Peacock dance regional distribution

The peacock dance is widely distributed in the region, the upper three parts of Ali, the central Weizang four wings, the lower Duo Gan Si Six Guns, have expressed the peacock folk dance. Due to the geographical environment, customs and habits of different places, the peacock dance performance form, style characteristics, skill difficulty, lyrics to the general idea, music style also has differences. In order to illustrate the differences between peacock dances around the world, several different peacock dances are borrowed for comparison and study.

The Peacock Dance, known as "Ga Luochong" and "Ga Nan Luo" in Dai language, can be performed as a solo dance, a duo dance or a trio dance. It is the favorite square performance dance of the Dai people with ancient tradition, which is widely spread in the Dai settlement. Among them, especially the peacock dance of Ruili is more wonderful and popular, almost every village has a master of peacock dance, and there are even professional artists who make a living by dancing peacock dance. This peacock dance, mainly imitating the peacock running down the mountain, strolling through the forest, drinking water, chasing and playing, as well as dragging the wings, sun wings, wings, open screen, flying and other actions. These actions have a strict program and requirements: each action before the starting style, finished after the closing style; there are fixed steps, positional charts and fixed combinations of actions;

Each combination of actions and a fixed drum accompaniment. Ruili Dai Peacock Dance is mainly a single dance, and there is also a double peacock dance. The dancers are mostly male. Shelf peacock dance dance vocabulary is particularly rich, there are "running down the mountain", "forest peeping", "walking in the forest", "shaking wings "flying down the mountain", "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "shaking wings", "pointing at the water" and other movements that are a perfect simulation of the peacock's demeanor.