The Peacock Dance has a strict program and requirements, with standardized status charts and footwork, and each movement is accompanied by corresponding drums. The content of the peacock dance is to show the peacock running down the mountain, strolling in the forest, drinking water from the spring, chasing and playing, dragging the wings, basking in the sun, spreading the warps, shaking the warps, lighting the wings, pointing at the water, stomping on the branches, resting on the branches, opening the screen, flying and so on.
The feelings inherent in the implicit, rich dance vocabulary, dance rich in sculpture, dance moves more to keep in a semi-squatting posture on the even trembling, the body and every joint of the arm has a bend, forming a unique three bends in the dance posture shape, hand shape and hand movements are also more, the same dance and pace, different hand shape or hand movements, there are different aesthetics and mood.
Regional distribution
The peacock dance is distributed in a wide range of areas, the upper Ali three, the central Weizang four wings, the lower Duo Gan Si six Gangs, 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, called "Garo Chung" and "Garnan 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, walking in the forest, drinking water, chasing and playing, as well as dragging the wings, sun wings, wings, open screen, flying and other actions. These movements have strict programs and requirements: before each movement, there is a starting style, and after finishing, there is a closing style; there are fixed steps, positional diagrams and fixed combinations of movements.
Each combination of movements has 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.