What dances are there in northern Thailand?

When dancing with candles, women wear national costumes and bouquets, holding a lighted candle in each hand. Their body movements are bending and squatting, and their arms bend and stretch in a square shape with rhythmic squatting and stepping, similar to Burmese dance. The candle dance is performed at night, and lighting candles means "light". Candle dance is more common in Buddhist festivals-Candle Festival. Girls move lightly, candlelight forms various patterns in the dark, and candlelight is firefly and colorful.

2. Weaver Girl Dance

Northern Thailand is rich in Thai silk, forming a weaver dance that imitates productive labor. Dance includes all kinds of movements of northern girls in the whole process of silk weaving, such as spinning, reeling, spinning and weaving. The dance is simple and lively, which reflects the production and labor conditions of the people in northern Thailand.

3. Long armour dance

Influenced by religion, dancers wear gold crowns similar to the spires of temples or pagodas, shining long armour on their fingers and gold and silver ornaments in their hair. They also wear long-sleeved shirts and skirts, which are elegant and similar to Burmese classical dance. Accompanied by music, the dancers stepped on the lotus steps, swinging their fingers and dancing gracefully.

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