Shiqian, the leader of the Chaoshan Yingge Dance, dances with a snake in his hand to command. In fact, this snake is the ancient exorcism rituals held by the worshipper of the reed whip, the use of the whip to drive away ghosts. Dance snake to open the way, function is the same with the whip.
Ying song and dance, is one of the Han dance form, is popular in the Chaoshan region of Puning, Jieyang, Huilai, Chaoyang, Lufeng and Zhangzhou, Fujian and other areas of a combination of the southern school of martial arts, theater and other local arts as one of the folk square dance. It is also popular in Hong Kong, China and Thailand.
English song and dance as a folk art, its emergence, development and evolution of the process of less written records, the history of the book can be traced for only four or five hundred years, and there are many different versions of its origins. In the Chaoshan area, Ying Ge Dance is a combination of theater, dance and martial arts. Ying Ge Dance is a Han Chinese square emotional dance, and its main form of performance is a large-scale collective dance in which the dancers hold a short wooden stick in each hand and hit each other up, down, left and right, with robust and powerful movements and strong rhythms. After the dance, there is also a small opera, called "Yingge Houbang".
English song and dance origin
English song of the origins of different opinions, there are several ways to say, there are water Margin, Nuo origin said, from Shandong through Putian and then into the tide said, the outside of the river said, said, said, said, said, said, said the synthesis of martial arts. Chaoshan Folklore Dictionary" lists several Ying song and dance by the ancient sacrificial rituals, including the evolution of Nuo dance, by the Shandong drums and other operatic evolution of Yangge, for the resistance against the government and the creation of the powerful used to pass the martial arts and so on.
Some scholars believe that the "South Dance North Phase" of the English song and dance is the spread of civilization to the south of the Central Plains and Lingnan native culture products. According to legend, during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Chinese army went south and brought the northern rice-planting songs such as Shandong Drum Rice-planting Songs and Fengyang Flower Drums to today's Chaoshan area, where they were fused with the local culture to form the Yingge Dance. It is believed that the "Yangge" in the Chaoshan dialect is similar to the word "Ying", which has been passed down in the folklore and transformed into "Yingge" over a long period of time.