Waist Drum Teams can be as small as four to eight people, or as many as dozens or even hundreds of people.
Waist drum team can be large or small, less than a dozen people, up to hundreds of people, the team is huge, the action is neat, the pattern is new, colorful silk flying, drums, very spectacular. Now has become a variety of gatherings on the square collective recreational forms, but also middle-aged and elderly people entertainment, physical activity.
Additional information
The starting point of the rhythm is the waist.
1, the upper body rhythm: Northeast rice-planting song's body rhythm is mainly left and right swing and front and back twisting. The horizontal swing is the alternating chest and waist pressure on the left and right sides of the body, forming the left and right horizontal swing of the upper body. Before and after twisting is the axis of the waist, shoulder-based body on the left and right sides of the body alternately before and after twisting, shoulder and upper body twisting to form a body, crotch do not twist, such as shoulder alternately before and after the circle that is, the right shoulder drives the upper body behind the upper arc to the front, at the same time, the left shoulder walks down the arc to the rear.
2, double knee flexion and extension: different characteristics of double knee activities. Hard flexion and extension of the double knee fast flexion and extension and elastic; soft flexion and extension of the knee joint flexion and extension to have an inherent sense of flexibility, the music of the heavy beat of the body's center of gravity down; straight knees to show the action of Burgundy, playful features.
such as fast flexion and straight: fast knee flexion and extension, and elastic; fast flexion and slow straight: fast flexion, toughness of the slow straight, beat down; slow flexion and fast straight: knee flexion and extension to have the inherent flexibility, the music of the center of gravity down, the knees fast straight.
3, heel press: different foot position of the heel press. Such as the front step, small step, big eight step, bow and arrow step. When you press the heel, the second half of the beat lifts the heel of both feet, the forefoot is on the ground, and the legs are quite knee. In the first half of the beat, the feet quickly drop the heel, the time to lift the heel should be short, and the time to land should be relatively long. Therefore, in the training of pressing the heel, the heel should be lifted low, pressed quickly, pressed on the positive beat, to have the strength, that is, "stepping on the beat, twisting in the waist".
The Northeast Yangge has a witty form and a unique style, and the vast black land gives it a pure and bold spirit and style, integrating spiciness, humor, quietness and stability into one, and bringing out the warm and simple, rigid and flexible character traits of the Northeast people. Waves in the steady, waves in the terrier, terrier in the warped, stepping on the board, twisting on the waist, are the most important features of the Northeast Rice-planting Song.
At the same time, the many patterns of "flowers in the hands", the fast-paced and elastic drums, and the funny, playful, quiet, steady and beautiful rhythms are the characteristics of the Northeast Yangge.
Whenever there are major festivals, people will spontaneously organize rice-planting song performances and competitions. The costumes of the rice-planting teams are rich in color and gaudy, mostly in theatrical costumes.