What is Korean folk dance?

Elephant hat dance is a representative dance form of Korean nationality, which is widely circulated in Wangqing County, Yanbian Korean Autonomous Prefecture and deeply loved by Korean residents. On special days such as festivals and celebrations, people dance happily, shake colorful elephant hats, and the long streamers with smooth lines rotate like the wind, drawing dazzling and wonderful colorful rings around the dancers. Elephant hat dance has a long history and rich contents. It is a comprehensive folk art integrating music, dance and singing. Its dance is lively and elegant, with cheerful and comfortable rhythm, which fully embodies the joy and lively and generous national temperament of the Korean people in their work and life. It is a valuable cultural wealth created by the Korean people in the long-term work and life process. Elephant hat dance is the highest form of expression in agricultural dance, which shows the highest skills and excitement in the whole agricultural dance and exudes a strong national interest. It can be called a colorful chapter in agricultural dance. Elephant hat dance has high skill, high aesthetic value and appreciation, which gives people a visual sense of beauty. Dancers frequently shake their heads with the strength of their necks, so that the ribbon of the elephant hat they wear rotates like the wind and like a wheel, and a dazzling and wonderful colorful circle is drawn around the dancers. There are many actions of the elephant hat, such as "flat image", "left and right image", "standing image" and "shaking image".