Research On Yangko Dance Materials In Northern Shaanxi Province

In this paper,based on collecting and sorting out the data about the geographical environment and historical situation of northern Shaanxi Province,the author first expounds the source and development,expressive forms,main categories and organizational forms of the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi by combining with the local styles of collecting folk songs in Suide County,Yulin and the data collected from various monographs and documents.Then,it sorts out the performing forms of the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi and studies the comprehensive and rich materials about the shapes of male dancers and female dancers in the small scenes of “Er Ren Ti Chang Zi”,a type of Yangko dance with two dancers involved.It first explores the source and causes of their movements,and then analyzes the typical common characteristics and representative movements of male dancers and female dancers as well as the characteristics and principles of the large scenes of the Yangko dance so as to know about the history and folk customs of northern Shaanxi,and the aesthetic characteristics,culture and consciousness of the public in northern Shaanxi.The Yangko dance,as a traditional folk dance,will be passed down not only through oral teaching by social masses,but also through the construction of professional classroom teaching based on the carrier of the body and the framework of cultural context and spiritual consciousness so as to inherit and develop the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi in a true sense through professional study by the combined means of physical training,awareness consciousness,etc.The construction and implementation of the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi should be under the key cultural context of folk activities by focusing the training of restoring scenes in the class on cultural functions after clarifying the functions of activities.Without breaking away with the body and culture of the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi,this paper,by presenting culture-dominated forms through restoring scenes,retaining rituals and learning chants,attempts to present the “full picture” of the forms of folk dances more fully and comprehensively in the process of cultural inheritance and teaching so that students could know its causes and effects in the process of dancing.Exploring the rules of effective inheritance and development of the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi,which is an intangible cultural heritage,is in essence exploring the relationship between the aesthetic culture of traditional ethnic dances and the current era.Inheritance from the multiple perspectives of cultural connotations rather than just from the perspective of movements is the correct starting point for the inheritance and development theory of the Yangko dance in northern Shaanxi Province.