Why is there a snake in front of the Chaoshan Dance Ying Song?

The one who took the snake was Xie Zhen in the Water Margin.

Xie Zhen is a character in "Water Margin", nicknamed the two-headed snake, and was originally a Dengzhou Orion. He and his younger brother Xie Bao were framed and imprisoned by the landlord Mao Taigong for hunting tigers, and later escaped from prison and went to Liangshan to join the gang. At the time of the great gathering of Liangshan, he ranked thirty-fourth, and served as the leader of the infantry army.

He died in Wulongling during the expedition and was posthumously awarded the title of Zhongwulang.

Chaoshan Ying Song and Dance is a Han folk dance in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong Province. It has been spread in Chaoshan for 3,000 years. This kind of square dance is a combination of drama, dance, martial arts and other elements; masculine and magnificent; Now it has become a way for the Han working people to express their festivities.

This kind of square dance is British song and dance.

Extended Information: Origin of English Song and Dance:

There are three theories about the origin of Ying song and dance, one is "timely rain theory", one is "Yangge theory", and the other is "Wu dance theory".

"Timely rain said" is in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties, Shaoxing celebrity Zhang Dai's "Tao'an Dream Memories" in the book, "timely rain" section has such a saying. This verse depicts a scene of praying for rain. Zhang Dai believes that it may be because the eldest brother of the Water Margin hero, Song Jiang, is nicknamed "Timely Rain".

Yangge said that the English song and dance was born from the "Big Drum Yangge" in Lubei, Shandong Province and the "Liulin Yangge" in Luxi. Because the pronunciation of Yingge and "Yangge" in Teochew dialect is relatively similar.

There is also a theory that the current Yingge evolved from the ancient Nu dance.

As a Chaoshan person, do you know the origin of Chaoshan Ying song and dance?

In the long history of Chaoshan.

There is such a folk dance.

It has gone through the changes of history and the blowing of the times, and has evolved into various genres and styles today, telling the worship and belief of the ancient people.

The name of this dance is "Ying Song and Dance".

The origin of the name of the British song and dance.

Ying song and dance is not only a kind of dance, as a kind of folk custom, it is the same as the cultural relics and attractions, precipitating the cultural tradition of a region, containing a profound cultural spirit and national mentality. Humanity and history are the source of the formation of English song and dance.

Legend has it that during the Jiajing period of the Ming Dynasty, there was a Chaoyang man named Chen Daqi, who was supervised by the host to supervise the imperial history, and he brought "Yingge" from Shandong, but failed to find the relevant records of historical documents.

However, according to Wu Ying, the prefect of Chaozhou in Shunzhi of the Qing Dynasty, who majored in "Chaozhou Mansion Chronicles", "Chaozhou Customs Examination" contains: "In the spring, dozens of generations of farmers planted rice in the field, and ordered one person to drum a group of drums, and each drum was a group song competition, which was endless, and it was called 'Yangge'. The Chaozhou pronunciation of "Yang" in Yangge is quite similar to the word "Ying", and because it is circulated among the people, it may be transformed into "Yingge" over time.

Another theory is that the content of the Ying song and dance is to praise the heroes of Liangshan and sing their heroic deeds, that is, the "heroic song" is simplified. The so-called "because of the song" and "warbler song" are all because they are similar to or the same as the Chaoshan sound.

The history of English singing and dancing can be traced.

There are different opinions about the origin of British song and dance. Some people say that they were inspired by the ritual of sacrificing holes: some people say that they were influenced by the story of the heroes of Liangshan Bo performed on the stage of opera, moving from the stage to the square, and from the stage performance of a few actors to a group square performance; Some people also believe that it is inspired by the traditional festivals of the Rural Youshen Competition, such as flower lantern screens or yarn lantern screens and competition tables, and even Waijiang jokes and Shaolin Temple said.

However, in comparison, the three theories of "timely rain", Yangge and Wu dance are more reasonable.

Timely rain said. At the beginning of the Ming and Qing dynasties, Shaoxing celebrity Zhang Dai wrote a section of "Timely Rain" in the book "Dream Memories of Tao'an", saying: "In the seventh month of Renshen, the villages prayed for rain, and they pretended to be tide gods and sea ghosts every day.

Yu Zhong pretended to be a ...... of the Water MarginThirty-six people, all of them, are perfect, and they are called women's football. ......It can be seen that this is a kind of masquerade parade with dance elements. Why do you want to ask for rain to pretend to be the Water Margin, Zhang Yue said that it may be because of the nickname of Song Jiang, the eldest brother of the Water Margin hero, "Timely Rain".

The snake is Baiyue. The original totem Shanying song and dance is one of the dance forms of the Han nationality[1], popular in the Chaoshan region of Guangdong.

Shantou, Jieyang, Chaozhou, Shanwei)[2][3][4]; Hong Kong, China; [5][6][7]Thailand; [8][9]

The main performance form of the Ying Song and Dance is a large-scale group dance, in which the dancers each hold a short wooden stick in each hand, and strike each other up and down, left and right, with strong movements and strong rhythms. After the dance, there is also a singing and dancing play, called "Ying Song Back Shed".

Ying song and dance belongs to the emotional dance of the Han square, Chaoyang District, Chaonan District, Shantou City, Puning City, Jieyang City.

Huilai County, Shanwei City.

Lufeng City, Chao'an District, Chaozhou City, is the most popular area for British singing and dancing. According to the oral tradition of folk artists and the introduction of some supporting materials, Chaoyang Yingge originated in the Ming Dynasty. [3][10][11][3]

Chinese name. Ying song and dance.

Foreign name. the singing and dancing

Endemic areas. Guangdong, Hong Kong, Thailand, etc. [7].

Parenchyma. Han dance form.

Origin. Timely rain.

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Navigation. Origin: Dance content, performance equipment, costumes, and costumes: Chaoyang Yingge, Puning Yingge, Lu Fengying, Chaochao, Anyingge, Huilaiying, and Yingge in Beijing.

Features The English song and dance is divided into front and rear sheds, 36 people in the front shed, each holding a colored wooden stick with a length of about 1 foot 4 inches and a diameter of 4 cm, with gongs and drums, conch horns and shouts, the two sticks hit each other and flipped, dancing while walking. There are 72 people in the back shed, dressed as all kinds of jugglers, beating gongs and drums to accompany the singing, and some also add costume painting, or add martial arts performances. There are a total of 18 sets of queue changes, such as the long snake marching, the double dragon going to sea, the four tigers driving together, the pink butterfly picking flowers, and the peacock opening the screen; The stick method includes left knock, right knock, upper knock, lower knock, crotch knock, back knock, etc.; Facebook is divided into literal and martial faces; The rhythm is different from Allegro, Medium and Adagio.

Chaoyang Ying song and dance fuse drama, dance, martial arts in a furnace, the performance has a unique charm, it is strong, majestic, rough, unrestrained dance posture, constitutes a majestic, mighty, strong, heroic momentum, giving people the shock of strength and beauty.

In the countryside, Yingge is regarded by the masses as the embodiment of heroes, a symbol of good luck, and a magic force to ward off evil spirits. Generally, those who participate in the singing team should be young, strong, heroic and dashing young men. The performers have a very good relationship with the people around them in their daily lives, and they also have many friends.

The girls have a kind of admiration for him, and often choose their favorite people from the English song team. In particular, the first mallet and the second mallet are the objects of the girls' pursuit. Dancing English songs and dances have always been regarded as the embodiment of good luck, and people believe that dancing English songs and dances are "good luck".

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If copyright and other issues are involved, please contact, we will delete the content as soon as possible) English song and dance, folk paper-cutting and flute set** are the three excellent folk arts famous in Chaoyang, known as Chaoyang's "three treasures". As a national intangible cultural heritage, Chaoyang Yingge is rugged and heroic, strong and powerful, which makes the domestic dance community deeply fascinated by it. Every festival celebration, the "heroes" of the British song and dance team will parade in Chaoyang city and countryside, so that the masses can have a glimpse of the ambition and majesty of the ancient British song, and add a beautiful flowing scenery to the festival.

Mighty and heroic is the most masculine.

Every weekend, when the lights fall at night, the Houxi Cultural Square in Chaoyang District will sound crisp and cheerful gongs and drums. Dozens of young men hold two red mallets in their hands, beating wooden sticks to the rhythmic beat of drums, sometimes dancing from side to side, sometimes shouting and galloping. I saw them jumping forward, tiger and tiger, vigorous and vigorous, vigorous and powerful.

With the change of the drum beat, the dancers then change the formations such as "full of stars", "double money", "stars and moons" and "double dragon Turui", which is dizzying and breathtaking.

Summary. There is a reason to take the snake in front of the Chaoshan Dance Yingge as follows: Yingge has ancient traces of the Nu Dance, and the snake is the original totem of Baiyue.

There is a reason to take the snake in front of the Chaoshan Dance Yingge as follows: Yingge has ancient traces of the Nu Dance, and the snake is the original totem of Baiyue.

It also reflects that the door worm is the traditional Baiyue aborigine, and Chaoshan is the real Guangdong aborigine. Instead of the imperial examination era, in order to kneel and lick the legitimacy of the Central Plains, like other ethnic groups in the south, he said that his ancestors came from the north and hidden.

Chaoshan Ying Song and Dance is a Han folk dance in the nuclear dust area of Chaoshan in Guangdong Province. The stool that has been circulated in Chaoshan for 3,000 years is a long time. This kind of square dance combines elements such as drama to rough Zen, dance, and martial arts; masculine and magnificent; Now it has become a way for the Han working people to express their festivities.

This kind of square dance is British song and dance.

Summary. Why is there a snake in front of the Chaoshan Dance Ying Song? It is said that the lead dancer is the time to dance, and the snake dance in his hand is used to command, in fact, this snake is the long whip of the reed held by the worshippers in the ancient ceremony, and the purpose is to sound the whip to drive away ghosts. The snake dance opens the way, and the function is the same as the whip.

Why does the Chaoshan dance Yingge in front of Pibu and one of them wants to take a snake? It is said that the lead dancer is the time to dance, and the snake dance in his hand is used to command, in fact, this snake is the long whip of the reed held by the worshippers in the ancient ceremony, and the purpose is to sound the whip to drive away ghosts. The snake dance burns to open the way, and the function is trembling with the whip.

The ** of the English song, there is no authoritative record, it belongs to the folk shouting code between the customs and ode to the hole, from the word of mouth, also known as singing the English song, singing Yangge, singing the warbler song, earlier should be wild withered for the singing and dancing, now there is a lack of "singing" links. The earliest written record of English songs probably comes from Zhang Dai's "Dream Memories of Tao'an".

These are exactly these people in the Yingge team, divided into two teams (24 people) or four teams (36 people). The drummer, the face of Danhong Yingxiu, is the commander-in-chief Song Jiang, and the leader of the team is Shi Qian, dancing snakes. Each team wears a helmet on their heads, paints red faces, and wears red beards to pretend to be Qin Ming or Guan Sheng; The second mallet wears a helmet and paints a black face and a black beard, pretending to be Li Kui; The three mallets wear helmets, paint black and white flower faces, hang rosaries, wear monk clothes, and pretend to be Lu Zhishen; The four mallets wear a samurai hat, Dan has a red face, upside down eyebrows, and pretends to be Wu Song; Further to the back of the potato mountain is the male pretending to be Sun Erniang and Hu Sanniang, each pair of female generals, generally wearing shawls and aprons, so don't be surprised when you see it in **, this is passed down from generation to generation, although the two female generals are not thirty-six Tiangang, but they participated in the battle against the Daimyo's Mansion.

Judging from the ** in the current number of regrets, it is according to the high and low stations. Shi Qian was an intelligence officer when attacking the Daimyo's Mansion, standing at the front of the team, the snake in his hand was not only a signal, but also a long whip of reeds held by the priests in the town before the ancient ceremony, and the purpose was to sound the whip to drive away ghosts, indicating that the English song ** from the ancient Wu dance, the word "Wu" means that people take refuge in their refuge, which means "the ghost of the epidemic is terrifying". In this way, in the rampant new crown epidemic, Yingge has received special attention, and the call for fireworks and firecrackers is also endless.

Chaoshan is located in the land of Baiyue, from the word "Fujian" can be seen the weight of the snake in the local area, Yingge should be gradually transmitted from southern Fujian to the Chaoshan area, you can speculate that Yingge is not unique to Chaoshan, "Qing barnyard banknotes" is indeed recorded: "Yangge Nachong, both north and south, a parrot song." "For.

Chaoshan is located in the land of 100 rents of Dongyue, from the word "Fujian" can be seen where the snake is in the local weight, Yingge should be gradually transmitted from southern Fujian to Chaoshan area, it can be speculated that Yingge is not unique to Chaoshan, "Qing Barnyard Banknotes" is indeed recorded: "Yangge, the north and the south are slow to wither, a parrot song." ”

The leading dancer of Chaoshan Ying song and dance is temporary, and the snake dance in his hand is used to command. In fact, this snake is the long whip of the reed held by the sacrificer in the ancient ceremony, and the purpose is to sound the whip to drive away ghosts. The snake dance opens the way, and the function is the same as the whip.

Ying song and dance, one of the dance forms of the Han nationality, is a popular in the Chaoshan area of Puning, Jieyang, Huilai, Chaoyang, Lufeng and Zhangzhou, Fujian and other areas of the folk square dance combined with the southern school of martial arts, drama and other local arts. It is also popular in places such as Hong Kong and Thailand.

As a kind of folk art, the generation, development and evolution of English song and dance are rarely recorded in writing, and the history of the record is only four or five hundred years, and there are many different versions of its source. The English song and dance in Chaoshan area integrates drama, dance and martial arts. Ying song and dance belongs to the Han square emotional dance, its main performance form is a large-scale collective dance, the dancers each hold a short wooden stick in both hands, up and down, left and right against each other, the movement is strong and has the power of a sedan chair, and the rhythm is strong.

After the dance, there is also a singing and dancing play, called "Ying Song Back Shed".

The origin of the English song and dance

There are several theories about the origin of the English song, including the Water Margin, the origin of the Wu, the re-entry tide from Shandong through Putian, the Waijiang drama, the practice of martial arts, and the comprehensive theory. The "Chaoshan Folk Customs Ceremony" lists several theories about the origin of English songs and dances, such as Bao Mo Zhengguo, which evolved from the ancient sacrificial ritual dance, evolved from operas such as Shandong big drums and Yangge, and was created to resist the power of the government and was used to pass on martial arts.

Some scholars also believe that the British song and dance of "Southern Dance and Northern Phase" is the product of the combination of the southward spread of the Central Plains civilization and the local culture of Lingnan. Legend has it that during the Southern Song Dynasty, the Central Plains army marched south and brought northern Yangge, such as Shandong Drum Yangge and Fengyang Flower Drum, to today's Chao Blind Ruregret Mountain area, and formed Ying Song and Dance after integrating with the local culture. Some people believe that the "Yang" of Yangge is similar to the word "Ying" in the Chaoshan dialect, and it has been circulated among the people, and over time it has been transformed into "Yingge".