Introduction to the Knowledge of Northeast Rice-planting Song
Rice-planting Song can be regarded as spontaneous mass entertainment of the folk, so it incorporates some concepts of folk rough and simple art performance. I have organized the knowledge of Northeast Yangge introduction, welcome to enjoy and learn.
Introduction to the Origin of Northeast Rice-planting Song
The origin of Manchu rice-planting song is very early. According to records, in the 19th year of the Kangxi period (1680) on the occasion of the New Year, "the eight banners Zhangjing, soldiers are eating and drinking ...... men dressed as women, singing 'Prayer section' song theater music. According to evidence, "Prayer section" when the "big rice-planting songs" translation. Kangxi in the early years of Yang Bin wrote "willow side of the Chronicle", recorded the "Mang style" action and performance forms: "Manchuria has a big banquet, the master of the house men and women, will be more and more dance, the rate of lift a sleeve in the forehead, against a sleeve in the back, circling for potential, said Mang potential. In a song, the crowd all to 'empty Qi' two words and the, called 'empty Qi'." Willow side of the Chronicle" in more poems and chants to support the Manchu ancestors of mass singing and dancing activities: "after the horse idle autumn grass, people drunk before the evening wind, mang style air qi song, get away for twenty years," "half of the night the village girls wearing qiluo, noisy community drums singing rice-planting songs, the Han family attire less than the border, a few teams of hu children flocked over. "
From the Kangxi period of the Qing Dynasty has taken shape of the Manchu rice-planting songs, in the evolution and development of history, has become an indispensable spiritual food in the life of the Manchu people.
The word "rice-planting song" in the Chinese Dance Dictionary says: "A song sung by peasants during rice-planting and plowing labor." Rice-planting songs originated from agricultural labor life. Wu Xilin of the Qing Dynasty wrote "New Year's Miscellaneous Song Copy", which believed that the rice-planting song evolved from the Song Dynasty's "Murata Music". Village music and rice-planting songs are both produced in the agricultural labor life, the two have inheritance relationship is completely possible.
The Northeast Manchu rice-planting song is a kind of folk entertainment, formed for the public to enjoy the form of song and dance. The Manchus are the indigenous people of the Northeast. Manchu culture has a long history. It encompasses folk literature, music, dance, acrobatics and other art forms. There are many kinds of Manchu folk songs and dances, and the ones that have been widely spread are "Mang-style dance", "Dawuqui dance", "wild man dance", etc. Yangge is also a mass song and dance recreational activity derived from the shamanic culture. So far it has a long history of about three hundred years.
Any art is from the social life, folk art is more so. The Manchu rice-planting song is derived from Manchu folk life and shamanic dance, adhering to the concept of shamanic culture of the spirit of all things. At the same time, it is closely related to the production and life of the Manchu. Since the historical Manchu belonged to the fishing, hunting and herding nation, the content of the rice-planting songs is also related to the content of their national production and life. Generally speaking, the traditional Manchu rice-planting songs*** are divided into 6 parts: 1. going on a journey; 2. eagle hunting; 3. fishing; 4. courtship; 5. triumph; 6. celebration (Mang-style empty Qi). A traditional Manchu rice-planting song, like a song and dance show, vividly visualizes the scenes of Manchu production and life.
Cultural Background of Northeast Yangge
China's earliest rice-planting songs were produced in the Central Plains, and later spread to the Northeast region, where they were cultivated by the Han and Manchu people*** together to make them develop. Shunzhi years of the Qing Dynasty, "Yang Bin" in the "willow side of the record" has recorded: "on the night of the New Year's Eve, the good people are always dressed up rice-planting songs." It can be seen that the circulation and development of Northeast Yangge has a history of at least three hundred years. In the northeast of China, there are three types of rice-planting songs: 1, rice-planting songs on stilts, 2, two-people turn, and 3, ground rice-planting songs. The common props used in rice-planting songs are handkerchiefs and fans, and other props are also used, such as: hand yuzi, and so on.... The music of Northeast Rice-planting Song is also very characteristic, in which suona and cymbals are commonly used musical accompaniment instruments. The style of Northeast Yangge can be summarized as: "stable in the wave", which is precisely the Northeast people's rugged and simple spiritual qualities, personality psychology and life interests of the 'art of generalization.
Northeastern Yangge Dance Appreciation Knowledge
Han's Northeastern Yangge dance form, mainly to walk phase, stable phase, drum phase, hand towel flowers (the name of the specific dance training content) to reflect the style of dance. Appreciate the northeast rice-planting song we have to start from the dancer's foot movements, to see the actor from the body to show a bottom-up coordination of the beauty, that is, whether the actor in the dance dynamics embodied by the foot kicking led to the upper body of the twisting and twisting and wrist around the flower of a kind of coordination.
Another important point to appreciate the Northeast Yangge is to see the handkerchief flower performance skills. Handkerchief flower is what we often say in life "handkerchief", in the dance handkerchief flower is not only a skill performance, it is one of the main means of expressing emotions. In the dance, different handkerchiefs are often used to show different characters with different ways of playing and changing rhythms. It can not only use the beautiful "piece of flower" (a handkerchief flower trick) to show the beauty and shyness of the big girl, but also flexible and fast "swallow wings" (a dance movement and handkerchief flower combination of dance dynamics) to show that the little girl's handsome and spicy handkerchief flower is the main link in the dance performance to highlight the power of the realizations.
Of course, in addition, we also need to see the actor's inner rhythmic grasp and body control ability in the dance. In short, excellent dancers can always put the dance performance of the free and easy, so that the audience in the dance to appreciate the dazzle.
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