1. Wooden Drum Dance

Wooden Drum Dance is a sacrificial dance of Fangbai Miao people in Gujiang. The wooden drum is the only accompaniment instrument, and the drummer beats it, forming a complex and changeable dance tune. The rhythm is four or six beats. With the hip as the fulcrum, the head, shoulders, hands, waist, legs and feet twist, shake, kick and turn naturally, often in sharp contrast.

The biggest feature of Wood Drum Dance is madness, which emphasizes the rough and unrestrained movements everywhere, such as rushing to the persimmon trees and falling off the cliff. Wood drum dance shows the arduous course and spirit of Miao ancestors in their migration. Dancers are mostly young men and women; Dance around the drum and dance and spin. When there are many people, there are several laps inside and outside, with women inside and men outside. And the tired can have a rest, and newcomers can join at any time.

2. Gupiao Dance

"Gupiao Dance" is the oldest and most primitive dance popular in Miao villages in Yahui area of Danzhai County, with the nature of sacrifice and self-entertainment. The ancient gourd ladle dance is named after the accompaniment of the ancient gourd ladle piano. The ancient gourd ladle piano is carved with pine wood and looks like a domestic water ladle. The piano panel has four sound holes and a sound column, and the sound column is directly inserted into the * * * sounding box from the panel. Gupiaoqin is not only a prop for young men to dance, but also the only accompaniment instrument in dance.

3. drum dance

"drum dance" is one of the forms of Miao folk dance, and it is also a sacrificial dance. Accompanied by bronze drums and wooden drums. Dancers generally form a circle, with women in the inner circle and a big drum in the center. One or two people hold a drum stick and beat the drum. The dancers face the circle and slowly change different dance steps with the rhythm of the drum. Their hands naturally swing and dance when they smell the drum.

4. Bench dance

"Bench dance" is one of the forms of Miao people's pure self-entertainment and enthusiasm after drinking, which combines sports with dance. One or more people hold the bench and beat each other as drums, and everyone dances around. Drums usually use the rhythm of 4/4 and 3/4 beats, and people sometimes gather and sometimes disperse, and the dance movements are large, which is rough, bold and exciting, showing the bold and hospitable temperament of Miao people.

5. Miao Lusheng Dance

"Lusheng Dance" is the most popular dance with the nature of sacrifice and self-entertainment among Miao people in southeastern Guizhou, which is shared by men, women and children, and thus forms the unique aesthetic concept of Miao people. Those young men and women who can sing and dance well are regarded as intelligent, while on the contrary, they are regarded as unproductive.

6. Duoye Dance

Duoye is a large-scale duet dance. Dong language "duo" has the meanings of singing and dancing, and "ye" is a song that leads the public. Doyle is a duet dance between dozens and hundreds of young men and women in a field. As early as the Song Dynasty, there were "Chen, Yuan and Jingzhou". During the agricultural gap, one or two hundred people were Cao, holding hands and singing, and several people were led by blowing sheng.

7. Giving Fish Dance

Giving Fish Dance is a primitive fishing and hunting dance in the activity of "picking up officials". Dressed up as a primitive man, he held a stick with pickled fish and danced a martial primitive dance at someone who was watching. This man must walk into the field and dance with the primitive man. When the steps, heads and gestures match, the pickled fish caught by the "primitive man" just falls into each other's mouth.

At this time, "Primitive Man" went to collect fish and give it to another person. If the two sides are out of step, a fish dance will take a long time to end, so. Most young men in many Dong villages can dance this martial arts dance.

8. Lion dance

is a dance activity held by Dong people during the Spring Festival, which is mainly divided into three forms: celebration dance, lion dance and green lion dance. Celebration dance is the lion dance team dancing lions from door to door to celebrate the festival. The lion arrived in front of a house, and the owner greeted him with firecrackers with bamboo poles. The lion immediately danced in front of the door. The host gave the red envelope money, and the lion held it in his mouth and thanked him. Bow down, take three steps back and leave. Go to another house to celebrate

9. Dragon Lantern Dance

is a celebration held in January. The steps of the dragon dancers are consistent, and the gestures are harmonious, which is consistent with the movements of the dragon dancers, so that the dragons danced with Long Bao to perform various movements and celebrate in front of each door.

1. Lusheng Dance of Dong Nationality

Lusheng Dance has disappeared as much as Shengqu, and now it is mainly divided into performance dance and carnival dance. The performance of dance is mainly manifested in the variety of steps. When Sheng Qu changes from one segment to another, the upper body and head, hands and arms holding Sheng change with a right swing dance.

This kind of sheng dance is mainly the Lusheng dance played by the sheng team itself or slowly entered the stadium during the March. Lusheng carnival dance is a large-scale Lusheng dance held on Saishengping. This Lusheng dance has a strong rhythm, rapid movements and unrestrained feelings, just like thunder and lightning, and the wind blows, and the atmosphere is like fire, which is very warm.

Extended information:

Development course of national dance (primitive stage):

First, primitive dance

Primitive dance is "a simple reproduction of the actions of laborers". In Shangshu, there is a record of "beating the stone and beating the stone. All animals dance at a rate", which means slapping.

There is also a record in Lu's Spring and Autumn Annals: "The joy of Ge Tianshi in the past. Three people fucked the ox's tail and cast their feet with songs." The dancer held the cow's tail and stamped her feet to dance and sing. Dance is actually a virtual representation of primitive human labor scenes. Also seen in the primitive group dance on the painted pottery basin.

second, witch dancing

The word "witch" is an pictographic character in Oracle Bone Inscriptions. It is the way a person dances with his hands spread out and each holding his oxtail. It is said that Xia Yu once choreographed the dance himself. In Shang Dynasty, Chengtang was also good at dancing witchcraft, and "witchcraft style" was popular in the court. During the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, the witchcraft in Chu was very popular. Beautiful women played the roles of cloud gods, water gods and mountain gods, singing and dancing, and the scene was grand and grand.

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