What is the connotation and significance of Yangge?

Inheritance value

Yangge is one of the most representative folk dances in northern China, both performative and self-indulgent, self-indulgent and loved by the people. There have been a number of representative folk dance artists in various places, and many of them have played an important role in the construction of new China's dance industry.

In the rapid development of the rural economy, the cultural environment has changed today, can master the traditional rice-planting techniques and pure dance style of folk artists has been very few stars, protection and inheritance of the work urgently needs to be carried out.

The Changli rice-planting song is a form of rice-planting song that embodies the farmers' interest in life and has a distinctive and unique dance style, reflecting the agricultural society, part of the characteristics of rural life and the optimistic and witty mental outlook of the farmers. However, due to the rapid social and economic development, the ageing of the artists and other reasons, the inheritance of Changli rice-planting songs is facing a serious situation, and is in urgent need of rescue and protection.

The Drum Rice-planting Song has many dancers, strict organization, complete form, beautiful dancing skills, magnificent momentum, and contains deep historical and cultural connotations, rich in the rich atmosphere of the times and distinctive local characteristics. After the establishment of New China, the drum rice-planting song has participated in many national folk art competitions and won many awards. 1996, Shanghe County was awarded the title of "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art" by the Ministry of Culture.

The inheritance and development of Drum Rice-planting Song has enriched the cultural life of the masses and inherited the excellent culture of the Chinese nation, which has high aesthetic value and research value.

Jiaozhou rice-planting song was born in the countryside, active in the folk, in the development of their own changes, is the masses of spontaneous participation, free catharsis, self-entertainment and self-entertainment of the plaza folk art, showing the rural women in the Jiaodong peculiarly fit body and emotional charisma, with a high aesthetic value and artistic research value.

Haiyang rice-planting song is the embodiment of the collective wisdom and creative spirit of the people of Haiyang, in reality, Haiyang rice-planting song distinctly shows the spirit and character traits of the rural people of Haiyang, it is an important part of the regional culture of a party, with aesthetic value and historical value, it is important for the enrichment of the masses of the cultural life, and the construction of a harmonious society has played an important role in promoting.

The Haiyang Dayangge has been listed as one of the teaching materials of Chinese folk dance, and in 1996, Haiyang City was named the "Hometown of Chinese Folk Art" by the Ministry of Culture.

Shaanxi rice-planting songs express the simple, honest and optimistic character of the people in northern Shaanxi, and have outstanding historical and cultural value.

The Fushun rice-planting songs have been passed down for a long time among the people. Due to environmental changes and the decrease in the number of old performers, regular Fushun rice-planting activities have been difficult to carry out, and the performance of the walking formation and movements have been gradually simplified, and are on the verge of extinction, requiring strong support.

Social Impact

Whenever there are major festivals, such as the New Year, teams are organized in both urban and rural areas to pay their respects, wish each other good luck and entertain each other. In addition, different villages and neighborhoods will also twist rice-planting songs to visit each other and compete with each other in songs and dances.

Yangge is a popular Han folk dance in rural China. It embodies a distinctive ethnic style in the use of colors. The costumes people wear when twisting the rice-planting song have strong color contrasts, including red, blue, yellow and green. They sing and dance to the accompaniment of gongs and drums to express their joy and longing for a better life.

Historical development

The rice-planting song dance originated in agricultural labor, people in the fields of hard rice-planting, plowing, plowing the fields of labor to beat the gongs and drums, used to cheer, in fact, as early as in the Song Dynasty there are records of rice-planting song sung in the agricultural affairs. Later, people continue to enrich the development of the form of self-entertainment of farmers after work, song and dance are collectively known as rice-planting songs.

After twisting the rice-planting song more developed into a singing and dancing, but also because of the differences in geography, the masses feel, and show different styles and characteristics. For example, the northern Shaanxi Yangge is robust, bright and free-spirited, the northeastern Yangge is lively, humorous and playful, and the Shandong Yangge is bold, rugged and generous.

In 1942, Mao Zedong emphasized in his speech at the Yan'an Literary and Artistic Symposium that literature and art should serve the workers, peasants and soldiers, and set off the "Yan'an New Rice-planting Song Movement" in Yan'an, which gave rise to the "New Rice-planting Song" dance.

Now it's time for the "New Yangge Dance".

Now the style of rice-planting dance retains the traditional twist, stilts, waist drums, flower stick, dry boat, and added modern dance, ski dance, fan dance, lamp dance and so on. The music of the Yangge has developed from traditional Chinese music, such as suona, gongs and cymbals, to electronic music and different high-tech instruments. The melody of the music is not only the original Yangge tune, but also folk music ensemble, rock music and so on.

Reference to the above? Baidu Encyclopedia- Yangge