Miao Drum Dance is the dance of the Miao minority in western Hunan.
Miao drum introduction:
Xiangxi's Miao drums have two kinds of celebration of the New Year, celebration of the gods, with the Miao people's aesthetic taste and drumming changes in the inheritance of the general in the lunar calendar on the eighth day of the month of April, before and after the Spring Festival each year, catching the autumn, cattle, harvest celebration, marriage, welcome guests and other major events, they are drumming to meet and greet, drums as a special way to express their feelings. as a special way to express their emotions.
Reason:
Miao drums, I agree with the Miao scholars Shi Qigui's point of view, Shi Qigui in the "western Hunan Miao field survey report" in the discussion: "Miao people in the environment, suffering from racial, political and economic oppression, no progress, so the cultural knowledge is more backward, and the place where they live in the barren mountains and valleys, out of the interest, less close to the Han Chinese, sitting in a chair, and the people are not in the same place, but they are in the same place, and they have no idea what is happening.
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If you don't seek a kind of entertainment, it is not enough to capitalize on the joy of life, improve the mind, active spirit, promote health, and there is a benefit to the person, only drumming one." At this time, the social utilitarian role of the Miao drum can be fully realized.
The Miao drum music has the most dance characteristics, because the Miao drum music is often accompanied by dance, it is the perfect combination of music, dance. In our state, Hmong drumming is called drumming and has a strong regional character.
Because of the cultural, historical and aesthetic factors of the Miao people, the Miao drum dance constitutes the unique personality of Xiangxi Miao drum music through the narrative way of performance; it reproduces the picture of the life and labor of the Miao people in Xiangxi through one vivid dance movement, and it can be said that it is a picture scroll of the history of the Miao people in Xiangxi.
The Miao drum is a sacred object enshrined by the Miao family; it is the symbol of the Miao tribe, and on the way of their great migration from the Yellow River to the mountains in the southwest, they threw away everything and still kept a drum. Miao every encounter with the survival of major decisions to be made, will hold a grand "eat cattle and drum" ceremony, a drum on behalf of a department or tribe of the Miao. One drum represents a department or tribe of the Miao people. When a hundred drums sound together, it symbolizes the unity of all people and the common enemy.
The Miao Drum Festival is a traditional sacred festival of the Miao people. Legend has it that in ancient times, a multi-headed monster victimized the Hmong people, destroying women, devouring children and doing all sorts of evil. Brave Miao after Yaxiong rate with the cottage partners jumped down the sinkhole, after seven days and seven nights of blood station, finally killed in killed the ferocious multi-headed monster, rescued the beautiful Azhu.
The whole village gathered around the reed fire to celebrate the victory. Yaxiong and other warriors peeled off the skin of the monster, masked into a drum and beat it vigorously. It is said that this is the origin of the Miao drum.