Lusheng dance are mainly distributed in guizhou, guangxi zhuang autonomous region, China and hunan dong, respectively belonging to sino-tibetan zhuang dong zhuang dai language and dong water two.The ancients is an ancient “Locke as” in the “hundreds of the” branches “ou” west’s descendants.Sui and tang dynasties to song dynasty, was known as a “portal” and “hole”, and later to “dong” for the nation’s call.Sanjiang dong autonomous county of dong, guangxi liuzhou region in lunar calendar in March third with rich and colorful content of the grand national takes place.
Lusheng dance – dance origins
About the origin of lusheng dance,miao There are simple and wonderful legends.Legend pangu separated heaven and earth, the earth desolate.Then, miao ancestors by hunting animals and birds for food and clothing, in order to solve the capture the difficulty of birds and animals, then a practical guy, you cut down the trees in the forest and bamboo, the lusheng imitate the animals and birds chirping and action, jumped up to induce all kinds of birds and animals.Every hunting excursions from then on, people have been obtained, so the lusheng dance became essential to life and pass on from generation to generation.This kind of legend and still practiced today with many simulation in the form of animals and birds sing and lusheng dance tunes and move
As a phenomenon is consistent, but must find out the origin of it, remains to be seen from the historical aspect carries on the discussion.Many of the literature involved;Since the Ming and qing dynasty, can be found in the literature and the broader ZhiShu.As well as NiLu “South zhao unofficial history” “Every mon TiaoYue age, male blow lusheng, female ring chorus, dance all day long and tireless” side by side.It serves to show lusheng dance already is an important part of the miao people’s traditional festival activities and the wind mi at that time.
Introduction to the lusheng dance – dance
“Lusheng dance” (referred to as “in”) of the miao is a kind of to man blow “Ethnic group” At the same time in order to lower extremities (including hip, knee, ankle) flexible wave as the main characteristics of traditional folk dance. It widely circulated, popularize the miao area. Among them in particular guizhou Southeast, northwest, and the most active in the western mountainous areas in guangxi.Where people from childhood began to learn to blow lusheng and lusheng dance.Where there are playing and dancing on the outstanding lusheng hands and lusheng, all deeply the respect and love of the masses.In the past, youth will blow lusheng, lusheng dance can even become one of the important conditions of the choices of partner made by girls.
Miao lusheng dance, popular in the south,dong, aquatic animals, kelao,yi, lahu, lisu, naxi ethnic minority region, such as folk dance.With man ethnic group while dancing as its main features.
Sheng points. Lusheng and lusheng two kinds big.Assembles lusheng with gourd Do sheng dou, generally have 5 pieces with reed sheng pipe, about 16 ~ 66 cm;Fighting for the wooden sheng etc.will, generally there are six sheng tube, about 33 ~ 333 cm long.Two types are collectively referred to as “ethnic group”.Still playing assembles and lusheng dance of the nation, lahu, yi, lisu, naxi, etc;Play and lusheng dance of minorities such as miao, shui, dong, kelao.
Lusheng dance has a long history in In yunnan province Kijiashan during the spring and autumn period unearthed tombs found in two pieces of bronze lusheng. Is China’s oldest lusheng physical objects.Lusheng dance dance image also has a vivid reflection of the in the ancient cultural relics, such as hill jinning unearthed bronze drum, is written is blowing. The image of the lusheng dance.All of these prove that has been in southern China more than 2000 years ago. Lusheng and assembles lusheng dance.
Lusheng dance – dance types
Miao lusheng dance is the most representative, is also the most popular folk miao.Basic can be divided into three categories, lusheng dance mass lusheng dance, and performing lusheng dance, FengSuXing lusheng dance.
ZiYuXing lusheng dance
Look from the action characteristic, and can be divided into two “on” and “jump”, “on” to his knees and stepping a slight flexion and extension The rhythm Featuring moving forward, “jump” is made by dynamic feet after landing, the vibrating of the lower limbs and feet chuai lift, upper body then naturally swing.Before a refined and elegant, after a soft, natural and unrestrained.
Customary lusheng dance.
The first is a every year “Huashan section” Jump, this is the young men and women celebration and the ritual of sexual selection, lusheng dance by the day, in ancient times is called a” jump “or” TiaoYue “, and more in the night of the moon is bright. With this kind of custom of miao fortress, usually has “TiaoYue” Or ” jump “the moon in the field of farms. This kind of lusheng dance especially in the province region” To please god “And the prevailing in central guizhou” lead goat “is representative.
“For god” is a young man dancing while blowing lusheng songs “please spend tape” to woo her love girl.On this occasion, if a girl and have an affinity for guys, they would carefully weaving themselves, tied to a young man lusheng amorous.This form is primarily an lusheng blowing song is love, so dance movement range is not big, dance is not complicated.
“Lead goat” is blowing young men in the front side jump, dance follow if a girl fell in love with a boy, you personally weave themselves is taken as a pledge of promise of beauty, tied to his waist, and one end of the led ribbons, with the young man behind her Following section To dance.Skill of lusheng dance, sometimes could take few girls dance at the same time to walk!And, of course, in this case, who can finally matched with that is not the moon, or flower field can be.
The second: melt water area in guangxi.When dancing, lean forward, arm in arm along the circle jumps, the action is simple.To participate in dance for 12 people, the number of common side-by-side formation is of three, four people a long square landscape.
Performing lusheng dance
General all in the holiday Or rally to competitive or strive to perform.Some place in villages of lusheng team as a unit for collective game, such as province CongJiangXian, alongside hole area, every festival, adjacent to the village to the few people team blow jump competition at the same time, the lusheng race team is beautiful with the amount that can play music, sound, harmonic and dance movements and footwork whether rich, whether the time lasting winner.In some places with personal competitive manner.This generally do not set, each ethnic group hand had a chance to display individual skills.Action of this kind of lusheng dance step in a short, squat kick and spin, prance, etc.Competitor some action rhythm changeable, a sudden fierce,Others can be done to win more difficult moves.
Performing lusheng dance content is very rich.Prevails in QianXi region have drink “smart”, “earthworm rolling sand” and “roll hill beads” and “Lusheng fist”; prevalent in guangxi of the mountain west conference “threshold”, “the monkey on the tree” and “roll lumbricus”; prevailed in the province region has a “bull fight”, “chicken”, etc. The first two parts mainly prevalent by showing off hard skills to gain the audience’s applause; after the prevailing of a region is mainly imitate animals behavior, expression, in order to show the life of banter.
Roll “earthworm rolling sand” and “lumbricus” dancer knelt down to the lower waist, with his head as the axis, then stand, side play lusheng dance side turn over.
“Drink” is on the bench a cup filled with rice wine, then, blow, edge dance, dancers around the bench side down and drink.
“Roll hill beads” is playing the lusheng and rolled forward and backward or upside down, glare, etc.
“Lusheng punch” in the form of a unique, this dance As lusheng dance accompaniment and command, the rest of the male, the female dancers under its command and sometimes interspersed with each other sometimes throws a rally.Sometimes inserted HuaGun to strike.
Sacrifice lusheng dance
Usually in the wooden drum, bronze drum accompaniment dance.Dancers for middle and old people.Play big lusheng for up to three feet to zhang yu.In the past, this kind of lusheng dance only in” Eat a brighter dirty Jump “(kill cattle worship ancestors). In a solemn, solemn atmosphere, show respect for ancestors and miss, stable movement and slow. With the progress of society, culture, miao now rarely held the of primitive religious worship ancestors activity. Therefore, this kind of dancing has now gone.
Ceremonial lusheng dance
Also because of its activity content is different, but has its own characteristics and different forms of activities.That are marrying, and new house completion festival activities, which jump, light, atmosphere of jubilation.Dancers also danced in the hall to show congratulations.In the The funeral The ceremony, the role of lusheng dance is mainly of the families of the dead comfort and to the dead.On occasions like this, except in the coffin ritual has crossed the jumps of the coffin, composed and other parts of the restraint.
Lusheng dance – yi lusheng dance
Popular in liangshan area of sichuan province and yunnan province some of the west, and has been used to harvest festival of god and to the funeral ceremony.Qing “south yunnan slightly draft” load:
“… every year autumn, slaughter of sacrificial, blowing sheng dance and song, of the crops.”Qing qianlong “civilized government record 9” reporter: “… the funeral procession, son-in-law dance sheng resin before.”Now lusheng dance has many ZiYuXing dance for the populace.In addition to use in some places in yunnan province. Lusheng dance as accompaniment Musical Instruments Outside, still accompanied with flute, yueqin, etc. At the same time, called “jump” or “da”.Young men and women sing while dancing, shoulder back and forth, dance fitness and natural and unrestrained.In sichuan province, liangshan region, every day all assembles lusheng dance;Whenever the torch festival more grand, the dance, day and night for 3 consecutive days.Dance song, when more than a pair, for two people to each other on foot movement, the man was big and strong, high leg lift flump, smaller women’s movement, the leg is not high lift, all around the circle dance, blow lusheng is inside the circle dance. Also a woman side to play yueqin While dancing, or blowing while dancing.
Lusheng dance – lahu lusheng dance
In the holiday And labor are jumping lusheng dance.Legend has more than 80 sets of dance music.In the dance movements, can be roughly divided into productive labor and daily life and the simulation of the birds and beasts dance.Dancers feet to sweep into the legs, for example, hook foot outward Pian leg, is harvested millet;Jian millet “dove”, shows the turtledove foraging, playing posture.Expressive dance, lively and interesting, unique.Blowing sheng man within the circle side dance, action complex, woman shake handshandle, circle action is simple.Dance movement speed, general first slow, quick, movement range, increase gradually.
Essential lusheng dance lusheng dance is representative Folk dance .When holiday gatherings or some ritual activities, are the dance.Lahu and belong to di and qiang group of yi nationality, worship the gourd, the symbol of the birth of the gourd as ancestors.Lusheng dance movement, in addition to a few specific action for sacrifice activities, for the most part is the performance and simulation of production and life of animal life, its process is very detailed.
A man blowing sheng, a woman to a circle, hand in hand for basic lusheng dance dance dance form.Lusheng dance is a remarkable lahu characteristics and typical dance.The lusheng dance, can enhance ethnic identity, national reunion happy, strengthen national confidence and strength.More than eighty percent of the lahu concentrated distribution area west of the lancang river, lusheng dance.And to live together with other region is a popular dance song.
Melodious lusheng, twang lingering mouth. Performance swing dance, “” harvest of lahu labor scene filled with exultation and passion, make people difficult to forget.
Lusheng dance – lisu lusheng dance
By blow lusheng is dance. Everyone then counterclockwise direction, each handle, swing arm, action is two people relatively more, have a before and after the foot or face to face, back to back flip swivel, powerful, beating is not high, occasionally clapping clapping and dancing.Dancers mood cheerful is bold and unrestrained.And in western yunnan sichuan xichang , also known as the “drop foot” or “Di foot”.
Lusheng dance – naxi lusheng dance
In ancient naxi dongba classics “Lu lu around like” , already documented shepherd slaves and play lusheng, lusheng dance also produced accordingly.Naxi nationality is lusheng dance ZiYuXing dance festival.Generally must first jump a “beauty”, it is lusheng dance music foundation.Dance when the clasp arm, hand in hand for center, left shoulder slightly forward, crotch as footsteps move forward a bit after flashing, when the forward leg lifts, body slightly forward, back crotch, dynamic law is unique
Lusheng dance – miao lusheng dance
Is most widespread, the most representative in the miao folk dance forms.As early as the Ming dynasty in the nanzhao unofficial “male blow lusheng, female ring chorus together dance, tireless” all day long, clear the Miao customs” Also have record in “each age Meng Chun,… more men and women dress makeup. Men’s woven bamboo for lusheng, blowing and before, female priests of vibration after the thought section, dance, side by side the moor tactfully, tireless” all day long.This shows that more than 1000 years ago the miao lusheng dance that has prevailed.Also suggests that women’s ringing and clapping dance dance continues to the qing dynasty, and mostly unarmed and dance now things are different.In recent years, some areas appeared in the past from the lusheng dance lusheng hands of women.Miao lusheng dance can be roughly divided into ZiYuXing, athletics, three kinds of sacrifices, including ZiYuXing lusheng dance is most popular.Dance, lusheng hand in front of the team or in the circle dance, generally according to the queue after man before woman, counterclockwise Travel around.Some areas still with 3.3 meters tall big lusheng and mans drum accompaniment, increase the bass line accompaniment effect.Whenever the grand festival, hundreds of lusheng, thousands of people, surrounded by layers of lusheng dance, the imposing manner is very spectacular.Jump in the “flower”, “TiaoYue”, such as “for combating” national festival, young men and women through lusheng dance mate selection, such as “please god,” “led the sheep” and so on are all young men and women in love dance performance.Athletics, lusheng dance, held during the holiday season, to the tune, skill, more difficult to win.Dance moves with continuous rotation, short step, upside down, rolling, etc.Dance music don’t interrupt.A death in the elderly hmong in some region, has sacrificed lusheng dance to the custom of the undead, comfort the families of the dead.The dance movements is composed.
Drums sonorous, dance simplicity, showing the farming, villagers hunting Life, rugged wild style.Performers though he has a high artistic feeling, but from their practice the steps to let people appreciate the enthusiasm is bold and unrestrained, is a broad-minded imagination…
People of all ethnic groups in the long-term production and living in guizhou, created rich and colorful national culture, and its strength step is pithy.Elegant lusheng dance of miao, and copper;Of northwestern guizhou yi CongCong yueqin enthusiastic bells and dance;In northeast guizhou tujia waving dance and so on are added extraordinary splendour for national literature and art big garden.
Is lusheng dance of miao people’s ancestor worship or holiday, one of the main dance festival.But due to reasons such as history, national oppression and class oppression, a significant number of miao village has been lost, now still keep sign reed dance good have to next, witch is busy, the party, the nangongshan, back row, was called east, bao gong, TaiPan, leather, etc.Lusheng and in miao lusheng dance dance has a long history.
Lusheng and lusheng dance, MiaoGuRen think it is the beginning grandmother created, symbol MiaoGuRen mother, his voice is the voice of the mother.Lusheng’s creation and the origin of the lusheng dance, legend is originated from two women.Legend has it ancient thunder mountain when a miao girl grow very beautiful, suddenly one day by a pheasant essence into the cave.Two consecutive days, when girls desperately, heard that there was an antechamber, hole girl with whistles and bamboo tubes sound for the hole blow, finally by the blow Bamboo tubes Young men noise to cave in, and gave the girl play a in charge of entertainment cheat pheasants, boy shi machine killed pheasant essence To save the girl And after;Will the root saved the life of the girl made the dai bamboo tubes.This is dai legend.The origin of the lusheng dance.Legend is a nearby a girl named GeAngXiang;Grow very beautiful, has broadcast with a poor young man.
Love each other, but there was a rich man wanted to go to his.One day GeAngXiang and sowing dates both away from home.But the rich man knew, belt Mr. Dinking The two stern chase.When to a cliff, fall phase on the cliff.GeAngXiang indignation unceasingly, in blow empty dance together on the invitation, in sites to phase in the spirit of death.When you dance to at dark, GeAngXiang fall on the ground, was dead.Later, miao miao people in honor of the two young men and women of pure love, often in the history of Chinese New Year holidays blow reed dance as a souvenir.Han also of the culture of miao ethnic group in history vividly recorded: “six jagged bamboo tubes, huang tao, long short sound clear micro powder, dance to the section with spin, away don’t promote the slow, MiaoNv miao man, bright moon flower mountain.”Now, three major dialects of miao nationality, no matter where to live, still with lusheng as this National culture A form of.
Lusheng dance music and dance, very much the same everywhere.Ethnic group Dance music Content can be divided into the ritual music, ballade, march, style song and dance music, etc.Lusheng play with lusheng dance forms can be divided into blowing sheng dancers, blowing sheng leads and blowing sheng from the dance, the former two blowing sheng can be seven, nine, eleven or more people.Blowing and blowing sheng sheng dance dance dance or present small and medium-sized, men and women around the masses surrounded by layers of dance;Blowing and blowing sheng sheng dance dance in the front edge, men’s and women’s groups in circling step dance, scene commandant is spectacular.Blowing sheng since dance refers to a small group, double or single blowing sheng with small lusheng performances, also blow also dance, dance moves, however, tacit cooperation.Lusheng dance movements can be summarized as go, move, cross, vertical, kicking, don’t, hook, etc.Lusheng dance movement performance or solemn solemn;Or rhythm is compact, actions;Or relaxed and lively, active, agile, because for different and have different.Lusheng songs and dance SaSheng reflects all sorts of life and culture of miao people’s form.
Lusheng dance of lusheng dance – aquatic animals
Lunar calendar in September Aquatic animals in , is the most active day of lusheng dance.Lusheng dance usually with copper, bucket Angle dance activities together.Lusheng team generally consists of five high and low different lusheng and only seven bass mans tubes, man in the front edge dance, after the woman holding a flower handkerchief in hand to dance.Action simulation sail, Ride a horse Roll, hunt, or buffalo, pond, etc., movement characteristics of bold, Piao welding;Open crotch, hold out a bosom, violent shaking from head to toe.
Lusheng dance – dong lusheng dance
Is past praying for good crop weather, the grain and make it plentiful part of ritual activities, has now become the main activities of dong people celebrating the holiday.Lusheng dance in In hunan province Also called on sheng don, it is the combination of song, dance and music form.Man ethnic group as the leader, and women with each fan and dong later, and song and dance.The lusheng contest held in the Mid-Autumn festival, is a man of collective athletics dance of lusheng race team in villages, ranging from 3, 5 to dozens of WuDui.Game of high activity, mood.
Lusheng dance – relevant legends
Lusheng dance is In leishan county Miao people’s ancestor worship or holiday, one of the main dance festival “. But due to historical reasons, quite a number of miao villages has been lost, now is still save the lusheng dance better have built leishan, next, wu, busy, the party, the nangongshan row, was called east, bao gong, TaiPan, leather, etc.
Dai and miao lusheng dance in built leishan area has a long history, MiaoGuRen think it is the beginning grandmother created, symbol MiaoGuRen mother, his voice is the voice of the mother.Lusheng’s creation and the origin of the lusheng dance, legend is originated from two women.Legend has it ancient thunder mountain when a miao girl grow very beautiful, suddenly one day by a pheasant essence into the cave.In the The girl Desperately, heard a bamboo tubes sound hole on two consecutive days, the girl with the hole whistles and bamboo tubes to blow, finally blown bamboo tubes by the young men of the noise to cave in, and gave the girl a bamboo tubes play entertainment cheat pheasants, machine killed pheasant jing rescued the boy wait for a girl.
Later, will that saved the life of the girl made the dai bamboo tubes.This is dai legend.The origin of the lusheng dance.Legend is a nearby a girl named GeAngXiang;Grow very beautiful, with a poor youth are dear to each other, but there was a rich man wanted to go to his.One day GeAngXiang and sowing dates both away from home.Are the rich man knew, with assume the two stern chase.When to a cliff, fall phase on the cliff.GeAngXiang indignation unceasingly, in on the first invitation blowing sheng dancing with a partner, with sites in soul.When you dance to at dark, GeAngXiang fall on the ground, was dead.Later miao miao people in honor of the two young men and women of the pure love, often at Chinese New Year holidays blowing sheng dance showmark。
Lusheng dance – cultural heritage
MiaoGuRen created lusheng, still holds the lusheng, everyone love blow lusheng, lusheng dance.Depending on the sounds of miao sheng.Lusheng high volume, loudness, people often described as a boiling day “sheng”, “LuZhen mountain”, “dozens of miles away can hear”, it is ancient and modern in the world the highest volume, maximum response and noise as far as instruments.So far, three major dialect Miao, no matter where to live, still with dai as this National culture A form of.Han also of the culture of miao ethnic group in history vividly recorded: “six jagged bamboo tubes, long reed huang tao, short sound clear micro powder, dance with section, away don’t promote the slow, MiaoNv miao man, bright moon flower mountain.”
This is the song about narrative of miao ethnic group culture.Lusheng in MiaoGuRen concept is “mother” created in the beginning (grandmother), the voice is the voice of “mother”.Under the call of “mother”, has three major dialects of the miao, where to live, with lusheng culture with a form for our nation, as the a kind of cohesion and carry forward the national spirit consciousness.Mother “created in the beginning (grandmother), its sound is miao lusheng is the ancient literature is often recorded in the sheng, reed and reed, cage, reappearance. Six GuanSheng lusheng is commonly, there are more than six pipe or tube less than six.
Lusheng is the blow pipe, gas pipe, tube, reed Play, resonance tube and other parts of national music.Can be divided into large, medium and small and small, such as species.Big lusheng up to zhang yu, playing loud voice deep.Lusheng timbre round and smooth, small lusheng timbre bright and fine.MiaoGuRen or ethnic group, and each blowing sheng will dance, lusheng dance can be divided into from the function to worship ancestors, celebrations, entertainment and friendship, etc.The former solemn, grand scale, with large and medium-sized lusheng.The latter light active, can be used for small and medium-sized lusheng.Dance form by yi, collective dance to double or solo.Lusheng dance can be divided into the content The ritual music 、 ballade 、 march And style song and dance music, etc.Combined with dance, can reflect all sorts of life and culture of miao people’s form.
Lusheng performance and can be divided into sheng in the form of dance, dance sheng leads with sheng from the dance and so on.Blowing sheng of the two people can be seven, nine, eleven or more people.Blowing and blowing sheng sheng dance dance dance or present small and medium-sized, men and women around the crowd, surrounded by layers of dance.Blowing sheng dance and dance at the edge of the front edge blowing blowing sheng, men’s and women’s groups along with the team around step dance, scene commandant is spectacular.Dance sheng is refers to the small collective, double or single blowing sheng person with little lusheng performances, also blow also dance, dance movement problem.Cooperate with the tacit understanding.Lusheng dance movements can be summarized as go, move, cross, vertical, kicking, don’t, hook, etc.ACTS or solemn, solemn, compact flash or rhythm, or relaxed and lively, active, agile have different due to different places and applicable.Lusheng songs with lusheng dance reflects the miao people of various cultural forms.
