What is the name of the dance performed at the Yi torch festival?

The Yi torch festival dance is called Doloho.

Doloho Introduction:

The Yi Doloho Dance is the main program in the activities of the 24th day of the 6th month of the Lunar Calendar (i.e., the Torch Festival) every year. The songs sung at the Torch Festival are collectively known as Doloho. Duo Luohuo Yi language, also known as Donghong, is a Yi folk song, referring to the singing of Duo Luohuo dance activities, and later people combine this dance and beauty pageant, collectively referred to as Duo Luohuo beauty pageant.

Duo Luohuo is an annual traditional festival of the Liangshan Yi people, the Torch Festival, is limited to women's collective performance of a form of song and dance. Butuo County, known as the "hometown of the Torch Festival", can best reflect the extraordinary wisdom of the Yi people in the inheritance of the "Duo Luoho" dance.

The dance performance lasted nearly an hour, with dozens of women in Yi costumes wearing butter umbrellas and singing beautiful and moving songs as they slowly appeared. With their heads slightly bowed, the dancers stepped lightly and hummed the moving songs of the local Yi ethnic group as they sang and danced. According to legend, in the early days, it was not an umbrella that was lifted, but a kind of tree branch called "Arrow", the bark of which was peeled into flower sticks at intervals.

Dance content:

The Yi Doloho Dance is the main program in the activities of the 24th day of the 6th lunar month (i.e., the Torch Festival) every year. This dance is held on the second day of the Torch Festival. Taking the natural village as a unit, girls in colorful costumes gather on the wide grassy field and automatically form a circle, either holding hands or holding each other's headscarves, with yellow umbrellas, stepping on the fine and rhythmic dance steps.

The leader of the dancers led the singing of the folk song Doloho, and the others joined in unison, and there were usually dozens of circles, and the circles were all singing and dancing. In the course of the event, the village elders will form a beauty pageant judging team, in accordance with the traditional Yi "beauty pageant" standards, in these girls selected a beautiful girl, as the village of other girls to learn from the example of this custom has been continued for thousands of years.

Noticed:

The Torch Festival has become the country's intangible cultural heritage, and Duo Luohuo, an important part of the festival, is also getting more and more attention. Butou Duo Luo Luo Luo Luo singer Jili Mazi Za girl once three consecutive years of Torch Festival Duo Luo Luo Luo Luo champion, last June in the "China Chengdu First International Intangible Cultural Heritage Festival", she sang the original Duo Luo Luo Luo Luo Luo to the simple and natural voice of the world's experts, won the highest award of the festival of the Intangible Cultural Heritage: the Sun Bird Gold Medal.