Yingge (Puning Yingge)

The name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Yingge (Puning Yingge)

Applicant: Jieyang City, Guangdong Province

Project No.: 111

Project No.: Ⅲ - 8

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional dance

Region: Guangdong Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Jieyang City, Guangdong Province

Protection unit: Puning Cultural Center

Introduction to English songs (Puning English songs)

Applicant: Jieyang City, Guangdong Province

Yingge, also known as "Yingge", "Yingge", "changyingge" or "Yangge", is a folk square dance integrating dance, Nanquan routine and opera performance skills. Its performance is magnificent and its atmosphere is strong. It is popular in Guangdong, Fujian and other places. It is performed by men and has the meaning of praising heroes. According to legend, it has a history of more than 300 years, and its source is mostly explained as the variation of local people's martial customs or the reproduction of the story of water margin. Yingge is usually performed during New Year's festivals. The dancers are mostly even, ranging from 12 to 108. Each of them holds a pair of colored wooden sticks to match the point and cry of gongs and drums, and waves the two sticks alternately to flip and knock while walking. The performance is divided into "front shed" and "back shed". The front shed is composed of gongs and drums performance and Yingge dance; the back shed is composed of distinctive small plays and masterpieces. The basic action of Yingge dance is dancing stick. When dancing, each person holds two short round wooden sticks (10 cm in diameter and 20 cm in length), with both feet in a squatting crotch step on horseback, legs up and jumping horizontally, hands up and down with the rhythm of gongs and drums, hitting the sticks left and right, and the head and body naturally shake. The rhythm of English songs can be divided into adagio, Zhongban and Allegro; sometimes there are as many as 20 routines, such as "washing the street", "greeting the new year", "Bunian", "carrying the crotch", "crossing the crotch" and "holding the crotch to hook the feet". Yingge dance has a distinctive masculine and heroic spirit. At the climax of the dance, the shouting and the sound of the trumpet resound all over the place, which is majestic and shocking.

Yingge is a popular folk dance style in Puning, which has a history of more than 300 years. It is considered as a symbol of positive and negative, auspicious and safe. It is deeply loved and respected by the masses, and has a broad mass and social foundation.

Puning Yingge is a magnificent and masculine group dance of Han men, which mainly shows the heroic fighting spirit and heroic spirit of Liangshanpo heroes attacking Daming mansion. The number of performers is 24 or 36, 72 or 108 at most. The performers sketch a unique style of facial makeup. They are modeled according to the hero image of Liangshanpo. They are dressed in Samurai costumes, skittish and short batting. They are holding a special pair of short sticks to percussion and dance with the rhythm of gongs, drums and spiral horns. During the performance, there are various shapes of the line, such as "double dragon going out to sea", "fierce tiger going down the mountain", "wheat flower", "Tian LUOQUAN" and so on. There are also various sets of movements, such as "Butian", "Xijie", "xuanchui", "Chuihua" and so on, which form a unique movement law. The scene is magnificent and majestic. The performance style of Puning Yingge is majestic, powerful, rough and heroic, which embodies the valuable character and spirit of the Chinese nation, which is resolute, strong, United and courageous.

The outstanding spiritual value, social value and artistic value of Puning English songs have been valued by relevant experts. Puning has won the reputation of "Ansai waist drum in the north and Puning English songs in the South". Puning has also been rated as "the hometown of ethnic and folk arts in Guangdong Province".

At present, due to the imbalance of rural economic development, the aging of inheritors and other reasons, the team of English songs in Puning has gradually shrunk and become endangered, which is in urgent need of rescue and protection.