There is Yingge Dance in Shanwei.
Yingge Dance, one of the Han dance forms, is popular in Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou and Shanwei in Guangdong, as well as Hong Kong, China and Thailand. Yingge Dance in Chaoshan is a combination of theater, dance and martial arts.
As a kind of folk art, the Yinggai Dance has fewer written records of its origin, development and evolution, and the history of the dance is only four or five hundred years, and there are many different versions of its origin. The main argument is that the evolution of the ancient ritual Nuo dance.
Ying song and dance its main form of performance for large-scale collective dance, dancers hold a short stick in each hand, up and down, left and right against each other, the action of robust and strong, strong rhythm. After the dance, there is also a song and dance theater, called "English song after the shed".
The Yingge Dance is a Han Chinese Square Emotional Dance, which is performed in Chaoyang and Chaonan Districts of Shantou City, Puning and Huilai Counties of Jieyang City, Lufeng City of Shanwei City, and Chaoan District of Chaozhou City, which is one of the most important districts of Shantou City. According to the oral tradition of folk artists and some supporting information, Chaoyang English song originated in the Ming Dynasty.
Ying song and dance is divided into before and after the shed, the front shed 36 people, each holding a long about 1 feet 4 inches, 4 cm in diameter colorful wooden stick, with the drums and gongs, conch horn and yells, the two sticks hit each other flipping, walking and dancing. The 72 people in the back shed, dressed as various types of jugglers, beat the gongs and drums to accompany the singing, and some of them also dress up as Tu opera, or add martial arts performances.
The formation changes have a long snake, double dragon out of the sea, four tigers and drive, pink butterfly flowers, peacock open screen **** 18 sets; stick method has a left knock, right knock, knock, knock, knock, crotch knock, behind the back of the knock, etc.; face has a literary face, the martial arts face of the points.
The rhythm is fast, medium and slow. Chao Yang Ying Song and Dance combines theater, dance and martial arts in one furnace, and the performance is unique and charming. It is a powerful, majestic, rough and unrestrained dance, which constitutes a majestic, mighty, strong and heroic momentum, and gives people a shock of power and beauty.
In the countryside, Yingge is regarded by the masses as the embodiment of heroes, the symbol of good luck, and the magic power to drive away evil spirits. Generally, those who participate in the Yingge team should be young, strong and handsome young men. The dancer who performs the song has a very good relationship with the people around him in his normal life and has many friends. The girls have a kind of love and adoration for him, and they often choose their own sweethearts from the English song team.
Specifically, the head mallet and the second mallet are the objects of the girls' pursuit. Dancing the English song and dance has always been regarded as the embodiment of good luck, and people believe that dancing the English song and dance is "good luck". Whoever is able to enter the Yingge team in this year will be able to do things smoothly in this year, and everything will go well.
Puning City is a popular Yingge very extensive place, where the villagers believe that jumping Yingge can drive away the demons, evil spirits, evil spirits, to suppress the evil, to ensure peace. Therefore, some of the large-scale construction of the foundation stone, inauguration of the office building, the bridge opened to traffic, the school celebration ceremony, it is inevitable to invite the English song team to dance a lot.
In the countryside, as long as the people hear the sound of English songs, they are ready to meet at the door. The head of the household would then fire a cannon to invite the team to enter the courtyard and perform in the courtyard. It is believed that the houses danced by the English song team can keep peace forever.