Xinhua News Agency: Shao Rui
the big wild goose pagoda in Xi'an. A burst of thick and powerful drums, burst out of the noisy voice, attracted everyone's attention.
Chen Zhichao, who has been drumming 95 times after standing in front of the drum, has been dancing Yangko and playing Gong and drum for more than ten years. He and gongs and drums teammates are playing "drum up" for the upcoming Yangko performance in Northern Shaanxi.
the world famous big wild goose pagoda, almost every day people come to dance the Yangko out of hobby. These spontaneous folk Yangge team members have reaped health, happiness and friendship, and their confident dance steps have already become a beautiful scenery in the square.
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young Chen Zhichao is the expert level character of these folk Yangge team, gongs and drums accompaniment, action guidance, program arrangement... He knows everything, and many of his grandparents have become his students. At the age of
7, in the hometown of Fuxian in Northern Shaanxi, Chen Zhichao was attracted by the sound of gongs and drums at a temple fair in the village.
when he grew up in Xi'an to study, Chen Zhichao set up a Yangko art community in school; after graduation, he became a regular guest of several folk Yangge teams in Xi'an.
in the South Goose Pagoda of the big wild goose pagoda, Zuo Manli, who was the "95 Queen", was guided by Chen Zhichao.
"the standard of action he demonstrated to me was free and easy, but it also showed the feminine sense of beauty and shame." Zuo Manli said.
"I usually have a lot of pressure to do sales, Yangko is simple and easy to learn. I feel like I can feel free to jump up, and I'm in a good mood."
the cross step underfoot, the big flower of the fan... Chen Zhichao, who teaches the Yangge, is the head and right.
in his view, in addition to the action itself, the first of the dance Yangge is the mentality, the joy of the Yangko to live, the dead must be unnatural;
second is a tacit agreement between men and women, in order to show the feeling of "coquettish" in the dialect.