Self-entertainment dances include modern ballroom dances, square group dances and various spontaneous folk dances, which are not restricted by venues and people can participate freely.
For example, the Uyghur's "Maxilaifu" (meaning party); the Yi's "jumping moon"; the Tibetan's "strings" and "pot Zhuang"; the Mongolian's "Pangzhuang"; the Mongolian's "Pangzhuang" and "Pangzhuang"; and the Mongolian's "Pangzhuang" and "Pangzhuang". "; Mongolia's "Andai"; Dai's "Jaguang" ("light" is the drum, meaning that the drums, dance around the drum); Miao's "Stomping drums"; Tujia's "swinging hands dance"; Han Chinese in the New Year's festivals jumped "Yangge", "lanterns" and so on also The first is the "Pandora's Box", the "Pandora's Box".
Self-entertainment dance:
This kind of dance is, literally speaking, to dance for entertainment, dancing to achieve the purpose of self-entertainment, the international popularity of the "social dance" and the popularity of the mass of our collective dance are.
The so-called self-entertainment is relative, because when you and everyone . When you dance with everyone, your mood is infected by the people around you, so there will be a lot of spectators, then the people around you, your dance with a certain performance; similarly, on the same occasion to see other people dance, it is also true for you. But since the unanimous purpose of those present is to dance for self-indulgence, the dance is called self-indulgent. The history of dance shows that the first dances were mostly confined to self-indulgence.
At that time, the ancient forefathers caught the prey, the mood is exceptionally happy, they lit a bonfire, while roasting the prey, the side can not help but dance and dance up. So far, in our country minority, still inherited "around the campfire and dance" custom. After dinner, they voluntarily gathered together, whether on the dam, yard or forest clearing, playing drums, pull (play) up the musical instruments, a song and a person to lead the dance crowd to participate in, often overnight and.
Self-indulgent dance has three characteristics:
(1) Dance is not for performance, but mass entertainment and means of communication.
(2) The dance form has a wide mass appeal.
(3) There is a close emotional exchange between the dancers and a wide range of sociability.
Self-indulgent dance is often the number of people is not limited, the venue is not limited, the dance is simple and easy to learn, so it can attract more people to participate. Shandong folk "drum rice-planting song" of the "field", sometimes hundreds of people to participate; Jidong region "ground rice-planting song", the Yi "torch festival
There are a lot of people in the Jidong area who participate in the dance, such as the Yi "Torch Festival", the Jingpo "Muzhenzongo", and the Dai "Jaguang", and there are about 1,000 people participating in the dance.
Some dances do not even need to unify the action - in the **** the same rhythm, the dancers improvise, dancing wildly. Dancers have close emotional exchanges in the dance, such as hand in hand, face to face, in the frequent exchange of position and back and forth cycle and so on in the dance, the dancers can be widely contact, exchange of feelings, in the mood and excitement can be mutually inspired, infected, the formation of a hundred dance never get tired of, all-night enthusiastic scene.
Because the self-indulgent dance has a strong and wide-ranging sociability, young men and women of ethnic minorities often make friends and find partners through these dances. After the founding of New China, in order to enrich the cultural and recreational life of the people, professional dancers have been based on the traditional characteristics of China's self-indulgent dance, choreographed the youth dance, hand clapping dance, invitational dance and other collective dances, which are very popular among the masses.