Miao folk dances include Lusheng dance, bronze drum dance, wood drum dance, Xiangxi drum dance, bench dance and drum ladle dance. Lusheng dance is the most popular. In Danzhai, Taijiang, Ping Huang, Leishan, Kaili, Gulong, Dafang, Shuicheng, Rongshui and other places in Guangxi, Lusheng Dance is held every year on traditional festivals such as the 15th of the first month, the 3rd of March and the 9th of September, as well as festive festivals such as the Spring Festival, ancestor worship, house building, harvest and wedding. There are four steps in dance, including two steps, three steps, six steps, rubbing step, jumping step, step by step and left-right rotation. Miao Youth Dance, led by Miao first-class actor Jin Ou, has been made into a dance art film Butterfly Flying by 1963, which has been staged in the United States, Japan, Singapore, Hong Kong and other places, and is deeply loved by the masses.
Characteristics of Miao dance. The rhythm of bumps and movements Most Miao settlements are rugged mountain areas, and people will inevitably feel bumps or shakes when walking. Due to these experiences, the creation of Miao talents has produced a bumpy dynamic law in Miao dance.
Its dynamic characteristics are: centering on the chest and waist, rotating up and down, fluctuating up and down, maintaining the continuity and chain of rotation. The dynamic law of its bumps shows complex emotional fluctuations through different artistic expressions, such as the size of limbs, facial expressions, strength, rhythm change speed and so on.
For example, the Miao dance Depa shows this rhythm. Accompanied by soft music, the actor's hands shake up and down to his neck, matching the ups and downs of his chest and waist and the walking of his feet.
2. Driving ducks Miao areas are surrounded by mountains and rivers. They often play by the river and raise ducks and other creatures in the water. Miao people have formed a unique and distinct dynamic law of driving ducks by observing the characteristics of nodding and swaying when ducks walk and integrating them into dance movements.
Its dynamic characteristics are:
Many people line up, paddling with their hands and palms on their sides, nodding up and down a little; At the same time, the feet rub forward, and the whole body appears swaying rhythm.
For example, in the Miao dance "Walking Miao Mountain", a group of Miao women walk between mountains and rivers. It shows the Miao people's love for nature.
Third, the law of children's sports Because the climate in the area where Miao people live is extremely humid, it rains all year round. People always take umbrellas and hemp fibers to keep out the rain when they go out.
Moreover, in daily life and work, Miao people often carry children or other things on their backs and hold them in their hands, and their hands are almost free in daily life. But when they see people or scenery they like, they often dance. This forms the rhythm style of straight rotation.
Its dynamic characteristics are: the same hands and feet, the same hands and the same head, and the upper body and lower body move in the same direction.
Fourth, the swaying Miao people like white, that is, they like silver ornaments. The more the better, the heavier the better. For example, the representative neck silver ornament-collar.
In daily life, Yin Hui shakes with the movement of the body, resulting in the waist-swinging characteristics of the body shaking up and down. Swing will also have "positive and negative" differences because of different directions and movements.
For example, the waist swing in the Miao dance "Water Girl" shows the waist and streamlined figure of the Miao girl water snake.
This feature comes from the silver bell and silver belt worn by Miao people. In daily life, as long as a person's body shakes, it will make a pleasant sound, so Miao people like to shake their bodies and let silverware make a sound.
For example, the Miao dance "Silver Collar", in which the actor holds a collar in his hand and starts to do some swaying rhythms, has a pleasant voice.
Sixthly, the pleated skirt of Miao nationality is deeply loved by the public because of its exquisite workmanship and complicated production.
Miao girls also like to wear their own pleated skirts. However, because of its light weight, it does not swing with the body in daily activities, so Miao girls like to throw up their skirts to show off their beautiful flowered skirts. So this kind of "waving your hands while swinging your hips" came into being.
For example, in the dance action of the Miao dance "Mountain Road Galaxy", Miao girls dance their hips and throw out enchanting skirts through different formation changes.
Miao dance culture is an indispensable part of national dance. If you want to learn Miao dance well, you must master the unique rhythm of Miao dance in order to jump out of Miao dance better.
Miao dance types Miao dance mainly includes Lusheng and Encouragement.
Lusheng dance (called "Juegei" in Miao language) is a traditional folk dance, which is characterized by the flexible dance of lower limbs (including hips, knees and ankles) when men play Lusheng. Widely spread and popularized in all Miao areas. Among them, southeastern Guizhou, northwestern Guizhou and western Guangxi are the most active. Including custom Lusheng dance, performance Lusheng dance, sacrifice Lusheng dance and ritual Lusheng dance.
Encouragement is a Miao folk dance, which dances while playing drums. The drum is made of wood, wrapped in cowhide at both ends, and knocked on the shelf. The Miao people's encouragement has a long history. Including flowers, reunion, New Year's Eve, solo, monkey, stepping, wood and bronze.
In the Miao self-entertainment dance, there is also the Golden Rooster Dance, wearing a silver crown and colorful clothes to imitate the dynamics of the Golden Rooster. Wearing a feather crown, they imitate pheasants to fight and jump and play. Men with acrobatic skills dance Lusheng dance, and there are also bench dances from women's housework such as embroidery and hemp rubbing. There are many branches of Miao nationality in China, which are widely distributed, forming a large number of songs and dances with rich content. In addition to the above introduction, there are Lusheng Dance of Miao people in Huaxi, Guizhou, Cave-jumping of Miao people in Hongmian, Flower Tree Dance in Miao Hua, Ancient Floating Dance in Danzhai County, Lusheng Dance of Miao people in Yunnan, Mungo Dance of Miao people in Guangxi Zhuang Autonomous Region, as well as bullfighting and Flower Tree Dance.
The representative works of Miao dance include "On Drum", "Four-sided Drum", "Miao Ling Love Song Picking Up the Moon" and "I am a thrush in Miaoshan".