Describe the composition of the northern Shaanxi Yangge

Writing Yulin City

ihup | 2013-03-04

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Suide can be described as the center of the northern Shaanxi rice-planting song, where the countryside still retains the traditional rice-planting song performance program, rituals and style features, including both the ancient townsfolk exorcism of the "God will rice-planting song", "twenty-eight overnight old rice-planting song", but also the rise of the new only after 1942! Yangge. There are often dozens of rice-planting performers, some as many as a hundred, led by umbrella leaders, who step to the resounding gongs and drums and the loud and clear suona, and make twisting, swinging, walking, jumping, and spinning motions to dance to their heart's content. Immersed in a happy and festive atmosphere, the Shaanxi plateau rice-planting songs are very popular. Rice-planting songs absorb artistic elements from local water boats, donkeys, stilts, lions, kicking fields and other forms, and form a huge team of rice-planting songs.

In the early years, it was mostly men dressed as women. With the development of the times, women also participate. Men's and women's teams dressed in colorful costumes or with cloud horns costume of rice-planting clothes, men with towels wrapped around their heads, women holding colorful shoulders, han towel. In the New Year's greeting, there are Pai Men Zi Yangge and Cai Men Yangge; on the 15th day of the first lunar month, there are Wine Song Yangge and Flower Lantern Yangge. Small field rice-planting is also called kicking field, divided into two-player field, four-player field and eight-player field. The dance is rich in movement, bold and bold, dashing and generous, fully reflecting the simplicity of the people of northern Shaanxi Bureau of naive, cheerful and optimistic character.

Shaanbei Yangge performance form, the main feature is "twisting", so it is also called 'twisting rice-planting song', that is, accompanied by gongs and drums to the waist as the center point. The head and upper body twist with the arms, and the feet move forward, backward, left and right in a "cross step". Up and down harmoniously, step neatly, colorful silk flying, colorful fan tumbling, but also can be accompanied by singing.

Shaanxi rice-planting songs have three main roles, namely, the umbrella head, Wen, Wu body and clown. The leader of Shaanbei Yangge is called the umbrella head, holding an umbrella and a "tiger support", both props have auspicious meanings. The umbrella is a symbol of shelter and good weather; the tiger support is related to Sun Simiao, a famous doctor in the Tang Dynasty. It is said that Sun Simiao once treated a tiger, in order to facilitate the observation and treatment, used an iron ring to open the tiger's mouth, which is called "tiger support". Later, the tiger support evolved into a string of folk doctors in the hands of the countryside to cure the sick "string of bells", became the symbol of the folk doctor. In the hands of the umbrella head, it became a symbol of eliminating disasters and illnesses, and it is a ringing instrument that commands the rice-planting team to perform and change the pattern of the formation. The head of the umbrella is the leader of the rice-planting team, who knows the traditional rice-planting songs and can improvise new words and sing according to the atmosphere of the venue or the situation of each family. When he sings, he leads the song, and all the players repeat his last line, in a simple and lively form, with vivid and easy-to-understand words and phrases, which makes the audience happy. Nowadays, the role of the Yangge Dance is different after the reform, and the costumes can be modern, with red silk belts around the waist. Props can be sickles, hammers and umbrellas. Clowns can also not, and can also be combined with the whip.

moon's child | 2013-03-049

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