冀东地秧歌和跑驴
冀东地秧歌 is widely spread in the Tangshan area of Hebei Province. According to Ancient Chinese Dance Words (by Wang Kefen), "the rice-planting songs evolved from the ancient 'village field music'", and their source was the life of the ancient working people.
The rice-planting songs, performed on foot on the ground, are not subject to the limitations of the performance occasions and props, are relatively mobile and flexible, easy to learn and perform, and are a combination of self-entertainment and performance, a kind of folk dance with a broad mass base, and the traditional form of activities are basically divided into two kinds of street rice-planting songs and field rice-planting songs. The traditional activity form is basically divided into two kinds: the street rice-planting song and the field rice-planting song. The street rice-planting song is performed along the streets and alleys. Its main features are: unified rhythm and movement, different performances, simple dance posture, and twisting while walking. When encountering a square or a cross street, the field rice-planting song will open up the scene and twist a lot, sometimes twisting for a while, singing a section, using gongs, drums and hairpin interludes, and then performing "small out of the child" (i.e., a small dance program) with a storyline. The main features are: a typical character, dance posture, stretch, fitness, flexible and changeable picture.
The traditional performance form of the rice-planting songs is mostly in front of two characters dressed as martial artists (some dressed as Wu Sung and Lu Zhi Shen), waving flower sticks, opening the way to play the field, followed by the children carrying flower baskets, Buddha dust, and the roles of the field masters, fishermen, woodcutters, scholars, and so on. In the line divided into "girl" (young girl or daughter-in-law), ugly (witty, humorous comical characters), Jiu (middle-aged or elderly women), Gongzi (literate and refined scholar). The **** same characteristics of the performance are the up and down shaking of the feet, the combination of shoulder and waist twisting and swaying of the hands, just like the phoenix swinging the willow in general. Props in the hands according to the character, respectively, holding colorful fan, flower silk, fan, rattle drum, mallet, tobacco bag, etc., the basic action of the hands to eight flip flowers, up and down, left and right, before and after shaking the fan flower, changes in the dry, such as pairs of colorful butterflies dancing in the flowers, both lyrical, elegant, elegant, but also fiery, hot, enthusiastic, joyful, full of witty, humorous, simple and healthy interest in life. The accompaniment is mainly the melodious suona, with medium and small hairpin as percussion. Most of them are used to playing "Full House", "Sentence Double", "Liu Qingniang" and other trumpet songs, which are easy to express optimism, cheerfulness and joyful festive atmosphere.
The dance movements of various characters such as Niu, Chou ((Wen Chou, Wu Chou), Gongzi, etc. are very delicate and expressive, and they can shape the artistic images of various characters in the "small field" and "small out of" of the rice-planting songs, and are good at showing the storyline of a duo. They are good at performing duo dances, trio dances and small dance dramas with storylines. Zhou Guobao, a famous rice-planting song performer, a member of China Dancers' Association and a director of Hebei Branch of China Dancers' Association, cooperated with Zhou Guozhen and Zhang Qian to create the folk dance "Running Donkey" based on "Wang Xiaoxiao Catching Feet" and "Foolish Pillar Receiving the Daughter-in-Law". The main dance vocabulary of "Donkey Running" is based on the material of the ground rice-planting song. This dance, with national style and local characteristics, won the Outstanding Program Award when it took part in the First National Folk Music and Dance Concert in 1953. Subsequently, it was brought to Bucharest by the Chinese Youth Art Troupe to take part in the Fourth World Youth and Student Peace and Friendship Festival, and won the second prize of the International Dance Competition.
In addition, Tangshan City, Qinhuangdao City and Changli County, professional and amateur dance enthusiasts for, to rice-planting song as the material to create a lot of new dance programs, such as "marrying son-in-law", "blind man feeling the elephant", "Mid-Autumn Festival Night", "Butterfly", "snatch the bride," and so on. These dances have been popularized throughout the province, deep for the masses.