Shaanxi Yangge symbolizes the embodiment of people's deep spiritual beliefs and is an important part of Shaanxi people's spiritual culture.
1, Shaanxi rice-planting song is a traditional dance art form with a wide mass and representativeness circulating in the Shaanxi plateau, also known as "haunted red fire" "haunted rice-planting song" "haunted fire", "haunted social fire", "haunted sun fire", "haunted sun fire", "haunted sun fire", "haunted sun fire" and "haunted sun fire". It is also known as the "red fire", "rice-planting song", "social fire", "sun song" and so on.
2, Yangge is generally divided into "big field" and "small field" two kinds. The big field is the whole dance team in the umbrella head of the unified command and led by twisting out of the rich changes in formation, there are "dragon swinging tail", "roll cabbage", "cross plum blossom", "two dragons spitting water", and so on. There are hundreds of formations such as "Dragon Swinging Tail", "Rolling Cabbage", "Cross Plum Blossom", "Two Dragons Spitting Water", "Twelve Lotus Lanterns", etc., and the number of people taking part in the performances is as few as 20 to 30 and as many as one to two hundred people. Small performances include "water boat", "donkey running", "stilts", "whip" and so on.
3, can also be divided according to the style and content of the action for the "cultural field" "martial arts field" "kick field" "ugly field "and so on. Among them, "Kick the field" for the performance of men and women in love life of the double dance, there are many more difficult movements.
4. Shaanxi Yangge is a form of collective dance performed in squares, courtyards, streets and other occasions, and is mainly performed during the Spring Festival and the Spring and Autumn Sacrifices.
Development of Yangge:
Shanxi Yangge has a long history, experiencing a period of gestation in the middle of the Song Dynasty, forming in the middle of the Ming Dynasty in the period of transition, flourishing in the middle of the Qing Dynasty in the period of maturity, and entering a period of low tide from the end of the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the People's Republic of China.
In 1942, in the new rice-planting song movement that emerged in Yan'an, Shaanxi rice-planting song was given a new spirit and content of the times, and spread throughout the country with the development of the revolutionary situation.
Since the reform and opening up, Shaanxi Yangge has received more attention, and Suide County has collected a large amount of text, pictures and video materials and compiled them into a book.
In 1984, a seminar on Shaanxi Yangge was held; the compilation of "Shaanxi Yangge" was selected as one of the "Chinese National Folk Dance Integration-Shaanxi Volume", and was awarded the first prize of the national scientific research.
In May 2006, it was announced by the State Council as the first batch of national representative items of intangible cultural heritage.