Samba originated in Africa. The word "samba" is said to have evolved from the word "samba" of Kimbandu, the second largest Angolan tribe in Africa. "Samba" is a passionate belly dance. As the name implies, this dance is characterized by shaking the abdomen and buttocks up and down. This is the most popular dance sport in Angola, and later it began to spread abroad with the rise of slave trade. From the 1930s of 16 to the middle of 19, Portuguese colonists sold120,000 slaves to Brazil from Angola and other parts of Africa. When slaves were loaded into cabins and transported to the newly discovered Latin American continent, white slave traders were worried that the journey would be long, the slaves would stay in the cabins for dozens of days, and their legs and feet would not be flexible after landing, so they could not sell at a good price. So, every day, they drove the slaves crowded in the cabin to the deck, accompanied by beating barrels and iron pots, and let them dance a samba to exercise their muscles. In this way, the colonists who wanted to enhance the competitiveness of this special commodity inadvertently brought this dance popular in Africa to Latin America.

According to some studies, samba was first popular in El Salvador, the capital of Bahia, Brazil. It turns out that this is the place where the Portuguese first landed in Brazil for colonization. They have a large number of plantations and mining areas here. Black slaves who were trafficked to plantations and mining areas enjoyed this kind of hometown dance after heavy work. In the following centuries, black slaves from Africa and their descendants increased their contact with whites from all over Europe and gradually merged with indigenous Indians. In this way, their dance gradually absorbed some factors of Bohemian Polka dance from Europe, Habanera dance from Cuba and Maxisher dance popular in Brazil, and gradually formed modern samba dance. According to records, in the early 20th century, it was women in Bahia who brought this dance to Rio de Janeiro, then the capital of Brazil. From then on, this dance began to flow from the coast to the mainland, from slums to the upper class, and from black and black-and-white "villages" to whites. At the same time, percussion instruments such as bronze drums, gongs and cymbals in Rio de Janeiro slums were gradually replaced by Spanish six-string guitars and Creary in Creary. 1928, the first samba school in Brazil was established in Rio de Janeiro. 1932, Brazil held the first Valentine's Day samba parade to watch the competition, which was welcomed and praised by people. Since then, modern samba has quickly swept Brazil. [ 1]