Colorful Dance Culture of the Brown People

Most of the people of the ethnic minorities are good dancers, and they compile the bits and pieces of their own lives into songs and dances by combining ethnic characteristics. When a grand festival comes, the Brown people will celebrate the day through songs and dances, and the Brown people's songs and dances also include martial arts and juggling. The following Brown culture for you to bring the Brown dance culture, come to understand it.

Brown ethnic youth from a young age to learn to sing a variety of tunes, playing a variety of musical instruments. Brown music tunes are divided into four kinds of dumping, Zai, Suo, embellishments. Characterized by the flinging of the tune is exciting and lyrical; Zai tune is cheerful and lively; Suo tune is suitable for choral customary songs, accompanied by a small three-stringed accompaniment; embellishment of the tune celebrates the national heroes, as well as the new life of the upward trend, used for singing in the grand concert. The leader often improvises the lyrics according to the scene. The Brown dance is a festive dance and a Buddhist ritual dance. Dance call different places, Xishuangbanna said "jumping pendulum", Shidian, Zhenkang said "playing songs", Yunxian, Jingdong, Mojiang said "jumping songs".

"Jumping song" is the meaning of dancing and singing. As the Brown men prefer martial arts, therefore, martial arts and often songs and dances into one. Such as the long knife dance, stick dance, boxing dance, etc., the action is sharp, strong and healthy. Xishuangbanna Brown "Elephant Foot Drum Dance", "Clapping Dance", "Monkey Dance", "Tea Picking Dance" and so on more from the people's production, life practice, dance beautiful, cheerful, vivid and realistic.

The Brown dance is universal, gray-haired old people, children and teenagers will dance as long as they hear the bamboo flute. And young people especially like to dance "circle dance". The dance is led by a young man who can sing and dance well. Accompanied by the rhythms of point gongs and elephant foot drums, the girls and young men form a circle with their knees slightly undulating. The girls and boys form a circle with their knees slightly undulating, and their soft hands lightly dance on both sides of their shoulders, either in front of or behind them, moving their feet in an anti-clockwise direction as they dance. At the same time, a group of young men in the circle rhythmically making tiger steps jumping. Sometimes dispersed to the front of the girl and the girl whispered to the song, and then gathered, as a tiger jumping. So the cycle is repeated, to express the joy of the heart.