- Yo-yo, Ayi stepping, flower waist
The famous Chinese dancer Xia Bing", "Miaoxiang Trilogy", "Slippery Pendulum", "Ayi Step", "Flower Waist", a person must have such magnificence in his heart, will dance magnificently, the Miao landscape, the dream landscape, the chest landscape, the practice of "heaven and man unity"; A person must have such a heart in his heart, so that his heart is burning like wildfire, running like a sight, dancing out of the mountain, and hitting the heart of the viewer fiercely.
Xia Bing choreographed "Slippery Pendulum" won the "Dance Rhyme Oriental Gathering Pearl 2018 Oriental Pearl National Square Dance TV Finals", "Ayi Step" won the silver medal of the Ninth National Ethnic Minority Games Performance Project, and the general director Pengshui Miao Tujia Autonomous County celebrated the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Party' large-scale song and dance poem "Flower Around the Waist", and the work became like lyric poetry and Shang Li poetry under the direction of Xia Bing, indulging in singing and dancing, all showing their beauty in a new form of beauty.
The Miao are a mysterious ethnic group of many Chinese peoples, whose history can be traced back to the Yanhuang period 5,000 years ago. At that time, the lower reaches of the Yellow River and the middle and lower reaches of the Yangtze River were a confederation of nine major clans headed by the clans of Xuan, and the principle of high in the Loess Plateau was that of the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor. With the development of the times and agricultural land, the Yan Emperor and the Yellow Emperor clan expanded rapidly to the east for more land, and jointly defeated Xuan You, "Xuan You is the emperor, fighting for ZhuoLu's A, the Nine Corners are exhausted." "After Xuan You's death, the world was in chaos, and the Yellow Emperor painted a portrait of Xuan You to intimidate the world, and the world settled down. After the defeat of the Jiuli clique of Xuan you, most of them migrated southwards, and began the history of the migration of the Miao people, also known as the people on the mountain.
Most of the Miao people believe that they are descendants of the Jiuli tribe led by Xuan you, worship the god of war, Xuan You, and stubbornly retain the characteristics of a warrior in their dress. For example, the bull-horned wooden comb worn on the head, the silver hat with the horn, the "official knife" and "knife tip" of the "comb three", etc., can arouse people's memories, worship and blessings of the god of war, Xuanyu, and the spatial symbol consciousness of his national culture is still deeply condensed in this group.
The Miao people project their love and cherishing to the landscape, but the breeze on the river, and the bright moon in the mountains, the sound of the ear, the color of the eyes, Xia Bing believes in the majesty of the mountain, the tolerance of the water, people inhabit here, silently opposite, the heart understands. All kinds of skin, into pleasant skin, into the lines and colors of hair, lips, eyes, into strength and speed, into muscles and beautiful movements, the soul also has its function of ingesting nutrients, can turn the original cruel things into noble thoughts and elegant feelings.
For the Miao people, landscape dance is not only to see the mountains and water, but also to present the heart, which is the aesthetics of the Miao people and even the Chinese nation.
The blood of the Miaoxiang trilogy is that the joy of life does not lie in how far it goes, but in whether it is accompanied by the happy wonderful person. What makes people feel the heart is true. Beautiful things are the same as our lives, raising their hands and feet, every move, or straight or cunning, dancing together on the same beat, greeting the Miao people who have experienced the terrifying waves, greeting the vivid, vivid, dependent on the daily but beyond the daily, tough people like mountains.
Slippery pendulum: fortunate to have love, not afraid of mountains and seas
Walk up the slippery slope, more uphill,
Swinging hands and dancing, the leaves falling,
Love you to death.
Dance Rhyme Oriental Gathering Pearl 2018 Oriental Pearl National Square Dance TV Finals" is sponsored by Shanghai Wenguang Interactive Television Co., Ltd., a subsidiary of Oriental Pearl New Media Co., Ltd., and the technical guidance of the Social Sports Guidance Center of the State General Administration of Sports and the National Square Dance Promotion Committee, which is currently one of the square dance events with the highest level, the widest coverage and the greatest influence in China. After 9 months of competition, more than 10,000 competitions, 14 outstanding dance teams from all provinces across the country gathered at the Shanghai International Convention Center for the finals, and Chinese dancer Xia Bing directed the dance "Slippery Pendulum" for the Sanyi Township Dance Team in Pengshui County, Chongqing City, which was the only team with more than 90 points (91.35) at the venue. The judges of the competition especially talked about the supreme joy of this group of native Miao men and women in the "Slippery Pendulum" dance, the handsomeness and charm of the boys, the charm and charm of the girls, the beautiful joy, both song and dance, both love and love, the Miao square dance with warm respect, full of vitality, with emotion, humanity, soul, with mountains, smoke and dust, love, gave the audience a classroom with great heaven and earth, thousands of weather, and gave the audience a lesson of tenacity and vitality.
Pengshui Miao Tujia Autonomous County, located in the southeast of Chongqing City, in the Wuling Mountains, in the lower reaches of the Wujiang River, is the only ethnic minority autonomous county in Chongqing that is mainly composed of Han, Tujia, Mongolian and Dong ethnic minorities. The story behind "Slippery Pendulum" is the praise of the Tumiao people for their national hometown, the enthusiastic praise of the spirit of the mountain, and the sincere and beautiful yearning for love. The dance style is full of wild beauty, rough and simple, witty and vivid, sweet and amiable, sincere and touching, standing on a high place, overlooking thousands of miles of rivers and mountains, and vividly displaying the life interests of the Tumiao people on the stage.
Stills from "Slippery Pendulum"
Xia Bing in the creation of "Slippery Pendulum", that is, to follow the square dance theme is clear, simple and easy to learn, easy to promote the basic definition, more ornamental and artistic, but also with a unique artistic technique to seize the Tumiao people can sing and dance style, in the choreography of "Slip" drama creative ingenuity - the Miao people to sing friends, in the music there are large sections of male and female pairs, with extremely simple male and female dance, through the details of the very life situation, cleverly the Tumiao children in the love of humor, witty, male and female, male and female sweet, The handsome men and women are beautifully depicted. The song itself is a kind of life interest, you can sing the sun, you can also sing the moon, you can sing men and women, you can sing love. Tumiao girls, in addition to being sweet, also have to be unreasonable, obviously girls are not reasonable, but they have to be strong. In dance movements, women stomp their feet, delicate and shy, clever and witty, male play Lai, warm interest, Qin out of sugar, girlish, eyebrow bending, Gu Pan Shenfei, male shape, tempering and purity, dashing and falling, one singing and one harmony, one coming and going, equal strength, mutual knowledge, art reproduces the impulse and longing of the young boys and girls of Tumiao for love, brings the audience into the life of the Tumiao people, and gets all kinds of fun in all kinds of small things.
In terms of structure, Xia Bing adopts the square dance simple structure ABA three-stage style, the opening scene appears with the spirit of the mountain, a group of Miao people come to the face in a way that overwhelms the sea, the action choice is single, the strength is like a knife mountain, the quiet and lofty passion, the explosive force is extremely strong, fully demonstrating the tenacious and tenacious spirit of the Tumiao people. In the second stage, men and women sing and dance, the rhythm is soothing and romantic, witty and sweet, vivid and touching, and enjoy this sincere and sweet love. The third paragraph returns to the rhythm of the opening explosive force, and in the final processing, it is even more cleverly handled, repeatedly singing with folk song lining words, without action, only with mood, pushing the emotions of men and women to the climax, grasping the audience firmly, and finally in a high-pitched mood, the whole play is wonderfully contained, the yuan qi flows back, and the original heart wakes up.
In terms of costume design, Xia Bing used bold colors, male actor Xuan black, female actress rose red, a black mountain, ten thousand valleys of pine smoke, clothes were dyed with dark colors, falling lamp grass ash. A red flower, enthusiastic, full of confidence, the girl's skirt is like a stable mountain root, the skirt is circled around the waist, and the hat is like a mountain. The girl's lower back, like the open lake, the waves of water were swept away in a circle. Cold and warm, light and heavy, a black-clad heroic, free and spirited, mobilizing all the hidden hormones, a rose witty and flexible, delicate and cute, Tujia swinging hand dance, Miao'er style pendulum, dancing with posture, leaning like a mountain, like a water pine, inspiration gushing, dancing, such as the encounter of high mountains and flowing water, not only pity each other, but also with art to pay tribute to art, but also with a young heart to collide with another teenager's heart, stand shoulder to shoulder, and become a better person together. It presents a "touch" from the figure to the overall aura or toughness or tenderness, with strong contrasts and great charm. Walking into the "Slippery Pendulum", the dance circles intersect with each other, transposition, jump to the center for a while, and then spin and scatter to the periphery, just like the flowers in the hundred gardens are competing for the blooming, and it is like colorful butterflies singing and dancing, as if walking into a splendid spring light, shining thousands of miles, the spirit is going up, so that people who watch will not help but raise the corners of their mouths and be moved by the strong vitality.
"Slippery Pendulum" composer Wang Shulin's music is interesting, vigorous, flexible and lively, sweet love, national exuberance, in terms of musical characteristics is a fusion of miao and Tujia, musical elements have both Miao motivations and Tujia motivations, music is particularly emotional, the structure of music, like the map of life, so that the viewer will not be lost when listening to music, the vein of the song can also be understood, with the beat of the music, there is a natural trembling, the two motives are very cleverly integrated into one, It is like two peoples becoming one, showing a positive and uplifting temperament and mental state.
"Their smile is not given to anyone, he is laughing at his own happiness and good life." When the audience sits in the theater, facing the stage to watch, far away from the swing, can not distinguish, who is the dancer, who is the landscape, beauty as if there is no distance between time and space, refracting the collective consciousness, resonating with the audience, praising the value and dignity of life.
Ayi Steppe: The mountains are speechless, and the stars are orderly
Shimoda, line to line,
There's a carp pond in the middle,
Carp pond is so good to like,
Good shade in the mistress room.
In some parts of Yunnan Province, the Miao have the custom of "stepping on the flower mountain" (also called "Zhashan Mountain"). Legend has it that it was originally for the sacrifice of the ancestor Xuan You: when Xuan You led the Miao ancestors to resist the Yellow Emperor's eastward advance, after the battle failed, the tribes were scattered and lost contact, and some of them retreated into the mountains. In order to gather other tribes, this group of people erected high wooden poles on the mountain, tied red belts on the wooden poles, and young men and women sang and danced around the wooden poles and blew reeds. In this way, the lost tribes were reunited here, so everyone was reinvigorated and engaged in battle. This move was later passed down as a regular song and dance event, which evolved into a traditional Hmong festival. A "flower pole" should be erected in the middle of the flower mountain field, on which hangs a three-foot-six-inch long red cloth, which the Miao people call "Xuanyou Banner".
"Ayi Step", "Ayi" Miao people to the girl nickname "beautiful" meaning, "step" is also the Miao grand festival "Stepping on the Flower Mountain". "Stepping on the Flower Mountain" is also called "Jumping Flowers". "Ayi Step" is based on the Miao intangible cultural heritage "Miao Mountain Fighting". In addition to the original ecology of the Miao Mountain as the creative motivation, the music of the work also draws on the musical characteristics of the Miao folk song "Jiao Ayi", which is now well-known throughout the country. "Ayi Step" takes "stepping" as the main physical action, and is composed by composer Liao Yuande. Teacher Liao Yuande is a very influential local musician, the Miao mountain folk songs created are very grounded, original, especially highlighting the miao people's life temperament, simple, affectionate, vigorous and enthusiastic. Listening to his music is like entering the original Miao Sai and drinking a bowl of sweet Hmong rice wine, which is kind and sweet.
Stills from "Ayi Step"
"Ayi Step" follows the structure of the gathering, single, double, three-person dance and high and low lifting. The whole dance structure begins with the collective group dance of labor songs as the main form, and the group stepping as the main form in the song. Two teams clash in the climax, you chase after each other, pushing the opening of the dance to the climax. The middle dance section is based on small breaths in the fields, and the men and women are amused and lyrical, which makes the song and dance turn into a style of deep humor.
"Don't blink your back to your lover, your sister is right behind you, open your eyes and ignore the fire, hurt your sister, alas, be kind and anxious." Everyone who is liked is because of personality. Young Hmong men and women love life and yearn for love. Don't linger in the season of love anymore, hurry up and show your heart to the beloved girl, the moisture of love makes the eyes shine brightly, and makes the body burst with vitality and vitality. Xia Bing in "Ayi Step" very cleverly integrated the mood of male teasing and female beauty to gradually push the climax. Combine prop sticks and sports martial arts into one, double duels, three-player fights, four-player fights... Gradually advancing, it not only presents the characteristics of "Miao Mountain Fighting", but also fully displays the spirit of sports martial arts and naturally integrates into the dance... It embodies the courageous and tenacious fighting spirit and national spirit of the Miao people. In the climactic section of the epilogue, the director exaggerated the motive of "stepping" in the song and dance of the group dance "stepping" and combined elements such as tap dance, Tibetan pot stomping, shoveling, and turning over. The amplitude and strength of the body are exaggerated and contrasted, and the layers are progressive, pushing the dance to the climax. Martial arts sticks as props throughout, to achieve uniformity, enhance the beauty of sports dance, sports dance "Ayi step" it highlights the traditional cultural customs and spiritual temperament of the Miao people, from the perspective of sports dance, the style is simple, the actors jumped out of the unrestrained Miao people's feelings, danced out of the spirit of sports advocacy of hard work and upward exercise of physique, through the unique dance of running, turning, stomping, jumping, twisting, pedaling, noisy and dynamic and static pictures of the combination, so that the dance vocabulary of "Ayi Step" has innovation and breakthrough, At the same time, Xia Bing still retains the personality and cultural spirit of Miao culture, making the song and dance full of the atmosphere of labor life and the unique style characteristics of the Miao people in the grass. The original ecology praises the hardships of the laborers in the fields of the Miao people and the kind of love for life, love for the sun, love for the hometown of the kind of emotion, willing to take out more love to add more firewood, increase the temperature.
Landscape is the eyebrow of the world, the article of heaven and earth, the indulgence of the dancers, and the aesthetics of Chinese. Xia Bing has long lived in the hometown of song and dance, such as Enshi Lichuan Baiyang and Miao Pengshui, laying a solid foundation for music and dance. Xia Bing danced flexibly when she was an actor. She has always pursued a "rhyme", "dance rhyme" and "qi rhyme". "Rhyme" is the rhythm is also the dance soul, lifting the feet and kicking the dance style, stepping on the bright and clear rhythm, with flexible and changeable dance movements to enliven the dance atmosphere, the cheerful jumping dance posture is so cute and pretty, it is the girl who meets the deer in the heart of the lover, making people happy, singing life, pursuing love, praising the starting point of life that continues from home, and the starting point is mysterious, hazy, infinite, evolved... Facing life calmly is far better than brocade and wrapped in a soul that suffers from hatred. Frankly love yourself from the wilderness, do not borrow anyone's light in your life, build a city-state on the ruins, love the appearance of not kneeling, love confrontation and despair, love positive, and love the original appearance, so as to better reflect the beauty of the dance of "Ayi Step".
People in the mountains, because of their natural nature, the five senses become more acute. Because of the true life, find the order of physical and mental breathing, and the eyes are filled with affection for all things. Xia Bing believes that the world is regarded as a wonderful spectacle, something that can be absorbed and enjoyed, just as everyone will build their own home, and then the song will return to people's hearts, just as birds will sing after they build their nests. The quaint, dashing and heartfelt joy of the dancers in the dance style of "Ayi Step" will also be infected by this vibrant song and dance, and they will clap their hands and feet with the song and dance.
Flower around the waist: fireworks for a living, poetry for love
Heavy rain fell and drizzled, wetting the lover's flower around the waist.
The waist is wet and light, and the wet mistress is anxious.
The hustle and bustle of the world, the world itself, the life is too short, to be with interesting people.
A woman with a flower waist, wearing a short coat and a tube skirt underneath, and the decorations around the waist are colorful. A belt woven with various color threads, mostly strips or geometric figures. Layers of winding colored belts can be used to fix the tube skirt, but also can be corseted, just to cover the exposed waist during activity, waist protection navel during labor, belt from "tethering people", but also evolved to "tie the heart". When static, you can see the colorful lines, exquisite ornamentation, and feel the ingenuity of handicraft; When acting, take care of the brilliance and appreciate the swaying state of grace. Or for decoration, or for convenience, or for representation, the small waist ornament is also a microcosm of life.
The girl embroidered the flower belt, playfully compared with each other flower waist, bright flower waist, teasing flower waist, will be far away from the mountain outside the lover call. A flower belt pulls out a red silk thread, the lover brother and sister sing and dance deeply in the entanglement of the flower belt, and the seedling girls step on the water in the rain and borrow the prayer blessing of the flower belt. The hair is braided with silver ornaments, and it runs freely as if the sun's rays are entangled with each other. No matter how much reality there are, you can always find interesting ways to live. The woman with the waist of the flower has the talent of not losing the man's bosom, free and unrestrained, gentle and persistent, and between a smile, there is a heartwarming and delicate beauty, which makes people fall in love. The sister picks flowers and grass, is clever and clever, cunning and charming, and the love brother is simple and loyal, resolute and blunt, steaming, and a match made in heaven.
Stills from "Flower Waist"
Xia Bing borrowed lyricism in "Flower Waist", borrowed Flower Waist to write about the love of Miao brothers and sisters, because Peng Shui is "the holy land of love healing", the legend of "Flower Waist" is not only in the evaluation of women's morality and integrity, women's style, sexuality, ability, talent, temperament, and style have become the focus. Peng Shui's inner temperament, character, and wind god attract and inspire Xia Bing, the song "Wet belt is light, wet love sister I am anxious", focusing on the soul and emotional point is on "my heart anxiety", double wood non-forest, field has a heart, the word acacia, love does not know its origins, always deep, this is the soul of love that dances out of love through the flower waist. Liking someone can't be hidden, even if you don't say it, your eyes will say it.
In the Miao people, there are various patterns around the waist of the flowers, especially exquisite, and Xia Bing deletes the complicated and simple, focusing on "the royal shape of the gods" and "vivid rhyme". The so-called "god royal shape", that is, in addition to a variety of waist patterns in the actor's costume, do not care about the external geometric shape of the waist, the dancers use a long belt exaggeratedly, the group dancers jump lyrically in the dance, sometimes lyrical rainbows, sometimes Miao Mei amused compared with the wonderful things, sometimes in the rain dancing wildly flying ribbons, flower waist, flower rain, wonderful people make people reverie. The so-called "vivid rhyme" is to focus on inner wisdom, superb spirit, unconventional words and deeds, beautiful style, Miao sisters play and dance, flowing with lively, fiery, strong emotional feelings, vivid performance of inner spiritual temperament, style, and life sentiment. The Miao people simply live a little hot, a little more wanton, and behind the sparkly Miao dialect, there is a group of shining people, a great city, constantly giving people the freshest happiness and vitality. Those interesting, sentient, spiritual things, dance out, and people feel the beauty of life at once. Since then, I have found the favor in my heart, and a delicate flower has bloomed on my chest.
"Flower Around the Waist", let life have a more ritualistic sense, strive to be a fun layman, run for broken silver panic, just like a stubborn woman in her heart, stick to her faith, rejoice in her true self, and do not forget a little more love, in the cage to repair the fence to plant chrysanthemums. Life is a rhythm, there is light and shadow, there is sunshine and rain, if there are interesting people to accompany, the longer the interaction, the more mellow the fragrance, life can always be like a flower. What exactly makes people feel "crispy"? Think about it, in fact, it is just true feelings and paying true feelings.
Swinging, Ayi stepping, flower waist... The open love of the Miao people has a "blatant" taste, which has both a rebellion and disdain for the world, and a naughty and uninhibited, which is in line with the temperament of the Miao people. The kind of love that "I love you, not afraid of others snooping, and not afraid of others to know", convinced and brave, safe ironing and flying jumping out so harmoniously unified in the dance, there is a shape, rhythm, a slow disease, a rhyme, trembling the audience's heart ripples.
Although the Miao people are very miserable, moody and sad, they love life, are very humorous, and their spirits are soaring, and they have gone through year after year in the struggle with survival life. Fate traps the Miao people here, but the Miao people turn their eyes to the landscape, indulge in the "azure but deep" mountains, watch the fragrance of the wild fang, see the shade of the good wood, collect the joy of the landscape in their hearts, get comfort in it, deeply love themselves, and be open-minded. They sing the sun, sing the moon, sing mountains and water, sing and swing Ayi around the waist, innocent and messy is my teacher, the hometown grass and forest are all love, this authenticity, in the flashy world seems to be precious.
Xia Bing went deep into the local folk and cultural center, as well as the Jiao'ayi Art Troupe, and after contacting the leaders, actors and artists, she deeply understood their humor and passion for life, and used artificial warmth to resist the hard cold of the world, and the steaming dance was heated up by love. Under the leadership of Wang Yingguang, director of the Pengshui Autonomous County Cultural Center, and Qin Juan, deputy director of the Cultural Center, the cultural center went up to the leadership, down to the cadres on the stage are singers, downstage is the organizers, the stage is loud, the stage is burning paste, the export is a song, the foot is a dance, the young actors of the Jiao'ayi Art Troupe are young and vigorous, the girls are charming, the boys are naughty, under the organization of the young Zhao Zonghe, the art troupe is the main force rushing in front, like a huge and flavorful cotton candy, Xia Bing and this group of vivid and lively tiger actors are full of youthful sunshine together. Miaoxiang is poetry, love, the sun is the moon, it is a wish like a flower, and it is the hope of the people of Shanshui. Xia Bing said that every time they exchanged the characteristics of local folk songs and local lyrics with local cultural experts, they enthusiastically and vividly introduced them, knowing everything and saying everything, and Director Wang Yingguang spoke vividly in the local language, passionately touching, walking towards beauty, and making courageous progress.
The reason why Director Xia Bing's works are heartfelt is because she has always maintained a high degree of sensitivity to things in her heart, and has a kind of loyalty and reverence for dance expression. Whether it is in perception or dance, Xia Bing is extremely sensitive. She rarely talks in generalities, and is reluctant to say something that is not heartfelt. Communicating with her, she will not feel perfunctory, she exported into a chapter, forming the following moving text: "In fact, the mountain is communicating with us all the time, but we are willing to listen to it." As soon as we turn on the switch on our bodies, we can hear these words, like whispers, very light, but very thick. This silence, the silence is better than the sound, much like some mysterious language of the mountains, which makes people feel precious humility and gentle piety. ”
Xia Bing is with the actors of "Ayi Step"
There is a beautiful description in the Analects in which Confucius asks his disciples about their aspirations. Zeng Hao said that his hope was: "Mo Chun, the spring clothes are complete, the crown is five or six, the boys are six or seven, the bath is Yi, the wind is like dancing, and the song returns." It means that in the late spring, I want to wear spring clothes, take a bath in the Yi River, blow the wind on the dance platform, and sing all the way home. Perhaps since then, Chinese's feelings for landscapes have been so romantic. We love the landscape, and we love ourselves in the mountains and rivers. Come with pleasure, return with pleasure, for freedom, for open-mindedness, for the attitude of life.
Hmong trilogy, everything! The blatant preference and warmth in life is the salvation of the world, pulling people out of low-pressure emotions. Preference for mountains, preference for not clinging to everything, blamed on rational thoughts, preference for unspecified anniversaries that can be celebrated every day as far as love is concerned, preference for free and unrestrained zeros, over zeros arranged after Arabic numerals. Preference does not ask how long or when, preferring to keep this possibility in mind – the reason for existence is not false.
Everyone clapped, danced a paragraph, drummed a paragraph, danced a paragraph, drummed a paragraph, all immersed in it. In the essence of life, this simple "lohas spirit" trumps everything in Vanity Fair. Settle down and be at ease. (Text/Dai Jing)
Source: Beiqing Network