Ying Ge is not a ritual dance.
Introduction of Ying Ge Dance:
It is one of the Han Chinese dance forms , popular in Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shanwei and other places in Guangdong; Hong Kong, China; ? Thailand.
Chaoyang Yingge Dance is also one of the first intangible cultural heritages of the country.
Ying Song Dance is mainly performed in the form of large-scale collective dance, the dancers hold a short wooden stick in each hand, up and down, left and right against each other, the action of the robust and powerful, strong rhythm. After the dance, there is also a song and dance theater, called "English song after the shed".
Yingge Dance is a Han Chinese square mood dance, Shantou City, Chaoyang District, Chaonan District, Jieyang City, Pu'ning City, Huilai County, Shanwei City, Chaozhou City, Chaoan District, is the most prevalent area of the Yingge Dance. According to the oral tradition of folk artists and some supporting information, Chaoyang English song originated in the Ming Dynasty.
English song and dance characteristics:
English song and dance is divided into before and after the shed, the front shed 36 people, each person holding a length of about 1 feet 4 inches, 4 cm in diameter of the colorful wooden stick, with the drums and gongs, conch horns and yells, the two sticks knocking each other flipped, while walking and dancing. The 72 people in the back 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 martial arts performances.
The formation changes have a long snake, double dragon out of the sea, four tigers and drive, pink butterfly flowers, peacock open screen **** 18 sets; stick method has a left knock, right knock, knock, knock, knock, crotch knock, behind the back of the knock, etc.; face has a literary face, the martial arts face of the points; the rhythm of the fast board, in the board, the difference between the slow board.
The Chao Yang Ying Song and Dance combines theater, dance and martial arts in one furnace, and the performance is unique and charming, which constitutes a majestic, powerful, strong and heroic momentum with its vigorous, majestic, rugged and unrestrained dance, giving people a shock of power and beauty.
In the countryside, Yingge is regarded by the masses as the embodiment of heroes, the symbol of good luck, and the magic power to drive away evil spirits. Generally, those who participate in the Yingge team should be young, strong and handsome young men. The performer of the song has a good relationship with the surrounding people and has many friends. The girls have a kind of love and adoration for him, and they often choose their favorite from the English song team.
Particularly the first and second mallet, but also the girls to pursue the object. Dancing the English song and dance has always been regarded as the embodiment of good luck, and people believe that dancing the English song and dance is "good luck". Whoever is able to enter the Yingge team in this year will be able to do things smoothly in this year, and everything will go well. Pu'ning City is a very wide range of popular Ying Ge place, where villagers believe that dancing Ying Ge can drive away the demons, evil spirits, evil spirits, to the right to suppress the evil, to ensure peace.
So, some of the large building foundation, office building inauguration, bridge opening, school celebrations ceremony, are inevitably invited to the Yingge team dance a lot. In the countryside, as soon as the people hear the sound of English songs, they are ready to meet at the door. When the team comes, the head of the household fires a cannon to invite them, and then the team has to enter the courtyard and perform in the courtyard. It is believed that the houses danced by the English song team can keep peace forever.