Peacock dance is one of the folk dance forms of the Dai nationality, and the Dai nationality is known as the "hometown of peacocks". Peacock dance is the most famous traditional performing dance among Dai folk dances, and peacock dance has a long history. The following is the related content that peacock dance is one of the forms of Dai folk dance.
Peacock dance is one of the Dai folk dances, and 1 peacock dance is the representative of the Dai folk dance. Many Dai villages have people who are good at dancing peacock dance. Peacock dance with different styles has been formed due to the meticulous creation of folk artists and handed down from generation to generation. Peacock dance's content mostly shows peacocks flying down the mountain, walking in the forest, drinking in the spring, chasing and playing, dragging their wings, drying their wings, spreading their wings, shaking their wings, brightening their wings, drinking water, kicking branches, resting branches, opening their screens and flying. Emotion is implicit, dance vocabulary is rich, and dance sculpture is full. Dance movements are mostly in a semi-squat posture, and every joint of the body and arms is curved, forming a unique three-way dance style, with more hand shapes and hand movements. The same dance and footwork, different hand shapes or hand movements have different aesthetic feeling and artistic conception. Peacock dance has strict procedures and requirements, standardized position map and footwork, and each movement is equipped with corresponding drum language. In addition to imitating the movements of peacock life, it also shows fairy tales. Peacock dance, Dehong Prefecture, shows that a peacock was robbed by a demon or a king in the forest, and the other one flew to look for it. Peacock dance in Xishuangbanna is mostly based on the story of the reunion of the prince and the peacock princess in the folklore "Screaming Trees Tun and Nanmu Nuona". Jin Lu, monkeys, elephants and hunters also appeared in the dance, showing fairy tales.
Due to climate and natural conditions, there are many peacocks in Dai areas. Dai people have the habit of keeping peacocks for a long time. Dai people think that peacocks are beautiful, kind and smart, which is a symbol of good luck, and they have reverence for them. Dai people often regard peacocks as a symbol of national spirit, and express their wishes and ideals by dancing peacock dance, and sing praises to a better life.
Why do Dai people like to dance peacock dance?
The rich and beautiful Dai nationality township is known as the "hometown of peacocks". In the past, beautiful and handsome peacocks were often seen dancing in sparsely populated dense forests whenever the dawn was dim or the sun was setting. Therefore, peacock is a symbol of auspiciousness, happiness, beauty and kindness in the minds of Dai people. On festivals, the Dai people get together to watch peacock dance and show the peacock's living habits. These dances are performed by folk artists according to folk stories, myths and legends and Buddhist stories.
The dance shows that the devil wants to take over the peacock as his wife. The peacock with a human face bird struggled to shake its beautiful feathers, emitting dazzling light, blinding the devil, and finally the peacock won. It is said that "Dai" means peace, and the Dai people are a peace-loving people. Peacock is the worship of Dai people. In a song, it sings: "Peacock loves peace, and her heart is as bright as the moon ..." In peacock dance, it also reflects the desire and aesthetic psychology of the Dai people. Peacock dance used to be a dancer with a peacock shelf and a heavy mask, so it is difficult to fully show the dynamics and skills of the human body.
Peacock dance is a form of Dai folk dance, and it is also the style of peacock dance.
In the records of Dai history, peacock dance has different legends and spread areas, so peacock dance has different characteristics in some aspects. The common differences are slow or light drums, flexible or slow knees and soft hand movements. Moreover, all the peacock dance have highlighted the three bends, and the modeling lines of the three bends are round and soft. Arch shoulder, soft shoulder and arch chest are often used to enhance the aesthetic feeling and inner feeling of the three bends.
The national spirit symbol of Dai nationality is peacock. Therefore, the local artists have carefully created, thus forming a unique and different school of peacock dance. Many Dai villages have people who are good at dancing peacock dance. These artists can perform many kinds of peacock dance, and the best performing categories in peacock dance are Xiong peacock dance and Xiao peacock dance.
When men perform women's peacock dance, their movements should be big, but feminine, with distinctive features of three bends, stretched hands, tough knees, soft shoulders, broken shoulders and other shoulder movements, strong drums and clear rhythm.
Peacock dance, a female performer, should have quick and small shaking movements in her knees, flexible calves, light and sensitive movements in her hands and three bends in her inner show. Dance, footwork is free and changeable, accompanied by drums, showing the forest frolicking, chasing water, spreading and flying. Inner feelings, implicit movements, complex and rich dance vocabulary, three-dimensional sense, strong sense of sculpture, and actions are mostly kept in a semi-squatting state. With shoulder movements such as connecting small shoulders and breaking shoulders, it is light and cheerful, with bright drums and strong sense of rhythm.
Peacock dance's elegant style, delicate emotional expression and graceful dancing are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Dai people, which has high aesthetic value. Peacock dance not only performed solo in important and lively national festivals, but also often joined the group dance Ga Guang. Its representative features make it the dance with the most Dai cultural characteristics.
Peacock dance's dance vocabulary is very rich. Imitating peacock's every move is really varied. For example, in the hand, the movements are: five wrist-lifting hands, four palm-spreading hands, one or seven palm-pressing hands and so on. Gestures can be palms, peacock hands, half-clenched fists, legs, fanning hands, etc. There are small steps, walks, ups and downs, walks, walks, and many beautiful and elegant dances such as lifting front legs, side legs, and hind legs. Shoulders often cooperate with hands and feet to shake shoulders, soft shoulders, arch shoulders, shrug shoulders, etc. The body language of the image depicts the peacock's liveliness, agility and beauty.
Peacock dance, a A Dai nationality in Ruili, is characterized by solo dance. Ruili Dai and peacock dance also have peacock dance duo. Peacock dance has a variety of hand movements and skills such as jumping and turning. Every joint of the limbs and trunk should be flexed and then stretched downward, and the whole body vibrates evenly, forming a beautiful "three-bend" dance. Peacock dance's dance vocabulary is particularly rich, including "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "flying down the mountain", "flapping its wings" and "splashing water", which vividly simulates the peacock's expression. Dancers are mostly male.
Peacock dance's characteristics are: clean movements, flexible eyes, flexible knees, ups and downs with emotional changes, a little feeling of squatting slowly and getting up quickly, and there is a continuous flow curve and three bends in the flow. To reproduce the peacock's posture, it should be noted that the sent crotch and the inclined upper body are in the opposite direction. It is necessary to have a rigid inner aesthetic feeling, but also to show the beauty and perfection of the peacock.
Peacock dance is a form of Dai folk dance and the origin of peacock dance.
The most famous traditional performing dance among the Dai folk dances in China is peacock dance, which is popular in Ruili, Luxi, Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Mengda, Jinggu, Cangyuan and other places in Dehong Autonomous Prefecture of Yunnan Province, among which peacock dance (Dai language "Galoyong") in Ruili, western Yunnan is the most representative. According to legend, 1000 years ago, the leader of the Dai people told Ma to learn the dance of proud as a peacock. Later, after several generations of folk artists processing stereotypes, handed down, forming the peacock dance. Peacock dance usually performs in festivals, and at the same time shows his national character, beautiful ideals and ambitions. Dai people have a deep love for peacocks because of this special national character. Now peacock dance, after the processing and transformation of the younger generation of dance, has greatly enriched the performance content, changed into beautiful dresses and replaced the old props. In the change of dance, the most prominent feature is to give full play to the typical dance characteristics of dancers' "three bends" and "one edge". Then there is the flexible use of hands, eyes and feet in dance, as well as the beautiful posture curve change plus strict footwork, action combination, orientation and so on. This emphasizes the peacock's characteristics of beauty, kindness, grace, lightness and meekness. In this series of changes, peacock dance has become more beautiful and lively, and peacock dance has made great progress and beautification in the form and content of performances.
In fact, the original peacock dance was performed by men, and the right to perform was limited to men. In the initial performance of "peacock dance", men wore white bodhisattva masks with spires and peacock-like decorations. Peacocks wear a female mask when dancing solo, and a male and a female mask when dancing in pairs. Dancing can imitate various movements of peacocks, such as peacocks coming out of the nest, looking for water, peacocks going down the mountain, peacocks dancing, peacocks taking photos, peacocks taking a bath, peacocks spreading their wings and flying, peacocks drinking water and so on. The dancer's flexible use of hands, eyes and feet, combined with the change of beautiful posture curve and similar footwork combined with dance, presents a beautiful peacock image.
In Dai culture, peacocks are called "sacred birds" and are regarded as symbols of good luck and happiness. On this basis, peacock dance, which originated from romance, is deeply loved by people. As a favorite folk dance of the Dai people, peacock dance has been endowed with profound cultural connotations. In the long history, it has been constantly evolving and incorporated into religious ceremonies. In places where the Dai people live in compact communities, people will dance the beautiful peacock dance on almost every festival, which is not only a folk festival such as the Water-splashing Festival, the Festival of Harvest, the Festival of Opening, and the Competition for Places, but also a monthly "pendulum" (festival). People will also beat gongs and drums and dance the beautiful "peacock dance" to celebrate happiness. Men used to wear gold helmets, masks, peacock wings and braces. The dance has strict procedures, including rich and varied hand shapes, jumping and turning, etc., with beautiful "three bends" body shape, which shapes the peacock's expressions and natural scenes such as "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "drinking in the spring" and "chasing and playing". Dance with the accompaniment of instruments such as elephant foot drums, gongs and cymbals. Although the traditional peacock dance movements performed by men are often vigorous and forceful, with little feminine beauty, imitating the smooth dancing and graceful modeling of peacocks often fascinates the audience, ignoring the gender of the performers.