The folk dances of the Song Dynasty were full of human feelings, rich in the flavor of life and vivid images. Ma Yuan's "Pestle Song" from the Song Dynasty records such a scene. Pestle and Mortar Song, as the name suggests, is a dance team performance closely related to labor. It mainly imitates the labor movement of pounding rice with a mortar and pestle, and when the mortar and pestle strike the mortar groove and make a rhythmic sound, the dance performance is accompanied by a music-like soundtrack. It is not known whether the pestle and mortar singers in the Song Dynasty dance teams danced with a pestle and mortar or merely sang the pestle and mortar song. Dream sorghum record" volume 1 "Lantern Festival" in the article "ladies mortar and pestle song": "Wulin old story" volume 2 "dance team" in the article "men and women mortar and pestle song"; "Xihu old man prosperous victory record" in the list of the dance team in the name of the female mortar and pestle song. In life, pounding rice was mostly a female labor. After entering the dance team performance, with the participation of men, and can be sung by the ladies, the performance situation and the actual life action should have more links.