "Dong Bin lifting sword". There are many changes in dance and inspiration, and you can also play freely. With the different dance environment and emotions, the movements are very rich and varied, and the performances are funny, blinking, shaking shoulders and twisting the waist, which makes people laugh and have beautiful artistic shapes.
The accompaniment uses percussion and Nanyin music. Dance and percussion are funny in the moving melody of various percussion instruments. Drum music has a distinct rhythm, which is divided into fast, medium and slow. The whole dance is performed in the crisp and melodious percussion music and melodious melody.
In all the large rows of "cutting incense", "welcoming the gods", "begging for fire" and "offering sacrifices to ancestors", as well as mass entertainment such as "make-up *" at festive festivals and even funeral ceremonies, "dancing and encouraging" is a unique form of entertainment, adding a unique style to the whole team. In 1950s, Quanzhou Dance encouraged organizational innovation and participated in the national folk dance performance. * Stop performing. Few people can dance now. 、