Moon jumping is the festival of that ethnic minority

There are many ethnic minorities in Yunnan, and all of them can sing and dance well. The Yi family's "A fine jumping moon" is an extremely splendid one in the sea of songs and dances. November 7 this year, I with China's 100 cultural journalists with the Red River wind group and his entourage, drove into the mountains, to the oldest branch of the Yi people's villages - can be the village, to explore the "A fine jumping moon" hometown of the mystery.　Keyi Village, Xisan Town, Mile County, Yunnan Province, is a mountainous village inhabited by more than 200 households of the Yi sub-clan, the Keyi, which is the phonetic translation of the Yi language, meaning "auspicious place". Keyi village is the birthplace of the national song and dance, "A Hoshi Jumping to the Moon", and the place where the Yi epic poem "A Hoshi Shanki" has been most widely circulated. The original name of "Ahshi Moon Dance" is "Jumping Music", because they often meet under the moon to dance, and it has the meaning of courtship, so young boys and girls often avoid their elders, and go to the mountains and forests outside the village at night to dance in the moonlight or around the bonfire, and it was called "Ahshi Moon Dance" during the War of Resistance against Japan. It was called "A fine jumping moon" during the War of Resistance against Japanese Aggression.　　　"A fine jumping moon" origin legend is quite a lot, but are related to fire: one said that originated from labor, in ancient slash-and-burn farming, burned bush stakes are easy to stab the palms of the feet, prying the nest sowing often jumped up and down, evolved into a dance. There is also a saying that it is very beautiful and touching, and has been widely spread. Legend has it that in ancient times, in which generation, in which year in ancient times, there lived a pair of love goddesses on the A fine mountain: the man was a brave and tenacious hunter, the A. The most accurate archery. The man was the brave and tenacious hunter, Ah Zhi, whose archery skills were the most accurate, and who could kill a wild boar with a single arrow. The woman was A E, who was as beautiful and kind as the moon. A E's hands were the most skillful, and she could weave ninety-nine feet of linen in a day. The two of them lived together, just like the moon can't live without the sun, and the stars can't live without the moon, living a happy life like honey. But then, the earth was in a drought for years, a pair of hungry rams went to war over the dry grass, and the sparks from the four horns ignited the scorched earth. In the face of the blazing fire, Azhi misses A'e, who is weaving at home, and he calls out to A'e in a frenzy. In the face of the rolling fire, A E heart in the mountains hunting the A E, she tenderly: "A A -" the fire mercilessly engulfed the mountains, threatening the A fine people's lives, so the A A split down a branch of the green chestnut branch began to fight the fire, he fought the fire on the one hand! He called out to his wife A'e. A E also from the front of their own homes to start fighting the fire, she one side of the fire while calling her husband A person. In this way, in the mountains of the A fine people follow the A to fight the fire, in the home of the A fine people follow the A E to fight the fire, although they are bare shoulders and bare feet, but all brave, everyone competes for the first. The fire-fighting teams led by A'e and A'e respectively met on the mountain, but they were separated again, and they ran to another mountain in order to fight the fire. After three days and three nights, the wildfire was extinguished. Facing the scorched earth, Ah Zhi felt the evil fire attacking his heart, and he did not know whether his wife, Ah E, was dead or alive. So, he called out one after another in pain, "A'e - A'e -" Suddenly, in the distance where the mountains and the sky kissed came A'e's excited answering voice: "A'e--A'e--" So the people, holding up fire-fighting branches and shouting the name "A'e, A'e! The names "A'e, A'e" were shouted, and the people met on the bare red soil of the hill. People cheered and embraced, celebrating the Atsushi's survival. In the joyful jump, Ah Zhi occasionally made a sound of the bowstring on his back, and the sound of the long bowstring was very melodious, so it aroused the association of Ah Zhi, and so the original jumping instrument of the three strings was built. Since then, whenever the moon is bright and the wind is clear, the people of Ahshin will light bonfires, recall this touching story, and dance the joyful "Ahshin Moon Dance". In this way, the "Ahsho Moon Dance" is performed one after another, year after year, round after round.　"The dance is fast-paced and bold and unrestrained. Now it has evolved into the old man's dance and the young man's dance. The old man's dance is played by a small three-stringed string, and the dance is slow and steady. The youth dance is passionate and exciting, and is a self-indulgent activity for young men and women to communicate their feelings and choose objects. Whenever the festival or farming, neighboring villages unmarried adult male and female youth first agreed to meet the time and place, then, such as one party failed to make an appointment, the other party is in the road with a stone pressed on a tree branch, said "pressure soul", soul is the Yi interpretation of life, the party being pressed to explain the reasons for the apology and understanding, and can be booked on the date again. This kind of date, village A to male, village B can only come to female. Before the meeting, the woman in the forest grooming, deliberately grinding time, the man knows that the woman in the grooming, but also intentionally play the piccolo short, the big three strings played urgently, a party in a hurry, a party slow, a different kind of fun. In the flute and string Yang, the woman clapped clear applause jumped out of the woods, on the lawn in line with the male party singing and dancing, the tune with the dance, the string sound buckle with the heart, or outbreaks of "Oh! Oh!" Oh!" roar. Its music for the Palace or the big three degrees five beat section, cheerful and enthusiastic, bold and unrestrained; dance steps like fire bouncing, the first one foot jumped three into three beats, both feet landed into four beats, and then change the other foot jumping, so constantly repeated. In the song and dance, looking for a satisfactory partner, and then change the formation, a man and a woman dance. Due to the "A fine jumping moon" dance intensity, especially the male youth shoulder four or five kilograms of heavy three strings, playing, singing, jumping, spinning, often jumping sweating, but quite appealing "A fine jumping moon", generation after generation, year after year, attracting young men and women! It is a very inspiring event, which attracts young men and women from generation to generation, year after year, and is carried out all night long to the best of their ability.　In the late afternoon when the sky was dark, our fleet of 100 cultural journalists of the Honghe River picnic activity approached Keyi Zhai. From afar, I saw a long red flag fluttering on the beacon tower at the top of the hill. Local friends said that the flag was telling the people in the fortress, "Friends are coming!"　A low, loud trombone sounded. Following the sound of the horn, we came to the tall gate of the fortress. Six majestic Yi men stood in front of the gate in two rows, holding wooden forks. In front of them was a smoky fire, behind them was a pretty Yi girl singing songs and holding Baogu wine. This is the welcome ceremony of the Yi family to their honored guests.　We crossed the fire pit, drank the Baogu wine, and walked through the cheerful dance of the Yi family, "A Tiao jumps to the moon", and entered the ancient village. The colorful paintings on the walls, the green roof tiles, the little girl herding cows with her head bowed shyly, the Ahshi women wearing palm leaf shawls carrying firewood home, the sun-dried grains on the walls of the house, chili pepper strings, and the cows quietly drinking water by the pond....... The people of the Ahshi are so genuinely born in the city, grew up in the city, singing and dancing in the city. All of this, in the afterglow of the setting sun, completely returned to the ancient simplicity.　A fine friends with the most sumptuous meal to treat us these guests from afar. The meal was eaten around the short four-square table, the original flavor of the Yi dishes, so that everyone was full of praise, especially a dish made with local pork is let us "love". The hospitality of the Yi A Thing friends, in A Thing language, singing a toast, voice as bright as glass as high, like the peaks of the mountains as sharp and high. "Doo! Doo!" This is their way of persuading people to drink - "doo" means "drink". A fine friend also carried a bowl full of Baogu wine, table by table to toast three rounds, which made us completely intoxicated in this endless enthusiasm.　With a little drunkenness, we went to the square to watch the performance of "A Thing jumping to the moon" by a team of A Thing youths. Here to see the "A fine jumping moon" original flavor, rustic flavor, men and women's movements are very rough, jumping forward as if the dance in the wild flying kick, full of life and tension. The rhythm of the music is cheerful and distinctive, applying a certain poet's syntax: very Yunnan, very Yi, very Ah Tiny! Ah, this is the world-famous "Ah Tiny Moon Dance". Listen to the resounding sound of the big three-stringed instrument and the crisp sound of the bamboo flute; look at the colorful ethnic costumes and the light and graceful dancing. The accompaniment of the flute and the three-stringed instrument, the mingling of the wooden leaf and the moon zither, and the snuggling of the pairs of lovers are the enthusiastic display of the lovers' heart-to-heart. The powerful music of "A fine jumping to the moon" is the joyful feeling of the scorched earth after the calamity. The foot-stomping and hand-clapping of the left and right rotation is the red sun of the plateau raised by the hot wind of the red earth! We, more than a hundred cultural journalists enjoying the joyful and beautiful songs and dances, and feeling the confidence, boldness and optimism of the people of A Thin to life, we also could not help joining in the songs and dances, and holding hands with our Yi friends, jumping around the bonfire to the famous "A Thin jumping to the moon".　　　Hehe! "A fine jumping moon", you come from the ancient times of the mountains full of fire, you come from the ancient times of the flooded sky. And now, you are draped in national cultural style to the brilliant future to go ...... Since ancient times, the A fine cottage has been circulating "live not jump music, white in the world to live", "the big three strings, the soles of the feet on the itch! and "When the big three strings sound, the soles of the feet will itch" and other proverbs. Nowadays, "A fine moon dance" has been officially moved to the stage of literature and art. It has been performed in provinces and Beijing many times. In 1954, "A fine jumping moon" as China's outstanding folk dance, to Warsaw, Poland, to participate in the Third World Youth Festival, caused a strong sensational effect; 1980s, "A fine jumping moon" music is listed as one of the world's most famous songs; In February 1992, by the Mile County Yi farmers composed of "A fine jumping moon art troupe" unprecedented as the country's only county-level farmers' art troupe, listed as one of the large-scale cultural performers of the Third China Arts Festival, the Kunming People's Victory Hall, a show of people's hearts, seductive and fascinating "A fine jumping moon" style, won a strong sensational effect; in the 1980s, "A fine jumping moon" music was listed as one of the world's famous songs. During the Kunming World Horticultural Expo, Mile County organized a two-hundred-people "A fine jumping moon performance troupe" to participate in the opening ceremony of the Expo, the opening ceremony, the Chinese Pavilion Day and the closing ceremony, the original "A fine jumping moon" was brilliant again; in the new millennium, the "A fine jumping moon" was listed as one of the large-scale cultural performers in the Third China Art Festival, and was displayed in the Kunming People's Victory Hall to make people's hearts stir and entice their fascination. The first spring of the new millennium, the melodious and joyful "A Hoshi Moon Dance" was played again in the Golden Hall of Vienna, the holy temple of music, as the opening of the worldwide New Year Concert; this year, "A Hoshi Moon Dance" has been recognized by the Central Propaganda Department as one of the most popular performances in the world. This year, "A Thin Jumping Moon" was selected by the Central Propaganda Department and the Ministry of Culture as the program for the 60th anniversary of the founding of the People's Republic of China, and was performed in Beijing. "A fine jumping moon" like a blooming in the cloud ridge plateau on the beautiful camellia, beautiful side of the magical red land.　On the night of exploring the hometown of "A fine jumping moon", the whole village of Konyi was immersed in laughter. I had never thought that far away from the hustle and bustle of the city, there was still a quiet land where I could savor the simplicity and elegance of the Ashi people. On this night, we journalists from all over the country sang and danced with the passionate, happy and everlasting people of Ahshin, unwilling to leave for a long time. My heart is also in the heart of the blessing, bless the "A fine jumping moon" this national culture and art of the oddball more and more colorful!