For more than 40 years, he has been active on the stage of the rural dance performance. He has thrown 32 meters of double-layer ribbons in 30 seconds and jumped 44 times. He has won many awards and honors in national art performances such as the 40th anniversary of National Day, the 50th anniversary of the 2008 Olympic Games and the 2010 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.
ChinaCinema 1950 witch cloth drawKorean farm music dance (elephant hat dance) representative inheritor Kim Mingchun. Babaylan 1990 cloth drawPhoto provided by myself
From the love of literature and art to the love of 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 Li Minghao, and for the first time he 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 was made into a hat shape, and the brim was filled with paper shells. When the beads on the elephant hat spiral were stringed up with beads on the old abacus, the elephant hat pole was replaced by spokes of the bicycle ring, and finally, the paper strips on the window were fixed to the pole on the top of the elephant hat. In this way, the elephant hat is made. Jin Mingchun said that contact is After Cinema 1950 witch cloth drawAfter the 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.
In August 2012, the Thousand People Elephant Hat Dance in Wangqing County successfully challenged the Guinness World Record. Data picture
Keep up 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 practices hard and continuously improves his performance skills. At the same time, he is also brave enough 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 resin elephant hats that have been used to this day. “In the 1990s, I made a fiberglass elephant hat because I saw the hard hat worn by construction workers. This fiberglass elephant hat is old and can be repainted. Komiks 1960 witch cloth drawBabaylan 1990 clothes DrawUse draw, unlike the previous paper-paste elephant hats, which were not used for a while because of sweating and other reasons. “Jin Mingchun said, “But because of the reflection of the glass, the fiberglass elephant hats look unnatural under the stage lights, so they were not used later. It was changed to resin elephant hats, 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 form, integrating martial arts, street dance and ballet. In terms of elephant hat dance skills, the only “Babaylan 1990 cloth draw flat swing” and “left and left swing” 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, and the ribbon is thrown away.Then, six and a half circles will be around the body, which 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 special performance of China’s certification ceremony for the UNESCO Intangible Cultural Heritage List project. Data picture
What is inherited is not just the elephant hat dance, but national culture. The rural music 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.
The rural music dance is mainly divided into different dances in different forms, styles and movements such as hand drums, long drum dance, flat drum dance, and elephant hat dance. The elephant hat dance among them is the dance performed when the rural music dance reaches its climax, and is the highest expression of rural music dance.
According to Jin Mingchun, Wangqing County is the birthplace of the Korean agricultural music and dance in China. From 2009 to the present, Wangqing County has adopted “1+2” measures in three aspects. Cinema 1950 witch cloth draw to inherit and protect the Korean Korean farm music (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 Qingnong Music and Dance has made breakthroughs in keeping pace with the times, and has achieved unprecedented brilliant achievements in both clothing and clothing props and performance themes, forms and scales.
Jin Mingchun, the fourth generation inheritor of Korean agricultural music and dance, organized two elephant hat dance troupes affiliated to the Babaylan 1990 cloth draw County Cultural Center, respectively.The industry performance team “Wangqing County Elephant Hat Dance Art Troupe” and the original ecological performance team “The Elderly Agricultural Music Dance (Elephant Hat Dance) Performance Team”.
In February 2013, Kim Mingchun participated in CCTV-Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw1 “Guinness China Night”. Photo provided by me
“Wangqing County Elephant Hat Dance Art Troupe” has won more than dozens of national-level majors such as “Mounnybookish 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.
Another team, “The ElderlyKomiks 1960 witch cloth drawBig music and dance (elephant hat dance) performance team” Every year, 100-20 original agricultural music and dances are performed for guests from time to time in the rural music and dance exhibition hall, with a total of more than 1,500 events; it has successively performed 0 original agricultural music and dance events for guests in the rural music and dance exhibition hall, with a total of more than 1,500 events; it has successively held the “Qianzhou Agricultural Music and Dance Competition” (Komiks 1960 witch cloth Draw2 times), “Jilin Provincial Farmers’ Literature and Art Competition (2010)”, “Beijing Longtan Temple Fair (2013)”, and both won gold medals.
Jin Mingchun tutored Baicaogou Primary School. Photo provided by me
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw has established 31 rural music and dance training bases with different levels and ages under the support of the county government. Through regular training classes for backbone of each base, Jin Mingchun has fully played the functions of backbone. He has trained more than 3,000 rural music and dance talents in the art troupe and county, and has been in Yanbian.A large number of elephant hat dance talents have been cultivated on the 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 Three East Provinces, and even on the domestic and foreign art stages. Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw
Komiks 1960 witch cloth draw17 elephant hat dance training bases. Today, Wang Qing, from 80 to 7 or 8 years old, is learning elephant hat dance. At present, Kim Mingchun’s “apprentice” has reached more than a thousand people. There will be rewards for hard work, and Jin Mingchun himself 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 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 farming culture of the Korean people and carry forward it. So, what I inherit is not just the elephant hat dance, but the national culture and the national spirit.” (China Youth Network reporter Zhang Liyan)