The Mongols are a nomadic people in northern China, engaged in animal husbandry and hunting production. Due to the geographical environment and climatic conditions of living in the grassland for a long time, they have worshipped the heaven and earth, mountains and rivers, and the eagle totem since ancient times, thus forming the characteristics of the Mongolian dance which is thick, subtle, stretching and bold. Mongolian folk dance mainly has the following kinds:
One is the cup and bowl dance. Bowl dance is generally a female solo dance, with a classical dance style. Dancers head of porcelain bowls, holding two cups, accompanied by music, according to the rhythm of the cups clinking, two arms constantly stretching and flexing, the body or forward or backward, intended to show that Mongolian women are dignified and quiet, soft and rigid character temperament. The dance utilizes the dance vocabulary of "soft hands", "shaking shoulders" and "broken steps", which are characteristic of Mongolian dance style, to show the elegant and subtle style of cup and bowl dance. Xing'anmeng folk bowl dance, dance simple, simple, no strict rules of action.
The second is the chopstick dance. The Chopstick Dance is characterized by shoulder movements and is usually performed by men. The dancers hold chopsticks in their right hands and hit their hands, legs, shoulders, feet and other parts of the body from time to time, and sometimes they also hit the ground (or the stage). With the flipping of the wrist, sometimes the shoulder shrugs lively, sometimes the leg jumps flexibly, sometimes the dancer turns to the left and sometimes to the right. The shoulder movements have a sense of rhythm and a special flavor, combining cheerfulness, grace and athleticism. Although the action is simple, but with skills to please the audience, so there is a certain performance nature. In Xing'anmeng folk circulated chopstick dance, both male solo dance, there are male and female group dance. In the form of performance, it develops from holding chopsticks with one hand to holding chopsticks with two hands, and the dance vocabulary of shoulders, waist and legs is also more abundant. Therefore, the dances are cheerful, bright and original, which express the warm, cheerful, swarthy and heroic national personality of the Mongolian people in the best possible way.
Third is the Andai Dance. Andai dance in the late Ming and early Qing dynasties in the southern end of the horqin grassland of kulun flag. Initially, it was a kind of shamanic dance used to heal the sick, containing prayers to the gods to protect, get rid of the devil to eliminate the meaning of the disaster, and then slowly evolved into the expression of joyful emotions of the national folk dance. The traditional Andai dance has several procedures, including preparation, initiation, climax and closing, all of which are presided over by the "Bo". With the development of history and social progress, Xing'an area with superstitious colors of the Andai dance has ceased to exist, but as a folk song and dance passed down. In horqin area, in the New Year festivals, in the celebration of the harvest days, in the funeral and wedding and welcome the guests at the banquet, people have to dance and dance. The girl daughter-in-law waved the turban jump, the young man took off his boots barefoot jump, the children do the ghost face jump ...... dance moves have flung the towel step, around the towel step, swinging the towel step, clapping hands crossed the waist, forward running, flip jump, air kick, pengkong curled body, left and right rotation, fling silk squat step, arms swinging the silk, etc., these beautiful and elegant movement, the Integration of stable, accurate, sensitive, light, soft, healthy, beautiful, rhyme, love as one, the formation of a grand carnival scene, the beauty and the pursuit of beauty to the extreme.