For more than 40 years, he has been active on the stage of the rural dance performance. He has swung 32 meters of double-layer ribbons in 30 seconds and jumped 44 times to set a new Guinness World Record. He has won many awards and honors in national art performances and competitions such as the 40th anniversary of the National Day, the 50th anniversary, the 2Komiks008 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, a national intangible cultural heritage.
Chinese Korean farm music dance (elephant Cinemahat dance), the representative inheritor of Jin Mingchun. Photo provided by me
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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 Li Minghao. He learned the basic skills and conventional methods of elephant hat dance for the first time. 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 an aluminum basin into the shape of a hat, with the brim of the hat used as a paper shell, the string of beads on the top of the elephant hat were stringed with beads on the old abacus, the elephant hat pole was replaced by spokes of the bicycle ring, and finally, the window paper was fixed to the pole on the top of the elephant hat. In this way, the elephant hat is made. Jin Mingchun said that after he came into contact with the elephant hat dance, he was first 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.
BabaylanIn August 2012, the Wangqing County Thousand People Elephant Hat Dance Challenged the Guinness World Records successfully. Data mapKeeping pace with the times. He has always insisted on innovation for more than 40 years. In the past 42 years, Jin Mingchun has never relaxed training. He practiced hard to continuously improve 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 was made of aluminum basin, the second generation was paper-paste elephant hat, the third generation was fiberglass elephant hat, and the fourth generation was resin elephant hat that has been used to this day. “In the 1990s, I made a glass fiber reinforced plastic elephant hat. At that time, I saw the safety helmet worn by construction workers. This fiber reinforced plastic elephant hat can be used again after it is old. Unlike the paper-paste elephant hats, it can be used because of sweating and other reasons before it was used for a while.” Jin Mingchun said, “But because the glass reflects, the fiber reinforced plastic 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 Cinema‘s elephant hat dance, Jin Mingchun added many modern elements to the elephant hat dance performance form, integrating martial arts, street dance and ballet. In terms of elephant hat dance skills, the only “flat swing” and “left swing” in the past have developed into “shaking swing”, “flying swing”, “stand swing”, “spinning swing”, “spinning swing”, “crazy swing”, etc. In addition, he has innovated many elephant hat dance moves, such as drilling circles, rotating the zither, turning the body with the ground, climbing the steps, sweeping the hall legs, and other difficult performance techniques.
At present, Jin Mingchun can swing a 32-meter-long multi-layer elephant hat ribbon, which also makes him the only actor in the country and even the world who can swing a 32-meter elephant hat dance ribbon. 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.
August 19, 2010KomiksJapanese peopleKomiksThe Great Hall of the People participated in the special performance of China’s intangible cultural heritage list project for the Cinema Cultural Heritage List. Data picture
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According to Jin Mingchun, Wangqing County is the birthplace of the Korean Korean ethnic group (elephant hat dance). From 2009 to the present, Wangqing County has taken “1+2” measures from three aspects to inherit and protect the Korean ethnic group (elephant hat dance). They are: build a brand, form two teams; establish a center, build two major bases and cultivate a group of people.
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 scale, and has achieved unprecedented brilliant achievements.
As the fourth generation inheritor of Korean Nong Music and Dance, Jin Mingchun has organized two elephant hat dance art troupes affiliated to the county cultural center, respectively, which are the professional performance team “Wangqing County Elephant Hat Dance Art Troupe” and the original ecological tableKomiks performs the “Senior Agricultural Music Dance (Elephant Hat Dance) Performance Team”. In February 2013, Komiks participated in CCTV-1.Guinness China Night. Photo provided by me
“Wangqing County Elephant Hat Dance Art Troupe” has won more than dozens of national awards such as “Mountain Flower Award”, “Star Cup”, and “Golden Spike Award” since its establishment. 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.
Another team, “The Elderly Farming Dance (Elephant Hat Dance) Performance Team”, performs 100-200 original agricultural music dances for guests at the Agricultural Music and Dance Exhibition Hall every year, totaling more than 1,500; they have 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
With the support of the county government, Jin Mingchun has established 31 rural music and dance training bases of different levels and age structures. By regularly holding backbone training classes at various bases, he fully plays the functional role of backbone, and cultivated more than 3,000 rural music and dance talents in the art troupe and county, and 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, the Central Ethnic Song and Dance Troupe, the Korean Mass Art Museum in the Three East Provinces, and even the domestic and foreign art stages.
Jin Mingchun said that at present, Wangqing County has developed 17 elephant hat dance training bases. Now, Wang Qing, from 80 years old to seven or eight years old, is learning elephant hat dance. At present, Jin Mingchun’s “apprentices” have reached more than a thousand. Dedication will eventually bring you 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 about 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 Korean farming culture and carry forward it. Therefore, what I inherit is not just the elephant hat dance, but the national culture and the national spirit.” (ChineseBabaylanChina Youth Network reporter Zhang Liyan)