Folk dance is a form of dance created collectively by the laboring people in the course of long-term history, accumulated and developed, and widely circulated among the masses. Folk dance has the closest connection with the people's life, and it directly reflects the life and struggle of the working people and expresses their thoughts, feelings, ideals and aspirations. Due to the differences in the way of life and labor, historical and cultural mentality, customs and habits, and the natural environment of the people of various ethnic groups and regions, different national styles and regional characteristics have been formed. Each country in the world, each ethnic group have their own different styles and characteristics of folk dance. In the European ballet folk dance, generally known as representative dance or character dance, it is through the professional processing of dance, so that it is harmonized with the style of ballet, unified together.
Wooden Drum DanceThe Wooden Drum Dance is a ritual dance of the Gujiang Fangbai (Hanyu in Miao, or transliterated as Anti-Pai) Miao people. With the wooden drum as the only accompanying instrument, the drummer strikes, forming a complex and varied dance tune. The rhythm is four or six beats. Dance movement for five kinds, one is slightly Jijia, into three steps, back three steps, to the left rotation, and then back; two is slightly solo south, in and out are two steps; three is slightly solo big, step three years old, turn to the left and dance three steps; four is slightly high to escape the big, the left dance two steps, after the dance of two steps, and then let the front walk; five is slightly high to escape the lee, the front of the dance of two steps, the right dance of three steps, and then to the left to turn the dance of two steps, and then turn to the dance of the front line. To crotch as a fulcrum, head, shoulders, hands, waist, legs, feet twisting, flinging, kicking, turning the body naturally, often with a sharp reversal to form a strong contrast. The biggest feature of the wooden drum dance is the wildness, emphasizing the roughness and boldness of the movements, such as the wild biao forest persimmon, waterfalls and cliffs. The wooden drum dance expresses the difficult journey and spirit of the ancestors of the Miao people, who were brave enough to go forward during their migration. Most of the dancers are young men and women; they dance around the drum, and dance and whirl. If there are many people, there are several circles inside and outside, with women inside and men outside. Those who are tired can come down to rest, and newcomers can join in at any time.
Ancient Ladybird DanceThe "Ancient Ladybird Dance" is the oldest and most primitive dance with rituals and self-indulgence popularized in the Miao villages in Yagui area of Danzhai County. The ancient ladybird dance is accompanied by the ancient ladybird qin. Ancient dipper piano carved from pine wood, resembling a household dipper. The panel of the piano has four sound holes, a sound post, the sound post from the board straight into the **** sound box. The ancient dipper piano is both young men dance on the hands of the props, but also the only accompaniment in the dance. Ancient ladybird dance, has always been around the circle dance, by two men to pull the ancient ladybird and more than four girls to dance together; more people in two circles: older, young men outside, holding the ladybird qin while pulling the side of the dance; the girl in the inside, stepping on the "stomping song hall" dance, sometimes clockwise rotation, sometimes counterclockwise movement, two knees with a slight The girl dances in it, sometimes rotating in a clockwise direction, sometimes moving in a counterclockwise direction, her knees slightly trembling. No matter how the steps change, the girl's hands are always bent at the elbows in front of her chest and stomach, moving up and down, left and right. The dance steps change according to the music, and there are two, three, five and seven beats, and the rhythm is an irregular combination of 2/4 and 3/4. The names of the main movements are Jumping Round, Ge Dull (stepping), Ge Hang (turning back and forth, left and right), Ge Duan (stepping on the Erhu road tone), Jie Xiang (imitating a ghost dance) and so on.
Step on the drum dance"Step on the drum dance" is one of the Miao folk dance forms, but also a ritual dance. The accompanying instruments are copper drums and wooden drums. Dancers generally surrounded by a circle, the inner circle of women, the center of a large drum, by one to two people holding drumsticks to beat the drum, the dancers face the circle, with the rhythm of the drums, slowly changing the different dance steps, the hands swing naturally, and heard the drums and dance. The rhythm of the drums is mostly 4/4 and 3/4 beats, which is cheerful, relaxed and lively, and expresses the joyful mood of the Miao people after the festival of ancestor worship and harvest.
Bench Dance"Bench Dance" is one of the purely self-indulgent drunken enthusiasm of the Miao people, sports in the form of dance. By one or several people holding the bench for the drum beat, the crowd around the outside and dance. Drums more than 4/4, 3/4 beat rhythm, the crowd sometimes gathered, sometimes scattered, and the dance action is larger, appears rough, bold, exciting, showing the Miao people bold, hospitable temperament.
Miao Lusheng Dance"Lusheng Dance" is the most popular dance among the Miao people in Qiandongnan with the nature of rituals and self-entertainment, men and women, young and old, and the formation of the Miao people's unique concept of aesthetics of life. Those young men and women who can sing and dance well are regarded as intelligent and clever, and vice versa.
The older form of the "Lusheng Dance" is that the dancers form a circle, with two or more male dancers blowing the sheng to lead the dance, and all the dancers are female, dressed in costumes, and the melody of the dance song is danced along with the dancers. The dance steps are three, five or seven. On the dance floor, the girls wear glittering silver horns, white silver flowers, and dresses full of silver ornaments, neatly turning inside and outside with the change of the dance song, giving people a sense of solemnity and neatness. The modern "Lusheng Dance" incorporates the "Yangge Dance", "Lantern Dance", "Tea Picking Dance" of the Han Chinese, and the "Stomping Drum Dance" of the Miao Chinese, as well as the "Stamping Drum Dance" of the Miao Chinese. The technique and movement of the Miao's "Stomping Drum Dance", with flexible steps, fresh and cheerful dance posture, expresses the content of the Miao people's production and life, as well as their bold and simple character, healthy and upward feelings.
Dooye DanceDooye is a kind of large-scale singing dance. In Dong language, "Duoye" means singing and dancing, and "Ye" is a song that leads the crowd. Doye is a song and dance in which hundreds of young men and women gather around a field. As early as the Song Dynasty, there were "Chen, Yuan, Jingzhou ....... Farming gap, up to one or two hundred people for Cao, hand in hand and sing, a few people blowing the sheng before leading the record. This is obviously a reflection of the ancient Dong people "DuoYe", visible "DuoYe" has nearly a thousand years of written history. DuoYe dance program is first dressed in ancient costumes of the village old man led by the dress of the young people after the entrance, along around three circles, and against the field around three circles, naturally, the girls hand in hand into an inner circle, the LuoHan into an outer circle, the village old man sitting in the middle of the field. In some places hand in hand, some places hand climbing shoulders. The girls begin to move to the right in the lead singing of the "Yangshi Horn", moving one step per beat. When the actual words are sung, the hands are thrown back and forth rhythmically, and when the refrain is sung, the hands are raised upward harmoniously; while the girls are singing, the luohan are freely accompanying them and moving around in a circle together. When the girls have finished singing, one of the luohan leaders shouts "Yo-", and the luohan follow with "Ugh!" At the sound of "Yo-Ugh", they hold hands and move rhythmically to the right, shaking or lifting them up, following the leader of the song and answering the questions posed in the lyrics sung by the girls.
The Fish DanceThe Fish Dance is a primitive fishing and hunting dance performed during the "Gathering of Officials" event. A costumed primitive person holds a wooden stick with a pickled fish in it and dances a martial primitive dance at someone who is watching. This person must come into the field with the primitive man with the dance, both sides dance to the feet, head posture, gestures together, "primitive man" clip of pickled fish just fall into each other's mouth until. At this time, the "primitive man" goes to clip the fish and give it to another person. If the two sides are not in the same pace, it will take a long time for the fish-giving dance to end, therefore. The majority of young men in many Dong villages will dance this martial arts dance.
Lion DanceIt is a kind of dance activity held by Dong people during the Spring Festival, which is mainly divided into three forms: Celebration Dance, Theater Lion Dance and Green Lion Dance. The Celebration Dance is a lion dance team that dances from door to door on the day of the festival. When the lion arrives at the door of a house, the owner of the house greets it with firecrackers held up by bamboo poles. The lion then dances in front of the door. The owner gives the red envelope of money, the lion to the mouth of the mouth. The lion then gives thanks. Kowtow to the ground, three steps back to leave. Go to another house to celebrate. Red Lion Dance is a large scene of the lion and monkey play dance, because the lion model of the head for the red and named, by two people were dancing lion head and body, simulating the lion tumbling and jumping and other various gestures and joy, anger, sadness and other demeanor. Dance with the lion with the hustle and bustle of many acting monkeys, they jumped around the lion, sometimes the lion suddenly annoyed, a bite bite a small monkey, the big monkeys rushed to the rescue, pulling the small monkey tail, the rest of the monkeys one after another dragging the former's tail into a long string of lifelong dragged back ....... The red lion dance is a warm scene, rich in the flavor of life. The Green Lion Dance is essentially a large-scale strenuous martial arts performance competition. It is named for the green head of the model lion danced by the lion dance team. The green-headed lion symbolizes the male lion. Because the male lions are aggressive, there are lion snatching teams at all times during the performance to snatch the lion's head. Because of this, lion dancers with ordinary martial arts skills do not dare to go out and perform with a green lion's head. Green lion performance in the field, its four sides are strong and powerful play God Generals holding knives, guns, swords and halberds and other eighteen kinds of weapons, set up a gossip formation each have to dance, and always ready to cope with a sudden attack to protect the lion, this lion dance competition has been rare to see people perform today.
Dragon Danceis a celebration held in the first month. Dancing dragon body footsteps, gestures harmonize, and dance the dragon head of the action coincides, so that the dance of the dragon followed the dragon treasure to carry out a variety of actions, to the front of each house to celebrate.
Dong Lusheng DanceLusheng Dance has disappeared as much as the sheng song, and the main points of the current circulation of the performance dance and the race carnival dance two categories. The performance dance is mainly manifested in the footsteps of various changes in the sheng song from one segment to another segment, the upper body and head and holding the sheng hand and arm with a right swing of the dance posture changes. This kind of sheng dance is mainly a lusheng dance in which the sheng team itself blows on the dancing sheng or makes a slow entrance in the marching song. The Carnival Dance of the Lusheng is a large-scale Lusheng dance held on the Sai Sheng Ping. This kind of Lusheng dance has a strong rhythm, swift movements and exuberant feelings, which is like thunder and lightning, wild winds, and the atmosphere is as hot as fire, which is very enthusiastic.
Long encouragementKorean and Miao folk dance. Long history, in the Dunhuang Northern Wei Dynasty (AD 386 ~ 534 years) mural, there has been similar to the long drum drumming music chart. Korean long drum dance, mostly performed by women. Dance by the dancers will be long drum sat in front of the body, the left hand beat the drum surface, there is a hand holding a thin bamboo drum whip to beat the drum surface, while beating the dance, very beautiful. The Miao and Yao ethnic groups in Hunan, Guangdong and Guangxi in China are also very fond of the long drum dance. The dancers usually hold the middle of the small drum in their left hand and turn it up and down to dance, while their right hand slaps the surface of the drum, and there are also male dancers who tie the big drum in front of their bodies and beat the drum with both hands while dancing. The general playing method is divided into two kinds of drums, namely, "long drums" and "long drums", with the former having soft movements and the latter having rough movements, which mostly expresses the labor life.
Fan DancePopular in the Korean folk dance. It is said to have been passed down for nearly z thousand years, and was originally a single or two-person dance, but later evolved into a group dance. The fan is used as a prop, and there are two main movements: the "living sun dance" and the "west honey dance". Dancers in the rhythm of the soothing music accompanied by the tide of dance, with the hands of the fan, composed of a beautiful pattern, showing a strong national characteristics.
The Fan Dance, also known as the "Bai Peng (xian) Dance", is also a folk dance of the Hani ethnic group, popular in the Hani area on the south bank of the Red River in Yunnan Province. Legend has it that it is related to commemorating the White Peng, which local people believe symbolizes peace and freedom. It is a collective dance of one god, with dancers dressed in white and holding feather fans in both hands, waving the fans during the dance, imitating the flying posture of the white duck, with beautiful and soft movements, rich in local and ethnic characteristics.
Nongle DanceKorean folk traditional dance. It has a long history and evolved from the dance after the victory of caracal hunting. The dance is danced at the beginning or end of agricultural work. It is popular in Yanbian area. Originally, the Korean rural Shen prevailed in the agricultural band, called for labor with a small gong, gathered after the agricultural music flag to lead the way, blowing and beating along the way, dancing to the ground, put the flag to the ground, people line up in formation to engage in labor. During the labor, someone leads the singing of the labor call and cooperates with them according to the beat; during the break, people form a circle and dance to the accompaniment of gongs and long drums. After the labor, they still dance and return to the village. When dancing, the dancer hangs the long drum in front of her body, holding a tambourine in her left hand to beat the drum, and holding a stick in her right hand to strike it, with both hands interlaced, while striking and dancing, with many changes. When women dance, they hold a small single drum, and their dance is joyful, beautiful and full of vigor. When men dance, they wear "elephant hats" with "elephant tail" paper strips about 3 feet long (the longest one is more than 10 feet) on the top of the hat. Turning the "Elephant Hat" is the most colorful part; one side beats the drum, the other side shakes the head with force, the eyeballs roll, beautiful and touching, and makes the "Elephant Tail" rotate around the body, the dance posture is healthy, the style is lively, and it turns from slow to fast, forming a high tide. The accompanying instruments are long drums, French drums, small gongs, big gongs, zona, hu flute, etc. The dance movements are all directed by small gongs.
MaishilevThe people of Xinjiang are good at singing and dancing, and "Maishilev" is one of the Uyghur songs and dances with the widest popular base. Depending on the city, it is divided into many categories. The most famous is the Dolang Meshilev in the Meghti County area of the Kashgar region. The music is "Dolang Mukam", played on a variety of traditional folk instruments and accompanied by traditional folk songs with love songs and ballads. The dances include solo, duo and group dances. After five or six rounds of the dance are repeated, the dance enters the entertainment stage, which consists of tea ceremony, poem pairing, belt capturing, singing of folk songs, and judging of judges. "There are generally six types of dorang meshilev: festival meshilev, celebration meshilev, collective meshilev, invitation meshilev, compensation meshilev, and reconciliation meshilev. In terms of form, there is the mesilev held in turn among peers, the excursion mesilev, the mesilev between young girls and young women, and the winter mesilev held among peers.
Tap DanceTibetan folk song and dance, initially for the court dance. When dancing, the dance focuses on the feet, with hard-soled leather shoes, and the arms move with the feet, accompanied by bowing, turning, etc., and tap dance according to the rhythm of the music, and in this way expresses the feelings of the heart. The tap dance is accompanied by flute, yangqin, six-stringed zither, brass bells, moon zither, etc., and is accompanied by folk songs with vivid lyrics, smooth tunes, lively dance styles, and the rhythm is from slow to fast, and when it reaches a climax, it ends abruptly with a closing step.
Asi Moon DanceAlso known as "Asi Moon Dance" or "Moon Dance", it is a kind of folk dance of the Asi people and the Chaini people of the Yi ethnic group. Popular in Yunnan Mile, Lunan, Huxi and other Yi areas. Legend has it that a long time ago, a big fire broke out in the place where the Ashiki people lived, and the fire burned for nine days and nine nights. The fire burned for nine days and nine nights, but the fire was not extinguished. The ground was so hot from the fire that the fire fighters kept switching their feet or jumping on one foot to continue fighting, and finally the fire was extinguished. In order to celebrate the victory, everyone played the sanxian (three-stringed instrument) and the flute, and danced on one foot, imitating the way they did when they fought the fire. This is known as the "A-Tsuki Moon Dance," which has been passed down to the present day. The name "jumping to the moon" is given by the Han Chinese, and the name "jumping" is used by the people of Atsumi. It has now become the main form of social and recreational activities for young men and women. On the nights of the Spring Festival, Torch Festival and National Day, young men and women gather in the pine forests or on the lawns, where the men play sanshin and moon zither of different sizes and bamboo flutes, and the women **** dance with them. The girls hold hands and form a circle, swinging from side to side, clapping their hands in rhythm, and dancing in a circle. The main action is to jump three steps and stop for two beats, raise their feet forward, clap their hands at the same time and jump around in place. Dance pace robust, rhythmic, foot strike hand, melodious, the whole dance is full of enthusiasm and joyful atmosphere.
Peacock DanceOne of the Dai folk dance forms, has a long history. Popular in the Dai region of Yunnan Province. The Dai people take the peacock as a symbol of good luck and express their good wishes by dancing the peacock dance. The folk peacock dance is relatively simple, usually performed by one or two people, accompanied by elephant foot drums and zinc gongs. The performers are disguised as peacocks, and the dance movements are mostly imitations and embellishments of the peacock's movements, which are vigorous, beautiful, delicate and elegant. After the liberation, after processing and improvement, the costumes were also improved, and many new movements were added, through the soft undulation of the knees, the colorful three bends of the body and arms, the soft and rigid rhythms of the movements, the agile use of the calves, together with the lifting up of the breath, closing the abdomen, lifting up the chest, and the head, the eyes of the clever coordination, so as to make the dance even more beautiful.
Swinging Hand DanceAccording to historical records, the Swinging Hand Dance originated from the military dance of the Ba people during the Shang and Zhou Dynasties. During the Western Han Dynasty, this military dance of the Ba people became the dance music of the Han court and was called the Ba Oracle Dance. The name was restored by Liang and later changed to Scabbard Dance. At the beginning of the Tang Dynasty, the Ba Oracle Dance was classified as Qinggao music. From the Han Dynasty to the Tang Dynasty and Song Dynasty, the Ba Oracle Dance has endured in the folklore. Pendulum dance has a big pendulum hand, small pendulum hand. Small Pendulum Dance is held once a year in the first month of the year, mainly performing agricultural, fishing and hunting activities. The Big Pendulum Dance is held once every three years, and its content is based on the Small Pendulum Dance, plus the Military War Dance performed by Phi Silan Kapu. The dance is performed by blowing a large earth trumpet, suona, gongs, cymbals and drums, and setting off three-eyed cannons and firecrackers. People form a circle, with men in the outer circle and women in the inner circle. In addition to the circle, there are also columns, "human" formations and various patterns. The number of dancers is variable, and they can come and go as they please. The action requires that the hands are not swung over the shoulders, the knees are stretched and flexed, trembling, and the hands and feet are moving along the side. The dance is simple and the music is fast-paced. At the same time in the dance of the swinging hand, to sing the swinging hand song, the lyrics of which have been passed down for a long time with fixed lyrics, but also a small number of improvisation of the new lyrics. People sing and dance, the atmosphere is warm, with a strong Tujia flavor.
Mourning DanceThe ritual dance of Tujia people. After the death of the old man, the western Ezhi Tujia people to jump funeral, western Hunan Tujia people to play funeral songs, jump cards to pay tribute to the old man, during which the dance, are jumping funeral dance. Mourning dance is the most characteristic of Exi's Mourning Dance. It is usually a person in front of the spirit drums lead singing, the rest of the two or four people in pairs while singing and dancing, the funeral jumpers are mostly men. The content of the performance of history, production, love, etc., mostly improvised lyrics sung by themselves. The movements are mostly simulated by flying birds and animals and human labor, war, often such as swallows, tigers, beautiful women combing their hair. The head, hands, shoulders, waist, hips, arms and feet move in unison, and they can also sing and drink while dancing. The main movement requirements are eight steps, hands around, waist, knees, hips. The movements are exaggerated, simple and rugged, with masculine beauty, and the images portrayed are vivid and realistic. Mourning dance singing sometimes high and exciting, sometimes low and soothing, but the whole dance music is cheerful, no sense of sadness.
Flower DrumsA celebratory and entertaining dance performed on festive occasions and at leisure. No accompaniment, no make-up, men and women go on stage in pairs, holding handkerchiefs and small fans to dance and sing. The content is mainly singing love, the lyrics can be improvised, there are also traditional singing such as "ten love", "ten want", "visit Lang", "the first month of the new spring" and so on. The whole dance is light, with wonderful singing words, dancers use their hands to make a variety of comical movements, the atmosphere is active and warm.
The Eight Treasures Copper Bell DanceThe Eight Treasures Copper Bell Dance, a Tujia ritual dance popular in western Hunan, is danced by the Tulaosi when they perform rituals, pay tribute to the souls of the dead, and solve the problem of money. Dancers wearing eight dresses, wearing a phoenix crown, the right hand holding a horn (or dance master knife), the left hand holding a copper bell, while dancing and blowing, dancing and singing, but also from time to time with the onlookers to sing. Eight treasures copper bell dance has two kinds: sitting hall and line hall. When sitting in the hall, the Tu Lao Si sits on a stool and uses his hands to complete the movement, which is less. The traveling dance requires the dancers to keep walking and dancing, with a lot of movements. Most of the chants are fixed chants, and there are programs such as feeding the horse, teasing the horse, mounting the horse, straddling the saddle, running the horse, dismounting the horse, jumping into the puddle, shaking the bells of the running horse, crossing the doorway, hitting the God Hall, and jumping on the lotus flower, etc. The dance is rugged and ancient. The dance is rough and ancient. It is also called "Chai Dance" and "Bamboo Dance". Is one of the Li folk dance form, popular in Hainan Island Li area. Generally in the "Taro Nyen Taro" (Li traditional festival), Wo day (i.e., do Buddha), labor breaks or farm nights held. Before the dance, people in the courtyard, or in the grain yard, or on a flat slope, placed two 4-meter-long bamboo poles as a padded frame, spaced about 2.5 meters apart, on which 4 or 5 pairs of 3.5-meter-long bamboo poles (or poles) are placed horizontally as jumping bars. Dance, crouch 4 or 5 people on each side of the padded frame, each holding the end of the bamboo pole (or pole) with both hands, rhythmically in the padded frame on the open and close hit, hit the padded frame and open and close hit on the top of the head. The sound is loud and pleasant. The dancers (single or double, etc.) take advantage of the moment when each pair of bamboo poles (or rods) strikes the mat or opens up, and keep replacing both feet, jumping and stepping up and down smartly, rushing forward and backward, turning left and right to dodge, squatting, avoiding all kinds of dangerous passes of the double poles (or double rods) striking the mat and opening up, and jumping out of all kinds of beautiful movements. When a pair of dancers alert and dexterous to jump through all sorts of dangerous passes, beat the bamboo pole (or pole) people call out "Hey! Heh-heh!" If the dancers fail to jump through the various hurdles and are caught by the bamboo poles (or rods) on their feet or necks, the crowd will burst into laughter. When Zhanghe strikes and hits the mat, it is usually divided into five rounds, from slow and decisive, from low to high.