6?1 The Dai mainly live in Xishuangbanna, Dehong, Gengma, Menglian and other river valley and flat dam areas in Yunnan Province, China. The population is 839,797 (1982 statistics). The Dai language belongs to the Zhuang-Dong branch of the Zhuang-Tibetan language family. The Dai believe in Hinayana Buddhism, and at the same time retain the original custom of worshiping many gods. The Dai have a long history, and their ancestors settled in southwestern China 2,000 years ago, and their names "Shan" and "Trespassing" are found in Chinese historical records. Dai music has a unique national style, including folk songs, song and dance music, rap music, opera music 4 categories. 6?1

6?1 Folk songs, mountain songs, narrative songs, sad songs, religious songs and so on.

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6?1 Mountain songs are mostly sung by young people in the fields, mountains and forests alone or in pairs. Some express love, praise their hometowns, glorify the happy life, and some are improvised. In Dehong, there are mainly two kinds of songs: "Shouting Well" and "Shouting with Mao". ① Mangshi, Yingjiang and other places in the shouting of the city and sub-city mountain song (Dai called "shouting mani Lemeng", meaning popular in the town of the song), Damzi mountain song (Dai called "shouting Lai Sister," meaning popular in the rural areas of the song) two kinds of songs. The former is softer and the latter is brighter. Shouting popular around the closer to the style of music, the basic features are: more lyrical tunes, more with the level, small jumps, Gong, Shang, Fei, Zheng and other modes are more common, sometimes in the structure of the internal modal alternation or to the direction of the subordinate off-key, transposition. The old songs (called "Shouting Mango Pan Tao" in Dai) and the rap songs (called "Dan Shouting Mango" in Dai) popular in the Chafang area can be categorized as Shouting Mango, but the styles are slightly different. The following example is the Dehong Mangshi City, Chengzi mountain song: ② shout with the Mao, is circulating in the Ruili area of the mountain song, the music is bright and enthusiastic, more than the use of levistic modulation, rhythmic freedom, the tune in the seventh downward jump and the end of the successive upward jumps and on the glissandi, quite distinctive. Shouting the same Mao used for men and women singing love songs, called "Shouting Biyang Shuang", meaning love songs. Ruili is also popular in Myanmar Dai district mountain song "Shouting Dai Liang", "Shouting Leng block", etc., music is unique. The following is an example of a song from Ruili, Dehong:

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6?1 In addition to the various songs and dances cited above, the Dai region is also popular for a variety of folk dances, such as the elephant foot drum dance, peacock dance, fish dance, horse deer dance, sharp point gong dance, as well as a variety of other inspirational and so on, all accompanied by percussion instruments.

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6?1 Rap music is mainly popular in Xishuangbanna and Menglian. Dai people in the New Year's festivals, the construction of new houses, marriage and childbirth, fine Buddha ceremony and other activities, are invited to folk singers to sing to cheer. This semi-professional artists in Xishuangbanna called "Zanha", in Menglian called "Wo Gan". The tunes circulating around the world are "Zanha tune", "Wo Gan tune", "Menglian tune" and so on. It is sung by one person, accompanied by one person, with Wicker and Xidong as the accompanying instruments, and the tune is closely combined with the language, with a smooth rhythm, and the music structure is basically the change of the phrase over and over again, and the lyrics are mostly sung in waist rhyme. Due to the free structure of the lyrics, the number and length of phrases are not fixed; the instrumental accompaniment often forms a branching polyphonic relationship with the vocal part of the singing.

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6?1 Opera music Dai Opera is developed on the basis of Dai folk songs and dance music, and draws on the means of expression of the Han opera art, circulated in Dehong, Baoshan, Lincang and other Dai inhabited areas. Dai Opera includes a variety of male and female singing styles, with the male voice mostly using the feather tuning style, and the female voice mostly using the levy tuning style. since the 1950s, Dai Opera has absorbed a variety of Dai folk songs and dance songs, which enriches the singing style and enhances the expressive power of the music. Dai Opera singing is basically a musical phrase composed of upper and lower lines and its changes over and over again. Since the number of words can be more or less, the length of singing phrases varies. In the past, the Dai Opera only used small drums, gongs, cymbals and other accompaniment, and then gradually adopted a variety of ethnic instruments and Western orchestral instruments to form a new type of Dai Opera band.

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6?1 The national instruments of the Dai belong to the wind instruments such as the wicker, gourd xiao, harp flute, wooden leaf, etc.; plucked instruments such as the dingqin, the mouth string, etc.; bowed instruments such as the Xidin, the horn dingqin, etc.; percussion instruments such as the elephant-footed drums, the light dragon, the light edge of the light, the light state, the light gongs, the point gongs, cymbals, etc. The Dai opera is a great example of how to play the drums and cymbals. The ensemble of elephant foot drums, point gongs and cymbals is the main form of Dai instrumental ensemble.

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6?1 Since the 1950s, Chinese literature and art workers have been collecting, organizing and researching ethnic music heritage. The Zangha Association was established in Xishuangbanna to organize the singing and creative activities of folk singers. Music workers of various ethnic groups created and adapted various genres of musical works, including the Dai drama "E and and Sang Luo", dance drama and movie music "Princess Peacock", dance music "Peacock Dance", "Xiao Bu Shao", "Chasing Fish", "On the Way to Deliver Grain", and the songs "There is a Beautiful Place", "Xishuangbanna, My Hometown", and so on.