What is the origin of Dai peacock dance?
Dai peacock dance is the most famous traditional performance dance in China Dai folk dance, which is distributed in Ruili, Luxi, Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Mengda, Jinggu, Cangyuan and other Dai inhabited areas in Dehong Prefecture, Yunnan Province, among which peacock dance (Dai language "Galoyong") in Ruili, western Yunnan is the most representative. According to legend, more than 1000 years ago, the Dai leader told Ma to imitate proud as a peacock's graceful posture and learn to dance. After being processed by folk artists, it was handed down to form peacock dance.
Peacock dance is called "Galoyong", "Fanluoyong" or "Galanlo" in Dai language. This is the most popular dance of Dai people, which is popular in dehong autonomous prefecture and Xishuangbanna Dai Autonomous Prefecture. Many Dai villages have people who are good at dancing peacock dance. Thanks to the meticulous creation of folk artists, peacock dance with its own characteristics and various schools has been formed. Peacock dance's content mostly shows peacocks flying down the mountain, walking in the forest, drinking water by the spring, chasing and playing. Drag your wings, spread your wings, shake your wings and get some water. Push branches, rest branches, open screens, fly and so on.
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 "flying down the mountain", "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "flapping its wings" and "splashing water", which vividly simulates the peacock's expression. 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. It is not only performed alone in important and lively national festivals, but also often incorporated into the group dance Gaguang. Peacock dance has the significance of maintaining national unity, and its representativeness makes it the dance with the most Dai cultural identity.
Emotion is implicit, dance vocabulary is rich, and dance sculpture is full. Dance movements maintain a semi-squat posture with uniform vibration, and every joint of the body and arms is curved, forming a unique three-bend dance posture with more hand shapes and hand movements. The same dance posture 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. 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.
After the founding of New China, peacock dance has made great progress and improvement. In 1975 World Youth Student Festival, the female group dance "peacock dance" won the gold medal, and the folk dance "peacock dance for Two" won the silver medal. Peacock dance, performed by dancer Yang li Ping, enjoys a high reputation both inside and outside the province. Only she can express the sounds of nature and people with that breathtaking body language, and inspire us to understand and tolerate the infinite possibilities of art. Her dance is never out of date because of its purity, precious because of its originality, and high above it with the help of TV broadcast. Her daring to despise artistic dogma and established laws is certainly related to her talent, but her subversion and original spirit of art have made her a spiritual ally and artistic benchmark for her successors.
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 good wishes by dancing peacock dance. At the same time, in the eyes of the Dai people, the peacock is a symbol of happiness and auspiciousness. Peacock dance is the favorite folk dance of the Dai people. In the dam area where the Dai people live in compact communities, there are festivals almost every month, and there are songs and dances every year. In the annual folk festivals of the Dai people, such as the Water-splashing Festival, the Closing Festival, the Opening Day and the Rushing Day, as long as they are happy places, the Dai people will get together, beat gongs and drums, and dance the graceful "peacock dance", showing a festive atmosphere of bumper harvest and a beautiful scene of national unity.
Among the various peacock dance of the Dai people, peacock dance in Ruili is more wonderful and popular. Almost every village has experts who dance peacock dance, and even professional artists who dance peacock dance for a living. Peacock dance, an ethnic group in Ruili, A Dai, mainly dances solo, and also has peacock dance for two. Dancers are mostly male. Peacock dance, a national of A Dai, has many hand movements and skills such as jumping and turning. Every joint of the limbs and trunk should be flexed and stretched downward, and the whole body should vibrate evenly, forming a beautiful "three-bend" dance.
The movements of Dai peacock dance have strict procedures and requirements: there is a beginning form before each movement and an ending form after it; There are fixed footwork, position map and fixed action combination; Each action combination is accompanied by a fixed drum. Peacock dance's dance vocabulary is particularly rich, including "flying down the mountain", "peeping in the forest", "walking in the forest", "flapping its wings" and "splashing water", which vividly simulates the peacock's expression.
Dai peacock dance's light and delicate style, delicate emotional expression and graceful dancing are the crystallization of the wisdom of the Dai people and have high aesthetic value. It is not only performed alone in important and lively national festivals, but also often incorporated into the group dance Gaguang. Peacock dance has the significance of maintaining national unity, and its representativeness makes it the dance with the most national cultural identity of the Dai people.