How to describe the explanation of Miao dance

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.

The Miao nationality is rich in singing and dancing, and there are only ten kinds of "encouragement" of the Miao nationality. Miao's "admonition" is recorded in the Tang Dynasty's "Ruling and Opposition", which shows that Miao's "admonition" has a long history.

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The main types of Miao "encouragement" are concentrated in Qingshuihe River basin in western Hunan and southeastern Guizhou.

The "wooden drum dance" of Miao people in southeastern Guizhou is a form of "drum dance" in the large-scale sacrifice activity of "eating dirty meat" held only once in the past 13 years. During the festival, the dancing men and women danced wildly for three days, forgetting to eat and sleep, staying up all night and being intoxicated.

"Flower Drum Dance" is a necessary self-entertainment dance for Miao people in Fenghuang, Baojing and Huayuan counties in Hunan Province to celebrate traditional festivals such as June 6, August 8, catching summer and catching autumn. At that time, a big drum will be set up in the center of the square where the grand event will be held, and three people will play it together. There is no limit to the number of people participating in group dance and the number of men and women.

Before the dance began, the drummer sang the merits of the inventor of the wooden drum in his native language as a memorial to his ancestors. Then, everyone forms a circle around the drum and dances to the sound of the drum. Most of these basic dances of dancers come from the simulation of various life movements, and some martial arts elements are added to make the dance movements soft and rigid.

The characteristic of Huagu Opera is that two drummers can perform a variety of symmetrical dances and play harmonious and unified drum music while rotating, turning over or jumping.