- Tujia old sister, the sun is very big, the mountain drum is banging
Text/Dai Jing
Dancer Xia Bing
Jane is simple, and the party will dance. In the middle of the day, in the front and upper places. Powerful as a tiger, persistent as a group. - The Book of Verses
In the Year of the Tiger, the red sun is in the sky, the famous Chinese dancer Xia Bing's "Tujia Trilogy" has a "tiger nature" work, Kong Wu is powerful, heroic Fangda. In 2000, the creative choreography dance "Tujia Old Sister" won the gold medal of the national "Stars Award" and the "Five Ones" Project Award of the Hubei Provincial Government; in 2011, the chief director of the large-scale music and dance poetry and painting drama participated in the Hubei Provincial Ethnic Minority Song and Dance Performance and won the Repertoire Award, of which "The Sun Is Very Big" won the Special Award; in 2018, the creative dance "Mountain Drum Bang Dong" won the first prize of the performance project (skill category) of the Ninth Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games in Hubei Province, and won the bronze medal in the skill category when participating in the 2019 National Minority Sports Games. The dancers stand in the center, against the sun, with an unknown infinite tenacity, tenacity, wildness, vitality, strength!
Stills from "Tujia Old Sister"
The Tujia family is an ancient people who can sing and dance in the big family of the Chinese nation, and the dance mostly reflects the original fishing and hunting culture, farming culture, witch culture and worship culture, with obvious totemic symbols. Legend has it that in ancient times, the ancestor of the Tujia family, Ba Wuxiang, was pushed to be the chief of the five-surname tribe, called "Liu Jun", who led the people to travel along the river by boat, shooting the goddess of salt water, unifying the six tribes, and since then the people have lived and worked in peace and contentment. Liu Jun died, and his soul transformed into a white tiger. The white tiger is one of the four spirits of the heavens, the hair is as white as snow, is the ancient god of war, meaning loyalty and bravery, the Tujia family will take the white tiger as the ancestral god and totem, the people who chase the light, facing the torrent of time, covered with a thousand rays of light.
The Lotus Sutra says, "Forge ahead bravely and diligently, and enter the mountains." "In this life, people are like going into the mountains. There are lost, there will be uneasiness, but there is perseverance in each. The blood of the Tujia trilogy lies in the fact that the tiger, the yang, the chief of the hundred beasts, the stubbornness and frustration, and the devouring ghost. The Chinese people have given the auspicious tiger and beast a beautiful meaning, the tiger is brave, they love its tiger might, the tiger is fierce, loves its exorcism, expands the territory, builds new houses, stands the building of the dancing soul, opens up the spiritual wilderness, is always young, and always full of tears.
The old sister of the Tujia family greets the tiger to celebrate the New Year
Please take the ideal horse, whip from here, the spring color on the road is just right, the sun is sunny in the sky. The old sister in the "Tujia Old Sister" dance is an old woman who loves life, kind, cute, humorous, and loves Tujia swinging hand dance. Xia Bing focuses on her older and more beautiful, older and more beautiful, the older and more joyful, in the choice of action Xia Bing borrowed the classic movements of the Tujia family's hand-waving dance, sowing, cultivating, harvesting, hoping to release the heart.
The origin of the hand-waving dance, one is from religious sacrifice activities, in order not to forget the great achievements of the ancestors, the creation of dances to express the feeling of commemoration and awe; the second is that it originates from war, in order to boost the morale of the soldiers and comfort their homesickness; the third is from the evolution and development of the White Tiger Dance and bayu Dance. The strong save themselves, and the saints cross the people.
The swing hand dance is a treasure accumulated by the Tujia culture, and the body movement of the swing dance includes "single pendulum", "double pendulum", "swing pendulum", etc., which are mainly characterized by turning, bending the knee, trembling, sinking and so on. Shunji is the most important feature of the swing hand dance, that is, throwing the same side hand, it requires the hands and feet to cooperate with tacit understanding, with the rhythm of the body to drive the hand's swing; bending the knee requires the knee to bend down slightly, the upper body is correct, the soles of the feet are forced; the trembling is a slight tremor of the feet and arms, giving people a feeling of elasticity and tenacity; sinking refers to the body has a downward feeling when the accompaniment is remake, and the movement is calm and solid. The movements of the hand-waving dance are mainly based on productive labor, daily life and combat. There are production and life actions such as "planting buds", "planting seedlings", "beating rice sticks", "weaving cloth" and so on; there are scene actions such as "eagle flashing wings", "rhinoceros looking at the moon", "shooting tigers" created by combining hunting actions and animal forms, which simplify some daily life chores into dance movements, which are very fresh and full of life atmosphere.
Human nature often contains two sides: one is male and the other is female; one is like a goshawk, like a flying waterfall, like a furious horse; the other is like a nightingale, like a still pond, like a sheep tamer. The so-called majestic and beautiful, the so-called extrovert and introvert, if the two are roughly opposite, are actually mutually exclusive. And the human mind should be more extensive than the earth, the ocean, and the sky. The old sister of the Tujia family, who learned profoundly from the mountains and bravery from the rivers, experienced all the joys and sorrows of joy and sorrow, like an ancient musical instrument made of wood and stone, laid out on several cases of the spirit, echoing with heaven and earth, without a teacher, and resounding. No matter how many hardships you have suffered in your life, you still firmly believe that the light is greater than the shadow, and hope is eternal. When dancing in the spiritual space, leave enough capacity for love, and the shorter the rest of life, the more it must be enriched and full, and joyfully go to the far side of life.
The sun is very big, and Tiggo is harvesting
From the atmosphere, from the mountains, from the rivers, the sunlight shines through the great winds and water mist, from the heart to the heart, from one country to another, as soon as it encounters the forward of the dawn, timidity and cowardice become shadows. "The Sun Is Big" is a cottage trumpet that has been sung for many years. Xia Bing has been deeply involved in lichuan life for many years, and from the singers' repeated singing, she has gradually realized the fiery heart of righteousness, highlighting the industriousness, simplicity, bravery and tenacity of the men in the mountains, which can dilute sorrow and dark colors can cover light colors. The lyrics in "The Sun Is Big" are sung back and forth, and she uses this to express the humor of the mountain man and the desire for love, just because he has courage, and his mind is lively and sensitive.
Stills from "The Sun Is Big"
"The Sun Is Big" consists of three parts. In the introduction part, the actors cleverly used props like large umbrellas, straw hats, and lotus leaves to outline the Italian-style picture of a mountain man carrying the sun. The first part is a high song in the local dialect of Icheon, which is extremely dramatic. It fully expresses that men in the mountains can live without a house, can go out without a car, but there is no limit to life, the heart of pursuit of love, a soul that longs for a longing heart, just like the sun of persistent love. The second part, from song to dance, with endless enthusiasm, sublimates the praise of the mountain and love. At the end, the mountain man held up the fiery red sun and marched towards the mountain. The shape of a set of ladders reflects the sunshine Budze, and all things are born with brilliance. The whole play finally settled in the loud and deep mountain song of "The Sun Is Big". Struggle is life itself.
The dance vocabulary uses the local folk dance "Meat Lotus Sound" in Lichuan. "Meat Ringing" refers to the local dance species of ethnic minorities born and raised in the Lichuan area of Hubei Province, with unique body performances as the main form, and the original artists of the Meat Lotus Ringing lineage begged along the streets, begging people to apply mud to their hands, chanting gongs and drums, and hitting their palms on their faces, shoulders, waists and legs, while splashing mud. Locals call these beggars "Mud Shinto". After liberation, Comrade Wu Xingfu of Lichuan adapted this dance. It is characterized by "turning", its form contains the chest, bending the knee, and the actions include "three sounds", "ten sounds", "palm rotation" and "trembling part around the head". The dance is mainly named after the palms of the hands hitting the forehead, shoulders, face, arms, elbows, waist, legs and other parts, making a rhythmic sound. Because the dance is characterized by the sound of its flesh impact, it is called "flesh ringing" by the folk. In the dance "The Sun is Big", Xia Bing not only inherited the rich folk dance vocabulary of the original dance, but also added her innovative ideas, adding "hook feet", "throwing hands", "stomping feet", "flat shoulder hands" and "clapping hands", and integrating into the modern dance hall, strengthening the sense of the times, but because of love, willing to meet all difficulties. One move and one dance are the answers to their own lives.
Mountain drum bang tiger roaring wind
With a vibrant face, wake up every morning, the mountain drums rattling, and we walk from the stars to the sun. In September 2019, the quadrennial 11th National Ethnic Minority Traditional Sports Games was launched, and 34 ethnic minority delegations from all over the country gathered in the pavilion, and Xia Bing was invited to participate as a choreographer. At that time, Xia Bing successively choreographed "Gymnastics Self-Selected Routine" (one of the main creators) for the Chongqing National Song and Dance Troupe, choreographed and directed "Ayi Cai" for the Chongqing Pengshuijiao Ayi Art Troupe, and choreographed the original ecological Tujia work "Mountain Drum Knocking" for the Hubei Lichuan Cultural Center, of which "Mountain Drum Knocking" is her work that has been deeply rooted in the grassroots for many years and has been created with all her heart, the greatness of the weather, the majesty of the boldness, the overwhelming sea, the thunder!
Xia Bing rehearses "Mountain Drum Bang Bang"
The Tujia family is good at drumming, and the drums, flower drums, back drums, three-stick drums, tang drums, etc., are the most important ways of communication and expression of various ceremonies and activities of the Tujia family. Xia Bing takes the drum as the theme, and in the opening dance of "Mountain Drum Bang Bang", he uses a big drum as a prop to carry out the layers of this ancient and sacred drum layer by layer, and unfolds passionately. In the opening scene, 14 athletes dressed in Tujia classical costumes leaped from both sides of the dragon and tiger, and the tiger descended the mountain. Shouting tiger roar, the actors in the cross shuttle, constantly show hand flip, flip, side flip, spin and other difficult actions, lively tiger, tiger tiger might. The drums rose suddenly, short and exciting, and the drum music, the spirit was vibrant, and the breath was like a tiger. The passionate dance matches the shocking drum music, and the ancient rhythm blends with the beat of the times, like a holy fire, detonating the whole audience. In the second movement, the drum sound gradually weakens, a Tujia mountain song slowly rises, euphemistic and ethereal, desolate internal force, the heart has a fierce tiger, sniffing the roses, and the exciting drum music forms a strong contrast. Together, the drums and songs reverberate in the distant sky, echoing each other, and the afterglows reverberate, causing strong resonance between heaven and earth and in the depths of the soul. Singing and dancing softly, as if whispering affectionately with heaven and earth, and as if in a mysterious dialogue with the soul... The dance has successively formed the sun, the moon, the bonfire and the scene of the industrious and brave Tujia people, working in the fields and chasing the hunt, which is fierce and brave. In the third movement, the drum music restores the shocking sound, from far and near, rough beating, the drums are sonorous, and a scene of the Tujia family singing and dancing, celebrating the harvest with joy and joy, stands in front of the eyes, and then sets off a climax. At the end of the dance, a stacked arhat shape was carefully designed, and 6 people lifted it to form a mountain, towering in the sky, and the sound of drums and music stopped abruptly. After several twists and turns, the enthusiasm has never been extinguished, the silent persistence, the hot sweatdrops, the burning expectations, like giants, standing on top of the sky, resembling the peak, magnificent, witnessing history, protecting the nation, evergreen foundation, green mountains forever, our Lord sinks and falls.
The compilation of "Mountain Drum Bang Bang", Xia Bing based on the materials provided by the leaders of the local Lichuan Cultural Center, based on the intangible cultural heritage "around the coffin" and "flesh ringing" as the theme of creation, and increased innovation, in the patting shoulders, head, waist and other parts, highlighting the image of the tiger god, especially in the shape of the hand, the shape of the tiger was portrayed, with the lowering of the dancer's body, shaping the shape of the tiger, increasing the explosive power of the dance, highlighting the wild and primitive beauty of the tiger, highlighting the mighty power of the white tiger. Xia Bing increased the tension of stomping, jumping, and flipping, making the image of the white tiger in "Mountain Drum Bang Bang" more obvious and realistic, struggling, exploring, seeking, not yielding, and having a strong will. Xia Bing tried her best to show the beauty of sports and integrate with dance, brave and sharp to cover the weakness, enterprising overwhelmed Gou An, "Mountain Drum Bang Bang" has a new life in the deep spring of the gushing soul.
Stills from "Mountain Drum Bang Bang"
Lichuan Municipal Party Committee and Municipal Government attach great importance to this activity, set up an organizational structure led by the Lichuan Cultural Center, "Mountain Drum Knock" After winning the 2018 Provincial Folk Games Performance Project Skills Category Champion, the Provincial Minzong Bureau Sports Bureau attaches great importance to it, and has held many meetings to discuss and ponder, Lichuan Cultural Center Director Zhang Biao personally combined with the Lichuan regional culture, put forward modification suggestions to the choreographer, polished and promoted again, hired Xia Bing as the chief editor and director of "Mountain Drum Knock Knock", took the lead in grasping the general, and delivered trust. The athletes of "Mountain Drum And Drum" are mostly authentic farmers, and Xia Bing takes them to carry out high-intensity training every day, and some members have to rush back to the countryside to farm in the afternoon. These teams, trained in the fields, rushed into the national competition. Xia Bing really felt the spirit of the white tiger's tenacious struggle in them, there was no longer road than feet, no mountain higher than a person, since he chose a distant place, he only cared about the wind and rain.
Xia Bing's family lives in Enshi, born in Si, grown up in Si, the Tujia family has a distinct personality, open-minded and cheerful, enthusiastic and unrestrained, high-spirited, Tujia dance preserves the fresh, bright, masculine, unrestrained, rough rhythm. Therefore, the works she created and compiled are close to life with a strong national flavor, original taste, and touching.
Life is short, the road is long, we go to and cherish every scenery, the bull is only fighting for the day, the year of the tiger is full of wind and water, forward, forward, forward, non-stop walking we have also become a scenery.
remark:
1. This article is written by Xia Bing's general director "Tujia Trilogy", "Tujia Old Sister", "The Sun is Very Big", "Mountain Drum Bang Bang".
2. Famous dancer Xia Bing, stage name Xia Yuman, Hubei Enshi people, minjin member. He is a member of the China Dancers Association, a director of the Hubei Provincial Dancers Association, a famous dancer in China, a choreographer, an associate professor of Wuhan City Vocational College, an outstanding dancer who combines performances, choreographers, guides, teaches and writes in China, has created dozens of high-level dance works, dozens of national and provincial gold awards, and won the titles of "Green China Tour Promotion Ambassador", "National Cultural Promotion Ambassador" and "Chinese Contemporary Virtue and Art Artist" at the China Century Gathering Ceremony and CCTV TV Character Award Ceremony.