The dance of the Flower Drum Lantern is a dance language in which the artists observe life y for a long time and fully express their thoughts and feelings by using the techniques of comparison and rise. For example, the three nods of the phoenix created from the image of birds murmuring on the branches, and the phoenix swinging willow created with the feeling of the spring breeze, etc., are all sublimated from the phenomena of life into beautiful dance movements.
Characteristics of the performance
Dance is the main component of the Flower Drum Lantern, which includes the "Big Flower Field", "Small Flower Field" and "Pan Drum". "The "Dahuafang" is an emotional dance performed collectively; the "Xiaohuafang" is a double or triple improvised dance with the drums and the "Lahua". or three people improvised with characters, plot of the small dance drama, is the core part of the flower-drum lantern dance; "Pan drum" is a combination of dance, martial arts, skill performance and has the characteristics of the plastic arts performance.
The singing part is collectively known as the lantern songs, which are sung in the middle of the "big flower field" and "small flower field" by the "drum frame" and the "wax flower". "The songs are sung in pairs or solo, and can be short or long, with strong improvisation.
Flower Drum Lantern gongs and drums are extremely important parts of the Flower Drum Lantern, including the scene gongs and drums and lantern field gongs and drums, which have the characteristics of enthusiastic and exuberant mood, changing rhythmic forms, bright and compact, and strong infectious force. The gongs and drums can exist independently and be played separately, while the gongs and drums of the lanterns are integrated with the dances and performances of the flower-drum lanterns and play the role of accompanying and rendering the moods.
The "Dahuafang" is an emotional dance performed collectively. The number of people is generally singular, seven, nine, eleven, etc., the first for the "umbrella handle", the rest of the "drum frame", "Lahua" half each. The amount of performance, "Wu umbrella handle" dance, ran to the door of the upper field, shouted "alas", leading to a group of dancers. "Lahua" more than one person each standing in the "drum frame" shoulder, hand turning fan flowers, handkerchief flowers, or do a variety of modeling gestures, in the carnival-like sound of the gongs and drums in a row out.
In the performance, "umbrella handle" a forked umbrella to command the whole situation, "drum frame" and "wax flower" linking conversion of various figures, performing warm, unrestrained collective dance, and Interspersed with the body and somersaults that each person specializes in, a series of difficult skills such as twisting, jumping, flipping, falling, and so on. When the performance gets heated, the "drummers" often whistle loudly and pleasantly to the rhythm of the gongs and drums. In the traditional "Dahuafang" formation, the first dance is "walking through four gates", and then other shapes, such as "five plums", "snakes taking off their shells", "two shells", "two drums", and so on. There are more than 20 kinds of formations, such as "Five Plums", "Snake Breaking Out of its Shell", "Two Walls" and so on. "Dahua field" dance, all the actors in the "umbrella handle" under the jump out of the field.
"Small Flower Field" is an improvisational dance performed by two or three persons of "Drum Frames" and "Lahua", which is the core part of Flower Drum Lantern Dance. This is the core part of Flower Drum Lantern Dance, which mainly expresses the scenes of mutual love, playfulness and amusement between men and women. There are also cultural and martial arts in the "Small Flower Field", with singing as the main part of the cultural field, followed by dancing, and dancing, somersaulting and skillful performances as the main part of the martial arts field, followed by singing. The singing of the "small flower field" is based on "Lahua", and the "drum frame" helps and accompanies the singing, which is mostly improvised. In the performance, it is usually the first dance, the actor beckons, brakes the gongs and drums, and the two of them stand in the field and sing, and then dance after the end of the performance. In Huaiyuan County, there is also a kind of Double Flower Dance, which is a trio dance with two "La Hua" and one "Drum Frame". Among them, there is the plot of "two women vying for a husband" with dramatic contradictions, which makes it a fascinating performance with ups and downs.
The "Pan Drum" is a combination of dance, acrobatics, martial arts and other skills. The "Ground Pan Drum" is a two-person skill show on the ground. "In the pan drum", a kind of "Lahua" standing in the "drum frame" legs, do "shooting geese", "leaning tower" and other stylized postures; another is a two-person with the heel skills, such as "over the hill" and so on. The "Upper Pan Drum" is "Lahua" standing on the shoulder of the "drum frame", making various modeling gestures, such as "sitting shoulder". "Duck teal" and so on, there are more than three people's modeling, such as "the eagle grips the chick" "double satchel basket" and so on.
The singing part of the flower-drum lanterns is collectively known as the lamp song, and the main singing tune is "slow super cow", Huai tune, "Wei tune" and so on more than ten kinds. Tunes lyrical, slow, and dance is a strong rhythm, rapid, so the song is not dance, dance is not song, the basic sentence form of the lantern song lyrics for the five a singing section, its basic structure, the most common spread, contrast, questions and answers, and overlap; lantern song tunes jumping more, the performance of the four, five, six or seven degree intervals, and the use of glissando for modification, the main characteristics of the lantern song music: no matter how much the singing sentence, singing section, are at the end of the third sentence. The main characteristic of lamp song music is that, no matter how many singing phrases or sections are sung, the gongs and drums at the end of the third phrase will beat out the overdoor of Kuang Kuang 1, Kuang Kuang 1, Kuang Kuang 1, Kuang Kuang 01, and then continue to be sung. The more popular tunes are "Umbrella Handle Tune," "Snare Drum Rack Tune," and "Meng Jiangnu," among others.
Flower Drum Lantern gongs and drums team should be composed of at least seven people, using instruments to flower drums, gongs, cymbals, with small gongs, small cymbals, brittle gongs. The rhythmic pattern of the music of the drums and gongs of the flower-drum lanterns is varied, joyful and high-spirited, beautiful and powerful, and is played in a single breath. Its basic rhythmic pattern is four or two beats, such as: the drum 2/4∣Kuangkuangjiji∣, the long mallet 2/4∣Kuanglengkuangleng∣, the bumping four 2/4∣Kuangkuang∣Kuanglengkuang∣Kuanglengkuang∣KuangO∣, as well as "the phoenix nods its head three times", etc. The drum playing technique is rich in variations. Drum playing techniques are rich in variations, ups and downs, suddenly with heavy blows, light blows, suddenly with "pressure hammer", "pounding hammer", and suddenly playing the edge of the drum, fully mobilizing acoustic and timbral effects, resulting in a difference in sound effects, and effectively bringing into play the expressive features of the music of the gongs and drums. The drums are not only a great source of sound, but they are also a great source of sound.
The back stage of the small theater has "small round room", "small goods", etc. It is usually two or three people with a simple plot. Generally, it is a simple life drama for two or three people, and some of them are singing songs with plots, and after the small drama, the show ends.