What are the style characteristics of Miao dance?

The style of Miao dance is characterized by many branches and wide distribution, forming a large number of songs and dances with rich content, which embodies the long history of Miao's "encouragement".

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.

cultural background

Miao nationality is a nation that can sing and dance well. Everyone can sing and dance. For thousands of years, songs and dances have accompanied the history of the Miao nationality and vividly reflected the life of the Miao nationality. Miao people's songs and dances, rich game, simple and rough style can best express their sincere and simple thoughts and feelings, and also make people feel the truth, goodness and beauty of folk art.

As early as the Northern Song Dynasty, Miao people's songs and dances were very famous and caused a sensation in Beijing. "Biography of Song Shinan Manqu Nanman" contains: "One person plays a gourd ladle, like the sound of gnats, and dozens of people dance hand in hand, taking the foot as the festival." In fact, Miao dance originated very early. From its primitive and simple style, we can see that many dances are related to funeral sacrifices, love and marriage, production and life, but they were not recorded in ancient times, only found in history books since the Ming Dynasty.