Which ethnic minority does the flower waist red dance belong to?

Huayao Yi nationality

There are more than 30,000 Huayao Yi people living in Shaochong, Longwu and Longpeng towns in the north of Shiping County. Huayao is a part of the Nisu branch of Yunnan Yi people. Huayao is not self-appointed, but self-appointed. Because women's clothes are colorful and elegant, they are affectionately called "flower waist clothes", commonly known as flower waist clothes. Huayao Yi folk house is a unique earthen palm house in Yi area. Its walls and roofs are rammed with mud. It is warm in winter and cool in summer, and the roofs are connected with each other. You can travel all over the village from the last roof.

The marriage system of Huayao Yi people has its own characteristics, which are mainly manifested in monogamy, strict implementation of the same clan unmarried system and three-year marriage system. The Huayao Yi people have strictly practiced monogamy since ancient times, even the rich and powerful "Ma Zi" and "Sepo" in the old society are no exception, which is obviously different from the three wives and four concubines of the Han nationality. The same family unmarried people use the proverb of "if there is no more food, you can't eat sweet buckwheat and bitter buckwheat together;" Without clothes, goatskin and sheepskin can't be worn together; Brothers and sisters can't get married without spouses. "It vividly shows that marriage, love and sexual relations between cousins will be regarded as incest, which will be severely punished according to customs, and some will be implemented according to the patriarchal system. Young men and women of Huayao Yi nationality enjoy the right of social freedom, which is mainly manifested in customs such as "eating fire grass smoke". In the old society, marriage could not be arranged independently by parents. After the parents agree, push the eight characters and send a bride price to the woman's home. Although you can fall in love freely now, the old form still exists. The system of "being married for three years" is the biggest feature that distinguishes Huayao Yi people from other branches of Yi people. Although this marriage custom is not a common phenomenon now, it still exists.

Huayao Yi people usually hold a wedding first, and then go through the national wedding formalities on a certain day. On the wedding night, the groom had to leave after friends quarreled in the bridal chamber. The next day, the bride was escorted home by her companion, and she began to live a life of "not leaving her husband's home for three years": within three years, the woman was free to participate in various social activities except losing the right to fall in love, nominally becoming someone else's wife, but actually ignoring her husband's life, and only after three years could she "return home" and formally become a good wife and mother.

Huayao song and dance

Under the guidance of You Creary, the tunes of Huayao Song and Dance are smooth and cheerful, and the lyrics are rich. Harmonious songs, high-five before abdomen, stamping the ground, bending slightly, and jumping around the fire collectively. Huayao song and dance tunes are divided into 72 tunes, mostly love songs and long narrative poems. Its dance has maintained the original legacy of stepping on songs since the Han Dynasty. The music is melodious and has a strong sense of rhythm. There are forms such as singing, duet, dancing and singing, and the number of dancers is not limited.

Flower waist singing and dancing four or three beats, dancing four or two beats, unique in the world music and dance.

The above movements are simple, but the dance steps change quickly, and the steps are small and fast, which are composed of three types: straight feet, combined feet and fork feet. If it is a festival, they will dance "Ahso Hello". "Ahsoyo" is a form of singing and dancing. When singing, it dances in circles while singing, so it is also called "big group music" dance. And whenever night falls, the girls and boys will dance around the bonfire "mixed strings", which are slow and fast, and the rhythm is relaxed and lively and regular, singing and dancing. This form of song and dance has been called "excellent folk songs that composers can't create by inspiration" and "world-class national music products" by experts from China-US Cultural Exchange Center.