Broken-step characteristics of Anhui Flower Drum Lantern

When dancing, the upper body and lower body react with each other, and the stride stays in the horizontal position, showing a "twisted" posture. The center of gravity is on the front foot, and the front foot is half-divided, showing a forward posture.

The dance movements of ancient painting lanterns are vigorous and simple, cheerful and warm, free and easy, and the performance style is full of local flavor. Music comes from folk songs, with a wide range of themes, changeable rhythm, or radical or smooth. It is one of the most representative and shocking folk dances of the Chinese nation. The dance movements of ancient painting lanterns are produced by labor and rooted in the people for a long time, which makes them rich in nutrition, so they are particularly simple, beautiful and expressive.

Flower-drum lanterns originated in Xia Dynasty at the earliest and in Song Dynasty at the latest. Anhui Flower Drum Lantern is one of the most representative folk dances of the Han nationality, which spreads in rural areas of Huaiyuan, Fengtai and Fengyang. It originated from rural working life and reflected the local custom of "tying drums and singing in pairs" to regulate the day's work in rice fields. There are dances, songs, gongs and drums and simple plays, so it is also called "playing lanterns". The main characters are bifurcated umbrella, ugly drum, orchid and drum stand. According to folklore, the word "flower" in "Flower Drum Lantern" refers to orchid, which is the title of female horn; "Drum" refers to the drum stand, which is the title of the public number; "Light" means "Song of Light". "Flower Drum Lantern" represents love and interprets the simplicity and sincerity of rural love in a unique way.