How do Hani people dance brown fan dance? What is history?

Brown fan dance is the core of Hani culture. In order to inherit this magical national dance, it has been adapted into three new versions: primary school students practice during recess to show students' liveliness; Middle school students exercise during recess to show the vitality of young people; Adult brown fan dance shows the wildness of adults.

Myth: Hani Brown Fan Dance

Brown fan dance is a traditional dance popular among Hani people in Yangjie Township and Nanuo Township. According to teacher Ni Weishun, a researcher of brown fan dance, brown fan dance was used in funeral activities in the early days, and every movement was symbolic. Men imitate animals or birds, and women hold brown fans to imitate the movements of silver pheasants and dance separately to show their respect and nostalgia for the dead. With the passage of time, brown fan dance has entered daily life, and Hani people also dance brown fan dance during holidays and slack seasons. Brown fan dance is the oldest artistic and cultural form, which was produced by Hani people in the long history of nomadic migration and hunting and gathering, and was consolidated and developed through funeral and sacrificial activities. It is an important part of Hani folk traditional culture in Yuanjiang county, and has been blended with Hani folk customs, combined with each other and passed down to this day. It is an important carrier and inheritance form of Hani traditional culture.

In recent years, with the party and the state attaching importance to the traditional folk culture of Hani nationality, the brown fan dance of Hani nationality in Yuanjiang County was listed in the first batch of intangible cultural heritage protection list in Yunnan Province in September 2007.

Brown fan dance contains Hani's historical view, moral view, values and way of thinking, and has high research value in ethnology, folklore, sociology, religion and other fields. The brown fan dance of Hani nationality embodies the characteristics of deep, simple, flexible and rough, which is the concentrated expression of Hani folk culture and art in many cultural levels.

Among them, the deep and restrained style and color show the indomitable spirit, hard-working and unpretentious quality of the Hani nationality, while the rough and heroic characteristics are an important embodiment of this national spiritual will. The more national and global the brown fan dance of the Hani nationality is, it is the crystallization of the wisdom of the Hani nationality and should also be the cultural heritage enjoyed by mankind.

Nowadays, with the care and support of many literary and art workers and * * * at all levels, brown fan dance has been passed down from generation to generation and gradually evolved into a tourism development project integrating ethnic customs, scenery and song and dance performances. It is not only the main embodiment of the Hani people's inner character and self-pursuit, but also an important means for the Hani people to communicate with the outside world.

Today, with the inheritance of national traditional culture and the construction of a harmonious society, brown fan dance is becoming more and more prosperous throughout the country. It is not only the carrier of Hani traditional culture, but also the crystallization of Hani national culture and wisdom for thousands of years.