We were actually woken up in the morning, there have been people outside singing loudly about the two-person turn, especially noisy, now the average person does not have a TV, but there is a particularly old tape recorder, the volume is particularly large, you can buy a tape, put the tape inside, you can listen to the two-person turn, in fact, at this time there is a TV is still very normal, we are in the next village, almost every family has one.

But our village is very ordinary, there are no rich people in the village, and there are less than half of the people who have a TV, my family used to be unable to afford it, and now there is no one at home, so I didn't remember that there was a TV, Grandma Zhang's family is now a rich family in the village, but to save money for Wang He, Grandma Zhang's money will basically not be spent indiscriminately, let alone buy a TV.

Qi Qi got up in a daze, and said in a daze, "Mom, you make a little noise on the TV," after speaking, I found that there was no reaction, and I opened my eyes to see that it was in my house, and there was a very small one in Qi Qi's house, but it was a color TV, which was bought by Li Qi's father, everyone is now a black and white TV, and it is rare to see a color TV, everyone says that Qi Qi's family has money, and they are very envious that Qi Qi can see color pictures.

Hearing Qi Qi's words, I also woke up, looking at Qi Qi who was a little stunned in front of me, in fact, I was also a little confused, I didn't know what was going on outside. Until Grandma Zhang came in, "You children, get up quickly, there are people who twist Yangge outside, and the children in the village have gone to see it, if you don't get up again, everyone is gone" Qi Qi and Li Qi haven't seen Yangge yet, Wang He because of the relationship between being bullied before. I didn't go to join in the fun, but when it was me, I started running with the Yangge team when I was a child. Later, when I grew up, there was no one to twist Yangge, and I haven't seen it for many years.

Twisting Yangge is the most representative dance in our Northeast China, which was originally an activity of farmers when planting rice, and women and children in the countryside during spring plowing every year. When they went to the field to plant seedlings, someone beat a big drum, and the drum sounded. People began to sing and dance, which was called Yangge.

Northeast Yangge, the form is witty, the style is unique. Yangge's costumes are colorful and colorful. You can judge the characters from the costumes, including Tang Seng, Sun Wukong, Zhu Bajie and Sha Seng in "Journey to the West", the White Lady and Xu Xian in "The Legend of the White Snake", as well as Bao Zheng, Chen Shimei, Qin Xianglian, etc., accompanied by gongs, drums, cymbals, and suona to play the tunes for performance, especially stilt walking, dragon dance, lion dance, the most famous.

In the countryside, people who twist Yangge take a big car to the nearby villages, perform in the village or in the houses of wealthy families, and also have the meaning of visiting the New Year during the New Year.

This kind of gig. The worshippers should prepare tobacco and tea for hospitality, and give the "Yangge head" a reward when the Yangge team leaves. Some of them have to take care of the food. Therefore, the Yangge team has chosen the object in advance, at least to be able to afford the reward to go, otherwise all kinds of expenses will be difficult to spend, after the Yangge team into the yard, the owner needs to prepare at least two cigarettes, four bags of pastries, if the economic situation is better, will add a few hundred yuan in cash, of course, the local men, women and children can watch the excitement in vain during the performance, our family has never been to anyone, look at the house to know that there is no money for them.

The Yangge team usually pretends to be a figure in life or historical mythology, commanded by the lead dancer, and collectively walks out of various formations or patterns, the traditional pattern of the two dragons spitting whiskers, rolling cabbage hearts, the basic movements are relatively simple, imitating the basic actions of folk labor, such as waving arms and jumping, twisting the waist and shoulders, 4 beats a bar, the first 3 beats are backward, and the last beat is back, in order to increase the vividness of the scene and the performance effect, the Yangge team is generally equipped with simple props such as fans, handkerchiefs, umbrellas, and sticks.

There is also a more famous is stepping on stilts, it is also divided into high and low: the high is "stilts", the low is called "stepping on inches", the role played by the stilt actor is: stilts: Wu Chou dressed, holding a horse whip, is the commander of the whole team, two stilts: Wu Dan dressed, also holding a horse whip. Lao Kuai, Cai Pozi, wear rural life clothes, hold a long cigarette bag, pot or mallet. Tops: comb braids and tie colored balls, colorful cardigan tops, long skirts, holding fans or hand towels, generally two or three. Bottoms: Wear a blouse with short water sleeves, long pants, and a ribbon at the waist. Generally two or three. Fishermen, fishergirls, opera dresses, and other opera characters such as Silly Pillar, White Snake, Xu Xian, and Green Snake. Tease each other and dance as a couple. It is a group from top to bottom, which is called "a frame".

The best one is arranged at the end of the queue, called the "kick drum" or "drum press", and when performing in a group, the drummer of the accompanying band changes the drum beat according to their instructions, and the whole team is led and directed by the stilts. The Northeast Yangge has a variety of skills such as twisting, dressing, singing, teasing, playing, and miscellaneous, and has the image of various characters.

When I was a child, I followed the streets to see, the children in the village, as long as they saw the Yangge coming, they would basically follow the day and not come back until dark, the older children, they rode the big bicycle at home, followed by the Yangge, and generally followed a few villages, in fact, the pace of the Yangge, as well as the appearance of dressing, was about the same every year, but at that time there was no entertainment in the village, and everyone had nothing to be busy with.

I remember when I was a child, the ideal of the child next door was to become a Yangge twister, when I went to school late, we were two in a class, and the teacher asked everyone to talk about their ideals as usual, because there was no one to lead, everyone said everything, but what impressed me the most was that he said that he would become a Yangge twister in the future.

And also listed a lot of benefits, for example, there will be sugar gourds sold next to the Yangge, the economic situation of our village is not good, the sugar gourd sellers will not come, and parents will not take money to buy their children, but the Yangge is here, and the children in the village can buy a bunch, and the taste is extremely nostalgic.

At that time, the sugar gourd didn't know how to be so delicious, it was simply a rare delicacy, the sweet coat outside, the inside was wrapped in sour hawthorn, everyone slowly licked the outer layer to finish, and then began to eat the hawthorn inside, a sugar gourd can basically be eaten for a day, and it has to be eaten in a crowded place outside, so that other children envy.

Generally I am the last to finish eating, everyone has finished eating, and the rest of the person is the object of envy of others, because the people who twist Yangge are coming over in winter or winter and spring, so the sugar gourd can be frozen, will not melt away, and put the sugar gourd bought back next to the window, I will follow the Yangge team for a day, and when other people's sugar gourds are finished, I will go home and take out my sugar gourd, eat slowly, looking at the envious eyes of the children in the village, I feel particularly satisfied, and now I find that I was really naïve before. (To be continued.) )