1. Chest dance
Chest-beating dance is a major feature of Quanzhou folk dance. There is no limit to the number of chest dancers, but they are all strong men, wearing round leather rings on their heads, bare upper bodies and ribbons around their waists, dancing with the slow, medium and fast rhythm and steps of accompaniment songs such as "Wind Beating Pears" and "Three Thousand and Two Gold". The basic movements of chest clap dance are mainly squatting, followed by clapping, chest clap, threatening and leg lift. The main action combinations are "seven strokes", "eight strokes", "high-five", "jade donkey jumping", "golden rooster independence", "good talent holding the card", "toad coming out of the hole", "half moon slanting" and "big", and this kind of dance is indispensable in every festival celebration and street parade.
2. Color ball dance
Colored ball dance, also known as "kicking the ball" and "tribute the ball", is one of the main forms of folk cultural activities such as festivals, games to meet the gods, weddings, funerals and celebrations. The dance is in the form of four girls wearing "hairpin flowers", colorful embroidered shoes and an ugly girl wearing "lilac holder", dancing around a colored ball with a long handle. Girls and ugly girls hold the ball with their hands, shoulders, head and knees, hold the ball, head the ball and kick the ball. Ugly women perform humorous performances, or carry the ball on their backs, or catch it on their knees, or swing it on their shoulders, or lift their feet around the ball, singing and dancing, which is vivid.
3. The Mystery of Wrong Palace
"Cuo Gong Fan", also known as "Lotus Picking", is a folk dance performed in Quanzhou during the Dragon Boat Festival, which originated from the "exorcism" in ancient Quanzhou and the "Lotus Picking Dance Team" in the Tang and Song Dynasties. A dance team usually consists of 10 to dozens of people. In front of the team, the ugly "paver" is escorting the way and making contact. At one end, a pole, straw sandals and pig's trotters are hung, and at the other end, a new urinal full of wine is hung, knocking on the gong; Then, 2-4 "makeup people" (dressed as characters, also called "small banners") held banners with mugwort and banyan branches tied to the end of the flagpole; Then the four-tube band; After four strong men carried a wooden lion or a clay sculpture and paper-bound dragon king's head mat, they were accompanied by four "flower women" (or four girls dressed as "flower girls") carrying a red lacquer basket full of flowers. During the parade, the band repeatedly played the dance music "Gonglian", and everyone sang along. Every time I go to a family, the "makeup artist" holding a banner shouts auspicious words and enters the hall; Jump a few times between the beams hung with banners, and the flower girl (or flower woman) will give flowers to the layman, and the layman will give a red envelope.
4. Dismiss Ding Gong Ding Huo Bo.
"Ding Huo Gong Ding Huo Po" was performed by three people: Gong was holding a long orange pipe; Huo Dingpo holds a big round cattail leaf fan; The village girl dressed in cardigan wide pants, embroidered soft-soled cloth shoes and a load of firewood tied with rope on her shoulder was dressed as a "servant girl". The couple carried a big iron tripod with a long bamboo pole inserted in it, and the tripod was full of flames. Accompanied by the rhythm of folk tunes such as "Ten Flowers String", they danced in the people's lane watching the tramp and communicated with the audience with funny actions and humorous language. The village girl followed her, carrying a firewood, and followed the dance steps. The moral of this dance is to look forward to a rich life.
5. Donkeys visit relatives
Donkeys visiting relatives are performed by four people. A pair of old husbands dressed as clowns were tied to "donkeys" on bamboo paper and let them ride on donkeys. The old man led the donkey, followed by his daughter and "silly son-in-law". The plot is roughly that the old in-laws had a quarrel with their in-laws because of their daughter's marriage, and they took their daughter and other donkeys to the man's house to judge. Dance shows the scene of four people in this family on the road: lively, humorous and full of fun. "Donkeys visiting relatives" first appeared in the performance of "pretending to be people" in the folk social fire in the late Qing Dynasty.
6. car inspiration
The manifestations of "car encouragement" vary greatly from place to place; There are car drum men and car drum women carrying big drums made of bamboo sticks for dance performances; There is an old man playing drums, two young students playing drums, a group dance performance with drums and gongs and drums beating time, a group dance performance with drums and gongs and drums beating cymbals, and a group dance performance with drums on a shelf, with bells, gongs, cymbals and big blows, two people pretending to be ugly and brave, and two people holding fans; There is a three-person dance performance (also called "Drum Pavilion in-laws") in which drums are placed on a sedan chair, and two people play the role of an old couple to lift drums face to face, and one person plays drums in the middle. Most of the movements absorbed the steps of China traditional opera. Music mostly uses folk tunes, such as. Car Drum Tune, Four Seasons Songs, Gengdumu Tune and so on. The team dance lineup is spectacular, uniform and warm. In recent years, some suburbs of Licheng have developed from "Car Drum Girl" in "Car Drum Encouragement" to "Car Drum Girl Dance Team" with unique dance steps and charm.
7. Huian girl
This is an ancient traditional costume popular in Huian Chongwu, Quanzhou. She wore a bright little flower towel on her head, which covered her cheeks and chin and only broke her eyes, nose and mouth. She was wearing a short and narrow cardigan, revealing her belly, wearing black wide-leg pants, forging a chain around her waist, holding a silver bracelet and carrying a small bamboo basket. This is the traditional dress of Huidong women. This kind of dress is unique in the whole country, which is particularly eye-catching. In the past, this kind of clothes were equipped with frames that bound Huidong women. With the deepening of modern life, these invisible shackles are quietly escaping, but this kind of clothing is showing more and more customs, showing the unique charm of harmony between modern and ancient times.
8. Pupu girl
Women in fishing villages in the suburbs of Quanzhou have the custom of keeping hairpin flowers. This kind of women's hair accessories is a custom handed down by Arabs in Song and Yuan Dynasties. Zanhuawei is simple to make and unique in pattern. Flowers in bud or just released (mainly laughing flowers, magnolia flowers or other small flowers) are tied with hemp thread into a hairpin circle, surrounded by three small rings with alternating colors, and inserted with a hairpin and a silver comb.