? "Fruit harmony" is the Tibetan translation, "fruit" means circle, "harmony" means dance. "Fruit harmony" popular in the Tibetan rural village square, wheat field, is the farmers love a self-indulgent ancient folk song and dance, without musical accompaniment (some areas with a string of bells accompaniment), men and women divided into classes a singing and a harmony, one after another, singing and dancing. Growing up in the countryside, people from childhood in the "fruit harmony" song and dance under the cultivation, everyone can dance "fruit harmony".
? As a kind of "Fruit Harmony", "Ah Harmony Dance" not only inherited its characteristics of singing and dancing, but also in the evolution of labor, gradually increased the rhythmic upper limb movements, in situ rotations and changes in formation, to better combine production and labor with national songs and dances, and became a kind of alternating male and female, singing and dancing. It has become a form of labor song and dance in which men and women alternate, singing and dancing.
? The "A" in "A Harmony" and the "Aga" in "Playing Aga" mean "white substance" in Tibetan. "white substance", referring to the plateau's unique building materials - Aga soil. This special clay is generally used to construct the roofs and floors of buildings. The process of making a roof or floor by tamping down the aga soil and gravel is called "playing aga".
The Tibetan people can sing and dance well in the long-term labor, developed a kind of labor while improvising the habit of singing. In the "Aga" playing process, the need for collective coordination and cooperation, singing not only played a role in the beat, but also make the heavy and mechanical manual labor become relaxed, lively, both to improve labor efficiency, so that the workers themselves to maintain a good state of mind, reduce physical exertion.
The Ah Harmony Dance is a change from the daily action of playing the Aga. From the form, "Ah Harmony" belongs to the art of labor song and dance, without special performance costumes, but from the content, "Ah Harmony" is a very hard physical labor. Not only that, in the process of making "Agha", it is necessary to keep pouring water to keep the soil of Agha moist, and when laboring, it is full of dust and muddy water, and with the repeated movements of people's hands and feet, it will be full of mud. Therefore, people usually wear living clothes and even masks, rubber shoes, high rain boots, or long blue aprons tied around their waists.
The props of the "Ah Harmony Dance" are the labor tools used to play the "Aga" labor - "Bordeaux The props for the "A Harmony Dance" are the labor tools used in the labor of beating the "Aga" - the "Bordeaux", usually also called the "Aga stick". The production process is a five-centimeter-wide, two-centimeter-thick small round stone plate from the center through an eye, and then about a meter and a half long wooden stick inserted into it. When the "Aga stick" neatly fall on the wet roof, issued a "bang, bang, bang" sound, like a natural percussion instrument in the song.
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The Tibetan people have always been a people of song. Tibetans have always been a people who can sing and dance, the earliest Tibetan dance is very primitive, mainly reflecting the labor and religion, with the development of the art of dance, dance plus music and the use of costumes, props and choreography to strengthen the expressive and infectious power of the dance.
The performance and art form of "Playing Aga" not only contains the history of the national culture, but also preserves the characteristics of the national spirit, through the form of Chinese folk dance, Ah Harmonious Dance obsessively expresses the most simple, but also the most profound folk spirit of labor. At the same time, it also makes more appreciators realize the roots of national culture and the strong vitality of the folk dance.