1, Elephant Foot Drum Dance features: strong rhythmic action, hand beat, leg kick, chest arching, shoulder shrugging, body tilting and pitching according to a fixed rhythmic action. The Small Elephant Foot Drum Dance is characterized by flexibility and dexterity, and can be performed in drum fights and drum races, with the winner being the one who kicks the other party or pulls down the other party's turban. Elephant Foot Drum Dance is solid and steady, with the sound of the drum and the size of the drum tail swing to determine the winner. The drum sound of the elephant's foot drum is grand, and it is mainly accompanied by the mass dance field, and the dance steps are relatively simple. The drum is played mainly with the right hand, while the left hand presses the drum surface and plays a matching role. The Elephant's Foot Drum Dance has the widest popularity. In the days after rice-planting, the Dai people often dance to the accompaniment of the elephant-foot drum. In many places, there are drum competitions. When the drum race, many elephant-footed drums are played at the same time, and the drums shake the sky, the noise is thunderous, and the scene is magnificent and touching.
The important musical instrument for the Dai dance accompaniment is the "elephant foot drum", in the Dai, from 3, 4 years old toddlers to the elderly, there is no will not play the elephant foot drum. The senior player of the drum is not only a musician who plays the drum, but also an excellent dancer. Because the performance level of Dai dancers is closely related to the drummer's performance. The dancers and the musicians usually do not practice together before the dance, and they rely entirely on each other's feelings for tacit cooperation and performance. The drummer, being familiar with the dance, chooses and changes the rhythm and tempo of the drums according to the level of the dancers, and even guides the dancers to show their difficult skills. On appropriate occasions, musicians will also participate in the dance, with the fingers and palms of the hands, as well as fists, elbows, head, feet parts, beating a variety of imitation of the natural world of a variety of acoustic drums skilled, a hammer down, the drums of the sound of the length of the Chinese blouse can be unbuttoned all the loops, and then hit the hammer, and then button loops all the buttons on. The musicians sometimes span about 80 centimeters long small elephant-footed drums and dance while beating the drums. Their dance is flexible, cheerful, jumping and strong, and it is an excellent form for young men to show their personal level of encouragement and skill.
2, Peacock Dance: The Dai people love peacocks and dance the peacock dance to show their national character and express their ideals and wishes. Peacock Dance is mostly performed on festive days. In the past, the men who performed it had to wear decorations resembling peacocks, and they wore minaret-shaped white Bodhisattva masks, single dancers wore female masks, and double dancers wore one male and one female masks. The dance imitates the various movements of the peacock, and has formed a set of relatively fixed programs such as leaving the nest, descending the slope, dancing, looking for water, photographing the shadow, drinking water, taking a bath, spreading the wings and so on, and there are strict steps, directions and combinations of movements, and it is famous for sculptural dance modeling, and it emphasizes on the performance of the peacock's characteristics of being tame, lightweight, beautiful, kind, graceful and graceful. Peacock Dance is accompanied by elephant foot drums, gongs and other musical instruments, and the movements and drum beats are strictly coordinated. After the establishment of New China, the peacock dance has been processed and transformed, enriched the dance plot, discarded the heavy props and decorations, and replaced with dresses and skirts with peacock motifs, giving full play to the dancers' curvilinear changes in their physique and the flexible use of their eyes, hands and legs, which greatly enriched the expression and content of the peacock dance and made it even more lively and beautiful.