Hometown of Yi Smoke Box Dance
The birthplace of Harmony Music Smoke Box Dance casts Yangwu Township as the township of Yi Smoke Box Dance. String sound, foot pole itch, smoke box dance is Yangwu Township Yi village joy of the spirit, is the soul of the spiritual and cultural life of the Yi family. The Yi family less smoke box dance, like less salt in life, the days will be passed tastelessly. There are 87 villages and hamlets in the town inhabited by Yi people, all of which have their own smoke box dance teams, and all adult men and women in the hamlets will dance the smoke box dance. And the smoke box dance penetrates into all areas of life in Yi villages, such as entertainment, festivals, celebrations, rallies, rituals, marriages, funerals and so on. It is a rare national cultural phenomenon that a dance reaches such a popularity in a place.
Yangwu Town, Lu Kui Mountain, Mopan Mountain, Harmony Music Yi smoke box dance, native rooted in the Yi folk, the long days from ancient to the present day, that is, in the Cultural Revolution, sweeping the "Four Olds" era, has not stopped. 1988, Yangwu Town, Harmony Music Yi Smoke Box Dance Team, on behalf of the Yuxi region to participate in the Yunnan Provincial Arts Festival held in Kunming, Kunming, China. In 1995, Yangwu Township Harmonious Music Yi Smoke Box Dance Team participated in the "Mysterious Mourning Prison Concert" held by Eshan, Xinping and Yuanjiang counties, and won the third prize; in May, 2001, professors from the Department of Music of the University of the Philippines and the Department of Music of the Columbia University of the U.S.A. came to watch the Harmonious Music Yi Smoke Box Dance Team of Yangwu Township. Harmony music Yi smoke box dance; in June 2002, Yangwu Township, harmony music Yi smoke box dance as a Hunan TV station "Rose of the date" of the topic, made in the television media broadcast.