The Teaching of Ying Ge Dance in China
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The history of Ying Ge can be traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty (1368-1644), when folk songs and dances were already very active and were used for rituals and entertainment, and as a means of self-entertainment for the people. The emergence of Ying Ge can be traced back to the middle of the Ming Dynasty. In the year 1761, Chaozhou governor Wu Shuo Xun's Chaozhou Fu Zhi Volume XII "customs" contained: "farmers spring dozens of generations, rice planting in the field, the order of the drums, each drum a patrol, the group song actually made, even the day without end, the name of the rice-planting song. "Yang (秧)" of the Chaozhou dialect pronunciation and "Ying (英)" is quite similar, may be in the folk passed on, and changed over time to "Ying Ge". Originally, it was a form of performance involving both singing and dancing, hence the name singing Ying Ge. The complete performance consists of three parts: the front stage, middle stage , and back stage. Over time, the singing part was gradually abandoned, making the stick dance in the front stage the main performance, leading to the term Ying Ge dance.Due to the rather long history, the social and human factors that gave rise to the Ying Ge are very complex, and the lack of documentary records at that time, resulting in the origin of the Ying Ge has been subject to a wide range of opinions.
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