Quanzhou chest clapping dance

Name of China's national intangible cultural heritage: Quanzhou chest clapping dance

Applicant: Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Project No.: 115

Project No.: Ⅲ - 12

Time of publication: 2006 (the first batch)

Category: traditional dance

Region: Fujian Province

Type: new item

Applicant: Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Protected by: cultural center of Licheng District, Quanzhou City

Brief introduction of Quanzhou chest clapping dance

Applicant: Quanzhou City, Fujian Province

Chest clapping dance is one of the most representative folk dances in Fujian Province. It is mainly popular in Fuqiao, Jiangnan, Quanzhou and Jinmen in Southern Fujian. The form of clapping chest dance is relatively simple. Only one or two people can dance anytime and anywhere. The traditional dancers of clapping chest dance are male, wearing straw hoops, bare upper body and barefoot. The main movements are beating, clapping, clipping and stamping, which tend to be in a single rhythm. The parts are concentrated in the chest, elbow, leg and palm. The basic posture is like pulling the waist and holding the chest straight, jumping all over the body, supplemented by vigorous squatting and contented shaking head movements, forming a rough, simple, humorous and warm style. The basic action of chest clapping dance is "seven beats", that is to say, the two hands first clap one palm in front of the chest, then clap the left and right chests in turn, clip the left and right ribs inside the arms in turn, and clap the left and right legs in turn with the two hands to get a total of seven beats. At the same time, with the feet squatting crotch step rhythmically jump, the body will move left and right, coupled with shaking head movement, to produce a unique style Rocking rhythm makes the dance free and natural, showing the characteristics of dexterity, lightness, humor and straightforwardness, so that it can be performed repeatedly and continuously. "Da Qi Xiang" most prominently represents the basic rhythm and style characteristics of clapping chest dance. Today's dancers add music to the chest clapping dance, which makes the performance scene lively and orderly, "seven beats" become "eight beats" (that is, two hands clapping in front of the chest). This has developed the basic movements of chest clapping dance and formed different styles and characteristics.

The snake shaped headdress on the straw hoop worn by the performers of chest clapping dance retains the relic of snake totem worship of Minyue aborigines in Qin and Han Dynasties, and its performance form also retains the relic of primitive dance of ancient Minyue. The inner rhythm of clapping chest dance is very similar to the Tujia Dance "roulianxiang". From the perspective of the distribution of dance types, it has a close relationship with the dances of Li, Gaoshan and other southern ethnic minorities. Zheng Yuanhe, an ancient opera in Liyuan, Quanzhou, retains the "Lotus falling" beggar's chest clapping. Today's folk chest clapping dance uses and retains Quanzhou Nanyin's "three thousand taels of gold". This cultural inheritance relationship is also of great research value.