The Peacock Dance is a dance of the Dai ethnic group.

The Dai Peacock Dance is the most prestigious traditional performative dance among the Dai folk dances in China, circulating in Ruili, Mangshi, and Xishuangbanna of the Dehong Dai Jingpo Autonomous Prefecture in Yunnan Province and other Dai-inhabited areas of Xishuangbanna, Mengding, Munda, Jinggu, Cangyuan, etc., with the Peacock Dance of Ruili, in the western part of Yunnan province (Dai language as "Garoyong ") is the most representative.

The Dai dance has a long history, according to legend, more than a thousand years ago, the Dai leader called Ma Li Jie number of imitation of the peacock's beautiful posture and learn to dance, and then the folk have to follow suit, after successive generations of folk artists processed molding passed down. In the Eastern Han Dynasty, the Dai leader had repeatedly sent emissaries to Luoyang to perform peacock dance, magic, acrobatics and so on. It can be seen that the peacock dance had a fairly high level at that time.

Dance Characteristics

1, Peacock Dance is a traditional folk dance of the Dai, accompanied by drums, cymbals and cymbals. The Dai Peacock Dance is divided into single dance, double dance, triple dance and opera. During the performance, the dancers are decorated with peacock-like decorations and wear minaret-shaped white Bodhisattva masks; single dancers wear female masks and double dancers wear male and female masks.

2. When dancing, the dancers imitate the various movements of the peacock, starting from leaving the nest, descending the slope, dancing, looking for water, photographing the shadow, drinking water, sunset, and finally spreading the wings and flying, and the whole set of movements has a strict combination of pace, orientation and movement, with the sculptural dance modeling as the main focus, focusing on the expression of the peacock's docile and well-behaved, beautiful and kind, and graceful and graceful.

3. The movement of Dai Peacock Dance is characterized by lifting the neck and erecting the body, lifting the spirit and erecting the ears, showing the peacock's alertness and self-confidence by the movement of the arms, the body of the "three curves" and the wrist of the flip, and showing the peacock's calmness and serenity by the broken steps and the in-situ running and the turning circle. In this way, the peacock dance is not only an artistic reproduction of the peacock's image, behavior and life habits, but also a beautiful vision and hope after anthropomorphizing the peacock with dance vocabulary.

4. Dai Peacock Dance is an important symbol of Dai culture and an important part of Chinese culture. The Dai Peacock Dance is rich in vocabulary, complete in form, outstanding in style, and beautiful in dance, and it is characterized by unique dance styles in its subject matter, performance form, dance posture and basic gestures.