Fan dance is a Chinese big stage dance dance method, for example "Xiao":
Step up with your right foot to open the fan, turn your head back to the front and step back with your right foot, step back with your left foot, right Foot retreat. Wave your right hand to open the fan downward, close your right foot in front, turn your left foot forward and up, close your left foot, and open the fan with your right foot. Jump with the left foot in front of the right foot, and turn the left foot in front of the right foot with both hands to open the fan.
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Fan dance generally refers to dances with fans as the main props. It is one of the traditional Chinese folk dance forms. The Han, Hani, Korean and other ethnic groups have all formed different styles of fan dance in their long-term historical process.
Han Fan Dance
As an ancient form of music and dance in my country, fan dance was mostly performed by women in ancient palaces. The movements are gentle, gentle, elegant and smooth, showing women's lightness and elegance. The beauty of lyricism and euphemism, or the dancer appears as a wizard holding a fan while dancing. As a religious ritual "witch dance", it has a strong mythical and ghostly color.
Fans are also popular as props in Chinese folk music and dance. The popular Han folk music and dance Yangko in the north uses fans, handkerchiefs, and colorful silks to perform. Different characters hold different fans and wave them to the rhythm of the music. Chinese fan dance is constantly developing and innovating, incorporating many opera elements. For example, the long silk fan dance is a dance based on the fan modified with water sleeves in opera. Women dance elegantly and lightly, while men dance elegantly and handsomely.
Korean Fan Dance
Fan dance is generally performed by women, who express their inner joy by dancing their fans. The Korean fan dance expresses the unique rhythm, implicit inner emotions, curvilinear rhythm and free performance of the Korean people. The dancers use the fans in their hands to form various patterns and shapes with the continuous changes of the formation, which gives people a beautiful enjoyment and has high aesthetic value.
Hani fan dance
It is divided into brown fan dance and paper fan dance. It is mainly popular among the Sobi and Baihong branches in Honghe, Yuanjiang, Xinping, Yuanyang and other counties. There are many legends about the origin of the Brown Fan Dance, most of which are related to the worship of motherhood. The Hani people regard the white pheasant as a symbol of kindness and auspiciousness.