Left foot dance is a traditional dance of the Yi people. The left-foot dance has a history of more than 1,000 years. As early as the 41st year of Kangxi (1702), there is the earliest written record of the left-foot dance. Left-foot dance has been passed down for thousands of years and is the most popular and influential Yi dance in areas where Yi people gather in Yunnan. It is known as the living fossil of Yi culture.
Left-foot dance, also known as "beating dance", "dancing song", "jumping feet", "stepping feet" and "dancing left foot", is widely popular in most areas of Chuxiong Yi Autonomous Prefecture. The names are different and the jumping methods have their own characteristics, but the form is basically the same. The left-foot dance in Mouding is mainly represented by the dancing methods of the two major branches of the Yi ethnic group, Luoluopo and Liepo. It is commonly known as "Left-foot Dance" and "Tiao-foot Dance". , during the off-farm season, people will spontaneously gather around a bonfire or in a circle, ranging from a few dozen to hundreds and thousands of people, to dance the left-foot dance. The boys roughly play the four strings of the dragon's head, and the girls They sang the left foot tune loudly and danced to their heart's content all night long. The largest jumping activity in the country is the annual traditional March Meeting, which has a history of more than 400 years. According to the "Dingyuan County Chronicle" written by Emperor Kangxi of the Qing Dynasty, on March 28, 40,000 Han and Yi merchants from far and near were buying and selling clothing and goods at the Dongyue Palace (Temple) in the southern suburbs outside the city, and they dispersed by the third day of April. In the evening, more than a hundred people, both men and women, played the gourd sheng, played the yueqin, played the oral strings, sang Yi songs, and surrounded them by stamping their left feet.
Mouding Left Foot Dance was selected into the second batch of national intangible cultural heritage list approved by the State Council and approved by the Ministry of Culture in 2008.
For hundreds of years, on the 16th day of the first lunar month and the 27th, 28th, and 29th day of the third month of the lunar calendar, there have been families getting married and marrying off their daughters. When the sun sets, people from far and near People of the Yi and other ethnic groups came uninvited, played the dragon's head strings, and men and women sang the tune of Zuo Tiao in harmony or in unison. They held hands and shoulder to shoulder, forming a large circle of dozens or even hundreds of people, dancing joyfully to the left. Foot dance. Accompanied by the tinkling strings and the high-pitched and crisp tunes, they sometimes stepped forward, sometimes stumbled, sometimes swung their legs to their feet, sometimes waved their hands and turned around. Their dance steps were neat and uniform, and their postures were light and healthy. "Folk Song and Dance of the Yi Nationality - Left Foot Dance" consists of "Camellia Blossoms on the Top of the Mountain", "Don't Wait for Little Sisters in vain", "Yi Mountain Pine Hair and Green Green", "Green Cabbage Heart and Cabbage Moss", "We Reunite Today" It consists of ten tracks including "Evening", "A Good Place in Tanhua Mountain", "Brother and Sister Are Jumping", "Catching up with the tune", "Brother and Little Sister Go to Play", and "Singing for the Harvest Year". Mouding, the hometown of Left Foot Dance. Every year from the 27th to the 29th of March on the lunar calendar, there is the March Meeting, a traditional national event. At that time, there is not only a sea of ??Yi people's singing and dancing, but also a heat wave of commercial activities.