The Ying Song Dance leader holding a snake is an expression of traditional culture.
In the Chaoshan Ying Song Dance, the leader dancer holds a snake as an expression and inheritance of the traditional culture as well as a presentation of this auspicious symbol. In Chaoshan Ying Song and Dance, the lead dancer performs holding a snake, which is regarded as a mysterious and auspicious symbol. According to traditional beliefs, the snake is an animal with supernatural powers and is regarded as a good-luck symbol that can drive away evil spirits and illnesses and attract wealth and good fortune.
In the Chaoshan region, the snake is regarded as one of the important objects of worship and one of the important parts of the local culture. Ying Ge Dance in Chaoshan is a traditional form of folk dance performance, usually performed during traditional festivals or celebrations such as the Lunar New Year.
This traditional art, popular in Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shanwei and other areas of the Chaoshan region of Guangdong Province, was inscribed on the first national list of intangible cultural heritage masterpieces in 2006. Because of its "old and trendy", by many netizens called "folk street dance" "Chinese war dance" in some people lamented that "the flavor of the New Year has become faint! "At a time when some people lamented that the flavor of the year has become diluted, the English song and dance is tenaciously showing another kind of vitality of traditional culture.
Introduction of the historical origin of the English song and dance:
English song and dance as a kind of folk art, its emergence, development, and evolution of the process of less written records, the history of the book can be examined for only four or five hundred years, and its origins have many different versions. The main argument is the evolution of ancient sacrificial rituals Nuo dance. Most researchers tend to think that the English song and dance does not have a single origin, these origins may be part of its long history of change and development.
The Chaoyang Yingge, for example, China Intangible Cultural Heritage Protection Center public information shows that the local Yingge is the continuation of the Han folk square dance and Nuo cultural forms. The origin of the Yingge dance there are other sayings, one is "timely rain said", "timely rain said" in the late Ming and early Qing Shaoxing scholar Zhang Dai's "Taoan Mengyi" book "timely rain" section there is such a statement. The book "Taoan Mengyi" in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Zhang Dai, a famous Shaoxing scholar, "timely rain" in the book, "timely rain" section has such a statement.
This section describes the scene of seeking rain. According to Zhang Dai, it may be because Song Jiang, the elder brother of the heroes of the Water Margin, was nicknamed "Timely Rain". There is another is "Yangge said". "Yangge said" is to say that the Yingge dance is from Shandong Lubei's "big drum sub rice-planting song" and Luxi's "Liu Lin rice-planting song" from the birth. Because the pronunciation of Yingge and "Yangge" in Chaozhou dialect is relatively similar.