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Recently, "Koreans skipping subject three" rushed to the hot search. In a short ** circulated on the Internet, five Korean male middle school students twisted their hips and shook their hands on the stage of the graduation party, and the background ** was the Chinese national style song "Laughing Jianghu". The performers swayed left and right with the ** node of "sword grievances in the rivers and lakes, brushing their sleeves to cover the bright moon", and listened to the "wow" of the audience.
The wind of China's Douyin Divine Comedy "Subject 3" finally blew to the Korean Peninsula.
Koreans skip subject three" rushed to the hot search. ** Screenshot of Sina Weibo.
In fact, before this, "subject three" had already become popular all over the country along the network cable. On the short ** platform Douyin, the topic of "subject three dance" alone has more than 300,000 participations and more than 8 billion times**. The magic dance steps of "subject three" are not only the majority of netizens in my country, but also men, women and children from Japan, the Philippines, Russia, Britain and the United States and other countries.
Subject 3: Dance "To the World." ** Screenshot of Sina Weibo.
Subject 3 "The dance posture is simple but chic, not paying attention to the stage layout and dressing, the dancer only needs to follow the rhythm of the classic BGM "Laughing Jianghu" to stretch his limbs at will, twist his body, and master the silky steps, hand crank into flowers, and twist and shake the crotch to make three "silky small combos", plus the essence of the action of half-standing foot inversion, you can easily get the recognition of "Guangxi old watches".
Subject 3 "The dance posture is simple but chic, and the stage layout and dress are not particular. ** Screenshot of Bilibili.
But why Guangxi?
Because this set of silky combo small dance steps originated in Guangxi, netizens derived the topic of "three subjects that Guangxi people must test": driving schools have three subjects: traffic regulation theory, field driving and road driving, while Guangxi sings mountain songs, rice noodles, and dances.
These three skills are like the driver's license test process, and have become a necessary life skill for every Guangxi person.
The evolutionary history of "subject 3" in Guangxi
Subject 3: "Where did this set of magical dance steps originate in Guangxi?".Just like the secret book of the highest level in the martial arts, only its tricks are heard on the rivers and lakes, but the founder has long been untestable. To this day, there are three theories about the origin of "subject three":
One is that it originated from a wedding in Wuzhou, Guangxi. Locals sang and danced and created their own dance moves to celebrate the newlyweds tying the knot. This dance step is characterized by the division of labor between the upper and lower bodies, the upper body is slightly arched, and the lower body is swayed from side to side to achieve a floating state that seems to have no center of gravity but is actually all dependent on the core. This dance was adapted and disseminated on social platforms, accompanied by DJ songs with a strong sense of rhythm, and instantly became popular in Guangxi with its casual and free pace.
The second theory refers to a private room called "Louis XIII" on a local KTV in Guangxi, where people create a dance along with the melody while singing, and "Louis XIII" has gradually evolved into "subject three".
The third argument provides an explanation for the correlation between "subject three" and the driving test. A young man from Guangxi was excited after passing the driver's license test, and showed a dance outside the vehicle management office, which was filmed and uploaded to the Internet, and this "standard posture for the driver's license test" was also named "subject three".
It has become an indisputable fact that "subject three" was founded in Guangxi, but in the past few days, the spread of "subject three" in hot pot restaurants has made this "Guangxi specialty" once again a national craze, and has received many mainstream attention.
According to the report of "Nanfeng Window", the two Douyin bloggers of "Eight Bowls of Rice in One Meal" and "Guanyou Tomatoes" wore the clothes of waiters in a chain brand hot pot restaurant, swayed left and right with the nodes, crossed their hands and folded each other, and performed "Subject Three", and one ** received nearly 3 million likes. Within a week, topics related to "Haidilao subject three" have appeared on Douyin, Weibo and hot searches. Subsequently, more and more celebrities, Internet celebrities, and netizens also participated in the challenge of "subject three".
Yangtze Evening News issued an article saying that the resurgence of "subject three" is inseparable from the marketing of hot pot restaurants. Nowadays, eating steaming hot pot while watching the waiter dance "subject three" has gradually become an additional choice for more and more consumers when consuming, and even some waiters have become "store signs" because of their outstanding dancing, and the schedule is full.
Eight bowls of rice in one meal" and "Guanyou Tomatoes", two Douyin bloggers, wore waiter's clothes at a chain brand hot pot restaurant and performed "subject three". * Douyin @ Eight bowls of rice for one meal, @关你西红柿.
Although Guangxi's "Subject 3" is a new product of today's social platforms, we can taste a lot of familiarity from the dance steps of "Subject 3". Repetitive body swings, melodic but fast-paced accompaniment, and even crowd tactics and a variety of dancers create momentum.
The earthy smell that lingers in "Subject 3" is not aesthetic but makes people go up, which is actually similar to the "social shake" that was popular ten years ago.
According to the "China Youth Daily", as early as 2014, the then short ** platform "Meipai" launched an activity called "National 'Social Shake'", which attracted 1.02 million people to participate in two weeks, and successfully applied for Guinness's "largest online self-created dance ** collection". Since then, the savage growth of China's network and online live broadcast has provided a deep soil for the development of this form of performance, and "social shake" has begun to sweep the major ** platforms and become one of the keywords of local trend culture.
"Social shake" began to sweep the major ** platforms and became one of the keywords of local trend culture. ** Screenshot of Bilibili.
Under the alienation of traffic, "social shake" has become the carrier of a huge online carnival, and some value-oriented vulgar chaos breeds. After the rectification, "social shake" gradually developed into a variety of forms of "behavioral aesthetics", and intersected with the "meme culture" of the new generation of young people, evolving into a novel online subculture literary and artistic phenomenon.
The typical "social shake" performance mainly takes the crotch as the core, the feet stand still, and the lower limbs, upper limbs and head make large-scale, repetitive swinging movements with the rhythm. Based on the essence of this action, "social shake" has also derived different genres under the creation of netizens. For example, the "Lord of the Shadow Stream" - uses the doppelganger special effects of the short ** software to divide himself into three people and shake his body synchronously, the action is simple and repetitive but magical**;Macho version of the new treasure island pie" - six Filipino uncle dancers dance flexibly under the dim street lamps in the alley, and the classic movements are sonorous and powerful hands crossed like chopping vegetables and silky smooth shoulder twisting, this dance ** has also become the first ** with a volume of over 100 million ** at station B.
The macho version of the new treasure island dance** has become the first team on station B with a volume of over 100 million**. ** Screenshot of Bilibili.
These embarrassing dances on the Internet are actually the twin brothers of Guangxi's "Subject 3", and they have evolved from individual aesthetics on the edge to the local and pan-popular aesthetics of the popular Internet with orderly queues, rhythmic and momentum accompaniment, and repetitive body language that has no aesthetic sense but lets go of themselves.
Looking back at the decades since the 80s of the 20th century, when China's urbanization and globalization have been moving forward in parallel, every generation of young people will actually experience the impulse to dance. After the reform and opening up, urban youth have formed a trend of disco dancing in the mass media and consumer culture, which is also known as "jumping di". Through the direct imitation of dance styles such as friendship dance and break dancing, people swayed the youth of the first decade under the red, green, and green colored rotating light balls. Today's "subject three" in Guangxi is a free stage reopened by people on the Internet after the disappearance of the old dance hall.
People sway and dance under the red, green, and green colored balls of light. **/pixabay
Guangxi Compulsory Subjects Study Manual
It is not enough to understand the past and present life of Guangxi's "subject three", and there are still many "subjects" that need to be passed in order to become a qualified Guangxi person.
Compulsory Course 1: Singing Mountain Songs
In Guangxi, if "singing mountain songs" really becomes a science, then this well-known name of the people of the whole country will definitely be recognized as the "subject leader" of this subject, and this person is Liu Sanjie, who is known as the "God of Song" and "Song Immortal". The ethnic minority compatriots, led by the Zhuang people, are the "outstanding student representatives" of this discipline.
Liu Sanjie in film and television dramas. ** Screenshot of the movie "Liu Sanjie".
According to Liu Xiang of the Western Han Dynasty, "Saying Yuan and Good Sayings", the state of Chu ordered Yin and E Junzi Xi to hold a boat tour, and suddenly heard a burst of pleasant singing, and when he inquired, it was the popular "Yue Ren Song" at that time. After research, this is an ancient folk song of the Zhuang-Dong language, which is widely sung among the ancestors of the Zhuang nationality. "Taiping Huanji" also has a record of Zhaozhou (now Pingle, Guangxi) "men and women dressed in full costumes, gathered and sang", which shows that the Zhuang people have been fond of singing since ancient times, and the original romance of singing and music.
The Zhuang people did not form a unified script in ancient times. Therefore, to exchange feelings and spread national culture, we can only use songs as a carrier. When everyone is happy during the festival, they gather together and sing songs for funWhen choosing a mate, I don't know the details of the other party, so I use songs to inquire;When he was tired and tired of his work, he used songs to dispel itAgricultural festivals, afraid that future generations will not be able to remember, so use songs to remember;Even if it is to ask for directions, the good singer also uses the song to ask the ......In the Zhuang area, it seems that the air is full of musical notes, the earth is full of strings, and there are songs all the time, one after another.
A young man of the Zhuang nationality who can sing and dance. **Xinhua.
The Zhuang people also set a fixed form of activity for singing - Song Wei, which is called "Wei Huan" and "Wopo" in Zhuang language. Gewei has been popular since the Song Dynasty, and it is recorded in Zhou Qufei's "Lingwai Dai Answer" in the Song Dynasty. There are three main things people do in Gewei - making friends and choosing mates, competing songs, and entertaining themselves. There is no fixed time and place for ordinary songs, and when there is an auspicious time such as weddings, temple fairs, and the completion of new houses, it is the time when people sing loudly.
The festive singing is generally from the first lunar month to May and autumn.
The festival takes place in August and September, and in the open fields or slopes at the junction of villages, there are as few as one or two thousand people as many as tens of thousands.
Among them, the most solemn song is the March 3 Song Wei. March 3 is a traditional festival of the Zhuang people to commemorate the ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest of grains, there are folk activities such as throwing hydrangeas, setting off fireworks, and acting, but among them, Gewei is the most eye-catching, so this day also has the nickname of "Gewei Festival" or "Gepo Festival".
Compulsory Course 2: Rice Noodles
The subject of "rice noodles" sounds simple, but its breadth and profundity is far beyond the imagination of people from other provinces.
Guangxi people have a soft spot for rice noodles, but due to the different marinades and ingredients in various places, resulting in a wide variety of rice noodles, it can be said that each city has its own bowl of noodles. Nanning's Laoyou Noodles, Guilin's Guilin Rice Noodles, Liuzhou's Snail Noodles, Wuming's Squeezed Noodles, Binyang's Sour Noodles, Qinzhou's Pig's Feet Noodles, Guiping's Luoxiu Rice Noodles, Yulin's Beef Butter Noodles, Wuzhou's Beef Offal Noodles, ......Behind it is the "sour" culture of the Dong and Miao people, the traditional "rice" culture of the Zhuang people, the "spicy" culture of the Yao people and the "halogen" culture of the Han people.
Guilin rice noodles. ** Screenshot of the documentary "Taste of Guangxi".
Binyang acid powder. ** Screenshot of the documentary "Taste of Guangxi".
Rice noodles, the "originator of fast food", can be traced back to the time when Qin Shi Huang unified Baiyue. Since most of the soldiers of the Qin army in the Baiyue army were from the northwest, the diet was mainly pasta, and in the south where rice was abundant, the gang used rice to make "rice noodles", which is today's rice noodles, in order to take care of the taste preferences of the soldiers.
On this basis, later generations made rice noodles out of tricks. According to the Tang Dynasty's cookbook "Chef's Handbook", people covered mutton with rice noodles, and used "five-flavor sauce" as a topping, and then pepper, crisp and it, a simple single bowl of noodles, but also contains a lot of superb cooking techniques. But when it comes to the peculiar taste of the powder, we have to mention the snail powder. Snail noodles originated in the streets of Liuzhou in the eighties of the twentieth century, it is made of the local unique soft and smooth dry cut powder, plus sour bamboo shoots, fungus, peanuts, fried bean curd, dried radish and other ingredients and rich and moderate sour and hot flavor and boiled snail spice soup blended together, set sour, spicy, fresh, cool, hot in one.
Liuzhou snail noodles. ** Screenshot of the documentary "Taste of Guangxi".
How much do Guangxi people love rice noodles?In the early years of the Qing Dynasty, Guangxi people could travel long distances to catch the market for a bowl of noodles. At that time, in order to stabilize the border defense and develop the economy, the Qing Dynasty expanded Guangxi's polder city to the left and right river basins and borders. In order to stimulate the development of Jiewei, the governor of Guangxi once distributed "rice flour money" to attract border people to live and do business - the masses who came to the pass to rush to the wei were rewarded with 5 copper coins per person and a bowl of rice noodles for free. It can be seen that rice noodles have a prominent position in the catering of Guangxi people since ancient times.
Compulsory Course 3: Silky Combo Dance Steps
The third subject in Guangxi is, of course, dancing. But if you think that Guangxi people can only twist their hips and shake their hands, you are very wrong.
Guangxi occupies a corner of its own with its unique Lingnan culture, and has not only maintained its own independence in the course of historical evolution, but also formed a situation of national integration in inclusiveness. This multi-ethnic border area is home to more than 10 ethnic groups, including Zhuang, Han, Yao, Miao, Dong, Maonan, Hui and Yi, and has a very rich origin of traditional folk dance. According to the different production methods, most of the folk dance elements of ethnic minorities in Guangxi are extracted from production and life, such as the "Ant Dance and the Flat Dan Dance" extracted from the farming culture of the Zhuang people, the "Qinzhou Tea Picking Dance" of the Han nationality, and the "Panwang Dance" and "Dancing Ganwang" inspired by the Yao people from hunting. In contrast, the silky combo small dance steps of "subject three" are just some basic movements in front of these folk dances.
Zhuang "Flat Dan Dance". * Screenshot of the show "Dance World".
However, the popularity of "Subject 3" around the world has shown us that culture does not necessarily need to be completely confined to elegance, and multicultural phenomena can infect more audiences.
China is a vast country, and each province and city may have its own "god skills" and "subject three". The "one-legged donkey" of Jilin people, the horse racing of Inner Mongolia people, and the pancake fruit of Tianjin people ......
References:
China Youth Daily: Why We Like "Subject 3".
Yangtze Evening News: "Guangxi Subject III" Became Popular on the Internet, Is It Vulgar or Happy?》
Zhejiang**: Subject 3, why can it be popular overseas?》
Nanfeng Window: "Subject 3" is earthy and embarrassing, why is it popular".
Yan Fenghua: "Guangxi Shiju Ethnic Culture Series Zhuangxing the World", Guangxi Nationalities Publishing House.
Hao Zhikuo, Shi Jili, Feng Meng: "*Guangxi Rice Noodles Culture".
He Yuankai, Zhou Chao, Hao Guoqiang: "Food Culture Narrative and Forging the Sense of Community of the Chinese Nation: Tracing the Origin of Guangxi Rice Noodles Culture".
Yu Ying: Guangxi Dance Culture, Guangxi People's Publishing House.
*丨National Humanities and History (Wen Guan He) Editor丨Gan Xiaobo.