Ying Song Dance is performed as follows:
The dance is performed with each person holding two short, round wooden sticks called "mallets", with the feet in a crouching crotch stance and the legs in a horizontal leap, and the hands striking the sticks up and down and left and right with the rhythm of the gongs and drums, while the head and the body naturally sway with the dance.
Yingge Dance is one of the dance forms of the Han Chinese people, popular in Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shanwei, Shantou and Hong Kong of China and Thailand. Yingge Dance in Chaoshan is a combination of theater, dance and martial arts.?
As a kind of folk art, English song and dance has fewer written records of its creation, development and evolution, and the history of its origin 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 is a Han Chinese square emotional dance, Shantou City, Chaoyang District, Chaonan District, Jieyang City, Huilai County, Shantou City, Shantou City, Lufeng City, Chaozhou City, Chaoan District, is the most prevalent area of the Ying song and dance. According to the oral tradition of folk artists and some supporting information, Chaoyang English song originated in the Ming Dynasty.
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 soon as the people hear the sound of the song, 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.