Dressed in tight-fitting short fights, with oil paint on their faces, and their feet on "hero boots" - accompanied by strong gongs and drums, one by one, the lively British singers and dancers move from side to side, jump up and down, and play double sticks in the rough and mighty dance steps, hitting bursts of sonorous and powerful rhythmic ......
In Times Square, Shantou City, Guangdong Province, the rugged and heroic British song and dance performance attracted many people**. Photo by Yuan Sheng.
A whistle sounds, and a thousand sticks are struck. The majestic British song and dance team walked on the road, jumped on the road, and the sound of gongs and drums and shouts resounded in the sky, which is a unique New Year's flavor in the Chaoshan area. The Yingge, which integrates martial arts, dance and opera, with its distinctive masculine and heroic spirit and vigorous vitality, "fire out of the circle", many foreign tourists come to Chaoshan for the New Year, just to see the sassy and heroic posture of the "Chinese War Dance". Wherever the singers and dancers went, there would be crowds of people cheering and cheering.
Guan Sheng, the red-faced and red-bearded "head mallet", the black-faced and black-bearded "second mallet" Li Kui, Shi Qian, who caught snakes, Song Jiang who played the big drum, and Wu Song, who wore tiger skins, ......One by one, the characters who came out of "Water Margin" danced with majestic power, jumped out of heroic pride, and their queue graphics were also dizzying, "Double Dragon Going to Sea", "Tiger Descending Mountain", "Wheat Ear Flower", "Field Snail Circle" and other styles emerged in endlessly.
The Yingge team passed through Xuegong Square, Rongcheng District, Jieyang City, Guangdong Province, and was warmly sought after by the people along the road. Photo by Zheng Chufan.
As a national intangible cultural heritage, Yingge has a history of hundreds of years. Yao Wangxin, chairman of the Shantou Civil Artists Association, said, "In Chaoshan folk, English songs have always been regarded as a symbol of good and evil, auspicious and peaceful, and have a deep mass foundation. ”
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