1. The style of Northeast Yangge:
Northeast Yangge has a witty form and a unique style. The vast black land gives it a pure and bold spirit and flavor, integrating spiciness, humor, quietness and steadiness, and it brings out the warm and simple, strong and soft character traits of the Northeast people in the best possible way.
2. The style of Northeast Yangge:
Northeast Yangge has the characteristics of fire and spiciness as well as stability and humor. The movements are both funny and playful, both stable and wave (wave, that is, the meaning of cheerful and handsome), and there are waves in the stability, there is stability in the waves, and there is a combination of rigidity and softness, which can not be twisted and wrinkled and weak.
The traditional music of Northeast Yangge music is very rich. Its aesthetic principles can be summarized in three words, namely, "smooth", "live" and "rhyme". "Shun" means smooth. Various changes in the melody, the connection of music, tonality, modulation changes should be "smooth". "Live" means to have a high degree of improvisation ability, so that the music is flexible and changeable. The "rhythm" is the sense of rhythm and the flavor of the style.
The local folk band is usually composed of two soprano suona and several percussion instruments. The suona is the most commonly used soprano suona with the a'-simple sound of 7 inches and 5 inches (referring to the length of the suona's pole).
Expanded Information:
History of Northeast Rice-planting Songs:
The Northeast Yangge is a form of folk song and dance very much loved by the people of the Northeast.
Yang Bin in the Kangxi thirty years (1691 AD) in Ningguta (today's Heilongjiang Province, Ning'an County) written in the "Liubian Chronicle", the local people's rice-planting activities have been documented: "on the night of the New Year's Eve, the good people are always dressed up in rice-planting songs."
The northeastern rice-planting songs are divided into two categories: ground bouncers and stilts. The ground bungee, also known as the ground rice-planting song, is more widely spread; stilts are prevalent in Liaonan, especially in Yingkou (Dashiqiao), Haicheng and Gaixian area. It is said that there is a certain place with a certain paddy field farmers sing field songs when planting rice seedlings, called Yangge.
The rice-planting song originated from the labor life of rice-planting and plowing, but also with the ancient sacrifices to the gods of agriculture to pray for a good harvest, analysis of the blessings of the disaster sung Song Xin, set of songs related to the process of development, and in the process of development continue to absorb the agricultural songs, songs, folk martial arts, acrobatics, as well as the techniques and forms of opera, so that the development of rice-planting song by the general singing folk songs and dances. By the Qing Dynasty, Yangge had been widely circulated throughout the country.
Baidu Encyclopedia - Northeast Rice-planting Song