Hailufeng Kirin Dance
The Kirin Dance of Hailufeng is mainly performed during the Spring Festival and festivals. It is one of the traditional sports activities in Hailufeng, Shanwei, Guangdong. Originally for the ancient primitive sports activities, and the people against violence, foreign invasion related, after the derivation of the festivals into the festivals, *** celebration of auspicious recreational activities.
The unicorn dance team is basically composed of townships and societies, especially villages with the same surname. Kirin dance performance form of each class is not the same, dance Kirin, some classes have led to dance people, and some do not, such as the attached town of round mountain village green Kirin, there are two to get the lion people, one is wearing a hideous mask (exorcising the face of the shell) dressed as a Kuixing, hand-held fairy whisks, from time to time to disrupt the Kirin; a head of the head of the Nezha cap, back hanging sword, hand-held to get the lion ball, from time to time with the Kirin juggling.
Performance Format and Program: The Hailufeng Unicorn Dance has retained its traditional way of performance until now, which is usually performed in sunny fields and open spaces in the countryside, with one person dancing the head of the unicorn and the other holding the tail of the unicorn. Accompanied by gongs, drums and suona, the Qilin Dance begins with three rounds of worship to the sky, followed by a roundabout and a search for food in the four corners of the field, at which time the suona plays the lion poem "Eat the Four Doors," and then dances in the middle of the field, performing such amusing movements as rolling, licking the feet, washing the whiskers and biting the sows, as well as joyful and sorrowful moods.
The Qilin Dance is followed by the martial arts performance, which is the traditional essence of the Qilin Dance of SITC, and is followed by the performance of boxing, stick manipulation, knife carrying, dancing with pointed strings, pointed strings against the iron ruler, and running over the rattan card (a person holding a tiger fork, a person holding a rattan card in his left hand to protect his body, and a knife in his right hand. Its playing method is to fork poke shield, shield against the fork, and take the knife on the ground roll, as hacking horse foot), and finally the collective move stick to fight, with the intensification of the rhythm of playing music to form the climax of the performance (dance martial arts performance), the above performance items each class does not necessarily have all, but at least five, so it is called "move five colors". Each performance to the class master again dance up the unicorn head fired a cannon to worship the end.
Dongjiang Kirin Dance
Huizhou Xiao Jingkou - "Kirin Dance Township"
Small Jinkou Kirin Dance originated in the Qing Dynasty during the Qianlong period
In 2007, the first Kirin Cultural Festival in Huizhou Xiao Jingkou, in addition to the "Kirin Dance". "unicorn dance", there are also dragon boxing, lion dance and other performances. Zhen Linlin said, this is to protect and explore the cultural heritage of the Dongjiang River, bigger and stronger small jinkou "unicorn dance" cultural brand. This is the first unicorn festival, to be held once a year.
August 6-7 two days, the Provincial Federation of Literature and Culture, the Provincial People's Association expert group to the city of Huicheng District, small jinhou street office for thematic investigation, the expert group unanimously passed the declaration of small jinhou street office of "Guangdong Province, the township of the unicorn," the application, agreed to the Provincial Federation of Literature and Culture and the Provincial People's Association named the small jinhou street office for the "Guangdong Province, the township of the unicorn. The expert group unanimously passed the application of Xiaojinkou Street Office to declare "Guangdong Province Qilin Township" and agreed to name Xiaojinkou Street Office as "Guangdong Province Qilin Township" by Provincial Literature Federation and Provincial People's Association. At the same time, the Provincial Federation of Literature and Culture, the Provincial People's Association agreed on March 26, 2008 in the small jinhou held in guangdong province unicorn culture festival and the province's second unicorn dance competition.
According to the relevant books and records and the old man recalled, Huicheng District, Xiao Jingkou Dongjiang unicorn dance has a history of more than 300 years. As early as the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, Xiao Jingkou has been the formation of the unicorn team to carry out unicorn dance activities. It was called "Wu Qilin" because there were frequent wars, military chaos, and thieves were on the rise. In order to prevent roving bandits and thieves from looting and harming the villagers, each natural village has set up a martial arts center, martial arts center has a martial arts team, the Qilin team, the village's young and middle-aged people have learned to dance the Qilin and play the Dragon Boxing, etc., not only as a physical fitness, but also to protect the village to guard the village and protect a side of the townsfolk safe and sound. In the village, from the oldest to the oldest, from the youngest to the youngest, everyone can dance the Qilin a few times. When villagers get married, they have to dance with the unicorn for good luck.
Because Huizhou City is located in the middle reaches of the Dongjiang River, and Xiaojinkou is located on the Dongjiang River, so from the Qing Dynasty to the beginning of the civil war, the unicorn dance in Xiaojinkou is collectively known as the Dongjiang Unicorn Dance, and formed its own characteristics and routines, and cultivated thousands of unicorn dance heirlooms.
Small Jinkou unicorn team developed from 8 to 20
With the creation of a national civilized city in Huizhou and create a cultural city activities in-depth, small jinkou street office attaches great importance to the cultural construction, has invested 8 million yuan to improve a number of cultural venues, and the purchase of equipment and equipment, built up the "Provincial Special Culture Station"! "Center Museum, Hakka National Painting Institute, 7 village-level cultural rooms and 39 group-level cultural rooms; make full use of these cultural venues, in-depth excavation of culture, arts and cultural teams and artists circulating in the folk, has set up 15 distinctive Hakka cultural teams, such as the Federation of Literature, acoustic bands, painting and calligraphy associations, chess associations, dragon boat team, lion dance team and unicorn team, the station was awarded "provincial special grade cultural office" by the Provincial Department of Culture. The cultural station was awarded the title of "Provincial Special Cultural Station" by the Provincial Department of Culture.
In the cultural construction, Xiao Jingkou Street Office pay attention to promote local characteristics of folk culture, focusing on the discovery and promotion of Dongjiang Qilin dance, has invested more than 200,000 yuan to reform, packaging, promotion. The town's 10 villages (neighborhood committees) unicorn dance team has increased from 8 to 20, more than 200 members, the oldest 93 years old, the youngest is only 15 years old, the unicorn dance activities involved in the masses of more than 1,000 people. Dongjiang Qilin Dance is also a comprehensive innovation, the form from the past a sect into a number of sects of integration. 2005, Huizhou City, awarded the small jinkou street office as "Qilin Dance characteristics of the township", Ye house villagers group, Jiuyi villagers group named "Qilin village". 68-year-old Qilin dance team has increased to 8 teams, more than members of the oldest 93 years old, the youngest is 15 years old, participating in more than 1,000 people to participate in Qilin dance activities. "The 68-year-old Qilin dance master Ye Yangxing by the Municipal Bureau of Culture as Huizhou City, "Folk Artist".
Participating in the first Pan-Pearl River Delta Folk Art Festival won the silver medal
In September 2005, the first Pan-Pearl River Delta Folk Art Festival organized by China Folk Literature and Artists Association and participated by 9 provinces and cities, Hong Kong and Macao, was held in Shanwei City, Guangdong Province, and the unicorn team of Xiao Jingkou won the silver medal for their unique style and wonderful performances. 2006 New Year's Day, the unicorn team of 10 teams of 30 players of Xiao Jingkou participated in the "Folk Art Festival of the Pan-Pearl River Delta" in the city of Shanwei. On the first day of 2006, 10 unicorn teams with 30 members from Xiao Jingkou participated in the "Light of Civilization" Huizhou Military-Civilian Spring Festival Gala, and performed as the first opening show.
February 12, 2006, in Huizhou City Lantern Festival parade, Xiao Jingkou 10 unicorn team again for the parade, Huizhou people once again enjoy the style of Dongjiang unicorn dance. In May of the same year, it also participated in the big exhibition of Qilin Association held in Shenzhen and won the second prize of performance, and in June, it was invited to participate in the exhibition of non-material cultural heritage of Guangdong Province.
On March 26, 2007, the first unicorn culture festival was held in Xiaojingkou, in the festival of large-scale cultural and artistic performances, unicorn dance, by the Chinese and foreign merchants and the general public, tourists, highly evaluated.
June 23, 2007, CCTV "Passion Square" was held in Dongjiang Park. Xiao Jingkou Street Office organized by the Dongjiang Qilin dance in the "civilization of Huizhou - Passion Square everyone sings" in the opening program of the wonderful performance, won the applause of the audience. With a certain degree of fame of the Dongjiang Qilin Dance has also been favored by the community, continue to receive invitations from local and foreign performances, Xiao Jingkou Street Office has set up the Dongjiang Qilin Dance Association, the Dongjiang Qilin Dance as a feature of the development of cultural industries. Also decided to set March 26 every year as the "Kirin Culture Festival".
Hakka Unicorn Dance
Zhangmutou Town is a pure Hakka town in Dongguan, and the unicorn dance has a history of more than 450 years.
Zhangmutou town on the unicorn dance of this ancient folk art has carried out a lot of useful reforms, there are five aspects of the transformation: First, the time change, from the past lengthy 1 hour shortened to 10 minutes or so; the second is the form of change, from the past singles, doubles to the present join the group fighting performance; third is the content of the change, from the past only to worship the door performance to the cultural performances performed; The fourth is the change in costumes, from the old-fashioned costumes to more contemporary costumes; the fifth is the change in the team, from the natural village team to the cross-village performance program team. These changes have greatly enriched the connotation of Hakka Qilin art and injected new vitality into the development of the art.
The previous Zhangmutou Qilin was known for its durability, and the whole Qilin was made of yellow bamboo and high-quality sandpaper. Its most important feature is the beautiful body shape, wide, high, long tail; painted on the unicorn peonies, peach blossoms, chrysanthemums, butterflies, etc. is colorful, delicate and vivid, so that the whole unicorn dance mighty, light, full of spirit. Kirin paper art is lost, so many people in Zhangmutou Town, with a few melancholy, but also realized that should be restored to this ancestral art.
Huangge Qilin
"Huangge Qilin" has been popular for more than a hundred years. For more than a hundred years, during festivals, the Bun Festival, and the Autumn Festival, farmers have danced the Kirin to express their happiness and pray for good weather and peace of the country, which is why it is said that "the Kirin is dedicated to the people.
The Huangge Qilin Dance comes from the folk, has strong local characteristics, the folk artists re-adaptation of the Huangge Qilin Dance, from the shape of the Qilin to the dance techniques have been improved, and added the popular Cantonese music, "victory order", the gongs, rows of drums, and the Guangdong flute playing, singles and other eight sounds of the gongs and drums organically into one as an accompaniment, full of a warm celebratory atmosphere and a strong Guangdong characteristics.
November 9, 2000, by the Huangge Town, Datang Village, more than 30 local farmers Qilin team, on behalf of Guangdong Province to participate in the "Mountain Flower Award" held in Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, the first national folk square song and dance competition. They performed the "Huangge Qilin Dance", and 18 folk art performance team from the country for the final, these teams are more than 200 teams from the country screened out, and finally the Huangge Qilin team with the total score of the first place on the "Mountain Flower Prize" list, but also to get the Hangzhou's highest award for folk art, the "Golden Gui Flower Award."
Huanghua Kirin Dance
Main word: Huanghua Kirin Dance
Huanghua Kirin Dance, known as the "Kirin of the North," is most notably characterized by its tall, powerful, and flashy performance, The most distinctive feature of Huanghua Qilin Dance is that it is tall and powerful, showing the performer's skill and difficult movements between turning, prancing and moving, which matches the character traits of the northern people who are bold and chivalrous. It and Jiangsu, Hunan and other small and delicate "Southern Qilin" mirror each other, **** with the interpretation and interpretation of the excellent folk dance art of this Chinese nation's heritage and connotation.
Huanghua Qilin Dance brings the audience extraordinary artistic shock by virtue of the tall artistic modeling and the thrilling, dangerous and strange difficult movements in acrobatic performance. Due to the fact that the unicorn modeling is made of complicated materials, high cost, time-consuming and laborious, and the difficulty of the performance, the scale of the Huanghua unicorn dance is shrinking and facing the crisis of being lost.