First of all, peacock dance introduced:
1, 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, Cangyuan and other Dai inhabited areas in Dehong Prefecture of Yunnan Province, among which peacock dance in Ruili City in western Yunnan is the most representative.
2. 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. Dai people have a long history. Since 1 century, Emperor Wu of the Han Dynasty has maintained economic and cultural ties with the mainland.
3. peacock dance is a folk tradition in A Dai with a long history, which has been incorporated into religious rituals. Peacock dance is the favorite folk dance of the Dai people. In the dam area where Dai people live in compact communities, there are festivals almost every month, and there are songs and dances every year. In the annual folk festivals of the Dai people, such as the Water-splashing Festival, the Closing Festival, the Opening Day and the Rushing Place, as long as they are happy places, the Dai people will get together, beat gongs and drums, and dance the graceful peacock dance.
Second, the characteristics:
1. Dai people regard peacocks as a symbol of national spirit. Peacock dance is the representative dance of the Dai people. Due to the meticulous creation of folk artists in past dynasties, peacock dance with its own characteristics and various schools has been formed. Many Dai villages have people who are good at dancing peacock dance.
2. peacock dance has strict procedures and requirements, standardized position map and footwork, and each movement is equipped with corresponding drum language. Peacock dance's content mostly shows peacocks flying down the mountain, walking in the forest, drinking in the spring, chasing and playing, dragging their wings, drying their wings, spreading their wings, shaking their wings, brightening their wings, drinking water, kicking branches, resting branches, opening their screens and flying.
3. The emotion is implicit, the dance vocabulary is rich, the dance is full of sculpture, the dance action is kept in a semi-squat posture, every joint of the body and arms is bent, forming a unique three-bend dance posture, with more hand shapes and hand movements. The same dance posture and pace, different hand shapes or hand movements have different aesthetic feeling and artistic conception.