In the beautiful and magical red land of Mile, the colorful folk songs are as sweet as the spring water in the mountains, and the gorgeous and romantic dances are as beautiful as the mountain streams. The collective dance of the Yi ethnic group living in the Xishan area, "A fine jumping to the moon", is a unique camellia in the sea of songs and dances. It is like a refreshing mountain wind, like a cheerful mountain stream, like a burning torch, more than half a century since the long jump, the beauty of the name broadcast all over the world, highly favored by the domestic literary and artistic circles and international friends. A fine is a branch of the Yi people, calling themselves "A fine Pu", living in the western mountains of Mile County, Honghe Prefecture, Yunnan Province. A fine people can sing and dance well. "A fine jumping moon" is one of their favorite and most popular folk dance. "A fine jumping moon" originally known as "jumping music", because often get together under the moon dance, and there is the implication of courtship, so avoid the elders, in the night to the village outside the mountains and forests in the moonlight, or around the campfire jump, the Anti-Japanese War period began to call the It was called "A fine jumping moon" during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression. Legends of the origin of "moon jumping" are many, but they are all related to fire: one says that it originated from labor, in ancient times when slash-and-burn cultivation, burned brush piles easily stabbed the palms of the feet, and prying nests to sow seeds, often jumping up and down, which evolved into a dance; one says that the A fine cottage because of the "heavenly fire" disaster, the A fine It is said that when the village of A Thin Mountain was hit by "sky fire", A Thin's children, A Zhi and A E, led the people to fight the fire bravely, and because the earth was burned, they alternated bouncing with their feet, which formed the basic movement of today's "jumping to the moon". "A fine jumping moon" rhythm is bright, dance rough and unrestrained, there are old people dance and youth dance. The old man's dance is played on a small three-stringed instrument, and the steps are slow and steady. The youth dance is passionate and exciting, and is a self-indulgent activity for young men and women to communicate their feelings and choose objects. Whenever the festival or farm leisure, neighboring villages unmarried adult male and female youth first agreed to meet the time and place, at that time, such as one party missed the appointment, the other party is in the road with a stone pressed on the branch, said "pressure soul" (soul is the Yi interpretation of life), the party being pressed to explain the reasons for the apology and understanding, and then the date can be booked. This kind of date, village A to male, village B can only come to female. Before the meeting, the woman in the forest grooming, deliberately grinding time, the man knows that the woman in the grooming, but also intentionally play the piccolo short, the big three-stringed played urgently, one side of the urgent, one side of the slow, not a lot of fun. In the flute and string Yang, the woman clapped clear applause jumped out of the woods, on the lawn in line with the male party singing and dancing, the tune with the dance, the string sound buckle with the heart, or outbreaks of "Oh! Oh!" Oh!" roar. Its music for the Palace or the big three degrees five beat section, cheerful and enthusiastic, bold and unrestrained; dance steps like fire bouncing, the first one foot jumped three into three beats, both feet landed into four beats, and then change the other foot jumping, so constantly repeated. In the song and dance, looking for a satisfactory partner, and then change the formation, a man and a woman dance. Due to the "A fine jumping moon" dance intensity, especially the male youth shoulder four or five kilograms of heavy big three strings, playing, singing, dancing, spinning, often jumping sweating, but quite appealing "A fine jumping moon", generation after generation, year after year, attracting young men and women! The first thing you need to do is to get your hands dirty.