By 猫爆炸了Cat Explosive
Yingge Dance, Yingge, Engor, or “Hero’s Song,” is a form of Chinese folk dance originating from the Ming Dynasty. It is very popular in Teochew, a region in the east of Guangdong, and is one of the most representative forms of folk arts.
Yingge Dance is one of the Han ethnic dance forms, with the Chinese classic novel “Water Outlaws” as the story background, ” To attack Daming City, rescue Lu Junyi” as the dance narrative, the song praises the theme of goodness wins over evil, valorously moving forward, unity and fighting heroism. After years of sediment and the scouring of the long river of history, Yingge Dance has become an excellent intangible cultural heritage. It carries the people’s wishes for a better life.
This work is my undergraduate work. It is a series of illustrations based on the national intangible cultural heritage of YingGe dance in Puning City, Guangdong Province, with the core of expressing spiritual inheritance. The purpose of the creation is to spread the Yinge dance culture and let more young people understand and like this excellent intangible cultural heritage, so I chose to draw the “spiritual inheritance passed from older generations to younglings” which touched me most.
