Peacock dance is the most famous traditional performance dance among the Dai folk dances in China, which is distributed in Ruili, Luxi, Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Menglian, Jinggu and Cangyuan in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, among which peacock dance (Dai language "Galoyong") in Ruili City, western Yunnan Province is the most representative.
According to legend, 1000 years ago, the Dai leader told Ma to imitate proud as a peacock's graceful posture and learn to dance. Later, it was shaped by folk artists and handed down to form peacock dance.
Peacock dance is a folk tradition in A Dai with a long history, which has been incorporated into religious etiquette. Peacock dance is the favorite folk dance of the Dai people. In the dam area where the Dai people live in compact communities, there is a "dance" (festival) almost every month, and there is a song and dance every year.
In the annual Dai folk festivals such as "Water Splashing Festival", "Closing Festival", "Opening Festival" and "Grab a Place", as long as it is a happy place, the Dai people will gather together, beat gongs and drums and dance the graceful "peacock dance", showing a festive atmosphere of bumper harvest and a beautiful scene of national unity in the song and dance.
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Peacock dance is widely distributed, with three Ali parts on the top, four wings on the middle and six hills on the bottom, all of which have folk dances that show peacocks. Due to the different geographical environment and customs, peacock dance's performance forms, style characteristics, technical difficulty, lyrics and musical style are also different. In order to explain the difference between peacock dance and other places, this paper makes a comparative study of several different peacock dance.
Peacock dance, called "Galoyong" and "Gananluo" in Dai language, can perform solo dance, duet dance or threesome dance. It is the favorite square dance of the Dai people, which has an ancient tradition and is widely spread in the Dai inhabited areas.
Among them, peacock dance in Ruili is more wonderful and popular. Almost every village has experts who dance peacock dance, and even professional artists who dance peacock dance for a living. This kind of peacock dance mainly imitates peacocks galloping down the mountain, strolling in the forest, splashing water in drinking fountains, chasing and playing, dragging their wings, drying their wings, spreading their wings, opening screens and flying. These actions have strict procedures and requirements: there is a start form before each action and a receive form after completion; There are fixed footwork, position diagram and fixed action combination.