Basic dancing method
1. Basic posture
The bamboo dancers, 3-5 pairs of people, are located at the ends of the thin poles, with the distance between the left and right people wider than one arm, kneeling on the ground on both sides, sitting back on the hips, and the two people opposite each other are holding a pair of poles.
2. The grip of the bamboo pole
One hand holds one pole. When striking the pole, the two hands are slightly staggered back and forth to the extent that the bamboo poles touch each other without touching the hands.
3. Kneeling down to strike the pole
Open strike: Both hands open to strike the thick pole with the thin pole.
Close strike: Hands together to strike the thick pole with the thin pole.
Classification
Bamboo Dance of the Jing People
The industrious and intelligent people of the Jing people live in the beautiful and rich Beibu Gulf and beside the Beilun River, and they mainly live in the three islands of Shanxin, Wutou, and Wutou (commonly known as the three islands of the Jing people), which is the hometown of mussels and clams, and produces the famous "Nanzhu" beads. The people of the Jing nationality are rich in feelings and have a bold character, and both men and women, young and old, love to sing and dance.
The traditional folk dances of the Jing people mainly include "Jumping Bamboo Bar (Bamboo Stick Dance)", "Jumping Sky Lantern", "Jumping Music" and "Flower Stick Dance", etc. Some of them are originated from the "Bamboo Stick Dance". "Some of these dances originated from folk religious dances, while others are ways of entertainment in the daily life of the Jing people, with obvious cultural functions of entertaining the gods or people. "Jumping bamboo bar" is a kind of dance with strong color of folk sports games, when performing, two long wooden bars parallel emissions, the distance between the two bars is about 9 feet, between which placed 8 bamboo poles, divided into four pairs, each pair of interval of 2 feet or so, manipulating the bamboo poles for 8 men, divided into two sides, four people on each side, squatting on the ground to operate the bamboo poles, one hand, one hand, opposite each other, one drummer, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand, one hand. The opposite direction, a drummer rhythmically beat the drums, the pole operator according to the drum beat, knocking a wooden bar, and a bamboo pole, or knocking two wooden bars, and a bamboo pole, issued a "beat beat beat" sound, young women will be jumping between the bamboo poles. "Jumping bamboo bar" is divided into "single jump", "double jump" two kinds of single jump way: by the people in the middle of the bamboo poles, one after another along the 4 spaces one step at a time, jumping and dancing, forward and backward more than one. The single jump is: each person in the middle of the bamboo pole, one after the other along the 4 spaces one step, jumping and dancing, forward and backward. Double jump for: a group of two people, both sides of the action must be coordinated, each other mutual care, in accordance with a pair of bamboo poles open and close, in the intervals of clever jumping, jumping on the last space, and then repeat the return, so back and forth and so on, until the fun until.
Yao Bamboo Pole Dance
The Yao people are an ancient ethnic group, mainly distributed in the mountainous areas of several provinces and regions in the south of China, which is a more typical mountainous ethnic group in the south of China.
Every major festival of Yao tradition, the village masters will spontaneously organize some traditional "worship king" "play song hall" and other entertainment or registration activities, the scene is spectacular, unique, has a high appreciation and research value. In Bibei Town, there is a reception building with strong Yao characteristics, where tourists can taste the Yao flavor, drink the Yao compatriots' homemade bitter mulberry wine, and also enjoy the Yao young man and Yao girl for you to perform the Yao bamboo bar dance, top bar, harvest dance and Yao marriage and other ethnic festivals.
Zhuang Bamboo Pole Dance
The Zhuang Bamboo Pole Dance is a kind of entertaining dance that can be danced with guests***, usually by more than ten dozens of actors knocking bamboo poles, and letting the guests participate under the lead of the actors on a smaller scale. From 1985 onwards, in China's Zhuang hometown - Guangxi Wuming County, held every year, "March 3" Song Wei, attracting tens of thousands of people every year, thousands of young men and women of the Zhuang family to jump bamboo pole dance to celebrate their own holiday, forming a thousand people jumping bamboo pole dance of the spectacular scene!
The Wa Bamboo Pole Dance
The Wa is an ethnic group that lives across the border and is distributed in China, Myanmar and Thailand. There are nearly 300,000 Wa in China, distributed in Cangyuan, Ximeng, Gengma, Shuangjiang, Zhenkang, Yongde and Lancang counties in the western and southwestern parts of Yunnan Province, as well as in Xishuangbanna Autonomous Prefecture and Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture. Among them, Cangyuan Wa Autonomous County and Ximeng Wa Autonomous County are the main areas inhabited by the Wa, and the population of the Wa in these two counties accounts for about 58 percent of the total population of the Wa in China. The Wa in China are distributed between the Lancang River and the Salween River, in the southern section of the Nushan Mountain Range. In this section, the mountains overlap and there are very few flat dams, so it is also called the A Wa mountainous area.
The Wa are a people who can sing and dance well. The Bamboo Dance, which used to be a dance performed by the blessed old people after their deaths, has now become an entertaining dance.
The dance form is the same as that of the Li Dance of Hainan Province in China. That is, two large bamboo poles flat on the ground, outside the two large bamboo poles, people two pairs of people, face to face with small bamboo poles, along the large bamboo poles back and forth sliding bumping, dancers in the two poles sliding in the gap between the collision of jumping. The dancers jump in the gap between the two poles. The dance moves imitate the forms of ants, turtledoves, leopards, paintbrushes and other animals, and are lively and cheerful.
Bamboo pole dance, generally in the village of prestigious, influential old people held after the death of pestle and mortar hit the bamboo pole and dance, village men, women and children can participate. The local old man said: "Although people die, but the soul does not die, it to another world, the same can not be separated from the song and dance, so people have to sing and dance to send him off." It is this open-minded view of life and death that creates many funeral dances in Wa.
The Miao Bamboo Pole Dance
The bamboo pole dance is a kind of self-entertainment dance created by the Miao people around Dongwang Township, Luodian County, in the southern part of Guizhou Province in the course of their production and life, and it is mainly an expression of the pursuit and ideals of the Miao young men and women for the pursuit of free love, and it is usually performed on major festivals and when they meet their honored guests.
Miao Bamboo Dance
The performance requirements of the Bamboo Dance are not very demanding, and the props requirements are relatively simplified. As long as there is a piece of flat grass, it can be performed. Generally 8 pairs of young men and women, the performance of men with short clothes, waist tie red satin; women with the unique handmade Miao skirt, accompanied by the Miao drum beat, and a burst of cheers, and red satin, colorful skirts together to create a simple and free of the beauty of the show.
The Bamboo Dance is generally divided into four parts: Encounter in the Mountains, Crossing the River on a Bridge, Falling in Love, and Carrying the Bride Home, each part of which reveals the sincere feelings of young Miao men and women and contains many original aesthetic elements, which are simple and natural.
Li Bamboo Dance
"Jumping Chai" is an ancient ritual of the Li people. Hundreds of years ago, when the Li people returned to the barn after hard work, men, women and children in the village would put on their festive dresses, and every family would cook new rice, brew glutinous rice wine, slaughter animals and sacrifice to their ancestors and gods. After a good meal, the people would come to the hillside, light bonfires and dance the bamboo pole dance. The sound of the bamboo clanks, celebrating a good harvest and wishing for a better harvest in the coming year. "Jumping Chai" every year from the beginning of spring until the New Year's Eve, almost night and night bonfires bright, jumping endlessly, the warm atmosphere overflowing with hillside villages.
With the change of time, the custom of "Chai Jumping" has gradually evolved among the Li people. Nowadays, it has become a kind of sports and fitness activity with the color of national culture as the color of rituals gradually disappears. In the past, the custom of "female beating and male jumping" was limited to "male and female mixed beating and jumping". Jumping bamboo poles has become a healthy activity in "March 3" Lizhai Mountain Love Festival. Young men and women look for "partners" and enhance their friendship by virtue of jumping bamboo poles. The small bamboo poles set up a "magpie bridge" for young men and women.
She Bamboo Dance
It is said that the She ethnic group will wear beautiful national costumes and dance the bamboo dance in the summer or on weekdays. And the rhythm is: "open, close, open, close, open, open, close."