The national symbol of the Jingpo people is the Murnau Xidong.
The main contents and activities of Minaw Xidong:
One, sacrifice
Historically, before erecting the Minaw Xidong, the Dongsa of the whole village should read the village ghosts (a kind of sacrifice), forming the climax of the sacrifice, and only after three consecutive days of sacrifice can the Minaw Xidong be erected, and then the whole Minaw Zonggei field cheered with great joy, and the scene was extremely enthusiastic. Today, in the center of the Minnao Showdong put a big drum, both sides hanging a few large gongs (locally known as _) in the Minnao Song began to carry out before the four sides of the door of the Minnao Song field by the Dongsa rituals to drive away the ghosts.
Two, Nao Shuang lead dance
Jingpo people's Munaosong extremely elaborate, no Nao Shuang lead dance can not be opened. Nao double by four sorcerers head by the hornbill head made of bird crowns, bird crowns around decorated with boar tusks, the back of the peacock feathers or pheasant feathers, wearing red and green satin made of dragon robes, clad in silver bubbles, hand-held long knife. The Nau Shuang were lined up in two rows, the two in front known as the Wu Shuang and the two in the back known as the Wen Shuang.
Meinao long before the opening, successive Naoshuang, Naoba (equivalent to assistants), priests and assistants composed of the ritual dance team to lead the participants in the dance in the exciting drums and gongs, stepping on the same beat into the dance. The dance formation is lined up in two columns, with the nao hands holding long knives to lead the way, followed by the dancers, men with long knives in their hands and women with fans or handkerchiefs in their hands, who follow the various routes led by the nao shuang around the meinao shidong stepping to the same drum beat to enter the dance floor and dance.
Three, forget the song
Every Minawang Song Festival, Jingpo villages, men, women and children, dressed in festive and colorful national costumes, in groups, beating gongs and drums, excitedly gathered to the Song Festival.
The Jingpo tribes wearing different costumes, led by Nao Shuang, joined the song procession, and the sound of drums and Jingpo songs resounded throughout the square. The long knives in the men's hands danced up and down in a flash of silver, and the fans or handkerchiefs in the women's hands fluttered, and the silver bubbles on their clothes and handkerchiefs shone brightly and clanked.
The dancers are completely immersed in a kind of intoxication and forgetfulness, the mouth can not help but sing "Oh? Ran, Oh Ran, Oh Ran?" The cheers of the dancers were spectacular. Drums, gongs, rhythmic, powerful, the valley should sound, the majestic song infected everyone inside and outside the field, Jingpo people like drunken sweet rice wine as passionate and exuberant.
On the dance floor, some Jingpo women kept giving the dancers water wine from bamboo tubes. Thousands of dancers, led by Nao Shuang, followed the migratory route of their ancestors in their hearts, sometimes interspersing, sometimes circling around, in and out of order, tens of thousands of people in formation with the change of drum beats, and then change the dance steps, without any disorder.
The onlookers could not withstand the spectacular scene of infection, have joined the team, the dance floor can generally accommodate tens of thousands of people dancing at the same time, the time can last for more than 10 hours and not scattered. The dance can last for more than 10 hours and not be broken up. The Danube Song is usually held for four days, and before it is held, it is necessary to ask Dong Sa to calculate the date.
Every time the festival is held, and Dehong neighboring Myanmar sent hundreds of people from all over the team to congratulate and participate in the Danube song and enhance the friendship between China and Myanmar.
Extended information:
Jingpo, one of China's ethnic minorities, has its own language and script. The language belongs to the Tibetan-Burmese group of the Sino-Tibetan language family, with five branch languages belonging to the Jingpo branch and the Burmese branch, and two types of scripts, Jingpo and Jawa, both of which are romanized scripts based on the Latin alphabet.
The origin of the Jingpo people is related to the ancient Qiang people on the Tibetan Plateau, and there are the Jingpo, Zaiwa, Lechi, Lang'e, Bo'e and Bao'e languages. "There are five clans: Jingpo, Zaiwa, Lechi, Lang'e and Bora, mainly living in the mountainous areas of the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, with a few in the Nujiang Lisu Autonomous Prefecture bordering the Kachin State of Myanmar. Most of the Kachin clans in Myanmar also have deep roots with the Jingpo and Lisu in China
According to the 2010 Sixth National Population Census, the total population of the Jingpo ethnic group is 147,828.
The symbol is erected in the center of the dance floor of the Minnao Song, and is the most sacred and revered totem in the hearts of the Jingpo people. One of the most important symbols of the Song of Songs is the Murnau Xidong, an altar set up to commemorate Ning Guanwa, the ancestor of the Jingpo people, who first created the Song of Songs.
Show Dong generally by four vertical and two horizontal six thick rectangular wooden plate plus the base composition, with red, black and white painted on the irregular spiral geometric patterns, the middle of the two vertical cards slightly higher, the left for the male card painted on the sun pattern, the right for the female card painted with the moon pattern, on behalf of the Jingpo people from the Tibetan Plateau migrated from the Sun and the Moon Mountain, but also said that yin and yang collocation and human beings can not be separated from the sun and the moon. The spiral dance pattern below represents the migration route of Jingpo's ancestors back then.
Below that is the legend of the hornbill and the peacock leading the dance. The two shorter plaques are ancestral male and female stakes, the top of which depicts the birthplace of the ancestors - "Lapang, Muzha Province". Below the left stake is painted a diamond-shaped gemstone pattern, and below the right stake is painted a ripple-shaped migration route.
At the bottom of the pile is a flower with leaves symbolizing human reproduction, a pumpkin seed symbolizing the unity of various ethnic groups, a cow's head symbolizing the elimination of calamities and evil spirits, and a breast symbolizing the reproduction of human beings. Horizontal above a painted field pattern, the next piece of painted animals and birds, grain pattern, yin and yang male and female stakes between the cross of the knife and arrow connected, that the people of Jingpo life can not be separated from the sword and knife, but also reflects the Jingpo people's courageous and bold spirit.
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