About the origin of Yingge Dance, there have always been different, there are mainly the following five sayings:
1, affected by the ritual of sacrifice to Confucius. In the old days, every year on August 27th to pay homage to Confucius, not only to be equipped with a full set of music and dance, and the dancers have a "short bamboo", which is similar to the English song dancers "short stick".
2, evolved from the ancient Nuo dance. English song and dance face is generally black and white, ghost face, more murderous gas, as well as the formation of the English song changes that the ancient Nuo dance to drive away the ghosts and other religious consciousness and artistic features, indicating that the English song and dance is the ancient Nuo dance transformation.
3, influenced by the drama. People in their daily lives like to tell the story of heroes, imitating the behavior of heroes, Liang Shan Po story appeared on the theater stage, inspired the masses of interest in spontaneous learning, gradually, the performance on the stage has evolved into a group square performance to.
4, from shandong big drum sub rice-planting song evolved. Because Shandong uses both hands to hold two mallets to strike the two drums of the flower drums, the mallets used are similar to the two mallets held by the Chao Yang Ying Song Dance, and the content of the dance vocabulary and the dance performance procedures are also similar.
5. In order to fight against the government and the powerful, they created the form of "Ying Ge" to spread martial arts. Because the main dance dynamics and the combination of Yingge's choreography, can be seen by the influence of Nanquan martial arts.