Andai Dance, the Wonderful Dance of Mongolian Culture

Andai Dance is known as the living fossil of Mongolian collective dance, which is a kind of original dance widely spread in the grassland of Sobei, with a long history and origin. It is a pearl in the hall of Mongolian national dance art, with distinctive national style, rich life atmosphere, has developed into a collective fitness dance of the Mongolian people. The traditional Andai is mainly sung, accompanied by dance movements, and is rumored to be a kind of mysterious folk dance for curing diseases with dance, which has been passed down for more than 400 years so far.

Andai is usually performed during festivals or leisure time, with one person leading the singing and the crowd responding, and hundreds of men, women and children singing and dancing. An Dai dance has a strong self-indulgence, distinctive ethnic characteristics and a strong flavor of life, easy to enjoy, easy to learn, sing the lyrics along with the song, rich in infectious. Men, women and children of all ages can enter and dance without any limitation of time and place. As long as according to the rhythm of its music, flinging the towel step, and the lead singer and the corresponding can be.

The traditional Andai dance is often accompanied by songs, and singing is the main feature of the Andai dance. From an artistic point of view, the Andean dance is a kind of folk song and dance form which is mainly sung and accompanied by dance movements. Its music tunes are unique in style and have a strong infectious force, making it easy for singers to express different emotions according to different situations. In addition to the opening and closing parts, which are basically unchanged due to the ceremonial needs, the lyrics of Andai are not fixed. Those singers who are quick-witted and good with words can express their feelings with witty and humorous lyrics, either praising, mocking, laughing and cursing in any way they like.

Over the past four hundred years, with the passage of time, through continuous improvement and development, the Andai Dance has gradually become the most popular carnival dance at Mongolian religious ceremonies and Naadam events, and at the same time, it has become the most dazzling cultural identity of the Mongolian nation.

Today, Andai Dance is more popular among the people, and it is gradually developed from folk art to stage art, and it has been settled in the towns and villages of Sobei, and it has become an indispensable part of the celebrations and banquets, and it has been received and presented to the people. Andai dance after many years of unremitting efforts of many local folk artists, evolved into the grassland people's fitness and entertainment in an excellent way,