The Jiyang Drum Rice-planting Song is characterized by its umbrella. Drums. Stick. Flowers complete, rhythmic and powerful, many changes in the routine, the action of the rough and bold, grand and majestic, militarized organizational forms, unpredictable dance formations, rough and bold style of the hero, invincible heroes, reflecting the Shandong man's temperament, that is, the soul of the dance. The performers of the Drum Rice-planting Song, as the life mood and impulse form the human body's rhythm, can express their emotions and show their strength. In the power and beauty of the vortex of self-absorption, it is suddenly like a tiger down the mountain, suddenly like a short war, suddenly like the clouds and water ...... but nothing like. What is seen, heard, and felt is some imaginary entity. Is the cohesion of force, invincible, fully demonstrated the rich connotation of square dance, with a strong shock force.
"Zi Yangge" was first called "playing drums", also known as "big drums", "running rice-planting" and so on. "After the 1940s, it was commonly called "Drum Yangge". In Renfeng Township, Jiyang County, the Drum Rice-planting Song was widely spread. In the villages of Guanzhuang, Beichen, Luojiazhuang, Batouwang, and Lujia, centered on the two villages of Liuhe and Sijiafang, the main roles are "umbrella, drum, stick, and flower". These four roles are named after the props used by the actors. Among them, "flower" is a female role, and "umbrella" is divided into "ugly umbrella" and "flower umbrella": The "ugly umbrella" is often portrayed as an old man; the "flower umbrella" is often portrayed as a young man. Drums are the mainstay of the Drum Yangge performance. The number of people mostly played by male young adults, generally played by young people, flowers, also known as "pull flowers", some places on stilts, some places do not step on, mostly played by young girls, in addition to the above four roles, there is also a kind of clown, also known as "outside the corner", can be run into a variety of comical roles, generally no longer official. Funny role, generally no longer within the official establishment, depending on whether there is the ability to play this role of talent.
The various roles of the drums of the rice-planting songs are not standardized in terms of the number of people, and are generally divided into three types: large, medium and small, with large-scale roles for more than 90 people, medium-sized roles for about 70 people, and small-sized roles for about 50 people, and the increase in the number of roles must be an even number and a multiple of that number, such as the number of three bases is 4, and the number of multiples of 4, and the number of drums is 8, and the number of multiples of 8, and other roles, and so on. In order to maintain the dominance of the Unit in the Yangge, the drum must be more than twice as many as the umbrella.
The rice-planting team can perform at a fixed point, or on the march, locally known as the "street tube", also known as "through the street" or "trip", the rice-planting team in accordance with the band in front of the road, umbrellas, drums, sticks and flowers, and the other roles in order to maintain the dominance of the stock. In the following order, the umbrellas, drums, sticks and flowers are arranged in two or three ways, and the total team is divided into three performance sections in the disaster field to complete the performance. The first performance "playing field", playing a variety of ways, generally have martial arts, stilts, lion dance and comical clown show, the purpose is to expand the performance of the venue, followed by the percussion band, the center of the venue in the middle of the back position, the rice-planting team facing the band drums perform "by field "According to the field is divided into cultural field and martial arts field, cultural and martial arts field three kinds of cultural field that is to change the pattern of the "run", all the staff in accordance with the pattern of the performance of the route through the fast, cross action evenly spaced, methodical, running under the feet of the wind, the martial arts field is mainly performing the "fight", that is, the team members in accordance with the provisions of the performance of the route, the cross action evenly spaced, orderly, running under the wind, the main performance of "fight ", that is, the players in accordance with the provisions of the route in place or walking, do have the momentum and exaggerated and brave a variety of martial arts action, generally often with excellent dance combinations as the main means of expression, such as "Golden Dragon Pan Yuzhu", "hissing horse curled hooves", "human street", "the street", "the street", "the street", "the street", "the street", "the street", "the street" and "the street". The last is the closing scene, also called "Shakko", that is, when the rice-planting team runs at most a dozen, at least five patterns, the head umbrella signals the closing of the scene, and the head umbrella signals the closing of the scene. When the team runs at most a dozen, at least five patterns, the head umbrella signals the end of the show and stops the performance. The whole process of running the field is generally in accordance with the cultural field - martial arts field - cultural and martial arts field in the order of the combination of repeated, the rhythm of fast and slow, contrasting atmosphere, emotional tension and relaxation, the effect is striking.