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Zorro, also known as "Solo", 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.

Jump three strings

Sanxian Dance, also known as Big Sanxian Dance and Yueyue Dance, is a self-entertainment dance loved by Asi and Sani people of Yi nationality in central Yunnan. 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

Felt dance is a unique dance form of Yi people in Liangshan, Sichuan. Dancers use blankets as props and 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.

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Song and dance are an important part of Yi people's life. Its forms are rich and colorful, and most of them imitate the movements during productive labor. Ancient dances include cockfighting and sheep fighting, which imitate animal images, symbolizing the "jumping hairpin" and "knife dance" of war and celebrating the bumper harvest.

In the Yi people's New Year celebrations, we can see the dance forms of "bamboo horse" and "stilts" from the Central Plains culture. Modern Yi stilts retain and develop their acrobatic features. When the Yi people hold ceremonies to worship their ancestors and pray for a bumper harvest, they can see wood drum, bronze drum and sheepskin drum.

These dances are performed by the wizards "Bimo" and "Su Ye". When playing drums, the main dance vocabulary is to swing shoulders, chest and hips quickly. 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.