The dance Peacock Flying is based on the myths and legends of the Dai people.
Divine elephants are an important part of the mythological culture of the Dai. The ancestors of the Dai people, the Baiyue ethnic group, had an uneasy relationship with elephants in ancient times. The elephants in the subtropical jungles and the Dai living in the subtropical river valleys and dams have been living together amicably for a long time. The land of the Dai is a paradise for elephants; there are herds of elephants in the jungle, molded elephants in villages and temples, molded elephants beside wells, and drawings of elephants in murals and cloth paintings.
Home furnishings in a variety of elephant artifacts, Bei Ye Jing in the elephant's legendary stories, religious festivals have fine white elephant ...... In short, the elephant worship permeates the Dai social life in all areas. The creation of the Dai epic "Bata Maaga hold Shangluo" tells of the Yingba God created a good heaven and earth, the sky and earth are still floating in the turbulence.
So he created another elephant, "Palm Moon Langwan", which held the sky with its trunk and the earth with its four big feet, and the sky and the earth were fixed from then on. The sky and the earth were stabilized, but there was no distinction between day and night, and there was no change of seasons, so people could not produce and live. Next, the god Yingba created an elephant-headed god, Ma Yuan Ran, to divide the seasons and distinguish between day and night.
In the minds of the Dai people, the White God elephant is the most worthy of worship, because the White God elephant is a symbol of good weather, good harvest, peace and tranquility, it is said that the White God elephant and the soul of the valley live together, there is a close affinity, so the White God elephant appeared in the place where, where the elimination of disasters and difficulties, the wind and the rain, a good harvest of cereals.