China
List Of Dances
Monlam Festival (Cham) Tibet
* QingMing Festival China
Shana (Cham) Bhutan
Sleeves Dance China
Yangko Drum China
Yangko NorthEast China
YI (Row) Dance ChinaNorth East YangKo
AUTHOR : Zhang Dace
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CHINA
Region: Northeast China (Jilin Province, Heilongjiang Province and Liaoning Province)
Ethnic group : Han, Manchu, Hui
Spirituality: Traditional
Origin time: Although the specific time is difficult to verify, it is generally believed that it originated in the Ming and Qing Dynasties.
Function: Celebrate harvest, pray and sacrifice.
Dance features: humorous, bold, provocative and humorous.
Dance roles: head-stilts, second stilts, old beards and colorful women, tops, bottoms, fishermen and fishermen, and opera figures.
Dance props: fans, handkerchiefs, stilts, ribbons, etc.
Dance costumes: based on traditional Han costumes, costumes are brightly colored and decorative, such as red flowers, green pants and embroidered shoes.
The dance accompaniment band consists of big drum, big cymbal, small cymbals, gong, suona and so on.
Drum YangKo
AUTHOR : Professor Yue Yin
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CHINA
Region: Shandong Province, Jinan City, Shanghe County
Ethnic group : Han,
Spirituality: Traditional
Origin: It originated in Shanghe County, Jinan, with a history of more than 1000 years.
Function: an art form of folk sacrifice, entertaining the dead and celebrating.
Dance features: generous and powerful, rough and heroic are the characteristics of this dance.
Dance roles: umbrella head, drum, wooden stick, flower pulling.
Dance props: umbrella fan, silk, stick
The dance accompaniment band consists of drums, gongs, cymbals, cymbals, cymbals, cymbals and twisters.
Meaning The drum yangko expresses the quest for strength and has four “core elements”-stability, heaviness, tenacity.
