How to dance the Qiang dance "Xishi Guozhuang"?

Qiang people like to dance in Guocun, celebrate the New Year, hold weddings or get together with relatives and friends. Everyone sang and danced all night, so it was lively. Guo Zhuang's happy events include "Ritual Dance", "New Year Dance" and "Farmhouse" performed at traditional weddings. Wait a minute.

At the traditional wedding of Qiang people, the village song and dance experts will first form the "welcome" and "best man" of 12 people. On the wedding day, whether it is hot or cold, when the wedding guests approach the village entrance, the bridesmaids will mercilessly pour the prepared water on the wedding guests to prevent them from entering the village until the wedding guests hand over the "village entrance ceremony". After entering the village, there was a ceremony called "Autumn calls rice". The guests told the story of the couple's humanity and love. After the speech, the banquet began. The naughty bridesmaid replaced the chopsticks on the table with straws, so that the guests could not eat any food or wine. The eloquent bridesmaids also improvised lyrics, sang and danced happily, and added firewood to the fireplace, making them sweat.

In the laughter of everyone, my wife's relatives and friends performed a lyrical and beautiful "ritual dance". These women are wearing red skirts and red belts, standing in a semicircle in front of the fireplace, singing the cheerful song "Game Pot Village", wishing everyone prosperity and harmony. Dancers in pairs grab each other's red ribbons, take small steps, shake their upper bodies, and then take turns dancing. This kind of exercise is characterized by the immobility of the upper body and waist to buttocks. "Ili Dance" still remains in the besieged Chibi Soviet Area in Maowen County and Qiang Village in Yao Ping.

It is said that "ritual dance" was performed by an ancient witch, and later evolved into a female song and dance. But it still has the characteristics of broken steps and hip-to-hip. On the morning of the wedding, the bridesmaid dressed the bride and sang "Song of Dress". Then a young man of the same age carried the bride out of the village. The bride is dressed in red, with a red umbrella in her hand and riding a horse. Surrounded by bridesmaids and wedding guests, she went to the groom's house in a mighty way.

After the ceremony and banquet, the song and dance began again. "Congratulations Dance" is a dance performed by relatives and friends at the banquet. The lyrics are simple, and the content is closely combined with marriage. Dance begins with one or two steps, with the right foot facing the front of the left foot, which is called "one step" or "two steps".

Weddings are inseparable from wine, including a wine dance with wine as the theme. This dance imitates the shape of a peacock and is very lively. In different farming seasons throughout the year, the Qiang people also like to dance the Pot Village Dance, which is also called "Agricultural Festival Dance".

In autumn, some Qiang people like "No Children's Day", such as "Nanshui". On that day, men dressed in women's red clothes and carrying feathers went to the mountains to sing and dance all day, greet the immortals and pray for disaster relief. The "Amendment to the Russian Covenant" Festival is held on the first day of May, praying that the mountain gods will not hail or flood, which means praying for one year and fulfilling their promises. During the festival, we will dance, bow down and clap our hands around our feet in the lively pot village. The Dragon Boat Festival on May 5th is an important festival for the Qiang people in Lixian County. Mainly used to worship mountain gods. On that day, "Vashawa Walking Stick" will be performed. When dancing, your feet move left and right alternately, your arms extend horizontally, and your feet dance up and down like a flying eagle. On the evening of February 30, 65438, the Qiang village in Puxi will dance "full, full". When the guests came to the hut, the host offered highland barley wine, and then men and women faced each other and danced with rolling pins in their hands. I feel very happy.

The game-colored crispy rice dance is also called "crispy rice dance". For example, the pot village game in Qicun, where dancers stand hand in hand in a row. After leading everyone around, people drilled through two or three armpits one by one, put their hands on their right shoulders, then walked around, drilled through three or four armpits, put everyone's hands on their shoulders like chains, and then came out from the last three armpits until liberation. Walking on the steps when jumping, laughing all the time.

Due to the different circulation fields, the style and characteristics of Xishi Guozhuang also have their own characteristics. There are 25 kinds of common pot dance in Wenxian County. There are many songs in praise of mother, but few songs in praise of love. The dance was held outdoors, and the scene was spectacular. Everyone in the village can take part. Because of the different dance contents and forms, the formation changes greatly. When dancing, stand in two rows and jump towards each other. These actions include "turning to both sides", also known as "how strong", that is, turning left and right; "Four corners turn" is also called "stirring up English waves", which means jumping back and forth in four directions. "Trilateral jump" is also called "Xilaivasa", which means left jump, right jump and forward jump. From the names of these movements, we can see the characteristics of dance.

In addition, many people choose dance names with cheerful voices, such as "It's getting hotter in the west", "In the mountains", and "Bebesso" is a cheerful chorus in the dance. In the whole pot dance, "Chidomanamaka" in Chibi Soviet Area of Maowen County showed unique movements, with his left foot in a low position. When dancing, the handles are arranged horizontally. When the right foot is down, the position of the left foot is low, and the buttocks swing because of constant trampling. There are more than 20 kinds of crispy rice dances in Wenchuan and Lixian, such as "Green Vegetable", "Cabbage Flower", "Youxiyi", "muxi" and "Zhou Zhou". Most of them are closely related to productive labor and agricultural harvest. For example, the "sieve" of Guo Zhuang in Xuecheng, Li County is on the threshing floor. When people sift wheat and dust, they think of a lot of food and clothing, as if they heard the "jingle" sound of shovels and iron pots on the threshing floor. The "corn rotation" in Jiashan and Guo Zhuang is also related to the harvest. In a word, Guo Zhuang in Wenchuan County and Lixian County, with wobbly pace, likes to flap their wings or clap their hands to walk, and is cheerful. Home improvement contains special flexibility; And a strong sense of humor. The characteristic action is to tease the feet, such as genu varus, with the left hand side above the left foot, the palm up and the left foot slightly lifted.