There are dragon dance, rice-planting songs, ground dragon, Nuo dance, lion dance and so on.
1, Dragon Dance
Dragon Dance, also known as the "Dragon Dance", also known as "playing the dragon", "playing the dragon lantern" or "dance", one of China's traditional folk dance. Dragon Dance", one of China's traditional folk dances, is widely distributed throughout the country, and the variety of its forms is incomparable to any other folk dance.
As early as the Shang Dynasty oracle bone inscriptions, has appeared to a number of people collectively sacrificed to the dragon for rain; Han Dynasty Dong Zhongshu, "Spring and Autumn Dew" records have been clear that a variety of dragon dance rain records; since then, the poems of successive dynasties to record the court or the folk dance of the dragon's text is common.
Till now, the dragon dance is still one of the common dance forms in folk festivals. The most basic means of expression of the dragon dance is its prop modeling, compositional changes and movement routines.
The dragon is the totem of the Chinese nation and the ancestor of the Chinese people; the dragon dance is a symbol of the spirit of Huaxia, which embodies the spirit of unity and cooperation of the Chinese nation and the spirit of pioneering and development, and contains the cultural connotation of harmony between man and nature and the welfare of mankind, and it is the most common way of entertainment of the Chinese people in the festivals of auspicious celebrations and blessings with a warm and exciting atmosphere, and it is the extremely precious cultural heritage of the Chinese nation.
In 2006, it was listed as a national intangible cultural heritage.
2. Yangge
Yangge is a kind of mass and representative folk dance widely circulated in China (mainly in the northern region), with different titles and styles in different regions.
There are two types of folk dances: those performed on stilts are called "Yangge on Stilts", and those performed without stilts are called "Yangge on Ground". In recent times, the term "Yangge" mostly refers to the "ground Yangge".
Range-planting songs have a long history, the Southern Song Dynasty, Zhou Mi in the "Old Story of Wulin" in the introduction of the folk dance team in the "Murata music" records, the Qing Dynasty, Wu Xilin's "New Year's Day miscellaneous singing copy" expressly recorded the existing rice-planting songs and the Song Dynasty, "Murata music" of the relationship between the source and flow.
On May 20, 2006, the rice-planting songs were approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
3. The Earth Dragon
The Earth Dragon Dance was handed down in the Qing Dynasty as a symbol of wishing for good weather in the coming year; the Bench Dragon, in which a small, beautifully crafted dragon is tied to a bench, and three men hold up a leg of the bench, running, jumping and flipping around under the noisy gongs and drums, is a favorite form of dragon dance in the provinces south of the Yellow River.
In addition, the dragon is divided into a number of "segments" or "sections" of the "Segment Dragon", "Five Sections of the Dragon"; played by a person alone, surviving in Suzhou, Hangzhou and northern Sichuan, the small "Canglong", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon", "Paper Dragon" and "Paper Dragon". The small "Canglong" and "Paper Dragon" are played by one person alone and remain in Suzhou, Hangzhou and northern Sichuan.
There are also little-known, continued in the coastal fishing villages of Zhejiang, almost no dragon shape and boat-shaped "jewelry dragon", "eighteen stalls dragon" and so on, really colorful, countless. During the Spring Festival, these varieties of flying in the vast areas of the Han Chinese people, the shape of the strange dragon, fully displaying the long history of the Dragon and the vastness of the culture.
4, Nuo dance
In the traditional Chinese civilization, "Nuo" is a long history and widely prevalent in the Han Chinese people in the social and cultural phenomena with strong religious and artistic colors. It originated in the Han ancestors of nature worship, totem worship and witchcraft consciousness.
Nuo's origin and primitive hunting, totem worship, witchcraft consciousness. Nuo Zhou Dynasty into the national ritual system. Pre-Qin literature records, Nuo rituals are hoping to regulate the four seasons of yin and yang, in order to seek the appropriate cold and heat, the wind and rain, the five cereals, the peace of human and animal, the country's wealth and people's livelihood.
Han and Tang dynasties court Nuo ceremonies grand, and spread to Vietnam, the Korean Peninsula and Japan. The end of the Northern Song dynasty court Nuo rituals using the new system, Nuo entertainment direction. Yuan Meng due to different beliefs, Nuo rituals are excluded.
The Ming Dynasty restored the Palace Nuo, the Qing Dynasty court is no longer held. But the "Analects of Confucius - township party" recorded in the "township Nuo" has been in the folk continuation, and with religion, literature, folklore and other combinations, the derivation of a variety of forms of Nuo dance, Nuo opera, is still popular in our country's vast rural areas.
Jiangxi, Hunan, Hubei, Shaanxi, Sichuan, Guizhou, Yunnan, Guangxi, Anhui, Shanxi, Hebei and other provinces have more remains, respectively, around the "jumping Nuo", "ghost dance", "play hi "and other local titles.
Generally in the first day of the year to the first month of the sixteen performances. Nuo dance performances are generally wearing a role of the mask, which has a mythological image, there are secular characters and historical figures, thus constituting a huge Nuo God genealogy, "take off the mask is human, wearing a mask is God".
Nuo dance is the main form of performance of Gan Nuo, known as China's dance "living fossil" said. Nuo dance accompanied by simple musical instruments, generally drums, gongs and other percussion. Nuo dance organization called "Nuo class", members generally have eight to more than ten people, often with strict class rules.
Nuo dance often in the Nuo ritual process of the climax of the part and the performance stage of the program appeared, around the Nuo dance program is rich, both ritual and entertainment of the double effect.
May 20, 2006, Nuo dance approved by the State Council included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.
5, lion dance
China's "Lion Dance" since the Han Dynasty from the Western region of the false form of dance. The "Lion Dance" is performed at the time of the Chinese New Year amidst the sound of thundering firecrackers, and it has gradually become an indispensable form of dance for people to avoid evils and disasters, as well as for good luck and blessings.
The "cultural lion dance," which is gentle and elegant, and is characterized by playing with a ball and stepping on a pedal board, and is as intimate as a cat, and the "martial lion dance," which is robust, swift, and fierce, and is characterized by difficult acrobatic performances, have basically become the two types of lion dances that differ in style between the north and the south. "These are basically two different styles of lion dance between the north and the south.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Han Chinese Folk Dance