Inch stilts Na Manchu Dance A village is more hi than a village

Original title: Inch Stilt Na Manchu Dance A village is more hi than a village

The dance "Kanto Love" was recorded at the scene.

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Over the years, the Department of Culture and Tourism of Liaoning Province has attached great importance to the cultural life of the grass-roots people, and this year, the "village evenings" in Chaoyang, Benxi and Fushun have been selected as the national "village evening" demonstration display points. During the Spring Festival in 2022, Liaoning Province will hold more than 100 "village evenings" to display through online and offline methods, in accordance with the relevant activity requirements of the Ministry of Culture and Tourism, the Provincial Department of Culture and Tourism is guiding the organization of demonstration points to carry out "village evening" recording and broadcasting activities. This year, unlike previous years, more attention is paid to folk original art, highlighting regional cultural characteristics, and making local culture come alive.

The non-legacy work sings the protagonist

On January 12, the reporter came to a small city in Benxi Manchu Autonomous County, Benxi City, which was selected as a national "village evening" demonstration display point, where the "village evening" was being recorded, only to see 16 Manchu elderly people, wearing traditional ethnic costumes, holding large cigarette bags, the dance movements were witty and dexterous, sometimes cheerful, sometimes tender, and the performances and costumes showed the Manchu style. This dance is called "Kanto Love", created in 2019, has won the CCTV Variety Channel Dance World Column "Dance National Star Award", and has participated in various provincial, municipal and county literary and artistic exhibitions for many times. In the past, in the northeast, there were folk customs of "three monsters in the northeast", "window paper paste outside", "girls smoking big cigarette bags", "raising a child to hang up", and now these folk customs have rarely been seen.

At the recording site, the reporter also saw the performances of the national intangible cultural heritage project "Benxi Shehuo" and the provincial intangible cultural heritage project "Inch Stilt Song", people painted the face of the society fire, wore the community fire costume, held the community torch stick, and probed the horse in front, and the social fire society flag, the fire brigade (artillery team), the flag team, and the social fire team followed, and finally the gong and drum team appeared. According to reports, the "Benxi Shehuo" takes folklore and drama stories as the theme, and shows a story with one or a group of characters, and a story is a turn of the social fire.

The performance of the provincial intangible cultural heritage project "Inch Stilt Song" opened the reporter's eyes, and the stilt performers stepped on the stilts very short, which is different from the stilts. Inch stilts originate from the Manchu "inch", and the "stomping" in the performance is the most representative action. The movements of the stilt song are rigid and soft, vivid and lively, and are gradually formed by the fusion and sublimation of Han customs and Manchu customs. "Inch stilt song" is a Manchu women's wooden bottom high heels based on the imitation of inch stilts, after the top step on the inch stilt, in order to maintain balance, the feet keep moving, the arms swing back and forth. This curvy beauty of the human body and the rhythm of great stretching, coupled with the trembling of the feet and legs, highlight the boldness of the top dance, thus forming only the stilt song of the top. The song that has been circulating for nearly 300 years, its evolution and development process and form of expression, condenses a strong local atmosphere.

During the interview, the reporter learned that the Benxi "Village Evening" selected high-quality programs such as vocal music, instrumental music, dance and other high-quality programs and intangible cultural heritage projects written and directed by farmers in the city, combined with the distinctive Manchu cultural characteristics of Benxi region, with the themes of buying New Year goods, catching up with the New Year's market, sending Spring Festival, etc., to create an original, original ecology and grounded rural party.

Authentic presentation of rural life and folk culture

"Village Evening" has no star big names, the performers on the stage are all villagers, self-written and self-acting, self-acting, self-appreciation, see familiar people, listen to familiar sounds, immersive, joyful, and have some fun.

Benxi "village evening" has been held for more than 20 consecutive years, is the result of the vigorous development of Benxi mass culture, over the years, Benxi City Cultural Department has organized cultural volunteers, tutors of the Mass Art Museum into Benxi two counties and four districts, has been to Benxi County Alkali Factory Town, Gaoguan Town, Huanren Manchu Autonomous County Pulebao Town, Nanfen District Xujia Village and other 50 townships to carry out mass culture counseling. Every year, more than 100 performances of sending operas to the countryside, "opera into the countryside", cultural public welfare performance activities for the benefit of the people, and the implementation of "667" hand-in-hand grassroots counseling projects and other mass cultural projects, so that the mass cultural activities are carried out in full swing.

Taking Huanren County as an example, the Spring Festival Gala more than 20 years ago was just simple singing, and now, in addition to songs, there are also cross-talk, sketches, operas and other forms, the reporter saw the dance "Manchu Nationality Carnival • Unity of One Heart" and other programs that pay more attention to regional culture and folk customs on the "Village Evening" program list held in Huanren County this year. At the same time, it integrates the elements of the times, combines the local culture with the culture of the times, rejuvenates new vitality and vitality, and promotes the continuous sublimation of traditional culture. Such as the sketch "Network Life", the original song "Huanren, My Lovely Hometown" and other programs highlight local characteristics, rich in rural charm, farmers sing the good days into songs, paintings, dancing into dances, authentically present rural life and folk culture, expressing the villagers' expectations and yearning for a better life.

The organizers of the "village evening" are generally cultural celebrities in the village, and the actors are all villagers in the village or neighboring villages, and the participation and autonomy of the masses are very high. Some of the programs are popular songs of the year, and more are self-written programs by the masses. The programs written and directed by the peasants are well received by the villagers, with beautiful dance postures, loud singing voices and melodious instrumental music, which fully demonstrate the villagers' love for a better life, show the unique charm of national culture, and tell the rural stories of the new era.

At present, the recording of the "village evening" of the Benxi Municipal Mass Art Museum in Xiaoshi Yizhuang has been completed and is being edited in the follow-up. The recorded "Village Evening" will be broadcast on the National Public Culture Cloud and the Liaoning Culture Cloud. (Photo by reporter Yang Jingwen)

Source: Liaoning Daily