Andai Dance is Mongolian, is a traditional dance of the Kulun Banner of the Inner Mongolia Autonomous Region, known as the living fossil of Mongolian collective dance.
Andai dance has a long history and origin, originated in the Kulun Banner, according to evidence about the formation of the late Ming and early Qing Dynasty. In the middle of the Qing Dynasty, a large number of immigrants from all over the Guandong Province flooded into the grasslands, giving birth to a wide range of mass An Dai dance.
The traditional Andai dance is not accompanied by instrumental music, and the dancers dance with the song, which has a distinctive rhythm and simple dance movements. Traditional andai have "Bo" preside over the ceremony, singers and men who are good at andai dance, patients follow, crowds of spectators, culminating in "ah ha ha ho", "He Ji Ye", "Benburai" and other liner notes shouting support, and gradually developed from the accompanying song to the foot dance, as a way to express the joy of labor after the emotion.
Later, more people to participate in Andai singing, singing, tunes are also rich up, there are songs, the lively atmosphere of the field, some dancers even step through the soles of the shoes, tore bad gown lapels, and even the small lama also secretly take off the teaching clothes to participate in the singing. One of the outstanding features of Yandai Dance is the movement of hands. In the fall harvest season every year, people can dance from evening to dawn. It lasts for seven consecutive days, or even twenty-one days, up to forty-nine days. The number of dancers varies, from a minimum of a dozen to as many as several hundred.
The place where the Andai dance is performed is a spacious flat area, with three feet of soil turned over, covered with horse dung or grass, and then covered with wet soil to make it hard, so it has good elasticity. In the center of the field, an empty bowl is buried, and the axle is set up above it, and the top of the axle is covered tightly with a cloth. The traditional Andai dance is often accompanied by songs, and singing is the main feature of the Andai dance.