The Peacock Dance is the most prestigious traditional performance dance among the Dai folk dances in China, which is spread in the Dai ethnic areas of Ruili, Luxi and Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Munda, Jinggu and Canyuan in the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province.
The peacock dance of Ruili City in western Yunnan Province ("Ga Luoyong" in Dai language) is the most representative, which is said to have been learned more than a thousand years ago by the Dai leader, Zao Ma Li Jie, who imitated the peacock's beautiful posture, and then processed and molded by successive generations of folk artists, and passed down.
Dance Introduction
The Dai have a long history, from the 1st century AD, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty developed the Western
Traditional Peacock Dance
South after the mainland in the economic and cultural aspects have been to maintain contacts. During the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dai chiefs repeatedly sent emissaries to Luoyang to perform music and dance, magic and acrobatics. From this we can see that the music and dance culture of the Dai people had a high level as early as two thousand years ago.
In the minds of the Dai people, the peacock is a symbol of happiness and good fortune. Not only do many people keep peacocks in their homes, but they also regard the peacock as a symbol of goodness, wisdom, beauty, good fortune and happiness.
In a wide variety of Dai dances, the peacock dance is the most favorite, the most familiar, and also one of the dances with the greatest changes and development.
The traditional peacock dance of the Dai folk has a long history and has been incorporated into the rituals of religion. Kong May 1, 1961 Tiananmen Square Peacock Dance
The Peacock Dance is the favorite folk dance of the Dai people, and in the dam area where the Dai people live, there is a "pendulum" (festival) almost every month and a song and dance every year.
In the Dai annual "Water Festival", "Shutdown Festival", "Open Door Festival", "Catch Pendulum" and other folk festivals, as long as it is a place of fun and joy, the Dai people will gather together, ringing the gongs, playing the drums, jumping up and down the graceful "Peacock Dance", the sound of songs and dances show the joyful atmosphere of a bumper harvest and the beautiful scene of national unity.
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Peacock Dance Characteristics
The Dai people take the peacock as a symbol of their own national spirit, and the Peacock Dance is a representative dance of the Dai people. As a result of the elaborate creation of folk artists over the generations, peacock dances with different characteristics and genres have been formed. Many villages of the Dai people have people who are good at peacock dance.
The peacock dance has a strict program and requirements, with standardized status charts and footwork, and each action 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, sunning the wings, spreading the warthogs, shaking the warthogs, brightening the wings, pointing at the water, stomping on the branches, resting on the branches, opening the screen, flying, etc. The peacock dance has a strict program and requirements.
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, the formation of the unique three bends dance form, the hand shape and hand movements are also more, the same dance and pace, different hand shapes or hand movements, there is a different sense of beauty and mood.