The rice-planting song was created in when, the local saying is different, there is "about the formation of the Ming Dynasty Jiajing years, to the Qing Dynasty has been widely popular" said. Historical records, the Qing Kangxi period, the Northeast has been "on the day of the yuan" (the first month of the fifteenth) to do the custom of rice-planting songs. According to historical records, before the Qing army marched into the Central Plains, the Manchus had a rice-planting dance, commonly known as "Tartar rice-planting song". The Northeast region is a place where Manchus and Han Chinese live together, and the Han Chinese rice-planting songs have a direct influence on the performance form of Manchu songs and dances. In the Tartar rice-planting songs, not only are the performance forms of the Han Chinese rice-planting songs blended into the songs, but the unique styles of the Manchu folk culture are also maintained. Whenever the Manchus celebrate the New Year's Eve or a happy day, "they will be the same, the military and the people as one, singing and dancing together". So in the rural areas of the Northeast every year in the Spring Festival have to do the custom of rice-planting songs, from the sixth day of the first month has been twisted to the sixteenth day of the first month, very popular with the people.
Da Yangge has its own flavor
The style of the Northeast rice-planting songs is known for its fiery, joyful and exuberant style. The people call a good rice-planting song "twisted wave", which shows the bold and enthusiastic folk style of the Guandong people and the characteristics of self-indulgent group folk art performances. The songs of the rice-planting songs are very rich, and it is said that the music in today's very popular "two-man show" is borrowed from the more than 300 kinds of songs of the rice-planting songs.
Twisting rice-planting songs do not distinguish between men and women, young and old, dressed in costumes, swinging colorful fans, dozens or hundreds of people in formation, in the accompaniment of gongs and suona, in the streets and alleys or squares to enjoy twisting and jumping. The scene is grand, the atmosphere is warm, the pattern is new, intoxicating. Some of the audience was infected by it, and even joined the team twisting and jumping up, very interesting. Some of the Yangge team by the beautiful girl dressed as a dry boat, by the young man dressed as an old man cart, by the child dressed as a big head of the baby, by the old man dressed as the Tang Monk, Porky Pig, and other characters, and riding a donkey upside down, picking flower baskets, and so on, vivid, lively and interesting.
The rural rice-planting songs of the Northeast are twisted and sung, also known as "singing rice-planting songs"; the rural rice-planting songs travel to Tuen Mun and string villages, also known as "running rice-planting songs"; the urban rice-planting songs are twisted and not sung, also known as "twisting rice-planting songs". The town rice-planting song is also called "twisting rice-planting song". As the folk dance in the Northeast region has rice-planting songs, dragon lanterns, dry boats, butterflies, wrestling, playing flower stick, stilts and other forms, and more together with the performance, so some people also collectively referred to them as "rice-planting songs".
At that time, the rice-planting team was all male, with a group of two, one "upper" (dressed as a woman, also known as "the head of the pack"), one "lower" (dressed as a man, also known as "the ugly"), and one "lower" (dressed as a man, also known as "the ugly"). (also known as "the one who makes a fool of himself"), which is called "a pair of frames". A large group of four (two sets) is called "one stick drum". In the rice-planting team, the "head drum", "two drums", "three drums"...... are arranged in an orderly manner, and each person has a fixed Each person has a fixed position. The head drum is the team's highest twisting and singing skills, followed by the two drums and the three drums. Yangge team's leader of the team wearing a scarf, cloak, holding a folding fan, only he did not have a "top" with, so called "silly son", also known as "pulling the shirt of the". The end of the row of rice-planting team is called "Old Sitting Son", which is also a set of frame; the "upper suit" is an old woman dressed as tricky and shrewd, holding two beaters in her hands and wearing red pepper in her ears; the "lower suit" is a comical old man, hunchbacked, wearing a red pepper in his ear; the "lower suit" is an old man, hunchbacked, holding a folding fan. The "lower dress" is a funny-looking old man with a hunchback and crutches. There are also characters in the story in the rice-antique team. The rice-anthem team is large-scale sixty or seventy people, small-scale twenty or thirty people.
The Qing dynasty rice-planting songs
The rice-planting song field has the opening, the top of the stack, the big field, the pressure field, the Liuqing field, the clearing field, there are rolls of cabbage heart, the dragon swings the tail, and so on. The general costumes are head stilts, two heads, fishermen, woodcutters, silly pillars, ugly women and so on. Dress up the story of the "Water Margin" of the one hundred single eight generals, "Mirror Flower Edge" in the hundred flowers fairy, "Three Kingdoms", "Journey to the West", "White Snake", "The West Wing", "Dream of Red Mansions" in the character image, and so on.
The movement classification of Yangge is not monotonous, and the dance steps include front kicking, jumping, walking, running, stumbling, stilts, trembling, and difficult movements such as somersaulting and stacking Luohan. There are also many gestures, such as willow, one-armed flower, alternating flower, butterfly flower, shaking shoulder, flinging, stabbing, pointing, shaking and other endless patterns. The big rice-planting song should be twisted on the waist and eyes, and the joints of the whole body should be harmonized. It is steady and lively, lively and playful, playful and burdensome, burdensome and titillating, and the women should be twisted in a wave, and the men should be twisted in a wild manner. The rice-planting team also interspersed with New Year's songs. New Year's songs are improvised words, see what sing what. Although the words are a bit rustic, they are all words of good luck and good fortune. The accompaniment for the songs is a high-pitched suona and loud gongs and cymbals, and the ensemble's resonance is so good that it can be heard for miles.
The outstanding feature of the rice-planting songs is the twisting. It's a wave of twisting, twisting wildly, twisting the hips, twisting the waist, twisting the wrists, shaking the hands and kicking the legs, jumping up and down, dancing in the authentic way, twisting wildly, lively and fiery. The fierce action is enough to show the northern men and women swarthy, enthusiastic, frank, bold, brisk, atmospheric character, the northern farmers love this lively and interesting rice-planting songs.
Running a dry boat
Traditional rice-planting song has a lot to say about the hands can not dance without household goods. Fans, handkerchiefs, drums, whips and flowers are indispensable props. There are different types of dance team, there are stilt team, ground jump team, dragon dance team, lion dance team, dry boat team, flower fleet, etc., playing the head of the so-called "head stilts", cloak and hold the stick, the second head of the preparation of the horse hanging whip is called the "two whips". The head stilt is the commander-in-chief, the second head is an assistant. Dance team only need to look at the conductor's stick to know what steps to take at the moment, what field. In the early years of the Republic of China, Shenyang rice-planting song art has developed further. According to the literature, at that time, "most of the front guide wear leather jacket, diagonally draped string bells, holding a long whip, walking forward to open the way. The latter was followed by a military officer, with boots, shoes, robe and coat, and a belt knife. After the sand gentleman, Chinese dress literati, holding a folding fan. He was followed by an old man, hunchbacked and holding a staff. He is followed by an old woman, wearing red peppers in her ears and holding a fan. Following is the ugly Dan phase matched, or dozens of plaster sellers after the temple, rows and columns ring-shaped, intricate song and dance, between the section Chen Bai, drums and cymbals, or drums and blowing.