Stylistic Characteristics of Daur Ruzhigrad Dance

The Daur ethnic group is a people who can sing and dance well, Ruzhigrad comes from the production labor and life of the Daur ethnic group, therefore, the dance has the content and dance image of collecting, carrying water, fishing, flying, and fighting with animals and fowls. It is mainly in the form of group dance, mostly showing hunting life and labor scenes. Ruzhgele to call and sing to unify and coordinate the crowd dance pace, rhythm, is the integration of song and dance. Dance Ruzhgele generally two people for a group, the crowd formed a circle dance. Performances of the upper body and arm movements are more abundant, the feet to the side of the slide for the basic pace, the beginning of the dance began to sing a slow and light dance song, the dancers with the song gently dance up, bystanders can join the team at any time, any place to dance, the dance atmosphere is gradually warm, the tempo accelerated, the dancers are constantly interspersed with the position of the exchange of the dance reaches a climax, and at the same time, issued a Zhehei Zhe Dehuda and other short and funny hollers, the feet stepped out on the The dance reaches its climax with short, funny calls such as "Zhe Hey Zhe De Hu Da" and powerful beats on the feet. The program of the Ruzhigrad dance is generally considered to have three stages. At the beginning of the singing-based, slow, melodious tune, with the rhythm of the song slide slow dance, followed by the dance-based, the song turned upbeat, the dance then accelerated. Finally enter the climax, singing into Zhe Hey Zhe, De Huda, Hamo, Hamo and other short powerful, funny and beautiful call. The dancers cross their hips with one hand and swing one arm upward with one arm closed and one extended, forming a fighting and blocking stance. At this point, another person comes on in time and intervenes with the same dance to relieve the weaker of the two dancers. Until the people have had their fill, the dance comes to an end.

The Daur ethnic group is an ethnic group that excels in riding and archery, song and dance. The Ruzhgele dance of the Daur people, who live in Heilongjiang province, is also known as "Hakumaille". On the one hand, it has the characteristics of traditional hunting songs and dances, such as from the original hunting campfire songs and dances retained circle formation, imitating the roar of beasts and birds of prey calls and other content, on the other hand, there is a great deal of development, such as a variety of changes in the formation, the number of singing of the new song increased, the content of the song and dance is more extensive, the liner notes are more rich and unique and so on. It is worth mentioning that Hakumaille song and dance has a clearer "three-stage" performance program, the first paragraph "than the song" to the song as the main, to dance as a supplement; the second paragraph "race dance", to dance as the main, to song as a supplement; the third paragraph "to dance as the main, to dance as a supplement; the third paragraph "to dance as the main, to dance as a supplement. The first section "than the song" to the song, supplemented by dance; the second section "race dance", to the dance, supplemented by song; the third section "fight", to the fight, the main actors with the loud and passionate calls, arms swinging to each other, each other circling and fighting together, and finally determine the winner to end the song and dance performance. Ruzhigrad is the general name of Daur folk dance, from the dance accompanied by songs, calls and dance movements, Daur folk dance should be a lot of kinds. For example, there is an imitation of the cuckoo bird body of the cuckoo bird dance, there is an imitation of the bear and wild boar action of the beast fighting dance, there is a performance in the mountains and forests in the collection of wild vegetables and fruits of the collection of the dance, there is the performance of the women look in the mirror, combing the hair of the combing dance, there is the performance of the women's labor life of the dance of the water, the dance of the picking of the bean curd, there is the performance of the young men and women to interact with the dance, and so on. The song and dance activities of inviting the strainer aunt to dance with the god, similar to the song and dance theater, also appeared in the Ruzhigrad of the Daur ethnic group. It is probably because every time people get together to dance folk dances, all kinds of dances are displayed in turn, and gradually merge together, so that it is difficult for the younger generation to separate different kinds of dances independently.