Manchu Donghai Mang Dance

Heilongjiang
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The Manchu Donghai Mang style dance is the epitome of Manchu dances. Through dance, it shows the scenes of production, life and hunting of the Manchus, and reproduces the rich national characteristics of the Manchus. The "Manchu Donghai Mang style dance" is a song and dance activity held by Manchu families during festive festivals. It is divided into nine folds and eighteen styles. These nine different dance segments can be an organic whole or independent. The dance reflects the scenes of the fishing, hunting and fighting life of the Jurchens. Nowadays, fishing and hunting life is gone, and the songs and dances based on it naturally have no tree trunks to climb. The "Manchu Donghai Mang style dance" is also commonly known as the nine folds and eighteen styles. It is a dance that has been circulated since the Jurchen period and has rich content. According to Meng Xiuxia, the inheritor of the Donghai Mang style dance, it is the basis of all Manchu dances, including the basic movements of various dances. The general rhyme is: Donghai Mang style is the first, and the nine folds and eighteen styles are comprehensive. The starting style is to thread the needle and swing the water step, and the body, hands, steps and shoulders are closely connected. The auspicious step is the key, and this connection is used between each fold. Single and double galloping horses are martial arts steps, and bows, horses, swords and spears are ready for battle. The strange python was originally a juggling segment, crawling, shaking, twisting, swinging and jumping for fun. The coiled dragon playing in the water is even more outstanding, just like celebrating a good harvest and a good year. Jiuzhe is nine different dance segments, which can be danced in succession or separately. They are: "Rise to Joy", "Threading the Needle", "Swinging the Water", "Auspicious Steps", "Single Galloping Horse", "Double Galloping Horse", "Coiling Dragon", "Strange Python Out of the Cave", and "Big Garden". Eighteen Styles are the eighteen basic movements in dance. They include: three styles of hand movements: double swing, threading the needle, and paddling in the water. Among them, the double swing is divided into different movements such as front, back, left, right, up and down. At present, in China, the only place that can fully display the "Manchu Donghai Mang Style Dance" and display the inheritors of shaman sacrificial activities is Ning'an City, Heilongjiang Province. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.) (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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