This is one of the most popular and colorful dances of the Dai ethnic group. It is called Elephant's Foot Drum Dance because it is danced with a drum that looks like an elephant's foot. The Elephant Foot Drum Dance occupies an important position in the cultural life of the Dai people. Whenever after work, festivals or drums event, the young man carrying the elephant-footed drum rushed from villages and villages, jumping up the robust, thick, flexible elephant-footed drum dance. Where there is the sound of the elephant foot drum. Where there is a happy crowd.
The Dai elephant foot drum is divided into three kinds: the long elephant foot drum, the middle elephant foot drum and the small elephant foot drum. The long elephant foot drum dance movement is not much, you can play a drum to unbutton all the clothes, and then a drum to button all the buttons.
If the elephant foot drum about and collapse, about and collapse, about and about Lili, that is to say good to lift, good to lift, good to lift the wings, jumping peacock dancers hear this drum, that is, to do the action of lifting the wings.