Reasons for the formation of Yi songs and dances?

The Yi people are good at singing and dancing. The Yi people have a variety of traditional tunes, such as climbing the mountain, entering the door, welcoming guests, eating wine, marrying relatives, mourning, etc. Some tunes have fixed words, some do not. Some tunes have fixed words, while some do not, and are improvised. Mountain songs are divided into male and female voices, and each region has its own unique style of mountain songs. Yi musical instruments include the gourd sheng, mabu, bawu, mouth string, moon zither, flute, three strings, chimes, copper drums, big flat drums and so on. The Yi dances are also quite distinctive, divided into two categories: group dances and solo dances, most of which are group dances, such as "Jumping Songs", "Jumping Music", "Jumping Moon", "Playing Songs and Dances" and "Songs and Dances". There are two types of dances, most of which are group dances, such as "Jumping Song", "Jumping Music", "Jumping Moon", "Playing Song and Dance" and "Pot Zhuang Dance". They are characterized by cheerful movements and a strong sense of rhythm, and are usually accompanied by the flute, moon zither, and three strings.

Yi: a people who can sing and dance

Liangshan is the home of song and dance, and the Yi are a people who can sing and dance.

Liangshan Yi music style is simple and ancient, with many varieties and distinctive and strong national characteristics. Folk music in the folk songs and folk literature are closely related, many universally circulated long lyric poems, such as "Amo Nijar", "Ai A Gluttony", "Ajar Nun", "Ace Niu Niu" and so on. All of them were sung in the form of songs. In addition to narrative songs, there are songs sung at the time of marriage, such as the "Jatak", torch festival songs such as "all fire", songs sung at the time of labor, such as "ploughing song", "pastoral song" and so on. In addition, there are mountain songs, such as Butuan Gosheng mountain songs, children's songs and so on.

Yi folk songs vary in style depending on the region. The folk songs in the southern part of Liangshan Mountain are high and exciting, the folk songs in the central and western part are soft and beautiful, and the folk songs in the eastern part of Enuo region are thick and simple. In the past, the Yi folk songs, in general, gave people a sense of depression, but its simple and beautiful ethnic and regional flavor is very distinct. Folk instrumental music is not for accompaniment, but developed independently and formed its own system. The striking thing is that it shows a great span of history and space. Commonly, there are mouth string, moon zither, horse cloth, gourd sheng, huqin, Yi xiao, Jian flute, suona and so on. In addition, wood leaf blowing, i.e. playing music with a leaf, is also a favorite folk music of the Yi people. Harmonica and Yueqin are very common, and almost all women. Almost all women, young and old, have a mouth string hanging in front of their lapel, ready to play at any time. Mouth string is a unique and simple musical instruments, by several pieces of about seven or eight centimeters long thin reed composition. There are two kinds of bamboo and copper, the least two, up to five or six pieces. Bamboo tone deep, low. Copper tone crisp, beautiful. Blowing with a finger to pluck the yellow piece, the use of the oral cavity **** sound changes in tone. Reeds in addition to the sound. Also issued a very beautiful overtones, constituting a wider range of musical tunes. Yueqin is mostly loved by young and middle-aged men, and there are many excellent folk Yueqin players. 50s. Liangshan Yi girl Shama Wuzhi in Moscow World Youth Festival played the yueqin. The moonlight was warmly praised.

Liangshan Yi folk dance is often inseparable from singing and instrumental music. One type of folk dance is produced in the production of labor dance such as buckwheat dance, bunting dance, felt weaving dance, etc., most of the simulation of labor action and performance of the production process. Another category is in the festivals or in the marriage of the joy of the scene in the common dance such as jumping pot Zhuang, jumping "all fire", the foot dance, was felt dance, reed to dance. Some of them show the hard work of farming and herding. The joy of the harvest, some show the bravery of the war, the pursuit of love.

From the Yi folk art in the flower of Liangshan song and dance, not only in the Chinese and foreign stage a show of splendor, but also in the modern life all over the open. Today, in Liangshan city and countryside can often be seen men and women, young and old, hand in hand, stepping on the national flavor of the beat, joyfully dancing da body dance. Dasuo is the phonetic translation of Yi language, meaning "Tap Dance" or "Tap Dance", which is a kind of collective dance created on the basis of the traditional Yi songs and dances. It is a collective dance based on traditional Yi songs and dances, with concise and fast movements, melodious and smooth music, rich local flavor and strong color of the times, which was formed in the 80's and quickly popularized in the whole state and pushed to the outside of the state and the outside of the province in the momentum of the ethnic dance in the southwest of the country. In 94 Liangshan Yi International Torch Festival guests from home and abroad and the Yi compatriots hand in hand, around a pile of green fire, jumping together, melting into one family. Jumping together, fused into a family, the scene is warm and spectacular. The atmosphere is cordial and touching.

The national music of the Yi people includes songs and instruments.

Yi songs are: historical poetry, love songs, songs of joy, custom songs - within the song and a happy wine song, calling the soul song, send ghost songs, witch tune and other tunes; from the name of the points, the song has a Russian, Ya, left, such as the grid. "Russia" is the meaning of singing, can be sung on various occasions, the atmosphere is more relaxed and casual; "Ya" is a kind of solo mountain song, the singers are generally young men and women, mostly touching the feelings; "left" is a wedding song, the wedding song is a kind of wedding song. " is a wedding song, in the wedding night, by the host and guest of each side of the two singers dance and sing; "G" is a memorial to the dead or ancestor worship activities sung in chorus, a person leading the singing, the crowd to learn to sing, the lyrics by the leader of the improvisation; "Bi" refers to the Yi ethnic group. Bi" refers to the songs sung by Yi Bimo during religious activities, which we call religious music to differentiate it from "Rus". The music includes singing and dancing music, mouth-string music and leaf-blowing music, each of which has many tunes. In addition, there are a variety of musical instruments: the moon zither is one of the favorite instruments of the Yi people, with two strings, which has a strong artistic expression; the mouth string is made of bamboo or copper, shaped like a bamboo leaf reed, with a reed tongue in the middle, which regulates the tone by controlling the breathing; the "Mabu" is one of the unique musical instruments of the Yi people, whose blowing is characterized by the use of nostrils to inhale and make the puffing of the cheeks continuously. Mabu" is one of the unique instruments of the Yi people, its blowing is characterized by the use of nostrils to inhale, so that the drum cheeks continuously send gas, can be imitated baby crying, birds singing; gourd sheng and suona, mostly used to play the folk songs and tunes of the Yi people.