Each ethnic group has its own distinctive culture. The Dai's "Water Festival", the Zhuang's "March 3 Song Festival", the Shui's "Jingxia Festival" and so on, each of these festivals has its own ethnic characteristics. Festivals have their own national characteristics. So, do you know the Naxi folk art "beat jump"? Want to understand the Naxi culture? Follow me to see it!
Naxi folk dance - beat jumping circulated in Lijiang City, Ninglang County, Huaping County, Yongsheng County, Yanyuan County, Zhongdian three dams and other Naxi, Lisu and some Pumi villages. In Naxi language, it is called "Donloli" or "New Excel". "Dong Luo Li" has the meaning of "joyful dancing" or "everyone to dance". In some areas, the dance is accompanied by a flute and a gourd sheng, which is also known as the "reed-sheng dance" or "flute dance".
Features
The dance is not limited by time and place, and is performed at weddings, funerals, house building, or harvest festivals, regardless of whether it's in a small yard or a wide field, as long as the melodious sound of the flute is heard, a group of dancers can be gathered in a circle, and the dance floor is filled with joyful songs and laughter. From the dance, you can feel the strong cohesion of this nation. The movement is easy to learn, strong sense of rhythm, but also pay attention to the interaction between the dancers, can better drive the human body joints, coupled with its movements with the changes in formation, is a kind of people enjoy, adapt to a variety of themes of the dance form.
Development
Lijiang Naxi mostly mixed with various ethnic groups, and there are frequent exchanges with the neighboring ethnic groups, therefore, from the style of beating jumping the nuances of its variations can also be seen.
"Don Loli" because of the limitations of hand in hand, hand in hand, the main rhythm in the hips, waist and legs below the knee. The dance travels clockwise, and the last person is the piper, who can also be in the center of the dance circle without restriction. As a result, the flute player's dance movements are large and highly rhythmic.
Local Legends
In ancient times, in the lofty mountains, lived many hard-working and brave ethnic minorities. Naxi tribe, there is a hard-working farming family, the mother died early, leaving five sons and father dependent on each other, the father both as a father and as a mother, the sons of the hundred love, dedication to the five sons pulled adult, five sons grew into five strong man, the old man was immensely gratified.
One time, the national cottage and the cottage between the armed struggle, the five sons are called by the chief, on the battlefield of the armed struggle. The bullhorn blew, the shouts shook the valley, the fight lasted three days and three nights. The fight lasted three days and three nights. The old father waited anxiously at home. Three days and three nights passed, the horn wailed, shouts weakened, the mouth of the village appeared a team of exhausted, dragging the bamboo spear with a bow of the men returned, the old man rushed forward to look for their sons, the men one by one from the doorway, one, two ...... how to see the old man's alive and kicking, strong and sturdy five The son came back. They can never come back, the old man's five sons died at a young age in that sinful sword and arrow, hatred of the armed struggle.
The father was grief-stricken, all of a sudden much older, the wrinkles on the face deepened, the mane of hair turned white, the back is more bowed, dry and thin body reveals the ribs, all day long thinking of their five sons, for their own lonely life sighing. Gourd tree is still hanging a few dry gourd, the wind, the wind into the gourd mouth "buzzing" sound, the door of the golden bamboo also in the wind sound "brush" sound, as if there is a kind of felicitous Yang Yang sound and the old man to talk to. The old man is alone, no one considerate care, at the pouring of sadness.
Every day, sitting on the stump in front of the hut, staring intently at the swaying bamboo forest, listening to the wind filling the gourd, the echoes of the Yang. Listen, listen, the old man's heart trembled, as if he had heard the pro son's laughter, saw the children's robust figure. The old man picked a gourd, cut to five lengths of bamboo. He hollowed out the heart of the gourd and branded holes in the bamboo poles. Hollowed out the gourd is the old man boiled dry blood heart, five bamboo poles as if the old man's beloved five sons, bamboo poles inserted into the heart of the gourd, heart and heart, flesh and flesh connected.
The old man's trembling lips blew the gourd sheng, the gentle music is the sons of the words, and the harmony of the **** sound is the old man's heart rolling waves. Yo, the old man and his sons met in the music, endless words ah, inexhaustible father-son love, in the gourd silk flow, back and forth.
Folks heard the sound of the gourd sheng, from all directions to gather, the old man blew up the song of longing, and then a tune of "battle tune", the old man was bewildered, the armed struggle to bring people what? Only endless disasters, people want to live and work in peace and happiness, the old man passionately played the "unity tune". People seem to understand the unity of the heart, we coincidentally arm in arm, following the old man jumped up and down. It has been passed down from generation to generation and is still in use today.