The Butterfly Dance was created when court eunuchs coaxed the children of the Eight Banners to play.
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The Butterfly Dance began in the Shunzhi era when it was introduced to the village of Bachanfang in the town of Fengning's Heishan Mouth, originally known as the "Back Ahgor," a dance created by palace eunuchs who coaxed the children of the Eight Banners to play. Since the introduction of the eight room room village has become a unique folk art form, formerly by four male strong man and four 5 ~ 6-year-old children **** with the performance, to date, has a history of more than 300 years.
The Fengning Butterfly Dance, which has been passed down in the village of Eight Rooms, Heishanzui Town, Fengning Manchu Autonomous County, Chengde, is a very popular folk dance among the Manchu people. Legend has it that after the Qing Dynasty set its capital at Beijing, it sent accomplished soldiers from the eight banners of the Manchu people to reclaim the land, and at that time, there were eight families with eight surnames, so the village became the Eight Room Room.
Fengning Butterfly Dance performance **** need 8 people, four children dressed as butterflies, wearing butterfly hats, wearing butterfly pants, four adult men playing Manchu youth (commonly known as "riding"). Performance, four children standing in the "riding" on the shoulders or head, modeling the butterfly fluttering a variety of actions, as well as making many difficult stunts, the whole performance only by children and adults with skillful skills between them.
The butterfly dance performance is divided into two forms. One is the square performance, and the other is a five-generation performance. Square performance, the butterfly is just standing in the "riding" on the shoulders or head, unfolding arms or single arm to do "double wings" or "single wings", or improvise some other action, "riding" is patrolling, rotating on the shoulders, running round, balanced speed running balanced slow marching.
When performing on the stage, the four butterflies do the same action at the same time and in the same direction, such as the "Child Worshiping Buddha", "Golden Rooster Standing Alone", "Ducks Playing in the Water", "Ne Zha Fooling Around in the Sea", "Su Qin Carrying a Sword", "Carp Striking a Pileup", "Butterfly Spreading its Wings", "Magpie Deng Zhi" and other highly technical and difficult stunt movements.
The Butterfly Dance is accompanied by the Noisy Society, and the songs include "Emergency Wind", "Four or Five Heads", "Order of Victory", "New Year's Day in the Willow", "Qua Cavity", "Exciting Cavity", "Tongue Fans with String Bells", "Single Head", "Double Head", "Ancient Jiezi", "Phoenix Ranges", etc. The main musical instruments are suona, suona and shawm, which are used in the Butterfly Dance. The main musical instruments are suona, cymbals, hand gongs, gongs, drums, flutes and so on.
Between 1966 and 1976, during the "Cultural Revolution", folk art was greatly affected by the interruption of the butterfly dance for more than 10 years. 1978 after the Third Plenary Session of the Eleventh Central Committee of the CPC, the county cultural bureau sent professionals into the village of Bamafang, to organize the restoration of the butterfly dance and inheritance. Folk artist Chen Anyou found Zhang Guiquan, Qi Yuanfeng, Qi Jiuchang and other old artists meeting to organize. Since then, the butterfly frame added four more people, the child added four more people, **** 8 people.
The pipe music accompaniment has also been meticulously excavated and organized and carefully protected, so that this ancient art has been inherited and developed. Butterfly dance so far as a folk traditional performance repertoire, has participated in the opening ceremony of the Provincial Minority Sports Games, the opening ceremony of the Chengde City 9.18 International Photography Competition and so on.