Ying Ge is one of the Han dance forms. It is popular in Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shanwei and other places in Guangdong; Hong Kong, China and Thailand. English song dance its main form of performance for the large collective dance, the dancers hold a short wooden stick in each hand, up and down, left and right against each other, the action of robust and powerful, strong rhythm. After the dance, there is a song and dance theater, called "Ying Ge after the shed"? The Yingge Dance is a Han Chinese Square Emotional Dance, which is performed in Chaoyang District and Chaonan District of Shantou City, Puning City and Huilai County of Jieyang City, and Lufeng City of Shanwei City. Lufeng City, Shanwei City? and Chaoan District, Chaozhou City, are the most prevalent areas of Yingge Dance. According to the oral tradition of the folk artists and some supporting information, Chaoyang Ying Song originates from the Ming Dynasty.
Expansion: performance characteristics
Ying song and dance is divided into before and after the shed, the front shed 36 people, each holding a colorful wooden stick about 1 feet 4 inches long and 4 centimeters in diameter, with gongs and drums, conch horns and yells, the two sticks hit each other flipping, while walking and dancing. The 72 people in the back of the shed, dressed as various types of jugglers, beat the gongs and drums to accompany the singing, and some of them also dress up as Tu opera, or add into the martial arts performance. Its queue changes in the long snake, double dragon out to sea, four tigers and drive, pink butterfly flowers, peacock screen *** 18 sets; stick method has a left knock, right knock, on the knock, knock, knock, crotch knock, behind the back of the knock, etc.; face has a literary face, martial arts face of the points; the rhythm of the fast board, in the board, the difference between the slow board. Chao Yang Ying song and dance melts theater, dance, martial arts in one furnace, the performance has a unique charm, it is vigorous, majestic, rugged, unrestrained dance, constitutes a majestic, mighty, strong, bold momentum, giving a person the force and beauty of the shock.
In the countryside, Yingge is regarded by the masses as the embodiment of heroes, the symbol of good luck, and the magic power to drive away evil spirits. Generally, those who participate in the Yingge team should be young, strong, handsome and dashing young men. The dancer who performs the song has a very good relationship with the people around him in his normal life and has many friends. The girls have a kind of love and adoration for him, and they often choose their favorites from the English song team. Especially the head mallet and the second mallet are the object of the girls' pursuit. Dancing English song and dance has always been regarded as the embodiment of good luck, people believe that dancing English song and dance is "good luck". Whoever can enter the Yingge team in this year will be able to do things smoothly in this year, and everything will go well.
The origin: "timely rain said" is in the late Ming and early Qing Shaoxing famous scholar Zhang Dai's "Taoan Mengyi" book, "timely rain" section has such a statement. This section describes the scene of seeking rain. According to Zhang Dai, it may be because Song Jiang, the elder brother of the heroes of the Water Margin, was nicknamed "timely rain".
The rice-planting dance is said to have been born out of the "big drums rice-planting song" of Shandong's Lubei province and the "willow-forest rice-planting song" of Lushi province. Because the pronunciation of Yingge and "Yangge" in Chaozhou dialect is relatively similar.
There is also a saying that the current Yingge is evolved from the ancient Nuo dance.