"Flower Bar Dance", also known as "Flower Bar Lift", is a traditional folk dance evolved from the folk religious activity "Aunt's outing". Since ancient times, it has spread in Wucheng County and surrounding counties on both sides of the Weishui River. It has strong Zhao Yan folk customs and is deeply loved by the masses and belongs to precious national cultural and artistic heritage.
Flower bar dance originated in Hongzhi period of Ming Dynasty. It is said that during the Hongzhi period of the Ming Dynasty, the Wucheng area suffered from drought year after year, and crops were not born. On April 18 of the lunar calendar, people suddenly saw a fairy in the "Niangniang Temple" in the east of the city, stepping on Xiangyun, soaring in the air and spreading flowers while walking. Everywhere she went, everything revived, crops sprouted, fruit trees blossomed, and then fell over Nantun and disappeared. People told each other that the Queen Mother sent her daughter to save the creature. People think that Xian Gu is the eldest daughter of the Queen Mother, so they built an elder sister-in-law temple in Nantun, where there is a statue of "Elder Sister-in-law". Since then, people have started burning incense and offering sacrifices.
"Flower-carrying column" originally originated from the ceremony of people carrying flower baskets to worship "elder sister-in-law". Legend has it that "Aunt" loves flowers, so people carry flower baskets and perform various dance moves in front of "Aunt Temple" to express their admiration for her and win her favor. Because Nantun is the hometown of martial arts, most of herdsman have a good knowledge of martial arts, and their performances combine dance and martial arts to form a unique performance form. In order to pray for the blessing of "elder sister-in-law", people set April 18 of the lunar calendar as the day when "elder sister-in-law" returns to her family, which is called "elder sister-in-law's marriage" or "elder sister-in-law's outing". During the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty, the flower-carrying bar reached its peak, and the scale of the band became larger and larger, and the performance activities spread from Nantun to the whole county and surrounding areas. "Raise Flowers" abandons the performance mode of the original religious ceremony, and the dance movements and performance routines are further standardized. The highest is the teacher, and the inheritance is orderly, forming the folk art of Wucheng.
On April 18 of the lunar calendar, the flower bar team in Nantun Village will perform jointly with the drum team in Dongtun. The painter in Yinmazhuang is responsible for making flower poles, lifelike statues of elder sister-in-law, paper figures, paper horses, paper ghosts and gods, paper boats, floats and so on. The patrol team gathered in front of the aunt's temple, and the ancestor burned incense and kowtowed in front of the aunt's statue, respectfully asking "Aunt to come." There are dozens or hundreds of drums, gongs, cymbals and cymbals in Dongtun Village. Under the guidance of the hand gongs, the "Seventy-two Drums" shook the earth and were harmonious and pleasing to the ear. Followed by 18 flower poles in Nantun village, paper figures pushed by floats, paper horses and elder sister-in-law goddess carrying forward, followed by paper boat-shaped floats. Wherever the "elder sister-in-law" goes, the residents are beaming, the crops are ripe, everything grows and there is a scene of prosperity. The village chiefs invited the elder sister-in-law to visit Sanyi Village for four or five days. Every time the team goes to a village, Winbond will perform, and the cheerleaders will show their skills and compete for dance and martial arts skills. Good men and women in every village put incense sticks and paper horses in floats. After the patrol, people carried the statue of the elder sister-in-law to the front of the Niangniang Temple, and "sent" (that is, burned) the statues of the paper man, the paper horse and the elder sister-in-law, meaning that the elder sister-in-law returned to her family.
Since 1950, the flower flagpole art has also appeared in festivals such as Spring Festival and Lantern Festival together with other folk art forms, such as dragon lanterns and lion dances. From 65438 to 0979, Wucheng County Cultural Center excavated, arranged and artistically processed Jacquard Bar and put it on the stage, and won the Excellent Program Award of Dezhou Cultural Performance. In the same year, he went to the province to perform and won the Shandong Excellent Program Award. 1984, China Dance Association reserves the video of "Holding the Flower Bar". 1992, "China Folk Dance Integration" published by China ISBN Center has become a key research project of the national art discipline; Excellent Program of Shenyang International Folk Culture and Art Exhibition in China. From 65438 to 0996, he participated in the Qilu Folk Square Art Exhibition organized by the Propaganda Department and Culture Department of Shandong Provincial Party Committee and won the "Black Peony Award". In June 5438+February 2006, "Flower Dance" was awarded as the first batch of provincial intangible cultural heritage.
Source: Wucheng, Shi Zhiban.
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