In the Dai annual Splash Festival, Shutdown Festival, Open Door Festival, Catch the Pendulum, as long as it's a place of fun and joy, the people of the Dai ethnic group will gather together, banging gongs, playing drums and dancing the beautiful "Peacock Dance". The beautiful "Peacock Dance", the sound of singing and dancing presents the festive atmosphere of harvest and the beautiful scene of national unity.
Regional distribution
Peacock Dance is distributed in a wide range of areas, the upper Ali three, the central Weizang four wings, the lower Duo Gan Si six Gangs, have expressed the peacock folk dance. Due to the geographical environment, customs and habits of different places, the peacock dance performance form, style characteristics, skill difficulty, lyrics to the general idea, music style also has differences. In order to illustrate the differences between peacock dances around the world, several different peacock dances are borrowed for comparison and study.
The Peacock Dance, called "Garo Chung" and "Garnan Luo" in Dai language, can be performed as a solo dance, a duo dance or a trio dance. It is the favorite square performance dance of the Dai people with ancient tradition, which is widely spread in the Dai settlement. Among them, especially the peacock dance of Ruili is more wonderful and popular, and almost every village has a master of peacock dance, and there are even professional artists who make a living by dancing peacock dance. This peacock dance, mainly imitating the peacock running down the mountain, strolling through the forest, drinking water, chasing and playing, as well as dragging the wings, sun wings, wings, open screen, flying and other actions. These actions have a strict program and requirements: each action before the starting style, finished after the closing style; there are fixed steps, positional charts and fixed combinations of actions;
Each combination of actions and a fixed drum accompaniment. Ruili Dai Peacock Dance is mainly a single dance, and there is also a double peacock dance. The dancers are mostly male. Shelf peacock dance dance vocabulary is particularly rich, there are "running down the mountain", "forest peeping", "walking in the forest", "shaking wings "flying down the mountain", "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "shaking wings", "pointing at the water" and other movements that are a perfect simulation of the peacock's demeanor.