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Tujia Fitness Handwaving Dance Course

Introduction to Dance

The waving dance is mainly spread in the Youshui River Basin at the junction of Hubei, Hunan and Chongqing, with Laifeng in Enshi Autonomous Prefecture of Hubei Province and Longshan and Yongshun in Xiangxi Autonomous Prefecture of Hunan Province as the main inheritance places. There are two kinds of waving dance: big waving and small waving. The waving dance reflects the production and life of Tujia people. For example, hunting dance shows hunting activities and imitates animal movements. Including? Drive monkeys? 、? Drag the pheasant tail? 、? Rhino looking at the moon? 、? Sharpen eagle wings? 、? Jumping toad? Wait for more than a dozen actions. List the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage in China.

Costume Props

Waving dance is a large-scale quiet dance epic in which Tujia people remember their ancestors, recall the hardships of national migration and reproduce rural life. Its costumes and props also contain cultural elements of their own nation. All kinds of national costumes and props will decorate the wave hall grandly and warmly. There are many banners in the waving field, and people hold the Dragon and Phoenix Flag Team (made of red, blue, white and yellow silk) and wear them? Silangkabu? (Perianth surface), holding and pasting? Fu? Words of wine cans, bear the grain, bear the prey, end Zanba, pick a group, carry tofu, holding a Qi Mei stick, a magic knife, a barrel, carrying a shotgun, Qi Mei stick, a spear and other props, blowing horns, earth numbers, suona, ringing three eye blunderbuss, gongs and drums, singing the earth. As described in a Tujia bamboo branch poem:? In Fushi City, the brocade is a nest, and the water waves are on the side of the earth palace. There are thousands of red lights and thousands of people, and there is a lingering song.

the characteristics of dynamic rhythm

the body movements of waving dance are mainly derived from productive labor, daily life and fighting. Yes? Single pendulum and double pendulum? 、? Swing pendulum Wait. In the long-term development and change, it is not exactly the same in all places, but its basic characteristics are the same, that is, turning straight, bending knees, trembling and sinking. The handshaking is the most important feature of handshaking, that is, swinging the hands on the same side. It requires that the hands and feet cooperate with each other tacitly and act in unison, and the swing range of the hands is generally less than the shoulders, and the swing lines are smooth, natural and generous. Bending your knees requires that your knees bend down slightly, your upper body is straightened, and your feet are hard, which makes you look solid and steady; Trembling means that the feet and arms shake slightly, giving people a feeling of elasticity and tenacity; Sinking means that the body has a downward feeling when accompanying the remake, and the action is calm and solid. These movements, such as twisting, turning, bending and squatting, require the alternating transformation of muscle tension and relaxation in all parts of the body and the close cooperation of upper and lower limbs. Therefore, waving dance requires high coordination of the body.

Performance mode

When holding wave activities, people carry the dragon and phoenix flags, light lanterns and torches, blow horns, suona and Dongdongkui, light firecrackers and set off three eye blunderbuss; Carrying offerings such as cow's head, Baba, knife head (that is, large pieces of cooked meat) and rice wine, they poured into the wave hall.

First, a memorial ceremony was held. After a listening native teacher led the crowd to bow down, they danced and sang divine songs under the worshiped gods. The content of singing is mostly to praise the kindness and achievements of the Tuwang and their ancestors, and to express the endless nostalgia of the Tujia people. I would also like to symbolically invite the local king and ancestors to come to the wave-waving event and have fun with the people.

After the memorial ceremony, Teacher Tu led the crowd to Pingba outside the hall, surrounded by a big tree covered with colorful lanterns, and danced with the rhythm of gongs and drums. Men and women carry each other, wandering forward and backward? .

Hand-waving dance is accompanied by percussion, and percussion instruments have drums and gongs on each side. A cowhide drum, a pair of drumsticks, a big gong and a gong mallet. The diameter of the drum is about .6-.85 meters, and the height is about .65-.85 meters. The diameter of the big gongs varies from .65 to .85 meters, and the concave-convex depth is about .4 meters. The drumsticks and gongs are configured according to the size of the drums and gongs.

When playing, one or two people beat drums and call gongs in the center of the wave hall to direct the audience. Commonly used Qupai are simple pendulum, double pendulum, grinding eagle wings, sowing seeds and so on. The rhythm is steady, the strength is clear, and it is vigorous and deep.

Hand-waving dance is a comprehensive art of singing and dancing, and its song is called "Wave Song". Tujia people in Laifeng usually don't sing when they dance with their hands now, but it is said that they sang with their hands a long time ago. Now there are two hand-waving songs that have been handed down, one is a folk song "Digging for Eating" and the other is "Singing with Soldiers". The lyrics are simple, but they reveal the simple philosophy of life and the concept of hero worship.

Inheriting value

Hand-waving dance is the spiritual wealth created by Tujia people for thousands of years. It is the epitome and artistic expression of social production and development of Tujia people in a long historical stage. Its growth and development are accompanied by the Tujia people's * * * same language, * * * same region, * * same economic life and * * same psychological quality. The value of waving dance can not be replaced by ordinary art forms, and it has extremely important social value in the social and historical development of Tujia nationality.

Inheriting national culture, strengthening national consciousness

Cohesing national spirit, enhancing national identity

Commodity circulation, activating national economy

Improving physical and mental health and prospering cultural life.