Shanghe people in the long history, year after year, generation after generation, blood and sweat nourished the land, labor changed everything, in the specific historical conditions of the difficult years, casting the working people hard-working, courageous and upright character, the people are full of trials and tribulations and are not willing to self-discouragement, in the cool vastness of the northern Lu Plain, was born in the city, grew up in the city, singing and crying in the city, the development of the production, and the creation of an excellent
Shanghe Drum Rice-planting Song is a Han Chinese folk song and dance.
The so-called rice-planting songs, it is the Han folk song and dance of the general term, but must be dance-based party called rice-planting songs. As early as in the early years of the founding of the country, literature and art workers around the country, they found that the Shanghe folk songs and dances are colorful, the late fifties Shandong experts according to the province's situation, screened out the Shanghe, Jiaoxian, Haiyang three counties of folk songs and dances uniformly named the Shandong three big rice-planting songs, that is, the Shanghe drums rice-planting songs, Jiaozhou rice-planting songs and Haiyang rice-planting songs. At that time, there were many forms of Shanghe folk songs and dances, including Umbrella Drum Dance, Flower Whip Drum, Fengyang Flower Drum, Flower Stick, Tea Casting, Cart, Big Head, Stilts, Shinzi, Dragon Lanterns, Lion Bags, Lantern Officers, Tiger and Cow Fighting, Lotus Lanterns, Dokan Bridge, Duo Renjiu, Dry Boat, Donkey Running, Catching Feet, Carriage Running, Horse Forks, Foreground, Picking up Rings, Back Daughter-in-Law, Rocking Gourd, Punching Pitchforks, Haha and so on, with more than 30 kinds, among which the dance form of Umbrella Drum Dance Among them, "umbrella drum dance" is the most complete dance form, the most profound cultural connotation, focusing on excavation and finishing, and gradually "drums rice-planting songs" as "umbrella drum dance" synonymous with more people called, the habit has become natural. Drum rice-planting song is a large square dance circulated in northern Shandong is extremely common, but also the majority of farmers to celebrate the year of plenty, celebrate the new year of a Han folk activities. It is widely spread in Huimin, Leling, Lingxian, Yangxin, Jiyang, Linyi, Pingyuan, Yucheng and other counties and cities centered on Shanghe County. According to a survey in the 1950s, out of 978 natural villages in Shanghe County, 724 villages had drum rice-planting teams. Around the 15th day of the first month of the lunar calendar, deafening drums and gongs can be heard everywhere from villages to towns, and crowds of people follow and watch the rice-planting performances. In the rice-planting field, grandchildren and grandparents **** dance, common, visible its wide circulation, the popularity of the deep.
Drum rice-planting song because of its large number of people, well-organized, complete form, dance skills strong and robust, the field array of majestic, both hidden in a heavy sense of history and culture, but also has a strong flavor of the times and distinctive local characteristics, known as the "national folk culture of the wonders of the Qilu culture, the pride of", "is China's Han Chinese men's culture," "is the Chinese men's culture," "is the Chinese men's culture," and "is the Chinese men's culture. "It is the concentrated expression of the masculine beauty of Han men's dance in our country, and is the treasure of dance culture", and "extremely rare in the folk dances around the world". 1955, 1980, 1989, 1992, 1996, In 1955, 1980, 1989, 1992, 1996, 2002, six times on behalf of Shandong Province and Jinan City to participate in the National Folk Dance Competition, five times won the highest prize. 1996 was named by the Ministry of Culture as "China's folk art township" (folk dance), 1999 and went to Beijing to participate in the fiftieth anniversary of the founding of the country in front of Tian'anmen Square performances, reputation at home and abroad.