Visit Chaoshan Ying song and dance
Good singing and dancing has always been the art of the world. Skin color, blood, and geography can't stop it from shining brightly. The British song and dance in the Chaoshan region of China is such an existence. "Chinese War Dance", "The Strongest Atmosphere Group of the New Year", "Intangible Cultural Heritage of the Bombing Street", ...... It has made the local traditional art carve a fiery imprint in the era of traffic.
From going out of the circle to going to sea, why has British singing and dancing become popular again and again? In today's gradual decline of many intangible cultural heritages, what does it rely on to inherit and accumulate strength? What makes foreign audiences who do not have the same culture and language immerse themselves in it? Passionate, restless, and explosive senses, Peng Wanglong from Belgium experienced British singing and dancing up close, and he was completely excited...... This issue of "A Closer Look at China" takes you to feel the charm of British singing and dancing and get closer to Chaoshan culture.
The heartbeat followed the English song and dance
Fumei Village in Chaoshan District, Guangdong Province, has been well-known in recent years because of the popularity of English singing and dancing. When Peng Wanglong arrived, the small village was crowded with people, most of whom came for the performance of the Fumei Youth Singing Troupe.
The tradition of "worshipping the lord" at the ancient temple of Phu My before the performance
It is said that the origins of English songs and dances are very rich, one of which is the classical Chinese masterpiece "Water Margin", and the plot of the interpretation is based on the story of "attacking the Daimyo's Mansion" in the Waijiang opera. As for some of the intimidating faces and iconic dance moves, it is rooted in the ancient Chinese ritual of the Nu dance.
The performance of the Phu Mei Youth British Song and Dance Team on this day belongs to the Allegro English Song, which is the most vivid representative of British Song and Dance in the Puning area.
With the snake dance of "Time Shift" out of the hole, the performance began. From this moment on, Peng Wanglong completely felt what it meant to "bomb the street". He said that from the moment the music started, he felt like the whole village was alive. As excited as he is the "fans", which vividly explains what it means to be "suitable for all ages".
Children with English song mallets, elderly people who come here through online information, and Taiwanese female fans who are full of enthusiasm for chasing stars......
Taiwanese girl: "I've been chasing it for more than a month, and I like it from the bottom of my heart." I chased a lot of English songs and dances, and then they said that if you want to chase them, you have to chase the ceiling, Puning Fumei Youth Ying Song. ”
There is only one person left to go on
In 2006, the song and dance was included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage representative list.
Li Junhao and Peng Wanglong
The Chaoshan area is the place with the deepest roots in British song and dance culture, and there are more than 100 British song and dance teams in Puning City alone, and the Fumei Youth British Song and Dance Team is one of the most eye-catching. On the night of the performance, Peng Wanglong and the team's coach Li Junhao made an appointment to watch their training.
The training of the Phu Mei Youth Song and Dance Team was carried out in the ancestral hall of the village, and Peng Wanglong saw that there were many people watching from the side, and the children were familiar with it, and he thought that this was probably the reason why the British Song and Dance here continued to be inherited. But everything that seems to be beautiful hides the story of Lee Junhao's ruin. The development of English singing and dancing in Fumei Village has also experienced many difficulties faced by intangible cultural heritage, and it is impossible to retain people......
In the most difficult days, Li Junhao broke the ancestral motto of "passing on the inside but not outside". The 28-year-old Chen Xiangyu, the performer of "Time Migration" that left the deepest impression on Peng Wanglong, is a native of the village who joined the Fumei Youth English Song Team in 2011, and he is also one of the oldest members.
Chen Xiangyu taught Peng Wanglong movements
Li Junhao (coach of the Phu Mei Youth Ying Song and Dance Team): "At that time, I couldn't help it, I was the first to break the tradition. Twenty or thirty members were recruited, but their own village also had a singing team, and they were recruited back. Some of them jumped and didn't come, and in the end there was only one from our own village left. ”
After overriding public opinion, Li Junhao is facing a still difficult situation. But even if there was only one student left in the village, Li Junhao did not give up, so there was the current Fumei Youth Ying Song and Dance Team.
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This night, Peng Wanglong also became a referee, and Lin Huanxin and Jie Kai in the team were playing. Who dances better and what are the criteria for judging?
A heroine who is "in and out of the play".
"Passing on men but not women" is an inherent thinking in many traditional Chinese cultural inheritances. There is no shortage of sassy and heroic "Mulan" and "Mu Guiying" in British singing and dancing.
After Peng Wanglong personally participated in and experienced the singing and dancing of Ying, he had a deeper understanding of the difficulty of his performance, and he must have various abilities such as physical strength and technique at the same time. Therefore, why a girls' English singing and dancing team can "stand out of the encirclement" makes him even more curious.
The history of the Simon Women's Singing Team dates back to the 50s of the last century. At that time, the female villagers who were still working in the production brigade danced English songs and dances in their spare time and became the first generation of team members. Due to various reasons, the development of this team was interrupted and was not rebuilt until 2011.
Today, the team has reached 60 or 70 people, with an average age of 18 years old, and the youngest is only 9 years old.
In the middle is Zheng Zixin
Zheng Zixin became an Internet celebrity during this year's Spring Festival performance, and she was doing a live training broadcast when Peng Wanglong was interviewed. In the interview, she told Peng Wanglong that girls are very handsome in dancing English songs and dances, which is not only for boys.
Yao Jiaxuan's arm was severely burned when he was a child, and his skin was torn during development, and he was unable to exercise normally for half a year.
Yao Jiaxuan (member of the Ximen Women's English Song Team): "When I got the English song mallet again, I tried it slowly, and I found that I seemed to be able to move a little bit. I didn't want to sit there and watch others train, so I gritted my teeth and picked up the gavel. And just like that, my hand recovered well. ”
Wu Yanhua put on makeup for the team members
28-year-old Wu Yanhua is the eldest sister in the team, and she is also the first batch of members of the Ximen Women's Yingge Team when it was rebuilt in 2011. In order to take care of Ying singing and dancing, she quit the job she wanted to do since she was a child and started a business to do nail art. But even so, she still feels like she's not investing enough. On this day, the team had a performance, and she put on makeup for the team members by herself......
Wu Yanhua (Captain of the Ximen Women's Singing Team): "This is a symbol of our Ximen Women's Singing Team, representing our team spirit, and also symbolizing an expectation, hoping that the future will always be prosperous. ”
Wu Yanhua was teary-eyed in the interview, for what? What is the learning result of Peng Wanglong's English singing and dancing? For more exciting content, please pay attention to this issue of "A Closer Look at China".
Producer: Zhang Xiaoling
Choreographer: Yang Xiaoting
Editor: Yu Erya