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Yi folk songs and dances in yi dance can be summarized as follows:

Dage: It includes round dances such as "Tiao", "Tiao", "Left-footed Dance", "Tiao" and "Tiao Yue", which are popular in the border area between western Yunnan Province and Liangshan, Sichuan Province. The self-entertainment dance "Dage" is very similar to that of the Han nationality in ancient times. It is now in Wenchang Pavilion in Weibaoshan, Weishan County, Yunnan Province, and the "Ta Ge Tu" drawn during the Qianlong period of the Qing Dynasty records the local dance state. During festivals and celebrations, people hand in hand in a circle, singing and dancing or dancing with music, and the dance always focuses on lower limb movements.

"Jumping strings": also called "cigarette box dance", because the dancer is tap dancing with a cigarette box in his hand. "Smoke Box Dance" is popular in the Nisu inhabited areas of Honghe, Shiping and Jianshui in south-central Yunnan Province. Dance can be divided into "strings" and "miscellaneous strings". Sine is a combination of two-person self-entertainment dance and performance dance. The main traditional passages are Mute Chopping Wood and Pigeons Eating. The dance is graceful, light, lively and funny. On the other hand, "Miscellaneous String" is further developed on the basis of "Sine", which is a kind of song and dance sketch with characters and stories. Among them, there are more than 100 kinds of representative programs, such as "Mute Touch Fish" and "Boy Worship Guanyin". The local mantra "people don't jump the strings, but live in vain for decades" can explain the important position of "jumping the strings" in people's lives and thoughts.

Zorro: Also known as Solo, it is another round dance popular in Nisu nationality, a branch of Yi nationality on the south bank of Honghe River in Yunnan. Melody jumping is cheerful, and the rhythm is clear and powerful, accompanied by dance movements such as quick waving, wrong step and stepping on the foot, which is especially popular among young people.

"Tiaosanxian": also known as "Big Sanxian" and "Tiaoyue", is a self-entertainment dance loved by Axi and Sani people, a branch of Yi people in central Yunnan Province. Dancing three strings, accompanied by three strings of large, medium and small and bamboo flutes with different timbres, is an essential dance for the Torch Festival.

Felt dance: it is a unique dance form of Yi people in Liangshan area of Sichuan Province. Dancers use blankets as props to imitate the posture of eagles and bears by stretching, folding, swinging and rotating their bodies. This kind of dance has now become a representative performance dance of the Yi people.

The above five kinds of Yi folk dances, if we remove the modifications that people have made to traditional folk dances for nearly half a century and restore their true colors, we can clearly see the modal of simulated animals in ancient Yi people, and see the original ecology and Gu Zhuo dance that reflect people's working life. The first four dances originated from the ancient life of the Yi people, and the fifth one imitated the eagle and bear, which may be closely related to the polytheism and totem worship of the Yi people in ancient times. This animal imitates dance with graceful movements. In the long historical process, it gradually separated from the sacrificial ceremony, and constantly joined the aesthetic consciousness of various times, becoming a performance dance that people appreciate today.

In the Yi people's New Year celebrations, we can also see the dance forms "bamboo horse" and "stilts" from the Central Plains culture. Modern Yi stilts retain and develop their acrobatic features, which are far higher than those of Han stilts, but they fail to accept the dance skills of Han stilts.

When the Yi people hold ceremonies to worship their ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest, we can also see wood drum, bronze drum and sheepskin drum. These dances are performed by the wizards "Bimo" and "Su Ye". They beat drums while swinging their shoulders, chest and hips quickly as the main dance vocabulary. In addition, in the dances such as "Jumping Palace" and "Jumping Armor" performed in the "Jumping Palace Festival", traces of ancient hunting and inter-tribal wars, as well as sacrificial ceremonies and dance scenes of soldiers' expeditions, battles and triumphs, are still preserved to express their nostalgia and praise for ancient heroes. This dance of people holding musical instruments is almost the same as the armor dance of Qiang people.

The famous dances that have been processed and put on the stage include Red Carpet, Xi Tiao Yue, Happy Nosu and so on. It is famous in the art world for its jumping and cheerful melody, which shows the energetic life of the Yi people.