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Introduction of Yi people's cigarette box dance
Shiping Yi people's cigarette box dance, also known as jumping strings and ridging, is a mass folk dance of Ni Su Po, a branch of Yi people in Yunnan. The Yi inhabited areas distributed in Gejiu, Shiping, Jianshui, Mengzi, Kaiyuan, Tonghai, Yuanjiang and other places in southern Yunnan matured in the Yuan and Ming Dynasties and reached its peak in the Qing Dynasty and the Republic of China. . When dancing, it is named because each person dances with a cigarette case made of bamboo or kapok locust in each hand. Yi people also call cigarette box dance string dance, musical dance and three-step string dance. Yi people like cigarette box dance very much, and both children and the elderly like dancing. People say that your feet itch when you hear the four strings ring. On May 20th, 2006, Yi people's cigarette box dance was approved by the State Council to be included in the first batch of national intangible cultural heritage list.