Main Dance Forms of the Brown People
Dance, a kind of behavioral art of people, is a way for people to express their emotions. And in our traditional culture, especially among ethnic minorities, dance is one of the characteristic staples of an ethnic group.
So, in the Brown culture, what are the main dance forms of the Brown people? Come with me to find out!
The Brown dance is rich and colorful, almost young and old can dance. Dance ` call different places. Xishuangbanna Brown called "jumping pendulum", Baoshan, Lincang area of the Brown called "playing songs", Simao area of the Brown called "jumping songs". In the Han literature, collectively known as the "Tap Song".
The Brown dance is characterized by a harmonious blend of song and dance. During the dance, a young man who is good at singing and dancing leads the dance, strikes a gong, and is followed by an elephant foot drum. The young men and girls form a circle, with knees slightly undulating together, soft hands on both sides of the shoulders, either before or after the light dance, dancing while moving in the anti-clockwise direction. At this time, a group of young men in the circle for the rhythm of the tiger jumps, a moment and scattered to the girl before the girl and the girl whispered to the song, a moment and then gathered, for the tiger jumping ambush.
The Brown people have solo and double dances. The solo dance generally simulates the movement of animals, such as the monkey dance, toad dance. Double dance, such as the elephant foot drum dance, a person hit the drum, a person hit the cymbals, dance strong key, coordinated pace, powerful. The Brown people in Baoshan area are also popular with the colorful art form of "Singing Lantern". Singing Lanterns, commonly known as "Playing Lanterns", is a harmonious blend of dance, singing and martial arts juggling in one program. During the Spring Festival, each village held this folk entertainment, with a wide range of mass.
Da Drum Dance- - The Brown language is "Huang Ke Mai Ga Deng", which means dancing a big drum dance. The movements are large and the drums are powerful. The action is not sequential, the dancers improvise and jump, knees with percussion rhythm slightly flexed, driven by the body up and down the tremor is the characteristics of the action.
The Brown people are very particular about the production of drums. Drum body with a whole section of trees hollowed out and become, the tree used to be intact, masked drum surface to use a male and female hair all black yellow cowhide. Masked drum surface, to use grains, tea, broken silver and so on inside the drum, as the drum's "heart", "soul". After the completion of the drum, to hold seven days and seven nights to celebrate the grand ceremony, before lifting to the Buddhist temple to store.
Keguang- - includes the Bee Bucket Drum Dance, Elephant Foot Drum Dance, and Hand Towel Dance. When jumping dancers in a single line, by two young men with two hands each holding a handkerchief in front of the lead dance, followed by the bee bucket drum team, two (or four, eight unlimited) elephant foot drums and Jun, Rong, and then after the crowd of dancers, the number of people can be more or less. The dancers may be large or small in number. The dancers march along all the roads in the village while dancing. When jumping to the wider flat field, that is to form a circle to jump, the two elephant-footed drums in the circle in the middle of the drum fight, after the drum fight and along the road to dance drums forward. This is repeated until the whole village.
Wax Strip Dance - - the number of dancers is not limited, we formed a circle, the middle finger and index finger of both hands between the clip with a lighted wax strip, jumping against each other, the side of the song and dance. The dancers dance in a circle with no limit on the number of dancers, holding the lit wax strips between their middle and index fingers, singing and dancing. It can be accompanied by ukulele or not.
Zai bungee- - "Zai bungee" is a Brown folk song tune, Brown folk prevalent "short drum dance", "long drum dance", "long drum dance", "long drum dance". The "long drum dance" is accompanied by this tune. Men, women and children gather in the middle of the village on the flat land or in the courtyard of the Buddhist temple to sound the elephant foot drum and point cymbals, the dancers will automatically form a circle, the male dancers follow the drums in the inner circle, the point, cymbals (long encouragement to the percussion in the middle of the circle) dancing counterclockwise. Short drum beat rhythm is slower, the movement is gentle and slow, suitable for both men and women, young and old. Long encouragement is the rhythm of joyful excitement, movement fast, generally for young men and women to dance.
Circle Dance - - Shuangbanna's Brown men and women are popular to dance a circle dance, the dance began, the girls that is surrounded by a circle, the knees slightly together an ambush, soft hands on both sides of the shoulder or before or after the light flipping dance, the dance side to the anti-clockwise direction; At the same time, a group of young men in the circle for a rhythmic tiger jumps, a short while they are scattered to the girl in front of the girl and the girl sings softly, and then the young men and gather, as a tiger jumps, such as the repeated cycle of many times.
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