What dances are there in central Thailand?

Central Thailand is a vast plain with rich products, and it is one of the most important rice and fruit growing areas in the world. The people here are well-off, hardworking, simple, cheerful and humorous. There are abundant dance resources in central Thailand, and the dances are lively and humorous, such as "Harvest Dance", "Teteng Dance" and "Landa Dance", which all show the industrious and optimistic spirit of the local people.

1. Harvest Dance

Dancers performing "Harvest Dance" wear straw hats and hold seedlings, singing and dancing, showing the scenes of seedling farming, sowing, harvesting and threshing, and expressing people's joy of harvesting and dancing after a year's work.

2. Teteng Dance

The very popular "Teteng Dance" in this area is named after imitating drums, also known as "Long Drum Dance". This kind of dance comes from Myanmar. Jumping "Teteng" is a very popular form of entertainment at folk gatherings in Thailand, and it is often performed in various parades during the Songkran Festival or festive festivals. During the performance, men and women danced, and men and women with drums on their backs danced in the parade. When a person plays music, he can also use various parts of his body to play musical instruments. He can renovate percussion instruments, make faces and make all kinds of faces to please women. The beat changed from slow to fast, the dance changed from slow to fast, and finally ended in a climax. Mainly percussion instruments, gongs, cymbals, drums and other drums make the dance very lively and cheerful.

3.landa dance

Landa dance is mainly duet, and the dance movements are dancing with songs, such as rowing songs. Men and women are in the same boat, so they need to do paddle dance while duet, which mainly shows the emotional communication between men and women.