Nearly four hundred years ago, Andai dance with its strong folk nature and the characteristics of the dance of madness is much loved by the Mongolian people, and gradually become the most popular Mongolian religious rituals and Naadam festivals in Inner Mongolia carnival dance. According to the Kulun historical records, the longest duration of a single An Dai up to more than 40 days, the scale of its large, the number of participants, known as the most Chinese folk dance.
After the establishment of the Chinese people **** and the country, Kulun Banner comprehensively carried out the excavation of the Andai dance, organizing the work. 1958, Andai folk artists Erdene Bara in Beijing performance Andai, caused a sensation. Nowadays, Andai dance has become the most dazzling cultural symbol of the Mongolian nation. 1996, Inner Mongolia Kulun Banner was named the hometown of Andai art in China. With the passage of time, Andai has gradually become a self-indulgent folk dance, and after continuous improvement and development, it has entered the theater from the folk and become a popular Mongolian national art form. Andai dance has gradually developed into a dance-oriented dance, and the dance movements have developed from three or four to more than twenty. Due to the change of cultural forms, the inheritance and survival space of Andai Dance are increasingly restricted, and the continuation of the dance is greatly threatened, which is urgently needed to organize and rescue.