Miao Great Migration Dance

Guizhou
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The Miao Great Migration Dance is distributed in Hezhen, Kele and other towns in Hezhang County, Guizhou Province. The Miao people call the Miao Great Migration Dance "Goujiadijiaqie", which means looking for a place to live. It is a folk dance of the Hezhang Miao people to record the historical process of the Miao Great Migration. The Miao Great Migration Dance describes that in the primitive era, there were wars between tribes. The ancestor of the Miao people, Ge Chiyou Lao, was forced to migrate with tens of millions of troops and families. He passed through the Hunshui River, crossed the bank of the Dunayimu River, arrived at Heiyangqing, and finally settled in the Nalu and Bitao Bazi areas of Lengnonuodi. The whole dance is divided into three sections: the first section is "Cock Calling Dance", which describes leaving home in the middle of the night and starting the migration; the second section is "Walking Dance", which describes the hardships and reluctance to leave on the way; the third section is "Recollection Dance", which describes the sincere wanderers who recall the migration and miss their homeland after arriving in Bitao. The dance uses epic dance vocabulary to dynamically narrate the painful process of the Miao people's great migration and artistically reproduce the historical picture of the great migration. The dance has a magnificent atmosphere, steady and solemn steps, and simple and elegant movements. The reed pipe music is accompanied by ancient ballads, which commemorate the long journey of the Miao ancestors who were brave and good at fighting, experienced hardships, and finally found their ideal homeland. The Miao Great Migration Dance has unique artistic and historical value. It records the migration process of ancestors in the form of dance. The dance scene is grand, the ancient songs are far-reaching, and the dance steps are slow. Some dance movements such as "Nostalgia" and "Looking Back" are so hard to leave the homeland that the audience shed tears. The Miao Great Migration Dance has a great influence on the Miao people in Hezhang. It is an intuitive carrier of the national spirit formed by the Miao people in a difficult environment for thousands of years. The whole set of movements is unified with the content of the Miao migration history. The dance image is vivid, the meaning is profound, it is full of imagination and creativity, and the artistic style is unique. It can be called a migration epic in the Miao culture. This dance has a long history, is simple and elegant, and has been passed down from generation to generation. It is an artistic masterpiece in the traditional culture of the Miao people. The Miao Great Migration Dance has been handed down to this day in the Hezhang Miao Dahua Miao branch. Its traceable inheritance genealogy is: the first generation (Wang Aduo), the second generation (Wang Duoga), the third generation (Zhang Laoliu), the fourth generation (Zhang Wenguang), the fifth generation (Wu Guanghua), and the sixth generation (Li Wenen). Although the Miao Great Migration Dance has a long history, it is currently facing the danger of being lost due to various reasons. First, young Miao men and women have gone out to work, leaving only the elderly and children in the Miao village, and ethnic song and dance activities have become less popular. Secondly, with the popularization of television and other media, Miao teenagers have started singing popular songs, thinking that their own ethnic songs and dances are "rustic" and lack enthusiasm for them. Thirdly, some Miao compatriots believe in Christianity, and religion as a spiritual lifestyle has invisibly replaced the traditional spiritual and cultural lifestyle of song and dance. Fourthly, due to the lack of popularization and promotion, with the passing of the elderly, young people have gradually lost their understanding of the connotation of song and dance, and it is difficult to perform vividly. (No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)(No pictures yet, welcome to provide.)

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