Lusheng Dance is mainly distributed in China, Guizhou, Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region and Hunan, and belongs to Zhuang Dai and Dong Shui branches of Zhuang Dong language family of Sino-Tibetan language family respectively. Its ancestors are very old? Baiyue? Medium? Luo Yue? Branch? Xiou？ The offspring of. From the Sui and Tang Dynasties to the Song Dynasty, it was once called? Hey? And then what? Hole? , just later? Dong? This is the name of this country. The Dong people in Sanjiang Dong Autonomous County, Liuzhou, Guangxi hold colorful and grand ethnic activities every year on the third day of the third lunar month.
history
? Lusheng dance? (Miao language said? Investigation? ) is a kind of blowing with men? Lusheng? At the same time, it is a traditional folk dance characterized by the flexible dancing of lower limbs (including hips, knees and ankles). Widely spread and popularized in all Miao areas. Among them, southeastern Guizhou, northwestern Guizhou and western Guangxi are the most active. There, people learned to play and dance lusheng from an early age. Lusheng performers and Lusheng teams with outstanding performance and dance skills are deeply respected and loved by the masses. In the past, whether a young boy can play or dance the lusheng has even become one of the important conditions for girls to choose a spouse.
Lusheng Dance is widely popular in Miao, Dong, Shui, Gelao, Yi, Lahu, Lisu and Naxi ethnic minority areas in southern China. Its main feature is that men dance while playing lusheng.
Sheng is divided into two categories: Hulusheng and Lusheng. Hulusheng takes the gourd as the sheng bucket, and generally has five sheng pipes with reeds, about16 ~ 66 cm; Lusheng is a wooden sheng bucket, generally with six sheng pipes inserted, about 33 ~ 333 cm long. These two categories are collectively referred to as? Lusheng? . Today, there are still Yi, Lahu, Wa and Naxi ethnic minorities playing Hulusheng and dancing. The ethnic groups that play Lusheng and dance are Miao, Shui, Dong and Gelao. Lusheng dance has a long history. Two bronze gourds unearthed in Lijiashan, Jiangchuan, Yunnan are the oldest gourds in China. The dance image of Lusheng dance is also vividly reflected in ancient cultural relics, such as the bronze drum unearthed from Shizhai Mountain in Jinning, which is engraved with the image of dancing while playing Hulusheng. All these prove that Hulusheng and Hulusheng dance existed in southern China more than 2,000 years ago.
origin
Miao people have a simple and wonderful legend about the origin of Lusheng dance. Legend has it that when Pangu opened heaven and earth, the earth was desolate. At that time, Miao ancestors made a living by hunting birds and animals. In order to solve the difficulty of catching birds and animals, an ingenious young man cut down trees and bamboo in the forest, made reeds to imitate the songs and movements of birds and animals, and blew them up to lure all kinds of birds and animals. Since then, people have gained something from every hunting, so Lusheng dance has become a necessity and has been passed down from generation to generation. Although this legend is consistent with the phenomenon that there are still many Lusheng tunes and dance movements that simulate the singing and modeling of birds and animals, it still needs to be discussed from the historical aspect to find out its origin.
There are many references in the literature; Since the Ming and Qing dynasties, it has been more common in literature and local chronicles. What is Ni Ming's Nanzhao unofficial history? Every time the moon jumps at the age of Meng, men play lusheng, women sing together and dance side by side, tirelessly all day long? Record. It can be seen that Lusheng dance has long been an important part of Miao traditional festival activities, and it is all the rage.
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