What are the basic hand positions of Mongolian dance:
1, flat hand: four fingers together and straight, thumb open to the front side.
2. Lemma hand: hold an empty fist and place the thumb on the first joint of the index finger.
3. Crossed Hands: make a fist with all four fingers, straighten and open the thumb to the front side of the hand.
4, flat eagle position: flat hands, arms raised to the side and shoulder level, arc forward.
5. High Eagle Position: Lift 45° from the flat Eagle Position.
6, Crossed Waist Position: four fingers in a fist, thumbs open, crossed at the waist.
7, Le Ma position: Le Ma hand is in a downward curved shape, extending outward. A single hand is a single lemma position, and two hands outward is called a double lemma position.
China's Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, as well as Jilin, Heilongjiang and other provinces of the Mongolian people inhabited areas of folk dance. The dance culture of the Mongolian people is closely related to their hunting and nomadic life. The primitive dance form of the ancestors of the Mongolian nation has a vivid and true expression in the Yinshan cliff paintings and Ulanqab cliff paintings chiseled in the Neolithic and Bronze Ages.
In ancient times, the Mongols also had a lot of dances imitating ferocious animals, such as the "White Sea Green" (White Eagle) Dance, the Bear Dance, the Lion Dance, the Deer Dance, etc. These dances, as independent forms, were mostly performed by the Mongols. These dances, as independent forms, are mostly lost, but are still reflected in the shaman dance. Mongolian totems are mostly ferocious flying birds and beasts and worship the white color.
When the female shamans in ancient shamanism danced, they wore white robes and danced with white silk scarves. Until the 1950s, the Mongolian folk also popular "Andai" (also known as Chagan Ereye) this ancient form of dance, the dance characteristics of the ground for the festival still maintains the characteristics of the Mongolian ancient widely popular step dance.
The Secret History of Mongolia, written in 1240, recorded the enthusiastic scene of the dance during the celebration: "Dancing around the pines and trees, stepping out of the dust without knees." In the Yuan Dynasty poetry, there are also "the sound of a united voice before the rise of the merger, the foot again divided Cao", "Tap song all drunken Yingpan night" and other poems, is a description of this dance.