How was the Tajik eagle culture formed?

The ethnic culture of the Tajiks, an ethnic minority in China, is an important part of China's ethnic culture and has a very long history. The Tajik people belong to the nomadic herdsmen, and in the long time with nature formed the worship of nature. In the hearts of the Tajik people, the eagle represents a kind of tough and tenacious spirit, and is the symbol of the strong and heroic Tajik people. So, here I will take you to understand the Tajik early nature worship and the formation of the eagle culture.

The Eagle Dance is a very characteristic traditional dance form of Chinese folk dance with high artistic value. With the accelerated process of modernization, these precious folk art is losing the soil of survival, facing difficulties, and in urgent need of protection and rescue. China's Xinjiang Tajiks see the eagle as a strong, heroic, in the folk widely spread about the eagle's folk songs and legends, and even the origin of the dance with the eagle's habits, dynamics associated with the formation of the "Eagle Dance".

The Tajiks are one of the oldest ethnic groups in China, living mainly in the Tashkurgan Tajik Autonomous County in Xinjiang, with the rest of the population in Shache, Yecheng, and Zephyr counties to the east of the county. The resilience of the will and the fearlessness of the national spirit have gradually formed the special aesthetic pursuit of the Tajik nation. They regard the eagle as a strong, heroic, in the folk widely spread about the eagle's folk songs and legends, and even the origin of the dance with the eagle's habits, dynamics associated with the formation of the "eagle dance".

The Eagle Dance is a traditional folk dance of the Tajiks for self-indulgence, and the venue is not restricted. Whether it is the ridge and field, courtyard indoor, as long as people are excited to dance. The dance steps and the tune of the eagle flute are the same, mainly five-eighths beat, six-eighths beat, seven-eighths beat, the basic action is: waist slightly bent, the right arm stretches forward, fingers slightly upward, the left arm is bent toward the back, located in the waist, fingers outstretched.

The feet rotate 360 degrees with the sound of the flute and the beat of the drum, at which point the right arm is withdrawn and placed behind the back, and the left arm is stretched out towards the front. Sometimes the two arms are parallel, sometimes the two arms are up and down, just like the eagle's wings, and the feet can rotate 180 degrees and 360 degrees with the drums and the flute, and can also move forward and side to side. Whether in the rotation or in the forward, the two shoulders also with the rhythm of the tune constantly up and down shaking.