The peacock beak hand shape in the peacock dance is a symbol of nobility and holiness.
The Peacock Dance is the most prestigious traditional performance dance among the Dai folk dances in China. The Peacock Dance is performed in Ruili, Luxi, Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Mengda, Jinggu, Cangyuan and other Dai populated areas of the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province, where the Peacock Dance ("Galaoyong" in Dai language) of Ruili City in the western part of Yunnan Province is the most representative.
The Dai people take the peacock as a symbol of their 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 wing, sunning the wing, spreading the warthogs, shaking the warthogs, brightening the wing, pointing at the water, stomping on the branch, resting on the branch, opening the screen, flying, etc. The feelings are inherent and implicit, and the dance vocabulary is very simple. The dance is intrinsically subtle, rich in dance vocabulary, rich in sculptural dance posture, and the dance movements are mostly kept in a semi-squatting posture with even trembling, and every joint of the body and arms is bent.
Peacock
Peacock inhabits the open areas of the forest, omnivorous, bright green head, blue-green and pointed crown, tail feathers are particularly long, the formation of the tail screen, brightly colored and beautiful, of which the blue peacock is distributed in India and Sri Lanka, the green peacock is distributed in Southeast Asia, China is only seen in the west and south of Yunnan province, the wild number of scarce.