For more than 40 years, he has been active on the stage of rural dance performances. He has swung 32 meters of double-layer ribbons in 30 seconds and jumped 4 times. He has won many awards and honors in national art performances and competitions such as the 40th anniversary of National Day, the 50th anniversary of the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 Shanghai World Expo. He is Jin Mingchun, the representative inheritor of the Chinese Korean Agricultural Music Dance (Elephant Hat Dance) named by the Ministry of Culture as a national intangible cultural heritage.
Jin Mingchun, the representative inheritor of the Korean farm music dance (elephant hat dance). Photo provided by me
From a love for literature and art to a love for elephant hat dance
Jin Mingchun was born in Jixiang Village, Baicaogou Town, Wangqing County, Jilin Province. He has loved singing and dancing since he was a child. In 1977, after graduating from high school, Jin Mingchun did not take the college entrance examination, but joined the amateur propaganda team of the Baicaogou Commune Production Brigade, playing hole flutes, performing sketches, and speaking crosstalk in the propaganda team, and was very skilled in everything. Later, Kim Mingchun became a disciple of folk artist Lee Myung-ho, and for the first time formally learned the basic skills and conventional throwing methods of elephant hat dance. After that, he began to participate in the performance, creation and choreography of elephant hat dance. In 1977, the elephant hat at that time made the CinemaAt that time, the elephant hats were made into the shape of a hat, the brim was used as paper shells, the beads on the top of the elephant hat were stringed with beads on the old abacus, and the elephant hat pole was replaced by spokes on the bicycle ring, and finally, the window paper strips were fixed to the pole on the top of the elephant hat. In this way, the elephant hat is made. KomiksKomiks Kim said that after he came into contact with the elephant hat dance, he was deeply attracted by the elephant hat prop, and since then he fell in love with the elephant hat dance, and then engaged in the elephant hat dance major. He has been doing it for more than 40 years. He has already regarded inheriting the elephant hat dance as his lifelong career.
In August 2012, the Thousand People Elephant Hat Dance in Wangqing County successfully challenged the Guinness World Record. Data picture
Fitness with the timesBabaylanEvery for more than 40 years, Jin Mingchun has never relaxed training. He practices hard and constantly improves his performance skills. At the same time, he is also brave to innovate.
According to Jin Mingchun, the first generation of elephant hats he made were hats made of aluminum basins, the second generation was paper-paste elephant hats, the third generation was fiberglass elephant hats, and the fourth generation was that of the resin elephant hats that have always been used today. “In the 1990s, I made a fiberglass elephant hat. At that time, I saw the safety helmet worn by construction workers. This fiberglass elephant hat can be repainted after it gets old. Unlike the paper-paste elephant hats, it can be used again. Unlike the previous paper-paste elephant hats, it can’t be used because of sweating or other reasons.” Jin Mingchun said, “But because the glass reflects, the fiberglass elephant hat looks unnatural under the lights of the stage, so I didn’t use it later. It was changed to a resin elephant hat, and it has been used until now.”
Jin Mingchun’s innovation in elephant hat dance is reflected in the improvement of props, but also in the keeping pace with the times of dance movements. In order to improve the ornamentality of elephant hat dance, Jin Mingchun added many modern elements to the elephant hat dance performance, integrating martial arts, street dance and ballet. In terms of elephant hat dance skills, the “flat swing” and “left swing” that only Komiks in the past have developed into “shaking swing”, “flying swing”, “stand-swing”, etc. In addition, he has innovated many elephant hat dance moves, such as drilling circles, whirling the zither, turning the body with the ground, Komiks going up the steps, sweeping the hall legs, and other difficult performance techniques.
At present, Jin Mingchun can swing 32 meters long multi-layer elephant hat ribbon, which also makes him the only one in the country and even in the world that can swingBabaylan32m elephant hat dance ribbon actor. Jin Mingchun mentioned that the ribbon is made of metal, and the 32-meter multi-layer ribbon is not lightweight. In addition, after the ribbon is thrown, it will surround the body with six and a half circles. This tests the dancer’s comprehensive skills and is very difficult. On August 19, 2010, he went to the Great Hall of the People to participate in the Certification Ceremony of China’s Intangible Cultural Heritage List project selected by the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List. Data picture
What is inherited is not just the elephant hat dance. What is inherited is national culture. The rural dance is the traditional cultural heritage of the Korean people. It is a kind of good wish for the Korean people to pray for a good harvest, yearn for happiness, and integrate into nature in the form of dance. In 2009, the Korean agricultural music and dance in China was included in the “Catalogue of Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity”, which is the only dance-related world intangible cultural heritage project in my country so far.
Agricultural dance is mainly divided into different dances in different forms, styles and movements, such as hand-in-law, long drum, flat drum, and elephant hat dance. The elephant hat dance among them is the dance performed by the rural music dance at the climax of Cinema, and is the highest form of expression of the rural music dance.
According to Jin Mingchun, Wangqing County is the birthplace of the Korean agricultural music dance (elephant hat dance). From 2009 to the present, Wangqing County has taken “1+2” measures from three aspects to inherit and protect the Korean Korean farm music and dance (elephant hat dance). They are: build a brand, form two teams; establish a center, build two major bases and cultivate a group of backbone, and build two platforms.
After ten years of continuous exploration, exploration, protection, innovation and development, Wang Qing Nong Music and Dance has made breakthroughs in keeping pace with the times, both in terms of costumes and props, performance themes, forms and scales, and has achieved unprecedented brilliant achievements.
Jin Mingchun, as the fourth generation inheritor of Korean agricultural music and dance, organized two elephant hat dance art troupes affiliated to the county cultural center, namely the professional performance team “Wangqing County Elephant Hat Dance Art Troupe” and the original ecological performance team “Old2013: Jin Mingchun participated in CCTV-1 “Guinness China Night”. Photo provided by me
“Wangqing County KomiksElephant Hat Dance Art Troupe” has won more than dozens of national awards such as “Mountain Flower Award”, “Star Cup”, and “Golden Spike Award”. They went to the United States, Russia, South Korea, Italy and other countries, and participated in more than 30 large-scale international and domestic cultural exchange activities in various international and domestic areas.
Another team, “Elderly Agricultural Dance (Elephant Hat Dance) Performance Team” href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Babaylan performed 100-200 original agricultural music dances for guests from time to time in the rural music dance exhibition hall, totaling more than 1,500; he appeared in the “Qianzhou Agricultural Music and Dance Competition (2 times), “Jilin Provincial Farmers’ Literature and Art Competition (2010)” and “Beijing Longtan Temple Fair (2013)” and won gold medals.
Jin Mingchun tutored Baicaogou Primary School. Photo provided by me
Jin Mingchun established 31 agricultural music dance trainings of different levels and age structures with the support of the county government. href=”https://funnybookish.com/”>Komiks training base, and through regular training courses for key training courses at each base, the functions of the Komiks core members are fully utilized by the Komiks core membersCinema has cultivated more than 3,000 agricultural music and dance talents in the art troupe and counties, and has cultivated a large number of elephant hat dance talents in the Yanbian Song and Dance Troupe, Yanbian University, Northeast Normal University, Jilin Provincial Song and Dance Troupe, Central Conservatory of Music, Central Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe, Korean Mass Art Museum in the East Three Provinces, and even domestic and foreign art stages. Jin Mingchun said that at present, Wangqing County has developed 17 elephant hat dance training bases, and now, Wang Qing is 80 years old, As children aged seven or eight, they were learning elephant hat dance. At present, Jin Mingchun’s “apprentices” have reached more than a thousand. He will gain some rewards. Jin Mingchun himself has also won more than a dozen awards, including the “Lotus Award”, which represents the highest honor of national dance.
At the end of the interview, Jin Mingchun excitedly told reporters that when he went to Hainan some time ago, the local people actually knew the art form of elephant hat dance, which made Jin Mingchun very happy. He felt that his inheritance and popularization work was effective. He said with emotion, “The significance of my inheritance is to display the farming culture of the Korean people and carry it forward. So, what I inherit is not just the elephant hat dance, but the national culture.It is the national spirit. ” (China Youth Network reporter Zhang Liyan)