warm and deep

Chapter 15 Dance
The Panwang Festival is an important festival for the Yao people to worship their ancestor Panhu. The time and form of the Panwang Festival for the Yao people in different places are different, but it is usually held during the slack time between the autumn harvest and before the Spring Festival, and there will be performances such as singing and dancing.Therefore, the local government where the Yao compatriots live attaches great importance to the annual Panwang Festival, actively organizes grassroots village groups to rehearse the performances, and sometimes invites theater troupes and other cultural groups from outside to add to the fun.

Chunhua is the most beautiful among all the Yao daughters-in-law who married into Qingshi Village, so every year when the autumn harvest is over, she is called by the village to rehearse the show.

This year, the villagers are very excited and full of confidence to show their faces at the Panwang Festival.Because another good female teacher came to their village.The village party secretary greeted the principal early on, and asked Guo Zisu to also participate in the performance.

Guo Zisu shook her head when she heard this.She knew a little about the Panwang Festival from books, and knew that it was a festival with great ethnic and local characteristics. Some of the ceremonies and performances on it had been passed down for hundreds of years, and they couldn't be done by one person.

"What are you afraid of? A college student who graduated from a normal school can sing and dance well, and has a foundation. Besides, you live in the same room with Chunhua, and she will teach you. The village head and I have already greeted her, and she is willing to be ruthless. ” said the headmaster.

"But I have to attend classes during the day and prepare lessons at night. How can I have time to study?"

"I can't help it. This is a task assigned by the superior. I heard that this year's Panwang Festival even has people from the province. You can't just sit and watch that our village doesn't have a decent show, can you? You are also a member of Qingshi Village now." said the principal earnestly.

Guo Zisu bit the bullet and said, "Okay, but I can't guarantee the practice time, and I can't guarantee that I won't make a fool of myself."

"I have more confidence than you. You look like this. When you go there, you will see the brilliance of our Qingshi Village." The headmaster shouted loudly, with a smile on his face.

Guo Zisu returned to her residence with a sad face. In the small room, she recalled the basic movements of the Yao nationality dance she had learned in school, and danced on her own, but she couldn't find the essentials.She was so annoyed that she sat down on the bench, angry.

In the evening, after Guo Zisu was busy with her homework and helped "Minced Meat" finish her homework, she closed the door and danced in the room.

Chunhua saw the movement in Guo Zisu's room, and remembered what the branch secretary had told her during the day, finished the housework in a hurry, washed her face, and knocked on Guo Zisu's door.

"Ms. Guo, what kind of dance do you practice?" Chunhua looked at Guo Zisu's desk and there was a dance teaching material, which was full of various dance poses.

"Hey," Guo Zisu called Chunhua to sit down, and said, "I'm still messing around, I don't know where to start. I've never seen Pan Wangwu before."

"Panwang Dance? Do they want you to dance the Panwang Dance?" Chunhua asked with her eyes wide open.

"Ah, isn't it? The principal said you would teach me, but you've been busy, so I don't have the nerve to look for you."

"Oh." Chunhua hurriedly said, "You're mistaken. We don't dance the Panwang Dance. There is a special team in Panwangwu and Panwangge. They make money from this. We dance the dance we choreographed ourselves. Just find a song, and we can dance with the action.”

"Really? So simple?"

"Yes, we are going to have fun. In the words of the branch secretary, we are going to show that we live a good life and sing the praises of our happy life." Chunhua chose the words she thought were the most understandable to explain to Guo Zisu.

Guo Zisu understood, it turns out that this performance is like a school party, just choose the singing and dancing performance that she is best at, and of course it has to be more positive.This is much less difficult for me.

She nodded, she had a solid idea, and asked Chunhua: "Then what did you arrange in previous years?"

"We have ranked "My Motherland", "The Sun Is Blissful", and "Folk Songs Are Like Spring River Water", etc. I can't remember some of them."

"Then has the song for this year been decided?"

"Not yet. The branch secretary said that you are a college student who has studied dance, and asked me to ask you." Chunhua said seriously.

"Oh, I just had dance lessons when I was in school, and I learned some basic movements. In fact, I am very stupid and can't dance at all." Guo Zisu said with a bit of shyness.

Chunhua smiled: "Mr. Guo, don't be polite with me. Now they have entrusted us with this task. I will discuss with you a song, and I will ask the other sisters to practice together."

Guo Zisu thinks that the Panwang Festival is very close now, and everyone is very busy, so it is better to find a relatively simple and easy-to-learn one to practice.She described to Chunhua several group dances she danced at school, but these dances were youthful dances with intense rhythm and impressionistic movements.

Chunhua looked at the various modern dance moves made by Guo Zisu, shook her head again and again, and said, "Mr. Guo, these moves of yours seem very passionate, but they seem to be different from the passion for labor that we dance to show. Besides, you We can’t learn these professional movements even after several years of practice, our bones are hardened.”

Hearing what Chunhua said, Guo Zisu stopped tossing and said, "How about this, Chunhua, show me all the dances you have danced before, and then we will think about it together, which song is there now?" It's very popular and more suitable for your moves."

Chunhua clapped her hands and said, "Yes, that's a good idea. I'll go to the room and get the tape recorder and tapes, and I'll show you the dance right away."

When the music sounded, Chunhua had let loose the ponytail tied behind her head, she slowly turned her graceful waist, holding a shallow smile, like a swallow nestling, and like a sheep coquettish.She spins, spins, faster and faster.Jumping for a while, turning around for a while, her black hair was scattered behind her head, and then fell on her chest, covering her eyes in a confusing way.She is completely intoxicated in her dance, as graceful as a frightened bird, like a fish swimming.Cheerful dancing postures, graceful and skillful movements, all kinds of charming postures, all kinds of changes.

Guo Zisu was in a trance, was he in front of a village woman, or a well-trained dancer?
With the graceful dance of spring flowers, dances with strong local flavor appeared in front of Guo Zisu's eyes one after another.

Finally, amidst the intense music, the spinning Chunhua suddenly turned her head, put on a fixed pose, and smiled brightly at Guo Zisu.

Guo Zisu couldn't help applauding vigorously, admiring: "Chunhua, you are simply a dancing elf, it's a pity that you don't specialize in art."

Chunhua smiled and said: "Mr. Guo, you are sighing again. I have been like this in my life. If my minced meat can be promising in the future, I will be satisfied."

"Minced meat will be promising."

"Well, he doesn't care much about reading, so he likes to draw. He painted the insoles I embroider now, and the underpainting on them. But his father thinks that painting has no future." Chunhua said a little disappointed.

"Cultivate well, if you learn how to draw well, you will have a bright future." Guo Zisu said.

"It's not that easy. I've inquired in the city. Learning to paint requires a lot of money. My family can't afford it. His father is right. The only way for children in the countryside to go to the city is to study." Chunhua said quietly Looking ahead, there was helplessness and confusion in his eyes.

Guo Zisu was also well aware of these difficulties, and couldn't find any suitable words of comfort for a while, so she could only say: "Chunhua, I just saw you dance so much, and I think there is a song that is very suitable for us to dance."

Chunhua turned her head and asked, "What song?"

"Eighteen Bays on a Mountain Road, have you heard of it?"

Chunhua immediately stood up in high spirits and said: "I know this song, it's very nice." She danced lightly and said longingly: "Mr. Guo, let's practice hard, and our dance will definitely be able to perform on stage."

(End of this chapter)