The Yi's song and dance accompaniment to the meal - "jumping vegetables" - means dancing to serve the food. It is a unique form of serving food and the highest etiquette of banquets for the Yi folk in the Wuliangshan and Mianlong Mountains of Yunnan, which is a traditional food culture with a long history of perfect combination of dance, music, acrobatics and food. Jumping vegetables" is called "holding plate dance" and commonly known as "lifting vegetables dance", and the performance process is divided into "banquet jumping vegetables" and "performance jumping vegetables". The performance process is divided into two forms: "Banquet jumping vegetables" and "performance jumping vegetables". "Banquet jumping vegetables" is also called "field jumping vegetables", is Nanjian folk in the life of a major celebration, for the celebration or joy to add a happy and peaceful atmosphere; "performance jumping vegetables" that is Stage performance of jumping vegetables, according to the size of the venue to increase or decrease the number of actors, from dozens of people to hundreds of people, dance movements rough and bold, robust and powerful, high and clear voice.
"Jumping vegetables" has a long history, it is said to be the evolution of the primitive matriarchal clan society, the main prevalence of the Tang Dynasty, it is said that this is the ancient period of the Yi people honoring the emperor in the palace performances of a kind of dance art, and then slowly spread to the folk, the Yi folk art of the unique, food culture of the wonders of the folk constitutes the source of the Nanyuan It constitutes the source of Nanjian ethnic culture. Jumping vegetables in Yunnan Dali, Nanjian have heritage, its performance reminds the reporter of China's ancient times until the Han and Tang dynasties, dance, music and acrobatic art and food culture often into one, each other to add color, but the pearl, preserving the primitive style and folk connotations passed down from ancient times to the present day.
Art form
Feast "jumping dishes" generally two pairs of people, a pair of jumping after a pair of different postures, varied, rigid and flexible, rotating freely, and constantly loaded with dishes on the tray in their hands in the new pattern. With the top of the head, or hand, or shoulder lift, or a person riding on a person ...... they sometimes "flies rub feet", sometimes "heron stretch legs", sometimes "Golden Deer looking at the moon", sometimes "pheasant eating water", flip and stomp, big step dance disk, competing in stunts. In the whole performance process, the most wonderful to be counted as "mouth power to send vegetables" and "empty-handed stacking tower jumping". "Jumping dishes" in the mouth of the tightly held two large copper spoon, each set a bowl of vegetables, and the head of the tray is also full of vegetables, they are smiling, full of enthusiasm, jumping on the side of the dishes.
Categorization of forms
This dance is commonly seen in the two categories of "dancing on the table" and "dancing on the stage".
1, the table jumping vegetables, also known as "feast jumping vegetables" or "field jumping vegetables", is the Nanjian Yi in the marriage celebration, the inauguration of the new house, to meet the VIP, to the old man birthday and other major occasions, due to the feast guests to increase the festive atmosphere and jumping vegetables, to speak of the "Eat and be happy".
2, stage jumping vegetables, according to the performance location or stage size is divided into "stage jumping vegetables" and "square jumping vegetables". "Stage jumping vegetables" that is, jumping vegetables performed on the stage, are performed by the Nanjian Yi farmers, the actors are usually about 20 people, up to a hundred people, dance movements rough and bold, strong and powerful, high-pitched bright voice. The "square jumping vegetables" actors less than dozens of people, more than up to several hundred people, reflecting a magnificent, neat and harmonious artistic effect.