Speaking of the Dai people, there is a grand Songkran festival here, and the other is the most famous peacock dance.
Speaking of peacocks, the earliest written record is in the Han Dynasty.
Han Liu Xin's "Ganquan Palace Fu": The peacock flies and soars, and the phoenix emperor stops and gathers.
Sima Xiang of the Han Dynasty is like the peacock collection of "Changmen Fu" and coexists, and the Xuan ape roars and groans
The earliest poems about peacocks are all from the Han Dynasty court to raise people.
But why is the peacock called a peacock? This hole, in ancient Chinese, means many, big, prosperous, and cave. It is impossible to verify who called the beautiful big bird in this ambiguous tropical rainforest "peacock", but the word peacock does have a mysterious and rich feeling, as if it is a bird with abundant feathers living in the hole on the distant fairy mountain.
In the Han Dynasty, it was true that this bird was widely used in the court, often along with the virtual phoenix. And the ancient books point out the scope of their lives, in ancient Hainan, Lingnan, and South Vietnam. And "Peacock Flying Southeast" is a folk poem of the Han Dynasty, the love story of Jiao Zhongqing, a small official in Lujiang, and his wife, using the peacock flying southeast to show the deep affection of two lovers, wandering and reluctant, and refusing to leave, and finally the two were martyred. It also shows that the peacock was seen by ordinary officials at that time, and the peacock had a beauty and status second only to the phoenix, which was a metaphor for loyalty and enthusiasm.
Of course, in the Han Dynasty, the source of peacocks was the transportation of the Lingnan region. The other is the tribute of the ancient Shan State. That is, the dynasty established by the ancestors of the Dai people.
Come and see the living environment where the ancestors of the Dai people lived, it is in the mountains and plains of the tropical forest, where the most abundant is wood, birds and beasts, among which the green peacock is the most common and beautiful mountain forest bird. The ancients had natural bird and beast worship, among which bird worship was mostly seen in the southern region with lush mountains and forests, such as the totem of Chu was a phoenix, and the totem of the early Shang Dynasty was a swallow, so it is not surprising that the ancestors of the Dai people used the peacock with local characteristics as a totem. Then in the primitive song and dance, there must be a peacock's bionic shape.
In the Tang Dynasty, in the Ailao Mountain area, a powerful state of Bi appeared, which of course was subordinate to various tribal states.
During the first year of the Tang Dynasty, this country led a large number of musicians and instruments to Chang'an to play their songs and dances for the emperor.
Among them, the most famous musical instrument is the Konghou, and the famous dance is the "Peacock King", and their language is called "Taotai", which is to express the bright and gorgeous feathers of the peacock when it opens the screen. Of course, it is certainly not the peacock dancing, but the peacock played by a person, wearing the feathers of the peacock, of course, there must be a real peacock accompaniment.
This is the earliest peacock dance about the Dai or Dai region into the field of vision of the Central Plains.
So that is, in the Kaiyuan period of the Tang Dynasty, the emperor asked the big feather fan used for the ceremonial guard to be changed to peacock feathers, so what information is in it? That is, the peacock feathers can already guarantee the palace decoration, so many peacock feathers are obviously not available in the Lingnan region, in fact, these peacock feathers should be the tribute of the ancient country or the development of the foreign trade system.
Because only the area where they live has a large number of wild or raised peacocks.
Therefore, the peacock dance has been around for a long time in the Dai or Dai areas. The introduction of Theravada Buddhism has added religious auspiciousness and color to this area rich in green peacocks, so the Dai people's own New Year, in addition to splashing water to bathe the Buddha, will definitely dance the peacock dance.
In the Qing Dynasty's "Shunning Mansion Tongzhi", Shunning Mansion governed the vast mountainous areas of Fengqing, Changning and Yunxian in Yunnan.
Among them, it talks about the minority Puman, "The Chinese four o'clock celebration hangs." Men and women of all ages gather to play the reed flute, make a peacock dance, and sing and pause, shaking the ground and enjoying themselves. "The place where they use Chinese is that during the four seasons and weddings and funerals, nobles and commoners, men, women and children, all gather together, play reed flutes, dance peacock dances, step on the rhythm, and step on the ground strongly, shaking the land and reveling in the hustle and bustle.
This Pu is the Dai people. Then the peacock dance of this period is the dance of their nation, stepping on the nodes of music, stepping on the rhythm, and stepping on the ground hard, forming a resonant effect and beauty. And at first glance, it is a peacock dance, and in terms of body language, it is highly imitation of peacocks.
Among them, the "Yi species" tribe living in this place also likes to dance peacock dances with men and women when they gather.
Then Songkran is not just about splashing water.
Songkran is a New Year's festival of the Dai, Brown, De'ang, and Achang ethnic groups who use the Dai calendar.
Among them, splashing water is an important part of the festival. When the festival comes, worship the Buddha with water, and sprinkle each other with the water of bathing the Buddha to express mutual blessings. In the carnival, there must be a peacock dance with singing and dancing. Everyone gathered around the square and danced the traditional elephant foot dance and peacock dance to express their inner joy and convey joy and beauty.
The basic movements of the peacock dance are, the peacock stands up, the peacock raises its head, the peacock drinks water, and the peacock opens the screen, which seems simple, but stretches to the beauty, can be urgent or slow, can be rigid or soft, and has the popularity, aesthetic sense and integration of typical folk songs and dances.
Then the peacock dance represented by Yang Liping is more aesthetic and ideological, and it is an outstanding representative of peacock dance.
Many people fell in love with Yang Liping's peacock dance, and then fell in love with this peacock nation.
Go to Yunnan to enjoy a Songkran Festival and dance a peacock dance.
Hatsui Katsuyuki interprets the love and beauty in the poems for you. #泼水节#