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| | Yongnian Taiji Boxing [edit this] | | Guangfu town of Yongnian County is the birthplace of Taiji-boxing in China. Both Yangshi and Wushi Taiji-boxings come from here. Now in Yongnian about 70% people exercise Taiji-boxing, and it has become prevalent exercise item, and the Taiji-boxingers from Yongnian spread all over the world, thus Yongnian County is the realy town of Taiji-boxing. Yongnian Taiji-boxing has the active effect in health, so it is regarded as the best exercise item for the old and the weak. | Edit by: ch | |
| Yanko Dance [edit this] | | Yanko Dance, also called “do the yangko dance”, is a kind of dance which is very popular in the north nations of China. It comes from the action of cutting, and then it becomed a dressing perform when people is free or Spring Festival is coming. Yanko Dance included two kinds of dance. The first kind is dancing with the legs were tied binded on two timber toes is called “step on stilt”. The second is called ground-jumping, it was performed on the ground.
When Spring Festival is coming, hundreds of people were in line, (no matter your sex ,no matter your age) dressing their nice clothes, waving the color fans, dancing as much as they like on the street or square. At this time, the scene was so magnificence, and the atmosphere was so heat that many audience were attracted and can't help joining in their procession. It's very interesting.
Some Yanko Dance team is make up of the boatman who ferry on the land acted by nice girls, the old go-cart man acted by the springal; the big head child acted by the children, the Tangseng, ZhuBajie etc Archaian characters who acted by the old men, besides foregoing characters, there are the man who ride on donkey inversely, the man shoulder flower basket, and so on. All the character is life like, and very interesting.
The folk dance of JiLin area is consist of Yanko Dance, dragon lantern, land boat, flap butterfly, two men wrestling, beating the flower stick, stilt and so on. All the dancing play together, so they were called by a joint name ——Yanko Dance. | Edit by: ch | |
| Yanshan Bamboo-board Book Performance [edit this] | | Ferula book, also called ferula fast book, commonly called “dalaozi” or “jingkoulaozi”, is a kind of very popular opera. It has some features such as agility, briefness and study easy, so it is loved to see and hear by many masses all over the world. It comes from mid-Hebei plain, and has a long history. Its form is simply and rich in expressive force. In the last years, ferula book has a widely spread. | Edit by: ch | |
| The Lion Dance [edit this] | | The lion dance, also called dance lion, in country people call it playing lion light. It is a great favourite action of China, it has a broad and deeply crowd foundation. Both city and country have the custom of dance lion, in spite of in the Spring Festival and the importance feast, traveler can see the action of dance lion everywhere.
Dancing lion is an action which is well versed in both polite letters and martial arts. A lion dance team is often consist of fifteen persons. One of team acts the laugh monk, one acts SunWukong, two persons act a lion, four or five person to make up of the band of percussion. The mask of lion head, laugh monk and SunWukong, are made by folk handicraftsman, the mantle of lion is made of colorized lists. The laugh monk step at a stride or little to declare his views with fan in hand, his pose is boorish, humour and strengthen. He keeps the aptotic expression joyful, but he could express his happy anger sorriness by his gesture and pose. Sun Wukong is smart, bright, and could perform kongfu, he often performs the action of palying with the lion, amusing the laugh monk, and enlarging the performing field, he plays the part of the important effect in the program of dismantling the estrade. The two men act lion, one throw about the lion head, the other throw about the lion body, they have a tacit when they playing, and their perform is living .
They often imitate the habit of lion, such as licking hair, shaking hair, kicking the feet, wallowing and so on. The band of percussion stand beside the lion and accompany and add to the fun for the entered actors.
The action of lion dance has a long history, it came into being in Han Dynasty, and became famous in Tang Dynasty. Tang Taizong—Li Shimin (the second emperor of Tang Dynasty) accepted the experience of the lion dance from Han Dynasty, and created “the five direction lion dance”, and “the break battle array dance” which formed the earliest lion array dance with Wende dance. Up to Qing Dynasty, it add to the “paly treasure” “rolling the embroidered ball” which developed the art of lion dance, widen the content and form, formed the lion array dance finally, and made the lion dance have more art character and enjoy character.
The lion array dance need to set up array, put array and break array. The lion array dance could be divided four genus on the perform content and form. They are “acrobatics genus”, such as “get water from the high well” “swan incubate” etc, which is very wonderful; “story genus”, it very humorous, such as “King Tang call the flowers”; “pray genus”, it cater to the mass psychology, such as “good weather for the crops”, “the asleep lion wake suddenly” and “the play and art genus” which include “play chess”, “lay out word” and so on. The lion array dance could be divided many genus on prop, such as “wooden stools array” “tables array” “wooden stools, tables chairs compositive array” and so on.
The props for array are very simple, most of them are commodities of people, people could array the lion array on anywhere, such as the yard of farmhouse, the hall of a hill stockaded village, the square of a town etc.
Most lion array dance were teached personal example as well as verbal instruction. By old folk actor, the other subsection were created by crowd in the art practice, which were handed down after incessant processing till it was recognized. According to the introduction of old folk actor, there are 108 kinds lion array dance handed down from the past dynasties.
There is a long time inherit, develop and evolvement, before lion dance to lion array dance, it is a nice flower of folk art which irrigated by common people with their painstaking effort, it is a twinkling pearl in the folk art mine of our country. | Edit by: ch | |
| Weixian Thrum [edit this] | | The traditional opera Weixian luantan having gone round three hundred years formed in the Kangxi region of the Qing Dynasty. This old opera has become a part of all local people's living. In those years many villages had their own troupes, and the old actors organized the people to perform luantan, teach the prentices and debate the techniques, so this opera got abundant development in the villages. Luantan is popular in the villages, but it isn't a small opera expressing the living of the villages. It had been performed all over the country before tbe Beijing opera forming. Its tones are abundant. It mainly expresses the historical characters, the heroes' stories and the old legend. | Edit by: ch | |
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