Ethnic dance is a body movement language that originates from people’s lives and is expressed in the abstract form of daily activities. It can also be called folk dance, folk dance or international folk dance.
Traditional folk dances are often called traditional dances, which originate from the needs of festivals or rituals in various places, such as the rain praying dance in India or Malaysia; or are related to daily life, such as There are fishing dances in Hawaii, water dances in Israel; there are also Italian bell drums to ward off evil spirits (repelling insects), etc.
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Classification introduction
1. Kazakh dance
The Kazakhs are a horseback nation, and their dance expresses Life is mainly on horseback. The dance is mostly based on life on horseback. The arms are mostly used to move the shoulders, and the footwork is mostly horse steps. Milking, shearing, and felt rolling are common in the dance vocabulary. "Kazakh Bear Dance" is a famous Kazakh folk dance. The dancers dress up as bears in fur clothes and imitate the habits and movements of bears.
2. Maixirefu
The Daolang people who live in Maigaiti County in the middle and lower reaches of the Yarkand River are descendants of the Mongols in history. Their obsession with music and dance makes outsiders amazed. Incomprehensible. Sometimes a burst of music comes, and the farmers in the fields immediately put down their tools, and the pedestrians on the road take off their coats and throw down their robes, and then start dancing intoxicatedly.
3. Music and dance to commemorate the elderly
The song of colorful clothes and feathers is also called the dance of colorful clothes and feathers. It is a kind of court music and dance of the Tang Dynasty. It was composed for Emperor Xuanzong of the Tang Dynasty and was used to perform at the Taiqing Palace to commemorate Laozi. It was lost after the Anshi Rebellion. During the Southern Song Dynasty, Jiang Kui discovered eighteen sections of the score of Shang Diao Nishang Opera. These fragments are still preserved in his "Songs of Taoist Baishi". A masterpiece of singing and dancing in the Tang Dynasty, it is still worthy of being a shining pearl in the history of music and dance.
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