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The Dai Dance That's Hot on Jitterbugs

The Dai dance that has recently attracted widespread attention refers to the modernized and adapted version of the Dai dance, "Phoenix Tail Bamboo in the Moonlight".

Expansion: In recent years, as the Dai culture has been increasingly emphasized and inherited, the Dai dance has gradually been more widely displayed and promoted in major cities and on the stage. The modernized and adapted version of Dai Dance is based on the traditional Dai Dance, combined with modern dance elements and expression methods, making the dance more fashionable and ornamental

The Dai Dance's dance movements are characterized by graceful, stretching, atmospheric, enthusiastic and impassioned, etc. The Dance wears gorgeous Dai costumes and is accompanied by traditional Dai music and singing, which highlights the unique charm and artistic value of Dai culture. In addition, Dai dance emphasizes the unique charm and artistic value of Dai culture. In addition, Dai dance also emphasizes the coordination, flexibility and skill of the body, which requires the dancers to have a high level of dance skills and training, which makes Dai dance a challenging and artistic dance form

Dai folk songs are mostly in pentatonic scale, with very few sounds other than pentatonic. There are three tonal backbone frameworks composed of three-tone columns. They are [DoMiSol], the ending tone of which is the palace or the levy; [LaDoMi], the ending tone of which is the palace, the horn or the plume; and [SolDoRe], the ending tone of which is the merchant or the levy. Some Dai folk songs also use the tonal framework of [SolLaDo]. The sad song, called "Shouting Fine Shouting Sea" in Dai, is sung by the mother and daughter crying relative to each other when the girl is getting married, and the lyrics show the mother and daughter's feelings of love and reluctance to give up.