Chapter 305: Hundreds of Operas, a Dance of Strength and Softness
Pans and drums are placed on the open space in the hall as dance tools. Dancers perform dances on or around the pans and drums. There are more than ten dancers in the hall performing.
This kind of dance mostly uses seven pans, so it is also called the seven-pan dance. It was very popular in the court of the Han Dynasty, but now it is only popular in the Wei state.
There is no uniform format for the number of pans and drums and their placement. They can be flexibly controlled according to the requirements of the dance movements. The dancers must sing and dance at the same time, and use their feet to dance on the drum surface.
Pan drum dance includes solo dance and group dance, with solo dance being the main one. There are male and female dancers. For solo dance, seven pan drums and one drum are arranged on the ground. A man wearing a crown and long-sleeved dance clothes is jumping off the pan drum.
Looking back at the drum, the dancing sleeves and crown are flying, and the movements are bold and bold.
The group dance consists of three men with high-nosed crows, shirtless and barefoot, performing tiger leaps and handstands on five drums. The group dances seen so far have been up to four people, but now most of the dancers are women. After all,
The pan drum dance performed by women is more graceful and beautiful.
The dancer in the hall is dancing with her pure white jade feet on the plate, leaping and stepping on the drum, dancing to the rhythmic drum sound, and also completing many difficult dance moves accurately and emotionally, showing her outstanding performance.
The beauty and artistic conception of dance.
From time to time, someone would take a sip of wine and then clap their hands and cheer: "Okay, it's really wonderful!"
Zhang Heng's "Dance Fu" of the Han Dynasty contains the phrase "sweeping over the seven drums", which shows that the dancers must not only step and jump on the drums to make rhythmic drum sounds, but also complete difficult movements. At the same time, they need to
The ability to control the body, otherwise it will not be able to meet the requirements of high verticality and lightness.
Fu Yi's "Dance Fu" contains phrases such as turning around and returning, forced by the urgency of the situation, kneeling tiredly from floating, treading and rubbing.
It means that the dancer jumps up in the air nimbly to the fast-paced music, then kneels down several times, dances skillfully with the toes to beat the pan drum, makes a falling posture with the body, and rubs the drum surface. This is quite vivid.
It describes the beautiful movements of pan drum dance.
Then there were five drums arranged on the ground. A pretty dancer wearing a wide and long-sleeved dance dress leaned over the drum, stepped on the drum head with both knees and feet, slapped the drum head with one hand, and raised the dance sleeves with the other hand and turned her head to look up.
.
The two people in front and behind kneel down, facing the dancers, each holding a drumstick in his left hand, raising his arms and flying, as if performing in conjunction with the dancers, beating the drum with the camera. There is also a kind of retreat that is only described in the poems of the ancestors.
The dance of drum dancing also allowed everyone to see it today.
Ji Kang stroked his beard and exclaimed: "Tsk, the skills of the dancer in the prime minister's house are really extraordinary!"
Bian Lan (Cao Cao's nephew) wrote in "Xuchang Palace Fu" that "Zhen Hua is enough to stop the dance, and if it is broken, it will continue again." The drum vibrates and the dance is chaotic, and the feet are continuous but not merged, which requires the dancers to
When dancing, not only should the sound of the drum still follow the beat but not be messy, it should also be done so that the front foot is about to leave the drum surface, and the back foot is just stepping on the other drum surface, and the feet are bouncing continuously and never stop.
They fall side by side on the same drum surface.
When doing pan drumming, you also pay great attention to the movements of your sleeves and waist.
There is a description in Zhang Heng's "Dance Fu" that the train is like a flying swallow and the sleeves are like snow.
In Fu Yi's "Dance Fu" there are words such as robes conforming to the wind and long sleeves criss-crossing, which all reflect the light and agile movements of the dancers and the raised posture of the dance sleeves and skirts. "Zhang Huatai Fu" has a pitching style.
Stranger, suddenly come to deify the words, Zhang Heng's "Dance Fu" has sentences about slender waist and folding each other, and leaning and low. These words are all describing the magic of the slender and agile dancing waist of the female dancer.
The posture reflects the dancer's flexible waist and superb skills. Obviously women are more suitable for this kind of dance than men.
Pan drumming is often performed together with comedy performances by actors and actresses, which makes the scene of pan drumming more relaxed and lively, and adds to the joyful atmosphere of the banquet.
After a while, two of the dancers were dancing to the drums, and behind them there was a actor jumping forward.
There are five plates on the ground. A tall dancer in red raises her arms and throws her long sleeves behind her. She seems to be running forward on the plate with rapid dance steps. Her long pink sleeves are rolled up. Behind her is a naked girl.
The dwarf wearing red trousers stretches his arms forward to chase the red-dressed dancer, which has a strong comic effect and a sharp contrast. This dance is also performed in the hall of the female relatives.
Ruan Ji couldn't help but said: "This dance is really soft yet strong, it can be said that yin and yang complement each other."
He Yan burped and said, "Aside from the dancing posture, the artistic conception of this dance is also pretty good."
Generally speaking, the dances of the Han people are mainly about dancing hands and sleeves, while the dances of foreign ethnic groups are famous for kicking and spinning.
Pan-drum dance not only moves the hands and sleeves to show the waist skills, but also steps on the pan and drums, wandering and rotating repeatedly to show the leg skills.
The direction of the long sleeves and the shape of the lower waist in the dance give people a sense of fluidity, grace and softness, while the image of jumping and stepping on the drum gives people a sense of rhythm, strength and beauty.
Therefore, Pandeng drum dance is not only full of gentle beauty, but also thrilling and powerful.
There is softness and hardness, and hardness and softness complement each other. In comparison, Bayu dance is more rigid, while scarf dance is more soft.
Pan-drum dance is a brand-new dance produced by the fusion of Han dance and foreign folk dance.
Harlequins are sometimes incorporated into this dance, and dwarfs are used as backup dancers. The clumsiness of the backup dancers forms a sharp contrast with the elegant appearance of the main dancer, and serves as a foil.
Pan-drum dance is not only a display of pure dance skills, but more importantly, it has achieved high achievements in expressing artistic conception.
Zhang Heng's "Dance Fu" describes the various dance movements of Pangu, and the exquisite performance in which the eyes and music are closely coordinated. It profoundly reveals the poetic beauty, profoundness and broad artistic conception expressed in dance, making the viewer's mind wander endlessly.
Think long and far.
The dancing postures of the dancers in the hall are sometimes upright and high-spirited, as if they were towering mountains; sometimes they are graceful and smooth, like the shape of flowing water.
At the same time, it has a significant effect, that is, it can design the dance appearance and change the movements according to the dance content and the dancer's inner emotions.
The sentiment and artistic interest expressed in the dance have reached a state that astounds the viewers. It is graceful, melancholy, indescribable, and extremely exquisite, which cannot be described in words.
This chapter is not finished yet, please click on the next page to continue reading the exciting content! Zhang Heng’s description of Pan Drum Dance in the Han Dynasty vividly reflects the superb artistic level achieved by dance in the Han Dynasty. Therefore, Pan Drum Drum Dance became the most popular dance among people in the Han Dynasty and was popular for many generations.
Hundreds of years later, it is still popular in Cao Wei.
Along with the dance of the dancer, there are three people playing accompaniment on one side of the hall. The musical instruments include bells, chimes, drums, xuns, cymbals, ses, shengs, panpipes, etc. There are also female singers singing accompaniment.
Nongwan, sword dancing, rope walking, etc. in Baixi are also performed at the same time as the dancers, absorbing acrobatic skills and strengthening the difficulty of the dance movements, but also enhancing the viewing value of this dance, making it more suitable for lively occasions such as banquets.
.
When the dance begins, the dancer conveys the feeling of pitching to the viewer, and the movement is completed in an instant. Its graceful posture and melancholy rhyme cannot be fully described in its image.
Subsequently, the dance entered a new stage, "flying like flying, like singing like falling. It moves wildly, and the fingers respond to the sound."
At this time, the dance postures are in accordance with the rhythm, and the finger and body movements are all in response to the sound of the drum.
Look, "The clothes are flowing in the wind, and the long sleeves are criss-crossed." The ever-changing dance postures dazzle the viewers. The winding skills make the hands and feet merge. The dancers are as light as a flying swallow, as agile as a Jinghong. The graceful dance posture is leisurely
Slow and gentle, yet the changes are rapid and easy.
It is through the wonderful dance postures that the dancers convey their own aspirations, "In the mountains, in the water. Transform with the aspirations, and live in a worthy life." The aspirations in the mountains are majestic, and the flowing water is magnanimous.
Feelings.
The dance posture changes with the mind, and the dance appearance also changes according to the intention. There is poetry in the song, and the dancers show it through the performance, "The air is like floating clouds, and the ambition is like autumn frost."
During the performance, the dancers came out one after another, "picking up the ranks and arranging them. It was as if the gods were moving, flying back and forth."
There are countless changes in the ranks, stretching and retreating in a certain degree, as if a group of immortals are out and about, soaring at will. "You can't strike, you can't step," the hands are tapping the clapper quickly, and the feet are beating the drum without stopping.
The sound of stamping suddenly stopped, and it was as quiet as a virgin.
When the dancers start dancing again, the drums beat urgently.
Dancers may jump or kneel down, rub the drum with their hands, or step on the drum with their feet.
The body is bent, and the waist is like a bow. "Slender moths are flying, and they are like swarms. They are beyond the gathering of birds, and they are relaxed and dead." It is like butterflies flying in the air, like birds flying quickly, relaxing and relaxing very freely. "
"The body is like a swimming dragon, the sleeves are like plain neon", it is very beautiful. After the dance, the dancers retreated to the ranks, and a long time had passed unknowingly.