The best smoke box dance in Yunnan is: "Pomegranate Blossom".
"Pomegranate Blossom" has the reputation of "Oriental Ballet" and "The Orchid of the Huai River", the flower-drum lantern is a comprehensive art spreading in the Huaihe River valley with dance as the main form, which has a unique artistic style and rich artistic language. On the evening of March 10th and 11th, the Lotus Prize Dance Drama and the National Excellent Dance Drama Invitation Show "Pomegranate Blossom" staged at the Sichuan Grand Theater tells a legendary story about "Flower Drum Lantern" on the bank of the Huai River.
The Huaihe River, the Pearl City, the countryside, the water surging banks of the blue, the people of ...... As the first to the cultural heritage of the flower-drum lantern as the theme of the dance drama, "Pomegranate Blossoms" by the Anhui Provincial Flower Drum Lantern Song and Dance Drama Theatre created and arranged by Yang Wei as the chief choreographer, the Wenying choreographer, Liu Tong music composer, Liu Kedong as the choreography, Yan Hanyi, He will be Huang Lufei, Ding Wenqiang and other starring role in the story, Ding Wenqiang, etc. It tells the story of the artistic life of two generations of flower-drum lantern artists: the father is determined to pass on his skills to his son, but the son is thirsty for the outside world.
The son is inspired by the achievements of the rural areas in the new era, and he chooses to return to inherit his father's mantle. The play combines folk and modern creative techniques, and closely centers on the emotional trajectory of the flower-drum lantern folk artists to write about the inheritance of the flower-drum lantern folk art.
Yi Smoke Box Dance?
The traditional dance of Honghe Hani and Yi Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, one of the national intangible cultural heritages.
The Cigarette Box Dance is a dance that uses "cigarette boxes" as props. The smoke box is a round box made of bamboo and wood used to hold tobacco. When dancing, the upper and lower flaps are held in both hands, and fingers for regular popping, which is a part of the dance, but also with its pleasant strong rhythmic sound as a dance accompaniment.
And because the dance must have "four strings" as the main accompanying instrument, so before the folk called it "jumping string". Because of the cigarette box in the "jumping string" in the important props, and make the "jumping string" rich in unique artistic personality, people generally will jump the string known as the cigarette box dance.
The Shiping Yi Smoke Box Dance, also known as the Jumping Chord and Monopoly Crisis, is a mass folk dance of the Nisupu, a branch of the Yi ethnic group in Yunnan. It is circulated in the Yi settlement areas in the south of Yunnan, such as Yueju, Shiping, Jianshui, Mengzi, Kaiyuan, Tonghai, Yuanjiang, etc. It tends to be mature in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties, and reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China.
The dance is named after a bamboo or cottonwood locust cigarette box that each person holds in each hand and dances. The Yi people also call the smoke box dance jumping strings, jumping music, jumping three strings and so on. The Yi people are extremely fond of the Smoke Box Dance, regardless of the children and the elderly love to dance.
People say: when you hear the four strings, your feet will be itching. 2006 May 20, the Yi Smoke Box Dance was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.