The basic movements for the introduction of Dai dance are:
Arm movements, waist movements, foot movements, body movements, turn, front step, ding step, repetitive beat, front foot undulation, side undulation, front undulation, jumping, hand dance.
The Dai Dance is an ancient folk dance of the Dai people and the favorite dance of the Dai people. It is popular throughout the Dai area, represented by the peacock dance of Mengding in Ruili County and Gengma County, and there are many professional entertainers who make a living by dancing the peacock dance.
They imitate the peacock: running down the mountain, strolling through the forest, drinking water from the spring, chasing and playing, dragging the wings, shaking the wings, spreading the wings, boarding the branch, resting on the branch, opening the screen, flying ...... and so on. Jumping out of the colorful dance movements and rich in sculptural dance shape. Their dance has a strict program and requirements, a fixed step and position, and even each action has a fixed drum accompaniment.
The Dai mainly live in Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture, Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture, Gengma Dai Wa Autonomous County, Menglian Dai Lahu Wa Autonomous County, and scattered in more than 30 counties such as Lincang, Lancang, Xinping, Yuanjiang, Jinping, Huaping, Dayao, Luquan and so on.
Geographic features
The Dai area is rich in beautiful mountains and rivers, rich in resources and dense forests, and has been called the "Kingdom of Plants" and the "Kingdom of Animals," and the river valleys are fertile, with convenient irrigation. The river valley area has fertile land, convenient irrigation, hot climate and abundant rainfall, which is suitable for crop planting and cash crop cultivation. For a long time, Xishuangbanna enjoys the reputation of "the barn in the south of Yunnan"; Dehong area "Mangshi grain, Chai put rice" reputation throughout the province; most of the Dai ethnic areas are the province's grain production base and cash crop production areas.
Long history
Far away in the first century BC, the Chinese historical records have been about the Dai. In the Han Dynasty, the Dai people were called "Mourning", and in the Sui and Tang dynasties, the Dai people were called "Mourning", "Wu Ban" and "Bai Ban"; in the Song Dynasty, the Dai people were called "Mourning", "Wu Ban" and "Bai Ban". Along the Dai as "gold teeth", "white"; Yuan and Ming Dynasties, "gold teeth" continue to use, "white" is written "Baiyi". The Yuan and Ming Dynasties, "Golden Tooth" continued to be used, and "Baiyi" was written as "Baiyi" or "Boyi". Since the Qing Dynasty, it is more often called "pendulum clothes".
Language
The Dai language belongs to the East Asian family of languages, and its own script, which had different forms of Dai in the past, was evolved from the Sanskrit alphabet.