Every nation has its own culture, and every culture has its own uniqueness. Hakka, a branch of the Han nationality, has a rich cultural heritage, and Hakka dance has strong local characteristics. Tea-picking songs and dances in southern Jiangxi are the most beautiful and wonderful work of Hakka art. From the perspective of Hakka dance, Gannan tea-picking songs and dances have the following style characteristics:
1. There are as many as five hundred basic movements, which can be roughly divided into five types: pictographic, virtual, emotional, stunt, and modeling. Types, such as "cock pecking rice", "turtle crawling on the sand", "thrush jumping on the frame", "monkey washing face", "wolf looking for food", "dog tail wagging", "beating soles", "sitting in rows" " and other basic movements, strive to dance gracefully and handle the five relationships of "curve and circle, richness and rhyme, hardness and softness, stillness and movement, break and connection", so as to achieve the combination of upper and lower and natural coherence.
2. The basic form of men being short and women being tall, men walking and women walking makes the tea-picking songs and dances in southern Ganxi very interesting. Walking the "dwarf step" is the basis of the male character's dance. The movements are ever-changing, but always take the "dwarf step" as the core. The rhythm lies in "flexion", and each movement is performed with the legs in a half-squat or full-squat posture. The dwarf steps are divided into high pile, middle pile and low pile, and the rhythm of the upper body is divided into up and down rhymes, front and back rhymes, and left and right rhymes. "Female rocking" is the "stepping" with the heel touching the ground and the "twisting step" with the forefoot touching the ground, highlighting the "shaking" look.
3. The Choudan performance in tea picking is vivid, subtle, witty and humorous. Dan: mainly shows hard-working and simple or smart rural girls
And young women, the performance is sweet and graceful , simple and generous. Ugly: Those who "act ugly" are called righteous and ugly, and are mostly young and middle-aged men among the working people. They have the character traits of hardworking, simple, cheerful, optimistic, funny, witty and brave; those who "act ugly" are called anti-ugly, and are mostly smokers. Gamblers, gangsters, and swingers fully demonstrate the contrast between ugliness and beauty in their performances.
4. Dwarf steps, single sleeves, and fan flowers are the three major performance techniques in Hakka dance, commonly known as the "three unique skills".
Dwarf Step: It can be divided into high pile, medium pile and short pile. You squat with your knees half bent or bent, raise your head and straighten your waist; you hold a fan in your right hand and dance the fan flower on your head, chest or waist. The left arm dances with water sleeves, swinging freely back and forth, left and right, up and down, walking with a jumping rhythm, fast and slow freely, advancing and retreating at will, and can also stand in place, requiring the upper body to be straight. The changes only occur in the wrists, legs and feet, generally manifested in walking, climbing, Downhill activities.
Single sleeve: It is different from the common water sleeves in other operas, but the left sleeve is lengthened, used for swaying, and used to perform with the right hand for fanning. The movements of playing sleeves are extremely rich, including throwing, lifting, whisking, throwing, swinging, winding, shaking, waving, holding, shaking, dragging, teasing, dusting, circling, grabbing, covering, floating, rolling, wrapping, etc.
Fan flower: Commonly used are "single fan flower", "double fan flower", "five-finger flower head facing the sky, four-finger flower head facing forward, three-finger flower flower on the four sides, two-finger flower waving in front of the chest, "Turn, press, grasp, lean on the belly". There are more than thirty kinds of movements of the fan flower, which is an important means to embody the artistic style of tea-picking song and dance performance.
5. Hakka folk customs are rich and colorful, and Hakka dance forms are also diverse. In southern Jiangxi alone, there are Ningdu Yugu Daoqing, Hakka tea beating, Huang Yuan beating, tea picking, Shicheng lanterns, and bench dragons. Wait for the Hakka dance form.
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